A person lay unconscious on the damp forest floor. And a faint occasional rustle of leaves above was the only sound that broke through the still silence.
Suddenly, a voice pierced through the silent stillness.
"Are you dead? Hmmm… He's still breathing… Brother? I know you can wake up now…"
The voice was insistent, with its growing louder with each call.
Slowly, the person's eyes fluttered open.
The first thing he saw was the canopy of ancient trees above, with their leaves filtering the sunlight into dappled patterns on the ground. Immediately, he shifted his gaze, and his heart skipped a beat.
Three towering figures stood over him.
They were orc-like creatures with green, leathery skin and sharp ears that tapered into points. And their large fangs protruded from their lower jaws, giving them more fearsome appearance.
One of them, the tallest and broadest of the trio, noticed Volk's awakening.
"Lok'tar Ogar!" he shouted, with his loud voice echoing through the trees.
The person even felt a massive vibration spread through his entire being.
Immediately, the other two orcs joined in the chant.
"Lok'tar Ogar! Lok'tar Ogar!"
The first orc, evidently acting their leader, stepped closer and bent down. "He's fine, we can leave him here," he announced. "Let's go further and hunt more earth moles to win the witch's favor and get ourselves a wife!"
"Lok'tar Ogar! Let's go get ourselves a wife!" one of the orcs echoed, he was even pumping his fist in the air.
"Lok'tar Ogar! Let's hunt these Earth moles to get our maidens!!" the other joined in.
The leader nodded, his expression serious.
"Yes, the Poisonous Earth Moles were just released. There should be enough time for us to get more earth moles and find ourselves better wives. Those Poisonous Earth Moles shouldn't have reached this area yet, because if they had, the brother over there should have been torn to pieces already."
With that, the three orcs turned and trotted off into the forest, with their voices fading into the distance.
However, the person still lay there for a moment, with his mind confused.
What had just happened?
His last clear memory was being in the street, using his wheelchair. Then, he was seized and taken to a strange place.
People in familiar long gown like doctor uniforms had surrounded him, as if holding syringes and other torture tools.
Immediately, the memory of the excruciating pain as something was injected into his body made him groan.
"Urrghhh!!"
Volk recalled one of them saying, "Too much radiation input, the experiment subject wouldn't make it, we need more…"
That was the last thing he remembered.
Now, he's here.
Not long, his head throbbed with pain, but he forced himself to move. He attempted to stand, but his legs buckled beneath him.
Volk fell, thud!
Fortunately, his arm caught him just before his face slammed into the grassy ground.
As he steadied himself, he noticed a small pool of water nearby. Crawling towards it, he peered into its clear surface.
Staring back at him was a reflection that was both familiar and alien.
His face was now similar to the three he had just seen.
Long, pointed ears jutted out from his head, and his skin was a deep, mottled green. His eyes, though, were still his own, filled with the same determination and fire.
"What is happening to me?" Volk whispered, his voice trembling as he touched the unfamiliar contours of his face.
Panic flowed through his blood vessels, mixing with an odd sense of wonder if this was truly his new reality?
Suddenly, memories that were not his own flooded Volk's mind.
He saw a world ruled by Red Elves, Warlocks, and Dark Elves, Witches, locked in an endless war.
He understood that he was now a young Hornless Orc, subservient to the Elven Rejects or Elven Witches, who were hated by other Elven races, because they were believed to be incapable of siring offspring with other Elven races, which was seen as a curse and a bad omen for the entire Elven kind.
However, both rulers of war had an interest in the Elven Witches and the horde of Hornless Orcs.
The Dark Witches wanted Elven Witches as material to extend their lives and the horde of Hornless Orcs as their physical slaves, while the Red Elven Warlocks desired the Elven Witches for their mana control and the horde of Hornless Orcs for their transformation abilities.
Due to desperation to escape from the clutches of both realm rulers, the group of hornless orcs that came from nowhere who have no home, and a rejected elven race that cannot repopulate and discriminated by their own people, decided to come together to survive and discovered they could repopulate each other.
If a male was born, they would turn into a hornless orc, and if a female was born, they would turn into a forest elf.
Not just that, the horde of the hornless orcs who were not sensitive to Mana would become sensitive to Mana once they form a bond to these Elven Witches, and they could get strengthened too because of them.
As long as they help the Elven Witches to improve their ranks as Mana manipulators, they would get stronger too.
Volk clenched his fists.
"No! No! No! No! I don't want to be reincarnated! I don't want to be reincarnated! I don't want to be reincarnated!"
But then, after being convinced for a very long time that he had been reincarnated here, he managed to clear his head.
"Do I really hate being reincarnated?" he mumbled.
The person looked at his hands - they were normal, not overly muscular, and no longer resembling a stick.
Although they appeared green, it was fine. His feet were okay, and he could walk using them, unlike when he was on Earth.
"Hahahaha! I am reincarnated!?"
He laughed out loud, an energy of madness came to him knowing the fact that he had reincarnated, where other reincarnators in the novels he read were worried, but he isn't!
On Earth, he was often assisted, and although he was grateful, he was tired of it all and would often leave or hide sometimes just so he could be alone!
Now that he's dead, at least he won't be a burden! He hoped that they had moved on, but now, what's important is that he's here!
He's not a disabled person anymore!
Then, Volk remembered something important from the tribe ritual ceremony of the tribe of Orcs memory - that as if he was overcome with emotion and despair, it would be too late!
He would experience something that he experienced in his past life.
"So right now, I need to hunt as many earth moles as I can. Success in these hunts would earn me a Forest Elf wife, who could help me rise in rank as a warrior. And depending on how many hunts I make, would make me a more talented partner that could help me rank up as a warrior faster than others!
"I am sure, since I have read some novels, that I know I am an Orc. Since I am an Orc, this should be a magical world. A magical world means there are spells, and regarding those spells, I am sure I can definitely find something here that can make me stronger!!"
Soon, his head finally clear, Volk pushed himself to his feet.
The dizziness had subsided, and a fierce resolve had taken its place. He needed to find his way in this situation before he could think of what he should do in this world.
Just as he began to orient his whole being, a sudden noise caught his attention.
He froze, and then he turned his head somewhere.
"Huh?"
Volk barely had time to react before he saw the trio of orcs he had encountered earlier, they were now sprinting back toward his direction in a frenzy state. And their faces were contorted with fear, and he could hear their voices rang out in a cacophony of panic.
"You idiot! We should have let the orc warriors handle these poisonous earth moles!" one of them shouted, Volk could see his eyes were wide in terror.
"We're fools! Now we're running for our lives!" another yelled back, his eyes seemed to lose their hope and his breath was ragged.
"We're lucky to be alive! Why did we think we could handle this and come back here!?" the third added.
As they approached Volk, the leader thrust a crude knife into his hand.
The knife had a bone handle wrapped in animal hide, like its blade rough-hewn and stained with use. "Here, protect yourself," he panted. "They are coming!"
Volk took the knife, his grip immediately tightened around the handle. He looked around at the forest, trying to get what was happening.
The trees were ancient, and he could see their thick trunks covered in moss.
"Prepare to engage in combat!" the leader barked, trying to steady his voice despite the fear in his eyes. "And avoid their bite—they are venomous! Lok'tar Ogar! Fight or die!"
In that split second after the warning, Volk felt the ground rumble beneath his feet.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
He glanced at the forest floor, with his heart unconsciously pounding from the fear of the unknown.
Suddenly, ten spots around them erupted, and massive black mole creatures burst from the earth.
These creatures were hideous to look at as their bodies were covered in coarse black fur.
Their eyes were small and beady, glowing with a malevolent red light.
However, the most terrifying thing about them is that they had enormous claws, perfect for burrowing, and their jaws were lined with sharp purple color, like they are an obvious sign of their venomous nature.
Volk steeled himself, his mind was trying to think of actions he must do.
He readied his weapon, prepared to fight for his life. But as soon as the creatures landed on them, the creatures moved with frightening speed.
One of the moles lunged at Volk, with its claws locking around him with a vice-like grip. And he felt a sharp pain as the creature bit into his neck, like its venom already searing through his veins like fire.
His mind tried to fight back, but his body refused to move with his thoughts to leave.
The venom paralyzed his body completely, leaving him helpless.
Soon, a thought entered his head, 'Is this it? Am I going to die here? If there's gonna be a savior in this situation. If there's no one, what will happen? Clearly, this is venom. Maybe the orcs have some kind of resistance to it, right?'
He tried to glance at the other orcs. But they were in the same state as him, with their eyes slowly losing the spark of life.
Panic began to spread through Volk's entire body as he realized there's no such thing as orc resistance to venom.
"No! No! No! I cannot die here! Just when I got a new body, I cannot die here!" he screamed, with a sound filled with frustration, and fear.
He screamed and screamed and screamed but his screams seemed to even draw more attention from the other earth moles.
In a split second, they all lunged at him alone and ignored the other three, until their furry bodies covered him completely.
Inside, as soon as his vision slowly darkened, Volk felt their hot breath against his skin, their weight pressing down on him. His eyelids started to feel heavy, but then something extraordinary happened.
His brown eyes began to glow green.
Outside, the mountain of mole exploded. And the venomous earth moles were blasted away from each other, with their forms hurtling in all directions.
The three orcs were not spared and were also thrown back, landing hard in different directions of the forest floor.
In the center of the explosion, a massive and wide titan emerged, transformed.
It was a bit similar to the orcs earlier but this body had grown to an immense size, his muscles bulging.
His stomach and every limb were now four times the size of a normal Hornless Orc. His skin seemed like a vibrant green, and his eyes glowed with an intense, otherworldly light.
His face, though still recognizable and somewhat familiar, was more terrifying and filled with muscles.
The titan looked around in anger with a growl, 'Grrrrrr', like his voice in this new form was radiating some kind of destructive power.
Immediately, without a warning, he let out a thunderous roar, "ROOOARRRR!!!"
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The titan was Volk. He couldn't believe the thunderous roar that had just erupted from his own mouth was his own and came from him.
The sheer power of its shockwave alone left him stunned.
At the same time, he felt an incredible surge of energy, but there was also an overwhelming fury boiling inside him.
It was as if Volk's anger was like a wildfire, consuming him entirely.
He felt an irrational, overwhelming rage towards everything around him, like even the sound of the insects around him makes him irritated.
He could feel his breath come in short, furious bursts, along with his chest heaving.
Volk could see the earth moles, those venomous creatures, were scurrying back to their hiding spots, and he calmed down a little.
"Huh?"
For some reason, his view of them changed; they looked like rats, but earlier he was sure they the size of cows. It was baffling.
"Why do I feel different?" Volk muttered to himself.
Suddenly, a system screen appeared before his eyes, displaying a message:
| Ding!
| You have awakened the Invincible and Strongest Radioactive System!
| A life-saving system that activates at the brink of death or when the host is in full-fledged rage! |
Volk's head immediately went numb. He finally understood what was happening.
A radioactive system?
What did that even mean?
His began to recall something that was in his past life, recalling a green, massive creature from superhero movies that transformed when it got angry.
"Am I like that?"
Volk asked himself, feeling incredibly bewildered.
Cutting off his stupor, another message appeared on the system screen:
| Ding!
| Invincible Radioactive Mode!
| Status: On.
| Duration: One minute and fifty-four seconds! |
Volk paused, staring at the time limit.
"What?! How come it's limited!?!"
But then he shrugged off the worry.
"Doesn't matter. I am invincible in this state."
He laughed internally but externally, his body moved with raw, monstrous power, as if his movements caused the air around his muscles to be sucked to his muscular aura.
Unconsciously, he roared again, sending shockwaves that echoed through the whole forest.
"ROOAAARRRR!!!"
As he roared, something landed on him with a hiss. "Psssh!" His massive body felt a little scratchy but annoying sensation where it had landed. He looked down at his chest, then turned to see where it came from.
Each movement, each action, seems to make the wind explode in an unseen destruction.
"Grraargh," he growled, scanning his surroundings.
Suddenly, he spotted the venomous earth moles.
"YOU LITTLE SPOUTIES MAKING VOLK ANGRY!" he bellowed, as if the words were spilling out unconsciously. But at the same time, in his head, he meant every word, and along with his anger boiling over.
He didn't know why he talked like that, it felt so good and natural, like he didn't care about anything but his rage!
Again, he was hit by more of the mole rats' spits, 'Pak!', 'Pak!' ,'Pak!' each impact making him flinch and growl.
"Grrr... rrrgghh!"
Making his rage intensified with every hit. He felt small hot venom burning into his skin, that led to fueling his fury even more.
"Graaagh! Arrrghh!"
He glared at the earth moles peeking from their underground hideouts, the ones likely spitting on him.
"VOLK WILL KILL ALL YOU LITTLE SPOUTIES!!" he roared, with his voice a thunder clapping of pure rage.
Volk charged at the creatures, but they were too quick, diving back into their holes before he could catch them.
His frustration mounted as he repeatedly slammed into the ground, making his massive form cause the earth to tremble.
He began to think of digging them up, but he had better ideas.
"Grrraaa... rrrggghhh!" he growled each time he missed.
"VOOOOLLLlKK!!!"
Volk raised his massive arms, ignoring the spits that made him flinch with each hit. And immediately, he brought his fists down with a force that shook the ground.
"SMAAAAAAAAAASSSHHHHHH!!!!!!!" he roared.
His fists slammed into the ground, creating a dent and sending cracks spreading through the forest floor.
The earth trembled under the sheer force of his blow along with the wind explosion and a shockwave that instantly spread to the ground and the forest, and then it became silent again.
Not long, one by one, the venomous earth moles began to surface, but with their bodies convulsing before they fell still.
"Kaaahh!!"
Is the sound they would make once the life out of their bodies slowly disappears.
Volk stood there, breathing heavily, his body trembling with residual anger and adrenaline.
The ground around him was a mess of cracks and upheaved soil.
The forest was silent, save for the sound of his heavy breathing.
Suddenly, another system screen would appear.
| Ding!
| The host has borrowed the power of rage, making the host twice stronger, faster and bigger.
| Time Deduction: Thirty-seconds.
| Current time duration: One minute and two seconds. |
Volk was taken aback, the angrier he got, the stronger he became. But the duration of that form would get shorter.
What if he got even angrier to the point he strengthened himself a lot?
Isn't that the same thing as being a radioactive titan for a few seconds?
He looked around, taking in the sight of the dead earth moles. He still felt incredulous. His rage had given him the strength to destroy them.
As the dust settled, Volk knew that his journey in this new world was just beginning.
He had awakened something powerful within him, and he would need to learn to control it. But for now, he relished in the power and the victory.
The earth moles were defeated, and he was still standing.
That was enough for now.
As long as he collects their bodies, he will have a wife on the orc tribe now.
But then, as he was basking in his thoughts.
Pak!
A wet sticky object landed on Volk's forehead, making him stumble a little and feel a sting of pain that came from it.
It didn't hurt him for real, but it annoyed him and made feel he wanted to crush someone whoever did it to him.
He looked around angrily, growling, and saw a skinless, venomous earth mole.
It was partially underground, staring at him in the shadows. It hadn't died!
Volk's growl grew louder, his anger rising. "Grrrrr!! DON'T MAKE VOLK ANGRY, skinless SPOUTY!!!" But before he could move, pak!
The skinless venomous earth mole spit on his face again.
With a groan, Volk wiped the stinging spit off his face, feeling the burn. Immediately his expression turned even more sour.
"ROOOAAARRR!!"
Volk roared, with his quaking voice that shook the trees.
The creature, sensing his aggression, hid further underground.
This made Volk even madder.
With an aggressive jump, his hulking body dove to its hiding spot and began digging furiously.
Crack!
Crack!
The ground splintered open under Volk's powerful hands. He dug so fast that the forest floor rumbled, creating small hills full of cracks.
Each movement made the ground quake and groan.
The skinless venomous earth mole shrieked in panic below, frantically running through the tunnels.
Volk's anger grew with each escape attempt the mole made.
"Grrrrr... rrrrggghh!" he growled, feeling the creature slipping away from him.
He dug deeper and faster, his powerful hands tearing through the earth.
The forest floor continued to crack and rumble, the disturbance growing larger and longer.
"Roooarrr... grrragh!" he bellowed, the sound echoing through the tunnels. He could hear the mole's shrieks getting louder, indicating he was getting closer.
The creature faced tunnel after tunnel, each time shrieking in panic.
"Graaargh!"
Volk's growl echoed through the ground as he finally caught up to the skinless venomous earth mole.
With a powerful lunge, he grabbed its neck and squeezed it. He didn't even feel a resistance and the mole's body went limp instantly.
Volk's breathing was heavy with heat, as his body was still trembling with rage.
He felt nothing else besides the lifeless body of the mole in his grip.
"Grrrrr," he growled, unsatisfied with the chase's end.
Not wasting his time on this dump underground, he emerged from the ground with a massive jump, breaking through the earth with a boom!
Boom!
Volk landed on a massive stone hill, the impact sending rocks and debris flying. He stood tall, his chest heaving, and roared once more, "ROOOAAAAARRRRRRR!!!!"
The sound reverberated through the forest, a declaration of his power and rage.
"VOLLLKKK IS STROOOOOOOOOONNNNGGGG!!!"
He couldn't believe it, in this life, he didn't just have a normal body, it was incredibly strong too!
Not far from there, a shadowy figure of an orc with a weapon looked up at the sky in the direction of the roar.
The sound was unmistakable, a sign that something immense and powerful was nearby.
The orc squinted, gripping its weapon tightly, and started moving towards the source of the roar, ready to face whatever had caused such a mighty sound.
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