The Record of Orc Civilization-Chapter 123 The Brutal Battle Part 2

Kagan felt blood pooling in his throat. His backbone that hit the floor of the arena creaked because Mige slammed his body so hard. Kagan had lost consciousness for a while before struggling to escape Mige’s grip.𝐟𝙧ee𝔀e𝐛𝓃𝐨𝚟𝑒𝗹.c𝗼𝚖

However, Mige took advantage of Kagan’s momentary loss of consciousness to lock his hands so that he could not move. By pinching Kagan’s head and body with his feet, Mige used his body weight to break Kagan’s arm.

But before he could succeed, Kagan shifted his feet so that his body and Mige’s were parallel to each other. Kagan’s hand escapes from Mige’s lock and manages to avoid a situation where he has to fight with one hand.f𝘳ℯℯ𝙬𝒆𝚋𝐧oν𝑒Ɩ.c𝑜𝙢

Mige tries to restore his lead by constantly looking for loopholes for a lethal lockdown but Kagan won’t let Mige beat him that easily. The blood that dripped from the wounds on Mige’s body soaked Kagan so that his body was also covered in blood.

The two of them wrestled with each other for quite a long time but neither of them could outperform their opponent for the time being. The match, which initially uses weapons and stands fight, turns into a ground fight that seeks opportunities to lock up the opponent.

These two fighters are like two snakes coiling each other looking for opportunities to bite and spread venom into their opponent’s body.

Actually the ground fight Mige had planned from the start when he found out that he wouldn’t be able to get close to Kagan with his longer range of weapons. Because of that Mige used this tactic and showed himself being cornered thus catching Kagan off guard.

When Kagan feels he will win this duel, Mige immediately changes the situation by changing the form of the fight. Wrestling is one area that Mige is more proficient in than Kagan.

There is a misconception in the minds of the general public when seeing one martial art is superior to another martial art. The essence of martial arts is just to defend yourself and hurt your opponent. So it is wrong when we favor one martial art compared to another martial art.

A boxer will not be able to beat a wrestler in a wrestling fight and vice versa. Martial art is only superior in certain areas but still inferior to other martial arts in certain respects.

Like the silat that Moku taught the orcs, it couldn’t cover all the orcs’ needs to survive in a fight. Silat itself relies on fast, deadly movements so that if one silat movement is successfully blocked or avoided, a silat practitioner must step back and look for another opportunity.

For this reason, silat practitioners usually use a movement that is more like a dance which they call Kembangan. This Kembangan move itself is useful to outwit the enemy and divert his attention to the deadly attacks that the silat practitioner is hiding.

The nature of silat which focuses on killing its enemies quickly is what causes silat to be unable to become a martial art that is competed in friendly matches.

Even so, the Kembangan moves would be of no use to battles between orcs. A lethal attack targeting the Hampal point wouldn’t kill the orcs directly, they could still fight and even counterattack. Therefore, at the second level of breathing technique, picking the fruit, Moku also teaches some movements from other martial arts in addition.

This is the same with MMA practitioners mixing and combining various martial arts moves as they fight. Even so, a martial practitioner must still have Martial Roots.

What is meant by Martial Roots are the main martial arts that form the foundation of other martial arts after that. Moku, who understood silat more deeply than other martial arts, taught the orcs and made silat as their Martial Roots.

So even though Boku uses a boxing head movement like weave, he still uses Tagak as his footwork, which is a wind step pattern. Meanwhile, even though Mige uses slamming like a judoka, he still uses Tagak Footwork to position his body, which is a lightning step pattern.

So it is a failure of thought for a martial arts practitioner to only limit himself to one martial art or consider one martial art superior to another. They should think that excellence only comes from winning, and the true MMA practitioners will seek victory in any way they can find.

Kagan feels Mige’s locks getting weaker coupled with his slippery body due to being covered in blood causing Kagan to easily escape from Mige’s locks. Kagan smiled he could smell victory again.

He was just waiting for Mige to be exhausted from blood loss and he would immediately turn the situation. Maybe by breaking his neck Mige can be defeated, though Kagan.

However, like his not learning from his previous mistakes. Kagan who thought he would win showed his carelessness. Mige took the opportunity by heading Kagan’s nose hard until it broke.

BUK!!

Blood gushed out of Kagan’s nose and for the second time he temporarily lost consciousness. Mige didn’t waste his chance, he climbed onto Kagan’s back and wrapped his arms around Kagan’s neck, and do Rear Naked Choke.

Kagan’s consciousness returned, he struggled with all his might and pulled Mige’s arms around his neck. Mige kept trying to maintain his position but his weakened body was rapidly losing strength.

Just as he was about to release his lock, Mige unleashed the last energy he had stored up until now, the third level of breathing technique. There was a reason why he had hidden his level up from the other orcs even Moku. This is because he knows that he is still not as strong as Goku or Boku so when the other orcs gang up on him he will surely lose.

Mige was waiting for this moment to create a burst of power assisted by his inner power. “AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!”

Mige’s hand that was wrapped around Kagan’s neck suddenly hardened with such an overwhelming force that Kagan couldn’t make it move. Within seconds there was a *crack* sound from Kagan’s broken neck.

Mige released the lock, his chest heaving and his body getting weaker. The last thing he saw were two giant flowers emerging from the ground. The roots carry Mige and Kagan’s bodies into their flower.

“Fuck!! Can you kill each other with moderation? You just make our work harder!” protested alraune from his family.

Mige smiled and lost consciousness.

….

In Lina’s arena, Swa stepped forward and swung his club with all his might. Torgan was still standing quietly, he took a step back and held his club with both hands on either side.

BAAKK!!

The power of the two orcs collided making their hands tremble violently. Swa wanted to continue his next attack but suddenly his body was brought forward and without him knowing the handle of the Torgan club was approaching his face.

Swa wanted to dodge but he was already in the wrong posture so Torgan’s club handle hit him in the face.

BAM!

Swa skidding for two meters before stopping. He was shocked and his mind was still confused. But Torgan did not pursue to continue his attack.

Swa’s nose was bleeding and although Torgan’s impact was quite light, it had quite an effect on weak areas such as the nose. Swa exhaled the blood that stuck into his nose then stood up with a grin on his face.

“Wing Chun!” said Swa realized.

Torgan just nodded in approval of Swa’s words.

Like Boku and Mige, the other orcs also mastered various martial arts movements other than silat. Torgan uses a mountain step pattern and harmonizes his movements with the martial art of Wing Chun.

That way Torgan took advantage of the power that came from the Swa’s club hit and turned it into a new attack from his club handle.

“What are you doing with Wing Chun, do you know that it’s a female martial art? Wing Chun is useless in a battle between orcs!” Swa said mockingly.

“Really! I didn’t know that! All I know is, I just made your nose bleed” said Torgan innocently.

Swa’s face became gloomy, he snorted loudly “heh! I just didn’t know if you had reached the second level of breathing technique and mastered Wing Chun! But that won’t change your defeat today”

Swa lunged once more and attacked blindly. Torgan stayed with his stance and used a counter-attack to injure Swa. Swa felt like he was punching a spiked rock, every attack he made would end up with Torgan’s counter-attack from a position he didn’t expect.

Even so, Swa continued to attack blindly. As he said, Wing Chun was not very useful against orcs. The damage dealt from the counter-attack doesn’t hurt Swa too much. Even if he was injured, his regeneration ability would immediately heal him.

However, there is a reason why wing Chun is one of the martial arts that Moku teaches the orcs. Moku wants to sharpen the reflexes of the orcs and get them used to counter-attacking every time they receive an attack. However, he did not expect that this martial art was used by Torgan against Swa.