The Author's POV

As dark clouds enveloped the sky and blocked the sunlight from shining down upon the land, on a mountain range, rumbling sounds echoed across the surroundings.

-Rumble! -Rumble!

Marching through the large rocky terrain were over a thousand orcs wearing thick metallic armor that weighed over a couple of tons. With each step they took the ground beneath them shook.

"Randim gal"

Walking at the front of the army of orcs were two orcs that stood out from the rest.

A white orc and a red orc.

Presently, both of their faces were incomparably dark as their chests heaved up and down unevenly.

The legion commander, Silug, had an especially terrifying expression as the large scar on his face became even more glaring.

As we walked, a boundless bloodlust exuded from his body.

The bloodlust was so powerful that the orcs standing next to him were trembling uncontrollably.

...Almost as if they were staring at death itself.

Watching the scene from further back, with my head straight I softly said in a deep voice.

"How long do we have left?"

Walking next to me, wearing a large metallic armor that covered most of his body was Kevin who coldly said.

"Ten more kilometers..."

"Hm?"

Turning my head to the side, and noticing Kevin's attitude, I realized that he was still holding a grudge against me for the potions thing.

Rolling my eyes inside of the large metal mask I apologized.

"Alright, I'm sorry about the potions thing, you don't need to be so mad about it"

...I do understand that I was at fault here, but it's not like something would've happened.

Let's exclude his perks as the protagonist, I also had the book with me. With it I knew Kevin was going to be fine.

I wasn't dumb enough to make him do something that would end up killing him.

"Not mad? I was almost caught because you didn't tell me what they did"

"No you weren't, stop exaggerating"

He only startled a nearby orc, nothing much happened. Since the orc was too busy fighting a demon, there was no follow-up.

Turning his attention towards me, Kevin frowned inside of his mask and said

"...and how do you know that?"

From what Kevin remembered, Ren left on the opposite side of him...he shouldn't have seen him.

Without skipping a beat I responded.

"Since I got lucky and an orc died next to me, I was able to quickly change and thus saw you on the way"

Squinting his eyes, Kevin proceeded to nod his head.

"...I see"

Nope, I was actually quite far from him, but he didn't need to know that.

That aside, I finally found out why the orcs and the demons were fighting. After the count-ranked demon left, Angelica finally told me what had happened.

To summarize it

...in short, the demons ambushed the orcs.

Normally this wouldn't have been that much of a surprising event considering the fact the orcs and demons fought all of the time...however, this time, things weren't the same as usual.

In fact, a big problem happened.

the problem was that the food supply the orcs were carrying was directly targeted by the demons and as

massive blow to

were

had...the lower

marched with the other orcs, we discussed

had happened since he could understand their language, only after I relayed to him what

I was able to know this information since I couldn't speak the language before...but fortunately, he

end, as he found out what had

"What a pity"

a brief moment, I softly said in a low

"What is?"

use dimensional

second, I scratched the back of my head and nodded my

"Ah...I guess you're right"

said

like humans could, and

Orcs couldn't use mana.

mana they weren't able to use dimensional

storage, protecting the food supplies would've been a breeze as Silug alone could've done

was not the case as orcs didn't use mana but instead used

different energy system compared to mana and was

reason orcs used aura instead of mana had to do with how they evolved and

within the bodies of the orcs and allowed them to stimulate every single muscle and fiber of their bodies. In doing so it helped them grow stronger by regrowing their muscle fibers to be stronger and more

massive bodies that contained boundless raw power hidden within. I didn't need to elaborate on how strong they were...as I had seen Silug's power

Terrifying.

biologically designed, orcs couldn't use mana. This also explained why the orcs wore crude and heavy armor. It was simply because artifacts were useless to them as they couldn't

reason why he was

responsibilities were going to

-Thump! -Thump!

were the sounds of footsteps halting as

rock, overlooking the orcs below him, Silug's powerful voice

laun Sawiiick! Comy tun lareon

across the surroundings, frowning, I called for Angelica inside

a way for you to make me

voice entered my head as

that I no longer feel his presence, I

help me understand,

'Alright, perfect'

I found the fact that I couldn't understand a thing quite troublesome. Fortunately,

Angelica, how many languages

since she knew Lartvian, which was the

[All of them]

by her response, I couldn't help but ask once again to

'All of them?'

are born with the

to this fact, I was slightly

...interesting.

I never knew this.

I was the creator of the

I didn't know as the author of

[Focus your mind]

out of my thoughts, I closed my eyes and concentrated as

me, my mind was more preoccupied with other things like wanting to

with you my skill so

head, I

'Alright'

[Good...]

-Fuwa!

mind, I suddenly felt a stabbing sensation hit my brain resulting

"khh..."

lips, but because it was faint no one

my face

couple of seconds, feeling the pain in my brain disappear, opening my eyes I looked

could now

him, Silgus shouted

flames of war

sparks, the inevitable clash for the sovereignty of this

for a second as he stared at the orcs beneath him, extending his hand forward and clenching it into a fist, Silgus

swear upon my name Silgus third legion commander of Gud Khodror, that I will

vermin's blood blanketing this world will I finally be