Flying on the drake was way faster compared to trudging through the sand, the heat that was beating on my body lowered my speed somewhat, and the desert was especially big, making it quite hard to travel compared to the other continents, so it was quite hard to arrive from city to city in a few days, but with the drake, it was very easy to do so.I could even see the silhouette of the next city from the top of the drake as I made him stop and wait for me at that location before I dropped down from it, using some wind energy to slow my fall and create a slight sand cloud as I arrived on the ground.I shook my body to clear off the sand, and I started to slowly make my way toward the city, bidding my time for the darkness to arrive.Night slowly came as I arrived at the city and I scaled the walls, making my way to the archer's towers, where I added them to my army.Surprisingly, the composition of the Orc army was somewhat systematical as every city had archer towers to observe any pos
The memories flowing through my brain were fast-paced as they came from the Orcs' POV.I could feel the desert wind brushing towards my face in the memories of the Orc as they became mine, suddenly, a small alarm tingled my brain, making shivers go down my spine, and having me move my head to the side, dodging a thick arrow with a very sharp arrowhead that almost impaled me in the eye.I analyzed the memory and that small alarm that came from the Orc's brain gave me a slight idea of how they had refined their instincts to the point they worked automatically in their favor.It was a combination of muscle memory and sharpened senses that went to the point of reaching such high levels that even if I enhanced my senses with energy, I would barely be able to reach the same level as the Orc I just killed. Unfortunately for him, the senses were almost like a toxin in situations where you could sense what was going to happen, but you were unable to cope with it due to the lack of strength/spe
My arrival to the next city went undetected, just like the previous one. I left the drake a few kilometers away from the city and infiltrated it with no problems.The city structures were very similar compared to each other, so it was easy to find the locations where I could hide in the shadows and dominate the passing by Orcs who seemed to be tired from what I supposed was a war that happened some time ago.Most Orcs had some dried-out blood on their bodies and leather clothes, showing that they had fought a war some days ago, it was quite strange they still felt so tired even though a few days had passed considering the stamina and recovery capabilities that their tough bodies were having.I scratched my head as I thought about this strange sign, but I couldn't come up with anything, for the time being, so I continued to dominate the Orcs until I found the location of the strongest Orc in this city.I was able to take him by surprise when I dropped from a building while he was sharp
The surroundings started to shake as the Orcs looked at the lake with scared expressions on their faces. They tried to get away from me as they tiptoed to the back, ignoring the drake that was over them, being quite a bit more scared of the war chief that was just making their way out of the water.The water from the oasis slowly parted as a head became visible.Surprisingly it was a rather womanly face that had quite a few scars on it and the normal features of an Orc, green skin, a rather big nose, and sharp teeth. But it was obvious from her features that she was a female Orc.The body that came out of the water had cuts, bruises, and scars on it. The muscles were glistening from the water as they contracted and shook while her aura increased even further as she saw me and said:"You are the pink skin that the Orgumak clan had warned me about."The female war chief stretched her body, revealing all of her pure muscles as popping sounds were heard coming from her sturdy bones that c
Our fists crossed once again as I tried to grab her by the shoulders and throw her down below into the cave.I could see that there was an underground river in this cave, so I did my best to throw her away from it so she wouldn't get any cushion from falling into the water.My attempts failed as I was unable to throw her because she snaked her way out of my grasp using flexibility that shouldn't belong to her bulky body before she headbutted me in the face, breaking my nose and making me fall into the water with her.I intensified the lightning energy that came from my body as I hoped it would transmit through the water and numb her a bit.However, she was completely immune to the lightning as we jumped out of the water and continued our fight.A right hook from her slid down my sword as I tried to cut her hand off, only for my slash to miss as she took one step backward at the exact moment I tried to do my slash, only getting a slight nick on the back of her hand that closed up immed
It was time to start round two, and we started with a thunderous clash that made the whole surroundings shake, evaporating some of the underground rivers behind us as we clashed our fists together, using everything we got.My body started to actively use the instincts that I have slowly tempered during my stay in the desert, slowly adapting to the War Chief's chaotic fighting style.Everything felt automatic to me, I didn't have to put any thoughts into moving my feet or legs as they would do it on their own, leaving my brain free to think about anything else while my body was doing all of the heavy loadings.It was a pretty surreal experience, almost as if someone else was controlling me, but I could feel that if I wanted to, I could still go against my instincts and move differently.However, my instincts told me that this was the best way to combat the War Chief, so I let them take over while I concentrated on hastening the energy flow through my body to continue fueling the multip
I decided to help her up as I injected some blood energy into her heart, making it pump at a regular speed and somewhat fixing what I had broken before.However, the blood energy I injected into her heart was also a warning and a binding as I would not let her go so quickly, it was dumb to believe her without leaving anything in place to coerce her into not betraying me at the first chance she got.The blood energy I injected into her heart acted like a time bomb, if she did something that I would find less than good against me, I would then explode her heart and kill her instantly.This was my leverage against her.Mandaia understood what happened, so she nodded and said:"Atleast you are not foolish enough to not put a restricting leash on me, let's go."We jumped out of the underground cave that we created and arrived back at the location that was previously an oasis.Now all that was left back there was a huge hole and some trees at the edges that were slowly dying out due to the
To find that certain thing that made the continent special, I would need help and some insider information that I couldn't get my hands on so easily, so I sent a telepathic message at long-range to all of the Orcs that I have dominated so they could start an information search about the Orgumak clan.The Orgumak clan was an underground local here that seemed to contain a lot of intelligent Orcs, and whoever controlled them most likely did it so he could search for the special thing that the continent held. And they most likely thought that I was their competitor since I started to control Orcs as they did.At first, I came for the mission that the demon had given me, but now I was going to become their competitor...I wasn't sure why they had stopped sending assassins for me, but I guessed they most likely realized that the Orcs wouldn't be able to kill me with their meek strength, so they were most likely trying to dominate war chiefs or build up their strength to get rid of me once