Getting What He Wanted

To the High Priests of the Orc Empire, no matter how many orcs Abel had killed on the Orc Battlefield or how badly he had disrupted the Orc Empire's invasion plans, it had nothing to do with them.

The long-lived High Priests had plenty of time to wait for the Orc Empire to recover again. The deaths of those orcs happened to partially solve the problem of reduced crop yields that the Orc Empire would soon face. Even if those orcs did not die now, they would eventually starve to death.

But they could not tolerate Abel damaging their interests. That was why the High Priests had planned this operation: to lure Abel into the Orc Empire.

This was a method they had devised only because they had no other choice. The High Priests could not appear in the human world. Of course, the Budapest Mountains were an exception, since the large number of spirit beasts there could interfere with the judgment of human High Rank Wizards.

However, if an orc High Priest entered the human world, the deathly energy on his body would be sensed by the High Rank Wizards no matter how well he concealed it.

That could very well directly trigger a war between the High Priests and High Rank Wizards of the two races, and no one wanted to see that happen.

Besides, Hari Castle was no soft target. Three High Rank Wizards had already died there, and the orc High Priests were not confident they could attack Abel at Hari Castle.

Therefore, after learning that Abel had obtained four Griffin Knights, the orc High Priests carefully analyzed his personality and finally came up with a plan to attract him using the griffins.

Inside Niyan City, six orc High Priests were hiding within two human Isolation