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"

similar thought, Kevin nodded his

"...I think so too"

fierce, their chances of winning the

since their numbers were far

war against the demons, the chances of them

was the most they could accomplish...and that would be

his head and glancing at Ren next to him,

"So what's next?"

my hand on my chin as I fell into deep thought, I

the hardest part of the plan, all that we have to do next is reap our

quite there, but almost

was indeed the hardest part of the mission,

most of the demon forces would be sent out to face

because there was a high chance that the

the battle, the leader of the demons in charge of Setin would have no choice but to

lose as he was the only demon nearby that could fight on equal terms with

Kevin looked at me with

"Rewards?"

"Mhm"

the surprise in Kevin's face, whilst still staring at the army of orcs in

breaker curse cure of course, and a couple of other things.

aback, Kevin pointed

"Me?"

"Yeah"

me confirm, frowning, Kevin

sword manual, it wouldn't

he took rewards

was apprehensive at the thought of owing someone as it

the corner of my eyes, understanding his thoughts,

not going to take it then suit yourself, I'll

"No use for you?"

that's why I thought you could use it. You don't have to owe me anything

It was true.

was something that I couldn't use so there was no point in

it as me giving a

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

"...we're friends?"

at Kevin, a chuckle

death situations, it wouldn't be strange to call ourselves friends...or is

when I

through a lot of life and death situations,

Kevin

"No, you're right"

as he thought perhaps it was just him and Ren

the same way as him as

He was quite happy.

glanced at him on my right, I

you're going to take the reward or

Kevin shook his

"...Ill take it"

"Good"

anyway so it was only natural that he got it. After

chance of defeating the demon king

if I continued this way there was a chance for me to be able to be on par with the demon king, with Kevin as reassurance I wouldn't have to worry too

we had enough time

being in this world for the past seven

its middle finger at you and present you with a scenario outside of your

Therefore, I stopped expecting.

what I envisioned I'll just get strong enough so that I could retaliate

planning on being passive like

I glanced at Kevin who was standing next to me similarly

still got something to do, I'll be back

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

you going? They are about to

army below us, I rolled my

It's not like they

army of thousands upon

to be the hardest people to

the fact that they were large armors, it still took time for them to go out, so we still had half

scratched his head in embarrassment as

right.