Debauchery Worlds 75 (Patreon)

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Debauchery Worlds

Chapter 75

-VB-

Kadir Greenaxe

Amlharaz, Halann

2984.09.02

Finally! 

They finally cleared all of Amlharaz of all orcs! 

As the last of the “civilian” orcs were herded away by Firestarters piloted by our boss’s clones and all of the dead “solider” orcs were dragged away to be burned. The few living “soldier” orcs, because Kadir refused to call them warrior when they didn’t have the bearing of a warrior, were to be taken away separately from the civilian orcs. 

What the boss intended to do with them, Kadir didn’t care, as long as they didn’t “infect” the civilian orcs of their stupid ideas. 

Because apparently, all of the orcish clans that they have been fighting had been one of many clans underneath the banner of the “Shattered Crown.”

It was an orcish warband of a sort that believed itself to be the rulers of all Serpentspine Mountains, and that they deserved this because they were the ones who occupied Amldihr. 

So stupid. 

It was like those humans from boss’s home “galaxy.” Terra meant jack shit, even if that was the homeworld of the humans there. It was just one planet among many. 

“Kadir!” 

Kadir looked up and saw the leader of a burgeoning dwarf clan. 

“Tohrm,” he greeted the younger dwarf. 

Tohrm Blackgem was a young dwarf rallying similarly aged dwarves under him, and even submitted a new corporation paperwork for a “Clan Blackgem.” He wanted to bring in dwarves from other worlds to settle the Serpentspine Mountains and make it their own. And of course, as the Clan Head and CEO of Clan Blackgem, he would be their boss. 

“Have you seen the riches the stupid orcs ignored?” the younger dwarf with a fiery orange hair and moustache asked as he walked up to Kadir’s side. “It’s glorious!” 

“Glory is found in the knowledge the dwarves of this world left behind,” he replied without thinking. “There is magic here that our boss doesn’t have. And knowledge about the riches of this world.”

“Bah! You think too big when we’re all so small,” Tohrm dismissed his words with a frown. “We should be focused on what we can do here and now. I don’t even think that magic can do half the things the boss can do with his machines, anyway.” 

“Not everything is about capability and efficiency,” Kadir grumbled. “We’re here discovering the relics and history of our cousins.”

“Cousins, right,” he scoffed. “They’re not even our ancestors. Not even related to us. Probably don’t even got the same genes.”

Kadir sighed. “Why are you here bothering me?” he grunted. 

“Why? I can’t talk to you?” 

“... Ya sure you want me to answer that?” 

Tohrm raised an eyebrow. “You know what? Sure.”

“You’ve been poaching men from my people.”

That brought Tohrm to a stop. “How’d you know that?” he asked. 

“People talk, Tohrm, and dwarves talk even more,” he growled as he turned to face the younger dwarf. “The only reason this axe of mine ain’t going through your skull is because you haven’t done anything half bad, boy.”

“... You think I’ll take threats like that lying down?”

“It ain’t a threat, Blackgem. It’s a promise if you try anything really funny.”

Tohrm opened his mouth to snap back at him when their communicators barked out first. 

“Tohrm, Kadir. Shut it. No threats between my people. If you want to fight it, then hand in your resignation first,” Alan’s voice grunted. “And while I’m on that, get both of your asses moving. If you have strength to bitch at each other, then you have strength to haul the dead.”

Kadir and Tohrm glared at each other before turning around and walking away. 

He went onto explore more of the ruined hold that the orcs have been occupying. They held no respect for anything dwarven. Everything was defaced. 

He grunted as he grabbed one boulder and with strength from his power armor, pushed it aside. 

Nothing here. 

With a grunt, he moved on. 

-VB-

Alan Marris

Lamb Hills, Halann

2984.09.10

While the Reconquest of Amldihr chugged along, I continued to migrate willing settlers to Lamb Hills. 

At the same time, I started bringing in ships to survey, patrol, and defend our outpost here. The ships I brought over were, of course, the ever useful and modular Crawdads. This time, we made the long and narrow ship into slow atmospheric combat surveyor; it roamed the skies with powerful surveying and scanners, mostly anti-infantry machine guns, and mediocre shield that should be able to withstand a few more of those fireballs that we’ve seen orc magicians throw at us. 

And within just a week of surveying, we had an accurate idea about the continent we were on. 

The continent itself was divided into four parts by the Serpentspine Mountain. 

The north was dominated by a steppe and evergreen forest. The east was dominated a giant landmass with very few peninsulas and inland bodies of water. The south was one big desert. And the west … the west was where a lot of the orcs were. And also humans. 

Yes, we found humans, and they dominated life everywhere. In the far west, there were many human - and some elven - kingdoms and fiefdoms. However, their dominance came to an end where the orcs had rampaged, and we noted ruins of recently destroyed human kingdoms. 

There was even a southern continent like Africa, but instead of being vertical, it was horizontal. There, too, did humans dominate. 

But what really peaked our interest were the two continents further west. They would have been comparable to North and South America if it hadn’t been for one thing. 

Signs of an advanced civilization that nuked the center of what was once a giant continent, sinking a third and separating the other two-thirds by a giant explosion-made ocean. 

It was kind of hard to miss that giant circular gap in the middle of the western hemisphere. 

And we said nuke in our own report because it was very hard to miss the magical radioactive fallout that could be found basically everywhere. We didn’t note it down because we just thought that it was the norm of this world, but no, it wasn’t normal.

We’ve been breathing in magical radioactive dust, however small it may have been. Not harmful at all, though.

Just bothersome for the more magically inclined.

But those were all continents and nations far away. What concerned our colonization was the immediate area around the Lamb Hills and the Serpentspine Mountain directly connected to said region.

Because while our reconquest continued at pace, our explorers also broke through into the giant caverns of the Serpentspine Mountains.