Chapter 255 – Assassination Family Raven 3 (9)

The early morning wake-up call went by without much trouble, except that I asked someone else because I didn’t know the face of the person I needed to wake up next.

And since I didn’t want to waste time idly staying on watch in the early morning, I experimented to solve one question and time passed quickly.

‘How can matriarch Terrance Raven handle so many shadows?’

The shadows I can use now can be roughly divided into three chunks.

Shadow Craft, a weapon that can be used in both the left and right hands, and Shadow Armor.

There are three things to divide, but Terrance Raven, the matriarch, was able to handle sixteen shadow hands that I saw, and many more.

I’m not sure if the skill level alone makes that much of a difference.

So, I kept trying to make two weapons with one hand, but since I didn’t know the ‘basics’ and depended on ‘skills’, it was difficult to change easily.

The Black Spiritual Killing Technique can be easily changed at will. Is that because it is the main skill?

‘I want to deal with more shadows.’

I spent the night thinking about that.

*

After eating breakfast, the group started heading towards the Thembus Kingdom again.

People who were not on watch looked tired because of an uncomfortable bed, and those who were on watch were obviously tired because of the reduced sleep time.

Except for me, most of the people seemed tired, and I heard a rustling sound in the forest.

I pulled out my dagger and threw it straight to the source of the sound in the forest.

“Rookie, is it okay to throw away your only weapon like that?”

“You’re good at using your fists, right? You can do it with your fists.”

I heard the mercenaries giggling and I went into the bushes and picked up the guy who was bothering me.

Is it a rabbit? He pulled out the dagger stuck in his head, wiped the blood on it with his brown fur, put it in its sheath, and walked out holding the rabbit ears.

“Oh. What is it? You caught it?”

“I was lucky.”

However, a mercenary looked closely at the carcass of the rabbit I caught, then came over and snatched it away.

He rubbed his hand over the forehead of the rabbit that was bleeding from the dagger and said.

“The orc shaman has sent a scout here! Prepare for battle!”

“Does it have that effect on rabbits?”

“Newcomer, look closely. There’s a magic circle engraved on it, right? It’s a familiarization. It’s a scouting method mainly used by the Orcs here.”

When the fur on the rabbit’s forehead was cut off with a dagger, a small tattoo with much fewer strokes than the tattoo on the goblin’s body was found.

Are the orcs scouting like this? I thought he would use a primitive attack, but he seems to be smarter than I thought.

“Fuck. It’s been quiet for a few days!”

The merchants diligently checked the covers of the wagons and hid in the middle wagon as if running away.

“I wrote. I chose a slightly smaller number this time.”

The mercenary in charge of the guard frowned slightly and lifted the large ax that was hanging on the wagon.

“We quickly found a familiarized beast, so there is a high possibility that the orcs are preparing at the front! Concentrate your efforts on the front line!”

The adventurers were arranged as if surrounding the wagons, but the ranks were slightly wider at the back and tighter at the front.

Of course, I went forward and used the presence detection wave.

The heat-sensing waves began to spread widely, and it was clear that there were creatures slightly different from humans lining the front.

I’m standing there holding a spear, but looking at where it’s leaning against, it looks like they’ve even set up a barricade to block movement. When I fought an orc druid in the past, I felt that their intelligence was quite high, but it seems like the orcs of this world are also a bit smarter.

It could be because there is a leader called an orc shaman.

The speed at which the cart moved slowed down a bit, and we slowly moved forward without relaxing.

“Charge!”

The voice was thick and rough, but I could hear the imperial language being fluent.

With a voice not coming from us, but from the orcs, orcs riding human-sized wolves began to approach with large swords.

“Wolf Rider?!”

“Shiba! It’s really not a joke this time!”

‘I never thought it would be such a shame that the only weapon I had was a dagger.’

The answer is to defeat it by throwing a weapon using Shadow Craft before it approaches.

After entering the Thembus Kingdom, I planned to use all my power, but it seemed like the enemies were stronger than I thought.

Whisper! Whisper!

Among the mercenaries, there was one who had a bow, and he fired an arrow straight at the Wolf Rider who was running towards him.

However, the orcs hit by arrows did not fall from their wolves and ran without stopping towards the mercenaries standing in front of them.

When the orcs got close, the mercenaries started swinging their weapons.

Kang! Kang!

“Aaaaah!”

“Kill me!!!”

I also thought it was not a good idea to just watch because the weapon was short, so I quickly approached the Wolf Rider using a wave wheel and scratched the wolf’s body with the dagger.

Because it was a very sharp dagger made by the Raven family, it cut off the wolf’s skin and also cut off one of the orc’s legs.

“Kaaaaah!!!”

The orc was able to withstand being hit by an arrow, but could not stand having its leg cut off and fell from above the wolf.

“Krul !!!”

The wolf that had made a big cut at me immediately turned its head and opened its big mouth, trying to bite my head off.

After all, I don’t like hiding my strength and fighting.

You can blow off the jaw with a Flame Wheel or use Shadow Craft to create a large sword and cut it down, but it was a really annoying situation to try to use only the dagger in your hand.

Is it okay if I take care of that?

The rusted greatsword held by the fallen orc caught my eye.

Using Flame Eye, he absorbed the heat spreading around him, activated his physical abilities, placed his hands on the wolf’s upper and lower jaw, and turned sharply to the left.

Ta-ta-a-a-a-a-a!

The wolf was applying so much force to its jaw that when it closed its mouth, a loud sound came out.

Without stopping there, I threw the dagger I was holding at the head of the orc who had fallen on the floor and picked up the rusty greatsword that had fallen on the floor.

At that time, the wolf that was hostile to me attacked again.

It’s easy now that I have a long weapon.

Whoa, whoa!

He exploded the ring and swung the great sword widely.

The wolf, who had been hit squarely on the head, fell to the floor and stumbled, but did not get up again.

I also saw Orcs running after Wolf Rider.

It looks like the back area has been somewhat cleaned up, so shall we take on those orcs?

I pulled out the dagger stuck in the orc’s head and headed forward.

I spread presence detection around me and ran and swung my great sword.

A group of orcs pointed their weapons at me running towards me, but they were not a threat because I could read them perfectly.

Suddenly! Poop!

He cut off the head of a nearby orc and struck the body with the sword.

Suddenly! Suddenly!

Then, I cut off the arms and decapitated the other orcs who were aiming at me around that orc, then stepped back and threw the dagger.

Phew!

As I retreated, I reduced the number of orcs, but among the orc infantry, an orc with an unusual physique rushed towards me wearing an iron helmet.

To avenge his comrade, the orc running towards him with anger was easy to understand his movements, so I threw the great sword I was holding.

Kaaaaang!

The iron-helmeted orc, who swung the ax he was holding and struck down the great sword I threw, ran without stopping, and I picked up the weapon that had fallen on the floor.

Is what you hold in your hand the same axe?

Kaaaaang!

He held it with both hands and swung it at the iron-helmeted orc, who blocked it with his axe.

‘I don’t think it’s an ordinary orc.’

It seemed like the reaction speed was faster and the power was stronger.

Attack after attack, he slowly overpowered the iron-helmeted orc, but the ax was not a very familiar weapon, so it was difficult to completely defeat it.

Meanwhile, the mercenaries who had dealt with Wolf Rider attacked, and the orc with the iron helmet swung his ax loudly and began to retreat.

“Kill all the orcs! Even if there are only a few left, they multiply like cockroaches!”

“Waaah!!!”

Adventurers full of stamina started running, and I found my dagger and pulled it out.

“Hey, isn’t he going?”

I said something to the adventurer who spoke respectfully to me.

“It’s a little difficult.”

“Ah. Yes! Okay! We’ll finish it!”

I guess I wasn’t convinced by fighting with Kashin yesterday.

Except for the adventurers who were injured while fighting the Orc Rider, everyone went to chase down the remnants of the Orcs, but I slowly returned to the wagon.

Four injured, two dead? Fortunately, the injured person only suffered a severe cut and did not lose his arm.

“That one over there?”

“This is Xian.”

“Mr. Xian, are you a gold-level adventurer by any chance?”

“Unfortunately, it is still at silver level.”

After saying that, he tore off the clothes of the injured people and properly tied the wounds with bandages.

It was a wound that seemed like it would heal quickly if I used a healing magic circle, but it didn’t seem like a good idea to use power in a situation where there was no priest.

While bandaging the injured people and lifting the corpses of the wolves and orcs blocking the road and clearing them, so the carriage could pass, the mercenaries returned looking exhausted.

When I saw that and used the presence detection-wave, I felt that the orcs were running away, but it seems that the complete extermination failed.

At that time, the person in charge of the escort came up to me and grabbed me by the collar.

“Newbie! Why didn’t you join the chase!”

“I think I already paid for the 5 silver? And the wagon was protected very well.”

The only enemies I defeated were Wolf Rider and Orcs.

That was enough.

The guard in charge closed his eyes after hearing my words and said as he let go of my collar.

“I’m sorry. I guess I couldn’t control my anger because four people died.”

“It looks like we got hit again during the chase.”

I passed by without answering the question.

On the way to the Thembus Kingdom, the first battle with the Orcs ended.