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.

orcs were carrying was directly targeted by the

massive

scarce food was, any loss dealt towards their food supply meant that they were dealt a devastating blow. Especially since food was what kept their

the orcs had...the lower

as we marched

of what had happened since he could understand their language, only after I relayed to him what Angelica told me that he fully understood what was

was a bit surprised about how I was able to know this information since

he found out what had happened, he couldn't

"What a pity"

moment,

"What is?"

dimensional storages, else this

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

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

said

couldn't use dimensional storages like humans could, and that was

Orcs couldn't use mana.

orcs couldn't use mana they weren't able to use dimensional storages as

the food supplies would've been a

orcs didn't use mana but instead used something called

to mana and was only unique to orcs like

how they evolved and how they mainly focused on brute

force that was hidden 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

didn't need to elaborate on

Terrifying.

orcs couldn't use mana. This also explained why the orcs wore crude and heavy armor. It was simply because artifacts were useless

to Silug, the reason why

expedition, all responsibilities were going to fall on him for

-Thump! -Thump!

thoughts, were the sounds of footsteps halting

orcs below him,

Comy

voice echoing across the surroundings, frowning, I called for Angelica inside of my

way for you

a brief moment, Angelica's voice

but now that I no longer feel his presence, I

help

'Alright, perfect'

fact that I couldn't understand a thing quite troublesome. Fortunately, I had Angelica with me who knew

Angelica, how many languages can you

genuinely curious, since she knew Lartvian, which was

[All of them]

I couldn't help but ask once again to

'All of them?'

demons are born with the ability to

to this fact, I

...interesting.

I never knew this.

I was the creator of

some technical things I didn't know

[Focus your mind]

my thoughts,

I was surprised with what Angelica told me, my mind was more preoccupied with other things like wanting to understand what Silug

my skill so try to

head,

'Alright'

[Good...]

-Fuwa!

felt a stabbing sensation hit my brain resulting in my face winching in

"khh..."

groan escaped from my lips, but because it

a mask covering my face which

feeling the pain in my brain disappear, opening my eyes I looked towards Silgus

could now

staring at the sea of orcs beneath him, Silgus

of war are upon

igniting the first sparks, the inevitable clash for the sovereignty of

orcs beneath him, extending his hand forward and clenching it into a

upon my name Silgus third legion commander of Gud Khodror, that I will personally end them in the war that

those vermin's blood blanketing this world will I finally be able to rest in