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.

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

massive blow to

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

food the orcs had...the lower the chances

and so as we marched with the other

language, only after I relayed to him what Angelica

able to know this information since I couldn't speak the language

what had happened, he couldn't help but sigh and

"What a pity"

moment, I

"What is?"

fact that orcs can't use dimensional storages, else this situation would've

for a second, I scratched the back of

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

said wasn't

use dimensional storages like humans could, and that was

Orcs couldn't use mana.

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

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

didn't

system compared to mana and was only

instead of mana had to do with how they evolved and how they mainly

that was hidden within the bodies of the orcs and allowed them to stimulate every single muscle and fiber of

was their massive bodies that contained boundless raw power hidden within. I didn't need to elaborate on how strong they were...as

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 them as they couldn't

to Silug, the reason why he

leader of the expedition, all responsibilities were going to fall on him for

-Thump! -Thump!

me out of my thoughts, were the sounds of footsteps halting as every

on top of a rock, overlooking the orcs below him, Silug's powerful voice resounded across the

laun Sawiiick! Comy tun

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

way for

voice entered my

didn't use this before because my brethren was there but now that I no longer feel his presence, I can share

Angelica could help me understand, I grew

'Alright, perfect'

understand a thing quite troublesome. Fortunately, I had Angelica with

many languages can

knew Lartvian, which was the orc's

[All of them]

but ask once again to make sure

'All of them?'

demons are born with the ability to know

this fact, I was slightly

...interesting.

I never knew this.

I was the creator of the

guess there were still some technical things I didn't know as the author of the novel...interesting

[Focus your mind]

my

mind was more preoccupied with other things like wanting to understand

you my skill so try

head, I solemnly

'Alright'

[Good...]

-Fuwa!

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

"khh..."

my lips, but because it was faint

had a mask covering my face which helped quite

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

I could

staring at the sea of orcs beneath him, Silgus shouted as his powerful voice echoed

of war

clash for the sovereignty

for a second as he stared at the orcs beneath him, extending his hand forward and

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

vermin's blood blanketing this world will I finally be able