At the sight of this, Gunado was wracked with pain and self-reproach. He had trusted this human too easily. At some unknown point, he had fed the orc soldiers something laced with poison.
"What could it be? Something all the soldiers could take... that could only be pills!"
Gunado was furious beyond measure. From the very beginning, this human had been plotting against Orc City. "Human! You are too despicable! I will kill you!"
"Me, despicable?" Zhao Fu sneered and shouted back. "Then, Lord Deputy City Lord, when did you ever regard me as a friend? Did you never once think of attacking my village? We're all cut from the same cloth."
Gunado's face flushed red and even twisted. Zhao Fu's words left him unable to retort. His eyes brimmed with killing intent as he stared at Zhao Fu, and he was about to leap from the wall and fight him to the death.
Boom!
An immense aura descended, stirring the winds and clouds. A powerful figure stood suspended in the air—it was Kaki, the City Lord of Orc City.
Tears streamed down Gunado's aged face as he looked at the figure in the sky and cried, "City Lord! I deserve death. It is all my fault. Please punish me."
Kaki's face was cold as he snorted. "We will speak after we repel the enemy!"
Gunado nodded as well. Raising the wooden staff in his hand, he released a green light that spread eerily in all directions. The thousand or so fallen orcs actually rose to their feet, their bodies emitting blood-colored auras. Their strength was immense, and they showed no signs of illness.
At the same time, Gunado had aged considerably. This was a secret technique that consumed both his own life force and that of the soldiers, temporarily