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!

of nowhere, an enormous frame crashed against the trees that were

I immediately crouched down and looked towards the direction of where the crash happened. Unfortunately, because of the dirt shrouding the area, I wasn't able to get a proper look

my head to look behind me to make sure no one

"Khrr...khrr..."

laying down on the area next to me. With each breath he

...soon our eyes met.

"Luten garen moven human!"

interlocked, after a short pause, the orc lifted his head and

sheat of my sword, I

don't speak orchen language or

-Click!

the [Keiki style] : Quick

-Spurt!

before the orc could defend himself, a bright light illuminated the surroundings, and a streak of light pierced straight through the small gap of the armor the orc was wearing. Green blood sprayed

-Thump!

"huuu..."

sword from the orc's body

to calm my beating

I said I wasn't nervous right now that

true strength, I was at least able to infer that he was at least around

injured, or else the situation

able to retain my composure which

I would've blanked out and

judgment, that's when you knew you had a problem...and right

"Alright, enough time-wasting"

orc, I immediately stripped him of all

-Clank!

crap

the armor to the side, I couldn't help but curse

felt as though it

*Sigh*

'Beggars can't be choosers'

some oil from my dimensional space I threw it at the orc and

-Swaash!

a raging fire appeared in the area I was in. As

fire, I

say it was easy, would've been a

me feel sick. It was already hard enough for me to adjust to three times the gravity, now that I was wearing

could barely

a solution to

my dimensional space, opening the lid with my thumb,

"Here goes no-"

-Rumble! -Rumble!

the ground shook

my footing.

-Rumble! -Rumble!

the distance, I slowly

"Reinforcements are here..."

left, quickly chugging down the three potions in my hand, I

matter of seconds, I was soon able to fill the armor completely.

was able to do this was because of the three potions that

Potion that rapidly expands body. Effects last

by a factor of two. Effects last 1

potion] : Potion that enables the user to change

potion although it sounded useless, was

the language, in case they were chanting

guess it's time

I read through some of the pages. Not long after, closing the book I slowly made my way

-Thump! -Thump!

with every step I

of the thin forest...and what I saw

Karum! Karum! Karum!

expansive grassland before me, waves of orcs could be seen marching towards the distance chanting their war cry and thumping their weapons on the ground. Wherever they

a large boulder was Silug's figure who was menacingly staring towards the sky where the Count ranked

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