CH 57

"Resuming Training and How to Fight the Orcs."

Translated by Dawn

“Hmmm, there’s only one option I can take right now…”

After returning to the inn from Viscount Rubert’s mansion, I sat down on my bed and thought about the future.

Now that the information provided by the guildmaster had brought to light the existence of the Orc King and his army of 5,000 orcs, it was decided that we would intercept them…….

“I can handle the Orcs and the Orc Generals, but I don’t think I can beat the King–”

As I swung my legs around, I thought about the various ways to deal with the Orc King. So far, I’d been worrying about only one orc, the Orc King.

I checked my current status again, and it was as follows.

[Name]: Roland

[Age]: 12 years old

[Gender]: Male

[Race]: Human

[Occupation]: Adventurer (D-rank), Former son of a lord

Physical strength: 3500

Magic power: 3600

Strength: A

Endurance: A-

Agility: A

Dexterity: A

Mental Strength: A

Resistance: A

Luck: A

[Skills]: Appraisal Lv8, Physical Enhancement Lv7, Presence Detection Lv7, Presence Blocking Lv6, Magic Control Lv8, Magic Manipulation Lv8, Fire Magic Lv6, Water Magic Lv7, Wind Magic Lv6, Soil Magic Lv6, Flame Magic Lv1(NEW), Ice Magic Lv2, Lightning Magic Lv1(NEW), Earth Magic Lv1(NEW), Swordsmanship Lv5, Hand-to-hand Combat Lv6

As a result of intensive training over the past two days, all of the individual parameters were in the A-class. In addition, the level of each skill was also increased, and with basic magic now at level 6, I mastered higher-level magic other than the one for water magic.

However, my intuition told me that this was still not enough to fight the Orc King on an equal footing. However, it was impossible for me to gain enough power to overpower the Orc King within a few days when the Orcs came.

If I had two more months before the orcs attacked, I might be able to acquire enough power to defeat him in a head-to-head battle, but in reality, there was not that much time to spare.

“Then the only thing I can do now is to use the surprise attack method.”

The only way for me to fight the Orc King now is to set him in a trap where I had previously killed an Orc General and take him down in one fell swoop when he was stuck.

This time, however, in addition to the Orc King, there is an army of 5,000 Orcs surrounding him, in addition to the Orc Generals. As one would expect, I can’t think of a way to restrain all of them at once.

If there is space-time magic, it is possible to stop time, but it would still consume a lot of magic power, and it would be all I could do just to stop their movement.

If that’s the case, I need to find a way to reduce the number of times I have to stop the movement at once, while at the same time preventing the opponent from responding to my surprise attack. ……Is there such a way?

“…… wait? If I do that and that, I might be able to work something out.”

As I was thinking about what I could do, I came up with an idea. At any rate, I decided to try what I came up with, thinking that I should do everything I could now.

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Three more days have passed since I visited Viscount Rubert’s residence. During that time, Gyrmzak visited me and I instructed him on the next training menu.

After much trial and error since then, I learned new magic. That magic is [Mist Magic].

To recap, there are several types of attribute magic in this world, and the basic types are fire, water, wind, and soil. And the higher levels are flame, ice, thunder, and earth. So far, I have already told you about them.

And although there are Light and Darkness as higher attributes, I have not yet mastered these yet. So, what is the magic that I have learned this time?

Compound Magic, as the name implies, is magic that can be mastered by mastering multiple attributes, and this Mist Magic falls into this category.

Specifically, in the past three days, I have succeeded in raising all of the magic that is considered to be the four basic elements to level 8, and as a result, I have been able to learn a new type of magic.

Mist Magic, as the name suggests, is mainly based on mist, and belongs mainly to the category of magic that interferes with the opponent’s actions or is of a supportive nature. In this case, I intend to use it to deprive the orcs of their vision.

In addition to Mist Magic, I also learned [Storm Magic], [Wood Magic], and [Sand Magic], and my magic variation has increased dramatically.

However, since I have not yet learned Light and Darkness magic, I have not yet completely mastered magic.

I obtained a way to deal with the orc hordes through compound magic, but I haven’t come up with a detailed plan. So I thought about it a bit.

Reports were coming in that the orc kings were only a few days away from the city of Rendark. Now would be the time limit for evacuation.

Women, children, and the elderly who had no actual fighting skills had already evacuated two days earlier, leaving only the city’s soldiers and adventurers who had the strength to fight.

Having gained the means to take on the orcs, I left the inn unnoticed to do what I had been thinking about during the training.

“I knew that when dealing with monsters like this, extermination is the right word, not subjugation.”

We will not take the option of fighting head-on against the orcs this time either. No, it would be more accurate to say that we cannot take it. Even if we were to meet them head-on, we would only be crushed by their power and be overrun.

So what to do, the answer is simple and clear. You need to trap them and defeat them indirectly. It comes down to this.

The last time I defeated Orc General, I used Water Magic and Soil Magic to turn the ground into a fake bottomless bog, and when they were unable to move, I used Ice Magic to freeze them to death. This time, however, I will use a different method to exterminate them.

“Well, there’s always the option of just abandoning the city and running away. If I run away here, it’ll look like I committed some kind of murder–”

Yes, now I have the option given to me to run away here. Although defeating the Orc General last time resulted in the Orc King’s move, it would have been no different sooner or later that the Orc Kings would have attacked the city.

But regardless of the circumstances, the fact remains that I ended up being the one to provoke the Orc King, and I could have asked for reinforcements from neighboring territories and countries in the months before they attacked the city.

A person who is said to be a senior citizen who caused a car accident and killed a person in my memory in a previous life was put on trial, and the person pleaded not guilty.

However, even if the person did not intend to kill, the fact remains that he caused the accident and a person died. Therefore, there is no way that the accident caused by the person in question can be entirely erased.

The same is true in this case. Even if it is a definite fact in the distant future that the Orc King will attack, I was the one who caused it to happen earlier, and I’m not so heartless as to reopen my mouth and say “Is that so?” when other people say “It’s not your responsibility.”

–Yes, yes, yes. Don’t lump this guy in with that senior citizen!!!–

“Hm!? Hmmm!?”

I thought I heard someone say those words as I was on my way to the site where the Orc King was marching.

I looked around and saw no one, so I concluded that I was just hearing things in my head.

After sprinting for a while, there was a response in the Presence Detection. It was a group of orcs.

It seemed that they had arrived at their destination, so I immediately started a covert operation. It may sound a bit odd to say, but I simply looked around without being detected.

From the looks of it, the lead group of orcs is slowly advancing toward the city in formation. The speed of progress is quite slow, as there are as many as 5,000 orcs moving in unison.

It would not be a problem if there were only a dozen or so, but it would take a lot of time for such a large number of orcs to move forward.

(Okay, they’re not going into the forest. Then let’s do a little trick here.)

As I looked around, I saw the lead group of orcs entering the forest. I decided that this would be a good place to execute the strategy I had come up with, so I decided to start my action right away.