Orc Harem Vol 4 Chapter 20

Chapter 20: I Prayed For Miracle, But I Didn’t Rely on Miracle

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Lilith’s ancestor was before us. A black winged monster whose race name we didn’t even know.

Somehow he reminded me of Tou-san in his demon king form.

Not only his strength was overwhelming, he was clad in kingly aura that was only possessed by special existence.

I was overwhelmed. Just standing my ground here was the best that I could do.

Lilith was even more shaken than me. She understood the danger of this person even more than me because their race was similar.

「Aaaaaa, impossible-, this is impossible. We don’t have any chance of winning against something like that. We need to run.」

I was thinking to ask her for help, but Lilith couldn’t be relied on.

Her heart had completely crumbled.

She couldn’t fight against this.

I had to defeat it by myself.

「Fumu, you two are similar to me. The toys of god, the balancers who were created in order to control the balance breakers. Although you boy has too much power and you only barely maintain your mind by sealing that power. That woman over there is an inferior version of me, no, perhaps I should call you an adjusted version instead.」

「Good grief, it’s troubling that recently the number of know-it-all like you keep increasing.」

Guessing from the result of my analysis magic, the situation, and his speech, I understood what kind of existence this man was.

Most likely, this guy who Lilith called as her ancestor could take this form because of us shaving off his power in such half-baked way.

This guy couldn’t control himself as the result of eating, stealing, and bloating up endlessly.

But, he wasn’t in such state from the start.

There should be a line in him where he was still able to control the hearts and powers that he absorbed.

By shaving off his power, the powers and hearts that he accumulated inside him was reduced until the level where he could control them.

That was why, right now this guy was perfectly controlling everything that he had absorbed until now, and furthermore his body’s density was increased until his size was reduced to human size. Unlike Lilith, he could also use the abilities and techniques of the races that he absorbed with precision.

His total strength had been reduced to a third, however now his danger level was dozens of times greater than before.

We couldn’t win.

That thinking wasn’t just a premonition but closer to a conviction.

「From what I observed……I see, you are a super first class warrior. Magnificent, the number of powerful fighter of your level that I know can be counted on one hand. But that’s exactly why, you must have realized it correct? The difference in strength between us.」

「That’s sadly true. I have a proposition. It’s not like I want to defeat you. I want to protect the world, or rather my important people in it. I want you to end this continuously expanding dream world. You had been reduced to that monster all this time right? I don’t know what kind of era that you lived in, but the current era is wonderful. Delicious food and alcohol, great woman, there are a lot of things in this era that will be a waste to be simply absorbed into dream. They deserve better than simply getting destroyed.」

Yes, the opponent had intelligence. And, if he didn’t have any wish to destroy the world, then there wasn’t any need to fight him. I should settle this by talking.

Having the power to destroy the world = had to be killed no matter what. If the world worked in such way, then it would also be a sin for Tou-san and me to just live.

「Fumu. It seems you are not stupid. But, my reply to your offer is no. I was created in order to destroy the world. I’m also living for that sake.」

「Are you fine living on the whim of this so called god like that?」

I half gave up on persuading him, even so I still kept trying.

「It looks like you are misunderstanding something. I’m doing this not because of I’m ordered to. This is my desire. I want to do that, it feels good by doing that, I can’t live unless I do that. It’s just like how all of you have appetite to eat, sexual desire, and desire to sleep. I have the desire to envelop the world in nightmare. I’m that kind of creature.」

「For example, if it’s sexual desire, you know, you don’t need to rape woman to satisfy it and you can vent it by simply masturbating right? Can’t you gloss over that feeling somehow with that kind of substitute act?」

He looked at me in exasperation.

「You mentioned about masturbating. Then let me ask you. Can you hold back yourself for your whole life with just masturbation?」

「Impossible.」

My adorable women, Tita, Kururu, Rurine. Could I simply masturbate for my whole life without laying my hand on them?

What the hell is that? Even torture should have limit. I wouldn’t be able to bear it!

「You shouldn’t recommend something that you yourself can’t do to other person.」

「That’s true huh.」

I unsheathed my sword.

Negotiation failed.

Perhaps there hadn’t been any room for persuasion right from the start.

「Are you planning to win? You and I are similar. After all our design concept is the same.」

「Yeah, we are similar.」

「Even god cannot make the perfect living being. And that’s why, they created a race that can take in other’s strength to arrive at perfection one day……but, even that is defective. I was swallowed by the powers and hearts that I absorbed……it’s also the same for you right?」

I didn’t deny it.

After all it was pointless to even deny that.

Yes, Evol Orc, the race that absorbed the strong points of every race and passed them down to the next generation.

Unlike him, our method was roundabout and took a lot of time because we had to go through generations of progress, but with our method we didn’t need to absorb toxic substance like other’s heart. The application of our race method was stable.

However our blood couldn’t endure the powers that were continuously accumulated. In the end I could only be human for the first time when most of that power was sealed and lost the strength of my race.

If the seal was released, the personality that was me would be erased in the end and I would be reduced into a mere monster.

「Go easy on me if you think of us as fellow comrade. Besides, you are also indebted to us right? You can regain your rational mind like that because we are strong.」

「Fumu, that’s logical. Then, what if I don’t use my dominant hand?」

「I’m grateful.」

Not using your dominant hand in close-quarter combat was an outrageously great handicap.

Although, I couldn’t imagine that the difference of strength between us and this monster could be closed with just that much.

「Let me give you an advice before we start. Seeing that we are fellow monsters, the same kind with each other, I don’t think that you can win against me with your power sealed like that.」

He vanished.

It was a speed that even my eyes couldn’t follow.

「First Limit - Release」

My trump card. I quickly used First Limit Release.

Originally I would never take such option.

This could only be used for eight second. After the time limit, my combat strength would be sharply reduced from the recoil.

In other words, I would lose if I didn’t end this fight in eight seconds.

Therefore, my use of this power was limited to situation where I was convinced I could end the battle in eight second.

However.

「Hou, a gradual release of power, skilled aren’t you!」

By releasing my power, I obtained the super kinetic vision and super reflexes of silver wolf tribe that my blood had taken in, I could perceive his movement and reacted. In addition, I succeeded in parrying his slash by predicting his swordsmanship using the precognition of the priestess of foresight.

His left arm was covered with hardened iron scale that stood on ends. Every single one of them was like a blade. My body would be scraped off if I was hit by something like that.

I reflexively tried to switch into counterattack with the swordsmanship that had been beaten into me, but the precognition of priestess of foresight rang the alarm bell in my head and I switched action.

I used the true word chanting that surpassed even the super high speed chanting of the cursed dragon race because it cancelled the chanting itself and instantly activated a spell.

The scales on the guy’s left arm were blasted off like a shotgun shell. My directed explosion magic was activated at the same time.

The explosion blast burned him and most of the scales were burned down, but several of them cut through the blast and pierced my flesh.

I felt an intense urge to vomit, numbness, and pain.

The scales were poisonous. I completely neutralized it with perfect poison resistance of snake poison tribe while going through inside the smoke. My blood had taken in many races that had good night vision and penetrating vision.

My surprise attack was successful……not, the other side also had night vision and penetrating vision. Sword and arm clashed. I was pushed back due to the difference in strength between us. I parried that with technique.

……As I thought, I was slightly superior in skill.

This guy had slept for hundreds, thousands of years. Certainly he had absorbed some ancient sword master and could use their sword technique, but those skills were aged and he didn’t know of the latest swordsmanship. The same applied with magic.

My only chance of victory was in here.

The subordinates of Lilith were already taken into the dream world. If they were devoured, this guy would learn the newest swordsmanship and magic.

I pretended to push before pulling back, disturbed his balance, and aimed at his neck.

However I got another vision of death. An arm grew out from his back and stabbed at me.

Tsk, not using his dominant hand didn’t serve to be a handicap at all.

When I dodged that, something preposterous entered my sight. Five heads were growing on the guy’s stomach while he was turning around. Every single one of them were forming magic formula.

I formed a defense without chanting using true word method……shit, I wouldn’t make it in time even then, that was.

「Please don’t die from just this much.」

Magic with five different elements were fired from him. They crashed on my defensive magic, exploded, pierced through, and blew me away.

I bounced many times on the ground.

I killed the momentum and somehow stood up.

My right arm was torn away, my left arm was gone from the elbow below, and my legs were also in similar situation.

This was because I focused my protection to my head where the brain was located and my torso where the heart was stuffed so that I wouldn’t die instantly.

I would die right away if I didn’t do that.

The five magic that he chose increased its power by amplifying each other’s effect the moment they landed. It was something possible only because he could use multiple magic simultaneously.

「Hou, so you survived just as I expected. How fun. I never got into a serious fight at all.」

He didn’t attack even though this was a chance for him.

I thankfully used the opening to regenerate my arms and legs. Race that could use magic power and nutrition to regenerate and recover from torn arm or leg wasn’t that rare. Such race was also dwelling in my blood.

But, it consumed terrific amount of calorie as the price. I felt hungry and my head felt like it was going insane.

「Was it alright for you to let go of that chance to kill me for sure?」

「Yeah, I want to enjoy this more. After this I’m surely going to devour everyone who is taken into this world. I’m that kind of creature after all. And then I’ll return to be an ugly beast that only live by instinct……this time right now, it’s the only time where I’ll be able to fight as myself!」

「You can just stop eating if you don’t want to become a monster.」

「I already told you. I’m that kind of creature. Now, your wound has healed. Let’s continue. Let me enjoy this still-」

My head prickled.

The second layer of seal was rattling. It was about to break. Power was leaking out from there.

This was the compensation of going over eight second.

My control was slipping away. Ironically I avoided death only because the second layer loosened up.

Aa, this was impossible.

I would be killed at this rate.

I got to release the second layer.

But, if the seal’s second layer was taken off, I would become a mere monster.

Not only I would become a monster, it was unlikely that I would be able to defeat this guy with careless violence.

After all my output would only be equal to him for the first time with the release of the seal’s second layer.

How could I be able to defeat him if I became a monster that couldn’t use technique?

If I threw away my rational mind and technique, I wouldn’t be able to match him with just equal strength.

Aa, in other words, it was that, this was hopeless.

To win against this guy, I needed a power that was a level above it.

Yes, the complete release of the seal.

My rational mind was rapidly getting further because I crossed the time limit.

My head was boiling, even so I was aiming for the best conclusion.

If it was the Second Limit Release, I had experience of returning back from that with the power of love.

With the experience and training that I had accumulated after that, the possibility of me returning to my senses from that right now was higher than that time.

But, the possibility of that was zero when it came to the Third Limit Release.

There wouldn’t even be any small ray of hope of a miracle happening.

The possibility didn’t exist.

Yes, it was simply suicide.

However, I couldn’t win unless I did that.

What I should do……was thinking thoroughly.

I’d perform the Third Limit Release. Even so I would return back.

I’d struggle in order to leave behind the possibility. I’d do what I had to do before praying for miracle.

「GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!」

「Hahaha-, nice, nice, this is an enjoyable battle! I can really feel how strong I am.」

I used the power that leaked out from the popping off second layer of the seal. I attacked recklessly.

I was treading a tightrope between being able to control it or not.

It was my limit of still being able to maintain my rationality and technique.

Even then.

「Aa, so fun. It’s so fun. Aa, this is my only regret. I’m going to lose you as my playmate after this.」

I was being toyed with.

My wounds were increasing one-sidedly. Every trump card I had was neutralized.

And then, his hand finally pierced my heart.

I avoided instant death with Evol Orc’s power.

「Is it, that fun?」

「It’s really fun. I can feel that I’m strong only because I’m fighting against someone strong. You can’t feel strong even if you crush insect underfoot. You are just the right opponent for me.」

Aa, so irritating.

I wanted to teach this guy.

That you weren’t the strongest.

That you were just a toy who was controlled by someone stronger.

That was why…….

「Lilith-, control the me who turned into monster, from the dream, and save me……you are, stronger than, anyone, if it’s in the dream-」

The scared Lilith trembled in surprise.

I had left behind hope.

The possibility wasn’t zero anymore.

That was why, in order to get away from absolute defeat, from the future where I lost Tita and Kururu, first I’d kill this guy.

And then I’d go back.

I prayed for miracle. But, I didn’t rely on it.

「Last Limit - Release」

I released everything.

The power that transcended the demon king, the hero, everything.

My everything.

I was the strongest. This monster who held such conceit……I’d show him a power that surpassed that and crushed him.

I became a monster that surpassed this guy.

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