hotmtlnovel Book 3: Chapter 7
Book 3: Chapter 7
Book 3: Chapter 7
Orc Soldier
After killing three orcs, I pulled out the blade and swung it to shed off the blood clot.
It would be a battle against time from here. I had two works to do simultaneously here. How much time I could buy for the townspeople to escape by delaying the orcs, and how many orcs I would be able to neutralize before the orc general realized my presence here.
I moved the minimum required items to my waist poach and my Storage. I chewed on my last remaining rock candy and dried meat from inside my backpack, then I uncorked the stamina recovery potion and mana recovery potion before gulping them down in order to restore my condition that had been exhausted through these three weeks as much as possible.
Fuulets go then.
The potions thick magic element made me let out a heated sigh as though I had just drunk alcohol. I threw away the empty porcelain bottles and my backpack and started running through the gloomy forest where light didnt reach.
There were two more orc teams that were wandering to procure food. They always went through the same route every time, so I should be able to encounter them without problem even if their action changed slightly.
Found them.
I found the second food procurement team not long after I started running.
My magic power still hadnt recovered fully, but I used Body Strengthening even for moving while the mana potions effect was still ongoing.
I used my running momentum to kick on a trees trunk and leaped diagonally. An orc instantly noticed my presence and opened its mouth to yell, but I stabbed the black dagger into its mouth until it pierced through.
Gugaa
These guys were really troublesome. This one didnt die instantly even after I stabbed until inside his skull, and this was with its stamina parameter lowered already.
The orc reached out toward me. I let go of the dagger and quickly stabbed its throat with two hidden weapons that I pulled out from the Storage before getting away from its body.
GAAAAAAAAAH!?
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
The other two finally noticed me with that and yelled angrily despite their confusion. From their perspective, the Stealth level 4 that I was using must made it looked like I was suddenly oozing out from the forest scenery.
I immediately held back the two orcs by swinging around a pendulums blade, pulled out a slender knife from my boot, and tore apart the neck of a still confused orc and driving the dagger deep into its face.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!
The last one brandished its stone axe high above its head and attacked. But perhaps because its combat strength had decreased, its movement was dull and its focus was lacking.
I left the slender knife in the face of the orc I stabbed and dodged the stone axe, then I threw Felds knife above my head to show it off.
The orcs focus was distracted by the knife because of its insufficient concentration.
Buboh!?
I swiftly hit the orcs jaw with a palm strike using Body Strengthening at full strength. Then I caught the falling knife midair and planted it deeply into the orcs exposed lower jaw.
Next
The orc that I attacked first had also already died. Even though its life force was originally powerful, its stamina parameter had decreased so it looked like it was beyond any help.
I collected my knifes from the dead orcs, wiped the blood from them carefully, especially the blood sticking on the steel, then I started running toward my next destination.
Even though they were in a weakened state and their stamina parameter lowered, it was difficult to kill them in one strike if I missed their vital spot because of their high life force. Normally I would have a bit of a harder time if I was facing rank 3 opponent head on, but in their current condition where their concentration was lacking and their combat strength lowered, I was able to deal with several of them simultaneously even without using illusion or Battle Technique.
If possible I wanted to use mana as little as possible until the higher rank variant came out. I would be able to defeat them more consistently with just martial art if I had more weight in my body, but there was no point crying for something that I didnt have.
.
I dealt another food procurement team that consisted of four orcs and a patrolling team of three orcs in the forest with surprise attack just like before.
I had finished off thirteen orcs with this. But I couldnt take my time leisurely. I started running toward the town in order to also deal with the team that was heading there to steal crops from the surrounding farms.
I used Body Strengthening to rush out of the forest swiftly.
When my physical ability was strengthened like this, I could easily surpass the muscle strength of adult male and in agility my parameter could jump up until twice of ordinary person. If such parameter was given to the light body of an early teenage girl, it was possible to run inside a forest faster than a wolf and nimbler than a panther.
I moved through the forest by jumping from rock to rock, or branch to branch without getting down on the ground. When the effect of the recovery potions ran out, I found the orcs before they could get out of the forest.
I had one more mana recovery potion inside my pouch, but I really couldnt waste any mana at all right now to prepare for the fight against the higher rank variant.
I was able to find this team butwas their number a bit higher? Just from a brief glance I could see twelve of them, even so it didnt change what I had to do.
I got a bad premonition but, I had no leeway to observe them first. I entwined my pendulum around a thick branch and climbed up the tree. I strengthened my muscle strength and stealth while jumping from branch to branch. Then I jumped down without pause and launched a surprise attack at the rearmost orc.
But.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
I got found out-? The instant I was about to land a surprise attack, one orc let out a warning scream that echoed through the forest.
But the rearmost orc was unable to find me even after hearing the warning scream. I put my weight behind the black dagger and stabbed its skull. It then collapsed on the ground and served as my cushion.
Fourteen remaining.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
The surrounding orcs also let out a warning scream. The orcs were unable to immediately find me with their lacking concentration while I was still maintaining my Stealth, but with how my first attack was detected like this, I felt a bad premonition and stopped holding back. I allowed myself to use magic with little mana cost.
Feel
This magic could give the sensation of touching or being touched.
I touched the ears of the orcs at the left and right. They instantly got distracted and turned around. I quickly wrapped pendulums strings around the two orcs who were currently unbalanced and strongly pulled. The two orcs fell facing upward and I stabbed into their brains from their necks using a dagger and a knife.
Sixteenth kill.
BUOOOOOOOOOOOOH!
A nearby orc finally detected me with that. It swung down its club that was like a log toward me who had just landed and still kneeling on the ground.
As expected this groups movement was also dull. I slightly lifted my waist and used footwork to dodge the club, then I used the momentum to stab the orcs eyes with two blades that I drew out on my hands.
BUBOOOOH!?
I couldnt reach its brain because of my bad posture. The orc screamed and covered its face with both hands. Then
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
A larger orc charged at me in that opening. It moved with terrifying speed with a rusty great sword at the ready.
Tsu!
An orc soldier! A powerful enemy with rank 4 difficulty level. As expected it was fast, but it wasnt something that I couldnt deal with.
I dodged to outside the range of the great sword while also kicking the blinded orc toward its direction. The orc soldiers great sword bit until halfway into the body of that orc.
Seventeenth.
Seeing the orc soldiers great sword digging into that orc, I immediately drew out a knife from the slit of my skirt and threw it. But
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-!!
The orc soldier let out a war cry in respond. It astonishingly lifted its great sword along with the orcs corpse and used it as shield.
GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
When I tried jumping over that orc soldier, an orc wearing a leather armor and holding a spear attacked. A second orc soldier!?
I quickly fired an arrow from my crossbow gimmick. When I also jumped to the side, the orc soldier rotated its spear to deflect the arrow and dashed toward me at the same time when I landed.
Pain
I too lifted up all restrictions of my magic usage and casted Pain. But I didnt target the spear orc soldier with that.
Buoh!?
I used the Pain on an orc that was just standing around without being able to join the high speed battle. The orc stiffened and I jumped over it to use it as a shield. Then the orc soldiers spear mercilessly pierced through that orc to target me who was behind its back.
Tsu!
I instantly bent backward and dodged the bloodstained spear tip although it managed to graze my shoulder. As I backed away, the spear old soldier swung its weapon to the side at the same time, tossing away its subordinates corpse like trash.
It was merciless even against its fellow orc. But, that was the eighteenth with that.
tsu!?
*DOGOOON-!*
I felt increasing mana and killing intent and leaped away. Then the ground where I was standing on just now and the large tree behind me got cut apart by a shockwave.
When I looked that way, I found a large orc wearing a rusty iron armor and holding a rusty two-handed axe taking a stance once more with the axe that it had just swung down while glaring at me.
Another orc soldier-! There were three of them!!
The attack just now was something that even I had only seen for the first time, but I guessed that it was a Battle Technique of two-handed axe, Iron Break.
There was almost no monster that used Battle Technique even when they were the type to fight in close quarter, so I failed to consider this kind of danger.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!
That orc soldier let out a war cry to command the remaining four normal orcs. It was most likely that orc soldier who saw through my stealthy approach.
The sword orc soldier.
The spear orc soldier.
You had come very close to death many times in just this one year. How did you survive those until now.
What I could do was only my own way of fighting.
Observe. Lay trap. Not a single one of my ways of fighting included the proper way.
Pushed down all your fear and conceit to the bottom of your heart. Simply become a single stroke of iron blade.
Lets show them my way of fighting that wouldnt show up in rank or combat strength.
.
GaGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
The spear orc soldier noticed the change in the atmosphere of battlefield and rushed forward.
Shadow Snatch
I scattered ten small lumps of darkness around me while I myself leaped back into the forest that was starting to get dark with the setting sun.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The spear orc soldier chased after me even while staying wary toward the darkness floating around me.
I moved inside the dark forest by weaving through the small trees that were spread out at the surrounding.
The instant our sights on each other were cut off by a tree trunk that wasnt so thick, the orcs spear lunged forward and stabbed my shadow that ran out from behind the tree.
GUGAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?
I aimed at that instant to circle behind the orc and my black dagger gouged its neck. A pained scream echoed through the dark forest.
It was too shallow. It wasnt fatal yet. I sensed the sword and axe orc soldiers approaching this way, so I didnt continue attacking the spear orc and got back into running through the dark forest once more.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The sword orc soldier charged forward mowed down a shadow together with a small tree.
Even though it was nothing more than a lump of magic element shaped to look like human, it was difficult to instantly distinguish it from me if it took my place inside this dark forest. The sword orc soldier tried to kill me by mowing down everything.
GAAAAAAAAAAAA!
The orc shoulder instantly became furious when it learned that none of its attacks hit. It caused it to step forward between the trees carelessly. But, a weapon flew out from the darkness the orc stepped on at that moment. It pierced the orcs foot through until the other side.
BUMOOOOOOOOO!?
Even though it had the resolve to be hurt, it wouldnt be able to move properly with a blade getting stuck inside its foot. Even so the sword orc readied its sword and kept up its guard against the surrounding darkness despite staying in place.
It then sensed my presence that was approaching from behind and turned around. But the sword orc judged that it was just an illusion seeing the approaching pitch black shadow. It took off its attention from the shadow to look for the real me. It was then, the black me in front of it stabbed its crotch with a dagger.
Gugaa
*Rumble* The sword orc fell on its knees and caused the ground to quake. I also peeled off the shadow illusion from my skin and sighed.
The sword orc hadnt died yet, but I judged that it wouldnt be able to move. In order to deal with the approaching axe orc soldier, I started running toward the normal orcs who were watching from the side.
Buo!?
The four orcs raised their weapons in panic seeing me running toward them with the axe orc soldier right behind me.
Four weapons were swung down. I dodged them all with paper-thin difference while waving through them. Then I scattered the red mustard powder that I took out from my pouch.
BUMOOOOOO!?
The orcs who got their eyes blinded by the stimulants started swinging around their weapons haphazardly due to pain and fear. But all that they accomplished were hitting their friends.
The rampaging orcs hindered the approach of the approaching axe orc soldier. Seeing that the axe orc soldier attacked with Iron Break that would hit all the orcs together with me.
tsu
I used the orcs as shield and endured the most of the impact. I hid behind a surviving orc before becoming two pitch black shadows that rushed out.
BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
The axe orc that had seen me camouflaging myself with illusion hesitated for a bit. But that only lasted for an instant before it started running toward one of the illusions.
It rushed straight toward an illusion as though it was convinced that the shadow was the real thing. The axe swung through the illusion, erasing it.
The axe orc soldier smirked that he chose wrongly. It immediately turned around while swinging its axe in full strength toward the other illusion that was approaching silently from behind.
Buoh!?
But that illusion also got broken by the axe and dispersed easily.
The axe orc was dumbfounded for a moment before it noticed the small darkness spilling out from the pulverized illusions around it. The instant it tried to retreat, one of its eyes was pierced by a crossbow arrow that was fired through a darkness.
!?
In addition I who was hiding myself with Stealth behind it stabbed a black dagger into the back of the axe orc.
The axe orc who had excellent detection ability let its guard down thinking that it could find me anytime. And then it thought one of the illusions was me when it heard breathing sound from the illusion.
But although I was able to land a blow, my blade couldnt reach the orc soldiers head due to the difference in height. The surviving normal orc and also the spear orc soldier that had recovered until it was able to move were running toward me who failed to deal a finishing blow.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
The spear orc soldier let out an angry howl. It let out a spear thrust with all of its strength toward me.
It was aiming at my heart.
It had to kill me in one blow in order to save axe orc soldier that fell into predicament. At least that was what the spear orc soldier thought. The precise attack that was unleashed by a rank 4 who was concentrating its mind to the extreme pierced through my heart without even the slightest bit of deviation in its aim.
Guaa
That excessively accurate thrust perfectly went through the small darkness attached on my chest. The spear tip that flew out from one other darkness pierced through the axe orc soldiers head.
I believed in your strengththe strength of rank 4. If its precision decreased even just a little bit due to impatience like an amateur, it would be me who died.
BUMOOOOOOOOO!!
The last normal orc leaped in order to stop me turning from the collapsing axe orc soldier to spear orc soldier.
Noise
I chanted a dark magic with a whisper. The last orc attacked me together with the spear orc soldier that showed an expression of fury as it discarded the weapon that killed its comrade and rushed at me with its fist raised.
The spear orc soldier attacked to keep me on that spot. The normal orc aimed for that opening and brandished its stone axe from behind me before swinging it
Gah
Not at me, but over my head toward the head of the spear orc soldier, crushing its skull.
The orcs eyes had stopped hurting from the red mustard powder, but its visual acuity was lower than before.
In the first place monster had better five senses than human. They could stay active to some degree even when in darkness, but that was exactly why I thought that they would be able to rely on sound to attack even when their eyes were blinded. And so the normal orc relied on the sound from my Noise and its stone axe struck the spear orc soldiers head.
GUGAAA!
Even so the spear still didnt die. It put its arms around the neck of the normal orc and angrily snapped it. When it turned its bloody face toward me, its wide open eyes caught side of me readying the black dagger for a powerful thrust.
Thrust!
Gah
My Battle Technique was executed, piercing the bloody face of the spear orc soldier right from the front.
And then
Guaa
The last remaining sword orc soldier appeared by dragging its bloody legs on the ground.
Its already weakened stamina was decreasing even more. In addition due to the heavy bleeding, it looked like it was already on its last leg even from the perspective of a human like me. The sword orc soldier saw its comrades corpses and raised the sword that it was using as cane.
BUMOO!!
The huge three meter body swung down the huge sword. But that blades speed was clearly slow.
I took half a step back to dodge that sword. Then I ran on top of the sword when it sank into the ground and I jumped. I stabbed the black dagger that I held in reverse with both hands between the orcs eyes.
.
Haa, haa
I ran out of mana after killing all the orcs and fell on my knees on the spot. I swallowed a pill before I entered a starving state that was an indication of mana exhaustion, then I gulped down my last mana recovery potion in one go.
It wasnt just my mana, I had also overused my stamina. There was also the exhaustion that had been accumulating until now, so my body most likely would be unable to recover completely.
But25 were now dead with this. Just a half more.
I ate more pill and chewed, then I put strength into my trembling legs and stood up. I started walking toward the abandoned village where the orc general was residing, in order to hold back the orcs for the remaining several days.
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