The Snake Hunter's tribe was just in front of me. They had a giant wall made of dark stone that protected their city from the attacks of beasts, and there was also the addition of quite a lot of guards that were standing around the entrances to the city to ward off any scattered desert monstrosities that haven't been picked up by the archers which I could see were surveying the lands from the towers made above the walls.The orcs were dumb, but that didn't mean they didn't have the potential to learn, and it was obvious here that whoever created this city could be considered to be a genius among the orcs.He would be a great addition to my army here on the Duramato continent.The orcs that I subjugated aren't smart, and they would be only good to follow orders, but having more than one man that can give the orders would make the potential of my army even higher. I needed generals, not grunts.But for that to happen, I needed to infiltrate this fortress made of dark stone first.I coul
The Orc was agile and knew his ins and outs in combat, but his size still made him an easier target and somewhat messed with his flexibility. Thus, I was able to capitalize on that and get ahold of his chest before ramming my head into his chin multiple times until he became dizzy. The problem was that this tall Orc finally snapped and got angry after I made his world spin around him. He roared and started trashing around, using his impressive physique to destroy the buildings around him and due to a moment of my carelessness, he even was able to hit me in the leg, slightly making it bend awkwardly, showing that the Orc's strength was very high if it was able to injure me in such a way through my tempered body's defenses. His physical strength was too high, and he was too enraged to dodge any of my attacks, but he was seemingly a mountain of a being as he took on all of my ranged attacks without flinching and started to charge toward me. I was able to dodge out of the way at the
After I finished settling things and dominating the whole Snake Hunters tribe, I was ready to hit the dusty desert road once again to make my way through this continent and reach the next city.Gurkug had to stay here to protect the city from possible Orc invaders, and I didn't want to lose the city so soon, so I had to let him stay since he was the strongest combatant in the city at the moment.I transmitted a message to the small orc village that I captured that they could come to the city and settle there as they were also controlled by me, the path I had taken was already pretty bare of desert monsters, so they could take that path and arrive at the city in one piece to reinforce its guards.The village orcs weren't that strong, but there was always strength in numbers for the orcs.I left the city behind me as I took one more glance back at it before my body disappeared into the sandstorm that just started revving up in the distance.The sandstorm was quite strong as the wind att
The Orc's combat power was rather high as he was able to use basic swordsmanship, combined with the bodily strength of an Orc gave him quite a confidence boost against me. He was throwing small slashes all over the place, which gave me a hard time dodging in the closed space which was the tavern, the other Orcs started shouting and laughing as they continued drinking and cheering the fight on, enjoying the show.The Orc looked me up and down as he tightened the grip on his hook sword and said:"What are you? You are no Orc, fair pinkish skin, and a good-looking face."The Orc let the tip of his tongue come out as he licked his lips and said:"I will enjoy cutting that face open and eating the skin."The Orc's words attracted more cheering from the crowd behind me as I shook my head and unsheathed my blade before we met in the middle, sword against sword.The material my sword was made from was of high quality, while his sword was already rusting, so it was obvious what was going to ha
"You are trying to help me?"My question made the wraith snort as he responded:"Help you? No, I'm trying to help myself here. The demon will take me back after the mission is finished, and I don't want to get back to hell! Even if I'm bound to you, at least I can experience the living plane instead of being tortured in hell.""Ok, so what's the plan, how do I escape the demon's clutches?"It was obvious from the wraith's tone of voice that he still hated the demons even though he had made a 'fair' contract with them."For starters, the demons don't have eyes everywhere because the living and the gods are still denying them power. However, if you go with the plan that your friend has put in motion, soon the balance between the gods, demons, and devils will break apart, and the demons would be able to arrive from hell to the living plane!"The wraith continued as some anger seeped into his tone once again:"And that damn piece of shit demon is not to be trusted. I'm pretty sure that th
First things first, I contacted Ludeus using the bond between us, soon enough, I heard his voice appearing in my head and asking: "Minato? Why are you contacting me? Did something go wrong?" I responded as quickly as possible while I moved according to the wraith's instructions, trying to find the demonic gate in the Duramato continent. "Yes, there are huge problems, here is the gist of it." After I gave him a lengthy explanation about the problems that we would face if we did kill everyone and turned them into undead, Ludeus stood silent for more than a few minutes before a response came: "That's troublesome, I wanted the human continent for myself, and that's how the contract I made with those three liches stipulates, but I guess once the contract is finished the demons can swarm the living realm and take everything inside it, I don't want that, but I also want to turn these damned people into undead, this is a problem." "The demons cannot be trusted in any circumstances. They
After I took one more glance at the demonic gate, the wraith stopped the connection between my vision and his, making me unable to see the gate anymore.I shook my head and consulted my map before making my way to the next city. I had already captured two of them, and there were two left before I could reach the one that contained a war chief.The desert was like always, arid during the day and cold during the night, infested with scorpions, vultures, and snakes, all poisonous to boot, even the vultures.But the further I got towards the middle of the continent, the more I felt the heat increase, bearing down on my body and making me have to shed my upper armor as the metal conducted the heat from the sun to cook my body.Now I understood why the orcs usually didn't have anything on their upper body and only wore light leather pants or only a thong.The heat was pretty strong at the beginning of the continent too, and for those Orcs who could be considered rather weak, the heat should
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