Chapter 132
Chapter 132
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 132
Chapter Title: The Emperor's Grand Duke Offer
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The emperor told me to become a grand duke.
"Why me?"
I had zero intention of doing it, of course.
What were the upsides to becoming a grand duke anyway?
-Judak*) So if I do that, you'll post nymgal?
ㄴ ?
ㄴ Suddenly my trust in Judak skyrockets lol
ㄴ Ah lol Real-life Judak says no
Taking orders from someone else was enough for me after being dragged into the army.
Naturally, I could just refuse the grand duke position.
But separate from the emperor, the orc issue still needed resolving.
[Title: What Happens When Orcs Sweat?]
(Orc smashing through a village palisade gif)
(Orc wildly demolishing a house gif)
What else? Fuck, my house is getting blown away
[Recommendations 102] [Disrecommendations 0]
- Ah lol
- Ohwang really going ham on the smashing
- Ohwang is such a fucking bastard
It was the orcs, familiar to the point of boredom as stars of every tactical nuke post.
Adrian's border villages were starting to get raided and plundered.
"Can't we just kill them?"
Orcs were 1.5 times the size of an adult human male.
But that was it.
Back when freak cuisine was trending, we'd caught trolls several times bigger, so orcs didn't seem like a big deal.
[Title: Ah these fuckers for real lol]
(Guard having arm sliced off, orc getting excited gif)
(Shoulder sliced, orc excitedly ripping shirt gif)
What do I do with these fucking war masos? lol
Ah lol the more you hit them the more excited they get and they wreck the village lol
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- Ah fuck my eyes!!!
- Can't you watch this shit alone please?
- Those things' brain structure is just food sleep war ㅇㅇ
- (My body's heating up! Orc con)
ㄴ (Uoooooh! Orc con)
ㄴ Ah fuck
"Ah, fuck."
[This IP has been blocked for 7 days.]
The problem lay in the orcs' traits.
War was their erogenous zone.
They were that aggressively belligerent of beasts.
- How the hell do you even catch these?
- Just killing them all is the answer ㅇㅇ
ㄴ But there's a shit ton of them you pussy...
ㄴ (Shirtless orc gif)
ㄴ Ah fuck
"If we attack half-assed, we'll just excite them more."
Even cutting off an arm ramped up their aggression to dangerous levels.
Normally you'd wipe out small numbers entirely, but this time there were too many.
"Hm?"
That's when I spotted one particularly huge specimen with a strong green hue.
An orc drenched in sweat, frantically rubbing its body with its own hands while bellowing.
"Is that the chief?"
It looked exactly like the leader of the pack.
Killing a few regular orcs wouldn't do shit.
If anything, seeing comrades die would just excite them more—they weren't gonna run.
"Then make it so they can't even think of fighting."
Fighting requires an opponent, after all.
Judak*: Hey
Colin: Yes, anything you need
Not even three seconds after I sent the message, a reply came back.
Colin's tone had grown even more deferential since the sniper rifle incident.
[Judak* has shipped 'AWM'!]
Judak*: "Sortie"
Colin: ...!
Just snipe them dead before they even see your palm.
*
-Groooar!
In the dense woods on Adrian's outskirts.
Orcs bellowed monstrously as they began indiscriminately destroying the village.
"Village chief, the village...!"
"Evacuate first! We can't match their numbers!"
Normal orc packs numbered around ten.
But this was over a hundred—practically an army.
Villagers stared in stunned horror at the orcs smashing everything in sight.
"My house..."
"...Where do we go now?"
The village they'd toiled their whole lives to build was being demolished.
They were only at the entrance now, but the whole place would be rubble in a day.
This wasn't even the first time.
"This is the fifth already."
This scale was new, but orc raids happened often.
They'd held them off until now, but they had no manpower or strength left.
"What the hell is the Empire doing?!"
"..."
They'd begged the Empire for aid multiple times, but no reply came.
Not even a response.
The Empire was torn by Kelierton and Fron's independence declaration—a chaotic era.
It wasn't living up to its name at all.
"It's all over now..."
These were creatures for whom pain itself was pleasure.
Intimidating orcs was impossible.
As the villagers sank into despair, that's when it happened.
-Bang!
"...?"
Something whizzed by.
A tiny sound you wouldn't catch without focus.
-Kraaaagh!
By the time the village chief registered it, the orc chief had suddenly collapsed.
"Wh-what?"
-Bang!
The unfamiliar sound rang out again.
-Kek?
This time, the nearby lieutenant orc dropped dead.
"...Huh?"
"Magic...?"
They'd never heard gunfire before—it was too alien.
But one thing was clear: every echo through the quiet woods stole a life.
"...A bell?"
The crisp yet chilling toll was like the reaper's chime.
-Bang!
And when it rang again.
-Graaagh!
A massive orc jolted and dropped dead on the spot.
-Grrooo...
Orcs love battle.
The blood scent and adrenaline of life-or-death struggles.
But they didn't love instant death without a chance to feel it.
-Uh, ugh!
-Graaagh!
One by one, the orcs began fleeing in terror.
"No way..."
A lifetime of struggle solved by three gunshots.
*
[Title: Something... Something's happening...jpg]
(Orcs dropping one by one gif)
(Orc army freaking out and fleeing from gunfire gif)
Anyway I'm a border village resident
Empire citizen but Empire treats us like we don't exist ㅇㅇ
Orcs kept coming non-stop after the great war
This time I really thought we were done for
(Orc in front dropping dead gif)
But then bell-like? Sound rang out and we were saved
Fuck I'm so happy to be alive but
What the hell is this???
[Recommendations 6121] [Disrecommendations 102]
- You don't even check nymgal normally what do you do all day?
- Check nymgal and live your life
ㄴ Holy shit lol but he's right
ㄴ Poster) ?? What happened?
ㄴ https://gall.dcinside.com/juddacksaranghea
ㄴ Read the whole thing ㅇㅇ
ㄴ Poster) Judak is he a god!!!!!
ㄴ Poster) Fuck kiss the admin!!!!
ㄴ [IP blocked for 24 hours]
ㄴ Lmao wtf
ㄴ Ah fuck almost spat out my burger lololol
That red-haired woman from some game was spot on.
Problem not solved?
"Think if it's a lack of force."
I'd ended up carrying out the kid emperor's order somehow.
But saving the gallery was important.
As I was about to post in chat that I had no interest in real-life Judak games like grand duke—
[Title: Listen up, Grand Duke Judak]
Poster: Muffin
Heard about your exploits this time
Good work ㅇㅇ
There are lots of villages like this in the boonies so manage them well
Anyway, sending some gifts as reward so take 'em
(Emperor entering the treasury gif)
(Grabbing stuff and shipping it gif)
(Ministers freaking out gif)
The emperor posted fast again.
Like he was preempting my answer.
The issue was his rewards.
Everything he handed out was on a massive, no, excessive scale.
- ??? Fuck that's a national treasure
- What casually handing shit out like shopping at the market?
- Is he insane?
He started showering treasures from the imperial vault—stuff you couldn't buy for money.
[Muffin has shipped 'Adrian Magic Barrier'!]
[Muffin has shipped 'Adela's Portal Blueprint'!]
.
.
"Why send this?"
I don't turn down expensive gifts.
But accepting whatever an 8-year-old sends casually is trouble.
The cons outweigh the pros.
As I thought the kid was playing emperor carelessly, something felt off.
"Hm, this is weird."
The current emperor was just a first-grader.
But he'd stayed calm even when captured and facing death.
Sitting on the throne quietly until now, then acting up? Suspicious.
- Real elementary emperor causing chaos
- Adrian reform phase 2 incoming?
- Just take the emperor throne Judak?
ㄴ O fr sounds good
ㄴ You genius?
Public sentiment was souring fast.
Even calls for me to be emperor were popping up, fueling my growing suspicions.
"Is he deliberately trying to make me not want to be emperor?"
As my doubts mounted, a new post from the emperor.
[Title: Craving something sweet]
Poster: Muffin
(Candy bag image from gallery)
Heard you sold candy at the market once
Want some so hand it over
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- Ugh crazy kid emperor
- Reminds me of my cousin lololol
- Just quit emperor and come down already ㅇㅇ
- Judak wouldn't you be a real emperor?
ㄴ O good idea
ㄴ Get lost ㅗㅅㅗ Judak what's he lacking to play human emperor?
ㄴ Don't keep demanding emperor shit from the bros. Wanna die?
Deliberately dumping national treasures on me.
Blatantly posting in gallery demanding candy from me like a brat?
"This..."
I was convinced.
Per the emperor's request, I bought some candy and sent it to the kid.
-Judak*) ㅇㅇ here
ㄴ Wait Judak you give it just cause he asks?
ㄴ Why so submissive?
ㄴ Muffin) Fine, I'll graciously eat it
The moment the kid emperor popped several candies I'd sent into his mouth without suspicion.
-Muffin) Gack! Kekekehek!
ㄴ ?
ㄴ What the sudden?
His weird reaction started posting.
-Judak*) Back to your senses?
ㄴ Muffin) What the hell did you feed me!!!
[Mega Sour Raspberry Candy 200g] - 28p
The sourest candy in the world.
-Judak*) Emperor, attention!
Now for the truth.