Alex after returning from clearing out the goblins, he took off his clothes filled with blood and sweat and took a nice warm bath to get rid of the blood and stench.
After taking a warm bath, he sat on the chair in the room that was allocated to him and rubbed his chin.
He was feeling quite tired. He had pushed himself to the limit today still his exhaustion was merely physical while from inside he felt quite fresh and alive.
With his robust soul which had been nourished by generations of torture and going through special treatment by Goddess hand in itself, it would be weird if he got tired mentally.
His muscles had cramped staying in the capital without any good fight which can pump his adrenaline.Alex thought that after being bullied by the Goddess of War every day for years, fighting is engraved in his consciousness and on the days when he hadn't any fight, he felt quite out of place which made him wonder whether he had become a psycho.
Alex looked around the room and sighed as he felt quite lonely without Riya's presence who would always remain beside him with her sparkling lovely eyes and always take care of him.
Every time he sat like this, Riya would appear magically out of thin air, behind him and whispering some sweet and pleasant words would start to massage his shoulder which gave Alex a heavenly feeling melting his heart.
"Hey, Riya do you also think of me in free time?I don't know what my other wives would be doing but I would be lucky to not get cursed for all my insolence." Alex chuckled.
Alex stood up and stretched his neck and thought about today's battle.
The appearance of the Orc out of nowhere was quite unusual and Alex had a bad feeling about it.
"System, what do you think about the Orc?" Alex asked with a solemn expression.[Host, I don't know anything about. If you are asking me to analyse the Orc then I can ask for your forgiveness. I can't do this kind of thing. The only thing I can do is release your strength bit by bit.]
Alex didn't speak anymore nor belittle the system. If this was any other time both of them would have already engaged in a preaching Dao of Curses contest but now Alex was in no mood to joke about the things.
"Let's examine the specimen first," Alex muttered and stood up with a solemn expression.
...
Inside a huge spacious room which seemed to be used for storage previously was now empty.
The place was the basement and was used for miscellaneous works.
In the middle, there was a huge dead body with a puddle of blood, a trail of blood that after flowing for hours seemed to coagulate and formed a small solidifying puddle.
Alex followed by Hamilton walked towards the huge dead body of the Orc.
As Alex came closer, a faint disgusting foul smell assaulted his nostrils which almost made him throw up.
Since the corpse had been left for hours, it started to rot emitting a pungent rotten smell which can make one-stop eating his food for days.
Alex's nose twitched a little but he didn't care much and squatting down, he started to slide his finger on the slimy Orc's bodies.
After examining the body, a frown appeared on Alex's face and his eyes started to burn with anger.
Hamilton noticed the change in Alex's expression but he didn't rush to ask what Alex discovered and waited for Alex to finish the examination.
Alex stood up and said, "Uncle Hamilton, did you get the details of our fight with Orc?"
Hamilton heard Alex's words and nodded.
"As you know, his wounds would heal quickly as soon as they appeared in the frenzied state but if you look carefully, there are signs of some minor and subtle wounds in his body."
"And I don't think these are scars of the lingering wound that he had got from our battle or any other. It must have been before he became a maniac."
Hamilton's eyebrows furrowed as he couldn't understand Alex's words and asked"Your Highness since orcs belong to warrior tribes, isn't it natural to have the scars and as far as I know the brave warriors of Orc take scars of wars as a symbol of their bravery and valour."
"You are correct about that," Alex spoke while giving a brief nod and pointing at Orc's hands, he further added"But look at that scar. Do you think one can get it from the battle?"
Hamilton frowned and looked at the place Alex pointed.
He bent his body towards the Orc's hand to get closer and to take a better look and as soon as he saw the scars, his eyeball widened with shock and disbelief.
On the wrist of the hands, there were deep round scars which one normally finds in prisoners when they are handcuffed tightly and the scars on the Orc were very similar to that.
Hamilton's body jolted for a moment and he looked at Alex with a solemn expression and asked"Your Highness, what do you think about it?"
Alex also bent down and touched the wound and said"First thing, the scars seemed to be quite recent."
"No, if we think about how he got these. Maybe he had committed a sin and the Orc tribe prisoned this orc or...." Alex's breathing became hastened as he was about to explain the second thing.
"Maybe this Orc is a run away from an experiment centre and this explanation is quite plausible one and there is a good chance of this being true," Alex explained.
Hamilton's face distorted and looked at the Orc with a solemn expression.
If Alex's guess was correct and there was an experiment going on somewhere inside the forest in a secret hideout, the situation is more troublesome than he expected.
Just one frenzied Orc can squash one-fourth of their army and if there were about a dozen of them,only god knows what kind of disaster would befall on them.
"Uncle Hamilton, I need your help to check a few things," Alex spoke.
