บท 10: Chapter 9: Duel Pt 1

Just a little bit away from the camping site of his Orcs, the weather suddenly changed as Lightning continued to rumble wildly, Alex's heart twisted and sunk with nerves as he stared at the sky. The white light enveloped his sight, coldly reminding of the Novels prologue, It was like he was reading out every word and they played out before his eyes.

His breaths came in sharp pants and as he tried to gain control, but nothing was working.

'It hurts. It HURTS!' He yelled in his head as he could not understand this horrible feeling he had, He had always been to apathetic about things or the one raining down pressure on others, He suddenly felt like a sword was now placed on his neck as it silently inched closer to break skin.

he tried to breath calmly, but every time he looked up at the now dark sky, those cruel, horrible, necessary words he knew all to well were there.

Words he had read long before this scene had began but never expected it this soon. Words he had subconsciously waited for with anxiety and worry, knowing, somehow, what might happen but never guessed its gravity.

Slowly, the panic and anxiety attack flowed away, but yet he still shook. his eyes, closed with clenched fists but were slowly opened.

Trepidation swelled through him as he slowly raised his line of sight yet again to the happenings in the sky.

'The battle of Gods has began, and now the souls would slip in.'

That's right, at this time a war had silently began amongst the gods, unbeknownst to the mortals. Every creature asides from the Human, Elf and dwarf felt an enormous pressure the moment the weather changed.

On this day, 5 souls including the Protagonist, Davis would transmigrate into this world with different kinds of backgrounds and race. by which the antagonist's right hand man was one of them, but all this was just one side of the impending chaos.

Now the Battle of Gods would go on for several days, bringing up different kinds of natural disaster before the moment of truce at about two months from the first lightning.

Then they began to select their champions, Each lesser God was entitled to three champions while the high God's had two, leaving the two Arch Gods with only one.

Ragol The Sun God was an Arch God that chose Davis while Ayaseh the Night mother the second Arch God had chosen a Beast man called Jetos the Tyrant. All other Gods fell on either side of the two like factions further increasing the chaos, it didn't take long either for the neutral faction to be dragged into the chaos.

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While thinking all this, His legs never stopped moving as he arrived at the camp, He noticed that the Orcs were still shaking from the earlier pressure.

"Come, We're leaving" He ordered with a scowl as he pulled his battle axe that had been stuck to a tree.

The Level 7 Orc was forced to carry the Bag of weapons while the rest were only able to salvage a few great swords and axe before equipping them.

With this he lead them to the Iron bark settlement.

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Two weeks prior

Lovan, a Goblin Alchemist, had just arrived with his fellow clan members from a hunt, attempts to form new formulas for the Clan while he remained hidden, but Voru his old chieftain quickly brought to Hilo the clan's shaman to satisfy her curiosity.

Hilo then attempts to convince Lovan that the Mountain bloodhorn clan is squeezing to Ironbark territory, so they should join Bloodhorn but he opposed mostly because he felt lazy.

Feeling frustrated and unsupported by Lovan, she attempts to kill him with Curse magic but accidentally triggered an explosion in the makeshift lab.

The Mountain bloodhorn clan attacks the Ironbark clan at the same time resulting in chaos. Lovan immediately chose to escape without hesitation after crawling out of the wreckage with his purpose being to survive. Voru dies in battle while Blood horn chief who was now a Hobgoblin, calls Hilo an unsuitable Horn before crushing her under his hammer.

Seeing this many escaped behind Lovan and For many moons, the Clan ran with tgeir new chief Lovan becoming an acting leader.

they never knew when the Mountain Clan stopped chasing them, but they continued until they soon arrived at their present location.

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Presently...

Alex and the Blackmoon clan arrived in front the Ironbark territory with all their weapons and terrifying faces. The goblins were shocked and began scrambling around while shrieking hysterically.

Immediately, a goblin with dirty brown skin color appeared as he was dressed in a torn black robe, probably something they must have robbed off some merchants.

It was only now that Alex took note, that most of the goblins were somewhat dressed, then he turned to his orc and then himself. this had been one of the things bothering him for a while now but he told himself that monster don't need to feel modest.

But now...

It looked like the goblins had some kind of tailoring skill although it was a bit crude.

" Orc! what do you want" Lovan said in the loudest voice he could muster, Even though he was afraid right now.

"are you the Chieftain...?" Alex asked while looking at the Goblins status.

{Name: Lovan Ironbark}

Race: Elite Goblin(Chief)

Class: Alchemist

Level: 15(Order of the first circle)

Power rating: 2683

Relationship: None.}

Lovan looked around him and replied with something that looked like a bitter laugh, "Yes".

Seeing his status made Alex somewhat relieved as he was afraid that the Goblin was at second circle of evolution. And from the power rating along side other factors, Alex suspicion that this Goblin's stats majored in Intelligence was finally confirmed.

And so with this, he confidently said "I Torug Blackmoon, Chief of the Blackmoon clan challenges you to a trial of combat, witnessed under the oath the Night mother that Any who loses shall serve the other..." The more he spoke, the wind became violent, setting up a barrier around the both of them in a now spacious area.

"W..wait!!" Lovan tried to stop him while being completely shocked, first by the intelligence of this Orc and the fact that he was doing this. This was something set for all creatures under the so called devil faction and can only be used twice in ones life.

Dabok the Elderly Orc was even more shocked that Alex knew one of the sacred oaths. It must be known that there are several other oaths like this for different purposes, but not many people knew them. At most some might know about two or three and they all had limited number of uses.

Perhaps Alex might be the only one who would remember about five or so, judging from the few that were openly used in the novel. It is said that most of this sacred oaths were scattered across the world, written in tomes or Religious scrolls.

Lovan looked at the movement of the wind speechlessly, he couldn't run as he usually would so he looked at Alex once more.

Lovan pulls out a small leather pouch from within his tattered robe, it became the signal to begin fighting but none of them moved.

Dabok became more focused as he watched the two, Alex had been surprising him continuously since he became Chief while Urim for some reason was smiling, perhaps he had blind trust in Alex's prowess, since he beat Olog.

At this time Lovan was rolling two blue colored marble like items as he wiped off sweat from his face nervously.

Alex squinted, 'Another human like one' was the thought that flashed through his mind as he notices him shivering and was confused, in the Novel, Lovan was never portrayed as a timid character.

Suuii *SFX: something thrown*

Alex immediately blocks with the blade of this Battle Axe.

Clink!

Frost appeared on its blade as well as the floor it landed.

Seeing this, Alex frowned even more...

'This might be troublesome'.