Manowa Chapter 25

Let’s exterminate ogres

Edior: Aravyre (borrowed from Onetimescans lel~)

(+) Winlard Town In Front Main Gate

When Kazane and the others started running toward the target, a force consisting of a combination of adventurers and Mins.h.i.+ana soldiers also started to engage in battle.

“Uwaaaaa!!!”
“GuroooooOO!!”

The first a.s.sault group of fifty-something ogres clashed against front gate unit.

“Don’t fight against it directly! Surround and defeat it! The back of their feet is their blind spot!”

Among them is Kimberly, who didn’t join the surprise attack unit, and instead, took command of the front; holding his beloved sword and confronting the ogres.

“Fuuuuuu!!”

Even when giving directions to his surroundings he kept moving swiftly, cutting the tendons of numerous ogres.

“Guraaaaaaaa”

As their posture crumbles, other adventurers thrust their spears and attack them.

“Stall their movements while continuing to retreat. The situation will change shortly. Before that please do your best!”

Even while saying that, Kimberly grinded his teeth as he looked at the progress of the battle around him. The adventurers were capable enough to deal with it somehow or another, but the Mins.h.i.+ana soldiers didn’t have enough training. Even though they were told to not challenge them up front, they kept doing so.

Different from an adventurers basic strategy: to challenge one with a party of 4 to 6 people. It’s clear that a soldier's tactic to fight by pressing numbers against numbers, won’t work without an advantage in combat potential.

(It is worse than expected. Kazane, please defeat the berserk ogre quickly. At this pace we won’t be able to hold out)

(+) Winlard Town Vicinity

“Attaaaack!!!!”

As if turned into an ogre, Garra shouted. And together with it, Kazane and the others started to draw near, to the berserk ogre’s group.

Since the intelligence of an ogre is low they didn’t have any lookouts at the back, covered by the sounds of their own noisy footsteps, they didn’t notice Kazane and the others drawing near, and the result: Kazane and the others were able to get closer than their original estimation without being noticed.

“As expected, it is here”

It’s figure couldn’t be seen yet, but there’s a smell that’s clearly different from the others, ahead.

“Then from here, it’s my turn!!”

After getting as close as possible, Kazane descend from Hippo-kun and thrust her cane toward the ground.

“Skill: Golem Maker: Mr. Tebasaki!”

Following her voice, countless hands as big as an ogre’s appeared from the ground.

“Gua!?”

Having their feet gripped by abruptly appearing hands from the ground, the ogres become confused and were unable to break free from Kazane’s magic.

“Spell: Fire: Vortex!!”

The rotating kitty cat turned into rugby ball shaped sphere of fire that thrust toward the ogre’s chest.

“GaaaaaaaaAA!!”

Then together with a scream, it destroyed its core and ended its life.

“Amazing.”

Anna became speechless after seeing that, however, Garra immediately plunged in.

“Hippo-kun will be destroyed with one attack, so be careful!”

“I understand!”

While shouting, Garra cut off the arm of an approaching ogre. Jirou who sat behind, had a distant look in his eyes while looking, however he ignored Kazane.

(Why is he even here?)

In the end Jirou who was forced to partic.i.p.ate, entered Garra’s party, as expected. However, he also somehow ended up joining the surprise attack group. Perhaps since he was in Garra’s party, and since he raised his rank on the same day as Kazane, he was seen as of the same kind as Kazane. What a pitiful youth.

Even though she thought like that, Kazane quickly forget about Jirou, stared forwards, and shouted.

“Alright! Let’s defeat them like dominoes!”

Golem Mr. Tebasaki gripped ogre feet, one after another, and sealed their movements. At that time Kazane releases a vortex, with Yumika and Zinray also following suit beside her.

“Uhh. Only to this degree?”

Zinray said. He’s surprised that the disordered ogres became like still targets and were easily pierced.

In a flash, Kazane’s group subjugated ten or so ogres. By the way, Kazane had a slightly unpleasant face. Since ogres were able to stand their ground better than she expected, she wasn’t able to defeat them like dominoes.

Gyao and other members also started to rout the ogres in the surroundings.

“It’s him!!”

Finally Garra found his old enemy.

“GruuuuuUUUOOOOOOO!!!”

The berserk ogre found Kazane’s group, no, ‘Garra’, and let out a mad scream. His wounded ‘prey’ had appeared. Of course he’s delighted.

That skill is ‘Fear Voice’. It is a scream that makes the opponent enter a panicked state and unable to move. However only one person was affected by it.

Like paper blown by the wind, Jirou fell down from Hippo-kun.

“That’s dangerous.”
If Kazane didn’t catch him with Mr. Tebasaki it might have been be dangerous. Well, since it doesn’t really matter, let’s omit this.

“That said, it is the berserk ogre huh.”
“The voice just now was really outrageous.”

Yumika’s face turned pale even as she said it. As a spear user, her fighting strength can be said to be quite high, however in reality it was still not enough to contend against that ogre. Even though it was not as bad as Jirou, Yumika also felt some fear from the previous scream.

“Let’s leave it to Garra and the others, and clean up the surroundings.”

“Understood.”
“Ye-yes.”
Mr. Tebasaki also only had half of its endurance left, after receiving damage, so the number it could restrict had become limited. It’s better to defeat them while they still can, or else it’ll bite them back latter.

Then, Garra and Anna arrived in front of the berserk ogre.

“Yo, b.a.s.t.a.r.d. You have guts, coming back nonchalantly.”

Saying that, Garra gripped his halberd and shouted.

“Only to have your life taken by me!!!!”

“GuooOOO!”

Garra’s, and the berserk ogre’s, frank shout of anger overlapped with each other.

“Anna, I’ll leave it to you.”

“Yes. This one’s wish: this one’s companion become like the gale”

Anna’s magic covered Garra.

At the same time, the berserk ogre attacked Garra with a club of a giant tree.

“Slow!”

Garra plunged right below it and swung his halberd horizontally.

“Guaaa!”

“Too shallow!?”
He dealt some damage, but it was only a single layer of skin.

“Hard as always.”

While saying that, Anna increased Garra’s strength and dexterity with magic.

“GuooO!!”
Another ogre, who noticed it, started going toward Anna.

“Dangerous!”

Gyao attacked that ogre from the side.

“Alright!”

His partner, Mello, pierced the face of the ogre with an arrow.

“GaaaAAA!!!”

However it didn’t die, Mello was disheartened.

“But my arrow pierced its face!”

“Perhaps it was dull”

“Spell: Fire, Vortex!!”

In front of the fl.u.s.tered Gyao and Mello, the ogre tumbled down. That’s because Kazane pierced its core from behind.

“Good work, Kazane!”

“Gyao, protect Anna. I’ll cover Garra.”

After restoring Mr. Tebasaki with magic power, she left the surrounding ogres to Yumika.

“But, your magic power.”

As a magician Anna could see that Kazane’s magic power was already exhausted. But Kazane took out an item from her pocket with a ‘voila’.

“Gulp hah”

And drank it in one go.

“Mana potion huh, you have something valuable like that.”
“Someone gave it to me.”

Saying that, Kazane threw the empty bottle into the sky and ran towards the berserk ogre.

“Garra, you seem tired, wanna change?”

“Leave me alone. The fun part is just starting.”
Even while saying that, Garra’s attack hit the berserk ogre’s leg.

“Then, at least let me help. Skill: Air Jump.”

As if normally walking, Kazane stepped into the air with a ‘Tan tan’ noise.

“Wha!?”

The ones who let out a surprised voice were not only Garra.

What Kazane used was [[Air Jump]], a skill that was sometimes used by horned rabbits, a technique for surprise attacks. With a little magic power it creates an invisible wall in the air, which lets them leap into the sky. Then from the sky they will skewer enemy with [[rush]].

But Kazane received another skill from fighting against ogres.

“Skill: Killing Leg”

Perhaps the most surprised was the berserk ogre itself. Something that it never expected. For a tiny human child to ‘kick him down’.

“And, skill: rush”

The surprise from the impact of the previous attack made the berserk ogre unable to defend against Kazane’s frontal sword attack.

“GuGyaaA!”

Kazane’s sword pierced berserk ogre’s eye.

“Skill: Killing Leg”

Confirming berserk ogre’s hand which was trying to shake her off, Kazane once again activated her skill. Kicking the hand away, Kazane separated from the berserk ogre.

“Hap.”

Kazane returned back to the ground.

(Oh! That was scary…)

Silent amazement filled her surroundings, her heart beating furiously. As expected, using the newly learned skill to avoid a crisis was bad for the heart.

[[Killing Leg]]

It was a skill that she got from an ogre a while ago, an active skill that releases a murderous kick. It’s power is as you can see, it can even affect the berserk ogre.

(d.a.m.n!! What a girl!!)

Garra couldn’t stop laughing after watching the event.

“Hahahahaha, I thought you didn’t have any physical strength, Kazane.”

“Humans are creature that succeed when they try.”

Kazane warped around freely using rush, then aiming her cane, she threw a vortex toward its leg.

(it didn’t go through!?)

The berserk ogre received damage, but it didn’t pa.s.s through.

“Tch”

Confirming that it was useless, she slashed at the berserk ogre then backed off with rush.

“So hard…”

“I Agree.”

Toward the grumbling Kazane, Garra agreed.

(But if this dragged on, things will be bad)

Many ogres that were attacking the town, were slowly coming back. If this goes on, they will be surrounded and soon to meet their ends.

“Garra, first I think we need to at least break its leg.”

“Yes, I thought it was only a little more.”

“Then I’ll try my best too.”

After saying that, Kazane thrust her cane to the ground and activated her skill.

“Skill Golem Maker: Golem-kun Ma.s.sive”

Together with her voice, from the ground, a  giant human shaped model appeared. Then it began to grab and grapple with the berserk ogre.

“Alright, Yumika or Mr. Zinrai!”

“I can go.”

Yumika shouts.

“Use [[Flash]] on its leg! Quick!”
The golem that Kazane summoned has its parameters focused on strength, so it can have strength equal to the berserk ogre, in short, a stacked specification. That thing’s durability will only last for ten or so seconds.

“Understood!!”

Guessing Kazane’s intention, Yumika ran at full speed till she was in front of the berserk ogre.

“Here I come!!!!!!!”

Without opening a skill window, but with her own power she let out [[flash]].

Skill [[Flash]].

In spearmans.h.i.+p it is an essential skill that is called as the beginning and the end of spearmans.h.i.+p. Unifying  physical power and the mind, the ultimate [[normal thrust]] that came from compliance of everything the user has.

“GugaaAAA”

Yumika’s thrust, added with acc.u.mulated damage that the berserk ogre took from Kazane and Yumika, resulted in complete destruction of its right leg.

(I can do this!)

Then Kazane and Garra, who found a window of opportunity from the crumbling berserk ogre, started to run.

“Uwoooohh!!!”

“Spell: Fire: Vortex!!”

Their attacks. .h.i.t the berserk ogre’s head at the same time.

Name    : Yuihama Kazane

Occupation    : Magic Swordswoman

Equipment    : Cane [[White Blaze]], Two Handed Sword [[Black Fang]], Leather Jacket, Metal Gauntlet, Plain Clothes, Leather Trouser, Leather Shoes, Pouch

Level    : 18

Vitality    : 55

Magic Power    : 102

Strength    : 20

Agility    : 15

Endurance    : 14

Wisdom    : 27

Dexterity    : 18

Spell    : [[Fly]] [[Fire]] [[Heal]]

Skill    : [[Goblin Language]] [[Night Vision]] [[Crus.h.i.+ng Blow]] [[Dog’s Sense of Smell]] [[Golem Maker]] [[Charge]] [[Fire Principle: Second Chapter]] [[Healing Principle: Second chapter]] [[Air Jump]] [[Killing Leg]]

Kazane: As expected my level increased. I also got more skills.

Yumika: Your magic power increased considerably.

Kazane: I added all my bonus point into magic power before drinking the mana potion.

Yumika: No skills from the berserk ogre?

Kazane: Perhaps after this talk over.