Ch.170Chapter 170: Orc King (1)

# Chapter 170: Orc King (1)

The sight of ice spreading from Glaceon’s eyes and freezing the river was truly magnificent.

“KWEEEEEK!”

The ice did more than just freeze the river—it froze even the orcs riding on the rafts.

CRACKKKK—!

It was such a surreal and beautiful sight that it seemed as if time itself had frozen throughout the world.

Walt and his companions fell onto the solidly frozen river.

They had braced for impact, but the sound was strange.

Pong-!

Not a thud or a crash, but a “pong.”

It was Walt’s restriction skill, “Do No Harm,” that had activated.

For Walt, who had momentarily forgotten about his restriction skill, this was the best possible outcome.

‘I can’t believe this helped here of all places!’

Since Walt’s hand was being held by his friends’ hands, the system had judged that Walt had directly attacked his friends’ hands.

They were incredibly lucky.

The four of them landed on the frozen river without any impact.

Thump-

Lisa wore an expression of disbelief.

“Am I… am I alive?”

Lilith also looked surprised.

“I-I think so, Lisa.”

But something was strange about Arias.

“…I’m doomed.”

While Lisa and Lilith were sharing their relief at surviving, Arias had buried her face in her knees, completely at a loss.

After confirming his companions were safe, Walt immediately got up and drank the last of Lamrpo’s special recovery potion.

Then he shouted like thunder.

[KROOOOOOOOOOO!!]

A battle cry that raised allies’ morale and made them forget their fear.

And Walt shouted once more to the soldiers.

[This miracle was created by you! Annihilate the orcs!!]

The allied forces, who had been confused about what was happening, regained their senses with Walt’s battle cry and began charging at the frozen orcs under his command.

“Prince Walt has come to our aid! Everyone, charge!”

“Avenge your fallen comrades!!”

No soldier failed to recognize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity created by Callex’s leadership, the unbelievable power of Glaceon’s eyes.

The river had frozen solid and wouldn’t break even with soldiers standing on it.

Tens of thousands of orcs were frozen along with their rafts.

All the soldiers had to do was run across the frozen river and cut off the orcs’ heads.

“Don’t leave a single one alive!!”

“UWAAAAAAAA!!”

The Eastern Alliance soldiers began overwhelming the orcs.

***

At the moment Glaceon’s eyes activated.

King Jerdin could feel the enormous magical power.

“So they finally used it… but how?”

King Jerdin’s reluctance to use Glaceon’s eyes wasn’t just for political reasons as Veron had thought.

As the king of a nation, Jerdin had more information than ordinary people and knew that Glaceon’s eyes didn’t just require the magical power of twenty 5th-circle mages.

That was merely the minimum requirement.

There was a possibility that the artifact’s unpredictability could render all allied mages completely incapacitated for battle.

King Jerdin set aside the question of how Glaceon’s eyes had been activated and focused on the rapidly changing situation.

The situation was quickly turning favorable for their forces.

It wasn’t their forces but the orc army that was being cut down by a single artifact.

A picture was forming of 600,000 outnumbered troops surrounding 1 million superior forces.

Moreover, about 200,000 enemy troops had already been neutralized on the river.

Jerdin didn’t know yet that this absurd situation had been brought about by a single barbarian.

Jerdin had been feeling pressured.

Even if he managed to take down the Orc King, the allied forces’ casualties were too great to call it a perfect victory.

But now the situation had reversed.

King Jerdin slowed the pace of his mount that he had been urgently pushing forward.

“All forces, slow your advance!!”

King Jerdin wasn’t someone who had become king of a nation by playing games.

He was a conqueror, a man seasoned in war.

Right now, simply slowing down would allow his troops to conserve energy while weakening the Orc King’s main forces.

The Orc King needed troops to replace the 200,000 frozen orc forces by the river.

Indeed, the flow of the orc army was tilting from the center toward the river.

King Jerdin gave orders to his troops with a satisfied smile.

“Conserve your strength and save your energy! The decisive battle is approaching. Advance with the surrounding soldiers!”

One Grand Master.

Thirty Masters.

1,200 Experts.

200 mages of 5th circle or higher.

Jerdin’s elite forces stopped their urgent breakthrough and began clearing the surrounding area.

It was like a massive bomb exploding in the middle of the orc forces’ frontlines.

“KWEEEEEK!”

The orcs charged in, but Jerdin found them laughable.

Woooong-

The Grand Master’s aura enveloped Jerdin’s beloved sword, Black Light.

“You vermin.”

With those words, Jerdin swung Black Light, which gleamed with darkness true to its name, horizontally.

SWOOOOSH—!

With one casual swing, hundreds of orc troops instantly fell with their upper and lower bodies separated.

“Clean them up.”

And his subordinate Masters, Experts, and mages began to rampage.

The orc forces were being swept away one-sidedly.

Jerdin crossed his arms, looked toward where the Orc King was, and muttered.

“Kukukuk, what will you do now, you monster?”

***

Walt quickly gathered his companions first.

“Drink this!”

Walt took out various magic recovery potions from his spatial pouch.

Unlike health recovery potions, he still had plenty in stock because magic recovery potions weren’t very helpful to Walt.

The effects of trustworthy merchant Lamrpo’s special mana recovery potion were amazing.

Lamrpo knew very well that he didn’t have multiple lives.

“Wow!? This is crazy, my magic power is completely restored?”

Lisa’s magic power, with her low achievement, was fully restored, and Lilith, who had emptied several bottles in succession, had recovered more than half of hers.

However, Arias was still burying her face in her knees, unable to regain her composure.

“Arias. Are you alright?”

When Arias shook her head while maintaining that position, Walt sat her on his massive arm bent in an ‘L’ shape.

“Don’t push yourself. I’ll protect you.”

Cradled like a baby in Walt’s arms, Arias buried her face in the left side of his chest, repeating his promise to protect her.

The powerful beating of his heart made Arias’s heart flutter even more.

She felt like her own heart might explode if she stayed like this any longer.

“P-put me down, Walt…”

Finally, Arias regained her composure, got down from Walt’s arms, and drank a mana recovery potion.

“Well, I’m glad. Everyone seems to be safe.”

In truth, Walt had been exercising superhuman concentration at the moment Arias confessed, so he hadn’t heard what she said.

The sound of the wind during their free fall was also too loud.

“Now, it’s time to counterattack, friends.”

Lisa was the first to raise her hand enthusiastically.

“Let’s crush them all! Life’s second round! Nothing to fear now!”

Lisa had thought she was going to die during the fall.

But since she survived, she was declaring this her second life.

And so began Walt’s group’s orc-crushing campaign, which was truly remarkable.

They rushed to the front lines and performed amazingly.

Walt’s prowess went without saying, but his friends’ contributions were particularly brilliant.

Lilith was using blood magic to accurately pierce orcs’ foreheads with Blood Spears, reducing their numbers, while Arias was using undines to help soldiers on the ice maintain their footing.

Even though it was ice, it was still a form of water.

Undines, water spirits, could produce such effects over a wide area without using much spirit power.

This was the difference between magic and spirit arts.

While expert-level troops using aura might manage, ordinary troops would find it difficult to fight on ice.

However, with Arias’s help, they could operate smoothly even on the ice.

“Huh? This ice isn’t slippery at all?”

“Prince Walt must have done something! Charge in without worry!!”

All the credit went to Walt, but Arias didn’t mind at all.

No, she was actually overjoyed to be of help to Walt.

With Arias’s contribution, the allied regular troops began sprinting across the ice.

Wars aren’t decided by a few strong heroes.

What ultimately determines the outcome of a war is the regular troops that make up the majority.

As they began to thrust their spears into the orcs while traversing the ice, the orc forces rapidly diminished.

The orcs by the river were almost completely annihilated.

“Kill them! Kill them all! Exterminate these green monsters who trample our land.”

This was no longer a war but a massacre.

Just as the word “victory” was beginning to form in everyone’s minds, a massive roar was heard.

[KUOOOOOOWER!!]

The vibrations could be felt even from this distance.

The roar of a Grand Master-level monster also had a fear effect.

The word “victory” in the soldiers’ minds was instantly erased by that enormous cry.

Walt looked toward the source of the roar with a tense expression.

“The Orc King… finally making his move.”