Episode 199. Orc Hunter (4)
Rubin and Blaine moved into the jungle as soon as the sun set. The jungle was quiet.
In the middle of the jungle, Rubin looked around.
“In five minutes.”
“… … ?”
“Orcs are coming here. So get ready.”
Rubin had built a sort of wall with five stars and four stars of darkness.
The orcs, overwhelmed by the darkness, are still hesitant to rush in, but as I just said, the situation will change in five minutes. That’s because the darkness is slowly being withdrawn.
First, I broke down the wall on the far side, and the eyes of the orcs furthest away began to change.
“I will prepare it right away.”
Blane was as proactive as ever. Without hesitation, he immediately began preparing. He tied his long brown hair back and chose a small dagger from among the many types of swords and secured it in place.
A burn scar extending from the neck to the arms was revealed in an instant. However, the trauma of the burn no longer remained.
First, Blane searched the surroundings and placed weapons in places where the orcs would not find them. This was in anticipation of the possibility of losing the weapons underwater.
Sasa sasa sasa.
Sasa sasa sasa.
The footsteps of the orcs heading this way were getting louder. As Rubin gathered more smoke, the orcs’ encirclement was also closing in.
‘A sniper crossbow… what are you going to do with that?’
Blane confirmed that the jungle vines were strong. He then tied a sniper crossbow to the vines.
It was a heavy and cumbersome weapon with a long range and considerable penetrating power. It seemed like they were taking measures to prevent it from being difficult to engage in close combat with it.
-I guess you’ve been thinking about one-on-many combat for a long time.
Haneke’s praise. Rubin also thought that her handling of the situation of being isolated during a sniper was not bad. It seemed that she had studied it thoroughly with her Roinenser, Burso.
Two minutes until the orcs rush in.
Rubin had torn down all the walls he had built in secret. Now all he had to do was hide his tracks.
Swish.
“…uh?”
Blane looked around. For a moment, he realized that Rubin had disappeared.
I guess it means to focus on the battle. But even if it hides itself, how can it make the darkness disappear?
But it was not the time to leisurely seek out the master.
Sasa sasa sasa.
“Kreurt, krurur, kkeu”
The first to appear were two orcs.
The two orcs sniffed. As they searched for intruders, Blane, who had been hiding behind a tree, jumped out. She drove her dagger into one of the men’s necks.
Push!
Just before the other one could scream, Blane thrust the arrow he was holding into the creature’s throat with all his might.
“Krr, krrr… … .”
Thus began a full-scale battle with the orc horde. The orcs first appeared in pairs and threes before Blane.
Fortunately, it was a sequential appearance rather than a rush.
Wheeee, push!
Wheeeeee, push!
Every time she pulled the bowstring, the orcs fell down one by one. The orcs realized that this human girl was an orc hunter because of her amazing archery skills.
But before that fact could be relayed to the rest of the group, Blane stepped in and took their lives.
‘Let’s focus… . Be concise, be concise.’
Blane focused on delaying the orc’s madness, because once it started, it could really be a matter of life and death.
But then it happened.
Her control became meaningless.
Krrrrrrka.
Krrrrrr.
I felt the madness spreading quickly, one by one.
It wasn’t her fault. It was Rubin who had been controlling the orc’s madness from the beginning.
‘I already miss seeing your face.’
Orcs who have become monsters due to madness have slightly increased combat power. Fortunately, no orc warriors have appeared yet.
-The orc warriors here are 2-star. There seem to be more than one or two. Even if Blane’s realm is close to 3-star, it won’t be easy.
Haneke said, brushing his beard away.
‘It can’t be easy.’
-You really seem like a terrible instructor, Rubin. It would have been fun if your cover had been an Imperial officer instead of an inspector.
Rubin didn’t even laugh at Haneke’s joke. The only emotion that surrounded Rubin now was coldness.
Blaine must be slowly pushed into danger. The moment of imminent destruction must grip her.
Only by facing danger could Blane advance to the next level. It was a practical way, different from teaching magic and forensics directly.
‘It’s the complete opposite of my previous life.’
I was reminded of Blanet from my previous life. In fact, it was Rubin who was being taught back then.
This opposite situation created by regression seemed both funny and exquisite.
‘Let’s pick up the pace now.’
Rubin clears a path for an Orc warrior to push the Orcs further.
Blane, who was moving quickly and killing the orcs one by one, noticed an orc leaping towards him and jumped backwards.
“… … !”
bang!
The two-star orc warrior pulled out his axe from the ground.
Krrrrrr.
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The eyes, blinded by madness, were red as if they would burst. The orc was filled only with the desire to tear apart the human before his eyes.
Of course, the speed of the charge is incomparable to that of the orcs so far. Blane quickly draws his bowstring, but the arrow bounces off the blade of the axe.
Kwaaak!
The next moment, the orc, who had reached Blane’s proximity, opened his mouth wide and tried to bite Blane.
She blocked it with her bow, but the orc warrior’s strength was more than she could handle.
Kwajik!
The bow broke pointlessly. For a moment, anger lit up Blaine’s eyes.
‘How much does this cost?’
Blane first tried to focus on the orc warrior in front of him. He gathered the dark smoke that he had spread out to guard his surroundings and focused on his physical strength, entering the assassination sword technique that could be used in close quarters.
‘I won’t leave it alone!’
She held the two broken bows in each hand. With a quick movement of her arms, she slashed the daggers into the orc warrior’s neck on either side.
Krrrr!
The orc’s head was fixed between the hooves. Blane adjusted the smoke to increase the strength of his arms. He then pressed down on the neck with all his might.
Krr! Krr!
‘You’re so tough!’
Usually, this would kill you. As expected, the vitality of the mad orc warrior was amazing. There was nothing she could do about it. She dropped the bow in her right hand.
The next moment-
Push.
Blane’s dagger quickly dug into the orc’s nape and emerged. It was the small dagger that had held Blane’s hair in place.
Push! Push!
Then he immediately thrust the dagger into the orc warrior’s eyes and finally into his Adam’s apple.
Like the sagging body of an orc, Blane’s loose hair fell down.
“Haa… haa… … !”
Shaking shoulders.
As he used the dark smoke dynamically, a burden immediately came over his body. Blane prepared to fight again without even wiping off the blood of the orc warrior he had just killed.
-Oh.
After that, there were scenes that made Haneke express his sincere admiration.
While she was distracted from fighting the orc warriors, she soon found herself surrounded by a large number of orcs.
Rubin also thought that he should step forward because it seemed like complete isolation, but it was a needless worry.
‘Not yet.’
Blane leaped over an orc’s head. It wasn’t a reckless leap. He was aiming for a sniper crossbow tied to a vine.
Before she hit the ground, she grabbed the vine with her left hand and the handle of the crossbow with her right.
Krrrr!
Kaaaa!
The orcs surrounded her, but could not reach her. As if performing an acrobatic feat, Blane twirled around in the vines, firing his crossbow.
Push!
Push!
It had enough penetrating power to pierce through three orcs at once. It had the appearance of something that could even make madness hesitate. Even Rubin, who was looking at it, smiled without realizing it.
‘But we shouldn’t think of orcs as just monsters.’
Another orc warrior, who had been waiting for the opportunity, barged in. The orc warrior climbed the tree and cut down Blaane’s vines.
thud!
The vine snapped and Blane fell to the ground. But the rest of the orcs did not rush in right away. The orc warrior had marked it for his own use.
“Okay, come.”
Blane shouted, spitting out the blood that had been in his mouth.
* * *
“Imacarum.”
The chief’s tomb is in ruins.
Imakarum watched the water droplets dripping from his wet hair to the floor. He glanced up and saw the owner of this tuhunpu looking at him with surprised eyes.
One of the five chieftains who lead the Tohun tribe, and the person most suitable to become the chieftain.
“Kundalit, it’s been a while. You’ve gotten older.”
“Imakarum! You’re really back. I’m not seeing ghosts, am I?”
“I’m alive. I was just there for a moment while my tombstone was being made.”
Kundalit couldn’t hide his joy and kept wiping his face. Still, as if he couldn’t believe it, he grabbed the back of Imakarum’s head without hesitation.
I moved Imacallum’s head back and forth to check if it was indeed the ‘Wind of the Trace’ that he knew.
“… It hurts, so stop now.”
“Are you becoming more patient? That makes me even more suspicious.”
“Ha… Okay, where did you go and come back now? Did you eat the ‘meat of flesh and blood’?”
It refers to the flesh of flesh, that is, the dead horse carried by Imacarum.
“That guy, he’s the one who helped me cross the polar barrier. He died unfortunately at the last minute. You have to comfort him together. Then, won’t he forget the sorrow of his past life and be reborn as a horse in the Tohun Plains?”
“Okay. I’ll do that.”
“So, where has our chief been?”
Even as he asked, Imakarum anticipated the answer. Kundalit was a chieftain who would not empty his tongu unless absolutely necessary.
The only times he was absent were for reasons beyond his control, namely matters relating to the Empire.
“Is it because of the Imperial Army again? You want me to speak?”
Kundalit nodded with a bitter smile.
“Yes, I am on my way back from meeting with other tribal chiefs to convey the Imperial Army’s intentions. The Imperial bastards said to prepare two thousand horses by this winter.”
“Those guys who will tear me to pieces.”
The five tribes that currently make up the Tuheun tribe each have their own names: ‘Collarbone’, ‘Eyeball’, ‘Knee’, ‘Fang’, and ‘Instep’.
And Kundalit was the chieftain of the Clavicle tribe.
If the Imakarum was the ‘wind of struggle’, the Kundalit was the ‘flame of struggle’.
Imakarum, a powerful chieftain of the Clavicle Tribe, had insisted that Kundalit should become their chieftain even before he was imprisoned in the Empire.
His martial arts were far from Imakarum’s, but he had something Imakarum did not have.
Just knowledge, cool-headedness, and judgment.
‘If I had become the chieftain, the Clavicle Tribe would have all died out already.’
Imakarum was someone who could not be stopped when he was angry, but the only one who could control him was Kundalit. Imakarum truly respected and followed him.
“Let’s leave that gray story for later. By the way, how did you manage to come back alive?”
“Are you curious as to how I got over the barrier?”
“No. I’m curious about something else.”
“what?”
“How did you manage to escape from the Imperial prison? Did they really set you free?”
“If that were the case, I would have said that I would rather pee than shit toward that magnificent palace.”
As he said that, Imacalum laughed softly. Even after he had busted open the head of an Imperial officer and was thrown in prison, he had not thought that he would return to the Tohun Plains alive.
But one day, unexpected luck came to him.
“I heard that place is extremely strict?”
“It’s not just a strict place, it’s a place where you can’t even live. Yes, it’s a shithole for orcs.”
Imakarum smiled as he recalled the events of that day that brought him back here.
The ‘Valley Prison’ of the empire responsible for the western part of the continent. No matter how much you surpassed 5 stars and now 6 stars, it was impossible to escape from there alone.
“A crazy, cool guy stormed the prison. He was as cool as a wild horse’s thighs.”
“… … ?”
“He just ripped my cell door open, Kundalit!”
“Are you kidding me? The Imperial Prison has been breached?”
“I swear by the eyes of a horse.”
“… Then what.”
“I don’t know why he came in there, but it was just him. He completely turned the prison upside down and disappeared. After breaking down the cell doors of the first-class prisoners, including me.”
“Hmm.”
Kundalit scratched his chin and tried to guess the intention of the man who gave Imakarum freedom.
If they had taken out not only Imacallum but also other first-class prisoners… … .
“It seems like there was something you were after.”
“What? Do you know what this is, Chief?”
“Yeah. More or less.”
Imakarum pulled himself closer to the chieftain, his eyes shining.
