165 – Spearmen
“But please reply as soon as possible. I want to see you soon.”
“…That’s… So strange. Since when did we become close enough to miss each other?”
“Isn’t that right? Maybe he went back to preparing for promotion? But with his skills, he could easily pass…”
“Hmm…”
After analyzing Noh Ha-yoon’s purpose in his own way, he moved for about 10 minutes.
Get drunk!
The orc’s distinctive scream resounded through the forest. An arrogant, rude, defiant roar.
It’s not too far from here.
‘415M… 40 Animals.’
If you keep moving like this, you will run into them soon.
If another 4-person party encountered it, it was a number that would have given us a little trouble thinking about whether or not to fight.
However, the Orc troops you will soon encounter are different from the Orc troops you met in the Lizard Marsh.
‘Is there a spearman?’
There is a spearman at the rear of the ranks.
Unlike the Orc spearmen I fought one-on-one, they support melee fighters by throwing thin, sharp iron spears on their backs and throwing them from a distance.
When I spread my senses and looked at them, I felt that one arm of the spearmen was abnormally swollen.
Although the rate of fire and range are low, the spear thrown with that arm far exceeds the destructive power of an arrow shot by an orc archer.
The only summoned creatures that can continue fighting even after being hit by that powerful spear… For now, only me and the Specter will be the only ones.
‘I have no intention of accepting that.’
“Oh, from the beginning… And it’s not like they’re the same type. There are two entities with completely different strides. Variants.”
“From the first battle… How the world is going. To be honest, I’m not surprised anymore. Arin, so how many?”
“About 30-40 in all. Only the ones with different strides can be ten?”
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The wavelength range of my senses has increased, so I can now spot enemies later than I do, but Arin’s hearing is amazing every time I see him.
As long as it doesn’t appear that her path is particularly complicated, her role as a guide can be left to her.
Arin suddenly turned her head towards me, then lifted one corner of her mouth, and she said.
“Okay. Ilwol-nii, let’s aim at the rear with me. This is the first time Master Lee is giving a lesson, so let’s show the lightning strides.”
Arin, who spoke to me in a slightly excited voice, was blowing her snort and flapping her ears mercilessly.
She even seemed to blush a little, but she still seemed ashamed to call herself master.
I don’t know if it’s all that exciting to teach her skeleton something about her, but it was a pleasure to see her come back to life anyway, as part of her team.
Come to think of it, she had only used her lightning stride on one hand out of her three dungeon expeditions, so she had to keep an eye out for this opportunity.
“Lizard, Orc, Specter. Charge!”
As Arin and I went around to the rear, Yeonhee’s charge signal resonated quite strongly from behind.
As soon as her order was finished, twenty or so summoned beasts started running towards the orc warriors.
The reason why I didn’t summon all the summons must be the result of judging that that was enough. It seems that Yeon-hee also started training to control her magic after having a bad experience at ‘Closed School’.
As I moved to their rear, I was very curious about the confrontation between summoned beasts and orcs.
Will our summons be able to gain an edge over the Orc low-class warriors, who are rated as surpassing D-class lieutenants?
“Nya! Take a good look! Don’t look away!”
“Clack!”
Perhaps there was an eye on the back of my head, Arin noticed that my nerves were being sold elsewhere and called my attention.
I’m trying to show off a special move, but I can’t be bothered if my apprentice loses sight of it. This is my mistake
Pajik- Pajik-
She started summoning her lightning-like aura as she stamped her foot a few times.
In fact, it is far too short to say that her lightning walk still contains the lightning attribute.
The distortion and noise as if small lightning strikes were close to an optical illusion effect created by splitting mana into small pieces and compressing the bursting process, but what about it?
Once you learn it, you will be able to assign properties somehow. The lightning attribute skill itself is rare and it looks like a tempestuous storm, so I wanted to acquire it unconditionally.
Pajik-Pajik-jik―
Soon, her footwork began. I hadn’t seen her before, but when I looked closely, it wasn’t just that she released her magic power when she stepped on the ground.
‘Crazy… That’s what happens.’
Arin cuts her mana in succession in the air and releases it. In her hands, in her toes.
Then, the swaying body straightened out of balance and straightened out in the direction I was aiming for.
Even when she saw her fighting off the cliff yesterday, Arin’s sense of balance was unmatched by her. I don’t think it’s easy to overlook that kind of ability because it’s part of being born.
When will I be able to use it so freely… I was thinking about it, and I suddenly had a question.
‘Come to think of it, were the other members of the Ilseom Guild able to properly use Lightning Walk?’
I just passed it on because I overpowered it so quickly during the mimic event, but when I think of their behavior, I don’t think there were people who used it properly like Arin. At best, it must have been a watermelon rind.
Come to think of it, the Ilsom Guild was quiet. I thought we would be tackled right away… Is it just passing like this?
‘It can’t be.’
Fuuk!
“Kreukreuk-“
I was lightly cutting through the orcs around me without taking my eyes off her movements. The orc was reacting to my movements a long time ago.
‘It’s definitely a different level from when I fought in the gorge.’
I felt a little excited because I was able to see how much my level had improved in the meantime.
In the place where the dagger passed, the blood that burst from the neck of the orc gushed out like a waterfall and covered the sky for a while.
– Defeat enemies using daggers while stealthed. (107/10,000)
Since no one is watching me right now, I decided to focus on the stealth-dagger quest.
The attribute quest, which I thought would be the most difficult, was unexpectedly progressing quickly, so it was necessary to match the speed of the other quests.
“Tickktoktaktak!!”
“It’s a spear!”
Although we hit the rear first, it was impossible to subdue all the spearmen protected by the orcs at once.
Of course, it would have been possible if I used a skull bomb, but growing up alone is not a skill.
And you’d better save the bomb for the unexpected.
The spearmen who remained in the rear pulled their arms back as far as they could and threw their spears forward as they bounced like rubber bands.
Then, the tip of the iron spear, which was forged very sharp, sliced through the air at a tremendous speed and flew towards the summoned beasts in front.
Whoa!
Pupper puck!
Four Lizardmen were pierced by the spear at once and flew backwards for a while. It was truly enormous power.
‘Throwing isn’t bad either. Shall I make a spear with these bones?’
Of course, the victims were the lower number in the Lizard unit, but I didn’t know if the bone armor would offset all the damage if I got hit by that spear.
Unfortunately, the Lizardmen who were hit by the flying spear did not die in one shot, but became incapacitated.
It seems pitiful to see him trying to stand up somehow while holding the spear that pierced his body.
Actually, I could have avoided it if I tried to avoid it.
All of them were killed while trying to block the spears flying at Yeon-hee and Joo-a.
“… I had a hard time.”
Yeon-hee congratulated them for their sacrifice and waved her hand once.
Sarala Rock-
Then the dying summons turned into gray smoke and disappeared.
Yeon-hee nodded her head to me as if this was not a problem, then summoned them again.
“Then try again.”
“Churrup?!”
… I could see that Yeon-hee was getting more and more skilled at managing her summons. Although she still fell far short of what I remembered, at first glance, I could see a side of her charismatic side.
“Chuwaaa!!”
“Kreuk?!”
When the Lizardmen they killed came back to life and roared as if nothing had happened, the Orcs visibly panicked.
What made it more difficult for such orcs was the provocation skill that drew aggro and fist-shaped stones continuously rising from the ground, obstructing their movement.
The Orcs rushed to defeat Bae Joo-ah and the Screaming Mushroom, the starting point of such a troublesome ability, but before they knew it, the Specter flew in and splendidly rioted, completely knocking them out of their minds.
– Chureup-!
– Cha ha ha!!
On one side, Lizard No. 1 And Deottooth No. 1 Each took on one Orc warrior and were engaged in a one-on-one battle.
After evolving, Lizard No. 1 Grew rapidly and stood out from the wolf’s den.
Of course, we still don’t have the ability to subdue them alone, but just holding out will be of great help to us. In the first place, the biggest advantage of summons is that they give hunters time to defeat each monster.
And, although it took some time for the 1st and 2nd pair of Orcs to deal with the low-ranking Orc warriors, they showed an effortless way to subdue them.
In a word, it directly showed that the captains of our main unit are at least a D-class lieutenant level.
Of course, only the blacksmiths were like that, and the lower ranks were clearly behind the orc warriors, but it was still encouraging.
We can see Yeon-hee contemplating something as she watches the battle of the summoned beasts.
‘Is Yeon-hee still thinking?’
As she rode a taxi with me, she told me that she was contemplating about the six stacked summons. She expressed regret about her specter in particular.
It seems that he really liked the deceptive passive that makes him immune to physical attacks, as well as the similar debuff effect as an energy drain.
And the more I looked at it, the cuter it was. Hmm… I don’t agree with that, but anyway, I also felt sorry for Specter’s ability. It would be nice to mix orcs and specters in a ratio of about 2:1.
Of course, Specter is extremely weak against magic damage, but even considering that, it was a very attractive summon.
‘If Yeon-hee wants that much, she might be able to manifest her abilities…’
She is a woman who even created a strange substance that did not exist in the first place. It wouldn’t be surprising if she could freely use the ability to fix odds.
‘In my previous life, I hadn’t seen Yeonhee use the Specter… But maybe she couldn’t summon the Specter back then.’
She hadn’t yet decided which monster to immobilize with a probability of over 90%. She needed to be careful because once she made her decision, she couldn’t make another choice until the next level of summons came out.