Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 18

Chapter 18: What I Hated the Most Was a Man Who Acted Like Last Boss While Giving Out Information in Small Portions With Condescending Attitude

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I was in a dream.

I was able to be aware of that.

It was a jumbled world.

Many images were extracted randomly. They were mixed together and turned chaotic. It was an impossible world.

「A dream, furthermore, it’s not a dream of one or two people, this is like」

「You are sharp. This is a world that is made from bundling up multiple dreams. It’s everyone’s dream, including my subordinates, and your treasured girls too. They are taken in here.」

「Are they safe?」

「For now. ……This is the same like creating another world. Everyone who is taken in here is supplying the energy to maintain it. Sooner or later they will dry up and die……no, let me revise my words. They aren’t just maintaining this world, they are also expanding the world, while swallowing the children out there one after another.」

The people who were absorbed into this dream world would be turned into fuel for this world to continue to expand. And then the number of new victims would increase.

「Just how far this world will spread?」

「The more it spread, the greater the amount of power that is needed to maintain it. It will collapse if it doesn’t continue to take in new preys……the balance will crumble somewhere but, perhaps, it will go as far as enveloping this whole continent.」

A negative spiral.

The scale was also excessively large. To think that it would take away all the lives of a single continent.

「So this is the existence that couldn’t be dealt with if Tou-san and Kaa-san weren’t here.」

「Yes, it’s my distant, distant ancestor. I’m just an inferior version compared to this. But, this is strange. Just the other day we managed to deal with it somehow just before the seal was dispelled……not only that, the seal was also strengthened even more by borrowing those two’s strength.」

「The seal that was strengthened by them was broken? Right under Lilith’s nose?」

Something that caused the impossible……was that the cheating that the fairy mentioned?

「Exactly.」

「There is no point to feel concerned about that right now. I’m not sensing my strength being taken away even though we are taken inside this place, is this thanks to you Lilith?」

「The answer for that is also yes. If you didn’t grab my hand, you will also become this place’s resident. ……Look.」

Where Lilith pointed, there were the people who I happened to see in the castle.

This was a world where everyone’s dream was jumbled together, and yet they were doing their activity normally without feeling anything strange.

「If you are taken into here, you won’t even be able to sense the strangeness around you. It looks like you have resistance toward it. Perhaps your blood of Evol Orc is also including some kind of dream demon type, but with your blood sealed, that will only serve as mere consolation.」

「You saved me Lilith.」

「You can also see it as me dragging you into this problem though.」

「I want to search for Tita and Kururu.」

I had to secure them.

First I had to confirm their safety before defeating the culprit and destroying this world.

「That’s impossible. This world is too vast. Tens of thousands of people are taken in and their dreams are connected with each other. This world is even more vast than the real world. It’s impossible to search for someone here.」

「I still have to do it even if it’s impossible.」

「No, it will be faster to defeat the culprit rather than that.」

Searching for people was difficult here.

Then it should also be difficult to search for the culprit.

No, perhaps that wasn’t the case.

「We will make the culprit come to us.」

「It helps that you are quick-witted. Ork-chan and me are in this world, but we are foreign substance that isn’t absorbed. We are a poison here. Then if we act to destroy the world just like poison……」

「The antibody will take action huh.」

That was would be far more reliable.

Then, we had to hurry.

I’d destroy this world. To do that, I had to analyze the structure that was making up this world.

I tried to use analysis magic. Then I felt the out of place feeling that I had also experienced recently.

「……I see. Even though we are taken in, it doesn’t change that we are inside a dream huh.」

「It should be really difficult for you even with my support. That’s why, leave this to me.」

Flesh body, will, soul.

Those aspects were divided from each other here. That was why, I couldn’t draw out magic power well from my soul, and my body was heavy. It was only my will that was here.

「Tou-san and Kaa-san were helpful weren’t they? Then I should also be able to do it.」

「I think that Ork-chan’s talents surpassed those two. But, you are lacking experience.」

Yeah, I know.

That was why, I’d fill that gap of experience.

Observe, something like a world was vast, it wasn’t something vague. Observe the sample before my eyes.

Observe the dream specialist, the Nightmare Lilith.

Even if I couldn’t even use analysis magic here, there was something that I could do.

Don’t just look, recall it. The dream yesterday.

「Ufuuh, really Ork-chan, you are amazing. Watch me carefully.」

Even though this was a dream world, Lilith was able to draw out magic power freely.

It was as though she had connection with her flesh body and soul that weren’t here.

Lilith was performing that as though it was only natural, but I could certainly see it.

She created a gap in the dream and connected a pathway with her own flesh body.

I didn’t know how she was able to do that.

But, I was able to confirm that opening.

My soul was strongly calling me from that gap.

The sensation of a pathway connecting, the flowing magic power.

Lilith firmed the created gap.

「Something like this huh.」

「……You’re a monster. You accomplished that not with bloodline but technique right?」

「I didn’t do anything big. It’s still impossible for me if I’m alone.」

I was simply making use of the hole that was there by chance to form the connection.

I didn’t feel like I’d be able to open the hole by myself.

But, I wouldn’t be just a burden with this.

「When I’m looking at Ork-chan, my common sense that I have formed in this a thousand years is breaking apart……you can go wild if you can use that much magic power right? Form the image of what you believe as the strongest, materialize it, and then I’ll definitely slam it into this nightmare.」

「That’s so simple and nice.」

I regained my magic power and became able to use magic, thanks to that my observation of the example(Lilith) made progress.

Depending on the image, I summoned my beloved sword the true sword of oracle.

The strongest firepower that I had.

In that case, the only option was that freshly made move.

「ORKKKKK」

The poem was omitted. Right now we were in a race against time.

There was no time to leisurely read the poem.

I continued to send magic power into the sword until the limit.

And then, the sword began to tremble and shriek.

It was time.

「CALIBURRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!」

A slash of light was fired.

The slash with sublight speed tore apart the world. Shockwave and plasma raged.

Lilith converted it into an attack that targeted the world itself.

The world was cracking.

As expected from Orkcalibur, the sword that tore apart the world.

No, the original material of something like that was different huh. As expected, I had no confidence of being able to make something close to that even if it was just the appearance. (TN: He might be talking about Ea here.)

「Astonishing. If you have that kind of killer move, you should use it in the battle against me.」

「No, there is no way I can hit Lilith with something like this.」

Even though I discarded the poem, the time necessary to gather the magic power was too long. I couldn’t imagine that I could hit Lilith with this.

It was really difficult to find the right timing to use a big move.

「More importantly, it’s coming.」

「Yes, indeed. I sense it. ……Ork-chan, don’t die okay? I won’t be able to show myself to that person if I let Ork-chan die.」

「I’ll do my best.」

I also wouldn’t let myself die here.

If I die here, Tita and Kururu who were taken into this world would also die.

What showed up there was a monster that was just too powerful, distorted, and ugly.

It was nightmare itself.

It slowly seeped out from the crack in space.

「The castle in this underground itself is a ritual device for sealing that thing, my ancestor, it’s a prison.」

「Lilith’s ancestor huh.」

「After it became like that, we were popped out and born from it. ……What I plunder is only strength. But my ancestor is different. It steal strength, memory, will, dream, ability, magic power, sense, soul, anything and everything……do you think that it can stay sane after taking in something like other people’s hearts?」

「It must be broken from doing that.」

「Yes, that is the ruin of what once was my prototype and a failed product. The nightmare that once destroyed the world.」

A human heart was a world unto itself in a sense. It was pretty and dirty, with variety of facets to it.

Even just one heart was already too much for a single person. And yet how many hearts, worlds that thing had taken in?

That thing wasn’t a person anymore, but a monster.

Emotions that were jumbled together didn’t have any meaning. They would be painted out and get reduced into malice and desire in general. A person’s heart was pretty and dirty. But, any color would approach black the more they were combined with each other.

If strength and abilities were also piled up on such rich and thick blackness,

That’s…….

「It destroyed the world huh……I don’t know how can we still live like this even and the world still exist even though it should be destroyed, but that thing was defeated by something in the past wasn’t it? Then there is no reason why it can’t be defeated.」

「You’re right. We exist for that. Evol Orc, Nightmare, High Elf, Divine Fire Fox, Hero, Demon King, they are deterrence toward failed existence that destroyed the world. The current world incorporated that. Ah, by the way the Demon King that I mentioned isn’t the demon king position, but the Demon King as a system. It’s different from that person and me.」

……I thought they were too strong. Especially races like Evol Orc or Nightmare.

The seeping out nightmare displayed its completed form.

By myself, my chance of victory at this present time was zero.

This was out of the question.

Compared to this thing, the world tree devouring demon bug and god of disaster that I fought before looked cute.

But, Lilith who wasn’t at all inferior than me was at my side. I also had the disposable trump card that the spirit king bestowed to me in order to deal with the foul play.

The chance of victory should exist.

If the spirit king was playing a game against someone, a factor to make the game valid had to exist. In other words, even I also had a chance of victory.

Then, I’d win.

Not for the world’s sake, but for the sake of the world that I wished for.

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