Alex and Ketovan were walking on the streets of the shopping sector of Daro. Vendors were surprisingly silent. The roads were massive , even the smallest of the roads were at least 8 lanes. Atomotons and various human hybrids were walking casually alongside regular humans .
"Who are they?" Alex asked, pointing towards a chunky, robot like creature. It moments indicated that it was a regular person prior to his/her new body.
"They are called the transferred." Ketovan said
"which means they transferred their conscious to these metal counterparts. But why? "Alex asked
"Longer life for the ability to feel, breadth, and hear," Ketovan said.
They wear currently walking on the branch street where everything related to daily necessities was sold. They took a sharp turn and then walked deeper into the shopping sector. After sometime of silent walking and occasional turning, they entered a slightly larger street where everything related to weapons and adventuring gear was sold. Ketovan walked for a minute and stopped .
"What do you really want?" he asked
"few pairs of safety gear and a subsidiary sword that I could use till I reach commander rank. Give or take some health potions and"
"health potions? Do you think our world is so backward that we use health potions?" Ketovan asked
"Not really. Do you guys have health potions here /" Alex responded with a simple question
"We use pills that are much more efficient than potions and easy to carry, but there is a catch"
"Of course there is a catch," Alex said mockingly .
"So, you can't use them once you reach noble rank," Ketovan said
"Then I can use them for another 100 years maybe, "Alex said
"actually a regular human takes at least 250 years to reach noble rank, but as for you, it not clear. "Ketovan said
"You said there is a commander rank omniarch in this city. How old is he?" Alex asked
"somewhere around 170, give or take 20 years," Ketovan said
Saying this, Ketovan moved into a plain looking shop, it was painted in plain white, and a moderately sized board said
ROTWAND'S FORGING WEAPONS FOR 2000 YEARS
As Alex entered the shop,he was captivated by the swords that hung over display boards. Their shining blades came in wide range of colours and designs. Few had gems imbedded into their guard, and a few others have less fancy looks and more efficiency driven designs. Ketovan went directly to the back of the counter in a room that seemed to be a forge.
"Ketovan, is that you?' a voice spoke from the room
Ketovan came out with an old man. With his great white beard and bald head indicating his old age, but his bulging farm fit muscles and his wrinkleless face indicate that the man before him was at least commander rank.
"Alex, meet Richard Rotwand. The third generation owner of this shop. Rich, this is Alexander Sobreviviente, a new friend of mine." Ketovan did the introduction.
"So, Ketovan said that you need some specials for your training?" Rich said, shaking hands with Alex.
"I need some adventuring gears, I am not as rich as our friend here, but I can afford something out of ordinary. "Alex said
"sure thing. Do you have a dimensional bag or, even better, a skill?" rich asked
"I have a storage ability ."
"Then let's start. According to Ketovan's list, the first items are weight adjusting straps for the arms and weight adjusting belt,' Rich said, pulling out 3 pieces of thin cloth like pieces. The belt was plain white, and the straps were black .
"Such plain colors, "Alex said, testing them out
"You can adjust their colors and designs to your liking and the weight to "Saying this, Ketovan clicked on some buttons and Alex dropped down onto the floor unable to move. He slowly lie on the floor as the weights increased by the time .
"You will remain silent or else you can remove the weights yourself.' Ketovan said .
"fine "Alex answered, he knew surrendering is the best choice if he still had no knowledge about the world.
"Next will be two sets of enhanced darlion metal training swords and few sets of training armour and 12 sets of enhanced woolen clothing, "Rich pulled each of the items onto the table before him .
"The total?" ketovan asked
"200 gold and 5000 silver." Richard said.
Ketovan released Alex from the straps, and Alex pulled out the money. After pushing everything into his inventory, they moved out of the shop and continued their walk.
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The city guard captain was informed about the attack of the forest orcs at 2 past noon. He was a noble ranker. He, along with his squad of high ranking city guards and majority number of the city guards, were now fling, riding and teleporting to the east walls of the city. They are the only part of the city that does not have mountains along it. Naturally majority of the city guards are located there. But a signal came from the west walls that a legion of forest orcs from the warped space nearly 450 km away from the mountain range was marching towards the city. When the captain arrived at the west wall's watch tower all he could see was an ocean of orcs, their foot steps were so heavy that even the watchtower started to shake a little. At the front of the never ending army was an orc. He was the largest orc the captain had ever seen in his long life filled with fighting orcs almost every day, it was nearly 15 feet tall with limbs as big as regular humans and was riding a large green gecko that was a local beast at the warped space they were banished to by the previous duke of Daro.
As the large orc lifted his hand, the orcs stopped. And it slowly and stiffly lowered its hand towards the city walls, and the orcs ran. All of their previous organised manner had seemed to disappear into thin air as they ran with no uniformity. Few of the smaller orcs were run over by the larger ones, and those who slipped accepted their death by their own kind.
"Captain, it seems that the orcs are led by an orc lord. The numbers are not clear, but the annalist says that there are at least 5000 commander ranking orcs in that army and 25 noble ranking orcs," a man said
"What about the leader? "the captain asked
"High noble or low royal rank, "the man answered .
As they talked, the orcs reached the walls and slammed into them. Many of orcs who were at the front died, their skulls breaking and bodies crushed by their comrades who were back of them. The walls were outlined by the blood and corpses of the orcs, but the walls did not budge. A group of around 300 orcs started projecting their aura beasts, they were just a larger and bulkier version of their owners .
The orcs are the simplest creatures on the planet of terra they are what they look like. If an orc looks like, he is not going to give you a peaceful death, then it is sure that he will not serve a peaceful death. If an orc looked like it will help you, then I will help you. Unlike humans ans other humanoid species, where the physical features have nothing to do with Mentality, the orcs' thinking is determined by their physical features. So they have a simpler aura beast than others. As the orcs projected aura beasts, all the low-ranking orcs stopped and backed away.
"What is the rank of that group of orcs?" they asked
"Noble rank, "the analyst answered .
"Open fire " the captain uttered the killing command
Large missile launchers and multiple mashies equipped with guns, lasers and various other weapons emerged out of the wall and started to massacre the army. Few high ranking orcs jumped onto them and tried to destroy the artillery but were inturn disintegrated into nothingness. Then the orc lord rose from his ride and took a simple leap into the sky and threw his club onto the walls. Failing to destroy the club, the weapons were unsuccessful. With ease, the club destroyed the artillery when it slammed into the wall. The wall broke with thundering sound, and the orcs started flowing into the city. The city guards were trying their best to kill as many orcs as possible, but their unfathomable numbers made it an impossible task . \
' Send the Adventure Society a signal for help and danger!' the captain roared, jumping down from the watchtower, killing nearly 2500 normal ranking orcs with just his drop .
The captain was ploughing through the army of orcs. He was killing at least 10 orcs with his every slask of his bastard sword. Once the orcs started becoming overwhelming, he used one of his skills
"May the wind be the way to my enemy's death. May my wind show them their way to the void. NOBLE RANK SKILL – WIND BURST, "the captain said his chants, and the wind bursted around him.
At once, a circle of around 50 meters in diameter around the captain was just blood and sliced body parts of several hundreds or even few thousands of orcs. The orc lord, sensing the threat the captain was holding for his army, started moving towards him .
Their weapons clashed, but the royal ranking orc took less damage than the captain. He used his wind but ability once again, but this time he only managed to cut of few parts of the orc. Then the orc slammed its club on the captain's head, and the captain knew who would happen but could not escape the hit in time ..... the captain fell dead, along with him fell the morale of the city guards.
A divine light came out of the orc lord as it ranked up. It tore away the cloth covering its mouth and stretched its jaw for a while
"Humans!!" It screamed
Every human looked at it with terrified eyes, the orcs stopped fighting. Orcs cant speak the common tongue unless they reached divine rank.
"We orcs have lived a life of slavery and banishment for 5000 years because of your species. Now we shall do the same to you. I, the leader of the forest orcs, Aju Lil Mao, declare war on your kind and any other species that wish to side with you. "The orc lord spoke
He raised his hand, and two noble ranking orc generals came forth. The orc lord, now the orc emperor, placed his hands on the heads of the two orcs, and a green light passed into the orcs. They became larger, nearly as big as the orc emperor, but were still bowing their heads before the orc. The humans understood one thing: the city of Daro will either fall today or will face mass destruction.
The orc emperor leaped into the sky and flew away from the city towards the warped space these orcs originally belonged to. Every city guard fighting there was killed brutally within few minutes. The orc regained their formation and marched like a organised army once again.
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