Chapter 66 – 5. Helen (5)
Bubbly…
The sight of the orcs gathering in a crowd was truly terrifying.
Unless they are in a village where they live together as a community, they usually act in groups of 2 or 3, and depending on the situation, it was common to gather in groups of around 5.
When a natural enemy or a common external enemy appears, up to 10 of them may gather together, but as they have good eating habits, they instinctively reluctant to gather too much in one place.
You don’t understand it with your head, but you understand it with your instincts.
If you gather too many in one place, all the food you eat will disappear in an instant.
But how should I explain this situation?
Like ants, they swarm and gather somewhere.
I can’t tell the exact number because I can’t check the entire forest, but the number of orcs I’ve seen so far is more than a hundred.
“Did the legendary Oak Road come out?”
“Well, it depends on how much you trust that record, but even compared to the record back then, it wasn’t like this.”
Although the Orcs were led under a powerful entity called the Oklord, that did not mean that they could not be manipulated to ignore even the species characteristics of the creatures.
That’s why I said it looks like an ant.
It was because the orcs really stretched out like ants and followed the same path that the orc in front of them had taken.
As if the ants followed the pheromone sprayed by the ants that went ahead.
“Let’s just check where the orcs gather and go back.”
“…Yes”
This mission seemed more dangerous than expected.
It seemed clear that wherever this horde of orcs headed, there would be massive evacuation.
“Pgurleuk… Gurrukreuk…”
The floor of the temple was literally a sea of blood. Blood flowed from the girl in front of her eyes, nose, and mouth, not only through her ears, but also through the pores on her entire body and even through the three holes on her lower body, which would be embarrassing to even speak about.
He hurriedly brought potions and holy water and hurriedly fed the potion into the girl’s mouth.
“Church, who are the priests to be replaced?”
“I-I don’t have it anymore! I urgently requested support from other temples, but no matter how fast it’s about sand…”
The priests, who had already poured their holy power into a corner and were exhausted, exhaled heavily and lamented their helplessness.
I can’t believe I can’t save this little girl properly.
The girl, who was in such terrible pain, was rushed to the healing room, and while soaking in the holy water bath, she received the holy power of the priests, and the healing proceeded smoothly.
At first, I thought this treatment would be over, but it was a big mistake.
As the unknown poison was decomposed by the divine power and about half of it disappeared, the poison that had given the girl only extreme pain until now finally revealed its teeth and began to destroy the girl’s body indiscriminately.
The pain, which had been fading, surged violently again, and blood splattered all over her body, and the girl’s body began to collapse rapidly from the inside.
In this terrifying situation, she hurriedly casts a healing spell, grinds holy water contaminated by blood, and feeds potions…
Then, after learning that her poison could be prevented from running amok by injecting her divine power more strongly, she slowly started pouring in the divine power she had been injecting while thinking about a long-term battle.
However, it was a misjudgment in a semantic sense.
The poison that revealed her true nature was not easily decomposed any longer, and even in the midst of her disappearance, if her divine power that suppressed herself loosened even a little, she would immediately lift her claws and tear and scratch the girl’s body from the inside. Went.
Virtually… The fact that the girl had endured until now was close to a miracle.
The blood vessels in the one remaining eye were all burst and stained red, and it had lost its luster as if it had already gone blind.
I was trying to secure the airway by scooping blood from the girl’s throat with a stretching medical tool, but judging from the current situation, I wondered if her lungs were already full of blood.
Even so, the girl wasn’t dead yet.
No matter how hopeless they seemed, as long as the girl was holding on, they couldn’t give up either.
“At this rate, I’m really going to die!!”
The boy who seemed to be the girl’s mate seemed to have already lost his mind half at the girl’s appearance.
“How much poison is left?”
“Estimated about 30%… I don’t know. Everything is inaccurate except for less than half.”
The high priest in charge of this temple eventually made a decision.
“Bring the holy relic. Use the last resort.”
“High Priestess?! But that’s…”
“If a demon or a powerful Saihan comes to the priest while using the holy relic, I should appeal to the god.”
A powerful relic that maintains the sacred barrier of this temple. With that power, it would surely be able to drive out the poison in this girl’s body.
After a while, the priests carefully brought the statue of the goddess carved out of cedar wood into the room and placed it right next to the girl’s head.
Then, surprisingly, the statue of the goddess began to shine more intensely than ever, even before the High Priestess prayed.
The priests looked at the statue in bewilderment at such an appearance.
“This, this!?”
Aaaaa -!!
What happened?
The statue of the Goddess emitted a very intense light, and the girl’s seizure miraculously finally stopped.
The seizures stopped, but the priests still looked at the girl moaning softly and didn’t know what the hell was going on.
“Uh, what happened?”
“I don’t know, except it’s just a miracle from God…”
“Oh, my God…”
The priests agonized over what to do, but even if they prayed to the holy relic and prayed for a new miracle, the holy relic stopped responding to the light from a moment ago.
They had no choice but to return the holy relic to its original place, and fortunately the holy barrier, which had disappeared for a while due to the absence of the holy relic, was restored to its original state, and everyone sighed in relief.
The fear that the holy relic might have exhausted itself seemed to be just a concern.
What happened? Even though nothing had been done to the relic, the relic saved the girl by lighting itself up.
Could it be that God doesn’t want this child to die?
If so, could it be that she is a saint chosen by God?
That’s why the devil tried to kill this child, and God urgently revived this child with his own power?
However, he refrained from making a hasty judgment.
But this seemed certain.
As much as God doesn’t want this child to die.
“Aaaaagh-!!”
Drenched in a cold sweat, YuRia came to her senses as she felt as if she had been haunted by a nightmare for a long time.
Breathing heavily from exhaustion, Yuria finally realized that she couldn’t see anything around her.
She could perceive that something thin was covering her, but even that feeling was very dull, and even her ears felt like something buzzed, and even her hearing didn’t seem normal.
Was it not a dream?
In the meantime, Yuria’s whole body was still crushed by the warm feeling of her embrace, and she managed to regain her stability despite her pain.
Yeah, it wasn’t a dream.
What happened after I drank the holy water as a gift from the count.
However, her memories after that were vague and did not remember properly.
It just hurt.
She was in so much pain that her hair turned white, leaving nothing but her memories of being in pain.
However, as much as her fear of her pain still remained deep within her own heart, and her body trembled with that fear.
Still, she could clearly feel who the person hugging her was.
“Loa…”
Silently, YuRia held her loa as she did her best to feel her loa with an imperceptible touch.
“You’re here right?”
You are the light of my soul. My everything
My mate…
As long as you’re by my side, I’m not afraid of anything…
“Yuria…”
Her YuRia’s eyes are really not seeing as her priest said, but her remaining blurry eyes are just staring into the void and unable to hear her loa’s words, just hovering over her own body. Fumbled over and caught her own hand.
As if her sight, hearing, and even her tactile senses were not normal, Yuria couldn’t even find her own hand touching Yuria’s body.
Still, as if she was so obsessed with her Roa’s hand that she found somehow, Roa just felt her heart fill up as she looked at Yuria leaning on her hand tightly holding her with her hand that she couldn’t even properly use. It was like
Roa was very distressed by the appearance of YuRia, who had only become like this, but according to her priests’ words, even this was a miracle.
She said that it was a miracle that she did not die in such a state, and that it was a miracle that she somehow survived there.
I was able to drive out most of the poison with the holy miracle, but it wasn’t enough beyond that.
Healing and restoring her with divine magic that squeezed out all of her helpless power, and somehow kept her breath alive, and the support priest who arrived two days later was able to pull Yuria out of the river of death. Did.
In the meantime, there was no time to restore the damaged organs, and since the recovery had already been completed in this state, further recovery was unreasonable.
If it was the priest or the saint’s recovery magic, it might be possible, but it was difficult for Loa to meet such a person.
Even if that wasn’t the case, since this temple had already made a big crowd for Yuria, Loa couldn’t ask for anything more because she knew that her further request was too much.
Truly countless priests were exhausted, scraping away the sacred power without divine power that was alternating several times to the floor, using healing magic and passing out…
Even if it was because of the Count’s request, even Loa couldn’t say anything about the devotion they showed for Yuria.
Even if that’s what Yuria has become like this.
Just like they said, it’s a relief that YuRia didn’t die.
Yuria, who had become so crippled that she could not do anything, had no choice but to leave the hospital, not being discharged, being carried on her back by Roa, with only her life preserved.
“I’ve been waiting for you, Mr. Roa. I know about Lady Yuria’s condition because I’ve already heard from the priests.”
There was only one carriage and one maid waiting in front of the temple.
To Roa, who was confused by this situation, the maid immediately continued her words.
“I know what you’re thinking, but the county is in a state of emergency right now. Please forgive me for not preparing this much for the young lady.”
“What’s going on?”
“Three thousand orcs are invading the county.”
Three thousand.
It may seem small, but this number was by no means small.
Considering that quite a few villages and cities collapsed without being able to handle 30 orcs, 3,000 was an event in which the survival of the county was at stake.
“All the other party members are also out at the site. When Lady Roa finishes treatment for Lady Yuria and brings her out, she was asked to take her to the county’s house.”
“Now, how is the situation?”
The maid turned her gaze away as her expression darkened and her head slightly lowered.
“Is it very difficult?”
“Two villages were destroyed and one city was razed in half. Most of the citizens were able to move to the lord’s castle, but there were not a few casualties, and although the number of orcs is reduced due to knights and Prince Cashwin’s attacks, there are still too many orcs. If If the Count had not been the Marquis, this invasion might have destroyed the territory.”
Being permitted to have more privates and knights than the average earl. A place where the king does not collect taxes from the estates in order to virtually protect the borders. That place was a change bag.
As much as that, a large number of soldiers and knights were always on standby, and they had a wealth of experience compared to other places, so they were somehow passing the current situation.
“I’ll take you to the mansion for now. I’m ready to take care of Lady Yuria, so I think she’d better go home.”
“…Yes”
With a bitter heart, Roa got on top of her carriage with YuRia on her face.
Everyone is fighting, but what is he doing here…
As befits a wagon from an aristocratic family, there were soft and comfortable cushions inside the wagon, so it hurt even more for a loa who was comfortable alone.
Bang!! Perbung!!
Patter…
Could it be because of the cane?
Cashwin, who had already run out of mana if he was his former self, led the battlefield by casting magic over and over again even in normal circumstances.
How many days has it been? He was approaching close to a hundred orcs he had killed alone, but there were still too many orcs.
It felt strange, but the Orcs were using tactics and strategies.
Nuri used her abilities to the fullest to find the cause of this abnormal state alone and infiltrated deep into it, and Allen took over the general reconnaissance of the orcs and defended the orcs. Sometimes, it’s already the 5th day to strike preemptively.
I wonder if Yuria is going to go back to the count’s family…
Cashwyn groaned and smacked her lips.
If Yuria had been intact, she would have been a great power.
‘To say that the Tiberinterts are really behind the scenes, the way they deal with the orcs is different from the Tiberinterts.’
The way the Teberintuchs deal with the orcs is that they are a higher race than the orcs and take several orcs under them as their own group.
Although the orcs could be made to act independently to some extent, the orcs considered the terberintertz as an individual of a higher rank than themselves and followed the rules of the orcs, but the terberintertz did not have the ability to rule the orcs at will.
It’s just that the Orcs follow them because the Teberinterts are superior and powerful kin individuals. It wasn’t that the Teberinturz had any special abilities.
However, these Orcs now felt very unorcish.
And this kind of fighting method was not the fighting method of the Tiberinterts.
That stupid. Like the Orcs, the Tiberinterts, and the pig-like race, the non-reckless method didn’t exist in the first place.
To think that such guys fight with selective tactics, formations, and ranks according to the situation where rushing is not the first tactic. It was the sound of a dog laughing.
Some semantics made me feel more tired, but some semantics allowed me to breathe.
If the Orcs had flocked randomly, even if they didn’t know about high-ranking jobs such as knights and wizards like himself, the damage would have been even more severe to ordinary soldiers.
But on the contrary, this situation was maximizing the consumption of knights and wizards.
Fortunately, there were no fatalities yet, but a number of injured had already been escorted to the rear, and he was the only wizard who still had magic left.
At least, it seems that she is tired of herself, seeing that she really wants Roa to come out to help.
“Shield! Forward!!”
Watching the shields piled up in front of them, Cashwyn stood on a slightly higher hill behind them and aimed his staff at the bottom of the hill.
“This is the last time! We must retreat after this conflict.”
Cashwin, who had gathered her magical energy, fired a fireball as it was, making the crystal ball at the tip of the wand glow red. I blew about a quarter of it.
Even though the momentum had died, the Orcs’ charge, which was still heavy, crashed into the shields erected by the knights, and groans rang out from all directions.
No matter how much the knights had bodies strengthened by the use of magic, the impact of that heavy orc rushing at them with all their might was far from being formidable.
“Spear! Stab!!”
As it was, the soldiers began to thrust their long spears at once between the shields.
Screams were heard from among the orcs, and green blood ran down the shield and soaked the earth.
The color of this blood was an indicator to distinguish monsters from different races.
Not all orcs are monsters.
In fact, there are Orcs as a ‘heterogeneous race’ with red blood.
All beings with green blood are monsters.
As an exception, the Aliunes have green blood, both monsters and heterogeneous people, but they are the same color but different in terms of composition, so let’s move on.
The monster’s blood overflowed like that, and the smell of birittan stung their noses, and the knights, risking their lives and trying their best to stop the hulking men full of hostility and murderous intent to kill them, put away their shields and rush beyond them.
As the long spear troops attacked for a long time, the orcs began to fall one by one, and soon the knights’ time approached.
“Everyone kick the sword!! Release the dust proof and slaughter the orcs!!”
“Waaaaa-!!”
Finally, the knights drew their swords and bravely stepped forward and began to cut off the necks and limbs of the orcs.
Having completely lost his charge, the orc was no longer a match for well-trained soldiers.
But that was then.
Although small, the Orc ambush that had been hidden until then appeared.
“Kuwiiik!!”
“This!?”
Cashwin hurriedly cast magic, but only two or three were swept away by the magic, and most of the orcs started charging toward the soldiers intact.
It’s a big deal. At this rate, the soldiers…
Scar! Awesome!!
At that moment, the formation of the orcs collapsed in an instant as one person quickly dug in between the orcs.
The instant the sword was swung, blood gushed from the necks of three or four orcs, and at the moment of flashes, the three or four orcs’ Achilles tendons were severed and they fell to the ground.
A large number of orcs were still rushing forward, but their teeth were already falling out, and even at that moment, the orcs’ tendons in their legs were cut and they fell to the ground in the midst of an attack by an unknown person chasing the orcs.
In the end, only four orcs reached the soldiers.
However, the number was far too insufficient to break through the soldiers who had already formed squares and were waiting.
Hooked! Bububuk! Fubuk!!
No matter how thick the skin and belly fat were to protect organs from attacks from ordinary soldiers, that was only to a certain extent.
Four or five soldiers rushed at each one and stabbed them with their long spears, so no matter how much they charged with their massive bodies, they were useless.
Cashwin looked at that figure and looked at who the hell had helped them.
“Mister!”
“Huh?”
Cashwin was taken aback by the voice.
It was a voice I never thought I would hear here.
“Loa?”
Loa stood proudly there, her blue hair shining and her twin swords in both hands.
Uh, what the hell is this?
