The orcs selected to form a coalition army and besiege Strasbourg were the elites of their respective tribes. The orcs who had survived pursuit by the Saint Ranks of the Empire of Fars and escaped to the Red Dragon Strait were the very best among those elites. Not to mention ordinary orcs, the five Saint Ranks who had escaped the pursuit were all among the strongest. Any slightly weaker orc Saint Ranks had already fallen during Fars's counteroffensive.
These hundreds of thousands of orcs were the cream of the orc race. Neither the Black Dragon nor Qiudro could bear to turn them into Labyrinth Guardians, so they went to great lengths to make these orcs into Non-Cannibals. Of course, there were also a very small number of stubborn orcs. Those orcs who simply could not change their way of thinking could only become Labyrinth Guardians.
Charlotte captured the eleven cities on the northern shore of the Red Dragon Strait with hardly any effort.
After capturing those cities, he remembered that he was still a God-Favored of the Serpent of Destiny and held the legitimate status of a Priest, so he established temples of the Serpent of Destiny in all eleven cities.
Although this world had faith in righteous gods, it had never developed religions as rigorously structured as those on Earth. Archpriests serving the same righteous god had no hierarchical relationship with one another, nor was there any unified doctrine. There were even only three ranks: apprentice priest, Priest, and Archpriest. The hierarchy was extremely rudimentary. Drawing on Earth's religions, Charlotte founded the Church of Destiny and established forty-eight doctrines. The first was naturally that one must believe in the Serpent of Destiny and devote everything to pleasing this righteous god who governed fate. The second was that the Mecklen