The Author's POV

-Rumble! -Rumble!

As I quietly moved around the perimeter of the battlefield, I made sure to hide my presence as much as possible. By hiding behind rocks and trees, I slowly crept my way towards the battlefield.

-Baam!

Explosions rang everywhere and pained and enraged screams echoed around the battlefield.

Both sides continuously fought against each other with the orcs swinging their massive weapons down and the demons diving down from the sky-piercing through the gap of the orc's bulky armor.

Black and green blood sprayed everywhere as both sides relentlessly tried to kill one another.

Turning my head to the side, I stared towards the distance where the battle between the two leaders was happening. Standing with his back straight, Silug, the legion commander, Swung his axe downwards.

As his axe touched the ground, the air split apart and a humongous red light quickly approached the count-ranked demon in the air..

-Kacha!

Raising his hand and in a slapping motion, the count-ranked demon's hand made contact with the energy beam.

As soon as the count-ranked demon's hand touched the red beam, everything turned deathly quiet.

Everything stood at a standstill as be it orcs or demons all looked towards the distance.

...soon a bright red light enveloped the surroundings and a massive explosion rang out.

-Booom!

A massive shockwave swept the surroundings as both orcs and demons in the vicinity were flung away.

Not long after, as the light died down and the aftershocks of the explosion settled down, I soon saw the count-ranked demon diving towards Silug with unprecedented speed.

His blood-red eyes now were tinged in black as his left hand hung by a few threads. However if one looked closely, one could see the fiber of his muscles slowly regenerating reattaching his arm in place.

Stoically staring at the demon heading in his direction, Silug raised his axe in the air and screamed out loud.

"Graaaaaaa'”!"

-Boooom!

Soon the demon and the orc once again came into collision and another massive shockwave swept the place.

"Shit..."

Observing the fight from the distance, I couldn't but silently curse to myself.

'How long will it take me to reach their level..?'

Staring at the two leaders fighting in the distance, caused my blood to boil.

...such power.

Such overwhelming might that caused the surroundings to shake with every single one of their moves...I too wanted to become that strong too. Strong enough to not worry about carefully thinking about every single one of my actions.

...I knew I was being greedy.

Yet, I couldn't stop myself from wanting that sort of power.

...and although I knew that the speed of my strength increases could be described as nothing short of a miracle. That didn't stop me from longing to be that powerful.

Still, I knew that some things couldn't be rushed.

Staring at the two leaders fighting in the distance, I knew.

I knew that...

It was only a matter of time before I surpassed them.

-Crash!

thoughts, suddenly out of nowhere, an enormous frame crashed against the trees that were next to me tearing everything apart creating a cloud

where the crash happened. Unfortunately, because of

to look behind me to make sure no one else was coming, I slowly approached the area where the

"Khrr...khrr..."

orc appeared laying down on the area next to me. With each

...soon our eyes met.

"Luten garen moven human!"

eyes interlocked, after a short

hand on the sheat of my sword, I quickly channeled the mana inside of my

I don't speak orchen

-Click!

of the [Keiki style]

-Spurt!

the surroundings, and a streak of light pierced straight through the small gap of the armor the orc was wearing. Green

-Thump!

"huuu..."

I removed my sword from the orc's body as its body lifelessly slumped

ground, I forcefully tried to calm my beating heart as I wiped

wasn't nervous right now

my opponent's true strength, I was at least

else the situation might've

able to retain my

I would've

to be nervous, everyone feels nervous. However, if that nervousness affected your judgment, that's when you knew you had a problem...and right now, I no longer blanked

"Alright, enough time-wasting"

the now dead orc, I immediately stripped him of all of

-Clank!

this crap weights a crap

but curse to myself

as though

*Sigh*

'Beggars can't be choosers'

looking at the corpse of the orc beside me. Taking out some oil from my dimensional space I threw it

-Swaash!

in. As this was a common sight on the battlefield it attracted

armor away from the fire, I found a somewhat secluded area and

it was easy, would've been

weight alone made me feel sick. It was already hard enough for me to adjust to three times the gravity, now that I was wearing something that weighted like a truck on me,

barely stand

had a solution

space, opening the lid with my thumb, I tried

"Here goes no-"

-Rumble! -Rumble!

was about to drink the potion, the ground shook even more fiercely than before causing me to

regain my footing.

-Rumble! -Rumble!

distance,

"Reinforcements are here..."

left, quickly chugging down the three potions in

I was soon able to fill the armor completely. Moreover, the armor was no longer as heavy as it

reason why I was able to do this was because of

potion] : Potion that rapidly expands body. Effects last for 1

the user by a factor

changing potion] : Potion that enables the user to change

two potions, however, the last potion although it sounded useless, was an extra precaution I took in order to better disguise myself as an orc as the orc's voices were loud and

in case they

time for me to

of the pages. Not long after, closing the book I slowly made my way out of the

-Thump! -Thump!

I walked, with every step I took, the

by this, I soon made my way out of the thin forest...and what I saw next shook me to

Karum! Karum! Karum!

orcs could be seen marching towards the distance chanting their war cry and thumping their weapons on the ground. Wherever they went

Silug's figure who was menacingly staring

had a similar presence to Silug, however, differently from him, his skin was red and his body was bulkier.