Chapter 137 (1/2)

“The are reduced as low as possible, and the muscle that lives beneath the fat, are both muscle,” said Vandalieu

“… My apologies It see is too difficult forhis bewilderment

He had received the surgery to transplant the arm and eye of the noble Orc General of the frontline position

His pain had been erased with death-attribute ery team consisted of Vandalieu’s Out-of-body Experience clones and Legion who had coery had been effective; Prince Budarion was already regaining vision in his eye and sensation in his arm

The Life Gold used during the stitching and the Blood Potion consuth had returned as well

One ht to simply stitch on someone else’s arm, but the flesh structure of ood way in this case

Even after transplant surgery of parts froh, the patient could become accustomed to the new body parts without any transplant rejection reactions

Of course, Vandalieu and Legion were probably the only ones who could make use of this special characteristic of ical procedures didn’t exist in the world of Lambda

Norenerate the lost parts using valuable Potions and advanced spells

That hy Budarion had been surprised by the idea of transplanting a body part of someone else, even if it was a member of the same race

“But what is evenis the fact that you dispelled the curse afflicting my body so easily,” said Prince Budarion “I have known Bakotdono for a long time, but I have not seen him express that much surprise very often”

“Well, I can remove most curses… except for those cast by Gods,” said Vandalieu

In the end, whether it was Princess Bugitas’s unique skill, an effect of the Death Scythe that was his weapon or Ravovifard’s poas still unknown, but the curse that had been hindering the healing of Prince Budarion’s wounds had been easily removed

However, Prince Budarion felt fear upon learning that Vandalieu had been afflicted with curses, despite having so easily ree Bakota had been unable to remove

Hoerful was the God who had cast this curse on Vandalieu?

But Prince Budarion didn’t express this fear, and instead gestured towards their surroundings as he spoke “No, you really are great Thanks to you and your companions, my vassals are saved as well”

The loyal vassals who had fought alongside Budarion and fled fro their bodies in as known as the Shelter, an underground space beneath a tower in Zanalpadna

There were none other than Prince Budarion who had fought Bugitas directly and been cursed, butfrom untreatable wounds There were many who had recovered from their injuries due to the treate Bakota, but there was no s eyes, lies hadn’t had the time to completely treat all of them

“UOOOOH! My arive you my thanks, flesh-wife of the shrine maiden!”

“I understand that you’re happy, but cala

“M-my nose is back BUHIIIH! Praise the flesh-wife-sama! Praise the flesh-wife-sama!”

“I said calm down! And what do you mean, flesh-wife?!”

Valkyrie gave a loud laugh “It’s fine, isn’t it, Baba Yaga? It does not feel unpleasant to be praised by veteran heroes! … But are we being praised?!”

The noble Orcs who had ion’s treata and Valkyrie’s personalities were dealing with them

“Indeed, En praised,” said the personality of Isis on the other side, as still ery on another noble Orc’s arm

She had little experience in perfor patients in her previous life, but it seemed that these ood practice subjects

“Flesh-wives are apparently enerate corpulence, created from his own flesh and sent to the Orcs and noble Orcs,” explained Eleanora, who had heard about flesh-wives fro Vandalieu and the others with their surgeries

Orcs had strength as a racial characteristic, and soes to breed that it could cause thenore their other two basic needs (food and sleep) and their survival instincts

The breeding instincts of the Orcs in the noble Orc eroeaker than those of other Orcs over the ten thousand years that had passed However, even so, they were too much for human women to handle

There were h to stay controlled under the excitement of love affairs

That hy Mububujenge had provided the Orcs with flesh-wives ten thousand years ago

“Apparently, they’re given to the Orcs to take as their wives and lovers,” said Eleanora “They’re Rank 1 or 2 atthe Orcs’ partners And their abilities increase naturally along with those of the Orcs that are their husbands, so the Orc workers’ flesh-wives can even have children”

And the flesh-wives of Orcs that were Rank 5 or greater were apparently capable of doing housework as well as good hus, the abilities of the flesh-wives increased with successes other than an increase in Rank

And so, the Orcs’ lust was reduced by their flesh-wives, while their a the flesh-wives also had the effect of controlling sex criainst the citizen women

With ten thousand years having passed this way, it seemed that no small number of Orcs had come to feel no lust for any other than the flesh-wives The Orc Workers at the frontline fort who had returned to Prince Budarion’s side were a those

“They’re apparently being isolated at the Church of Mububujenge now, though,” Eleanora said “Their appearance is… apparently similar to you when you’re separated from the main body”

“I-I’a muttered

“But being called Vandalieu’s flesh-wife isn’t an unpleasant thing, is it?” said Isis

“It’s a great honor for us, but an honorary title that we are not worthy of,” said Pluto

“No wonder nobody is afraid of us… from their perspective, we look like a combination of flesh-wives But Pluto, is it really an honorary title?” asked Valkyrie

When Legion appeared, the Arachne and Empusa had been surprised as well as the noble Orcs, but they hadn’t been afraid Since they had interacted with the noble Orc eroup of flesh-wives with their limbs entwined around each other

Though they were surprised by Legion’s three-meter diameter and how bizarre it was for them to be entwined around each other like that, they apparently weren’t so to be scared of

“To add to Eleanordono’s explanation, us noble Orcs are also given flesh-wives However, they are thought of as sy those who are unable to succeed one of the three hundred noble Orc houses Because the children born to flesh-wives are almost all Orcs,” one of the noble orcs explained “If all of us noble Orcs take citizen wives, the citizens will not be able to have children of their own, and we cannot request for wives to be sent fro that cannot be helped”

Though the noble Orc empire was indeed an ‘empire,’ it didn’t use the same royalty and nobility system as human nations This was only natural, as they had been separated froo, before the humans had an aristocratic system

There was a roup of the families that were known as the three hundred ‘houses,’ and the heads of those families were allocated positions known as ‘seats’ based on their abilities

And the faained these ‘seats’ would command those of their ‘houses’ to carry out their duties

To take the noble Orcs of the frontline fort as an example, Buburin and the noble Orc General’s two houses had been given the seat responsible for building frontline bases

Those seats were apparently temporary, however

“And that h-ranking members of each family who support the family heads are able to take real people for wives,” said Vandalieu “By the way, how is your ar a sword like you did before?” he asked Prince Budarion

“Let’s see… there won’t be any proble a sword as well as before,” Prince Budarion replied as he rubbed the ar its sense of touch

It wasn’t that his own aric; someone else’s arm had been transplanted onto him The size was almost the same, but the amount of muscle was different, so he wasn’t confident that he could reproduce his oord techniques in the same way as before with someone else’s arm

“I see Well then, there is no choice but to regain that ability through the upco battles,” said Vandalieu “Prince Budarion, if possible, I would like to have you defeat Bugitas with your own hands We will support you with everything we have, but you need to regain the strength you possessed before at the very least”

“Withto think that Vandalieu’s request was strange “Would you not be able to defeat Bugitas without th, Shrine-Maiden-dono? For instance, Borkus is certainly stronger than I aaro-dono, Basdidono and Bone-Man-dono all possess respectable strength as well, and Zadiris-dono’s skill withitas on even grounds And you, Shrine-Maiden-dono… honestly speaking, I a as if they were your own liitas if you were to use those”

Indeed, Vandalieu and his coitas at this point in time

Of course, there were itas’s side and started worshi+pping Ravovifard In addition, in the worst-case scenario, it was possible that so had to be done about Ravovifard hith would be enough, however

But with Zanalpadna’s forces, Budarion’s loyal vassals whose wounds had been healed, and the soldiers that would soon be gathered froe would be turned around

With that being the case, there was no need to be fixated on having Prince Budarion, asn’t in his original state, to defeat Bugitas hiht

“If you are taking rateful for that However, my emotions are not what should be prioritized What should be prioritized is restoring peace to all of the nations as soon as possible Do not pay attention to someone like me, who caused war in this land for the first tith; I want you to si back,” Prince Budarion said, lowering his head as he suppressed his desire for vengeance

But Vandalieu did not nod his head “No, you defeating Bugitas is necessary for that peace,” he said

“My word Why in the world is that?” asked Prince Budarion

“It’s because while the noble Orc e as its eitas, ould end up ruling the eement, wouldn’t we?” said Vandalieu

“I think that is entirely true, but…”

After all, Vandalieu would become the hero who defeated the usurper The noble Orcs would naturally desire and welcome heroes to stand at the top

“But I’m not confident that I or any of my cos work by having people interpret the Orc language, I can’t iine that we could treat the empire’s unique political system, culture and sense of values properly”

In the news and newspapers that Vandalieu had seen on Earth, there had been numerous incidents where developed nations had defeated dictators and beco nations by supporting theotten the impression that this had been particularly successful

It wasn’t enough to be called a failure, but it was far froined That hat Vandalieu thought

There was the possibility that they had succeeded after Vandalieu died on Earth, but even so, that would mean that it would take years, maybe even over a decade, for that success Vandalieu couldn’t i years of determination that it would take

Vandalieu didn’t think that the case of the noble Orc empire was the saae a nation of people when he didn’t knohether Demon Path Enticement and Guidance: Demon Path would work on them

It was possible that he could cause noble Orc fetuses to mutate with death-attribute Mana in the saed Orc fetuses into Orcuses, but he had no intention of waiting for the generation of this new race to replace all of the noble Orcs

Incidentally, there were still no signs of De any effects on Prince Budarion or the noble Orcs and Orcs that were his subordinates The ‘Holy Son of Vida’ title did see an effect, however

“… Then how about leaving trustworthy noble Orcs as your representatives?” Prince Budarion said, voicing a reasonable suggestion

“The noble Orc I trust the most is you, Prince Budarion,” Vandalieu replied immediately

Prince Budarion sed “That is… I am happy that you feel that way, but… I have already been defeated by Bugitas once There would bethe empire once more”

“That is why I want to have you win this time,” said Vandalieu

The conversation had coun

“H of me, Shrine-Maiden-dono”

Realizing that Vandalieu had no intention of changing his mind, Prince Budarion felt pressure, but at the saet an opportunity to erase the disgrace of his defeat

And he began to feel an indescribable trust in Vandalieu, as less than half of his own height

“For now, let’s go to the lower level for rehabilitation by fighting weak monsters once the treatic sword that I’d intended to give to Borkus, so I’ll give it to you to celebrate your recovery,” said Vandalieu

“Thank you for everything, Shrine-Maiden-dono I a so many favors that I do not kno I am supposed to repay them,” Prince Budarion said “Talosheim is fortunate to be ruled by a wonderful queen like you”

“… I’ that his gender had been mistaken up until now

“B-BUHIH?!” Prince Budarion shouted in the Orc language at this shocking revelation

The two of theentle breeze blew past

『The levels of the Surgery, Demon Path Enticement, Guidance: Demon Path and Materialization skills have increased!』

The commonly-known ‘Shelter’ that existed beneath Zanalpadna had an official title: The Shell-less Open Field

It was a Dungeon

It was an E-class Dungeon, but even so, oneto use it as a shelter in tiht about it, there was a rational reason for this

It was sieon was safer than the area outside the city

Monsters of Rank 4 and above were rampant outside the city It was possible to encounter Rank 5 roup of C-class or D-class adventurers to take down, and there were even rare occasions where a Rank 7 or 8 monster would appear

In coenerally produced e was about to occur The shallow floors of an E-class Dungeon… these would be filled with nothing but Rank 1 monsters that could be driven away by ordinary people who didn’t even possess combat-related skills

The Dungeon bosses would generally be Rank 3, but they wouldn’t move from as known as the boss chaeon

In addition to this, the chances of eon froeons wouldn’t seek to enter a Dungeon of their own accord unless they happened to be chasing prey that had escaped into the Dungeon

It seeeon would instinctively avoid entering it again Though this didn’t apply to deeons on command

And an E-class Dungeon would have aleons normally had

In tiency… when the walls that protected the nation stopped functioning due to a natural disaster or an assault by a powerful eon was safer than the city

This didn’t only apply to Zanalpadna; the other city-states also used low-class Dungeons as shelters, far land and sources of water

The noble Orcs who had survived with Prince Budarion, as well as those who had fled froht to the Shell-less Open Field because there was plenty of space for them here

“Holy-Son-dono and the others are currently busy with the treatment of the prince and the others In the meanti on her throne in the queen’s chamber with a complicated expression on her face “The two of you know this as well, don’t you?”

The shoulders and carapace-covered joints of her youngest daughter Gizania and Gizania’s friend Myuze trembled

They knew they had done soeous; their faces were pale and covered in cold sweat

“Gizania, Myuze, I will ask you to be sure You have both given Holy-Son-dono a necklace of deep affection And he did not ask for this; you offered them to him yourself Is that correct?” Donaneris asked them

“Y-yes, Mother,” Gizania replied

“Th-the same is true of me as well,” said Myuze

“Gizania, you gave yours as a sign of true friendshi+p, and Myuze, yours as proof of your promise Is that correct?” Donaneris continued