2nd Floor – Lv.27 Fairies and Orcs (4)
Random encounters, commonly referred to as power wars, have a reason for having such a name.
There is such a thing as faction friendliness.
Literally, it is a number that indicates how close you are to a specific faction.
There was no way to check specific numbers in-game during the game days.
But it does have a huge impact on play.
Races whose friendship level has gone down to hostility will recognize me no matter where they meet in the labyrinth and are reluctant or arguing with me.
It is a troublesome system that has many limitations if it is not properly managed.
However, the condition for opening the stairs on the floor where the power battle is on is to clear one of the two spawned factions.
Of course, there will be factions that will pretend.
In a direct battle, the friendship level fluctuates, and indirect support is better.
If you want to avoid it, you have to do it secretly without being discovered.
Words are easy.
I can’t think of just sucking my fingers and waiting for one to win on its own, luckily.
Because Sudden Death is hanging to prevent it.
Time is given for about a week. You have to somehow intervene and push one side.
In this round, I was going to aim for a relatively stable play.
Spy on the faction opposite the fairy, and join the stronger side.
If nothing happened, it would have been on Greenskin’s side.
The factions within the Greenskin group are so numerous that it becomes really tedious to encounter them from beginning to end of the labyrinth.
If we can have friendly relations with those guys right away, the section before the kingdom will be easier in the world.
“I think you screwed it up now.”
“Eh, why?”
“They both beat each other fairly. Is that what it’s like to be treated like that? The friendship has already been eroded.”
“Hey, you just said you did well!”
Anyway, it seems that the girl finally realized that something was wrong.
Creeping, he says that he had separated an arm and a leg before sprinkling the spring water of recovery.
There was nothing he could do to subdue it without killing it.
“It sticks because it is sprayed with water.”
“crazy.”
It’s the first time, how can you trust the spring of healing so much?
Was the word healing potion such a trustworthy word?
Somehow, the fairy looking at this is completely frightened, and the orc’s eyes are burning with anger.
It is impossible to establish a friendly relationship in this state.
If so, I’ll have to turn to the slightly risky route.
glance at the girl
honestly it doesn’t make sense
A level 2 person holding a large number alone to subdue an elf ranger and an orc warrior?
It was never a low level enemy.
They are the best companions for taking risks. No, maybe it’s just like there’s no risk. If only this kid listens to me.
I hide my insides and sigh.
“Ha. Let’s release it first.”
“Oh, they’re strong.”
“Don’t return the weapon.”
“I see.”
The girl runs to the gun and begins to untie the rope tying the fairy.
No, I might have to express it a little differently.
The fairy rolls around in a state that is almost like gimbap.
The terrified fairy had no choice but to roll the dirt floor as the girl did.
There was no resistance. I feel resignation What did you do?
The orc approached me and began to untie the rope.
Since his fighting spirit had not been broken at all, it seemed that even moving the ax far away was not enough.
The hunter decided to hold a crossbow to his head.
The orc became docile.
The situation in which both of them were suppressed by one person, but it seems to have been considered a meaningless death since there were also colleagues of the other.
I decided to isolate the two for now.
Right now, your eyes will be focused on that shocking girl, but for now, the fairy and the greenskin are at war.
“Look at that orc carefully.”
“Uh, can I just keep it?”
“okay.”
I sighed. When I saw the fairy standing up after being released, I was trembling.
“I’m not eating, so should I go out and talk for a while?”
“Go out…?”
“I mean, let’s have some secret talk.”
At those words, the Orc’s expression became strange.
Considering the quality of the disarmed equipment, it is on a rather high position, so it means an orc who knows what a conversation is.
Still, wriggled my eyebrows, so am I offended by the way I dare to converse with their enemy, a fairy?
Orcs are such guys.
The hunter was worried.
“Are you okay by yourself?”
“Am I going to lose to a fairy who doesn’t have a weapon?”
He seemed to understand when he tapped the shotgun. Even if you let go, your arms are still tied behind your back.
I pushed the fairy with the muzzle of the shotgun. The fairy started walking.
You may not know what a shotgun is, but you will know that the right to escape is in my hands.
And after a little conversation.
The fairy was frightened, but not panicked to the point where she couldn’t judge the situation.
She is a clan of stump fairies that have lived in this forest for generations, and she was at war with the orc army that had invaded one day.
The orcs didn’t even know the purpose of the fairies.
There is hope in the twinkling eyes.
It seems that they had already forgotten what was dried like kimbap a while ago.
“Will you be on our side?”
Be naive too
There are quite a few sub-factions under the group called Fairies, but among them, Stump Fairies are idiots called Goritabun Fairies.
They revere tradition and never leave their homeland.
They are frogs that live in their own wells.
It is the easiest to cheat and the best to use.
Of course, they are a faithful race full of good intentions. But I trust others too well. As good as they are, they think that everyone in the world is the same.
As the name implies, the head is a flower garden.
“Well? Why me?”
The fairy was stuck in buffering for a while. They did not understand why they did not reach out to them in this situation, and they are trying to understand.
It looked like an idiot, but I didn’t mean to demean it.
Because good deeds without compensation are very natural for the stump fairies.
Separating and thinking about what has become a part of life is harder than you think.
I decided to give you some help.
“If there’s something useful, wouldn’t I think differently?”
The fairy’s face brightens. It seems that he finally came up with the word transaction. I don’t know for sure, but it’s probably a word I haven’t used in over a hundred years.
“Yeah, yes. Deal! I’d like to offer a deal. If you help us….
But buffering again.
After such clumsy and tearful negotiations, I was able to obtain quite a bit of information.
The size of the fairy village and the equipment and resources it possesses.
The number and composition of the estimated Greenskin Army.
Finally, there are all sorts of trivial legends and tales floating around in this forest.
It sounds absurd, but it is true that I heard this because it was necessary.
Most of them are just bullshit, but sometimes there are hidden items or bosses.
If it’s a game, you can find it by hitting it roughly, but it’s not worth it to make such an effort without a map in the world that has become a reality.
Finally, the fairy once more asked me.
“So, are you on our side now?”
“no.”
The fairy bowed her head as if disappointed.
The conditions she offered weren’t too bad.
All of the fairy equipment are enchanted with high performance, and the various resources from the fairy tree are materials for consumables with various effects.
Due to the nature of the fairies who are good at magic and spirits, if you raise the level of friendship, it will be of great help to your adventure as you go to the second half of the labyrinth.
“Then, are you going to side with that side? Why are you such a savage Orc…”
“Hey, how much would the Orc be upset if you only hear one side of the story? I’m just going to listen to that side as well.”
Then, as he squinted his eyes, hope bloomed again on the fairy’s face.
I smiled and went back into the fountain. A girl and a hunter are guarding the orc with a grim expression.
The girl was whistling, apparently bored.
I handed the fairy to the hunter and saw the orc.
he growled and said.
“If you plan to stick with those kites, you will regret it. I will curse you in the name of the Stormcry Brigade.”
“Brigade? A city? Or a kingdom?”
The orc had a slightly sad expression on his face, but he growled right away.
“Do you think I’ll tell you that?”
Such remarks are also information that foretells a faction that will appear somewhere downstairs.
If it was smaller than a city, it was not an organized army.
Apparently, the orcs who invaded the forest have a background.
If it’s a city, it’s fine, but if it’s an orc kingdom, it gets quite tiring. because the size is completely different.
I thought that it might be better to have a power war on the second floor.
You may encounter kingdom-scale factions without prior knowledge.
Of course, that’s a case of bad luck, but going there and complaining doesn’t change anything.
Destiny is also on the side of those who know in advance and prepare.
A hunter next to him asked anxiously.
“The kingdom? Orcs?”
I don’t know this again.
“How many times have you met the Green Skin faction on the largest scale?”
“It was a city, but…”
“Then what is the kingdom?”
“Hey, the labyrinth is a damn place.”
It must have been painful enough just to experience it, but it seems painful to constantly discover that there is more to it.
The hunter sighed.
I said in a low voice.
“There is an empire above it. And above the empire….”
“No, it’s done. I’ll just live without knowing.”
Already, the expression of middle-aged Americans was close to cosmic horror.
After all, when it comes to the Orc Space Federation, no matter how much I am, I can’t do anything more than get through that floor as quickly as possible.
It is also true that you do not need to know.
How do you deal with orcs riding bipedal weapons in the pre-kingdom section?
Now, as I was about to extract some information from the orcs, a girl sneaked up on me.
“Can I help you with torture?”
“What kind of bullshit. Don’t do that.”
“Hey, aren’t you?”
Talking with innocent eyes like a deer is like torture.
“Then, you didn’t even rub the fairy’s chest, did you?”
“Hmm, I have no idea what kind of thinking process you went through to come to such a thought, can you tell me a little bit about it?”
“It’s big. Men don’t like things like that, do they?”
“So why should I touch it?”
The girl murmurs suspiciously.
“It’s strange. If it’s my brother….”
Usually, NPCs in the Jeong family setting had the image of a cold-hearted warrior whether they were enemies or allies.
In this world, it seems that the screw is firmly missing somewhere.
He hit the girl who was talking nonsense in the head.
“Oh, why?”
“Say something like a horse. Why do you fart with your mouth?”
“Oh, how could you say that to a high school girl?”
“Ugly….”
“My lord.”
He beats the girl one more time and pulls the tied prisoner away. The orcs followed him unexpectedly.
He was absurd.
“The warrior who subdued me is such a…. Well, such a strange human being.”
“That’s right.”
Ironically, the girl’s actions were helpful in their own way.
Orcs’ emotions are highly volatile. The guy who had been growling at me a while ago was replaced by an orc, who had lost all his strength.
It was a more comfortable condition for conversation.
I’m not stupid like a fairy, so I didn’t reveal everything on my own, and a process was necessary.
The Orcs had quite a bit of a position in the army. So, he had the intelligence to be able to negotiate.
As I actively expressed my willingness to cooperate, he was skeptical and convinced.
“It’s wise not to go against us.”
It must have been partly because of their pride in themselves. Anyway, it was.
I tried to dig out as much as I could, while gently coaxing and robbing my father-in-law.
Although the orcs aren’t stupid, they aren’t smart either, and it’s not that hard.
After a series of conversations, the orcs came to regard me as a good warrior in their own way.
At the same time, I had no doubt that it would be useful as a spearhead for the capture of the fairy village.
Of course, there won’t be any really friendly thoughts, and it’s probably self-centered enough that I’ll use it.
No matter how easily emotions volatilize, having an arm fall off is a humiliation worth recalling in the end.
I tied the two prisoners back together and put them in a corner, and I called the girl and the hunter.
“It’s not always good for the party leader to decide everything arbitrarily. If you have an opinion, I’ll take it.”
The hunter rejoiced.
“Then can I shoot that orc now?”
I questioned curiously.
“Huh? Why do you think so?”
“If you decide to take a side, wouldn’t it be better to earn your trust in front of the fairies?
Because I… she did something.”
There’s something misunderstood. I cleared up that misunderstanding.
“No, I’m going to wipe them both out?”
The hunter was stunned.
But they are all experience. As long as the orc’s arm was separated from the start, the friendship operation was already ineffective.
For now, it would be better to sweep it all up and farm it with a girl from the Jung family, who has proven her overwhelming fighting power.
It’s difficult, right? It’s much more beneficial than faction friendship?