Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 7

Chapter 7: Ork’s Graduation Test

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I headed toward the great sage Merlin Enlight in order to receive my last lesson.

Usually I had my lesson at the mountain behind the village, but I crossed two mountains this time. There was no village or settlement around here.

Most likely it was in consideration so that there wouldn’t be any harm to the surrounding in case I rampaged.

That was how dangerous it was to meddle with the seal.

「It looks like you have heard about the seal from your parents. ……To be honest, you have two choices. First is to learn about the seal and get along with your blood’s power for your whole life.」

「That’s my intention. What is the other choice?」

「Perform a complete sealing and live while forgetting about the matter of that blood. With my current skill, I can apply even stronger seal on you. It will be one that cannot be undone for your whole life. I can also make it so that you cannot pass down that blood to the next generation. You will be able to live in safer way with this option.」

There was no need to even ponder.

「I’ll learn the seal and get along with my blood for my whole life.」

「Is that because you sought strength?」

「I won’t deny that I’m seeking strength. But more than that, I don’t want to lose what my father and ancestors has accumulated until now. This power is also a part of me.」

「A good answer. It looks like you have the resolve. Let me give you your last lesson. Master this seal. To repeat myself, this seal is incomplete. It will be your role to complete it. Continue to study and ponder about it from here on too. I have raised you to be able to do that.」

「Yes, teacher.」

I kept getting helped by this person.

I couldn’t even imagine that the great sage Merlin Enlight would ever get into any serious predicament, but if a time like that arrived, I swore I would come running to his side no matter what.

I learned from the great sage Merlin Enlight of the seal that contained my orc’s blood.

It was an extremely advanced and complicated magic, but thanks to getting taught by this person for four years, I could somehow comprehend it.

……No, that was wrong.

This person had taught me all the necessary skill and knowledge to be able to understand this magic formula.

I became able to perform the magic formula of the seal myself before the dawn arrived.

And then I also learned the way to dispel the seal.

With this I could release the power of my blood anytime.

It was just as I heard from Kaa-san, there were three layers of seal.

If I undid one layer, I could draw out twenty percent of power. If two layers were undid, it would be a total of fifty percent. All the strength would be released if all three layers were undone.

The more layers were undone, the harder it would be to put back the seal.

「With this you have mastered the seal. Next is the actual practice. Try releasing that power. Regain your strength. But before you do so, let me give you a single warning. Don’t let go of your own self no matter how much the power of your blood wash you away. You are the warrior who has been trained by us five. You should understand what a true warrior is.」

「Yes teacher.」

The sound of my heart was pounding like an alarm bell.

My original power.

The power that had been sealed all this time.

There was no way I wasn’t looking forward to liberate that power.

I imaged a chain was inside me. There was a lock at the knot of the chain. I reached out to it.

「Ante(Unlocking)」

I spoke the release word.

There was a clicking sound. I could feel the lock undone.

The next moment, a wild power began to overflow.

An unpleasant sound of tearing sounded. My body bloated up. It was being remade. My clothes burst out.

「AGAGAGA, AGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!」

I screamed to vomit out something hot that was raging inside me.

My mind wanted to do that. It felt like my head was turning crazy.

My body was being remade into the strongest form that was engraved in my blood.

The ki, mana, and muscles inside my body. All of them were greatly increasing in both quality and quantity.

My field of vision became high. I was looking down on the great sage Merlin Enlight.

My vision was dyed crimson.

My head would go crazy if I didn’t strike something with this overflowing power.

I slammed the ground with my fist that had turned thick like a log.

The ground cracked radially before it exploded. Dust cloud and rocks scattered everywhere. A crater was created.

It felt good.

How overwhelming. This was my true form.

More, more.

It didn’t matter what, I wanted to break something.

There was something nearby that was just the right size to punch. I raised my fist. It was a very small existence for the current me.

The instant my fist landed, it hit defensive barriers that had been overlapped by many layers.

When I put even more strength into my fist, one, two layers were breaking one after another.

When all the barriers were smashed and my fist touched that guy, my body floated in the air and I fell on my back.

I didn’t know what was done to me.

「……Fumu, so you are this strong with twenty percent. It’s a tremendous battle power. I’m surprised that your power has increased by this much as you grow up. But, pathetic. To lose yourself just from an impulse of that level. You call yourself our disciple like that!?」

A voice yelled angrily at me. It was a voice that was engraved into my head and heart. But, I only thought of the voice as scary at the start. I noticed the kindness behind it and liked that voice.

It was nostalgic. I became strong due to that voice’s guidance.

My crimson vision began to regain color.

The days of four years of training were resurrected in the back of my mind.

Those days were tough and painful, but it was also fun and fulfilling.

……Remember, what was it that I was aiming for. What I had accumulated until now wasn’t this kind of disorderly violence. It was a tempered technique.

I had also gone through all kind of severe mental training.

Accomplished what you had to accomplish with burning heart and cool head.

Deep, deep, deep breath.

I’m Ork. The warrior who received the teaching of the five best teachers.

「So you finally return, stupid disciple.」

「Forgive me for showing something unsightly like that.」

I bowed.

And then I performed martial art using my transformed body. I wielded the overwhelming power as I willed it.

My nerves spread from the top of my head until the tip of my fingers to perfectly control my body.

Even now the violent impulse was still raging inside my body. I had to maneuver that raging horse skillfully.

I was able to do so only thanks to the training of my teachers.

「There was a bit of trouble, but it looks like you have demonstrated that you can perfectly control yourself even with the first seal undone. It will be even more stable when you get used to it.」

「But I can’t endure it for long. ……If I let go of the rain just for a little bit, I won’t be able to return anymore. Perhaps three minutes is my limit. I don’t have any confidence that I’ll be able to suppress myself for more than that.」

So it was this hard even though only the first layer of the seal was undone. This power and also the risk accompanying it surpassed my imagination.

「It’s a large gain just from being able to experience it. Then, try applying the seal next. You can do it right?」

「I’ll do it.」

I performed the magic formula that I had just learned.

I could control mana even in this form. ……No, rather it was far easier to control magic in this form.

Surely there were races that specialized in magic among the blood that I inherited.

I finished the magic formula.

Countless invisible chains bound my orc’s blood and locked it.

My body slowly shrunk. Cold sweat flooded out when I returned to my original form.

「Looks like you have succeeded in the sealing too.」

「Yes, if it’s just the first stage, even the seal doesn’t feel any difficult. But, I must not open any more than that.」

I understood from trying it.

It wasn’t just a worry, but a conviction that would exactly be the case.

「I see, then I forbid you to undone more than two layers of the seal. If you have the techniques that we have taught you until now and the power you displayed just now, there shouldn’t be any enemy that you can’t win against. And it looks like you have even gained something else while I took off my eyes from you for a bit.」

As expected from the great sage. He had noticed that I was chosen as the hero.

「Yes, I became the hero.」

「If you can use that power well, it will also be useful for suppressing the rampage of your blood……you have really become strong. But, no matter how strong you have become, you will surely hit a wall one day. If there is ever a time when something is beyond your strength, but you have something that you want to protect no matter what, I allow you to unlock more than two layers of the seal.」

I nodded to his words.

「At that time, engrave what you want to protect into your soul before releasing your power. What can hold on to you at the very end is the power of feeling. You cannot accomplish anything with only the power of feeling. But, the power of feeling will become a support on the back of those who continue to put in effort correctly.」

「I understand. If such time arrives, I will remember teacher’s words. Teacher, thank you for everything until now.」

I bowed.

My debt to this person was something that I wouldn’t be able to repay for my whole life.

「You have grown well Ork. There aren’t that many men as good as you. You are a disciple I’m proud of. I’ll bring you to meet my daughters next……forget it. You will surely fall in love if you meet my daughters. If you dare to woo my daughters, I will definitely kill you right at that instant. I don’t want to kill my own student.」

「Just how high your evaluation to your daughters that you can say I’ll definitely fall in love with them!?」

「Subjectively speaking, I believe that my five daughters are monopolizing the first place until the fifth place of the world ranking of beautiful girl. And even looking at them objectively, they are definitely equal to your mother at her youth.」

What’s that, amazing.

My Kaa-san had that kind of personality, but she was a super beauty that anyone acknowledged.

She still had the appearance of someone at her late teen because of her masterful use of ki. There would always be men who hit on her when she went shopping to the city.

……Let’s go meet these daughters one day. Though I didn’t want to die, so let’s do it while this person was away from home.

「Now then, let me give you a present in exchange of a graduation certificate. It’s a short cane that contained a blade inside. It has a first rate quality both as a short sword and as a wand. It will be useful if you keep it in your pocket.」

「Thank you very much for this gift.」

The thing was thick for a cane, and thin for a short sword.

It only looked like a stick if seen from afar.

However, anyone with the right eyes would immediately noticed that this was the best quality item with the greatest mana gathering ability and mana affinity. When he flicked the joint with his finger, a blade that rivaled a sharp sword of the highest quality showed itself.

There was no weapon better than this for me who used both martial art and magic.

「I’ll have to return back soon. My daughters have cooked delicious meals. They are waiting for me.」

The great sage Merlin Enlight smiled. He turned into his slime form and grew wings to fly.

Even that great sage was just a normal father at home.

That’s nice. I also wanted to impregnate a lot of beautiful girls and built a warm family.

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After parting with the great sage Merlin Enlight, I recalled the words of each teacher on the way home.

The god of merchant told me that his company was going to expand into an emerging nation. He wanted me to head there and took command. He said that he wanted to leave everything to me.

The success in that country had the importance that could decide the power balance of each company a few years from now. That was why he wanted to leave the command of his company in that country to me.

When he told me that he wanted to entrust the command to me, I almost cried because he had really recognized me.

The Fighter King wanted to fight me in the world tournament two years from now. At that time I should become his rival. He said to me that I should come to the world he was in.

My chest became hot from the word rival.

The wise king told me that I was several times better than the person who was first in line for succeeding the throne, so he asked me how about seriously becoming the king. He said that he would become my backer in that case.

When I told him it was impossible because I was half orc and half human, he declared that even with that in consideration, it would be better for Forland Kingdom to be succeeded by my. For my great grandfather to need me like that, it made me embarrassed for putting distance from him just because I was an orc. At the same time his words made me happy.

I was troubled whether to accept their offer or not. I pondered, pondered, and pondered deeply, but in the end, I didn’t choose the path of merchant, or the path of martial artist, or even the path of king.

Everyone had given their all to train me. They poured a lot of affection to me.

A part of me wanted to answer their expectation. I also thought that each path seemed interesting.

But, I had a dream.

I couldn’t make any detour for the sake of my dream.

I looked up to the sky. A shooting star was shining.

I watched that shooting star while making my oath.

「Watch over me, teachers.」

I would impregnate a lot of greatest females and created the best harem in the world so my teachers who had given me a lot of their affection could hold their head high.

That would be my repayment to them.

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