Otome Game no Heroine de Saikyou Survival-Chapter 82

Orc Battle (6)

[Buoooh!!]

The Orc General, who was slashed across the face, let out a painful grunt.

Moving past the Orc General, I landed with a dagger stab between the eyebrows of the unlucky Orc standing at the side, and released a rough breath, feeling weakened and trying to recover from the attack I launched.

Was the attack too shallow…. stabbing my dagger at that speed, I was expecting that even the Orc General would have received a fatal wound, but it seemed like it managed to move its head slightly to avoid a direct hit.

If I had my black knife which was still being repaired instead of my current dagger, it would have inflicted more damage, but thinking about something I didn’t have at hand didn’t really help. I could only rely on my dagger currently, even if it lacked the power to bring a decisive strike.

But what was this feeling of weakness? This feeling…was similar to the first time I used physical enhancement. No, it’s a little different. I felt the same kind of weakness and heat in my muscles when I had used Combat Skill for the first time.

I was concentrating on channeling magic power throughout my body, but what could be the cause? I think it was this that made me go faster than I expected, but I didn’t have time to think about that now.

There were only two Orcs left, the Orc General and the one that was showing me a frightened look. There might be other individuals left to hunt, but since they were not here, I would think about them later.

[…You…]

The Orc General stared at me through the gap between his fingers covering his wounded face and spoke with understandable [words].

This guy…I had heard that the higher rank monsters were intelligent, but could they speak human language? The Orc General’s words were spoken in broken tones. perhaps due to differences in vocal cord structure.

[Human… woman. woman. Why are you attacking me?]

“…”

From the Orcs’ point of view, I was the evil who attacked their village and killed their friends.

The humanoids which include humans and sub-humans were not always righteous, even the monsters who were the enemies of Humans had their own reasons to oppose us, and even the feared monsters had their own good-natured people like my mentor.

But what’s the point?

“I have nothing against you people. Even animals will fight for their lives to protect their own if others enter their territory. From the moment you appeared in our territory, you have been our enemies. That’s all.”

If the world was a place where everyone could be satisfied, there would be no conflict to begin with. But since you came here to rob us, you were prepared to be robbed, weren’t you?

[I see.]

The Orc General, who was thinking about something as his eyes narrowed at my answer, took his hands off his bloodied face and held up the black iron hexagonal rod with both hands.

I could sense from his posture that he was not conceited as a strong man, and that he recognized me not as an assailant but as an enemy. Perhaps sensing the feelings of the Orc General, the two frightened Orcs clutched their weapons and lined up beside it.

[I am Gorgeol… Warrior… what is your “Name”?]

“…Aria.”

[I see… Prepare, Aria!]

With a roar, the Orc General Gorgeol leaped towards me and slammed his hexagonal staff at me.

I barely avoided it as I scrambled to the edge. With one hand on the ground, I kicked the ground with one foot, and started moving fluidly without stopping, and slammed the blade of my boot into the jaw of one of the Orcs that had been chasing me.

At last, Gorgeol got serious.

Even though he was also weakened by poison, there was still a huge gap in skill between him and me, who was just a Rank 3. The only thing that I could counter was his speed. Although my status had not decreased, my magic power and physical strength were both less than half due to accumulated fatigue.

Was there still a chance to win in this situation? Until a few minutes ago, I had considered running away, but now I had abandoned that idea.

Gorgeol recognized me as his enemy, had abandoned the conceit of the strong, and was fighting with pride even in his weakened body. I felt that if I ran away from him now, I would probably never be able to go up on this stage again.

The strength I had desired was not only power. But I would also get stronger with my heart.

The ordinary Orc whose throat had been gouged out collapsed, foaming and vomiting blood. Seeing that, Gorgeol, who had been approaching me, launched a thrust with his hexagonal staff. I ducked and crawled away from the Orc I killed.

Fighting with a staff which did not have sharp blades was an obvious disadvantage, but staff had a wider range of attacks. It could thrust like a spear, cleave like a greatsword, and smash like a hammer.

Because of Gorgeol’s lower agility, it made it possible for me to to fight, but a single direct hit from its attack would certainly shatter every bone in my body.

“–Shadow Snatch–“

I created four Darkness at the same time with dark magic and scattered them around me.

[Gaaah!!!]

Gorgeol spun the hexagonal staff above his head, while being wary of the Darkness, then with great momentum, held it at the edge and slammed it down at me.

The reach of the staff’s length along with his arms length was over 3 meters, and calculating my attack from that distance after I dodged, I launched a shot from my mini-crossbow into the Darkness after stabilizing my balance, and the releasing it from the Darkness floating bedside Gorgeol’s head.

“Guh!”

Gorgeol noticed the attack and ducked, which also prevented me from launching a follow-up attack.

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Although Shadow Snatch was easy to use, it had its drawbacks.

Space and Dark magic required objects to be covered with magic elements to give an effect, and while a bundle of threads and my pendulum could be kept for as long as I could in Shadow Storage, it required me to completely isolate the space, and it didn’t link from shadow to shadow.

In the battle against the Orc Soldier using a spear, it was possible to let objects cross between shadows because it made direct contact with me and my shadow.

But when it came to staff and blade attacks, it would only be possible to do the same trick if I was attacked within a closer range.

Therefore, only projectiles or traps could be sent by Shadow Snatch.

[Gah!?]

The other Darkness on Gorgeol’s side cracked open, and the ball of light that spilled out of it shone intensely for a moment.

Spatial and Dark magic contained formulas that caused various phenomena. So, I once tried to check if it could also send magic of other elements, and after several tests, I was able to send life magic [light] which didn’t need chanting and was easy to activate.

There was a possibility that the light and Darkness would cancel each other out, but it was good that it was non-attribute magic, and the moment it emitted light like a sudden flash, I ran out to Gorgeol as fast as I could.

Using the Heavy effect and the physical Enhancement that was still left, I closed the distance of 5 meters at once using twice the speed of a normal person, and thrust my black dagger at Gorgeol, who stood there holding his eyes.

[Ggaaaaah!!!]

But the blow with all my might pierced through the heart of the last remaining Orc.

Even though his eyes were blinded by the light, he was still able to defend himself, or was it just a coincidence? Either way, just as I was about to pull out my dagger, which pierced through the skull of the previous Orc, Gorgeol brandished his hexagonal staff, hitting the Orc and lifting me along with it, despite his eyes being closed.

“Kaha!”

Blood poured from my mouth as I rolled on the ground.

I managed not to receive a fatal wound. He probably didn’t rely only on night vision, but also other detection skills to counterattack, and it was thanks to the large Orc’s body that cushioned the attack, allowing me to survive.

Gorgeol stared at me as if squinting his sore eyes, and once again held up the hexagonal staff with both hands, and I too stood up, as I put all my strength into my legs.

The bone was probably not broken. No muscles or tendons were badly sore. Still, I was aware that my stamina level had dropped to the edge of its limit.

High Heal could restore strength and wounds, but there was no way Gorgeol would give me time to compose Level 3 magic, and even if I could use it, my magic would end up almost being emptied if I activated it.

If I was able to find an opening, I could have used Heal to recover a little… but, I decided not to do so. It was better to use that time to launch an attack instead. And even if I could recover a little, it would be meaningless if I could not unleash a finisher.

This was the weakness of scouts. Unlike mages and warriors, I had no decisive power, even though I was good at surviving.

Up to this point, I had managed somehow. I thought that if I could stab a blade, I could defeat whoever it was. But maybe it’s fine only if the opposite party was an ordinary adventurer. However, I had realized that this was not enough to take on a strong man of Rank 5 or above by myself.

I needed a decisive blow, like the Combat Skill that Gorgeol used.

“…”

[…]

We slowly faced each other, and as I stood back and readied my dagger, Gorgeol, perhaps sensing something, also stood back in alarm and raised his hexagonal staff in a wide motion.

It’s Gorgeol’s Combat Skill. I accelerated my thoughts and exhaled as I felt the magic building up inside Gorgeol.

Remembering the feeling I had when unleashing a combat skill… and the sensation of the blow that sliced through Gorgeol’s face…

I activated physical enhancement, and I concentrated to feel the level of my magic power control, along with the amount of non-attribute magic that would be used when unleashing a Combat Skill, along with increasing the power.

It was not in a perfect state, but more than usable enough. Combat Skills would simply be in the way from what I would be attempting.

My eye, that could see magic power, checked the flow of Magic Power inside me when I was strengthening my body. There were not only non-attribute magic elements, but also weak magic elements of different attributes mixed in.

I didn’t pay attention to it until now because I thought that this was normal. But if you use water as a comparison for magic, purified water without anything else in it would taste different from normal water.

I was thinking of what to do, while I was under extreme concentration. I realized that by concentrating, I was able to control my own magic elements, in a more precise way, instead of simply absorbing magic elements from the surroundings and combining it with my own magical element to create magical power.

Then, this time, with my own will, I tried to remove other magic elements from my magic power.

Even if you normally couldn’t do it, my eye, which saw the color of the magical element, should be able to do it.

Concentrate. With the delicacy of picking a grain of iron from sand with tweezers, I discarded the impurities and refined the non-attribute magic power as if creating a transparent glass.

“…!”

As the transparency of the visible magical element increased, the speed of the magical power flowing through the whole body had also increased. The speed of the magical power heated up all the muscles in her body, and she was on the verge of using her Combat Skill.

[Gaaah!!!]

Gorgeol, sensing my magical power, swung down the hexagonal staff he was raising and shot out his Combat Skill.

In my extremely accelerated thoughts, I could see the magic power of the hexagonal staff hitting the ground and creating a shockwave.

The magic power rushing through my entire body was uncontrollably consumed in the blink of an eye.

At that moment, as my body kicked off the ground, I launched myself at a speed that my sight couldn’t even follow, exceeding even the limits of my physical strength, as I escaped before the shockwaves released by Gorgeol moved in the ground, and with tremendous momentum, I pierced through Gorgeol’s body, whose eyes were wide open. My body that didn’t slow down was unable to withstand the recoil, sending me rolling dozens of meters behind Gorgeol.

“…Kahah, keh…”

I coughed violently as I fell to the ground, blood leaked from the corner of my mouth, and beyond what I could see, I witnessed Gorgeol’s huge body slowly fall down.

With my body unable to even move due to the loss of almost all of its magic and strength, I saw with my eyes a black dagger deeply stuck between Gorgeol’s eyebrows, and my eyes finally closed in silent relief after confirming his death, soon my consciousness slowly and silently enveloped in the darkness.

[Aria (Alicia)] [Race: Human ??] [Rank 3]

[Magic: 4/250] 10Up [Strength: 7/200] 10Up

[Strength: 9 (12)] [Endurance: 9 (12)] [Agility: 13 (17)][Dexterity: 8]

[Dagger Arts Lv.3] [Taijutsu Lv.4] 1Up [Throwing Lv.3] [Archery Lv.1]

[Defense Lv.3] [Manipulation Lv.4]

[Light Magic Lv.3] [Dark Magic Lv.3] [Non-Attribute Magic Lv.4] 1Up

[Life Magic x6] [Magic Control Lv.4] [Intimidate Lv.3]

[Concealment Lv.4] [Night Vision Lv.2] [Detection Lv.4] [Poison Resistance Lv.3]

[Simple Appraisal]

[Total Combat Power: 612 (With Physical Enhancements: 732)] 36Up