Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 78

Orc Battle (2)

[Bubooo…]

When I pulled back the blades that had pierced their brain, those two Orcs collapsed at the same time.

From here on, it would be a race against time. It would be an operation to buy time for the residents to escape and to see how much I could incapacitate the Orcs until the Orc general realized my presence.

I transferred the minimum necessary cargo to my waist pouch and Shadow Storage.

I devoured the last remaining ice sugar and dried meat in my backpack, and to regain some of the physical energy I had lost over the past three weeks, I pulled out the corks of the strength-restoring and magic-restoring potions and gulped them down.

“Phew…let’s go.”

Exhaling a hot breath as if I had drunk alcohol instead of medicine because of the high concentration of the magical elements in the potions. Later I threw down the empty ceramic bottle and my backpack, and started running out of the dimly lit forest where the sun did not reach.

There were only two more food-procurement Orc teams in the forest. They had taken almost the same route every time they came searching for food, so even if their path changed a little, I should be able to catch up with them without many hurdles.

“There you are.”

A few minutes after I started running, I had caught up to the second food gathering group at a distance about 1,200 meters from the first.

I had not yet recovered all of my magic power, but I had used the body enhancement to move while the magic potion was still effective.

With the same momentum, I kicked the tree trunk and jumped at an angle aiming at its head, and right after, I thrust my black dagger into the mouth of the Orc who noticed me and was attempting to get the attention of other Orc members from his group.

[Gugah…]

They were a troublesome bunch. Even though their strength values were down, the dagger couldn’t be penetrated to the medulla oblongata and kill instantly.

As the Orc pierced by the dagger tried to reach for me, I let go of the dagger and stabbed the two dark weapons from Shadow Storage into his throat and took off.

[Gaaah!!!]

[Bumoooh!!!].

Then the other two Orcs had finally noticed what was happening and screamed in bewilderment and anger.

According to them, I, who was using Level 4 Concealment, must have looked like a sudden blot from the forest landscape.

I quickly swung the blade of my pendulum to keep the two in check, then pulled a spare knife and a thin knife from my boot, slashed the still bewildered Orc in the neck using the spare knife before thrusting the thin knife into its faces.

[Bumoooh!!!]

The last one swung his stone axe and attacked.

But perhaps because of its reduced combat power, it moved slowly and lacked focus.

I easily avoided the Orc’s stone axe, leaving a thin knife in the second Orc’s face, and then threw Feld’s knife over the first Orc’s head to distract it.

The distraction was a success, with the Orc’s head following the trajectory of the knife.

Taking advantage of that, I quickly wrapped the thread of the pendulum around the Orc’s neck, and as I moved behind him with Taijutsu, I strangled him with the thread while kicking him in the back of his head. And as predicted and grabbing the falling knife in midair, I stabbed it horizontally into the Orc’s neck.

“…next.”

The first Orc she had stabbed was already dead. Even though it had a strong life force, it didn’t seem to last long as its strength value had dropped.

I retrieved the knife from the dead Orc, wiped off the blood stains, and started running, looking for my next target.

Even though the Orc’s vitality value was lowered due to weakness, it was still difficult to kill it with a single blow other than a sharp one.

Normally, if I were to fight Rank 3 Orcs fairly in their ideal states, they would be a bit more difficult to deal with, but now that they lacked concentration and their combat power was lowered, it seemed that I could still deal with a few of them without using illusions or combat skills.

If possible, I wanted to keep the consumption of magic power minimum until the higher level species showed up.

If I had a little more weight, I would be able to defeat them with Taijutsu alone, but there was no use in asking for something I didn’t have.

Likewise, I took out three of the food procurement teams I had found in the forest, plus the three Orcs that had been patrolling, caught by surprise, as I had done earlier with other Orcs.

That would bring the total number to thirteen, but I couldn’t dawdle yet. Soon I started running to deal with those who had gone to the farms to steal the crops before they reached the town’s perimeter.

I used my body enhancements to run through the forest as if I were gliding.

With the enhancements, my muscle strength easily exceeded that of an adult male, and my agility was nearly doubled that of the average person. Using this with my light-weight, early teenage body, I could run through the forest lighter than a panther and faster than a wolf.

I did not land on the ground, but instead leapt from rock to rock through the forest, and when the effects of the recovery potion started to wear off, I was able to catch the Orcs before they could leave the forest.

I had another bottle of magic recovery potion in my pouch, but considering the battle against the higher species, I couldn’t really waste any more magic power for now.

But…a little too many? It looked like there were twelve of them just by throwing a simple glance at them, but that didn’t change what I was going to do.

I had a bad feeling about this, but I didn’t have the luxury of time to observe these guys from this distance.

I wrapped the pendulum around a thick branch, climbed up a little, and started to jump from one branch to another, strengthening my muscles and Concealment, I jumped down and surprised one of the Orcs walking at the end of the group.

[Bumoooh!!!]

Did it see me? Just as I was about to catch it off guard, a sudden cry of alarm from one of the Orcs in that group echoed through the forest.

But the last of the Orcs, unable to detect me even after hearing a warning call, was pierced through the medulla oblongata by a black dagger and fell to the ground as if to cushion me.

–the fourteenth body.

[Bumoooooh!!!]

[Buuuuuooooh!!!]

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The surrounding Orcs roared in alarm, but the unfocused Orcs, because I was still activating my Concealment, did not find me, regardless of how much they kept looking around.

“–Feel–“

I stopped putting out the Intimidate and unleashed the less consumptive magic.

Using Feel, which gave the sensation of being touched by something, I touched the ears of the Orcs on either side of me and created illusions to further distract them, then wrapped the thread of my pendulum around their necks and pulled it back, and then, followed up with as stab to the base of their skull to reach their brain and killing them.

–The sixteenth body.

[Buuuuuooooh!!!!]

A nearby Orc was finally able to notice me, then he soon swung down his raised club at me, who had just landed down on the ground and was still squatting on knees.

These guys were slow, so it was easy to avoid them. I stepped forward and lowered my body without losing my balance and ducked to avoid the cudgel, and then pulled out a dagger and a thin knife, which I then thrust into the attacking Orcs’ eyes.

[Bumoooh!!!]

The Orc roared and held his face with both hands, but his position was not good enough for me to penetrate his brain.

[Bumoooh!!!]

As if wanting to take advantage of this opportunity, a large Orc with a rusty greatsword at ready attacked with incredible force.

An Orc Soldier! A powerful foe of Rank 4. It was indeed fast, but still not too fast for me to be hard to deal with.

Soon I jumped backward to avoid it, and while at it, I kicked the Orc that was still holding his face in the direction of the attacking Orc Soldier. The Orc Soldier’s greatsword sliced through the Orc’s body, that I pushed in the way of the slash, splitting it halfway.

–The seventeenth body.

Seeing the Orc Soldier’s greatsword cutting into the Orc, I quickly pulled out my thin knife from the slit of my skirt and threw it.

[Bumoooh!!!]

In response, the Orc Soldier let out a yell and lifted the dead Orc with its

greatsword, using it as a shield against my knife.

[Gaah!!!]

A leather-armored Orc holding a spear attacked, covering for the greatsword-wielding Orc Soldier.

A second Orc Soldier!

I Immediately, I shot a crossbow arrow from my mini-crossbow and aiming to the side, and the Orc Soldier who was aimed at rotates its spear to block the arrow, and after kicking the ground he started to chase after me right after I landed on the ground.

“–Shadow Pain–“

I unleashed all my magic and released Shadow Pain, but it wasn’t aimed at the Orc Soldier using the spear.

[Booooo!!!]

I used Shadow Pain on the Orc that was standing still at the sidelines, unable to break into the fight. I jumped over to use it as a shield, while wrapping a string around its neck. The Orc Soldier’s spear mercilessly penetrated the Orc’s body.

“Kuh!”

Having achieved my goal, I quickly turned my back and barely managed to avoid the bloody tip of the spear as it scraped against my shoulder.

Furthermore, at the same time I backed down, the spear wielding Orc Soldier swung his spear to the side and tossed the Orc carcass away like garbage.

But this was the eighteenth–

“!?”

As I again jumped to the side to avoid the unknown attack, feeling a surge of magical power and killing intent, the ground I had been on and the large tree behind me were cut apart by the shockwave.

When I turned my eyes in that direction, I saw an Orc with rusted iron armor and a rusted two-handed axe. Holding the axe, he swung down again with his eyes glaring at me.

Another Orc Soldier! The third one!

This was the first time I’d seen this, but I thought it’s probably the two-handed axe’s Combat Skill, Iron Break.

I had forgotten the danger of Combat Skills, since there were not many monsters using it.

[Bumoooh!!!].

That Orc Soldier gave a heroic cry and gave instructions to the four remaining normal Orcs. Perhaps this was the one who had first spotted my approach.

An Orc Soldier with the big sword.

An Orc Soldier with a spear.

An Orc Soldier with a two-handed axe.

Even though Orcs were in dire need of food, I doubted that they would have three Orc Soldiers of Rank 4 escort the group of Orcs to the village to procure food.

With this kind of force, I would rather believe that they were going to attack the town directly and kidnap back the humans.

This was precisely the kind of unexpected situation I had feared. I had been careful not to let my presence be found by any high-ranking Orcs, so I could avoid this situation, but it couldn’t be helped…

The spear holding Orc Soldier stepped back slightly as if to regroup with others, and the greatsword and two-handed axe wielding Orcs soldier stepped forward to line up beside him.

Should I have observed them first? But I didn’t have the time… and even if I had done a rush attack, I would have still only been able to fight and kill one Orc Soldier at a time. For now, I would use this experience as a lesson for future plans…

It was an unexpected move for me to do, and since they already realized that there was a raid, I was impressed at the Orc general who immediately directed his soldiers with good judgment.

However, even if the Orc General’s decision was right one normally, it would was not yet decide the results of the battle.

“…”

As I faced the Orc Soldiers, I exhaled as if to cool my fire and steadily gripped my black dagger.

Unexpected, but also a blessing for me.

I was able to stop three Orc Soldiers from heading into town.

At least, I avoided having to deal with four Orc Soldiers and an Orc General at the same time.

I would not let these Orcs pass this forest. I would also not let them return to their base. I didn’t mean to imply that I was fighting for others, but they had become my enemy.

(Defeating you will make me much stronger)