Chapter 8: Chapter 7: Alchemist!, Spotted.

It's been three days since the Blackmoon tribe migrated from their previous settlement and they had yet to find a 'suitable' place to use as the foundation of their 'Horde'.

Dabok has not said anything since the other day and Alex seemed rather cautious of this old Orc.

His 'Brother' Urim on the other hand stuck to him like glue and allowing Alex to Understand that this Orc wasn't really liked by his tribe members due to his strange nature.

Although Alex would hate to admit it but he found this Orc rather refreshing due to his human like nature even though, due to being a basic Orc his speech was still not smooth.

During this three days, Alex had scanned the 14 Orcs and found that they were mostly Lv 9 except two that was still Lv 8 and 7 respectively.

after some questioning, He found out that they were not aware of the concept of levels and that they only got stronger the more battles they partook in.

Alex then gained a better understanding on how things were, From the human side, it was the same but only smaller, so they used mana nodes to gain power(Exp).

Due to this, there's a constant battle for resources between each nations and race.

After confirming a few guesses, he came to believe that mana Nodes, which is usually mined to get mana stones, work as an alternative for Exp.

So he decided to find a Mana Node or a settlement with one.

Earlier today, He found a Magical beast that looked like a Boar, He then killed it in order to confirm if he could gain Exp from animals too. And he could, only that it felt significantly lesser than killing humans.

Normally this should bother him but he believed he was too far gone to even be considering the thought, To top it off, He was now None human so he felt he should now do away with the pretence.

Although, if he had been Given the Choice he would have chosen to be a magic beast as they had the highest potential. heck, even the novel's villain was a magic beast. Their explosive growth begins from the order of the second circle, where they could then take human forms.

Meanwhile, Orcs could be counted as a half-civilised race known for it's savagery but also for respecting the code of honour and laws of war. They tended to organise in warbands, Tribes, sometimes joining forces with trolls, ogres or goblins forming massive Hordes.

But according to the Hierarchy of power in this world, Only One Orc has succeeded in entering top ten and he also made an organised kingdom with a massive population of '774, 586' orcs, also known as the Great Horde.

This Orc is also the only successful Orc from the great Orc path Alex knew of, this doesn't mean that there weren't others out there.

It was only when the Degr Empire was nearly extinct. that the others began to appear, accusing the Human of No honor, then for the first time there was an alliance between the races tagged as 'Others', but all this happened at Volume four of this Novel.

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Presently, Alex was frowning while signalling his horde to be silent. they complied even though most of them had confused expressions.

Not far from them, Alex could hear voices that sounded like shrieking children.

"Krriki...Humans, kikiki"

"Sssh..."

"..."

Upon Approaching them alone, Alex spotted a group of Goblins spying on what looked like a merchant team. The Merchant team was moving stealthily as Cart filled with goods was being dragged behind them.

Upon watching closely, he deduced that this group was smuggling weapons into wherever they were going. Unfortunately for them, their team was too small to survive an Attack from this goblin team.

But they might have someone powerful so Alex decided to watch.

At this time, one of the Goblin took an orange looking stone and tossed it amongst the approaching Merchant team.

Boom!

A miniature explosion took place, immediately creating chaos amongst the guarding adventurers.

Alex pupils constricted, as he saw this scene...

'Alchemy!'

This was a rare class to evolve into and it was also difficult to be powerful. Now thinking, There was only one goblin that had this class and that was the Chief of Ironbark goblins, Lovan Ironbark

Their' Settlement, also known as Harun is a walled village somewhere in the Orc lands, located just outside of Cold Valley, Goblins here mine mana stones even though they had no idea what it was for, until the Cilldean army waged war against them with the help of some members of the Empires Golden army.

apparently an Adventurer discovered a rich deposit of high-quality mana stones on this spot. He sold the news to a baron in the area, before heading off to Jurl Town, where he would lives the life of a rich and powerful townsman.

'I'm really lucky...' Alex thought as he suddenly felt that this Goblins were pleasing to the eye.

While he was lost in thought, the battle was still raging on as some goblins couldn't help munching on some adventurers. At this time Urim had approached him from behind,

"Gobs...Sssh!" Alex whispered, The rest soon drew closed while watching the commotion stealthily.

Another Goblin threw another orange looking stone, causing another explosion that killed the last escaping man. When all was said and done, they carried the bodies away while completely ignoring the Load of weapons much to Alex's delight.

As soon as the Goblins were in the distance, Alex gave asked the Orc's to take as much weapons as they could carry before returning to their camp.

"I'll be back...nobody leaves this place." Alex ordered as he prepared to leave but was stopped by Dabok's question, "Here, Black moon land?".

" No..." was all Alex answered with and Dabok did not impose further.

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FRANK'S POV...

After three days of preparation was complete, The battlefield of some nights before now lay quiet, it was now a graveyard of the unburied. Their corpses impaled like kebabs, drying in the Sun.

The sun shone and the winds blew, but now somewhere mothers and fathers, brothers and sisters would be waiting in vain.

I watched this as I began to feel extremely gloomy, Unconsciously biting my lips, I thought of the several days I used to train or train with this men.

'All this for an alliance, for one woman...so many brothers died in one night.'

These men that were once boys who played in the yard with sticks and laughed at each other's silly tales were now meat for the birds.

About fifty men, Hanging on poles with now cold dead looks. Their eyes were as immobile as their limbs. Their souls had long departed to the celestial planes to walk with the ancestors in land of the Gods.

'Despite the rescue, to me ,The battle was lost, the enemy had won' Unable to control my emotions, I could feel the shadow becoming restless so I ordered the men to bury our beloved brothers.

Now camped a mile away from that cursed land in order to curb our feeling and plan the next Action.