Conquest

Gatherings like these among the half-orcs could be seen everywhere in Shortblade's main city, and it was not only the high-ranking half-orcs who gathered.

The low- and mid-ranked half-orcs, these tribal soldiers, were also secretly gathering, drinking to vent their frustrations.

The entire main city of the Shortblade Clan passed day after day in such a strange and bizarre atmosphere.

With every agonizing day they waited, Huo Ling's goblin forces were advancing with irresistible momentum.

Without elite resistance, every tribe was vulnerable to a single blow. Even large half-orc tribes collapsed at the first strike of the Goblin War Division and were easily occupied.

The Bone War Division followed in the goblins' footsteps, taking responsibility for garrisoning strategic strongholds and passes throughout this territory.

One tribe after another was captured and brought under Huo Ling's rule.

Large numbers of officials from Red Dog City and Plains City were urgently reassigned and dispatched to these half-orc tribes to manage them.

Though the Half-Orc Empire was called an empire, it was really nothing more than an alliance of clan tribes. They did not even possess a complete national culture.

This did not exceed Huo Ling's expectations. Blue Star had also gone through a tribal era, and Huo Ling understood this stage just as well.

If the Skullcrusher Clan of the Half-Orc Empire had been given time, or if an expert capable of crushing all the clans had emerged and forcibly fused every clan together—

Then perhaps, after several hundred or a thousand years, the Half-Orc Empire might have formed a powerful cultural cohesion.

But not now. Although the Skullcrusher Clan held an advantage among the eight great clans, it was not an absolute advantage. They could not accomplish this.

Though these tribes were all half-orcs as well, they had long been exploited