"Hakurou, how scary."
Ogerpon looked at the blood foam on the ground, her expression full of disgust.
"Ah, my apologies, my apologies."
Hakurou looked a bit embarrassed. After all, Ogerpon was still an 'underage' girl.
Letting her see such a gruesome scene was indeed inappropriate.
"Actually, isn't it no longer our turn?"
Ogerpon glanced around. With the intervention of the Purple Corps, the Orc Tribe was being wiped out at an alarming pace.
"Gelmud-sama!!"
On the other side, Gabiru used the openings created by Shion and the others to pinpoint Gelmud's location.
"Why?"
"Why would you do this?"
"Are you really going to abandon the Lizardmen race?"
"So annoying!!"
Gelmud had tolerated this idiot Gabiru for far too long.
The guy simply couldn't read the situation, utterly stupid.
"Kill him for me!"
"Orc Lord!!"
With that, Gelmud set his sights on Gabiru, who was charging through the Orc Tribe.
The guy was, after all, a monster Gelmud had personally named.
If the Orc Lord devoured him, it would surely bring in more magicules.
"What?"
Following Gelmud's order, the Orc Tribe army in front of Gabiru parted to form a path.
And ahead of him, the massive and imposing figure of the Orc Lord finally came into Gabiru's view.
"Orc Lord!!!"
At the sight of the Orc Lord, Gabiru threw everything else aside, raised his trident, and charged forward.
A huge surge of water gathered on his trident, forming a water dragon that wrapped around him and hurled itself at the Orc Lord with great force.
"Clang!!"
But facing Gabiru's desperate strike, the Orc Lord's response was absurdly simple.
He merely lifted the axe in his hand, and Gabiru's attack disappeared without a trace, as if flowing into the sea.
"What?"
Water splashed, and Gabiru's pupils shrank.
He wanted to retreat, but his body was already locked in place by the Orc Lord's killing intent. There was no escape.
The Orc Lord stretched out his other hand, the one not holding a weapon, and grabbed Gabiru by the neck, lifting the thin Lizardman high into the air.
"Mmm mmm mmm~"
Gabiru struggled with all his might, but the feeling of suffocation wrapped around him like a spiderweb.
The trident fell from his hand. All he could do was instinctively kick and flail at the Orc Lord.
"Pfft!"
But the Orc Lord completely ignored Gabiru's desperate flailing, opened his gaping maw, and bit down on Gabiru's shoulder.
"Ah!!!"
The next moment, with the sound of bones crunching and blood splattering, amidst Gabiru's suppressed scream, the Orc Lord bit down and tore off his shoulder, swallowing the entire arm in one gulp.
But that wasn't the end.
After the arm, came the pelvis and then the leg.
At this point, Gabiru was like a cookie. First the top right, then the bottom right was bitten off.
In just two bites, half of Gabiru's body had become the Orc Lord's meal.
"Whoosh!"
Just as Gabiru fell into despair, a crimson figure dashed in from outside the gorge.
The nearly dead Gabiru only saw a flash of blood-red light.
In the next moment, the Orc Lord's hand that had been gripping Gabiru was sliced off at the wrist by an invisible blade.
"Thud!"
"Thud thud!"
The unexpected attack forced the Orc Lord to take several steps back.
He looked at his severed wrist, then turned to see the newcomer.
It was a girl, around sixteen or seventeen.
She had long black hair, wore azure armor, and had a pair of dragon horns on her head that glowed with a sky-blue light, illuminating the dark battlefield.
"Gurgle gurgle~"
The Orc Lord's wrist twitched, and almost instantly, the severed hand regenerated.
"You are..."
Gabiru lay on the ground, barely hanging on.
"I won't let you die in the mouth of this monster."
"The sins you've committed," Souka looked at Gabiru with extremely cold eyes, "I will be the one to judge them."
Gabiru's death was already certain.
This traitorous son who committed patricide, the sinner who led the Lizardmen into their current crisis, had to answer to both the tribe and to Rin.
"You are!!"
From above, Gelmud, floating in mid-air, sensed the magicule aura radiating from Souka and exclaimed, "That female Lizardman from back then!"
"How is this possible?!"
"How did you become like this?!"
Souka's current appearance differed greatly from the original events.
Because of her own greed, she was not saved by Souei, but was guided by Rin to become one of his subordinates.
This allowed her evolution to be more complete, transforming from a Lizardman into the current Dragon King, with authority over the skies, storms, thunder, and day and night.
"You, you deserve to die even more!!"
If Gabiru was just a deluded fool, then Gelmud was the true enemy who had murdered her father.
Seeing him made Souka want to tear him into ten thousand pieces.
"They came that fast?"
Elsewhere, Shion and the other Oni noticed Souka's arrival.
And not just her. Even more dragons had joined the battlefield.
Although their appearances had changed drastically, the magicule signatures had not.
So, after a brief moment of confusion and hesitation, the Lizardmen recognized them.
"Tsk."
Shion clicked her tongue and reluctantly gave the order, "Hold back your power for now. Protecting the Lizardmen comes first."
The situation had changed.
Previously, the Lizardmen had nothing to do with the Monster Nation. Whether they lived or died didn't matter.
But now, with Souka and the others appearing, it meant the Lizardmen had officially joined Rin's command.
They were comrades now, and Shion and the Oni could no longer treat them like outsiders.
"Everyone, gather here!!"
The Four Great Dragon Kings stood between the Lizardmen and the Orc Tribe army. They didn't use any offensive skills.
Instead, they raised their arms, forming an invisible barrier that blocked the Orc Tribe's advance.
"What the hell is going on?!"
"Dragons?!"
"Where did these dragons in the forest come from?!"
Gelmud couldn't understand it. He had no idea where this group of dragons had appeared from.
And Souka!
How could that female Lizardman evolve into this form in such a short time?!
In Gelmud's eyes, the magicules coming off of Souka already exceeded his own.
How could he not be shocked, not be afraid?
"Orc Lord!!"
And when he saw Souka shift her focus onto him, Gelmud was almost scared out of his mind.
(To be continued.)