Magic, Evil Gods, and the Fourth Calamity

Towering black walls stand on the plain, and the city of Kolster lies like a black dragon, exuding a sense of solemnity and majesty.

Hidden in the dense forest, Huang Tian looked at the city from afar, pondering how he should enter it.

From afar, one could see fully armed orc soldiers both on the city walls and at the city gates.

Every orc soldier was displayed as hostile, presumably indicating that they would start fighting as soon as they met.

If Huang Tian wanted to get in from the previous line, it probably wouldn't be so easy.

Huang Tian called on a group of people to brainstorm, but after discussing for a long time, they still couldn't come up with a reliable idea.

After all, they didn't know about any secret passages, and their overall strength was only at the Black Iron level, so it was unlikely that they could bypass those orcs and sneak into the city.

At this moment, Old Li, who was silently writing code, looked up and pushed up his glasses, which were not actually on his nose.

He said quietly, "If all you want to do is get in, it's probably very simple."

Huang Tian asked from above, "Well, Old Li, what brilliant idea do you have?"

"We're human, aren't we? Humans seem to be commodities in the orcs' city, right? What if a group of us commodities suddenly rushed in front of them? Would they arrest us?" Old Li pointed to a caravan of carriages not far away.

It appeared to be a slave caravan. The slave traders, dressed in human attire, were driving a wagon carrying more than twenty imprisoned humans, and were escorted by several orc guards as they slowly made their way towards Kolster.

"..."

Huang Tian fell into thought. NPCs might be afraid of becoming slaves, but they were players. As long as they could get in, it was fine. No matter how big the place was, they would just die and start over.

"Great idea! No wonder you're a highly educated technical expert." Huang Tian patted Lao Li on the shoulder with admiration. "Alright, let's use this method!"

"Hey boss, a few of us won't be going!"

Zhang Houtu silently raised his hand and spoke, and the other female players nodded in agreement, none of them really wanting to disguise themselves as slaves to enter the city.

"Okay, you guys can stay outside the city. You'll be in charge of our weapons and equipment."

Huang Tian agreed with the group's idea. After all, given the game's overly realistic nature, he was worried that these female players, who had created themselves to be like immortals, might encounter some unspeakable things after becoming slaves.

Furthermore, since they were disguised as slaves to enter the city, they certainly couldn't carry weapons or equipment. And to prevent the loss of their weapons, someone would have to be assigned to guard them.

"Yes, no problem! Leave it to us!" Zhang Houtu patted his chest and assured them, looking as if he was determined to fulfill his mission.

After arranging the personnel, the remaining nine male players of the Starry Sky Team, led by Huang Tian, ​​first set up a save point on the spot, and then took off their weapons and equipment and handed them over to the female players for safekeeping.

Immediately afterwards, they all ran towards Kolster, their target being the slave caravan.

The slave trader was leading the caravan when, just as Kolster was about to appear, ten human men suddenly rushed toward his caravan from the roadside, startling him greatly.

After all, the recent events surrounding the "Human Resistance Army" have caused quite a stir, and not long ago, the emergence of the resistance army led to a large-scale slave escape in Kolster.

But when the slave traders saw the newcomer's equipment, they couldn't help but sneer. The man had no weapons, no armor, and didn't even display any extraordinary abilities.

This is a group of fools who think they can save others by running away.

"Take them down, but don't go too far, keep them alive!"

The slave trader immediately gave orders to the orc mercenaries following him, and the orc mercenaries immediately followed the slave trader's instructions and attacked the charging male humans.

Before long, several human men were captured by orc mercenaries and all of them were thrown into the iron cages on the wagon where human slaves were imprisoned.

"Hehe, what a bumper harvest!"

The slave trader muttered to himself, somewhat excited by his unexpected gain.

"Boss Huang, something's not right! Shouldn't humans be treated like livestock in the beastman city? How come this slave trader can command beastman soldiers?!"

In the Starry Sky team's chat group, the leader of the leveling team asked a question with some confusion.

"There might be some special circumstances. Let's investigate once we get into the city; perhaps we'll find the answer then!"

While replying in the group chat, Huang Tian looked around at the situation in the cage.

Apart from the players who had just been captured, there were about thirty humans in the convoy, who were divided into six iron cages.

Each iron cage was crammed with humans, all of them with withered faces and lifeless eyes.

These people seem to care nothing about the outside world or their own future.

So much so that when Huang Tian tried to talk to someone, no one responded to him.

Upon seeing this, Huang Tian gave up his plan to find out what was going on from these NPCs and suspected that these NPCs might not have had a dialogue function set up.

As the slave caravan entered the city, Huang Tian looked at the solemn and majestic buildings and couldn't help but sigh.

"Wow, this architectural style... orcs actually have a knack for art!"

Upon hearing this, the man in the same cage as Huang Tianzai, sitting opposite him, finally couldn't help but retort: ​​"How could a bunch of robbers who take other people's things for themselves possibly understand what art is?"

"This city wasn't built by orcs?" Huang Tian asked.

The man scoffed, "These bandits who only know how to pitch a tent, what ability do they have to build this city!"

A thousand years ago, this city was designed and built by our human ancestors, but those despicable orcs brazenly stole it and shamelessly made it their own city.

Upon hearing this, Huang Tian couldn't help but scrutinize the man in front of him, raising an eyebrow involuntarily.

He shifted closer to the other person, squeezing in beside them, and whispered in a voice only the other person could hear: "Praise be to the God of Light, for the great revival of mankind."

"..."

Upon hearing this, the man raised an eyebrow and looked at Huang Tianzai with suspicion. In the end, he withdrew his gaze from Huang Tianzai and ignored him.

Seeing this, Huang Tian didn't say anything more and found a place to sit down.

The carriage traveled through the streets, the barbaric chaos on both sides completely out of place with the solemn and dignified city.

The streets were filled with orcs locked in fierce combat, while in the corners huddled together, humans trying to minimize their presence.

Wooden wheels rolled over the foul-smelling sewage on the ground, and mud-covered rats crawled out of the already clogged sewer pipes.

Chaos and filth are the dominant themes of this city, while the towering, solemn black buildings are merely an unnoticed backdrop.

Huang Tian understood that the master of this city was neither an orc nor should be an orc.

The carriage drove into a narrow alley and stopped at the back door of a building.

Several creatures, similar in size to humans but with green skin and orcish fangs, emerged from the back door of the building and scanned the humans on the carriage with the same eyes one would use to look at livestock.