novelraw Chapter 724 - 724 714 Dont Like What You See Then Change It
Chapter 724 - 724 714 Dont Like What You See Then Change It
Chapter 724: Chapter 714: Don’t Like What You See? Then Change It Chapter 724: Chapter 714: Don’t Like What You See? Then Change It In the direction of Muria’s fingers, the air rippled. With ripples visible to the naked eye spreading from the fingertips of Muria and then touching the chest of the angry pale orc. Despite his apparently robust figure, with an arm thicker than a teenager’s waist, the orc flew backwards as soon as he touched the ripple. It crashed through his own shabby hut.
The huge disturbance, along with the screams from the orc’s broken ribs, immediately alerted the small village. One after another, the doors of the dilapidated huts were opened, and many pale orcs with wooden sticks in their hands came out.
“Who are you? Why are you hurting my master?” An old, frail orc, assisted by two female orcs, came out of the largest house in the village. After seeing the orc flicked away by Muria, he looked at Muria calmly, seeing that the orc was just an ordinary creature in their village, not particularly powerful. The power displayed by Muria wasn’t enough to intimidate them.
“You owe me an explanation, why did you abandon the children here? Leaving them to freeze in the cold wind.” Muria asked with a cold expression. Looking at the surroundings, he had some suspicions.
In his past life, there existed a saying “Even a vicious tiger will not devour its cubs”. Of course, this is a misunderstood description of tigers, a fierce carnivore. In fact, tigers care for their offspring more than most creatures do, hence using them as a negative example is inappropriate. If we were to speak about creatures that harm their own offspring, it would never be the tiger.
“This is none of your business, traveler from afar.” Hearing that Muria started this conflict because of these babies, the face of this old orc, as well as the hostile expressions of other orcs, relaxed a lot.
“What if I insist on a reasonable explanation?” Muria raised his palm, lifted it above his head, a burning fireball formed rapidly in his palm. In the blink of an eye, it expanded to the size of a human head, then continued to enlarge into a fireball with a diameter of about a meter.
Then, one after another, long fire snakes about twenty meters slithered out from the fireball. In the eyes of the horrified pale orcs, their village was instantly surrounded by nearly a hundred fire snakes. The cold brought by the night was banished instantaneously, and all the orcs felt a burst of heat.
“A gold-ranked wandering mage.” Seeing the power demonstrated by Muria, the old orc immediately showed a look of awe, followed by helplessness. He didn’t expect that their small village would run into such an ignorant human power. How unlucky for them.
“If you can’t give a reasonable explanation, prepare to face my wrath!” Muria said coldly. In his impression, although the orcs are a lousy race, they are not down to the level of harming their own offspring. Therefore, he plans to give them a chance to explain.
“Don’t you really know the reason? Powerful mage.” This orc tradition, this is almost common knowledge on the continent. He couldn’t believe someone would stir up trouble with them over this.
“I don’t know.”
“This is a newborn ritual of our orcs. The new generation of our pale orcs only has the right to survive if they spend a night in the cold.”
“What kind of bullshit ritual? You let these babies who just born a few months ago freeze all night in the cold, making it a condition for their liveliness? Will you only consider that they could live if they make it? Are your brains trampled by wild pigs?” Hearing about their so-called ritual, Muria immediately rebuked.
It would be better to put them out of misery, killing them straightforwardly. They barely managed to come into this world, but had to endure such torture, then painfully die in the cold.
“This is the only way for the village to continue, we can’t raise so many children. So, only strong babies can survive.”
“A lack of resources.” Muria understood the key point, “The food your village harvests isn’t enough to raise so many babies. So you choose to cultivate the strongest babies through this method, and then the remaining ones are abandoned by you, isn’t that right?”
The village chief, who originally wanted to explain, was a little stunned when he heard Muria’s series of words. Then he quickly nodded: “You are so wise, sir. It’s just like this, the game harvested by our village, after feeding our warriors, is not enough to feed the babies if we keep all the babies. Then we won’t have enough food for the warriors.
“That’s why we have no choice. Without enough food for the warriors, who are supposed to hunt, we would be trapped in a vicious cycle, and the village will eventually disappear.”
“So I can consider that due to your incompetence, you are unable to harvest more food, so you have to abandon some of the babies, is that correct?” Muria asked sharply. Hearing his words, those strong orcs unconsciously lowered their heads, their faces filled with shame. They felt as if these words meant they were too useless.
“You’re not wrong in saying that.” Upon hearing Muria’s veiled sarcasm, the elderly beastman couldn’t help but reveal some embarrassment, “But we have no choice, our hunting territory is only so big. If we want to get more prey, we will have to clash with other villages. If we win, no problem, but if we lose, sigh!”
“In that case, give me those infants that you consider weak! I’ll take care of them.” Muria extended his hand toward the old beastman, directly asking him for the babies.
“Human, are you trying to make our children slaves? Or sell them into the gladiator arena? You wish! Even if they freeze to death in the wind or starve to death when they grow up, I won’t give them to you.” A robust beastman stood up, staring at Muria with fierce eyes.
“What right do you have to make decisions for these babies? And what right do you have to deprive them of their life?” Muria looked at the beastman. An oppressive dragon might erupted from his eyes, like a heavy hammer directly smashing into the beastman’s chest. He was sent flying back, landing heavily on the ground, unable to get up for quite a while.
“If you can’t guarantee that they can grow up healthily, why bring them into this world? If you lack the ability, don’t let them be born to suffer.”
“We will not abandon our descendants. Human, no matter how powerful you are, we will not succumb to you.” The old beastman stood up, looking at Muria seriously.
The old beastman’s attitude made the pale orcs all pick up their weapons. On this continent, humans and orcs have irreconcilable hatred.
“Human? Seems like my shape-shifting spell is getting better and better.” A smirk appeared on Muria’s face. He tapped his forehead a bit helplessly, “I was careless. How about now?”
Muria’s radiant golden pupils instantly turned vertical. A restrained aura spread from his body, covering all the beastmen, making them feel like insects trapped in amber.
“Giant Dragon!” Seeing Muria’s golden dragon’s eyes, the old beastman paused slightly, then all his previous doubts were instantly cleared. With great joy, he prostrated on the ground and bowed to Muria.
Although he had never seen a dragon in his life, in his memory, all giant dragons were worth worshipping and following. Upon seeing a giant dragon, kneeling and kowtowing was the end of it.
“Great Dragon, we are willing to follow you.”
“You are too weak.” Muria did not hide his contempt for them. Regardless of the reason, they are a group of weaklings who have abandoned their own infants, and the way they treat their offspring disgusts Muria. “Give me all those infants you deem weak!”
In the end, Muria left with thirty beastman infants from the village. These little troubles were all thrown into the semi-plane’s Mage Tower, and the Tower Spirit was left to take care of them.
After doing all this, Muria’s mood improved a lot. His original goal was to take the lead and investigate the specifics of this continent and the distribution of power, but he just happened to run into this annoying scene.
Then, in order to make himself feel better, he naturally took action. Everything was in line with his intentions. This was just like when he had just come out from the Titan Islands.
Muria has always followed his heart. When he was in the human kingdom and saw someone commiting evil, he would shackled the evil-doers and cast them into his semi-plane, turning them into slaves to labor for the rest of their lives.
The current Muria, upon seeing an unfair scene, will take out his weapon to level it. He will rectify any situation that displeases him and make it pleasing to himself.
This is one of the motivations to become stronger, to have enough power to change everything that isn’t pleasing.
Muria continued to explore the surroundings, but to his surprise, next to this beastman village were more beastman villages. Apart from the common low-level goblins, he surprisingly found no trace of other intelligent races. This was a bit strange…