Chapter 178: Setin [2]   The ground shook as an ocean of bulky figures wearing large metallic armors walked through the vast plains of Immorra.

As the troops marched forwards, they left nothing but devastation in their wake as they crushed anything that obstructed their paths.

With each step they took, the ground beneath them shook.

Be it demons or beasts, they would attack and show no mercy.

Blood spilled everywhere as the green plains of Immorra were dyed by a sea of blood.

Karum! Karum! Karum!

Chanting their war cry, the orcs excitedly plundered the cities they crossed and took whatever they could find.

Food, clothing, gems, coins, anything that could be taken was taken.

Nothing was spared.

"Khrrr…"

Standing behind the army, overlooking the orcs from the distance, was an imposing and enormous figure whose frame was much larger than that of the orcs in the distance.

The figure's muscles were extremely defined as they bulged out of his body. His forearm alone was the size of a human head.

The orc's skin was a shade of dark green and on his body, were red tattoos that traced from his face all the way to his abdomen.

"Khhr…khrr…"

Thin adulation of energy emanated from the orc's body every time he took a breath as a stifling atmosphere shrouded the area he was in.

With his eyes closed, the orc had his arms crossed and stood still without moving a single muscle.

He acted as though nobody was around him.

As the green orc stood motionlessly with his eyes closed, behind him, five orcs stood with their backs straight not daring to make a single move nor utter a single word afraid of angering the orc before them.

Although each of the five orcs that stood with their backs straight all had rather powerful energies, theirs was a far cry from the power of the orc that was before them…as just a single glance from him could cause their blood to freeze.

Omgolung

That was the name of the figure before them, and he was their chief.

"Hm?"

Sensing something, Omgolung suddenly opened his eyes as he stared towards the distance.

"Has something happened chief?"

Noticing Omgolung's strange behavior, slowly walking towards his direction was a thin elder-looking orc that supported his body with the help of a wooden staff.

Glancing at the elder-looking orc before him for a second and staring toward the distance Omogulg's deep and raspy voice resounded across the space.

"Umhra, I sense it…"

Solemnly looking at Omgolung, the elder-looking orc named Umhra asked.

"Sense what?"

After a short pause, an extremely frightening pressure exuded from Omgolung's body as he slowly spat.

"…I sense the demonic presence that is responsible for my child's death"

Suddenly, like a tremendous gust of wind, everything around Omgolung was swept away as the orcs standing behind him had a hard time stopping themselves from being swept away as well. It was as though a tremendous tornado was upon them.

"khhh…chief!"

Fortunately, the pressure did not last for long as Omgolung was able to quickly regain his composure.

Sighing in relief, opening his eyes slightly, Umhra asked.

"Pardon my impudence, where is the location of the target?"

Closing his eyes once again and taking a second to get a better feel of where the energy was coming from, after a minute, Omgolung responded as he stared towards a certain direction.

"Setin…the demon that killed my son is in Setin"

Taken aback, the elder-looking orc asked cautiously.

"Setin? Where Marquiss Azeroth resides?"

"Yes…"

At the mention of Azeroth's name, Omgolung showed no reaction as he had already expected such a scenario from the beginning.

…since the demon was living in his city, it meant that he was the one who had issued the orders no?

Thinking along those lines, Omgolung felt his rage reach a whole new level as the bloodlust that he had kept hidden within his body slowly started to reveal itself as a suffocating pressure engulfed the area he was in.

If only it wasn't for that darned Silug.

Recalling Silug, Omgolung felt his blood rush.

Failure upon failure.

Everything went downhill from his first failure in the expedition…and the same thing happened with the food supplies.

Had he done his job properly, none of this would've happened.

"…Silug"

Slowly muttering his name underneath his breath, a thick bloodlust emanated from Omgolung's body.

There was a specific reason as to why he had imprisoned Silug.

He wanted to set an example for the others that stood behind him.

…that this was the price of failure.

Still, although he had done this, Omgolung wasn't planning on keeping Silug chained up for long.

They were at war after all.

He just wanted to teach him a lesson.

He couldn't let such a powerful figure rot in jail like that, the only reason why he was leaving him in jail was to dilute his inflated ego.

He had to show him his place.

…only when the war reached its climax would he release him and let him join the fight.

The reason why he wanted to do this was because he wanted to appear magnanimous towards the others.

Not only would it solidify his position even more, but it would also boost the morale of the troops as Silug was a force to be reckoned with.

"Chief!"

Noticing Omgolung's odd behavior and feeling the dense bloodlust leaking from his body, Umhra tried to redirect the topic in hopes of distracting him.

"Shoulds we redirect the troops to go there? I mean Setin"

Briefly glancing at Umhra, nodding his head, Omgolung's deep voice echoed across the space.

"Yes, forget about all of the minor cities. We are directly marching to Setin!"

"Understood"

Taking a large horn from one of his servants, Umhra placed the horn in his mouth and blew it.

As soon as Umhra blew on the horn, a shockwave swept the surroundings as every orc in the distance stopped whatever they were doing and glanced at Umhra in the distance.

"keumm…Keumm…"

Seeing that he had gotten everyone's attention, clearing his throat and putting the horn back, glancing at everyone, Umhra shouted.

"Finish with what you're doing, under the orders of chief Omgolung we are going to Setin!"

Hearing the command, starting at each other for a couple of seconds, the orcs proceeded to shout their war cry completely unaware of the fact that most will die as a result of this decision.

Karum! Karum! Karum!

…

"Stop!"

A day after deciding to go to Setin, abruptly staring into the distance, Omgolung suddenly halted his steps as glared towards a certain area in the sky.

"Show yourself"

"kakaka, it seems you've gotten better of the years Omgolung"

Chucking, appearing from out of nowhere and standing in the air with two empty eyes stood a black humanoid figure who indifferently looked towards the orcs beneath him. Behind him, thousands upon thousands of humanoid creatures similarly appeared out of thin air.

Every single one of them had a grin plastered on their face.

"…it's been a while since we last met Omgolung"

As the black creature stood in the air, a constant shadowy veil dangled around the creature's torso…resembling a lot like the heads of a few other orcs.

Noticing this detail, the hatred Omgolung had towards Azeroth intensified as a powerful pressure bore down on everything within the vicinity.

Noticing Omgolung's unstable state of mind, the elder-looking orc next to him shouted.

"Calm down chief, this is likely a trap to rile you up"

The orc heads was definitely a trap set up by Azeroth in order to rile up Omgolung so that he could increase his advantage.

Realizing this, Omgolung quickly calmed down as he nodded Umhra in acknowledgment.

"…a pity"

As the humanoid creature floated in the air, its blood-red eyes did not shift away from Omgolung even once. A bony tail swept behind the creature as coarse hairs cover it sporadically.

Behind him, two gigantic wings extend themselves fully. Spiky bones and blistering membranes stretched upward preventing anyone from seeing anything other than this being. Still, as the creature stared at Omgolung from below, a horrible grimace appeared on its face.

"You still haven't answered my question Omgolung, why are you suddenly attacking us demons?"

Glaring at Azeroth even more fiercely, Omgolung's deep voice resounded across the land.

"Do not play dumb, you know exactly why I'm here?"

Shaking his head, Azeroth teased.

"…but I don't, was it because you missed me after last time?"

"Khrrr…as you wish"

Staring at Azeroth standing in the air, with each breath Omgolung took, a similar sound to that of a muffled thunder escaped his nose as he glared at Azeroth in the air.

Since Azeroth wanted to play games, he was going to show him a fun game.

…a game involving his death!

Picking up a large metallic hammer decorated in fine patterns which also had a single blue orb attached in the middle, raising the hammer in the sky as he pointed towards Azeroth in the distance, Omgolung shouted.

"Then…since you won't admit your wrongdoings, I shall personally kill you!"

Thereafter, Omgolung swung the hammer down towards the ground.

…and as if the world split apart, the ground beneath Omgolung cracked apart as a loud explosion resounded across the space.

Shortly after, sharp like projectiles that came as a result of the fragmented rocks that had just been smashed by Omgolung's hammer attack shot towards Azeroth who stood in the air.

Taken aback by the sudden attack, smiling widely, Azeroth chuckled.

"kukuku, it seems like you really want to die"

Spreading his arms widely, a translucent black shield appeared before Azeroth as he blocked most of the projectiles coming his way.

After blocking most of the projectiles, simultaneously glaring at each other, both leaders pointed towards each other as they shouted.

"Attack!"

"Attack!"

Following their commands, the orcs and demons moved, and not long after pained screams and blood started spilling everywhere.

The battle of Immorra had just begun.

…

Moments before Omgolung met Azeroth, Setin city.

"Alright, I think the coast is clear"

Noticing that Azeroth had just left the castle, turning my attention towards Kevin and Silug, I urged them to follow me.

"Yes"

Swiftly moving around the streets of Setin, we were quickly able to arrive before the castle of Azeroth.

Glancing left and right of the city, Kevin was flabbergasted as he said.

"Seriously, how can traveling inside of a demon city be so easy?"

They barely saw any demon patrolling the area.

…how was this place supposed to be one of the main demon cities. The lack of surveillance made him speechless.

Hearing Kevins' comment and glancing at him, a faint smile appeared on my lips.

"It really isn't, the only reason it is like this is because I made it this way"

"What?"

As I hadn't explained to Kevin my plan, it was naturally understandable that he had no idea of what happened.

…but in short, because Azeroth had taken a lot of demons with him, we were, fortunately, able to arrive at the castle quickly despite the fact that Silug's figure was fairly noticeable.

Since there were fewer demons, it was naturally much easier to move around. Moreover, with everyone being distracted by the conflict that was happening not so far from Setin, it was only natural that the security was lax.

"Here…"

Halting my steps a couple of meters away from the castle, glancing at Kevin and Silug, I fell into deep thought.

…so far everything was going as I had envisioned.

Omgolung took the bait and moved towards Setin, and following that Azeroth had no choice but to move as well…pretty much leaving behind the castle with only a few demons patrolling it.

The build-up to that part also went as I had envisioned as I was able to pin all of the blame towards the demons giving rise to this situation.

…everything so far was how I had envisioned it prior to coming to Immorra.

The pieces that I had set up had finally started to move according to how I dictated and now, it was time to end the game.

Glancing at Kevin and Silug who were respectively on my left and right side, I pointed towards the castle and said.

"That is going to be our next destination"