Heroine Survival Vol 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.

「Fuu……let’s go then.」

The potion’s 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 didn’t 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 hadn’t recovered fully, but I used Body  Strengthening even for moving while the mana potion’s effect was still  ongoing.

I used my running momentum to kick on a tree’s 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 didn’t 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 pendulum’s  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 Feld’s knife above my head to show it off.

The orc’s focus was distracted by the knife because of its insufficient concentration.

『Buboh!?』

I swiftly hit the orc’s jaw with a palm strike using Body  Strengthening at full strength. Then I caught the falling knife midair  and planted it deeply into the orc’s 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 didn’t have.

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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 couldn’t 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  couldn’t waste any mana at all right now to prepare for the fight  against the higher rank variant.

I was able to find this team but……was their number a bit higher? Just  from a brief glance I could see twelve of them, even so it didn’t  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 pendulum’s 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 group’s movement was also dull. I slightly lifted my  waist and used footwork to dodge the club, then I used the momentum to  stab the orc’s eyes with two blades that I drew out on my hands.

『BUBOOOOH!?』

I couldn’t 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 wasn’t something that I couldn’t deal with.

I dodged to outside the range of the great sword while also kicking  the blinded orc toward its direction. The orc soldier’s great sword bit  until halfway into the body of that orc.

──Seventeenth.

Seeing the orc soldier’s 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 orc’s 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 didn’t 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 soldier’s 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 subordinate’s 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.

The axe orc soldier.

Even with the majority of the orcs in the settlement getting weakened  and put them into a tough situation, I never foresaw that three rank 4  orc soldiers would be assigned to guard the food procurement at the  human settlement.

Most likely their purpose wasn’t just to steal crops. They must be  planning to also attack the town directly and kidnapped humans with this  much combat strength coming along.

This was an unforeseen situation that I was afraid of. I had paid  attention to hide my existence here until now so that something like  this wouldn’t happen at the initial period, but things didn’t go like I  wanted…….

The spear orc soldier backed away to regain its footing for the  moment, while the sword and axe orc soldiers stepped forward to stand  side by side.

Perhaps I should observe this group first at the beginning even  though there was no time……. But this result was also due to the time and  situation, and even then it was only one orc soldier that ambushed me  at the beginning. This would serve as good practice for the future.

This was something unforeseen for me but, the orc general’s decision  to arrange this could be said as correct because in the end someone like  me really attacked the group.

But, even though that decision was correct, whether that decision was  “right” or not still remained to be seen until the result came out.

『『『…………』』』

I got into a glaring match with the orc soldiers while exhaling in  order to cool down the heat inside me. Then I quietly held the black  dagger in ready.

It was an unforeseen situation but, it was fortunate for me.

I was able to stop these three orc soldiers from heading to the town.  At the very least I managed to avoid a situation where I had to face  the orc general and four or soldiers at the same time.

You three couldn’t be allowed to proceed ahead. I also wouldn’t allow  you three to return to that base. I had no intention to claim that I  was fighting for other people’s sake but, you guys had become my  “enemy”.

I would become slightly stronger again by defeating you three.

I switched my way of thinking from attacking to battle. I analyzed the enemies’ combat strength once more.

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▼《Sword》Orc Soldier　Race：Beast Demihuman・Rank４

【Magic Power：１３４／１５０】【Stamina：２４６／５８０】

【Overall Combat Strength：５２９／８９８（With Body Strengthening：６２７／１０６３）】▽41％DOWN

【Status：Weakened】

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The sword orc soldier had the biggest body build with height that  surpassed three meters. It was only wearing bracelet and straw skirt  other than the great sword that was almost two meter tall. It must be  because even equipment in the size for large human wouldn’t match it.

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▼《Spear》Orc Soldier　Race：Beast Demihuman・Rank４

【Magic Power：１41／１6０】【Stamina：２32／５2０】

【Overall Combat Strength：５２1／８6８（With Body Strengthening：６1７／１０28）】▽40％DOWN

【Status：Weakened】

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The spear orc soldier was only a bit bigger than a normal orc. It  must be a light warrior type. It was wearing leather armor on its  shoulders and chest. Its movement was fast and its attack precisely  accurate.

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▼《Axe》Orc Soldier　Race：Beast Demihuman・Rank４

【Magic Power：１４6／１75】【Stamina：２52／５5０】

【Overall Combat Strength：627／9９８（With Body Strengthening：７74／１181）】▽35％DOWN

【Status：Weakened】

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The axe orc soldier was two and half meters tall and wearing  unrefined iron breastplate and hand protector. This one was the one that  I had to be on my guard the most seeing how it seen through my surprise  attack and how it used Battle Technique.

「…………」

As expected from rank 4……if they were in perfect condition, they were  powerful enemies that would be difficult to defeat even if I faced them  one on one, but their bodies were being gnawed by my poison right now  and their combat strength had fallen until around my level.

Even so it was only their stamina and status that were lowered by the  poison. Their combat skills were still level 4 and judging from their  movements before this, it would be pointless to expect that their  concentration was lowered by their weakened status.

Other than them I also had to pay attention to the remaining four  normal orcs. I didn’t know whether they would get involved into the  fight with their combat strength halved like that, but the fight’s  situation would greatly changed depending on their action.

『BUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!』

The sword orc soldier finally snapped and leaped toward me.

Its three meter huge body left the ground gouged as it approached. It  howled as it swung down its powerful sword. I didn’t choose to dodge  and stepped forward instead.

It would be pointless to dodge for some half-hearted distance against  a two-handed weapon with wide range. The sword orc soldier immediately  met my approach with its sword handle.

But I had experienced that kind of interception from Feld. I used a  special footwork and stride aside to dodge while aiming at the orc’s  knee joint with my black dagger.

The orc kicked at me with its leg that was like a log when it noticed my attempt.

I too instantly gave up my attempt and blocked the kicking leg with  the bottom of my foot to use it as a foothold. I jumped backward using  the momentum and opened the distance between us. Then──

『BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!』

The axe orc soldier that had been quietly observing rushed forward to take advantage of that opening.

It had judged that my speed was superior to it and swung horizontally  in a large arc using its axe. I used my flying momentum to put my hands  on the ground and somersaulted to open more distance. The axe’s wind  pressure blew through as the axe grazed my back.

「──tsu!」

I spun along with my body and used my skirt that was fluttering wide  as a cover while pulling knife from my thigh holster and threw it.

The axe orc soldier that came chasing after me calmly used its iron  breastplate to block the knife throw. It then continued chasing after me  without stopping.

I judged that it would be dangerous to approach this orc carelessly. I  backed away while throwing my pendulums right to the sides. Then using  Body Strengthening in full strength, I pulled on the strings by folding  my arms. The pendulums slice through the air loudly and intercepted the  axe orc soldier from left and right.

『Bumoh!?』

The orc was wary toward the pendulums as it was its first time seeing them. It quickly jumped away from that spot.

I also controlled the strings and changed the pendulum’s trajectory.  The axe orc soldier noticed the blades attached on the pendulums and  swung its axe in a large arc.

『BUMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!』

A flash──.

Axe’s Battle Technique, Iron Break didn’t only deflected the two pendulums. The shockwave also reached and affected me.

「──kuh」

I barely avoided direct hit, even so I couldn’t completely dodge the  shockwave’s impact and my light body got blown away greatly.

『GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!』

The spear orc soldier saw my unbalanced posture as a great chance and  rushed forward. I parried the spear tip that was swiftly lunging at me,  but the orc didn’t stop with that and slammed its body on me, blowing  me away.

「Guh!」

I used martial art to spin my body acrobatically while fixing my  posture. But the sword orc soldier had approached behind me when I  realized it. It brandished its sword toward me.

「──Pain──!」

The orc froze for an instant from the dark magic I chanted, but it glared fiercely and kicked me away.

The sword orc soldier must have the resolve to feel pain seeing how  it didn’t wear armor. But I managed to put up my guard using that  momentary opening. I managed to reduce the impact and regained my  balance even after rolling on the forest’s ground that was covered with  dry leaves.

「…………」

『『『……』』』

The orc soldiers kept some distance from me to rally themselves. They got into a glaring match with me again after that.

Seeing the higher rank variants having the advantage in their fight  against an opponent that killed their comrades in the blink of eye, the  remaining orcs cheered and made a ruckus.

My stamina had been reduced by more than thirty percent even just in  this short time. And yet I hadn’t managed to even land a single blow.

So this was “rank 4”…….

Although their combat strength had decreased, the combat experiences  and skills that had brought them until this far hadn’t vanished and  still burned inside their soul.

「……fuu」

I exhaled out a breath that sounded a bit like a laugh. The orc soldiers kept up their guard warily.

…………I’m really a moron.

I thought that I would be able to fight against three rank 4 just  because their parameters had dropped and their combat strength now  matched mine. Even though I was aware  that carelessness would lead to  death, I had become completely conceited just from getting a bit  stronger.

These three orc soldiers recognized a mere human child like me as  “enemy”. They were putting in serious effort to grasp victory for their  group without letting their guard down.

And yet, I was filling my mind with the foolish thinking of keeping  “spare strength” for the next fight even though I was currently facing  three rank 4, opponents that were clearly above me.

I spat out the blood pooling inside my mouth. My body let go of all  tensions and I shifted my posture so that only one side of my body faced  forward. Seeing that the orc soldiers became even warier and let out  threatening growls. They also started to close the distance gradually.

「…………」

I kept all of them within my sight while asking my own “resolve” inside my heart.

Remember that you are “the weak”.

Remember how have you been fighting until now.

You had never won against a stronger opponent by fighting head on, not even once.

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』.

Let’s show them “my” way of fighting that wouldn’t show up in rank or combat strength.

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『……Ga…GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!』

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 wasn’t so thick, the orc’s 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 wasn’t fatal yet. I sensed the sword and axe  orc soldiers approaching this way, so I didn’t 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 orc’s foot through until the other  side.

『BUMOOOOOOOOO!?』

Even though it had the resolve to be hurt, it wouldn’t 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.

『……Gu…gaa』

*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 hadn’t died yet, but I judged that it wouldn’t 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 couldn’t reach the  orc soldier’s 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 soldier’s head.

I believed in your strength──the 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.

「……Noice……」

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 orc’s 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 soldier’s  head.

『GUGAAA──!』

Even so the spear still didn’t 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 blade’s 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 orc’s eyes.

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「…………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 wasn’t 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…….

But……25 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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