Chapter 16 For The Horde?! Not So Much...

The moment they were close enough to be spotted, the sentinel guard orcs gave the alarm by shouting and screaming in their tongue from the guttural sounds; it was the first time that Ichiro saw an orc and it was different from how he had imagined them: they weren't those green-skinned humanoids, muscular, with a ferocious face, sharp sockets that shone from their mouths and wearing tribal clothes but they were much more similar to fat and large bipedal pigs; they looked taller than a normal man and had a pink skin and a prominent flaccid belly that they didn't care to protect with armor and armed with rudimentary maces and axes. The only exception, depending on what he had learned from Dofus, were the shamans as the only ones with an almost human level of intelligence.

The moment they heard the sound of a war horn, Dofus began shouting orders: "OK! I want all the shield-bearers on the front! Archers and wizards in the rear! I, Milkas and all the other warriors will stand on the side of the bearers of shields ready to attack! don't underestimate these beasts, even though many of them are stupid, they still have out-of-normal physical strength and resistance! ...get ready, they're coming! "

The moment he finished speaking, over two hundred orcs came out of the wooden gate and charged the adventurers and their unrestrained and uncontrolled charge led them to clash against the tanks, which held up their title of adventurers of rank B and succeeded in resist the attack.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Ichiro and Cattleya immediately began to exterminate the orcs: Ichiro had become accustomed to fighting thanks to training with Cattleya, but it was the first time for him in a real battlefield; although he was managing to keep up with four orcs at a time, Cattleya with her huge sword completely decimated them

By now sure he was sure he could not be observed, due to the chaos of the battle, using Concealed Presence he headed for Lefay's group that had detached itself from the vanguard and had been surrounded by a group of seven orcs; their party was not very balanced as all the guards played the role of tanks because of their heavier equipment and Lefay's rapier was not a suitable weapon against a bulky enemy (A / N: who the hell she thinks she is? Ainz Wallenstein ?!); Ichiro had not been identified and to avoid arousing suspicion he decided to wait for the moment when Lefay had tried to attack to hit from behind the orcs and give her an opening.

"Why the hell are these crap beasts so hard to kill ?!" cried Lefay furious "this rapier is an enchanted weapon bought by the best blacksmith of the city; why has it no effect?", and caught in a fit of anger and without his guards being able to stop her, he took a thrust towards the monster's neck; the latter emitted an animalistic roar and prepared to crush the woman with a rudimentary wooden mace and spikes of iron, but before he could do so Ichiro struck him with quick blows to the tendons and the back of his neck and made him lose the equilibrium. The impact caused by that orc almost two and a half meters high raised a cloud of dust that allowed him to continue his attack unnoticed and to leave the other orcs dying and then disappear and reunite with the vanguard group.

As he headed towards the avant-garde group he saw Akeno casting spells one behind the other and a fair amount of power and Ichiro once again couldn't help but feel satisfied for having chosen her as his first companion; she began to worry when she noticed the typical expression she had when she awoke her sadistic side while killing the orcs ... Ichiro began to feel pity for those poor bastards and decided to intervene: "Akeno! Please don't overdo it, just kill them. .. you will have time later to let off steam! "; "Ara Ara Master, you are such a bad guy! And I was having fun"; Ichiro rolled his eyes and returned with Dofus and the rest of the attack group.

The battle continued and finally all two orcs were killed, but the orcs had not been the only ones to suffer losses: almost fifty soldiers and three parties, two rank C and one rank B were killed in the clash but fortunately the second group , who had taken a stand for the surprise attack, had not suffered casualties and had broken through the orc shelter and was taking care of the rest of the survivors; their primary objective would have been the shamans who had not participated in the horde.

Meanwhile the avant-garde group was taking advantage of the moment to rest, Dofus and Milkas were talking to the survivors of their own groups and giving them instructions for the next move: the two of them and one last group would come in to support the second group and make sure that there were no surviving orcs; the problem was that apart from them two, a class A adventurer and a veteran captain of various battles, there was apparently no one who had the strength to continue the assault due to fatigue.

While the two of them were trying to talk to other B-class parties, Ichiro stepped forward: "if you need another group, my party and I have no qualms about coming and we're pretty rested; the other rank C parties aren't enough strong and those of rank B seem too tired to continue ". Dofus and Milkas looked at each other for a moment, after which the adventurer of rank A nodded: "if I'm not mistaken you are Ichiro, the new talent for Aster; you seem to know how to get away with both words and sword, both elements important for an adventurer. In agreement with you and your party you will come with me and Milkas, I am sure that Bor should have no problem keeping the rest of the orcs occupied but I prefer to hurry, the magic of their shamans is quite treacherous and dangerous "; The words of Dofus were not said by chance, already more than once in his life he found himself participating in expeditions against camps of much larger orcs and often the shaman orcs had expressed a serious threat despite their small number.

So it was that Ichiro, Akeno, Cattleya, Dofus, his human companion named Madora who played the role of healer and Milkas went into the orc camp; once passed the wooden walls and the vast courtyard they headed towards what seemed to be the residence of the chief of the orcs: a house of stone and wood, not very tall but long, with a sloping roof; the door was broken and the shouts of fighting could be heard.

As soon as they entered they were overwhelmed by the smell of blood and death, there were corpses of many orcs and some adventurers and soldiers scattered everywhere and each of them was full of wounds; despite the horrible sight of dead colleagues, Ichiro showed no emotion and went with the others to the other rooms to eliminate any surviving orcs.

They continued to move along the long corridor that connected all the rooms of the house, meeting some small group of runaway orcs and exterminating them on the spot, inspecting every single room they found and finally they reached the end of the corridor finding themselves in front of an enormous iron door . Ichiro was ready to give order to Cattleya, but before he had time Dofus approached the door with his weapon in his hand: "leave it to me".

Having said this, he grabbed his mighty hammer, which began to emit electricity and with a powerful shout: "THUNDERING HAMMER !!" he hit the gate making it bend and fall because of the power of the blow.

Ichiro couldn't help but think 'damn it! that old dwarf has an impressive strength ... and he is only of rank A! I don't want to imagine how strong an S-class adventurer or even SS is, if they ever exist yet.

Once the door was opened, a horrible vision stood before their eyes: there were corpses, almost a hundred corpses of men and women piled inside what appeared to be a large magic circle with a pentagram drawn inside; on the sides of each pentagram there were two or three shamans orcs who sang a strange song in their incomprehensible language. Behind them there was a raised wooden seat where a very old orc sat, who saw the adventurers began to scream furiously and uncontrollably towards the shamans; three of them interrupted their ritual and prepared to face the intruders.

Ichiro and the others had no idea and had no intention of finding out what that macabre ritual was for, and they immediately began their attack: Madora began to cast a spell to create a protective barrier for her companions, Akeno started throwing powerful lightning at the shamans who were intent on continuing the singing and, although they were protected by a barrier, it didn't take long before they fell to the ground exhausted and mortally wounded.

Ichiro, holding his sword with one hand, threw himself towards one of the shamans who were facing and, determined to try a new strategy, began to launch Fire Bullets, low-ranking spells, but at a high speed, preventing the opponent from to react and once close enough to strike, he struck a horizontal blow at the neck of the ogre and beheaded him.

Dofus and Milkas, once the barrier that protected the shamans engaged in the ritual fell under the power of Akeno lightning, exterminated them while Cattleya remained in the rear to protect Madora.

At the sight of his subordinates who were exterminated, the old orc launched a furious battle cry and grasped an enormous and rusty broadsword with one hand and with the other a rudimentary shield although of great thickness and with large sharp spikes on the front; he charged Dofus and Milkas with an impressive speed but the latter intercepted the blow with his spear and with Dofus engaged in a furious fight.

That ogre was much larger than the norm: almost three meters, the body and part of the face scarred by the scars, the crooked jaw probably due to the numerous blows taken and two red eyes injected with blood and a disordered and unspoken gray beard.

Thanks to his size, he possessed such fearful strength and resistance that with a blow of his sword, after missing Milkas, he made a small crater on the floor.

The fight was fierce and all three did not spare each other but Dofus and Milkas were managing to get the better, until the orc let go of the sword and managed to grasp Milkas' spear with his free hand; with a malicious grin in his face he threw the demi-human against the wall with a great power, causing him a strong bump and a copious loss of blood.

Unfortunately for him this had left him uncovered and two adventurers did not miss the chance: Dofus charged a blow with his whole body and executed a horizontal blow by hurling his adversary at his previous wooden seat; the latter was destroyed by the force of the impact and the ogre was about to get up again, but Ichiro with a victorious grin on his face and a spell now sneered: "it was time! I couldn't wait to try it ... Fire Bomb!" and immediately an immense fireball hit the orc in full and gave cries of agony and tried desperately to extinguish the flames that enveloped it before falling to the ground dead and with the body partially carbonized.

The rest of the shamans who had not been killed remained terrified by the death of their chief and attempted a last frontal attack in an attempt to escape ... they were annihilated.

The final battle was finally over and the adventurers and soldiers could count their dead and bury them; the ceremony involved various party members of various religions who played the role of priests to ensure the safety of the spirits of the fallen.

After the ceremony the adventurers made a big bonfire where they burned the bodies of all the orcs to prevent them from decomposing and still polluting the place; it was a very tiring job and many were reluctant to do so, especially Lefay, and at the end of the day they were greeted like heroes by the inhabitants of the village of Satin.

In their honor a party was organized that same night with songs, music, food and alcohol at will in which adventurers who did not know each other before had formed an important bond after this fierce battle; or at least it was so for the most part, Ichiro was enjoying the party in his own way: with Akeno and Cattleya naked at his sides on a single bed, taking advantage of the party to enjoy some healthy pleasure after all that.

But besides the pleasure he felt in fucking those two beauties, by now Ichiro had almost completed his plan ... he only had to wait to return to Aster and in a few days the Chaos would break out, and he would have taken the first step towards the corruption of that world: in the days before the departure of the expedition he had managed to get in touch with some people who were 'in line with his ideas' and they too harbored a deep hatred for the faith of Fumina and his followers.

The following morning the adventurers gathered on the wagons to share, and Ichiro felt a dejavu feeling when he saw Jessica approach him to offer him a bag full of coins: "I thank you for the job well done, thanks to you Lady Lefay could claim a certain success in the extermination of the orcs, this is a small personal gift from her and as per agreements made I will present you to the Lefay family for an official contract and I am sure you will appreciate the benefits that this entails ".

Ichiro merely nodded his head, then climbed onto his wagon and enjoyed a comfortable journey back, using Cattleya's thighs as a pillow and let Akeno feeding him for the rest of the journey.