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!

suddenly out of nowhere, an enormous frame crashed against the

towards the direction of where the crash happened. Unfortunately, because of the dirt shrouding the

sure no one

"Khrr...khrr..."

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

...soon our eyes met.

"Luten garen moven human!"

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

my hand on the sheat of my sword, I quickly

don't speak orchen

-Click!

of the [Keiki

-Spurt!

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

-Thump!

"huuu..."

removed my sword from the orc's body

calm my beating heart

said I wasn't nervous right now that would've been

opponent's true strength, I was at

else the situation might've

able to retain my composure which proved to me that

me five months back, I would've

that nervousness affected your judgment, that's when you

"Alright, enough time-wasting"

immediately stripped him of all

-Clank!

crap weights a

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

felt as though it was

*Sigh*

'Beggars can't be choosers'

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

-Swaash!

a raging fire appeared in the area I was in. As this was a common sight on the battlefield

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

easy, would've

weight alone made me feel sick. It was already hard enough for me to adjust to three times

barely stand

had a solution to

space, opening the lid with my thumb, I tried to down them in

"Here goes no-"

-Rumble! -Rumble!

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

footing. If not I might've lost

-Rumble! -Rumble!

distance,

"Reinforcements are here..."

quickly chugging down the three potions

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

was because of

that rapidly expands

Potions that increase the strength of the user by a factor of two.

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

speak the language, in case they were chanting their war cry, I

time for me

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

-Thump! -Thump!

walked, with every step

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

Karum! Karum! Karum!

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

standing on top of a large boulder was Silug's figure who was menacingly staring towards the sky where

presence to Silug, however, differently from him, his skin was red and