The dragon's harem

Chapter 2113: There is an Imposter Among Them

As the orcs saw their entire military crumbling down to pieces, their only choice was to call for reinforcements from other planets, and so they set their communication to the sky. It was then that they saw it, a blinding orb of light. For a second, they thought the sun had ignited again, but they were wrong.

The orb of light flashed around the entire planet in seconds, ripped all of their satellites to pieces, and finally landed on one of their five moons, blinding everyone in the base they had set there. Luminous reached toward the base with her massive claw and gently broke the antenna above it. ”If I destroyed this place, you all would die.”

After crippling the orcs’ ability to communicate with other planets, Luminous flew back to the upper atmosphere and floated there, illuminating the half of the planet that Arad was on like a sun.

Arad had disarmed their entire weapon supply from the mines up to communication, shutting down their strongest weapons and paths of resistance in less than five minutes. It didn’t matter how powerful or advanced the orcs’ military was; they couldn’t hope to match the army of peace, let alone the angels of murder and greed on top. But to make it even worse for the orcs, Mathilde and the angels of the elves guarding Cerilla had also joined the fight alongside the drakainas who lived inside Arad’s stomach.

”Are you guys now willing to sit down and talk?” Arad glared at the orcs, and the general who brought him here approached. ”I doubt they can decide that. This is just one of many military bases. The higher-ups are spread around the entire globe, and this city is where they usually gather.”

Arad looked at her for a second and then looked to the side, where an angel immediately appeared, kneeling down. Even she didn’t know why she was kneeling; it was just that when Arad called, it felt like a heavier order than even the former goddess of peace.

As Arad was left alone with the orcs, he sighed and approached the woman who was still crying on the ground. ”Even when you know you’ll lose, you’ll still keep fighting. That is admirable, but there is a point where it just turns into stupidity.”

He healed her, and when she sat, forgetting to even cover herself, he gave her a sharp glare. ”Next time you pick a losing fight, remember that pain. There are very few things worth throwing your life away for, and a dying ideal is not one of them.”

He then turned and glared at her soldiers. ”Why do you keep fighting? Millions of you die each invasion; you’ve already turned into nothing more than a statistic. There had to be a point when you all realised that this won’t work.”

”If we don’t, then our entire race will starve to death.” One orc growled, and Arad approached him with a smile.

”Then, instead of invading other worlds, wouldn’t it have been better to trade with them? Or even to try fixing your destroyed world? You’re smart; you’ve got all of those machines, so why? Why choose the violent, hard, risky, and unproductive path?” Arad had to squat down to be able to look the orc soldier in the face. ”You were bound to hit a nasty world at some point; I’m certain that you’ve at least thought about it. What will you do when you hit a world far stronger than you, a world that can’t just fight back but invade you in retaliation?”

”It would...” The woman Arad slapped stood behind him, finally having covered herself. ”... put an end to our misery. We’re not invading other worlds just for their resources, but to trim our numbers, or even end our own existence.”

She approached, ”Our world had died, yet we still live, tortured by hunger. This is our fate; this is what the former orc god cursed us with.”

”Orc god... so you people still remember that he existed.” Arad scratched his chin, and one of the soldiers stared at them. ”That is just an ancient myth; gods don’t exist.”

The woman sighed, ”As you see, very few believe in such fantasies. Tell me, alien, who can speak our language, are gods real, or are they just strong, Super-class aliens?” She glared at him, ”You might not believe it, but what we orcs have been doing until now was just following the will of the orc god. We did realise that we messed up after killing him.”

”Following his will and waging war on the entire universe? He couldn’t have been that stupid; he should’ve known that it was a losing fight.” Arad sighed, and she shook her head. ”That’s why it is his curse on us. All outsiders, kill all the abominable outsiders. That was what he said.”

Arad froze for a second. ”Hold on, is that what he said?”

”...That is why we’re invading the alien worlds.” She replied with a puzzled face.

Something must’ve gone wrong somewhere, and after hearing that, Arad was certain that the orcs alone wouldn’t have ended up like this. Such an advanced civilisation, could they have crumbled this far without something pushing them to the edge?

Impossible, and at that very moment, he sent another sharp message across his void to reach all of the angels. ”There has to be an abomination or more hiding somewhere in this world.”

Hearing that, all angels and dragons shifted their strategy on the spot. While the orcs’ weapons couldn’t harm them, an abomination was a whole other level of danger, which they could not afford to ignore, no matter what.

Looking back at it, Arad should’ve guessed this from the start. The way the orcs were acting was far more similar to the abominations than to other races. Going from one world to another to consume everything... only an abomination could come up with such a thing.

Are they trying to say that the mortals of the universe and the abominations are the same when pushed to the limit? Are they trying to condition them for what they are planning? Arad didn’t know, but he wasn’t going to let whatever plan they came up with work.

^{I don’t know anything about an abomination here. Even if I’m an avatar of Nyar, I don’t have all of his memories; my mind is physically not built for that.}^

Arad stood and cracked his fists. ”Well, that doesn’t matter anymore. The orcs aren’t parasites; they never were and will never be. I’ll fix this world of theirs and show them that reality isn’t that fragile. No matter how far it falls, there is always a way back up.”

Nyar’s avatar inside his head laughed. ^{You’re welcome to try, but I’m sure this world can be saved. Just, if you find that abomination, catch them alive so we can get some information out.}^