Orcium led his legion, wanting to be the first to tear apart the different scarabs and serpent-men, they were twice as large as the orcs, but they still died like flies.

  Once the walls were slick with green blood, the warriors gathered.

  Orcium, still with his weapons dripping in blood, turned to the only Geomancer who had accompanied them into the bowels of the earth to serve as their guide.

  "Alright. Where are the rest of these rats hiding?"

  The Geomancer used geolocation.

  "Now that I’m down here, it’s much easier to recognize the different tunnels."

  The Geomancer released a surge of aura as he strained to comprehend the underground terrain for kilometers around.

  "They've been digging far more than we thought. There are many tunnels being built that we didn’t even know existed. However, all the creatures are retreating to a large cavity far from here. There is a vast chamber and, from what my senses tell me, a massive army has gathered there along with the creatures that retreated."

  Victoria, at that moment, stepped forward.

  "That means they all know we’re here, right? And, they don’t attack us or surround us through the other tunnels? They all retreated into a single chamber?"

  Victoria looked at Orcium, seeking some words from her friend.

  "Yes, this is strange. Normally, these creatures happily throw themselves at massacring us. Well, no point wondering what’s going through their heads. Now let’s destroy them where they think they are safe."

  The orc warriors and Victoria set off toward the main chamber.

  The Geomancer grew paler as they approached the giant underground chamber.

  "My commanders, before I wasn’t able to tell what it was they were defending in the underground chamber; however, now I realize: there is a huge magical device and, from how fiercely the magic stirs within it, it must be a large-scale explosive element."

  Orcium frowned.

  "Planning to blow us up, cowards? They couldn’t face us head-on and win, and now they want magic to do the job."

  Orcium spat on the ground, visibly annoyed.

  "But now the plans of those insidious rats will fail, because we are here."

  The orc warriors grew excited upon hearing those words, raising their spirits.

  Victoria took that moment to suggest the battle plan.

  "Considering that the chamber has that enormous circular hollow where this magical device is, and the enemies are stationed in a circle surrounding it, the best thing would be to concentrate our attack on a single point, with us as the spearhead."

  Victoria, at that moment, also had a role for the Geomancer.

  "When we enter, we’ll be vulnerable from the rear. To avoid that, I want you to collapse the back area of the cave through which we’ll enter."

  "But, my lady, if we do that, we’ll be cutting off our only line of retreat."

  Victoria looked at him and gave him a disturbing smile.

  "Yes, but it’s better to have a pile of rocks behind you than another enemy waiting to stab you. Besides, from the beginning, there’s no alternative but to win. The only way to get out of here alive is to kill all those bastards."

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  The orcs laughed.

  "Well said, Commander Victoria. As she says, we have to eliminate all those bastards if we want to get out."

  As they went deeper into the depths, the cave slowly grew larger, to where the legion no longer needed to march in line to keep advancing, until they finally reached the doors of the underground chamber.

  "Geomancer, collapse the tunnel behind us."

  Victoria approached the door.

  She planned to make a grand entrance. A massive orb of blood formed above her.

  Orcium also approached the door. Together, they were one of the most powerful forces of último Bastión: a rank-seven berserker, legendary-tier, and a blood mage of the same level.

  "I’ll leave the honors to you."

  Orcium smiled, showing his typical fierce look.

  "ROAR, WARRIORS, ROAR, FOR SOON WE SHALL BRING DEATH TO OUR ENEMIES!"

  WAR! WAR! WAR!

  "HAHAHAHA!"

  Orcium pulled out his two battle axes and charged furiously at the door.

  He unleashed the etheric manifestation of Fury; his body swelled, and a red aura covered him. Then he crashed into the giant door with such fierce and violent force that it was hurled away at great speed, revealing what was hidden inside the chambers.

  There, the serpentine and scarab armies awaited combat, but they did not expect their own door to turn into a projectile, crushing several soldiers and sending them tumbling over the edge into the abyss below.

  At that moment, Victoria, wasting no time, followed Orcium, and her orb absorbed the blood of the enemies.

  Victoria placed herself in front of Orcium and swung her giant crimson great sword, and a wave of blood energy shot out, destroying the entire formation that had been waiting to receive the orc charge.

  "FORWARD, ORC WARRIORS! KILL THEM ALL, LEAVE NONE ALIVE!"

  The massive orc warriors roared, chanting to their God of War as they plunged into the enemy lines.

  Victoria took a moment to watch the fight.

  She watched the orcs fight, and without a doubt, it was a spectacle. They did not follow a battle formation like the Skutari of Midas or the knights of the Kingdom of the Lion of Asturias, but each of them was like an unleashed beast, causing havoc wherever they went. But they were so skilled at killing that the enemy could not react and surround them.

  One of the orc warriors bit a serpent soldier’s throat out.

  Victoria, at that moment, stopped watching and plunged into the enemy ranks, wielding her great sword and cutting down her foes.

  She had to be remarkably attentive to her surroundings. Her enemies, this time had many arms. If she faced four enemies at once, that meant sixteen weapons striking at her. She had to move fast.

  She broke into the scarab ranks and let out a magical scream, which caused most of the enemy warriors to be momentarily stunned. At that moment, from the blood orb, stakes rained down that impaled all the enemies who didn’t defend themselves.

  Orcium, for his part, advanced on the other side with half of his men.

  The orc fought just like his soldiers, causing the greatest disaster possible. But the difference was that, if his soldiers were unleashed beasts, he was the very god of death and war. With his two axes, he seemed like a meat grinder; every time he swung his arms, an enemy lost his life. He fought in such a way that even enemy warriors could easily wound him, but that did not stop him. In fact, that was where his strength came from: every time he was hurt, he felt himself slowly filling with power.

  And his advance became even more relentless. The massacre was such that his enemies tried to escape from the certain death that was facing this group of crazy orcs. And at the moment they tried to flee, some fell off the cliff’s edge; others were left hanging, but the orcs hacked their hands off, sending them plunging into the void.

  Orcium stopped and grabbed the hand of one warrior who was now hanging from the cliff, about to fall, and lifted him up. The creature was a serpent-man, who still kept humanoid features. Therefore, when Orcium saw him, he confirmed what he wanted to see.

  "Heh, you’re afraid, aren’t you? You never should have come against us. You were nothing more than corpses the moment you set foot on these lands."

  Orcium then took him and threw him into the cliff, grinning as the body smashed against the rocks below.

  At that moment, the ground trembled, and a massive chunk of earth tore free and rose into the air. From the other end of the chamber, a massive scarab rose into the air. Its presence alone screamed legendary tier, the same rank as Orcium and Victoria.

  The scarab warrior, floating in the air, was gigantic. Dozens of meters still separated them, but it was so massive that, if it wanted to, it could wield the halberds of its four arms and fight with them against Orcium.

  Orcium smiled.

  "Finally, it’s getting fun."