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,

"...I think so too"

orcs were strong and fierce, their chances

their numbers were far lower than that of

going to have an all-out war against the demons, the chances

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

shaking his head and glancing at Ren next to him, Kevin

"So what's next?"

my hand on my chin as I fell

we've pretty much accomplished the hardest part of the plan, all that we have to

quite

indeed the hardest part of the mission, infiltrating Setin was

would be sent out to face the orcs, they would still leave behind some

because there was a high chance that the strongest

of the demons in charge of Setin would have no choice

was the only demon nearby that

mentioned, Kevin looked at me with a look

"Rewards?"

"Mhm"

at the army of orcs in

and a couple of other things. Don't worry

Kevin pointed towards

"Me?"

"Yeah"

confirm, frowning,

I've already gotten my five-star sword manual, it wouldn't be an even deal if I

art, if he took rewards wouldn't that mean

apprehensive at the thought of owing

corner of my eyes, understanding

then suit yourself, I'll just leave it there since it has no

"No use for you?"

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

It was true.

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

it as me giving a friend

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

"...we're friends?"

Kevin, a chuckle escaped from

and death situations, it wouldn't

wasn't lying when I

a lot of life and death situations,

at me deeply, Kevin proceeded

"No, you're right"

as Ren, but he never really dwelled too deeply into it as he thought perhaps it was just him and Ren only thought of him as someone with who he had

Kevin was secretly glad Ren felt the same way as him as despite his popularity had never had a proper friend in the

He was quite happy.

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

take the reward or

bitterly, Kevin

"...Ill take it"

"Good"

only natural

the one with the highest chance

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

long as we

in this world for the past seven months it was

would suddenly flip its middle finger at you and present you with a scenario outside of your prediction catching

Therefore, I stopped expecting.

envisioned

was no longer planning on being passive

as I glanced at Kevin who was standing

something to

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

Where are you going?

below us, I rolled

not like

an army of thousands upon

going to be the

to move fast despite the fact that they were large

scratched his head in embarrassment as

right. How