Better a short, sharp pain than prolonged suffering; serious illness called for strong medicine...
A great many proverbs he had heard and read flowed through Sui Xiong's mind.
He remained silent, saying nothing as his gaze swept across the gods.
The gods were silent as well, unable to refute him.
The conflict between humans and orcs had existed from the moment the two races were created. Back then, the Goddess of Life created the Golden Race—the powerful race known as the "High Elves." With the Golden Race's aid, she swept across the heavens, defeated every powerful deity of her era, and secured her position as the foremost being beneath the Four Gods.
Those powerful deities were unwilling to accept defeat. One after another, they imitated the Goddess of Life, creating lesser races directly under their command to serve as tools of war.
Among them, "Ancestor"—also known as the Beast Ancestor God—created the orcs, while the Water Mother created humanity. These two deities had the worst relationship among all the gods and often fought until heaven and earth turned upside down. Though their original motive in creating the two races had been to challenge the Goddess of Life, the final result was that humans and orcs became tools in each other's wars.
Although time had passed and the world had changed, and both creators had long since fallen, the hostility rooted deep within the bloodlines of the two races was not so easily altered. Even Lefeng, the Devouring Sky Dog and chief god of the Orc Pantheon, who wished to change that hostility, had ultimately not thought of letting everyone live in peace. His solution had been to turn all humans into Half-Orcs.
As for humanity, although they had eventually broken free of the Water Mother's control and even turned upon