Chapter 19 : Set-up (3)

"Portals… I hate them… It makes your senses go haywire…"

"You could just walk here next time Smith!"

"Hell naw! I mean traveling for 4 hours is not my thing… "

A group of Returnees are currently running around, making a makeshift human barricade. A week after starting Eli's training, I figure she's… adequate to come along.

"But still Nate, I gotta say, this is a very good solution…"

We're currently building a barricade below a giant portal.

"It's not easy delaying portals… But I'm glad it worked out in the end…"

It's true. Closing off this dimension is easy… you just have to either hide it, or my solution: make a barrier so strong that even if a supernova explodes, It won't budge…

"But I had to say nate… this portal is… the biggest we have ever recorded…"

"Portal sizes don't correspond to the power of the being that will cross over… It just shows how much mastery one have over space… "

"... But doesn't that make it more dangerous? I mean a big portal can bring in an army, while a human sized one can only bring an individual…"

"... one of me, or a thousand of Orcs… you choose…"

"Ten thousand Orcs thank you …"

Good choice, I did annihilate all Orcs… accidentally… they're a fun bunch to be honest… shame their stupidity is not infectious….

"So, Nate… I have a couple of questions…"

"Shoot away!"

"Is this gate dangerous?"

"Nope."

Well for me it's not.

"And WHY IS ELI HERE?"

"Oh… it's going to be her first combat!"

"Eh? You sure?"

"Well yeah! I've been training her for 1 year!"

"You meant one week, right?"

"Oh, you didn't notice? Time dilation! Genius right? Well not time dilation in the common sense, it's just that I make her preserve 1 second as 1 minute. So she's technically feeling everything… differently… So I have time to train her magic! "

"... !? WHAT KIND OF PSYCHO ARE YOU!? SHE DIDN'T GO INSANE RIGHT!?"

Smith.exe has crashed, restart is needed….

"Oh, nope, I'm with her every part of the way! There's no way to train her body in that short amount of time so I just skipped it and went the magic route!"

"OK LISTEN HERE NAT–"

A huge shockwave burst out of the portal, as whatever Smith's saying is drowned by the sound of battle cries…. And who would have thought! Walking Exps! I meant Orcs!

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The amount of Orc that dropped down from the portal increases, it seems to be a bit less than 50,000. That's a small number… It filled the town square with green humanoids…

"Puny humans! Bow down to ORC KING GUNAWA! "

"GUNAWA!""GUNAWA!""GUNAWA!"

Ah Orcs… dumb as bricks… but if a king emerges… these dumb bricks can be turned into legions in no time..

*Thud, thud*

The air shook, as a gigantic figure descended from the air, as a green giant was walking in the air… it's a shoulder taller than all other orcs, with a more decorated armor… and a crown? Really?

Sound of shield being pounded by hands resounded as the King descends.

"I shall give you the chance to surrender, and I, King Gunawa, shall spare all females…"

Oi oi oi what about gender equality?

"I'll count to 10"

"1…"

"PFFFT! HAHAHAHAHA!"

"HAHAHHAHA!"

One of us laughed, and then another, and then another.

"Oh? What's so funny, humans? This magmous self shall allow you to explain the joke!"

"REALLY? MAGMOUS? HAHAHA! Did you know who you're messing with ORC?"

"Hufff…"

The Orc king disappeared, then reappeared in front of the man that laughed. He bring down the blade, as it passed through the man… bissect— not. The blade snapped.

"!?!?!?"

"STUPID ORC!"

"HAHAHAH!"

"YEAH RIGHT!"

"OI OI OI NEWBIES COME HERE! I HAVE A PARTY SYSTEM! I'LL LEVEL YOU GUYS UP!"

They formed parties.

"Oi… Orc King!"

I approached the king. Who's still bewildered.

"Tell me, Did you open the portal?"

"... I've conquered my —"

*SLAP* I think I used too much power as his lower jaw is now dislocated.

"My question is, Did you open the portal?"

The king looked at me with fear… but he didn't nod, instead he shook his head…

"Then you're useless to me."

I walked back to the formation.

"Remember guys! Their Blood and P**** is a good alchemy item… for obvious reasons…"

"OH YEAH!"

"S***! I ALMOST USED A FIREBALL!"

"So… how do we suck the blood out?"

"Can't we just castrate them and then store the blood somewhere?"

They begin discussing themselves, ignoring the orc's who're trying to get back into the portal… sadly, I've grounded them… no one can fly when I declare so…

"Nate, Nate!"

"Yeah…"

"Can I fight them?"

A little ball of energy tugs my pants and asks me with expectant eyes.

"... One spell."

"EHHHH!"

"Is Eli a selfish girl?"

"No! Eli is not selfish!"

"Then only one spell! Or else the big brothers and aunts cannot use their spells!"

"... ok… Eli understands!"

I held up a hand, as everybody was silenced and was looking towards me...

"Orcs, let's play a game…"

I said as I 'grabbed' the portal above me, and I moved it towards the east of the city, towards the wilderness…

"I've helped you by lowering the portal… the goal? Easy! Get inside the portal before you die."

My smile grew, so did the returnees… I knew these bastards are as deprived as I am…

"I'll count to 10!"

"1… 10!"

*BOOOM*

A ball of electricity that's 5 meters wide is conjured by Eli, and thrown into the crowd… the lucky ones die with their bodies intact… the unlucky ones disappear… And with that the bloodbath begins… well it should be referred to as a one way slaughter…

"Nate…"

"Yeah…"

"What did you do to Eli…?"

"... Nothing… I didn't ask her to… start the massacre… But it seems that she subconsciously understands that everything non-human is hostile… something I have to… correct…"

"Eh? What do you mean?"

"It seems that Ethan had not been a good father… he didn't teach Eli why he kills people… and Eli, with her innocent mind, may have learnt a thing or two from ethan…"

"Then… how are you going to… teach her?"

After casting the spell, I see Eli flying above observing everything…

"I found out recently that her comprehension is… somewhat special… as she can easily comprehend intangible things… like how people should socialize, how people fight, how to cast spells… I can understand why Ethan is wary of Eli…"

"..."

I spoke my mind, as Smith is next to me… taking in what I just said…

"Does that makes her–"

"No… at least not entirely… I think you may have figured it out too, but Eli is Eli. not the witch that Ethan killed. They may have the same soul, but it's not isekai… it's normal reincarnation… "

"*sigh*... So what now?"

"I don't know… I'm not the best parent… I've done things I'm not proud of…"

"So have I Nate… So have I…"

No you have not killed off an entire species, nor destroyed a country or two. Might I add a moon?

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The battle ended in precisely 10 minutes… it took a bit of time just because we wanted to keep the damage to the city to a minimum… it's still Oak Polis after all…

"So… How did Eli do?"

"Eli did great!"

"Yay!"

I patted her head… I know it's wrong but… this world is cruel… It's better to be the one holding the gun than the one who's getting pointed at.

"BUT!"

"Ehhh?"

"There's still some things you can improve on!"

I then immediately started my lecture… Her mana core has been developed, and everyday I make her empty her mana by casting nature element spells, it causes the 'park' to grow way out of proportions. And it seems that the record for world's tallest tree is ours… I hear that there's a plan to make it into a permanent residential tree… whatever that means…

"Nate!"

"Yes?"

"We've always been practicing magic!"

She seems to be a bit fidgety as she said this.

"So… Can you teach me how to use this instead!"

She shows me Ethan's blade…

"*sigh* It's not that I don't want to teach you… But you're not ready!"

"Huh!? No way!!"

"Yes way!"

"WHY!?"

"Because your body still cannot handle your reactions Eli!"

"!?"

Eli looked sad at my explanation!

"But…. Everyday, after emptying mana, we can finally play tag, hide and seek, or football!"

"Really !?"

It seems that Eli likes sports… more than magic… which kind of makes me sad… but I'm not complaining if she's getting better everyday!

We started playing tag

"Tag you're it!"

As I ran just a bit faster than Eli, currently Eli's speed is still peak human, hence I get the other's into this game… Smith's the obvious target…

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"Nate…"

"Yeah…"

"I understand what you're trying to do… but how's this training?"

We're currently invisible, and slowly following behind Eli, we're playing hide and seek.

"I casted deafen, and invisibility… I'm training her tracking skills…"

"And this will help her how?"

Yeah… how did it help her? Oh well I'll think about it later…

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