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 food supply the orcs were carrying was directly targeted

a massive

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

the orcs had...the lower the chances of them surviving

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

Kevin somewhat had gotten the gist 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

bit surprised about how I was able to know this information since I couldn't speak the language before...but fortunately, he didn't pry too

what had happened,

"What a pity"

at Kevin for a brief moment, I softly said in a

"What is?"

dimensional storages, else this

second, I scratched the back of my

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

said

like humans could,

Orcs couldn't use mana.

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

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

didn't use mana but instead used

mana and was only unique to orcs like demonic

had to do with how they evolved and how they mainly

stimulate every single muscle and fiber of their bodies. In doing so

didn't need to elaborate on how strong they

Terrifying.

were 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

reason why he

expedition, all responsibilities were going to fall on

-Thump! -Thump!

the sounds of footsteps halting

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

laun Sawiiick! Comy tun

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

there a way for you to make me

brief moment, Angelica's voice entered

was there but now that I

could help me understand, I grew

'Alright, perfect'

understand a thing quite troublesome. Fortunately, I had Angelica with me who knew how to speak the

Angelica, how many languages

curious, since she knew Lartvian, which was the

[All of them]

response, I couldn't help but ask

'All of them?'

the ability to know every

this fact, I was slightly

...interesting.

I never knew this.

was the creator of

still some technical things I didn't know as

[Focus your mind]

my thoughts, I closed my eyes and concentrated as

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

to share with you my skill so try to not lose

head,

'Alright'

[Good...]

-Fuwa!

suddenly felt a stabbing sensation

"khh..."

small groan escaped from my lips, but because it

my face which helped quite a

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

could now

beneath him, Silgus shouted

flames of war are

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

beneath him, extending

of Gud Khodror, that

the smell of those vermin's blood blanketing this world will