Chapter 430 – Ogre King
First, I need to make the ogres feel fear, leaving one to show me the way, and then take them all out.
Challenge 1.
I restrained one while releasing the other four.
The ogres charged at me, furious at seeing me with a map already open.
*Swoosh!*
I created a fire-attribute Excalibur with my mana weapon and sliced through the ogres, bisecting them in an instant.
With all the other ogres gone at once, wouldn’t they be terrified and run away?
I released the last ogre…
Ugaaaah!!!
Instead of being scared, it roared and charged at me.
Are they more fearless than I thought?
Or was it some kind of camaraderie?
The ogre charged at me, seemingly ready to keep attacking even if injured.
*Swoosh!*
Well, the first attempt failed, so I beheaded the ogre and moved on to the next challenge.
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I tried six times, but the ogres just wouldn’t get scared.
Every time they saw another ogre fall, they expressed rage that felt more ignorant than brave.
Whether I cut them with a sword, smashed them with a hammer, shocked them with electricity, or even brutally ripped out their hearts, they never ran; they all charged at me.
Wouldn’t it be better to just use a zerg rush approach?
That’s when it happened.
“They just… won’t run away.”
“Ugh, they’re more fearless than I thought. Usually, they run when they see overwhelming power, right?”
“W-what should we do?”
“Hey, Rent.”
Ninya said to me then.
“Since it’s come to this, why not go all out?”
“All out?”
“Yeah, instead of just a *thwack* with your fist, Rent, try hitting them with real power. Instead of just cutting them with a sword or hammer, showing them overwhelming strength might be more effective on ogres.”
Hmm, well, just bisecting them with a sword, smashing their heads with a hammer, or shocking them with electricity is something any B-rank or A-rank adventurer could do.
Ogres are belligerent monsters, and it was clear from my attempts that they wouldn’t be easily scared by seeing their comrades fall.
Ninya’s suggestion was definitely worth considering.
“Okay, I’ll try that.”
Challenge 7.
First, I used telekinesis to line up the restrained ogres, then approached the one at the front.
Ugaaa! Uga!
The ogre was still angry at me.
If it weren’t restrained by telekinesis, it would have swung its fist at me immediately.
Of course, the ogres lined up behind it were the same.
I clenched my fist, put some power into it, and then…
“Hup!”
I threw my fist at the ogre in front.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM!*
The ogre’s entire body exploded, leaving only its legs, and pieces of the ogre flew everywhere.
Oh, that’s grotesque.
U… ga?
The ogre right behind it looked like it couldn’t understand what had just happened.
Uga… uga!
It looked at the pieces of its comrade that had landed on it, and its face changed.
It was a different expression from what I had seen so far.
It was an expression of panic and fear.
Ninya’s suggestion had worked.
Instead of just seeing them get taken down by weapons, showing the ignorant ogres overwhelming strength with a fist was more effective.
If I kept going like this, wouldn’t the fifth ogre at the end be scared?
*BOOOOOOM!* *BOOOOOOM!* I blew up the upper bodies of the second, third, and fourth ogres.
Uga!! Uga!!! Uga!!!!
The fifth ogre was struggling to get out of the situation.
The ogre’s eyes, which had been so belligerent, were now wide with fear, looking at a terrifying monster.
That should be enough.
I released the telekinesis that had been restraining the ogre.
*Thud!*
U, ugaaaaaa!!!
The ogre ran away from me, terrified.
Success on the seventh try.
“I did it!”
“Nice! Let’s chase them roughly, and if they don’t change direction, we’ll take them out and keep going!”
“Yes!”
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After the seventh challenge was successful, I used that method to make the ogres run away in fear.
At first, after the first success, I followed the ogres in three different locations using the same method.
However, they all ran in different directions, and even if I followed them, I couldn’t find the Ogre King.
After a few failures, I suddenly had a thought.
In a real life-or-death situation, wouldn’t you just run away without thinking about going to a safe zone when a terrifying monster is chasing you?
So this time, I did the same thing up to killing the fourth ogre, and after seeing it run away, I flew up high and watched it, leaving it alone.
The ogre was running while looking behind it, so it didn’t know I was watching from the sky. It ran for a while, then stopped.
Uga? Uga… uga…!!!
The ogre looked around, and when it realized I wasn’t there, it seemed relieved for a moment, but then it started trembling and grabbed its head.
Hmm~ It’s acting like a character in a horror movie.
I can’t just let it sit there, so let’s give it a little more stimulation.
I landed a little ways away, then…
“Hup!”
*BOOOOOOOOOOM!*
Uga!?
I punched a nearby tree.
With a loud noise, the middle part of the tree exploded and flew away.
U, ugaaaaaaaa!!!
This time, the ogre was running in a different direction than before.
Is that where the Ogre King is?
When I did the same thing in other places, most of the ogres were going in different directions than they had initially run.
To confirm, I raised my hand and shot out light.
I checked the location of the light from above and compared it to the direction the ogres were running. Most of them were heading in the same direction.
And that direction was one I hadn’t gone yet.
“I think we found it?”
Everyone was happy that we finally found a clue.
“Go! Go!”
“Now all that’s left is to catch the Ogre King… and wipe out the rest of the ogres.”
“Rent, you’re amazing!”
“…I started to feel sorry for the ogres halfway through.”
Please don’t say that, Tikia.
Now that I knew the direction, the ogres didn’t need to be scared anymore.
*Thud!*
For the ogres who had worked hard to show me the way, I closed the distance by kicking off the ground, created a sharp mana sword with my hand, and…
*Swoosh!*
I beheaded them in an instant.
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Just in case, I restrained the ogres I found while searching with telekinesis, and at the same time, I controlled five clones to run towards the place where the ogres had run.
The trees were too thick to see well from the sky, and I might lose them if I used only one clone, so I used five to widen my field of vision.
I killed the ogres I encountered along the way by twisting their necks with telekinesis.
After about 30 minutes of running…
“Oh.”
In the vision of all five clones, I saw not just one group, but several groups of ogres gathered together.
And it wasn’t just a gathering; it felt like a base. They had crudely sharpened trees and stuck them in the ground to block outside access.
“Looks like we hit the jackpot.”
The ogres didn’t even know the clones were nearby.
I had one clone retreat quite a bit, then…
I shot light upwards.
After checking, the ogres’ base was about three mountains away from Canol.
No wonder it was so hard to find.
I had another clone fly up into the sky and look down at the area that seemed to be the base.
The trees were too thick to see well, but through the gaps, I could see that the ogres’ base covered a very large area.
There were over 300 ogres, and there was a large tent made of animal hides covered in blood.
Even after sending ogres all over the mountains, there were still so many left.
I could tell that if this many ogres attacked Canol with coordinated movements, it would be a truly terrible situation.
Just as I was about to go down and annihilate them all…
Ugaaaaaaaa!!!
A loud roar came from the tent.
Uga!?
An ogre flew out of the tent.
No, it was more accurate to say it was hit and sent flying.
And then, an ogre that was twice as big as a normal ogre, with a horn in the middle of its forehead, came out of the tent.
Ugaaaaaaaa!
That was clearly the Ogre King.
Uga! Uga uga uga…
Ugaaaaaaaa!!!
The ogre that had been sent flying was making excuses to the Ogre King, and the Ogre King seemed even angrier after hearing them.
“Is he angry because the map-making is too slow?”
Tikia guessed while watching the video.
Hearing that, it did seem likely.
Anyway, we found the Ogre King.
That’s 80 percent of the request completed.
The rest is just to crush the Ogre King and this base, and then create a large number of clones to exterminate the remaining ogres with a zerg rush.
Now that the search process was over, I felt relieved.
…Alright! Let’s have some fun taking down the Ogre King!
It would be good to take him out overwhelmingly in an instant, but I did that plenty to the other ogres during the search.
Now, I want to defeat him with a dramatic flair, something that would be in a story.
I got rid of the clone flying over the ogres’ base and the three clones that had come with me.
An adventurer charging into the enemy’s base with a single clone!
Yeah, I like that concept.
“Okay, I’m going to charge into the base.”
“Wait, Rent. Are you planning to go in alone?”
I stopped moving at Tikia’s words.
“Huh? Yes. It’s safer that way.”
“…I have a favor to ask. Can you do it?”
“Huh? What is it?”
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Tikia asked me to fly her to the ogres’ base.
While I was moving Tikia, I moved the others as well, and we arrived at the base.
“What are you planning to do?”
“Rent, you’ve been working hard searching, right? So I want to take some of the burden off you.”
“…To be honest?”
“With all those monsters swarming around, I want to unleash my maximum firepower magic and see how powerful it is.”
I understand that feeling.
If you have an area-of-effect attack and there are so many monsters, you’d want to use it at least once.
“Then, please unleash a big one.”
“Okay!”
Tikia immediately raised her staff and began to gather mana and chant.
“Shine, light of birth. With the birth of the stars… end everything!”
Uga?
A huge magic circle appeared above and below, not where the Ogre King was, but where the other ogres were concentrated.
*Fzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!*
The two magic circles rotated in different directions, and a black sphere appeared in the center.
Ugagaga!?!
Ugaaaaaaaa!!!!
The magic circles began to suck in the ogres inside and around them.
Countless ogres were sucked into the sphere, which was smaller than their bodies.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!*
The black sphere that had absorbed the ogres exploded, scattering colorful starlight.
The ending was beautiful, but the process was incredibly ruthless. That was Tikia’s magic.
Cosmo Impact.
It was several times more powerful than when I had seen it before.
“Hahahaha!!! It was a spectacular success! It feels amazing!”
Tikia spread her arms wide and laughed loudly.
Tikia, you look like a demon king, not a magical girl.
I imagined Tikia with horns on her head, a cape, and smiling confidently while naked.
It actually suits her.
Okay, next time, I’ll ask Tikia to wear that outfit!
A situation where I punish the arrogant demon king Tikia!
I’m already looking forward to it.
“Wow… Tikia is amazing.”
“It’s much more amazing than when I saw it before?”
“You’re amazing, Tikia!”
“Hahahaha! You can praise me more!”
The ogres, who had seemed to number over 300, had been reduced by more than half.
“Hmm… Ninya.”
“Yeah, Noah. I was thinking the same thing.”
“Hehe, really? Hey, Rent! Let’s go down and hunt ogres together!”
“Huh? You’re going down?”
“Yeah! We came all this way, so we should do something too!”
“Rent could easily do it alone… but we’ll take care of the surrounding ogres, so you can focus on the Ogre King, okay?♡”
“I want to use more magic too!”
“S-should I cast support magic in advance?”
Everyone was eager to fight the ogres.
Well, they’re all adventurers.
They must have been itching to do something after just watching me.
“Okay. Let’s go down!”
“Okay(Yes)!”
And I went down to the ogres’ base with everyone.
