The Knight King Who Returned with a God

Chapter 31: The Good Orc (2)



Chapter 31: The Good Orc (2)

Chapter 31: The Good Orc (2)

The orc chieftain’s head rolled back and as everyone stood there, mouths agape, unable to comprehend the situation, Yappy, who had been sitting on top of Ha-ri’s head, was the first to react.

[Hostile target recognized. Annihilation initiated.]

Yappy’s robotic arm stretched out steel wires and swung like a whip through a perfectly calculated trajectory.

“You killed the chieftain, bas──!”

The orcs didn’t even manage to show their anger because their heads were already cut.

The severed heads of the orcs feel like neatly cut cube steaks.

“Enemy! Kill!”

“Kill them!”

The orcs in the camp charged in unison as Leon shouted.

“Raise your shields! Form a circle and block their charge!”

Leon’s words awakened the Hunters, including Koo Dae-Sung, and they instinctively raised their shields to block the orcs’ charge.

“Boom!”

“Shit, what the hell is this...!”

“I don’t know!”

The orcs, who had their chieftain and kin’s decapitated, were enraged and tried to kill the Hunters.

“Raise your shields higher, shields don’t just protect you, protect the right shoulder of the comrade next to you!”

“Ugh...!”

“Stop!”

The Hunters protected each other with their shields. But it was only a matter of time.

“Damn, they’re too strong!”

“We’re only D-class Hunters! How are we supposed to win against orcs with similar numbers?”

Orcs, a natural fighting race where even the weakest orc was a match for a Class C Hunter.

With their large stature and bulging muscles, the hunters were not a match for them. Normally, it would be a miracle if they even survived the first charge.

“Huh?”

Koo Dae-Sung realized that they were blocking the orcs’ charge.

It was strange because the Hunters here are the lowest-rank Hunters who can’t go one-on-one against Orcs. But strangely, he wasn’t afraid. Just having Leon beside him was a relief, and he felt a surge of strength, like he could accomplish anything.

At that moment, several Hunters saw a system message floating in the corner of their vision.

[Aura of the Lion’s Heart]

◆Effect:

Grants Legion Hardened Assault Defense.

Grants Legion-Hardened Fortification.

Grants Legion Reinforcement Battalion Reinforcement.

Grants Legion Strengthened Valor.

Grants Legion Upgrade Light Armor.

Grants Legion Upgrade Tough Skin.

Grants Legion Upgrade Heavy Strike.

Grants Legion-Enhanced Archaic Empowerment.

Grants Legion Improved Ranged Resistance.

Grants Legion Upgrade Keen Gaze.

Grants Legion Improved Anti-Infantry Slaughter.

Grants Legion-Powered Pollution Resistance.

[Greatest Orc Butcher]

Effect:

-Grants 50% Critical Hit against Orcs.

-Orcs are struck with fear, confusion, and despair.

– Spreads a well-deserved hatred of orcs.

What is this?

[Living Demigod]

[Protector of the War Knights]

[Grail Guardian]

[Dragon Slayer’s Honor

[Terror of Demonic Species]

[Demon Lord Slayer]

[Greatest Demon Slayer]

“Hmm.......”

He had a point since over the course of thirty years, quite a few orcs had crossed over to Earth, but they had all became fiends.

The proliferation of the Orc Harlem in the United States is still a plague on American society, and Orcs are involved in the drug trade, massacres in South America, and more.

Murder and violence were the hallmarks of the race, and they could never be integrated into civilized society.

However, their ability to reproduce was superior to that of humans, and their voting rights and cultural differences plagued the world.

So much so that a new phrase was coined: orcophobia.

“So...how do you propose to close the gate?”

“Kill all the orcs at this gate! Every last one!”

Ha-ri’s shoulders jolted at the declaration as Yappy landed on her head.

“Lord Spinner, anything to report?”

[Scouting report. Field area measured. Two and a half million square kilometers. Fifty-six orc camps found. Orc numbers approximately 4,650.]

“Four thousand...”

Even though they had to take a side to win, the scale of the battle was staggering and Leon chose the option of killing all the orcs, so the difficulty level of the gate was no longer yellow, but scarlet.

“Hmm... For a bunch of beasts, there are quite a few of them.”

“A few?”

“Yes. In the Kingdom of Beasts, a single orc tribe had a standard number of 100,000.”

Considering the nature of the gate, this was a staggering number.

“Your Majesty... do you really intend to kill them all? That... would take too much time, to say the least.”

“Hmm... I’m sure this king can manage, but it’s not right to take up too much of my time with these beasts.”

But Leon has not given up, and he intends to kill every last orc in this gate, no matter how long it takes.

[Your Majesty. Suggestion.]

It was then that Yappy made a suggestion in his mechanical voice.

“What is it, Lord Spinner?”

Yappy showed a hologram through his camera eye. It was a map of the field, created shortly after the battle, when he launched his mapping scope into the sky.

He captured the headwaters of the river as it cut through the orc villages.

* * * *

Midnight, in the dead of night, while the orcs slept, three figures appeared upriver.

[This place.]

Yappy from above Ha-ri’s head points upstream with his sharp legs.

“Hmm. I’ll leave it to you.”

Yakt Spinner dipped into the flowing river and activated its energy.

[Initiating core overload. Power at 99.9%.]

Yakt Spinner began to activate his core at full power and the cooling system shuts down as the energy kicks in, and a plume of smoke rises.

[Core overloaded. Cooling system failing. Fuel rods rapidly age. Core meltdown. Eject fuel rods.]

The Yakt Spinner opened its carapace and ejected the fuel rods inside as with a bang, something that resembled poop appeared.

“Mmm, looks like shit.......”

“Don’t speak dirty words in my presence.”

Well, she wasn’t wrong.

Yakt Spinner is powered by a small nuclear reactor and the high-power electricity generated by the reactor creates a perpetual motion machine. But because it’s a reactor, it has fuel rods, and in the event of an emergency, a self-destruct sequence that overloads the reactor and causes nuclear fusion happens.

Yakt spinner was only halfway through the self-destruct sequence as it overloaded the reactor to the point of core meltdown and ejected the fuel rods when the critical level was reached.

The extremely dangerous radioactive material inside the fuel rods, including cesium-137, iodine-131, stannium-90, and plutonium-238, is exposed along with the fuel rods and contaminates the river.

The river that all the orcs in the field use for drinking water is pickled in radioactivity.

“I...Your Majesty, we are safe under your protection, but... is this okay?”

“What do you mean?”

“...According to chivalry, this is cowardly.”

Leon smirked at Ha-ri’s question. He didn’t seem to feel the slightest bit remorseful for carrying out a plot that he himself would consider cowardly.

“What kind of chivalry is that against beasts? If I can kill one more, I’ll use a ranged weapon.”

“Eek.......”

“Ha-ri, Lord Spinner, this is not a war or a duel against green beasts.”

Leon said in a voice that held endless hatred and contempt.

“It’s about exterminating the beasts. What hunter has honor when he hunts?”

“Umm...there can be good orcs, too.”

“Ha...!”

As if he had heard something funny, Leon let out a sneer and spoke the unchangeable truth as if to enlighten these foolish and clueless people.

“The only good orc is a dead orc.”


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