hotmtlnovel Chapter 113: Flaw
Chapter 113: Flaw
"Everyone! Keep up the pace! No need to force things, in a few more minutes this grunt would die on its own!" Shye said in a loud voice to remind his party members to remain careful until the end.
It was pretty evident that the orc grunt, although in a berserk state, was having a hard time finishing one of them off due to their impeccable teamwork.
Sure, the orc sends them flying occasionally, making them spit out blood, but with a single [Contact Casting] heal from Wendy, it was as if their internal and external wounds never happened so as long as they fight the berserk grunt carefully and not allow it to one shot them, everything should be fine.
Unfortunately, their battle plan was about to be ruined as heavy footsteps sounded from the nearby shrubbery.
"Ian, can you check what that sound is?" Shye said as he took a glance at Ian before focusing on the berserk orc again.
"Yeah, leave it to me"
Under party leader Shye's orders, Ian Izanagi, the scout of the party, used one of his skills, [Enhanced Senses Lv.2], to check what was going on behind the shrubbery.
Ian's pupils constricted upon realizing what was going on.
Another towering bipedal creature with the same green skin, bulging muscles, and lodestone axe was madly sprinting toward their location.
"Shit! Crowley! The other orc grunt is here!" Ian said as he looked towards Shye, waiting for instructions from their party leader.
'Tch! Well, it's about time it noticed the commotion...' Shye inwardly thought as he calmly analyzed the situation.
Wendy was located right behind him, the two of them were the closest ones to the dying berserk orc while Kiin, Siegfried, Ian, David, and Harry were the ones in an optimal position to fight the healthy rushing orc.
It would be a disaster if they tried to fight this orc grunt duo together so it would be better to separate the two.
The dying orc would only last for about ten minutes anyway so he thought that he and Wendy could lure it away and take it out while the other five work together to try and fight the other orc grunt.
'Yeah, I guess that's the best course of action right now.'
*BANG*
Shye clashed with the orc multiple times and his arms were starting to feel numb, he had to think of a solution, and fast.
Fortunately, 20 seconds before the blessings ran out, Shye noticed something.
During their clashes, the orc seemed uncomfortable lingering on a certain spot, the area where the sunlight pierced through the leafless part of a tree.
Although the orc was fine fighting in that area for a few seconds, it immediately left the spot whenever it had the chance to.
'Does it hate sunlight? Why?' After realizing this weird behavior, Shye had an idea.
He quickly glanced at Wendy and said: "Wendy! Cast a barrier on me when I give the signal!" before dodging a deadly strike and rushing towards the spot with sunlight.
"Got it!"
Naturally, the berserk orc chased Shye as he ran to the spot with sunlight, then, once he arrived, he quickly turned around to face the orc and said: "Wendy! Now!"
*SHING*
A small but thick barrier covered Shye as the orc used its skill again [Brutish Slash] to chop him in half.
*CRACK*
Even Wendy's thick barrier failed to completely block the orc's skill-empowered attack as it cracked and was finally destroyed after taking the brunt of the orc's strike.
Fortunately, the barrier was enough to let Shye follow through with his experiment. Immediately after the barrier was destroyed, Shye used [Dash Lv.3] to dash past the orc.
Then, under the majestic rays of sunlight, he used [Power Slash Lv.3] to try and cut through the orc's right leg as he passed through the brute using his dash skill, hoping that he could at least inflict a deep wound on the orc's leg making it hard for the grunt to move.
*SPURT*
To his surprise, the orc's entire leg...