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Besides, Shamans were not easy to train. They were like the Mages of the Human Kingdom: hard work alone was not enough. They also needed an exceptional talent for sensing the elements and the support of substantial resources.

Training a good Shaman could not be done in a year or two, unless... unless they were an Elemental Prodigy. But... even across all the Orcs tribes, finding someone like that was no easy task now.

The Orcs Vanguard Commander's full-strength Vanguard of six hundred had only six Shamans. At present, no one among the Orcs tribes had found another profession that could replace the role Shamans played in their armies.

Those monstrous Death Knights and the Warlocks of the Shadow Council only knew how to create terror and death. They would never study or research ways to save lives and heal the wounded.

Like most Orcs, the Orcs Vanguard Commander deeply disliked those monstrous Death Knights and the Warlocks of the Shadow Council. Yet now, he had no choice but to rely on those monstrous Death Knights.

Since they could not quickly use elemental power to disperse the vast smoke screen created by so many Smoke Bombs, their only option was to force their way through.

Ten Death Knights summoned a full ten Voidwalker demons. The Orc Wolf Riders fastened Iron Chains to the Voidwalker demons and attached enormous Logs to them. Then the ten Voidwalkers rumbled into the smoke screen like ten Tanks advancing abreast.

Behind the ten Voidwalker demons came the ten Death Knights, along with some two hundred Wolf Rider Warriors and a hundred Wolf Rider Archers.

The remaining Orc Wolf Rider Warriors, fewer than two hundred, were responsible for protecting the Shamans and bringing up the rear.

Once they entered the smoke-screen area and reached the optimal