His arms that had been able to break through walls with a punch, were now just bones covered in skin.
The muscles he had built up by lifting tens of kilos were now shrinking.
His eyes, which could even read the movements of flies, were now starting to blur.
All its glory, splendor, and strength are lost with age.
Moku doesn't regret that he ages, what he regrets is not being able to transcend the limits of his human body.
He wanted to jump higher than the birds flying in the sky.
He wanted to be able to hit through the mountains.
He wanted to run past the speed of sound.
Moku regrets this world without miracles.
There is a proverb in his country that says 'life is reluctant to die do not want to'. This proverb really describes his life at that time.
Every night, he fell asleep and hoped not to wake up again. Until finally that wish came true. But only for him in that world.
{Meer Calendar, January 14, 8 Years Before Demon War}
A baby orc opened his eyes, he looked surprised at the sight from the ceiling that he didn't recognize. His sparkling eyes showed an intelligence that shouldn't exist in a baby.
'Did I get kicked out of the apartment because I was late paying?' then he remember that he doesn't live in an apartment. 'kidnapping..' new possibility just started to appear in his mind. 'meehhh... who cares?' he didn't care and went back to sleep.
The baby was named Moku. He was reborn in a new different world.
A strange world where humans don't control everything. A strange world where survival becomes the goal of life especially if you are a monster that is hunted and considered a pest.
Every day new ideas to survive emerge. Every day there are new challenges, new enemies, and new experiences. Moku wants to keep getting stronger and make his tribe strong. Even though he was born as monster, he loved his new body.
The life of orcs can be said to be very simple, they wake up, hunt and eat. If they have women in the tribe then their night time is spent with sex.
Moku was born along with Six other baby orcs. Moku never met his mother nor intended to see her. Moku doesn't want to see anything that makes him do something stupid. Like freeing their mothers.
As a race of monsters that only has one gender, women were extremely valuable to the orcs.
Therefore Moku spent his baby time observing his new body.
The growth process of orcs was very fast. Orcs have a body metabolism that makes all food that enters their body absorbed quickly. So that at the age of one year a baby orc can run.
At the age of 5 years, the orc's body will make all the nutrients it absorbs into muscle. The fat reserves in an orc's body are only 10% of their body mass.
It is also at this age that the orc's extraordinary immune system is at work. The orc body can heal wounds in seconds. This regeneration does not only occur in the outer flesh and skin but also in the bones and internal organs. Even an Orc could heal a pierced heart, provided he hadn't bled to death.
When he was 6 years old, Moku did an experiment on his own body. He wanted to know the stamina limit of the orc's body and what would happen if the orc trained until it fainted.
Moku chose the hill behind the tribal camp as his experimental site. This hill is still in the territory of the orcs so that no wild animals or mutated animals live here.
The experiment started by carry a rock and then tied it on his back. Feeling the bond of the rock was strong, Moku began to climb the hill behind the tribe.
After an hour of climbing, Moku started to feel heat from all over his body, The soles of his feet began to ache, his back that had been scratched by the rock began to bleed, and his knees began to tremble. But Moku forced his body and kept climbing.
After three hours of climbing, his vision began to blur, the sweat dripping down his forehead began to feel cold, the rock he was carrying felt heavier, his palms began to feel cold, and his breathing began to become irregular. But Moku keeps climbing.
After five hours of climbing, his heart was beating very fast, his vision turned black, and his head froze. He kept trying to climb until Moku fell unconscious.
Moku lost consciousness for more than 2 hours. Moku opened his eyes to see the sky turning red and the sun starting to set.
After he woke up, he felt refreshed as usual. His fresh body really surprised Moku because he knew his body would feel heavy after collapsing from overtraining. Worse yet, he could get typhus which made him have to lie down with a high body temperature.
However, the orc's body's metabolic system was extremely fast, regenerating all the lost energy from its body, Swollen or torn muscles return to normal, new cells are formed to replace brain cells that die from lack of oxygen, and all of that is only paid with a little hunger, like the one Moku is feeling right now.
Orc's body as if is designed to achieve the maximum level of muscle growth. All kinds of risks due to excess exercise can be neutralized by their bodies.
Exercising too much makes the body feel stressed and produces excess cortisol, this will cause insomnia so that the body cannot restore itself by sleeping.
But luckily.
Orcs do not need sleep to stimulate the body's recovery system, just stop moving for a few tens of minutes the body can return to normal as soon as possible.
On that day Moku discovers a fact that makes him even more in love with his new body. Orc regeneration eliminates all the risks of excess exercise by not eliminating the benefits.
Knowing this fact, Moku made his training routine.
Wake up before sunrise—Practice until you pass out—Wake up refreshed—Hunt alone—Eat until your stomach is full —Practice until you faint—Wake up—Shower—Go home—Sleep.
He continued to do that routine every day without taking a break. The other orcs looked at Moku with strange looks. They thought that this young orc had gone crazy. From their sight Moku was like an orc who liked to torture himself until he passed out.
The orcs who saw Moku going crazy, started to stay away from him. Moku becomes a loner orc.
Two years passed, Moku felt his body getting stronger and stronger. Moku only needs to be patient a few more years to be able to jump as high as a flying bird and hit through the mountains.
Moku smirked proudly at his efforts. His ears vibrated hearing a noise.
The noice came from tribe camp gate. Moku was curious and ran towards the source of the commotion. Then Moku's eyes were dumbfounded and his face became gloomy.
The horde of adult orcs dragged five female human.
Palaka
{Meer Calendar, 17 June, 1 Years Before Demon War}
The wind from the east brought down cold air from the Wolf Slopes mountain range.
The trees swayed, the sound of the wind whistling through the leaves.
The tents swayed, the sound of clapping from the layers of leather colliding.
The orcs cheered merrily, their voices getting louder and louder.
They sing.
Hits their chest.
Jump around.
A horde of orcs is like welcoming a hero home from a mission to save their world.
In contrast to their lively welcome, the five female humans lower their heads.
Their bodies shivered.
Not because of the cold, the cold wind was blocked by the bodies of the orc horde surrounding them.
But out of fear, their bodies respond to the feelings that arise from their minds.