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!

crashed against the trees that were next to me tearing

of where the crash happened. Unfortunately, because of the dirt shrouding the area,

my head to look behind me to make sure no one else was coming, I

"Khrr...khrr..."

settled down, an orc appeared laying down on the area next to me. With each breath he took, white air escaped

...soon our eyes met.

"Luten garen moven human!"

his eyes and my eyes interlocked, after a short pause, the orc lifted his

my sword, I

orchen language or whatever

-Click!

movement of the [Keiki style] :

-Spurt!

the surroundings, and a streak of light pierced straight through the small gap of the

-Thump!

"huuu..."

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

on the ground, I forcefully tried to calm my beating heart as

said I wasn't nervous right now

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

else the

to retain my composure which proved to me that I

back, I would've blanked

be nervous, everyone feels nervous. However, if that nervousness affected your judgment, that's when you knew you had a problem...and right now,

"Alright, enough time-wasting"

orc, I immediately stripped him of all

-Clank!

hell, this crap weights

curse to myself as I felt the weight of

as though it was a

*Sigh*

'Beggars can't be choosers'

corpse of the orc beside me. Taking out some oil from my dimensional space I threw it at the orc and snapped my fingers that were coated in

-Swaash!

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

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

say it was easy,

for me to adjust to three times the gravity, now that I was wearing something that weighted like a truck

barely

a solution

dimensional space, opening the lid with my thumb, I

"Here goes no-"

-Rumble! -Rumble!

just as I was about to drink the potion, the ground shook even more fiercely

footing. If not

-Rumble! -Rumble!

the distance,

"Reinforcements are here..."

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

armor completely. Moreover, the armor was

to do this was

: Potion that rapidly expands body. Effects last for

that increase the strength of the user by a factor of two. Effects last 1 day, and agility decreases as

the user to change

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

language, in case they were chanting their war cry, I wouldn't be

time

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

-Thump! -Thump!

I walked, with every step I took, the ground

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

Karum! Karum! Karum!

me, waves of orcs could be seen marching towards the distance chanting their war cry and thumping their weapons on

figure who was menacingly staring towards

however, differently from him, his skin was red