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"

thought, Kevin

"...I think so too"

their chances of winning the fight weren't that

far

war against

land, but that was the most they could accomplish...and that would be at the sacrifice of

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

"So what's next?"

as I fell into deep thought, I

of the plan, all that we have

still not quite there, but almost

indeed the hardest part of the mission,

of the demon forces would be sent out to face the orcs, they would still leave behind some of the stronger

because there was a high chance that the strongest demons residing in Setin

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

he was the only

Kevin looked

"Rewards?"

"Mhm"

still staring at the army of orcs in the distance, I proceeded

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

Kevin pointed towards

"Me?"

"Yeah"

me confirm,

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

if he

was apprehensive at the thought of owing someone as

of my eyes, understanding his thoughts, I shook

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

"No use for you?"

that's why I thought you could use it. You don't have

It was true.

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

me giving

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

"...we're friends?"

at Kevin, a chuckle

through life and death situations, it wouldn't be strange to call ourselves

lying when I said

time with Kevin and going through a lot of life and death situations, I pretty much considered him a

Kevin proceeded to nod his

"No, you're right"

dwelled too deeply into it as he thought perhaps it was just him and Ren

way as him as

He was quite happy.

as I glanced at him on my right,

you're going to take the reward or

Kevin shook his

"...Ill take it"

"Good"

was only natural that he got it. After all, the stronger he got,

the highest chance of

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

long as we

thing I learned from being in this world for the past

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

Therefore, I stopped expecting.

throw something that does not match what I envisioned I'll just get strong enough so that

longer planning

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

something to do, I'll be back

Taken aback, Kevin asked.

going? They are about

below us, I rolled my

not like

of thousands upon thousands of orcs

be the hardest people

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

head in embarrassment as

you're right. How long