The female adventurer who surrendered to the Orcs without resistance was bound with vines instead of rope and taken away.

The young Noble Orc had a vulgar smile on his face, pulling on the end of the vine as if she were his pet dog. The monsters following his command were also laughing.

They were likely happy because while this woman acted as a plaything for their master, their master’s mood would be improved.

And so the female adventurer was dragged along by the Noble Orc and taken into the Orc Kingdom that his father had established.

Even though she would soon be forced to start giving birth to monsters until she died, the female adventurer had no expression on her face. However, nobody noticed this, even the Noble Orc himself.

It was impossible for monsters to read the detailed facial expressions of humans, and the Noble Orc had no interest at all in the woman’s facial expression to begin with.

An oval-faced man sat deeply in his chair with his eyes closed, looking as if he was sleeping. Suddenly, his eyelids flew open and he pressed a handkerchief to his mouth.

「Oh, how repulsive…」

The bloody-smelling breath of Orcs, the laughter of Goblins, the cunning Kobolds. To top it all off, the pigs who were under the impression that they were high-class creatures. And, of course, the women who were being treated like cattle, unable to die even if they wanted to.

The man had been prepared to see this; he had known what he was being requested to do. Even so, he struggled to contain his nausea.

「Are you alright, Luciliano-dono?」

「N-nothing to worry about. Uegh… More importantly, steward-dono, please call for the viscount. I have something to report.」

「Certainly; I will summon the master. I am terribly sorry, but please wait while I do so, Luciliano-dono.」

The butler, who apparently had happened to come by to check up on things, made a cup of fragrant black tea before leaving the room. It was likely an act of consideration, offering Luciliano some tea to ease his nausea while waiting for the master.

With the wonderful aroma of the black tea filling his nostrils, Luciliano felt the disgusting scenery that had been burned into his mind start to fade away. He was careful not to forget it, however, as it was his job to remember it.

「Your reconnaissance succeeded?!」

Shouting loudly about this top-secret request, a handlebar mustache entered the room. No, a nobleman with a handlebar mustache entered the room. Quickly putting his cup down, Luciliano gave the nobleman a bow.

「I will now report, Viscount Berno Balchesse.」

This nobleman, Viscount Berno Balchesse, was the lord of this region and the one who had hired Luciliano.

He appeared to be a smart nobleman in the prime years of his life with no outstanding characteristics other than his magnificent handlebar mustache; he was not an incompetent man. He was your typical nobleman.

「My Live-Dead has safely infiltrated the Orc village.」

Live-Dead. This is a special kind of Undead… no, a creature classified as an Undead, created using life-attribute magic.

It is created by casting a spell on a fresh corpse whose heartbeat and respiration have only just stopped, restarting its biological functions.

Though its heart and lungs move, it is classified as an Undead because it does not have a soul, but it looks no different from a living creature. It is warm to the touch and one can detect signs of life from it using magic. It does appear to be an expressionless, flat-toned person, however.

Its only drawback is that the spell is directly granting life to the body, so it still requires food and sleep. Also, unlike Undead, it is affected by poison and illness.

Viscount Balchesse had hired Luciliano to use this Live-Dead as a familiar and borrow its five senses to confirm whether the rumors were true or not.

The rumors that were drifting among the adventurers… The rumors of a powerful monster haunting the forest-like Devil’s Nest that was further away from the town.

For some time, adventurers venturing to the distant forest-like Devil’s Nest hadn’t been coming back. At first, these were dismissed as being due to the adventurers being unskilled, but a Thief acting solo had witnessed something terrifying. A Noble Orc leading Orcs, Goblins and Kobolds.

In many cases, the intelligent Noble Orcs who were a higher race of Orcs were capable of organizing groups of monsters, and there were several hundred of them around the world.

Luciliano’s job was to determine whether the monster that the Thief saw was really a Noble Orc, and if it was, he was to also find out how many monsters the Noble Orc commanded.

「The Live-Dead I am controlling has been captured by a medium-sized company led by a Noble Orc and has been taken to their village. The location is about three d