Chapter 1.2: A Hero's Departure
Bash first saw the light in the middle of the war.
A chubby green orc baby who had crawled out of the bowels of a human woman who had been captured and raped during the conflict.
Yup, that’s him.
When he turned five, he was given his first sword. At ten, he waded into battle and took his first life.
Even for an Orc, having your first taste of live combat at ten years of age was early.
Ten years old Orcs were too young, weak, and small to be considered proper warriors.
The lives of most of the Orcs who have their first battle at the age of ten or earlier are scattered in the wind like leaves.
However, thanks to the battle doctrine devised by the Daemon King Gediguz, even young, ten-year-old Orcs were able to have a moderate survival rate on the battlefield.
And while “moderate” wasn’t good, it was good enough.