The Author's POV

It's been about ten days since Kevin destroyed the food warehouse and I killed Zornaraugh.

...and a lot happened since then.

-Rumble! -Rumble! -Rumble!

Staring towards the distance, thousands upon thousands of orcs all equipped with heavy armor and weapons marched towards the gates of Gud Khodror.

An oppressive aura enveloped the whole of the city as bloodlust exuded from the bodies of each of the orcs in the distance.

Watching the spectacle from afar, a faint smile appeared on my lips.

...the plan was a success.

After I had Angelica kill Zornaraugh directly, everything went as I envisioned.

The orcs traced everything to the demons due to Angelica's residual demonic energy lingering on the corpses of Zornaraugh and the bodyguard.

Prior to killing Zornaraugh, I had specifically asked Angelica to do that so that the orcs wouldn't question who killed Zornaraugh.

Moreover, with the fact that Zornaraugh was killed at the same time that the food supplies were destroyed, the orcs came to the conclusion that the demons were responsible for the incident despite the fact that there was no evidence to support that conclusion.

Everything was perfect.

...well almost everything, if I had to be honest, these past few days have been quite scary.

Naturally, because of the incident, the orc chief was beyond enraged.

The aura he exuded the past few days was something beyond frightening as every time I glanced towards the tower in the middle of Gud Khodror it felt as though I was staring at death itself.

...and because of this, Kevin and I had no choice but to lay low for that period of time.

Every day felt as though there was barely any oxygen in the air.

Suffocating.

Staring at the army of orcs from afar, Kevin who standing next to me, glanced towards my arm which was currently bandaged, and asked.

"...Is your arm really okay?"

Ever since Ren had come back from his mission, Kevin noticed the state of his arm.

Although he wasn't particularly concerned as arms could be regrown with modern potions, Kevin was concerned that it might affect their future plans as he was now injured.

Glancing at Kevin, I shook my head.

"Honestly, it hurts like hell"

I wasn't lying.

The pain I experienced right after Monarch's indifference deactivated almost caused me to pass out.

...it was mortifying.

It was so painful that I couldn't even describe the feeling in words.

What made matters worse was that even after ten days had passed, I could still not move my arm properly

I think it may be due to something like the nerve endings of my arms not being fully connected, but I wasn't too sure. I wasn't an expert in this kind of stuff.

Frowning slightly, Kevin curiously asked.

"How long do you think it will take before you can use your arm like normal again?"

Staring at my left arm for a couple of seconds, I mused.

"Hmmm, maybe a couple of days?"

...no, that was unrealistic.

Unless I consumed an advanced potion I wouldn't be able to have the same degree of control as before.

Although my arm was in fact healing, every time I moved it, it felt as though electricity was coursing through it.

..the feeling was almost the same as when you accidentally hit your funny bone.

Not very pleasant.

Staring at my arm for a couple of more seconds, Kevin nodded his head. Turning his head around, Kevin proceeded to look towards the orcs in the distance.

"What do you think the chances of the orcs winning are?"

Without hesitation, I responded.

"Slim to none honestly"

a similar thought, Kevin

"...I think so too"

and fierce, their chances of winning the fight

since their numbers were far lower than that

against the demons, the chances of them winning

able to reclaim some land, but that was the most they could accomplish...and that

his head and glancing at Ren next

"So what's next?"

hand on my chin as I fell into deep thought,

we've pretty much accomplished the hardest part of the plan, all that we have to do next is reap our

not quite there, but

indeed the hardest part of the mission, infiltrating Setin was going

of the demon forces would be sent out to face

done was because there was a

leader of the demons in charge of

were bound to lose as he was the only demon

looked at me with a look

"Rewards?"

"Mhm"

still staring at the

course, and a couple of other things. Don't worry

Kevin pointed towards

"Me?"

"Yeah"

confirm, frowning, Kevin

five-star sword manual, it wouldn't be an even

if he took rewards wouldn't that mean that their deal

owing someone as it could

at Kevin from the corner of my eyes, understanding his thoughts,

not going to take it then suit yourself, I'll just leave it there since it has no use for

"No use for you?"

use it. You don't have to owe me anything if you

It was true.

item I was giving Kevin was something that I couldn't use so there was no point in me keeping

it as me giving a

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

"...we're friends?"

at Kevin, a chuckle escaped from

much been through life and death situations, it wouldn't be strange to call ourselves friends...or is it just

lying when

and going through a lot of

at me deeply, Kevin proceeded to nod his

"No, you're right"

as Ren, but he never really dwelled too deeply into it as he thought perhaps it was just

as despite his popularity had never had a proper friend in

He was quite happy.

Kevin's thoughts, smiling as I glanced at him on my right, I

going to take the

bitterly, Kevin

"...Ill take it"

"Good"

honest, the item was supposed to belong to him anyway so it was only natural that he

highest chance of defeating the demon king after

acknowledge the fact that if I continued this way there was a chance for me to be able to be on par with the demon king, with Kevin

we

being in this world for the past seven months it was that life was a

finger at you and present

Therefore, I stopped expecting.

that does not match what I envisioned I'll just get strong enough so that I could retaliate

planning on being passive like

glanced at Kevin who was standing next to me similarly looking at the army

I've still got something to do, I'll be

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

are you going? They are about to

army below us, I

not like

army of thousands upon thousands

going to be

them to move fast despite the fact that they were large armors, it still took time for them to go out, so we still

this, Kevin scratched his head in embarrassment as he

right. How long