It was now day four and after being drenched by rain Diedrich was awake.
Completely healed, Diedrich was eager to test out his new strength, and just as he was about to descend from the tree something peculiar happened.
"Rumble"
"Huh", he was hungry.
Diedrich found it odd, not because he had never experienced hunger, but that since the trial he had not felt hunger yet.
After thinking about it some more he found it even stranger as it had been four days since he had eaten, he had also not drunk much however the rainwater could be used as an excuse.
"Yeah on second thought, I didn't even drink that much rainwater, and with all the running around I have been doing I should have felt a lot more thirsty".
Unable to figure out the conundrum Diedrich decided to think it was just some magical aspect of the trail and exited the tree.
Diedrich jumped from the tree that was at least 2 stories high and felt no pain, but exhilaration and quickly started looking for more prey.
After twenty minutes of searching Diedrich had finally found his target but instead of attacking, was carefully inspecting it from a distance.
He was slightly surprised when looking at it, as the creature had the silhouette of a human standing at 1.7 meters tall but had the face of a ferocious pig accompanied with a small tail, there was also a tuft of dark hair seemingly in a mohawk fashion starting from its head and then going in a straight line following its spine.
Another difference was that its arms and legs looked stocky and it only had 4 fingers that were holding a wooden club, and different from the goblins it wore a beast skin to hide its private parts but also a rough looking shirt made out of the same materials.
Diedrich thought about the system notification at the beginning of the trial, and could only assume that this was an orc. From the weapon it held a club, Diedrich guessed it was either a common orc or orc fighter.
Although Diedrich was astounded when seeing such a ferocious beast with his current power he knew that he could handle it so he quickly dashed towards the orc.
The orc noticing an enemy dangerously close oinked before swinging his club horizontally, Diedrich easily dodged the club by ducking under it and stabbed out with the wooden spear towards its heart, the spear easily penetrated its skin and it was dead a second after.
[killed Common Orc + 3]
[Point score: 203✩✩✩]
"Crunch"
Diedrich heard a sound and immediately turned around and saw a group of three orcs rushing in his direction, two of them were holding clubs while one had a slingshot. They had seemingly heard the orc Diedrich was battling and came to avenge it, or probably just to attack the human.
After 10 minutes all the orcs were dead, Diedrich had found out that his power and speed had increased tremendously and he could beat them to a pulp with just his fists, however, he preferred the spear, as it was less messy. He also found out that the orc with the slingshot was a slingshot orc and gave him eight points!!
Although they were a bit tricky to deal with as they were stronger than the regular orcs and shot from a range with rocks that were as big as a child's fist, however, he could still easily dodge them using the trees and his speed.
After killing them Diedrich took the pouch the slingshot orc used to store rocks and opted to use it as a small bag, although after emptying it he realised he didn't really have any belongings except the small black cube, although he also had two goblin knives he wanted to keep those at his side so the pouch was only filled with a small cubical black rock.
Diedrich kept hunting that day and had even found out where their lair was. It looked practically the same as the entrance of the goblin lair except that it was a bit bigger. Diedrich had also run into the orc warriors and was surprised to see that they were using swords made out of rock.
The sword looked extremely crude however it was a lot stronger than the spear. When Diedrich fought it, he once had to block with the spear which resulted in it being broken in half, so after killing the orc warrior with the goblin knifes he started using the stone sword.
At the end of the day, Diedrich had gathered an extra 400 HUNDRED POINTS!! , he had killed about 14 slingshot orcs, 40 orc warriors, and 49 regular orcs.
[Killed Common Orc + 3]
[Point score: 631✩✩✩]
Diedrich realised how more efficient it was hunting orcs than goblins as they gave way more points, during the fights Diedrich did notice that they seemed to be more intelligent than the goblins as they worked together, which made it more difficult for Diedrich in battles, however, it was still very rudimentary teamwork so it wasn't too much of a hassle.
When the sun began going down Diedrich was still energized and wanted to find one more orc to fight before they all retreated to their lair.
Luckily Diedrich was able to find a retreating common orc that was still a decent distance away from their camp. To make the fight more exciting and to test if he could knock out an orc by performing an uppercut he decided to not use his sword.
The fight went as expected and the orc got instantly knocked out with an uppercut, wanting to not dirty himself Diedrich got his sword to end the job, and just as he was about to stab the orc in its heart it suddenly woke up, grabbed Diedrich's pants and ripped it before it was sent to the black void.
[Killed Common Orc + 3]
"Ahh F*ck"
Diedrich cursed, his pants were now totally destroyed and if he hadn't had any underpants he would have been exposed.
Diedrich looked at the dead orc in anger, but quickly calmed himself as his pants would not have lasted long anyway as they already had plenty of rips in them from all the fighting he had done.
Looking once more at the orc and the beast skin it was wearing as pants he thought "Ahh why not".
Diedrich went to the orc and began taking off its pants while looking to the left the entire time not wanting to see its... business.
When Diedrich pulled the pants to the orc's knees he suddenly heard a sound on his right and quickly looked in that direction, only to see a slingshot orc looking at him wide eyed, shocked frozen.
They both looked each other in the eyes for a few seconds as an awkward atmosphere descended.
Diedrich gulped "Ehh, this is not what it seems okay"
The orc then became hysterical, quickly got one of his rocks and was just about to pull the slingshot when a knife was launched into its head.
[Killed Slingshot Orc + 8]
Diedrich carefully looked around, quickly put on the orc's pants and sprinted out of the place while thinking " No one will ever know".
It was now completely dark and all the orcs were retreating.
Not feeling tired yet, Diedrich decided to follow the orcs as they went back to their lair. Diedrich followed by hopping from tree to tree.
Diedrich now had the strength to cut down a tree with a few sword strikes and could punch one down if he spent 10 minutes straight doing so, so hopping from tree to tree was now no problem for him, except that it seemed very awkward, as every time he jumped he would hug the tree in order not to fall down.
Once finally close enough to see the lair of the orc's he saw that they were all huddled around it, in a circular manner.
Diedrich's eyes widened in horror when he saw the amount of them, Diedrich couldn't count them all however there were at least more than a few thousand, and after a few seconds Diedrich saw a bright light coming from the lair before another thousand or so orcs came out.
Diedrich already knew new creatures were spawned from what the system first said about the creation cubes, but he didn't expect that there were that many of them, so after being witness to the orc army Diedrich quickly went very far away, going to bed with anxiety.