Eldritch Creature's Guide

"They started escaping... should we pursue them?"

Juulius asked when he saw that the remnants of the gnolls had already started escaping, seeing that there was no point in prolonging the fight anymore, as approximately 80% of their enormous pack was destroyed in this fight by the orks, while the orks didn't have almost any losses because the gnolls were too weak to kill them en masse.

Their overall losses were in the tens, which was a splendid result. These were the excellent results and fortunately, with enough luck, they would be able to repeat this several times over, essentially provoking the biggest gnoll packs into attacking them, then they would just head out and clean out what remained from the gnolls.

"Listen her' ya git's! Start clean the battlefield!"

Dharzug shouted to the Ork Boyz, as they immediately carried out his orders with much more enthusiasm than ever because they saw that his "weird" and unorthodox strategies brought them to victory in the waaaggghhh as they massacred thousands of gnolls against whom they were warring for a long time already.

Not to mention, they would have a feast for upcoming days from all of those gnoll corpses because the ork cuisine was literarily eating what you kill. Naturally, Juulius wouldn't be eating gnolls, as he found just the notion of eating those creatures disgusting...

Nevertheless, they won the battle and needed to prepare for more because they needed to reach Bone Mountain as soon as possible because it was the sole area where his Lord would go after finding someplace to hide and rest.

***

Juulius got to witness a true orkish feast as they ate the baked or roasted gnoll corpses, which looked pretty much disgusting to him, as he ate some food inside his dimensional ring. Naturally, eating the most wasn't the sole thing in the ork feasts.

There was a variety of competitions in eating, drinking and fighting. Orks competed against each other to see who could eat the most in the shortest time or who could eat the most during the entire feast. Then they had a drinking competition where they drank their fungus beer or blood of the killed enemies.

And the last sort of competition were the fighting ones because a lot of fighting was among the orks during the feast. There were countless combat-based competitions for the orks, or they just found out because they were competing in something and one of the participants accused the other ones of cheating and they resolved it through the duel to the death...

Juulius just scoffed at the barbarism orks as she continued eating the dinner that he had from his dimensional ring and preparing other strategies to deal with the gnolls that were still in the underground valley before they would be moving towards the Bone Mountains.

He saw that there were several pathways that were leading to the direction of the Bone Mountains. Dharzug got into fisting against one of the Nobz and started punching the smaller ork to death because he offended him in some way... while it would be problematic for the horde to lose another Silver-Tier Professional, Juulius also knew that the Nobz were previously the loyalists to the old boss.

While they accepted the results of the mak'gora, they would still feel some resentment and while the ork race wasn't the greatest schemers, they could be pretty mean and backstabbing at certain times and situations.

So it was better to kill those who had some backside intentions right now than just let them be and backstab them during some crucial time when they would be able to make an absolute mess.

Approximately two days later, they managed to fend off another of the gnoll packs of roughly eight thousand gnolls, who were killed like the previous ones, with minimal losses sustained during the siege. During the past two days, Juulius managed to upgrade the fortifications of the fort based on the trial of fire from the last attack of the gnolls.

This repeated once more as they were attacked by another and the last of the gnoll packs that were active in the underground valley after they were provoked by them. With this done, essentially any coherent resistance of gnolls against the ork advance was destroyed even before it could properly begin.

They naturally looted the equipment, weapons and armors from the kobolds and now the orks under Dharzug's command were perfectly armed, mostly wearing armors from bottom to head and nothing was harder to kill than an enraged ork wearing thick metal armor.

Right now, they were marching to clean up the remnants of the gnolls that still remained in the underground valley before they would be moving toward the Bone Motunaisn. Dharzug and Juulius had already sent a whole bunch of scouts through the tunnels to see if some of them was indeed leading toward the Bone Mountains.

If they found a pathway, they could enter their destination without going through the deserts of Sikarra and could comfortably travel underground. That would be more suitable and easier than just going through the scorching heat of the 10th Floor.

After several attempts by gnolls to conquer their fort, all of the gnoll packs were broken beyond any salvation; thousands of them were slaughtered mercilessly and effortlessly, the orks made short work out of them during these attempts to attack.

Right now, the gnolls that were surviving in this place were mainly the survivors from the biggest packs that failed their attacks on the ork fort and were basically just scraping around and licking their wounds.

Many of them were already seriously injured from the previous battle, and they were thus by no means of putting any kind of resistance against the incoming orkish horde, which was in perfect condition.

The entire operation took one day as they managed to clear the entire underground valley in this place, killing all of the gnolls and looting everything that the gnolls hoarded in their hideouts. This allowed Juulius to redistribute the resources and equipment among the ork Boyz.

Not to mention all of the resources they obtained as they were right now preparing to entire the underground pathways and arrive at the Bone Mountains. Ironically though, the Orks didn't have any problem with moving to the Bone Mountains, as they were promised waaaggghhh.

Their simple-minded was actually a good thing in this because just after a few words of promise for waaaggghhh they were able to convince the entire ork horde of several thousand orks to move across the entire outskirts of the deserts of Sikarra... it was the foolish notion to everyone else because this place was like heaven on earth considering the conditions of the 10th Floor and finding something similar like this underground valley would be night impossible.

***

One day later, after another feast where the orks ate and drank like there was no tomorrow, the horde of approximately four thousand and some hundreds of orks started moving toward the direction of the Bone Mountains after the scouts returned with the information that the passages were safe... or at least as safe as they could get.

Juulius and Dharzug were on the helm of the marching ork horde as they led them through the tunnels of the underground system. They were already been walking through this underground tunnel for several hours, till now, without any result or any perspective, not even knowing where it would take them.

However, Juulius knew that they were heading in the right direction due to his Ability which allowed him to scan his surroundings.

Though aside from the encounter with some underground dwellers, these pathways were essentially empty and relatively safe, if one wasn't counting the empty paths or natural traps here.

When they were walking for a good twelve hours, Dharzug was already complaining to his human companion because he was already bored from this and there wasn't any action. Many of the other orks were for sure bearing similar thoughts in their minds, albeit they would never voice them out of loud due to their place in the hierarchy.

Not to mention, they knew that the human whom their boss was traveling with was much stronger than them and if there was one thing that the orks knew very well aside from killing and destroying everything around them, it was respecting the strong, especially those who were stronger than themselves.

In the end, this was something on what the entire orkish society and their kultur were built on. Still, Juulius just shook his head in mild amusement because he already knew that they were nearing the exit of the pathway. He sensed several powerful, potentially hostile auras guarding the entrance, which was approximately ten kilometers away from their current location.

"You would be delighted to hear that we are nearing the exit... and there are several potentially hostile auras; some of them are pretty powerful."

Juulius stated as the newly crowned ork boss revealed a savage grin over his face, hearing that the battle was soon to come, readying his weapons together with the rest of the orks behind him, mimicking his action as they sped up in their tempo.

With the orks speeding up, it didn't take them long to arrive at the exit or the entrance, depending on the point of view as they saw who was guarding the entrance to the underground pathways.

It was a whole bunch of Vampires, meaning that they were already in the Bone Mountains because, from some of the notes they found at the gnoll camps, they found out that Vampires were one of the major powerhouses in the Bone Mountain Range.

"We will be arriving soon... prepare for the combat."

Juulius stated because he knew that the vampires were essentially their enemies, so there was only one option which was combat. Naturally, even if they weren't their enemies, then the orks would be made them so because Okrs were thirsty for some blood and waaaggghhh and wanted to slaughter something after walking around for several hours.

It didn't take them a long time to arrive at the end of their destination because from the moment the orks were promised of waaaggghhh, they ran like their very own lives depended on it and the entire ork horde was moving along at tremendous speed, which was actually fascinating to watch.

"Listen her ya gits! Now we gonna smush a bat skullas! Waaaggghhh!!!!"

Dharzug roared at his orkish followers, which in turn roared back at him as they started pouring out of the exits that led to the Bone Mountains as they roared for the blood and flesh of their enemies.

Meanwhile, in this, Juulius decided to stay back and just enjoy the show because he didn't wish to be caught in that mess. It was clear that the ork entered their battle-frenzy state and when that happened, he wanted to be nowhere near them.