episode_0145

“Well, of course…. Get out of here, you bastards!”

A human’s words, both bold and audacious.

To come all the way here alone and tell us to leave the city we’ve settled in? It was truly absurd.

“What an audacious human! What can you do alone….”

KWAANG!!!

No one knew what had happened in that instant.

Of course they wouldn’t.

Because the sturdy city wall, which seemed like it would never crumble, had collapsed.

It wasn’t that the city wall was poorly maintained and collapsed.

There were traces of a sharp cut, as if something had sliced through the collapsed wall. Korkwis hurriedly looked at the human who had come here alone.

In his hand was a sword, which he had apparently been holding all along, emitting a brilliant light.

“Sword King Secret Technique.”

He deliberately raised the sword in his hand slowly, as if to show it off.

And the sword was brought down in an instant.

“Earth Split.”

Swaaek!! KWAANG!!!

Korkwis felt for a moment as if the world was being split apart. He saw an illusion where the world was divided into two along a very thin, pure white line.

And as if to tell him that the illusion he saw was not a delusion, the severed city wall collapsed.

In a situation far beyond comprehension, only Korkwis was able to calmly grasp the current situation.

‘Sword energy!!’

A technique occasionally shown by skilled Elf Rangers.

But its power was overwhelmingly beyond comparison to such things.

Only then did the story told by the Red Orc High Priest, Gororroro, come to Korkwis’s mind.

‘A tremendous star is approaching. It is unknown whether it will be a disaster or a blessing for us orcs.’

“Is that the star Gororroro spoke of!”

“Gororroro? What did the high priest say?”

“He said a star is coming. Something that could be a disaster or a blessing is coming.”

“Then that thing is a disaster. Korkwis, leave it to me. I’ll kill that guy.”

Grahhrwis said, burning with a competitive spirit, but Korkwis shook his head.

If we fight that thing, the only thing left at the end will be death.

His instinct as an orc was telling him so.

Korkwis took a deep breath and shouted as hard as he could.

“AKUTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

With Korkwis’s roaring cry, he leaped greatly and landed as if falling in front of the hero Leon.

“I am Korkwis, the leader of the orcs.”

“Oh? That’ll make it easier to talk. Get out of here.”

“We won this land.”

“Says who?”

At Leon’s words, Korkwis recalled the hero who had confidently come to him before and said.

“A so-called hero came to me before. That person said this: that he would give me this land if I defeated him.”

“….”

“And I defeated that person. So this place is our land.”

“Hmm…. Okay, I admit it.”

Unexpectedly, he nodded and readily agreed.

So, is he going to go back like this? But the opponent was not like that.

“Then let’s make a bet.”

“…A bet?”

“You have three pieces of land. So, I’ll bet three new cities on this side.”

“….”

Audaciously, the human said he would give additional land.

But what they need now is not land.

“I refuse….”

“Ah, that’s right. You guys did take cities, but you don’t have the capacity to digest all three cities, do you? That’s why you only ate up to three cities and then stopped moving, right? Isn’t that right?”

“….”

He was being accurately assessed.

Korkwis was rarely flustered and looked at the opponent, who raised the corner of his lips and said.

“Then how about this? I’ll give you food.”

“!”

“But there’s a condition. You know what the condition is, right?”

“You want me to beat you?”

At Korkwis’s words, the human shrugged and said.

“It’s similar, but slightly different. It’s true that you have to beat me, but the number of people fighting is not just you alone. It’s all the orcs here, including you.”

“!”

“Two, I won’t kill you. You can rush at me as if you’re going to kill me.”

In a fight, there is a very big difference between subduing an enemy and killing them.

And of course, subduing an opponent without killing them is much more difficult than simply killing them.

Yet, is this man saying that he won’t kill them? Even while facing all the orcs here at the same time?

“…Are you looking down on us?”

“If I was looking down on you, I wouldn’t have made this offer. And the conditions aren’t over yet.”

“?”

“The period is unlimited. When you feel like giving up, that’s the end. But if you don’t give up, you can challenge me as many times as you want, for days. I’ll keep fighting, so you can try to find a way to exploit the limits of my stamina.”

Conditions that are the same as looking down on them no matter how you look at it.

If they don’t move even after receiving such an insulting proposal, it would be a disgrace as an orc warrior.

“GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!!!”

He shouted with all his might and swung his weapon at the opponent.

“Wow, what an energetic orc.”

* * *

Thud! Thud!! Thud!!!

“WOOEOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!”

A green giant roars and swings his weapon.

After carefully checking each movement, I casually deflected the weapon.

Then an orc behind me takes the hit instead.

At the same time, I grab an orc and swing it around like a club, sweeping away the surroundings and then throwing it away.

Thud!!!

A feast of countless flying blades.

Tackles from giants crashing in again and again. I was darting back and forth through them, knocking down the orcs one by one.

Of course, I put the sword in my inventory just in case I accidentally killed any orcs.

“EUOOOOH!!!”

This place is already a melee in itself.

After subduing Korkwis, the leader of the orcs who attacked me first, the orcs jumped out from the half-collapsed city wall and rushed at me. Among them, the most actively rushing orc was Grahhrwis, who introduced himself as the ‘greatest warrior of the Red Orcs.’

“Engraving Magic! I’ve heard the stories! It’s my first time seeing it in person, but it looks pretty fun!”

“That composure will only get you so far!!”

Black patterns rise all over Grahhrwis’s body.

Then Grahhrwis’s body grew even bigger, and with the explosive expansion of magical power, he rushed at me at a tremendous speed.

“AKUTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

Grahhrwis swings a steel axe with half the blade missing, showing how roughly he has used it.

Certainly, that engraving magic seems to have a definite effect of dramatically enhancing physical abilities.

But no matter how much you enhance it, there is a limit.

It seemed like it couldn’t keep up with my physical specifications.

Thwack!!

“Ugh!”

I dodged the axe and kicked the guy in the stomach at the same time.

With a feeling like a bowling ball, he flew away as he knocked down the orcs behind him like knocking down pins.

“Heroooooooo!!!”

“Are you awake? Korkwis!! Make sure these guys know the conditions!!”

In the meantime, Korkwis, whom I had knocked down first, revived and rushed at me.

At first, he tried to endure without using engraving magic, but realizing that he couldn’t do it without it, he activated the engraving magic from the moment he rushed at me.

But with just one person, the situation did not change.

Gorkwis was quickly subdued and sent flying.

But these orcs seemed to be sincerely trying to defeat me, and all the warrior orcs rushed in without allowing even a brief moment of respite.

‘Certainly, my body is light.’

Thanks to Reviya’s buff, my body, which had become a , was very light.

Occasionally, I couldn’t control my strength and put in a little more effort, but thanks to the orcs’ tough vitality, the orcs didn’t die.

‘Among the buff items, it said that the status is strengthened by one level. Is this strengthening a separate judgment from simply raising the stats?’

My stats are 999.

In other words, since it is the limit, the stats will not increase.

Nevertheless, the fact that it is strengthened means that something other than the stats is being strengthened.

What is speculated is….

Could it be that the weight of the stats themselves is being strengthened? That’s what I think.

“Korkwis!!!”

“Grahhrwis!!!”

“!”

As if trying to attack in coordination, the two orcs who approached me in an instant tried to attack at the same time.

Perhaps because they had been working together for quite some time, the two orcs’ combination was as natural as flowing water, inserting a series of attacks.

Clang! Pow Pow Pow Pow!

But even so, the speed was slow.

I received all of the two orcs’ combinations and pushed the orcs away as they were.

“Ugh!….”

“Wh-what is it!…, that monster-like human!….”

“Who are you calling a monster!!!”

KWAANG!!!

Because the orcs are so strong and have tenacious vitality, I’m getting training in both strength control and technique.

This is a complete win-win.

‘Then I should try this too.’

I concentrate for a moment.

1 second, 2 seconds, 3 seconds,

“He stopped moving!!”

“He must be tired too!! Now’s the chance!!!”

I hear the orcs’ roaring shouts, but I ignore them.

【Activates .】

4 seconds, 5 seconds, 6 seconds.

【Manifests . The recognition level rises by one stage.】

【Consumes 5% of magic power per second.】

Everything stopped.

Actually, to be precise, it didn’t stop.

It’s moving very, very slowly.

It’s just that the speed is so slow that it feels like it’s stopped.

I am the only one who can exert my original movements in this world of recognition.

There is also magic power that is recovered by skills, so it won’t end in just 20 seconds…. But it’s still burdensome.

‘It was said that if I keep using it, my proficiency will increase. If I can get rid of that by increasing my proficiency….’

So I’m asking, orcs.

Please endure until I am satisfied.