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.

was that the food supply the orcs were carrying was directly

was a massive blow to the

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

less food the orcs had...the lower the

also understood this, and so as we marched with the other orcs, we discussed

somewhat had gotten the gist of what had happened since he could understand their language, only after I relayed to him what Angelica

surprised about how I was able to know this information since I couldn't speak the

out what had happened, he

"What a pity"

for a brief moment, I softly

"What is?"

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

scratched the back of my head and nodded my

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

said

use dimensional storages like humans could, and

Orcs couldn't use mana.

specifically, because orcs couldn't use mana they weren't able to

use dimensional storage, protecting the food supplies would've been a breeze

the case as orcs didn't use mana

system compared to mana and was only unique to orcs like demonic

had to do with how they evolved and how they mainly focused on

aura was a force that was hidden within the bodies of the orcs and allowed them to stimulate every single muscle and fiber of their bodies. In

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

Terrifying.

This also explained why the orcs wore crude and heavy armor. It was simply because artifacts were useless to them as

to Silug, the reason why he was especially

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

-Thump! -Thump!

of my thoughts, were the sounds of footsteps halting as

on top of a rock, overlooking the orcs below him,

laun Sawiiick! Comy tun lareon

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

there a way for you

voice entered my head

that

help me

'Alright, perfect'

thing quite troublesome. Fortunately, I had

many languages can you

which was the orc's main language, she definitely knew

[All of them]

I couldn't help but ask once again to make sure I

'All of them?'

are born with the ability to

this fact, I was slightly taken

...interesting.

I never knew this.

was the creator of

guess there were still some technical things I didn't know

[Focus your mind]

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

surprised with what Angelica told me, my mind was more preoccupied with other things

I'm about to share with you my

my head, I

'Alright'

[Good...]

-Fuwa!

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

"khh..."

small groan escaped from my lips, but because it was

I had a mask covering my face which helped quite a

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

I could

of orcs beneath him, Silgus shouted as his powerful voice

flames of war

first sparks, the inevitable clash for the sovereignty of this planet has

a second as he stared at the orcs beneath him,

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

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