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Chapter 8 - The War Begins

From a distance you can see a row of towering masts of ships, on the island some reconnaissance troops on the hill give signals to the guards in the forest.

"The enemy report has been seen" a reconnaissance soldier said making a report to his leader.

"Confirm the number and identity of the enemy" the team leader ordered back to his members.

"Ready sir" and immediately returned to its original position.

"You report this news to master that the enemy has arrived" the team leader said to his other members to inform their master.

"Do it chief" replied the member and immediately disappeared into the forest.

It wasn't long before the line of ships became clearer as the ships got closer to the island, so that it wasn't long before the first ship docked on the beach and lowered its soldiers, then the scouts knew the identity of the enemy who had landed on their island.

"Damn these orch..." Said a scout when he saw a row of orch warriors starting to descend from the ship in an orderly manner.

Starting from one then increasing until in the end the entire fleet of ships anchored on the shores of their island, 1..2...3....4....20 ships have anchored and there is no sign of other ships going to follow , counting one ship containing 40 orch warriors, scouts estimated that the entire fleet contained over 800 orch troopers, this was definitely double their number.

So then the scout made a signal to alert the other troops, asking them to also prepare for an attack in the forest.

Outside the castle at this time Danis along with Rias and Maximus were listening to reports from the reconnaissance soldiers assigned to spot the enemy's arrival.

"Report Master, the enemy has arrived and they are the Orch race with a strength of over 800" a soldier reported the results of reconnaissance.

"Orch.. this is not good news for us!!" Maximus said.

" What's wrong with Orch?? Aren't they just an ordinary race!!" The word makeup is an understatement.

"If we are in a strong position then it's fine, but if we are in a bad position like this it's definitely a problem" Maximus replied back.

"What makes you so worried about Maximus?" Ask Danis.

"Report sir, orch has a brutal and merciless nature, they also have stronger strength than the average human, if not for their lack of intelligence, maybe orch is very strong when compared to other races" said Maximus explained.

"Ohhh....that's all, just blast it with my fire magic, everything will be done" with a cold tone, makeup still thinks that orches are an inferior race.

"Don't be too confident, Rias, underestimating the enemy is a sign that we will lose. You have to remember that." Danis told Rias not to underestimate her even though she also knew what Rias meant about the threat ability given by the Orch race.

"What you said is very true, not to mention that orch has a very fast way of reproduction that causes their number to be several times more than us, if not the fact that they are also cannibals maybe other races are already in very big trouble" Maximus said again.

"Ok, I think that's enough debate, so now we have to be prepared to fight them" Danis cut them both off.

"Order the scouts to carry out the attack, as long as the orches enter the forest" Danis gave the order to the soldiers in front of him.

"Ready sir, carry it out" replied the soldier.

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"Smells....humans...and lots!!!!" An exclamation was heard from a large orch who seemed to be the leader of the orches.

"Quickly line up and destroy those humans!!!....I can't wait to eat them!!" the large orch shouted at the orches who had descended from the ship.

Seeing that their leader had made the order, the orches immediately marched into the forest.

On the other hand, you can see a row of orches carrying various types of weapons, including broken swords, deformed spears, and also worn arrows, all of which look ugly, but anyone with experience knows that these orch weapons are quite strong and capable of killing.

In the forest the reconnaissance troop, numbering 50 people, was already waiting for the arrival of the orches with various traps they had prepared.

"Squad Leader, the orch troop is about to arrive!!" Exclaimed a soldier told their leader.

"Good... let them go deeper first, when they are in the middle then we can carry out the attack" said the leader replied.

"Okay," replied the soldier.

In a fairly dense forest, now a tense atmosphere appears, small animals that feel danger have now hid in their nests, no birds are singing as usual, they have now disappeared somewhere.

"Rumble...rumble...rumble..." The vibration of the ground was felt when the footsteps of hundreds of armed orchs passed through the forest, it's just that now you can see their majestic ranks which were very large at the beginning now slowly shrinking and becoming small when they enter the forest , this is because the road in the forest can only accommodate 3 people to walk together.

So this causes the orch troops to become longer from front to back.

While the orch troop was in the middle of the forest area, suddenly there was the sound of some birds chirping, hearing this of course the orchs ignored it, only their leader felt very strange about the orch's voice.

He who was paying attention to the entrance had never heard the birds chirping at the beginning when their troops came, but now why when they were in the forest deep enough the sound of bird whistles started to be heard, felt something odd the orch leader would scream to remind his troops, only he was a step too late as by this time there was already a scream from the vanguard of his troops.

"Ahhhhhhh..." A fang and powerful scream came from the front of the orch troop, where at this time a huge hole 5 M long and 4 M deep suddenly appeared and made the front orch troop fall into the hole, this bad luck it doesn't end where later in the hole there are lots of sharp wood installed.

This caused the orchs that fell to their death to be directly impaled by the sharp wood or seriously injured from the impalement.

Seeing the chaos ahead, the leader became angry and said "Get out of the way....get out of the way...." shouted the orch leader while asking his cub to get out of his way.

It's just that when he walked towards the front, the sound of a strong wind whistling came from the left, feeling something dangerous his instincts strongly immediately made him lower his head.

And sure enough when he looked down, a large log was sweeping from his left side " ahhhhhhhh....

"Aummmmm...

The orches that were hit by the blow from the huge log immediately flew up and were seriously injured.

But this didn't stop there, when they returned to panic a row of large wooden logs like a swing came towards them just now immediately in unison.

This obviously made the orches who were in chaos immediately become even more messy..

"Bastard.....archers...shoot arrows left and right!!!!" the orch leader shouted in order.

Hearing their leader scream the orchs who were clearly scared and immediately gave arrows to the right and left of the line of orch troops "shoosh.....shooshhh....soon dozens of arrows shot.

But it's a shame they didn't get any targets, and this is of course in accordance with the scenario carried out by the reconnaissance team where they have made a strategy to immediately release the trap and get away from there.

Of course this was not without results, because soon the attacks of the logs stopped attacking them.

And the orch leader who was originally hiding had now stood up again, but the messy sight had made his heart even more angry, where at this time most of the troops in front of him had many dead and injured.

Roar...a scary scream sounded from the forest.

This scream came from the orch leader who was already very angry.

"Damn...these humans....they are so cunning.....hurry...hurry...move...and destroy these humans!!!!!

"Kill those who are seriously injured.....and proceed immediately!!!!!" The ruthless orders were given by the leader of the orchs, and the terrified orchs simply obeyed their leader, killing their badly injured comrades and then continuing on their way to attack.

"Squad leader... it seems the orches took quite a heavy loss" a scout soldier reported.

"Good...let's let these orches die, but there's still one big trap we haven't executed yet so get ready to do it and after that we can go back to join the lord in the fort" .

The Orchs that had been at a disadvantage earlier were now more cautious and alert, they seemed to be looking around the area from the path they were currently walking on.

It's just that after walking for a while their vigilance decreased because there were no more traps that they encountered, moreover then at the end of the road a blinding light appeared, a sign of the end of the forest.

Seeing this the orches naturally became excited, and immediately ran to get out.

Rumbling sounds rang out as the orch troop dashed out of the forest, but they never would have guessed that at the entrance to the outside a huge trap had been prepared for them.

Just as the orchs came out of the forest they saw a large wooden fort in front of them, seeing this the orch leader shouted "attack...and destroy the fort...let the humans become food us!!!!! With a booming voice the leader of the large orch said to his troops.

The orch's horn sounded…..at all feet and its sound reverberated throughout the Danis fortress, signaling the attack of the orchs to begin.