Chapter 134: Subjugation of the Orc Army

“”BOOGAAA!!!!””

As I walked out of the city, I heard the cries of Orcs. Even though I couldn’t see them visually yet, the fact that I could hear their cries meant that there must be quite a few of them.

“Fu… nice to see you Zeal.”

“Is it okay to do it in a flashy way?”

“Ah… yeah. You can go all out to your heart’s content.”

While the orcs were still out of sight, I gave almost all of my magic power to Zeal. Then I drank an MP potion to recover my diminished magic power. The MP potion that Sophie had given me was a little more expensive and it restored 70% of my maximum MP. There are other potions that will restore 100 or 200 MP, but once the amount of MP has increased to a certain degree, it’s cheaper and more efficient to restore it by percentage.

After a few minutes, I saw an army of Orcs running towards me. Huh? No matter how I looked at it, there were only about a thousand of them. That’s different from the information that said there were thousands. And from here, I can’t even see an Orc King. Could they be behind? I felt a sense of discomfort at the difference from the information I had heard.

“Let’s go! Lightning Dragon!”

And Zeal, who had been given my magic power, unleashed his magic. I didn’t have the luxury of collecting materials this time, so I let Zeal do it without hesitation. Zeal literally fired a lightning dragon. The dragon ran through the orcs in all directions. In order not to waste its magic power, the dragon came to me just before the magic disappeared. I absorbed the magic power of Zeal’s lightning dragon and my magic power became almost full again and in my head, I heard several announcements about leveling up.

“Zeal, let’s go!”

“Alright!”

I gave him more than half of my magic power again and this time I made sure to use lightning absorption so that I could absorb any magic that Zeal threw at me. In order to be more efficient, we went separately to destroy the orcs.

“Recovery, lightning double enchantment!”

Although there are more than a thousand of them, it shouldn’t have become one against a thousand since I’m with Zeal so I thought that I might not be able to activate Ikki Tousen. But I don’t know if it considered he and I as a set, but Ikki Tousen activated. Therefore, all my stats are doubled. So even if I use one of my double enchantments as a recovery spell, I still have a lot of leeway to deal with the orcs. The most important thing I need to take care of now is running out of stamina, so I enchanted recovery magic. Only stamina can’t be recovered even with potions.

“Hah!”

I ran around in the midst of the orc army, slashing at the orcs with my two swords. My bird’s-eye view is most useful in group battles like this. I could see how the Orcs were moving around me.

“This is the last one!”

“”BOOGAA!!!…””

I slashed at the last two orcs that were grouped together. This was the last of the Orcs to be defeated. It only took an hour and a bit after Zeal released the lightning dragon. It took longer than I thought because the Orcs ran around.

“Zeal…”

“Yeah, this is weird…”

What we’re worried about is that we couldn’t find a single Orc King. There were a few Orc mages, Orc warriors and other higher Orc species. But all of them were weak. It’d be better to say that they were low level. I don’t have an appraisal skill, so I can’t look at their status, but they didn’t know how to fight at all…they looked like they were just born.

“Should we just go?”

“…I suppose so.”

I’ve already accomplished my goal, so I might as well join up with my father and the others. But it would be bad if the Orc King took over the city the moment I was gone. Maybe it’s because the battle isn’t over yet, but all my stats are still doubled. So it’s better to go now than to pull back and go later. I walked cautiously into the depths of the forest, using stealth.

“It’s nice to know where they’re coming from.”

“Yes, it is.”

The fact that so many Orcs had passed by made it easy to see the direction they had come from. But on the other hand, it’s too obvious, so I feel like I’m being lured somewhere. But do monsters have the intelligence to think about such things? Am I overthinking this…?

“Buggaaaaah!”

“……”

After about ten minutes of walking, I came face to face with nearly twenty Orcs standing there as if they were waiting for me. The first orc and I are completely eye-to-eye, so there’s no way I can run away now. If I run away, they’ll probably keep chasing me. It seems that stealth didn’t work. I slowly approached the Orcs, even more cautious than before.

“What!!?”

There was one thing that I understood because I approached the Orcs. It was that the Orc was about four meters tall. By the way, the Orc King I saw in the data was about 3 meters. So this Orc was bigger than the Orc King. However, I soon became unconcerned about their size.

Because this Orc had green scales all over its body.

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