Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 47

Cam Village

The village had fallen to ruins.

Apparently this was the village where the orcs were living in the past.

But, it was destroyed by the elves. This place looked desolate like this all the time to reproduce that setting.

Ponsuke was standing in front of a burnt hut. He touched it with his  fingertip and got black ash sticking on his finger. He rubbed his  fingers together and felt the coarse sensation of the ashes.

「We got into a boss fight at the Capital of Hope’s orc village didn’t we?」

Alfie nodded in recollection.

「It was a disaster that time. Ponsuke fell off from a cliff and had to face the ogre on his own.」

Thirteen players were walking through the desolate village.

There was an altar at the back of the village, but it was in tatter.

Sierra felt really complex when she saw it.

「I understand that this is a game, but it looks too real that I imagined how a lot of things must had happened here.」

The elves who attacked the orc village tried to destroy the altar but  they were unable to do it completely. Ponsuke stood in front of it and  took out the fire dragon’s horn from his item box.

The others also took out things like claw or scale that might react to the altar and offered them on it.

The leader of the orc group Prey spoke while looking at the items that were offered on the altar.

「……There isn’t any reaction.」

Mariela’s shoulders dropped.

「As I thought, there might be another kind of event. It’s too easy to expect to get stronger just by putting things on――」

She spoke until there before everyone other than Sierra reached for their weapon and looked at a single spot.

「W-what is it!?」

Sierra was confused. Nanako who had lowered her stance explained while keeping her gaze fixed on that spot.

「No, umm……we’re detecting someone’s presence」

It was from skill’s effect.

An orc wearing a robe appeared where everyone’s gaze was fixed on.

It seemed to be an NPC. Everyone saw that it had no hostility and let go of their weapon.

The old orc lifted its trembling hand and looked at Ponsuke’s group.

「Oo, the heroes have returned. The brethrens that should have been killed by those elves have come back.」

The old orc looked like he was going to cry. Surely he was an NPC who  appeared for the event but……his acting was too awesome that Ponsuke and  others were feeling troubled.

Even though they thought of this as an event, they helped the old orc  who broke down crying to sit down and listened to his story.

「Can I call you elder? Elder, we offered fire dragon’s horn and claws on the altar but nothing happened.」

Ponsuke asked the question. In respond the old orc told him 「That’s insufficient」.

「You have done well to sacrifice a part of the fire dragon on the  altar. But, you can’t simply leave alone those who destroyed this  village as an orc warrior. Besides, if you don’t take back the jewels  that were embedded on the altar……」

Mariela opened her mouth.

「And? What is it that we specifically have to do? Who is it that we should beat up?」

The old orc’s face changed as though he had seen something filthy.

Alfie pointed at Mariela and laughed.

「Come to think of it, Mariela is an elf. Yaa~y, you enemy of orc」

Mariela glared at Alfie but the orcs got between them. But, it felt  like the orcs were having expectation of getting the two girls’  irritation to be directed to them, so Ponsuke chose to focus on the old  orc’s story.

(We’ll be here forever if I get involved with that.)

「What is it that we should do?」

「……The elves too are a people of the forest. They’re treating this  forest as a training ground. Defeat them and revive the orc village――Cam  Village once more.」

Ponsuke and others had to enter the forest and fought a knight order of elf.

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Mariela sulked and complained inside the forest.

「As I thought this quest won’t be over so simply. I can’t believe that we have to fight elf knights again.」

Alfie’s dress that wasn’t suitable for wearing inside a forets got caught in a branch. She sighed.

「This is fine isn’t it? It won’t be interesting if you can power up so easily.」

Nanako and Sierra were placed under the protection of the orcs. They were going through the forest safely.

Ponsuke and the others were standing at the forefront and opened the path.

「It’s just as Alfie said. Well, defeating the fire dragon was  required for getting out of the Capital of Hope. It wasn’t like we went  through that trouble just for this.」

Ponsuke advanced through the forest while swinging around his  one-handed sword to clear away branches and grasses so that the others  behind him wouldn’t get bothered.

(Compared to before, how do I say this……it feels like I’m really in the middle of nature.)

He advanced through the wilderness while keenly feeling the difference compared to before the update.

Before this there was still something like path or track on the place that they passed through.

While walking forward, Mariela clutched Ponsuke’s clothes from behind to stop him.

It seemed that she sensed enemy presence.

「Ponsuke, they are ahead of us. Also……look, over there.」

Ponsuke looked toward the direction where Mariela was pointing at.  There an elf wearing equipment with a color that blended with the  surrounding scenery was climbing up on a tree’s branch to be the  lookout.

Ponsuke had everyone stopped and thought about what they should do.

「Should we bulldoze our way through?」

Alfie looked exasperated.

「Let’s avoid getting targeted. Besides, I don’t think that there is  only one lookout. There should be others deeper inside the forest.」

He checked on the map, but apparently the elves wouldn’t show up there unless they got discovered first.

Ponsuke looked at the lookout elf.

「His level isn’t high. Perhaps they have great number here?」

The old orc mentioned that the enemy was a knight order.

Surely they had a lot of members.

Then Mariela lifted up her hand a little.

「Then, should I go? It won’t be hard to finish off enemy of that level one-on-one.」

Everyone looked at each other, and then they decided to leave it to Mariela.

Then Mariela equipped her short swords instead of her bow and vanished into the forest.

After a while, she jumped down from above the lookout elf and slashed his neck.

The lookout elf fell while turning into red light and vanished.

Alfie was creeped out seeing what Mariela had just done.

「She’s more like an assassin than a ninja.」

Mariela waved her hand and Ponsuke waved back at her. Then they started walking again.

「No, but she’s a great help like that.」

The upper limit of player level at Capital of Temperance was 80.

Mariela had reached the maximum level and also obtained a lot of jobs and skills from defeating field boss and area boss.

She also learned another way of fighting like this, not just using bow and arrow.

The orc who carried a great sword on his back, Dume muttered.

「Getting killed without even being able to feel pain first is a bit…」

Ponsuke ignored the orcs who were arguing whether Mariela’s attack was acceptable or not and moved forward.

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Ponsuke’s group defeated the elf lookouts and small groups while advancing through the forest.

They were calculating where was the main group located based on the forest’s map and the positioning of the elves.

「As I thought, won’t it be better to attack the main group after defeating all the lookouts?」

Ponsuke pondered. Prey also agreed with him.

「It’ll be troublesome if they link up later, so we better do that.  Based on their positioning, I suspect that they’re at the clearing in  the middle of this forest just as expected.」

Lookouts and small groups were position in a circle around the main  group. Ponsuke and others were advancing while defeating them. They felt  worried because the number of members in the knight order surpassed  their imagination.

「Although we are higher leveled than them, it’ll be a pain to take them on if there is this many.」

Ponsuke was taking memo because he would need to report it later to  the information broker. He summarized all the information that they had  gotten until now.

The break was over and he stood up. He announced that they would be on the move again and started moving.

Then Nanako showed her concern for Sierra.

「Are you alright Sierra-san?」

「I-I’m fine Nanako-chan. My heart just can’t stop pounding from almost dying from the battle’s shockwave.」

Half-fairy was so frail she almost died just from the splash of the battle.

However the half-fairy’s firepower also couldn’t be underestimated at the same time.

The power of Sierra’s magic that she casted while being protected by the orcs was in different level.

The damage that she dealt compared to the orcs who were forcing  themselves to take magic class despite not having the aptitude was in a  completely different scale.

「But, Sierra-san has really been a great help today. You blew up all of those elf knights altogether.」

Sierra smiled bitterly.

「Well, I leveled up once thanks to that. I also won’t die in one hit now as long as it’s not critical hit.」

Ponsuke thought.

(It’s stupid to use the magician orcs as comparison but, she’s still  really good. If she polish her timing or player skill more, she’ll be  able to do a lot more won’t she?)

Ponsuke couldn’t believe that half-fairy was really as bad as the  common players made it out to be. He became curious what the clearers  and a part of the players were thinking about half-fairy.

「Eh? Come to think of it, your physical stats are still low even though your level is quite high already?」

Ponsuke asked curiously. Sierra scratched her cheek.

She looked a bit embarrassed.

「……In exchange I have learned a lot of magic. I was told that it’ll be better for me to use magic one after another.」

MP was needed to use magic. There would also be a cooldown time for skill until it could be used again.

It was possible to use magic in succession, but that didn’t mean she could firing powerful attack over and over.

Sierra looked down while waiting for Ponsuke’s reply.

「What’s important is you yourself have no problem with it. Well, you don’t need to worry when we have this many tanks with us.」

Several orcs with large shield were standing around Sierra to protect her.

Just from a glance of that it was hard to imagine that any enemy  would be able to even get within striking distance to Sierra and Nanako.

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Ponsuke’s group went around defeating enemies before finding the main enemy force.

The elf knight order was resting in a clearing. They consisted of elves with varied jobs, from vanguards to rear guards.

But they were all elves with no other race mixed in.

Among them there was a high elf who served as the commander. His level was the highest at 91.

Ponsuke’s group was hiding in bushes so they wouldn’t get found out. They were observing the knight order.

The long haired man, the high elf commander was telling a story to  the other elves. It seemed he was talking about the orcs who lived in  this forest before.

「In the past there was a hidden village of the orcs in this forest. I  launched an attack to that village and cut down many of those savages.  Look, this is the proof.」

He lifted up the jewel that was hanging on his neck to boast to his subordinates.

He was wearing a white armor that was decorated conspicuously with gold.

He really fit the image of an arrogant high elf.

Alfie glanced at Mariela while finding faults about elf.

「Elf is really no good. Mariela, how about you say something to them?」

Mariela closed her eyes and spoke in irritation.

「Shut up.」

Ponsuke looked around.

Prey and Dume raised their hand to signal that the orcs were in position.

He then looked back at Sierra. She tightly grasped her staff and used magic.

「Here I go.」

Sierra became wrapped in light. The elves immediately reacted with murderous impulse.

「Who’s there!」

The knight commander drew his sword and readied his shield. Then a  rain of light poured down on the place where the elves gathered.

The damage from every single light was small but, each elf would be hit by dozens if not hundreds of those lights.

「Forward!」

Ponsuke roared and the surrounding orcs also roared along. It increased their status temporarily.

Added with the support magic that had been applied on them from  before, the group of orc with slightly strengthened status attacked the  elves.

Ponsuke rushed forward. In front of him a robed elf holding a staff widened his eyes.

「Crush the magicians first!」

They attacked at the magicians first with all their strength through  the surprise attack. The difference of level and the increased status  damaged the enemies so much that they vanished in one hit.

Mariela was backing up Ponsuke with her arrows. Alfie was also slashing at the elves in rapid succession.

At other spot there was Dume swinging around his great sword horizontally. Two elves were transformed into red light particles.

The knight commander gritted his teeth.

「Orc? So there are still survivors!」

The elf magicians started chanting magic.

Ponsuke waved his one-handed sword a little to tell Alfie, Mariela, Nanako, and Sierra to get behind him.

He raised his large shield and prepared to block the magic attacks.

「Burn them to ash!」

The knight commander’s words commanded the magic to be fired one after another.

Fireballs rained down on Ponsuke. They hit his shield and exploded.

There were also lightning and rock. Magic kept attacking one after another, but Ponsuke’s large shield were blocking them.

「Shit! The endurance is going down rapidly.」

Ponsuke checked the remaining endurance value of his shield that was  getting shaved down while blocking the magic attacks on his own.

However――.

「Nowah!」

「T-these guys」

「This pig bastard!」

The elf knights at the surrounding were getting taken down one by one.

Prey stabbed an elf who was hurling abuse at him with the sword in his hand.

「Thank you, that’s a reward for us.」

Even though they were very reliable players, it was all wasted because of their fetish.

But the enemy’s number was a lot.

Ponsuke heard Sierra’s voice from behind.

「I’m ready for the next!」

The orcs around her lowered their shield and she rained down magic on the place where the elves were concentrated.

A large fire ball fell and exploded.

Alfie whistled and looked toward Sierra.

「Half-fairy is really strong. Your magic’s damage is just obscene.」

Magic could deal great damage.

However, the magic from a specialized race like half-fairy was far more powerful than other race.

Some elves turned into red light and vanished, but there were also  elves who recovered their HP using healing magic and the like.

An elf charged forward with a spear. Ponsuke’s one-handed sword flashed horizontally.

It was a slash that was like a flash. It changed the elf into red particles.

「The attack just now is critical huh.」

Ponsuke felt relieved that he was able to defeat the enemy in one hit  while stabbing his weapon on the ground. Then he took out a potion from  his item box and drank it in one gulp.

It was a healing potion that he obtained by paying with real money.  It healed Ponsuke’s HP drastically. Then he grabbed his sword’s handle  and readied it.

He looked around. Some elves were targeting Mariela and the others at the rear. He moved in front of them.

「I won’t let you pass!」

「You stink you pig bastard!」

Ponsuke blocked the elf female knight’s words and strike with his shield, but he was hurt inside.

「I stink you said……isn’t that cruel?」

Despite his appearance he was a high school student at the inside. He  was in the age where he was very sensitive toward something like that.

Not to mention the one who said that was a beautiful female knight  and it was said as a serious insult. It was very hurtful to Ponsuke.

Alfie attacked that group of elf from behind, catching them in a pincer attack between her and Ponsuke.

When he looked around, he saw that the number of the elves had been reduced greatly.

Apparently Prey commanded the orcs to prioritize defeating the elf healers.

「If only he can be serious like that all the time……wait, where’s the commander?」

He hurriedly looked around and saw Nanako getting blown away. She fell and rolled on the ground.

Mariela turned around, but she was struck with magic before she could shoot her arrow. She was sent flying.

「Mariela!」

Alfie rushed to help the two, while Ponsuke readied his shield.

Ahead of him was the knight commander who had taken Sierra hostage. He slowly walked toward Ponsuke.

「These filthy pigs and other inferior races. You dare to anger a high elf like me」

「P-Ponsuke-san」

Sierra trembled when she felt a sword being pressed on her neck.

This was a game but, that sensation felt real――no, without any real  world experience, she didn’t have anything to compare it with and it  felt very real.

The knight commander discarded his shield and pointed his left hand at Ponsuke.

「I’ll roast you whole you pigs. Consider her life as forfeit if any of you move.」

This was inside a game.

Taking someone hostage didn’t really mean anything here.

But, Ponsuke and the others stopped moving.

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