My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 86

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 86

Episode 86. Pig of Eternal Life (Complete)

About 200 years ago.

Kargon, who had gained self-awareness, was extremely confused.

Who am I?

Am I the only one among the orc species to possess self-awareness?

“At that time, I was still a small and weak orc, so I was afraid of the sudden change.”

Just like how a person with two eyes would be abnormal in a village of one-eyed people.

The first emotion Kargon realized upon gaining self-awareness was not joy, but loneliness.

Therefore, without even feeling the pain of torn flesh, he desperately ran toward the orcs who had distanced themselves.

“I grabbed their feet and screamed, but they were just ordinary orcs.”

As expected, only he had changed.

The others remained unchanged, still irrational monsters.

Ah, I will have to live alone in this lonely world from now on.

Kargon, who learned the emotion of resignation, returned to his tribe powerlessly.

“The change happened the next day.”

A day spent thinking it was fortunate that orcs didn’t cannibalize their own kind today.

The next day when he opened his eyes, he discovered his tribe in an uproar from early morning.

“Those who had gone hunting with me had gained self-awareness.”

Though names didn’t exist for them.

Kargon could distinguish who each of them was.

Starting with those who gained self-awareness, self-awareness began to gradually sprout among those close to Kargon as well.

“Self-awareness can sprout? Is that even possible?”

“Didn’t I tell you. I gained self-awareness because I hit my head on a special rock.”

“Even so…”

“I think it was an altar of a forgotten god.”

The orcs who gained self-awareness quickly recognized that at the root of everything was a young orc named Kargon.

They also realized that the closer an orc was to him, the more likely they were to gain self-awareness.

Divine power had settled within him.

Therefore, the blessing of self-awareness came to the orcs.

Those who had been cannibalizing their own kind just days before began to possess intelligence.

And a young orc named Kargon ascended to the position of clan leader, which was originally seized through strength.

“I thought it was a blessing.”

A blessing bestowed by a god.

Therefore, I will use this to revive the orcs.

With such determination, Kargon used the knowledge he gained along with self-awareness to transform the tribe into a village.

The village’s location was the temple where everything began.

Afterward, Kargon led an armed orc army to bloodlessly invade other tribes.

He granted them self-awareness as well, making them his tribesmen.

“Orcs as creatures were tenaciously strong, so it was like breaking bamboo.”

It took less than half a year to unite all the tribes in Berdine.

Perhaps because they originally had no self-awareness.

They were happy about gaining self-awareness despite being invaded.

The era of orcs beginning to shine brilliantly.

The orcs began to revere him, who now possessed overwhelming military might, as the reincarnation of the orc god.

“I trained endlessly to repay their faith.”

I trained, and trained, and trained again.

I honed my strength to befit the position of sovereign over all orcs.

While doing so, I poured all my passion into ruling the orcs as their sovereign.

After 100 years passed, the orcs had changed enough to be called a different race like the elves.

They began to hope to leave Berdine and make contact with outsiders.

I asked Kargon with a hopeful heart about his words.

“The village burning down. Was that humans’ doing?”

“I wish it had been.”

The orcs knew how they appeared to the outside world.

Therefore, they decided to prepare thoroughly for that.

On the day they finished their maximum preparations.

When all orcs were looking forward to heading outside Berdine with excited hearts.

“That rock in the temple suddenly exploded.”

At the moment when everyone was off guard.

The temple’s rock, which had been preciously enshrined in the center of the village, suddenly exploded.

It would have been good if it was just a simple explosion, but the exploded rock contained an unknown tremendous power.

It annihilated the entire area without a trace and scattered hellish flames throughout the orc village that wouldn’t extinguish no matter how hard they tried.

Those flames were so hot that they could easily melt even the ground and rocks.

“I tried my best to block the flames, but it was insufficient.”

Just touching them would melt bones.

Even trying to block them, I couldn’t stop the spreading flames.

Disaster.

The suddenly spreading flames burned all of Berdine in just one short minute.

The sparsely growing plants instantly burned and disappeared.

Even orcs fleeing from the fire burned without leaving a trace.

“Everything disappeared in an instant.”

The orc kingdom built over nearly 200 years.

The proud orcs who followed him.

The traces of brilliant civilization built on barren Berdine.

Everything.

All evaporated in an instant.

“In that, I too couldn’t overcome the flames and became ashes.”

Perhaps even the strong orc body was insufficient to withstand flames that melted bones.

Even the orc clan leader, who endured to the end trying to protect young orcs, eventually collapsed.

But why was it so.

“I died, but couldn’t die.”

The orc clan leader who burned and became ashes didn’t die.

He experienced endless pain and flashbacks, unable to die and came back to life.

After about a week passed like that.

The flames that covered all of Berdine subsided.

On the ground where the flames disappeared, only one orc who had lost everything stood intact.

“Died but couldn’t die means…”

“It should be considered close to resurrection.”

Though he thought he had died and become ashes, his soul still remained on the barren ground.

The soul that didn’t disappear judged itself to be alive and regenerated the body.

Thus he survived alone on the vast Berdine.

“I felt the emotion of loneliness again, which I had forgotten.”

The first emotion I felt upon gaining self-awareness.

I felt that again at the moment everything ended.

After writhing in terribly painful emotions for a while.

He wandered Berdine endlessly, searching for surviving orcs to resolve his loneliness.

“How did this happen. There were still orcs remaining in Berdine.”

Though flames covered the entire world, orcs that survived existed.

Kargon quickly approached those orcs and tried to grant them self-awareness, but.

“…It didn’t work?”

Kargon silently nodded his head.

It had failed.

The ego that used to form after just a few minutes of contact no longer appeared even after days and nights had passed.

“It was a side effect of the resurrection.”

His body had regenerated perfectly, but the divine power that had permeated his flesh had vanished.

He could no longer create egos for the orcs.

“It was agonizing.”

The suffering he had imagined a hundred years ago had become reality.

He struggled against this unbearably painful reality.

“I wanted to die instead. That’s what I thought.”

So he tried.

He attempted to take his own life.

But no matter how many times he died, his body would only regenerate again.

“I became a body that could neither age nor die.”

100 years, 200 years.

He wouldn’t die no matter how much time passed.

He couldn’t die even when trying to end his own life.

That alone was torturous, but as time went on, his memories of the past only grew dimmer.

No.

This was something he couldn’t forget.

He repeated it countless times, but his brain slowly made him forget those memories.

Then at some point, he realized.

“Do you know what a life review is?”

“Are you talking about what people see right before death?”

“Yes, through that I could vividly recall memories of the past.”

A body that couldn’t die anyway.

He would at least taste fragments of the past through life reviews.

Having made that judgment, Kargon took his own life more than ten times a day.

“…But that didn’t work either.”

Gritting his teeth, Kargon began removing the armor he wore piece by piece.

Gauntlets, greaves, armor.

After throwing off each piece, Kargon quietly looked down at his body.

Black lines filled Kargon’s body with geometric patterns.

“Tattoos?”

“No, this is a divine curse.”

A curse received as payment for a lowly creature daring to make contact with divine power.

The power he had gained was not a divine blessing but a divine curse.

“Do you know why my soul remains on this ground even though I died?”

“No.”

“It’s because divine power is holding onto my soul.”

He was a host.

The curse wouldn’t release its host, and because of that, the host couldn’t die even in death.

Rather, the curse targeted the moment when the host died to instantly intensify the curse’s strength, and he only realized this fact much later.

“When I realized it, the curse had already progressed more than 90%.”

He decided he might as well fill the remaining 10% and find peace.

But then.

He found a reason why he shouldn’t die.

“…That was Karnack?”

“That’s right.”

Karnack.

A small child who would have to taste the same despair as himself.

The moment he discovered this child, he gained a reason to live.

It was the moment he escaped from 200 years of continued solitude.

Kargon protected Berdine by removing dangerous kinsmen with his own hands for the sake of the small orc.

“But that won’t last much longer either.”

The curse had progressed too far.

Now just enduring was at his limit.

“…When the curse is completed, will you die?”

“No, I won’t die.”

“Then what?”

“I’ll lose my reason and be consumed by madness.”

He had often experienced such situations as the curse progressed.

Every time he lost his reason and went berserk, Berdine’s terrain changed, and he was terrified of that fact.

“You must have heard that enormous roar earlier. That was the sound I made when consumed by madness.”

When consumed by madness, he instinctively headed to the place where everything began.

And there he roared wildly, gathering all the orcs.

What happened after that, he didn’t know well.

When he came to his senses, he would always flee from the orcs and escape that place.

“Actually, even now I feel like madness might engulf my body.”

Trembling.

Kargon’s hands were shaking roughly as he spoke.

As if trying to suppress something, he was dripping with cold sweat.

I looked at such a Kargon and slowly opened my mouth.

“You said you instinctively go to the place where everything began?”

“That’s right.”

“Is there something left there?”

“…There is.”

Kargon spoke with calmly sunken eyes.

“The temple where everything began 400 years ago remains in that exact spot.”

It didn’t melt away from the explosion and flames, and even now it maintains that same state.

When Kargon consumed by madness came to his senses, he was always standing in the core of that temple.

“Then that must be the problem.”

Starting from the temple and returning to the temple.

Something there was binding Kargon.

That was the only way I could think of it.

Did Kargon agree as well?

He only looked at me while maintaining silence.

“Shall we go take a look?”

“Where to?”

“Where else, the temple.”

If the temple was the problem, then destroy the temple.

Maybe because my education was lacking, my stupid brain could only suggest that method.

“Is there any other way besides that?”

“…Are you saying you’ll save me now?”

“What else does it sound like?”

“Ha. I didn’t tell this story for this purpose.”

Kargon let out a hollow laugh as if dejected and shook his head.

“I’ve already tried to destroy the temple. But they all failed.”

“What if it failed because you did it?”

“…What?”

“You’re in a state where you’ve been eroded by the temple’s power. So there’s a possibility you couldn’t destroy the temple because of that.”

There’s a method I haven’t tried yet.

If it’s not too late, wouldn’t it be worth trying?

Kargon looked at my unwavering eyes and smiled weakly.

“That might be the case.”

“Then shall we go right away? Every moment is precious.”

I have to move as quickly as possible before the curse erodes my body any further.

[Have a sincere conversation with Kargon]

[Achieved]

[Moving to the next floor]

[7th Floor]

[Head to the Orcs’ Temple]

[Not Achieved]

Fortunately, the condition for the next floor aligned with my objective.

‘There’s even more possibility now.’

I can see hope.

I can see the possibility that he might survive.

I watched Kargon leaving what might be his final farewell to the sleeping Karnack, and the corners of my mouth lifted.

I can do it.

I can lift the curse.

I’m definitely thinking that way, but somehow.

Why does the wind blowing from the north feel so cold?

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