For everybody losing track of the main story, up till now:
*Yulian (MC) and his buddies are consolidating and growing power to try and unite the desert, hopefully before either the demon beasts or a non-desert party starts another full war with them.
*Venersis (the desert's other God of War) is being sidelined/backstabbed really hard for the sake of politics, and his friends/subordinates are preparing to stage a coup over it.
*Prince Shaone (MC's main empire friend from that arc) is making good progress in his civil war
*Winnie (super mage), Luf (weird swordsman), and the magic desert tribe are running everywhere with their balls on fire trying to keep everything from exploding
*Noah (LORD RHINOCEROUS HORN) is currently travelling the world, meeting people and learning stuff in preparation for when he will be asked to make a choice
*Weird background fuckers are running around trying to make the world explode because FUCK IT YOLO
And if this plays out the way I think it will, this new round of orcs/elves will ally with Yulian and co. Assuming a certain company doesn't decide to be a douchenugget over it.