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Orc Harem Vol 1 Chapter 16

Added 2020-12-07 14:35:25 +0000 UTC

Chapter 16: Ork-san Harbored a Doubt

My proposal for the elves to focus on defense while I went out of the village to clear the enemies was easily accepted.

There were also those who felt suspicious at the opinion of an outsider like me, but the elves didn’t have any other choice.

But, there was just one thing that differed from my plan.

「I never thought that Tita will come along.」

「This is the chief’s order after all. Because I’m the fastest elf in the village.」

I planned to attack solo, but Tita was attached to me as support.

It was just as she said, Tita had the fastest speed in the elf village.

She was chosen because any other elf would be just a burden.

Also, though I said support, she would also act as a supervisor from the elf village.

「Say Ork, even though you are so fixated to harem, why did you refuse the promised reward?」

Tita was asking about what her grandmother mentioned during the strategy meeting.

「……How should I explain it, something like that is off the mark. Being allowed to choose any woman I like if I save the village is just…」

「Wasn’t that what you wanted Ork? You had gone around hitting on all the girls in the village without any discrimination.」

「That was me wooing them, but doing it forcefully without the woman’s consent isn't my preference. I want them to properly come with me on their own will.」

That’s right.

If they came with me reluctantly just because they were indebted to me or because they were ordered to, it would only bring unhappiness to both parties.

「You are really strange Ork. Even though you’re a pervert, you are fixated to strange things and hold back.」

「Well yeah, my orc friends also told me that.」

「Even me, I wouldn’t be able to refuse if you said that you want to have me in exchange of healing Kaa-san’s sickness. ……But, I don’t hate that side of yours.」

「I see, so that means you agree to enter my harem now.」

「I’m not saying that!」

「That’s too bad. ……Let’s end the talk here. I feel the enemies’ presences. Their number is twenty two. I don’t feel any strong mana from them. I can take care of them alone. I’ll finish it quickly.」

Ork intentionally came here to the location where most of the enemy force was concentrated among all the enemy locations he had scouted before this.

It was dangerous, but the more enemy I took care of, the easier it would be for the elf village to defend itself.

I switched my mind to battle mode.

I heightened my mana.

Orc’s body was already tough from the start. It was now added with the advanced body strengthening magic and I also called wind with the power of spirits.

I was clad in wind.

It was a fluid wind armor. It would deflect every kind of attack with the wind’s power and it also served as acceleration device that boosted my movement. It was offense and defense combined into one.

【Wind Current Armor Sprint】.

It was a skill I directly learned from the great sage.

「Watch from here Tita.」

I told her only that before jumping. I rushed through the air with a speed that even overtook sound. I adjusted my direction midair using the wind armor and glided.

Like that I flew to the middle of the enemies and sent flying the nearest man with a globe of wind as a greeting.

That man was within the reach of my hand, but he would die if I hit him directly with my fist. That was why I held back by using a wind globe that wouldn’t break him.

The man who was blown away by wind crashed on the trunk of a large tree and fainted.

After doing that, the humans finally noticed that they were under attack and raised angry shouts. Two more people were knocked out before their even shouted.

The opponents noticed me and yelled something, but they couldn’t mount an organized defense against me. They were agitated and I was able to deal with three more people.

Then finally they started fighting properly.

I slipped past their swords and axes and struck their stomach with my palm to render them unconscious. I could overwhelm the nearby enemies with just my bare arms.

Throwing knives and arrows came flying from the enemies at the rear, but I didn’t even need to dodge. The attacks were just physical attacks that weren’t even laced in mana or ki. Something like that culdn’t pierce my wind armor.

I had annihilated all the enemies nearby, so I grabbed the arrow that flew at me and threw it back like a dart. It pierced the shoulder of the archer.

It seemed that the arrow was laced with nerve poison. The archer fainted from his own poison.

「They are weak. It barely takes any effort at all to fight them.」

……Strange, they were weaker than I thought.

Their skill was only half first-rate.

They should be a group that had a member that could even tear this forest’s barrier.

Even if the culprit was only hiring mercenaries, would they hire a group of this level?

I neutralized the 22 people here without killing them while I was thinking something like that.

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Tita came out after everything was over.

「Your strength is monstrous like usual.」

「I don’t plan to deny that but, this time the opponents are just weak.」

「No, their movements were really good though.」

「Putting it the other way, their ability is only at the level of being able to move really good. It feels like an anticlimax because I’m expecting to encounter a super first-rate enemy here. Now then, let’s move to the next group after we finished tying them up.」

「Why don’t you kill them?」

「Because there is no need. From their getup they are only hired hands……or do you want to kill them?」

「A little, but, as expected there is no need. Let’s move on.」

A little huh.

Her birthplace was attacked, so it was only natural for her to feel like that.

I estimated the route and the progress of the enemy’s advance from their original positioning and attacked the next group.

As expected the next group also offered no challenge.

My suspicion was growing stronger.

……To be honest, if the opponents were only at this level, than the elves didn’t need me to take care of them.

Then, why were they gathered here?

Think.

I felt like I had overlooked something big.

「These people aren’t a match for Ork at all. At this rate the rest will also be an easy win. Perhaps they might get completely annihilated by Ork alone before they can even enter the village.」

「Yeah. They aren’t any threat. Supposing that these guys manage to reach the elf village, will the elves be able to win against them?」

「If there are sixty of them like Ork said, then we might win. Of course, some of us might get wounded though. We elves are quite strong.」

My existence here was an irregularity. It wasn’t really strange that they hadn’t prepared any force or plan to defeat me.

But, if the force would even lose against the elves anyway, then what was the point of them being here?

There was no way it had any meaning.

「Tsk, so it’s like that.」

The teaching of my teachers gave me the answer.

The enemy didn’t mind even if this force failed to take down the elf village.

He just needed for the village to be panicked because the barrier was broken and humans attacked.

「Change of plan. We’re going back to the village. Tita, tell me. Is there anywhere in this village that is usually guarded strictly but will get lightly defended when all the villager are gathered due to an emergency situation?」

「That kind of place……ah, there is. It’s the world tree’s shrine. Usually nobody will approach there and there will be someone who on standby there to protect the world tree, but if there is an attack like this time, even the one protecting the world tree will be called to protect the elf village.」

「It’s there. Let’s hurry to go back to the village!」

They got us.

I was carelessly lured out because the opponents were within my capability to take down alone.

All these sixty mercenaries were just distraction.

The enemy’s true aim was to make the world tree’s shrine emptied of people.

……In the end this was just my guess.

But, I had neutralized half of the enemy force like this.

There wouldn’t be any problem even if this guess of mine was wrong.

That was why let’s believe on this guess and return.

「What is kept in the shrine of the world tree?」

「Err, I don’t really know myself but, I think I once heard something about a bad god being sealed there.」

That sounded like a fairy tale.