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

"...I think so too"

fierce, their chances of winning the fight weren't that

were far lower

all-out war against

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

his head and glancing at Ren next to him, Kevin

"So what's next?"

as I fell into deep

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

still not quite there, but

of the mission,

though most of the demon forces would be sent out to face the orcs, they would

what I had just done was because there was a high chance that the strongest demons residing in Setin were not going to be

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

only demon

mentioned, Kevin looked at me with a

"Rewards?"

"Mhm"

at the army of

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

Kevin pointed towards

"Me?"

"Yeah"

confirm, frowning, Kevin

sword manual, it wouldn't

already gotten a five-star sword art, if he took rewards wouldn't

the thought of owing someone as it could lead to

Kevin from the corner of my

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

"No use for you?"

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

It was true.

item I was giving Kevin was something that I couldn't use so

it as me giving a friend a

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

"...we're friends?"

a chuckle escaped from

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

when I said

Kevin and going through a lot of life and death situations, I pretty

deeply, Kevin proceeded to

"No, you're right"

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

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

He was quite happy.

glanced

going to take the reward

Kevin

"...Ill take it"

"Good"

to him anyway so it was only natural that he got

highest chance of

for me to be able to be on par with the demon king,

as long as we

if there was one thing I learned from being in this world for the past seven months it

its middle finger at you and present

Therefore, I stopped expecting.

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

was no longer planning on

the army that had started moving out of the city, recalling something as I glanced at Kevin who was standing next

I've still got something

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

are you going? They are about to

the army below

like they

were talking about an army of thousands upon

to be

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

this, Kevin scratched his head in embarrassment as he

I guess you're right. How long