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Among this last group of orcs, only a very few were considered successful combat-type orcs by the goblins. Over ninety percent were "useless breeds" created purely for data collection. If it weren't for the War God personally awakening them, it's likely that over eighty of the orc tribes today wouldn't exist in the world.

Orcs that haven't undergone transformation, regardless of their type, are creatures of low intelligence, lacking their own civilization or a clear language, surviving much like wild beasts. However, under the protection of the War God and their own resilient vitality, they successfully avoided mutual slaughter and gradually grew stronger over the long years, eventually developing clear intelligence and constructing the foundations of a simple civilization. Finally, more than ten thousand years ago, a fortunate orc accidentally discovered the ruins left by the War God in the northern wastelands and, divinely inspired, began to worship and believe in the War God, becoming the first follower of the War God. This small act suddenly opened a channel of communication between the War God and the orcs. With a sense of compensation, the War God continuously manifested miracles and bestowed divine artifacts, leading to a leap in orc civilization over a thousand years and ultimately granting them the capital to contend for dominance on the continent.

As for the secret of the "Warcraft Orc Warriors," it is preserved only among a very few high-ranking orcs and is not known to the world.

However, orcs, who always pursue strength, could not possibly ignore this secret. Especially after generations of suffering under the magic of the elves, successive orc emperors and high priests have been obsessed with the legend that allows ordinary orc warriors to master a few spells. After countless years of pursuit, they finally found a goblin laboratory during the era of the "Abyssal Dragon King" a thousand years ago, where a small amount of orc transformation data was left behind.

Although the data was incomplete, although the orcs did not understand alchemy, and although the goblin alchemists of that time also relied on the power of pseudo-deities to complete this transformation, the orcs still threw themselves into the research of this transformation. Initial progress was slow, or rather, nonexistent, and this situation persisted for hundreds of years without a breakthrough. It wasn't until four hundred years ago, during the battle of the Golden Plains, when the Twelve Sages jointly cast a forbidden spell that created the Half-Orc Wasteland, which not only completely shattered the orcs' ability to counterattack humans but also unexpectedly gave the orcs an opportunity to touch the threshold of the Warcraft Orc transformation.

"Catalyzing the incomplete beastly bloodline within us orcs to the point of mutation is an act that goes beyond the basic laws of the world. If it weren't for the direct intervention of the 'pseudo-deities' back then, it would have been impossible to mass-produce successfully. Now that the 'pseudo-deities' have long since fallen, to defy the laws, we can only rely on the residual power of forbidden spells to gamble on luck. Those residual forces that defy the laws will gradually erode the bloodline of creatures, with the vast majority suffering fatal effects, but a very few lucky ones can gain unimaginable power from it. Of course, even those lucky ones inevitably pay a price, just like... the descendants of the pig tribe turning into so-called half-orcs."

Chen Xuanfeng only learned about the changes in the Half-Orc Wasteland through later collected intelligence, but as a high-ranking official governing the entire orc alliance, how could he be unaware of that mutation? Although they did not discover the last temple of the pig tribe, they monitored the entire process of the mutation of the pig tribe's last descendants, and after countless deductions and plans, finally came up with a transformation plan that was most likely to succeed.

This plan wasn't particularly innovative either, just collecting the most heavily crystallized soil and stones from the Half-Orc Wasteland affected by the residual power of the forbidden spell, building an altar filled with the residual power of the forbidden spell, and then combining it with selected Warcraft cores, inscribing complex alchemical arrays, and performing divine rituals to maximize the influence of the forbidden spell, allowing the orcs to undergo transformation within it, ultimately achieving the effect of mutating the orc bloodline.

As one can imagine, such a transformation plan, which is almost purely based on luck, has a success rate so low that it's almost despairing. Out of a hundred participants, at least ninety-nine die on the altar, and among those who survive, more than ninety percent degenerate completely into stupid and weak monsters like half-orcs. Even if there are one or two cases of successful enhancement, they only enhance physical strength, and none truly become like Warcrafts with magical cores.

After several hundred years of trials, interrupted by continuous failures, more than twenty thousand orcs died in the process, including warriors from almost every orc tribe, but ultimately without any results.

Finally, one day, a young lion tribe orc stood before the high priest and said one sentence.

"The reason you fail is because there is no true strongman willing to take the risk."

This orc was Samantha, who had just become the orc king.

It was only after becoming the orc king that he had the opportunity to understand the details of this transformation plan, which was classified as a core secret of the orc alliance. After reviewing past records, he proposed an extremely crazy idea—using the strongest warrior among the orcs for the transformation would be the most likely way to achieve the goal.

The so-called strongest warrior is a lion tribe sword emperor who has mastered the "Emperor Martial Overlord Art," and at that time, there was only one person who qualified, and that was Samantha himself.

"Are you saying... that Samantha, just after ascending to become the orc king, personally threw himself into this almost suicidal plan?" Chen Xuanfeng asked the high priest in disbelief.

"Yes, perhaps it can be said to be madness, perhaps it can be said to be arrogance, but our orc king is indeed the most special one among the successive kings. The authority and honor of the orc king did not hinder his steps at all, his eyes always seemed to be looking at higher and farther places..." The high priest, with a reminiscent expression, nodded and said, "For three years, that transformation almost cost him his life, several times we thought he wouldn't make it, but in the end, he gave us the biggest surprise—when he walked down from the altar for the last time, he had already condensed a level six earth magic core within his body, and in the following years, that core rapidly advanced to the peak of level nine."