Orc Hero Story: Discovery Chronicles

Orc Hero Story

Based on the current knowledge about dragons in the continent of Vastonia, the following information is known:

• Dragons are by far the strongest of all races.
• They live longer than elves.
• They can live anywhere. Some live in volcanoes if they prefer warm places, in snowy mountains if they prefer cold places, at the bottom of the sea, or in poisonous swamps.
• Dragons are protected by tough scales that defend them against all attacks.
• They have strong fangs and claws that can cut through anything.
• Dragons also have a stomach capable of swallowing and digesting anything.
• Dragons freely fly through the sky with wings strong enough to pursue anything.
• Dragons exhale a fiery breath that can melt everything.
• Dragons do not attack other creatures when its stomach is full.

Or, if you were a certain wise human who was said to have interacted with dragons for a long time, you might know a bit more about them. But even that wise person only knew about one dragon he had interacted with. All creatures in the continent of Vastonia, from the fiercest beast to the most cowardly rat, feared dragons. They avoided them and lived to stay away from them. Even humans were not an exception.

Currently, only one of these dragons resided in the continent of Vastonia. She used to live in a more distant continent but arrived on this continent during the war. She didn’t have a name, but she was called “Eye” by other dragons. She didn’t remember how she came to be called like that. Although she was called Eye because she had better eyesight than other dragons and could spot prey from a distance. That was the process by which dragons obtained their names.

Eye was an ordinary dragon. She was long-lived, liked the cold, had tough scales, fangs, claws, and wings, and considered other creatures nothing more than food. Born as a common dragon, she lived like a common dragon. She was a common creature, although she was one of the strongest and most feared by everyone else.

It was the existence of her friend “Bone” that made Eye interested in humans. Bone was a strange dragon. She was very interested in humans and enjoyed talking. Eye was always listening to Bone’s stories, but she was more interested in Bone herself.

You can be sure that Eye liked Bone very much. She had no interest in humans, but when she saw Bone talking about them, she felt happy. One day, a small human took Bone away and returned as literal bones. Dead.

When Bone died, Eye became very sad. Unable to suppress her feelings of sadness, she went around killing and eating the humans who had been the cause of Bone’s death with a strong desire for revenge. When the sadness and the desire to kill faded away, Eye had doubts. Why was Bone so interested in humans? What was so interesting about them?

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