บท 38: Chapter 37: Loss

Black moon village,

Alex is resting against the wooden pillar with a face of utter nonchalance, He quietly stared down at the Female Orc tied beneath the pillar. He silently watched her actions without saying a word, making her Uncomfortable. It was all normal tactics he had employed before, now he was curious how it would perform on an Orc.

As if he were merely waiting for a bus on a spring day, He yawned casually before casually brushing his jaws with his hand. as relaxed as his face was, He had been using the intimidation skill since he saw her status earlier.

"What do you want?!!" She finally says with a frown.

"Good. Why don't you start with how many hunter's and Alhamas does your clan have?" Without wasting time, Alex began asking questions, He squatted down with a toothy grin while looking her in the eye. "Hmm,you have a good eye, would be a shame to lose it."

Wide eyed, her black pupils swiveled to look at this Orc before her, for an inexplicable reason, she felt fear from his casual words but her mouth remained shut.

"didn't think you'll be forth coming from the beginning, after all, your a shadow." He continued his dialogue without care before picking up a thick Rod that He had prepared for this interrogation. Alex calmly weighed it with his hand before looking up again,"should be just right!..."

"..."

Seeing her expression and his action brought back some memories from his past life, Her silence weren't helping matters either. "Moz, you're not making this easy for me..."

Shocked, She looked at him in surprise because, She remembers that she never stated her name till this very moment. "Who are you?!"

Ignoring her question Alex asked, "are you comfortable in the Blood horn clan?"

"From the way Ghur abandoned you, I'm sure your standing isn't that great." He continues as he watched her every action. 'If only there's a way for the system to allow me enslave them peacefully...haa"

[Such actions can only be taken when your territory is at the minimum level of Basic Level 3]

With that, Alex open the Territory Tab to see how much Exp was left till this Level. This was the second thing that makes him look forward to that Level.

[Ding!]

Village Name: Black moon

Level: Basic Lv2 (2496/5000)

Village Area: 2 square kilometre

Village Territory: 44 square kilometres

Loyalty: 86%

Residents: 148/1000 (A/N: minimum population requirement for Lv 3= 200)

Soldiers: 45/300

Guards: 8/50

Landmarks: Black Moon lake, Cold Valley.

Existing structures: Lord's Manor, Village stone wall, Wooden Residential buildings x30, Smithy, Basic Logging(Low), Farmland(83%), Advanced Mining Field(96%).

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'Still a long way, might as well just go with it' After making some calculations in his mind, He looked at Moz before shrugging. He walks up to her thinking, 'When was the last time I had to do this kind of dirty work, I guess I can use this chance to test the limit of an Orc's body, even though she's on the weak side of things'.

"Now back to my first question, sorry for the Delay, we can get started now" As he spoke those words, His eyes released a faint golden color as He lifted up this metal.

WHAM!! He struck the side of her knee with extreme force.

Aaargh!!!

"Sssh...Sssh...Sssh, Wow it's still intact!." He shushed her, "Now I think you get the Idea of what's about to happen, Are you sure you don't want to talk now?".

"Mmmmph..." Moz glared at Alex as she struggled to remain quiet, the blood vessels in her neck bulged.

"how many hunter's and Alhamas does your clan have?" Indifference rested on his face,despite seeing the glare, He seemed so focused doodling something on the ground with the rod.

"..."

"I don't get it!!!" Alex said while standing abruptly.

Wham!!

WAM!!

He began striking several joints repeatedly without stop until...

[Ding!!]

[New Hidden quest unlocked!..."Touching the threads of fate".]

[Summary: After a failed raid, your men urgently retreated. but along with their retreat, they also brought back a deadly enemy. Destroy this enemy at all cost!...

Objective- Kill Mako the 'Bloody'.

Reward: Skill upgrade card x4 ,random equipment card x1, Epic Character Exp card and 1000 system points.]

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"Huh??!!" While standing as though he was frozen in time, He read the new quest details.

"What the hell happened?!" Alex suddenly yelled in shock, He couldn't be bothered with the female shadow orc anymore as he read through the notification once more. He noticed that there was something different about this quest, First, was the color of it's title that was highlighted purple.

Secondly, the reward were all new kinds of items except the Equipment card, the system points obviously came with the recent upgrade.

Finally, for system to be this generous, then this wouldn't be simple.

'They failed? and Mako that vicious character is...' Alex thought of this enemy and couldn't help sighing "Haaa".

Alex remembers this character, He was someone who had clawed his way from the very bottom by sacrificing his tribe to a god under the Night mother's faction. He also caused a lot of trouble for the 'Nisipurl' Kingdom with his Undead army even before he became a Champion and ruler of dark Nation. He then went into hiding and was accepted by the 'Great House Gorvhard, Also known as the House of Esos, A member of the six great houses that were at the Apex of the lordly houses, known for its power over ghosts and the mysteries of the dead. Their leader, the Great Lady Narna Gorvhard, allied with House Pelesi and used the then champion Mako the 'bloody' as a secret weapon to spearhead an attack during conflict with Umbral House and Farrante.

It was at this point Mako really made his debut, but now the system asked Alex to kill such a character!!, How could he not be worried!!.

'Wait!...No!He shouldn't be that powerful now!...it should be doable and I could use this chance to steal his fate by taking his chance to join the big league but...Lets complete this first before thinking about that.' Alex thought as his eyes gleamed with excitement before looking at the groaning Orc beside him.

After staring for a while he said,"we'll continue this later..."He walked away with big strides, after all there was preparations to be made.

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Alex quickly went to Lovan and asked him to gather the workers in the village, They began digging trenches and began cutting trees to make barricades some distance from the village. Alex suspected that they would be coming from the village where they went to raid, but he chose to make some defenses around the village just in case. The hustle and bustle began make the Black moon tribe tense but no one had the courage to ask, Lovan chose to ask once they were done because Alex looked lost in thought. He kept staring in the direction of Laboni, as though he was waiting for someone.

Soon Torrelsav and Co appear from behind the tree line, looking quite terrible as Urim and Largash helped the Berserker up, Dabok had a frown plastered on his face. Alex couldn't help sighing when he saw their expression, their numbers had reduced as many were lost in the battle.

Alex quietly looked to the sky and thought in his heart, 'When you think about it, this is probably our first loss since we made the tribe...'