Orcs have their own shamanic culture of tattooing.
Shamans mix ingredients in a cauldron, boil them down, and apply the resulting dye to the skin for magical significance.
However, the process of tattooing requires the skin to be exposed, which means you can't wear armor, which reduces your defense.
Some barbarian orc tribes wore no armor to get the most out of their tattooing, but Kran, the High Shaman of the Orcs, thought this was inefficient.
Thus, war monsters who did not need 'armor' became the target.
First, to the war boars, then to the foolish trolls, then to the ogres and giants that were beaten and subjugated.
But the conclusion was the same.
'Why not just armor them?'
It was an effective spell in the Age of Barbarism, as it was no easy task to supply armor to the orcs, who lacked the skills to smelt it.
But as the orcs unified their tribes and lost repeatedly to the Lionheart in large-scale battles, they gradually realized the importance of smelting and began to seek out armor next to their large, heavy axes.
"Then why not armor them with natural armor?"
This is how the Great Rock Face was born. This orc-made golem was carved out of a huge rock, heavily applied with tattoo dye, and controlled remotely by orc shamans, making it the ultimate war weapon for the Orc shamans.
And the orcs greatest weapon of war, the Great Rock Face, is the highest level spell that can only be cast by a high-ranking shaman. There are fifty of them.
That means there are fifty high-ranking shamans here──
"Gararararara──!!"
-Bang! Bang!
The giant rocks are smashed into pieces. Even those weighing thousands of tons and with spell-reinforced surfaces were shattered in front of the flying monster wielding flames.
"Huh-- Monstrous!"
The orc shamans gritted their teeth as they watched the large rock faces they had painstakingly crafted being smashed one after another.
"What a monster. He far surpasses that old knight."
As Maghar, Champion of Gokrok, watched, he remembered a time when he and his warriors had raided the Lionheart Kingdom at the behest of the Empire.
The Holy Knight Jerea, the Knight of Dreams and Death, was said to be the weakest of the Holy Knights, but how many of his orc brethren had perished at his hands.
Maghar hated the strength of the Holy Knights, but this one was exceptionally strong.
[Beware, he would have destroyed Lionheart if not for the Lionheart King]
That was Rigardo, the Beast Gods' warlord assessment of Vulcanus, and Maghar realized that it was not lacking.
Vulcanus is a monster of the ages, one of the most powerful Holy Knights of all time, and his power is more than powerful, it is unreasonable, a scourge.
"But I am also a champion of the gods. I cannot back down."
Maghar used the spell of the Shaman God Gokrok.
"Mm---?!"
Vulcanus, who had been flying through the orc legions, smashing one golems after another, saw his next target, a golem, being dragged somewhere.
It wasn't the only one. The dozens of Big Faces he had destroyed were merging into one.
"What, he's gotten pretty big, huh?"
It was a great spell that can only be achieved by becoming Gokrok champion. When the large rock faces, which were already over 50m in height, merged together, a very large rock face approaching 2 km in length appeared.
At this point, the mass was so large that the group would collapse just by walking on it.
"Hah! Bringing all the weird stuff."
Vulcanus chuckled and stared up at the supergiant golem, which reached into the clouds.
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It advanced toward the Lionheart Federation, tearing up the terrain with its forward motion alone.
"Stop it!"
"Holy shit, how the hell does that thing move!?"
Hunters and mages with ranged weapons opened fire on the golem. They weren't the only ones.
-Target On.
Air Force fighter jets from the Korean Peninsula and the Yellow Coast launch air-to-air missiles, followed by a barrage of surface-to-surface missiles from the Army's range rockets.
Combined with the firepower of the Kikiruk soldiers, the firepower was reminiscent of a carpet bombing.
-We're in position. We're engaging.
And the Orc Federal Army is also supported by the Air Force and Army. A spectacular aerial battle between Air Force fighter jets taking place in the skies above Shanhaiguan lights up the sky.
-Missile bombardment approaching. Knights prepare to deploy ranged shields. 10---9---8───2---! Deploy!
Ballistic missiles exploding with hundreds of kilograms of explosives burst from all sides of the battlefield.
"Crazy---The day has come when ballistic missiles are used to hit infantry!"
The commanders of the South Korean Armed Forces, the Self-Defense Forces, and the U.S. military, who were watching, were tongue-tied at the completely different concept of missile use.
However, the baptism of fire didn't seem to take any noticeable toll on the orcs.
"But it's nothing compared to the infernal fire of the Demon Realm."
If the humans had their supreme knights represented by the Holy Knights, the orcs had a group of warriors called the Black Orcs.
Each one a quasi-S-class Hunter, they were the warriors of reversal, overcoming the onslaught of the demon realm to destroy their continent.
Like the Knights of the Lionheart, they had the deceptive skill of Ranged Nullification.
[Orc Warrior's Heat Immunity triggers]
[Orc Warlord's Ailment Immunity triggers]
[Orc corps commander's unbreakable fighting spirit is activated.]
[The overflowing power of the Black Orc Centurion of Battle God Helkan is activated.]
The Lionheart's veteran knights have also joined in, and there are already thousands of trait messages flying in from the system window.
Even if you gathered all the Hunters in the world, you wouldn't get a tenth of this.
"Super giant golem coming!"
And in the midst of the din of battle, a super-giant golem summoned by Maghar, Champion of Gokrok, reaches the Lionheart Federation.
"BALTAN BURNING SWORD KNIGHTS! BALLSWORD!"
"Stab!"
Wielding the flames of Petos, the god of war and fire, these warriors are unrivaled in firepower.
-Kaaaaaah!
A wave of flames so huge that it could drown out the entire battlefield, raining down on the super-giant golem.
-Kugung!
The super-giant golem was dazed by the immense flames. The aftermath of the flames was powerful enough to incinerate the surrounding orcs.
"Hide behind the big rock face!"
"Their firepower is not limitless! The moment the Big Rock Face steps on their formation, we will charge at once!"
Even the orcs fear the Holy Law of the Lionheart Knights. Moreover, the number of divine power users still favored by the gods is overwhelmingly on the side of the TTG Temple.
That side is full of Hunters who have been baptized by Leon.
-Crackle!
As the Big Rock Face finally advanced against the Burning Sword Knights' Holy Law Link, the Kikiruk warriors shouted into their radios. At that moment, there was a movement in space.
-The Space Integrated Armament Platform broke out of stealth mode.
Yappy Space Battlecruiser, which had unleashed a baptism of charged particle cannons on the main orc settlement in Central China in the early days of the war revealed its true form after a three-day hiatus.
-Removed from invisibility mode. Mobius-class charged particle cannon dropped to effective range.
The most powerful offensive satellite ever to emerge from the far reaches of space to avoid detection and interception by the orc shamans of the Orc Gods descends to geostationary orbit as it concentrates its energy.
As the power focus ends, the satellite arrives in geostationary orbit and fires its charged particle cannon.
-Kaaaaaah!
It breaks through the troposphere in a flash and slammed into the crown of the supergiant golem's head.
-Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack!
A powerful beam of protons from the Mobius-class charged particle cannon melted the golem's crown.
"Oh no---!"
Maghar felt a sense of defeat.
"Enchant the golem, now!"
He was using Gokrok's main power on the super-giant golem and was able to block the Burning Sword Knights' combo but was no match for the Holy Knight of Iron Stellar Iron Satellite Cannon.
The orc shamans hastily enchanted the super-giant golem, but the firepower of the Mobius-class Stardust Cannon, forged by the Holy Knight of Iron, far exceeded their defenses.
-Kwazik! Kwazik!
The giant golem melted from the crown of its head. The moment it was finally destroyed, the heat from the charged particle cannon on the ground scorched the orcs everywhere.
At the same time──
"I am---! Vulcanus!!!"
Vulcanus flew through the blinding flash of light and leaped toward Maghar with a mighty shower of flames.
Maghar is unable to parry the flaming holy swords he wields.
"------I have failed."
Vulcanus' holy sword comes down on Maghar's throat.
-Thwack!
But a white wolf blocked it.
"------You!"
"It's been a long time, my friend."
Rigardo, the Warlord of the Beast Gods, blocked Vulcanus' holy sword with his bare hands as it swung toward Maghar.
"GRARARA---! You're still alive, Rigardo!"
"You betrayed your tribe, and you deserve to die."
Rigardo slammed his iron fist down on Vulcanus.
With a dizzying thud, Vulcanus' massive frame crashed into the center of the orc army.
"Kill him!"
Axes and hammers rained down from all sides but Vulcanus rose to his feet, ignoring the orcs' assault.
"You're a little tougher than before."
"The gods have given me all the power since you disappeared."
The giant raven swooped down and snatched Vulcanus up. Talons clamped around his shoulders, preventing him from swinging his holy sword. Rigardo soared into the sky, letting go just as Vulcanus was about to consume him with flames.
"Hmph---!"
Holy Descent is still active. At the time when Vulcan was about to fly away, spraying flames, Rigardo grew in size through complete transformation into an iron giant.
"Hooo---!"
"Greetings, my friend, and now die!"
Even the flames spewed by Vulcanus are not enough to stop him, and he strikes Vulcanus down from the sky.
At the same time, a green flash erupts from the ground. The beam soars into space, striking a satellite in geostationary orbit.
-13.7% damage to integrated weapons platform. Evasive maneuvers initiated. Retaliatory strike launched. Launching stardust bolts.
-Block their view. Don't waste any nuclear missiles.
The heat on the battlefield was accelerating like crazy.
Until this land is no more.
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"Crazy------"
Everyone who was watching the battle taking place at Shanhaiguan was astonished.
Pre-modern hand-to-hand combat, epic artillery battle with modern firepower weapons, it was a crowded battlefield where the decisive battle weapons of the future century came together with knights and warriors favored by the gods.
Stellar iron bombs falling from space are accelerated into orbit and hit the ground with a physical force that surpasses nuclear weapons, and charged particle cannons with Yappy's technology scatter protons everywhere with holy laws.
Nuclear warheads fired in retaliation cause artificial suns and mushroom clouds to erupt here and there, and the gaze of the Shaman God pierces the atmosphere.
Attacks that wouldn't be out of place if they wiped out an entire city are unleashed as if they were passive. The biggest bombshell of the battlefield is the Holy Knight and the Beast Gods Champion clash.
"If you don't have the protection of the Holy Law--- you won't last a second in a place like this ------"
"This place is already killing life… How do they fight in a place like that?"
Inwardly, they thought it was a pre-modern "barbaric fight."
After the Age of the Hunters, the world realized that swords and magic were more effective at the Gate than modern weaponry.
But the world is still not ruled by Hunters, and not just because of their long-held sense of the rule of law and democracy.
Hunters can't defeat armies. They are in the minority. Even if you put all the Hunters in the world together, they only amount to a few million units.
After all, they're only human, and they'll be killed by a tank's gun, and no matter how strong they are, they'll melt in the face of a missile.
And if nuclear weapons are involved, it's already beyond superhuman strength.
But------
Swords slice through the air, spells travel through space, and firepower bursts here and there that could destroy a city in the blink of an eye.
The battlefield between the Knights and the Orcs at Shanhaiguan shattered all the common sense that humanity had built up until now.
In this insane battlefield, where even nuclear weapons are used to blind you with flashes of explosion rather than firepower, the only thing that matters is the blade of a human hand?
"This is it--- Lionheart. This--- the orcs."
The knights of Lionheart and the Black Orcs of Murka Balak.
No matter how far human civilization advances in the future, the battle between these monsters will always be several dimensions above.