In the end, we chose ten distinct locations: Mountain, Valley, Hill, Cavern, Ocean, River, Lake, Forest, Grassland, and Desert. 15,000 orcs would go to each location, leaving 20,000 orcs that would go straight to Tempest, along with the former orc general.
Which brought us to the problem. Or rather, my problem. Naming all of these orcs. SOO MANY ORCS!
Naturally, Izzy disappeared after the conference, reuniting with Risa, who had apparently already returned to Tempest. Luckily, I still had the rest of my subordinates to deal with.
When I gobbled up Geld, I'd made a decision in my mind to accept responsibility in my new role as a leader, something that I'd been hesitant to do ever since I first came across Rigur in the forest.
The first part of that was naming these orcs. All 170,000 of them, one at a time.
Wait. Wise One, is it possible to do this faster? Since I'm just burping up magicules that've been lost to the air after Starved wore off back into their original hosts?
'Notice. If a rigid naming system is set up, Limited Replication may be used to speed up naming.' Wow. Wise One really was better than Great Sage. Great Sage would've never come up with this. In fact, Great Sage hated the usage of Limited Replication, or granting some of my abilities to partial replications of me like Soei did. I'd always envied Soei for that, but now I could do it even better. Apparently, Wise One could control up to a hundred tiny versions of me at once, though these Replications could only work within a few dozen feet of me, since I needed to constantly Provide them with Gluttony, while Wise One controlled them, or they'd just stop being able to use it. Useless under normal circumstances, but for this naming, it was kinda perfect.
Basically, what I had the orcs do was line up into eleven lines of fifteen thousand each, and there were ten of 'me' floating down each line, naming the Orcs in sections based on which line they were in, and their position in said line.
For example, the first person in the Mountain line would be named Morcun. Broken down into 'M' for Mountain, Orc, and then the number One in Spanish. Why Spanish? Why not, I was using numbers from ten other languages, too, after all, depending on the line. For the ones going straight to my town, though, I did something completely different. Those guys got named from strongest to weakest, and were named after the yellow auras that they gave off.
For example, Yone, Ywo, Tree, Your, Yive, Yix, Yeven, Yeight, Yine, Yen, and so on. Once it got to the double digits, it'd be something like Yenty-four.
And as for the Orc General, I decided to make him one of my major Tempest Officers, so I put some of my own magicules into his naming. After all, he seemed like a really sincere dude. For him, I'd do something special.
"For you, I hereby declare that you will inherit the will of the Orc Disaster. You shall be called Geld from now on!"
"Yes, sir!!" Our eyes met. His overflowed with tears, while my magicules flowed into him. Oh, crap. Yeah, I really don't wanna go to sleep.
'Steal a minimum from Risa?'
Wait, I can do that, even though she's not nearby? Would she notice?
'Probability of her complaining is high, but probability of her truly caring is low.'
Alright, then.
As the magicules flowed to Geld from me, I could swear that I could hear Geld promising the Orc Disaster that he'd inherit his will and protect me, who has taken his sins, but it might've just been a hallucination or something.
And thus, by the end of the day, we had 170,000 sleeping, evolving orcs.
The next day, when the orcs all woke from their naming, I suddenly had 168,000 C-ranked high orcs. Technically, they'd all dropped a half-rank or so from a C-plus, but since normal orcs were a straight on D, you wouldn't hear a single complaint.
As for the other two thousand orcs, they were the Elite Orc Corps, the strongest 2,000 of the Yellow Orcs. Decked out in all-black platemail, they were a full half-grade stronger than the other orcs, now boasting a C-plus.
And as for Geld? His evolution was the most crazy of the bunch. Not only had he evolved into an Orc King, which was something basically on par with an Orc Lord, giving him magicules that put him right around Shion, Soei, Hakuro, Ranga, and Raya's level, maybe even Benimaru's on a good day, but he'd also gained a Unique Skill, Gourmet.
Gourmet was basically a support skill by nature, but it was crazy. It gave skills like Stomach, Receive, and Provide, basically turning his Orc King title into something kinda similar to Ranga's Alpha Wolf title. In other words, he could share his power, to an extent, across the entire orc race, granting them skills like Steel Strength and Thought Communication. They also had access to his stomach, which could store about as much as I could, with the object's size being the only limitation. It couldn't store anything bigger than an orc.
Unfortunately, I wasn't done with the naming at that. As much as I wished I was, I had something that I'd been putting off for a while to do, still.
I wanted to give my top staff last names. This wouldn't give them anywhere near as big a leap in strength as giving them their first names had, but still, I wanted to do it at least with the people who'd accompanied me while I had the chance.
I started with Ranga. Not only would he likely take the most effort, since last-naming him would also extend to his entire pack, but it was his pack that would be responsible for leading the orcs to their new homes, and I wanted them out of these marshes as quickly as possible. Waiting for a full day after I'd finished with the orcs, in order to top off my magicules, I gave him the last name Raiko, meaning Child of Lightning. That meant that the Storm Wolves would now have a true 'name' for their pack.
As I'd expected, all it really seemed to do was make Ranga stronger overall, maybe turning the average starwolf from a straight B to a B-plus or so, which would jump up to an A-minus, almost a solid A with a rider. It also seemed to improve the connection between the wolves and their riders, allowing for the hobgoblins to use Shadow Motion for as long as they wanted, so long as they were with their partners. Before, they'd only been able to use it with their partners so long as they could hold their breath, but that problem was now fixed.
As an aside, Rango and Ranta managed to both break the wall to A-rank and them some, making them both solid Hazard-level threats with all the evolutions they'd been doing. Ranga was also capable of summoning two more Star Leaders now, whom I'd named Ranto and Rante. They were also solid Hazard threats.