Orc Disaster (Part 1)

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...Nightmare, the atmosphere now can only be described in that one word. The ground was completely destroyed due to various battles, and covered with the bodies of various battlers. The sky was red due to an unknown force, covered with rain clouds, and this rain was like blood.

This chaos was due to an unknown creature, this creature similar in appearance to a real dragon, and of greater power than Veldora.

The only person who was standing and facing this same monster head on was Shiro, however she was different her now more mature body and her empty eyes while she was wielding a dark red bladed katana.

After 5 seconds of staring at each other, Shiro took the first step in the fight moving towards the neck of that dark purple scaled dragon while using her katana to make a clean cut covered in golden flames.

That attack, although it had a great impact on the environment, only managed to scratch the dragon, which in response to Shiro's attack, conjured a magic that used Stardust energy in an attack similar in appearance but more powerful than Milim's Drago Nova.

This had further destroyed their environment at that moment, but Shiro had fortunately avoided that attack. When she had touched the ground, her legs seemed to be having trouble keeping her up, causing her to stumble and fall to her knees on the ground. As she looked at that dragon preparing another one of his attacks, she could only murmur in a hoarse voice.

"...M-...Mika-sama... I'm sorry-..."

And before she could finish her sentence, a huge beam of light covered her entire vision and destroyed everything around her.

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{Back to before the strange phenomenon}

I spent some time in the camp and could see Rimuru going into the forest, according to my memories Souei probably found a group of orcs attacking a lizard man and that was probably the reason Rimuru was going into the forest.

Shiro stayed with Shuna in the camp helping her. And I will take this opportunity to find Laplace and copy his skills of course.

There couldn't be a better time for that, considering I would alert Clayman and get Yuuki's attention, well, that's if I can find Laplace of course.

'Hm... Great Erudite, do you have any method so that we can find Laplace in this forest?'

<<Answer. 'It is possible, using Alteration I can put together the Extra skills: Magic Sensor, Sense Heat Source, Sense Sound Waves and Keen Smell, the creation of the extra skill from your memories Universal Sense would be the result.>>

<<Do you want to perform the operation?>>

'I forgot that you could do that...'

That had surprised me, because even though the Great Erudite had the sub-skill of alteration, him being able to replicate the Universal Sensor is a pretty impressive feat.

But that didn't matter much at the moment, after all even though it's something pretty amazing and something I thought I'd only be able to do when I became a demon lord, it's nice to be able to do it now.

'By all means, yes, perform the operation.'

<<Affirmative.>>

<<Processing...>>

<<Evolution has been completed, the extra skill Universal Sense can be used.>>

<<Searching for similar sounds, smells, magicules for individual 'Laplace'... Completed, speculation for individual Laplace can be found following north of current position.>>

'Right, thank you Great Erudite.'

Following the direction I was told, I take about 1 minute to find Laplace, who was already talking to Treyni. And before she could attack him, I move toward him with everything I could, striking him with my right fist.

"Wha-?!"

<<Warning. The Unique Skill "Seer" has been copied.>>

Laplace cannot act in time for my attack to reach him, so his ability cannot be activated. Although I know I'm in extreme danger facing someone as strong as Laplace right now, I'm not worrying. Since Treyni-san is here with me.

Gelmudo won't be a problem if the combat occurs the way I'm expecting.

However it wasn't exactly combat that occurred, Laplace ran away like even in the original story, probably his plan is not to enter combat now, even if a variable, in this case me, exists.

"Mika-san?"

Treyni came toward me to ask me the reason for my presence in that place. I naturally told her that I felt Laplace's energy and came here, of course without mentioning his name.

After our conversation I went back to the camp only to find no one, apparently they were already heading towards the Orc Lord and probably didn't even pay attention to my disappearance.

I stretched my legs a bit and headed towards the swamp.

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{Shiro's POV}

Finishing helping Shuna-sama I come across my master's disappearance, apparently he left right after Rimuru-sama entered the forest.

I didn't worry too much about this, considering that my master always seems to do things with a reason behind what he did.

Rimuru-sama has ordered us to head for the swamp where the Orc Lord is. He has apparently concluded an alliance with the lizard men, so that they are now our allies during this time of war.

Our journey didn't take long, after all we were already close to the Orc Lord's location.

When we got there we split up, Gobta, Ranga-san and the entire goblin riding team were split up to support a lizard man who was already fighting, Shion-san, Hakurou-sensei and Benimaru-sama went on the attack against the orcs, obviously I went with them.

Ranga-san gave an incredible demonstration of power by eliminating a large number of orcs. Benimaru-sama is an amazing person with his magic, using his black flames in a clever way while giving instructions to the others through telepathy, Shion-san was just crushing and cutting the orcs with her great physical strength.

Meanwhile Hakurou-sensei is demonstrating his swordmanship with great mastery, certainly someone skilled.

I on the other hand am just doing my best with the basic swordplay I learned from Hakurou-sensei. This is the most I can do at the moment unfortunately, considering that I haven't had much to train my skills in this period of time.

Things were going very well until we met up with the Orc Lord who appeared to be very powerful. But for some reason he wasn't moving, and before we could attack him a majin came flying out of the sky, hitting the ground with everything.

"-But what the hell do you think you're doing?!"

He shouted as he pointed his oddly formed staff in our direction. That majin wore very weird clothes, and he was wearing a strange mask that looked like a bird.

"Ruining the plan I created myself!"

And he kept shouting at us, apparently no one was caring about his presence there, everyone was staring at him with a blank face.

Rimuru-sama came down from where he was standing to take a closer look at what was going on I guess, which even I wasn't understanding.

"That guy is...!" A lizard man started asked, being cut off by the man in the strange mask.

"-And you! You dumbass! If you had evolved into a demon lord, a high-level demon like me would have no reason to go into battle!" He shouted as he pointed that same strange looking scepter of his at the Orc Lord, Demon Lord? I really wasn't understanding what he was talking about.

I mean, that strange man in the bird mask appeared to be weak for someone who calls himself a high level demon, after all, that's really an arrogant thing to say to someone who can't put any pressure even on me.

"...Evolve into a Demon Lord? ...What exactly do you mean by that?" The Orc Lord asked him, as he stared at him.

Yes, even I want to know that!

"...Tsk! You really are an idiot..."

"Gelmudo-sama!" The lizard man shouted to the strangely dressed man whose name appeared to be Gelmudo. "Perchance, have you come to save me? I'm sorry, even though I heard Laplace's warning..."

Laplace? Who is this? I feel more and more questions covering my mind at this moment...

"-...Gabil huh" Gelmudo spoke as he raised his scepter upwards and carried a strange energy on top of it. "You have come at a good time."

"...Eh?"

"Death-March dance!!!"

And with his power ready, Gelmudo pointed his scepter toward Gabil, hurling several spheres of energy toward him.

At that moment I was no longer paying attention to what he was talking about, because the movement Rimuru-sama made to defend that lizard man was so fast that it caught all my attention.

As I looked at Rimuru-sama talking to Gelmudo, I could see on Gabil's face an obvious sadness and surprise.

But what surprised me the most was that right after this, the other Kijins went towards Gelmudo and started attacking him, almost like torture. Apparently he was the reason behind our village being destroyed... But... Unlike them, I apparently no longer felt any remorse about it, I guess, my hatred is only focused on the orcs, and not on why they attacked the village.

We also had the arrival of Souei-san, who arrived to prevent Gelmudo from escaping. At this point we were already in a victorious position, we had already won... Until...

The Orc Lord used his machete to cut the neck of Gelmudo, feeding on the remains of the majin's body. And in the middle of this meal, the Voice of the World sent an announcement.

<<<<Confirmed. The individual Geld is beginning to evolve into a Demon Lord.>>>>

At that very moment a terrible aura was emanating from the place where the Orc Lord was, it was an immense aura, as powerful as Master Mika's aura. A smoke was also emanating, Rimuru-sama told us in a desperate voice not to touch it. Apparently it was of the corrosive kind.

After a few seconds, the Lord Orc had already come out of the frightening aura that was surrounding him. And now, with an even more frightening stature than before, the Voice of the World announced.

<<<<Success. Individual Geld has successfully evolved into [Orc Disaster]>>>>

Now, with that overwhelmingly strong presence, which was making it difficult for me to stand upright. He was now looking completely different, his form was taller, with a more well-structured physique, his horns had increased and now his skin glowed with a light purple flame.

"-My name is Geld!" He would begin his sentence. "From this day forward, I will be feared as Orc Disaster, Geld!!!"

"....! Our King and father."

"Our king..."

"Demon lord, Geld-sama"

The orcs repeated among themselves, boasting about their demon lord, who was now facing us, with his overwhelming power that compared even to that of my master.

Shion-san, on Benimaru-sama's orders, ran towards the now Orc Disaster to attack him with everything. That attack, although it hit him hard, didn't even make a scratch on his skin. The Orc Disaster didn't even need to block that attack, that surprised us all, because Shion-san is a very strong person, and for her blow not to make even a scratch against Geld, his power level must be on another level.

Following Shion-san's attack came Hakurou-sensei's attack, which was aiming directly at the neck of the Disaster Orc. However... The result was the same, not even a scratch, and to everyone's surprise, Orc Disaster was just standing there, not even moving as a reaction to these attacks.

Still in response to this lack of response from Orc Disaster, Souei-san trapped him in a cocoon of threads, telling Benimaru-sama to throw one of his fireballs into the cocoon where Geld was. And at Benimaru-sama's command, Ranga-san launched an incredible thunder right after the fireball dissipated.

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That had done nothing to Orc Disaster, his power level was much higher than ours, and not even the combined attacks of all of us were able to do a single hurt to this real beast.

And in response to these attacks, Geld walked towards us and spoke.

"...Apparently none of you will be able to hurt me, give up, you will just be our main course, and then we will eat the entire population of the Jura forest!"

"Now that I have become Orc Disaster, you will not be able to resist-"

And just as he was speaking, another person came flying towards Geld, hitting him with a punch so powerful that the impact pushed swamp water everywhere.

This time Geld clearly felt this attack, which made him stagger to the side. That person now standing in front of the Orc Disaster was none other than my master, Mika-sama!

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(Great Erudite's Notes: Sorry for the delay, I didn't have a background planned fot the story until now, but now I do.}