3 Enconter

In the hunting zone the next day our teamwork improved a lot. Dealing with 5 to 8 goblins was now easy and we can deal with 12 to 14 at a time. Remi now deals with one or two before I even kill the first goblin, Douglas sticks the goblins' feet to slow their movement and Ana kills those who are behind without their companions seeing.

Just there we can deal with 5 to 6 goblins, then the rest is just me keeping them on me while Hella, Ana and Remi take care of them fast and practical, thus killing more than 50 goblins a day and making a silver a day.

So a week went by and now we are back in the woods. Our goal today is 5 orcs, so we keep some distance when we find large groups of goblins, dealing with only small ones.

After a bit of walking we found our targets: 5 orcs, 3 with axes and 2 with swords. We saw that they were eating something, probably a goblin. That's the best time to attack.

An arrow pierces the neck of an orc while a spike of earth below enters the jaw of another and penetrates it's brain. I do my basic combo of [Charge] and [Shield Strike] by throwing it more than 3 meters away. By this moment the other two take their weapons and come up against me.

Compared to the last time I fought two orcs, I am now much stronger because of leveling so defending their punches is a lot easier.

At this point I see Ana, she has just slit the throat of the orc with one dagger and stabbed the eye with the other. But (what catches my attention) is that her daggers are on the floor while she covers her mouth and tears come out of her eyes.

I do not have time to ask what happened. At that moment Hella realizes that there is no one else around and helps me take one of the orcs, as soon as we kill the room the last orc rushes to Hella trying to hit her ax, but I put my body in front and block with the shield.

At this moment I have the vision of what Ana had seen.

They were bodies of adventurers, dismembered and eaten, legs torn, arms lacerated, stomach was a carnage.

At that moment rage rose on my chest, I used all my strength to push his sword away from his body, then I used all my strength to throw him on the floor, I take the knife that was on my waist for emergencies and start to stab the chest of the orc with all my might, I do not know how many times I did it, but only stopped when Mike put his hand on my shoulder and told me he was dead.

At that moment I get up and look at everyone's face, Ana was still frozen as I watched the scene. Remi, Douglas and Hella were wiping their mouths because they had puked a few times, Mike was looking sad but resolute.

Leaving the orc, I put my sword and knife away and went to the corpse as I spoke to Mike.

"Do you have any magic to purify?"

"Yes," he said misunderstanding.

"Cover Ana's eyes and use that magic on her, then get her out of here." As soon as I said that, Mike nodded and headed toward Ana.

I kept going toward the corpses, then I bent down and began to search that mass of flesh.

After much suppressing the vomit in my throat I found what I was looking for, 4 cards and 4 small bags of money.

"What are you doing!?" Hella asks with indignation.

"Taking their adventurous cards and the things they had to hand over to the guild, maybe they have someone who cares about them and they'll want the things left over or the money for their family, that's the least we can do."

"Sorry," Hella says, realizing she had misunderstood me.

Returning to town without further incidents, we delivered the things of the adventurers who had died back to the guild, we took our money from the subjugation and returned to the inn.

I ordered a bucket of water to wash myself and, as soon as I was finished, I went down to the inn and ordered a beer to try to relieve what happened today.

While I appreciated my beer, I saw the members of the group arriving gradually and sitting at the table I was.

The atmosphere was very heavy among all. I guess we never expected to see a scene like that so early, and perhaps some never expected to see it at all. Trying to change the weather a bit I ask.

"Are you level 10 too?"

"Yeah, I guess we need to review the new skills we've gained," says Mike, understanding what I wanted to do.

"I begin then," Hella says, "I gained the skill [sharpness]. She creates a 3-cm layer of mana, leaving my blades sharper and increasing range."

"I gained two skills for being a magic class, the first is [strength improve] is a buff that improves strength a little for 3 minutes, and the other is [recover] this helps the wounds heal faster but differently from [heal] it only raises the user's current regeneration" Mike

"I gained [protection] this ability can create a mana shield for 1 minute around a target. This shield can handle a lot of damage, but it spends almost half of my mana."

Realizing what we were doing the rest begins to speak.

"I gained [poison enchant] and can enchant my weapons with venom of 2 different types, the first cause damage to the target, while the second causes paralysis" Ana

"I also have two abilities, [rock bullet] I throw a small stone bullet with mana, but other than using the ground control for it this bullet causes much more damage and spends less mana but I can only control one at a time for now , since my other ability is [mud] it creates a small mud field swallowing the enemies, it is very useful to delay enemies or immobilizing."

"I have [Wind Arrow], it creates a wind arrow in case I have no more arrows, but if used on a normal arrows, it increases the speed that the arrow flies." Remi says without his usual joy.

With that, the tension in the shoulders of all diminished, but at that moment a thing came to me in the head.

"Boss, if you are from a noble family, then why become an adventurer?" I ask looking at Hella.

She looks at me, sighs, and starts talking.

"I am from a noble family, but our status is only of a baron and as my family has 7 children, 4 men and 3 women and me being the youngest did not have much place in the nobility, so I preferred to become an adventurer than a fifth wife of some other nobleman."

"Do you have any objective being adventurous, like some specific rank?"

"I want to build my own noble house of swordsmen, making them adventurers or soldiers, but this is going to be very difficult. To win a baron title you have to be at least S rank, which is what I want."

"What a beautiful dream, boss, you can let me help you. What about the rest of you?"

"Mine is not much. Like my parents, I want to be an adventurer of at least A rank, and after that maybe I'm going to teach at some magic academy about battle wizards or something,"Douglas says

"Douglas you think too much, but you never think so much about the future, funny that coming from you" says Mike "hahaha I may be talking about Douglas, but I also do not know much about what I want to do. Maybe when I travel the world enough I'll work in a church or build a hospital, but I do not know how far I want to go as an adventurer."

"I'm sure Mike just wants to work at the church to flirt with the priestesses, doesn't you, Mike?" I say with a joking tone and everyone begins to laugh.

"But what about you, Remi?" Says Douglas.

"Uhn ... I want to get S rank. Maybe after that I go back to my homeland and become a protector, maybe find someone to marry. After that I'm not sure. And you, Ana?"

One thing I have not explained about this world, apart from dwarves and humans who have the same ancestors, the rest of the races can not reproduce among themselves, so there are no half-elves or half-beasts.

Another thing is also that humanoid monsters with goblins and orcs do not see females as a means of reproducing themselves, for as they are from other races and even monsters, they only come other races beyond their own as food or slaves.

Soon many groups formed by several races end up separating in the end.

"I'm training to be the best warrior of my tribe, so I'll just be adventurous until I see that I'm the strongest person in my tribe, I'll probably go back there when that happens. And you Ronan?"

"I? Of course I will be an SSS rank adventurer, what else can I do with my life?" I respond with a touch of joke.

"SSS rank adventurers are only chosen at crucial times such as very large wars or very dangerous monsters but now we are in a time of peace as you plan it?" Hella asked.

"Start a war?" I say

Everyone looks at me with a face that they are going to start to hit me right there.

"Joking, I would not do such a thing."

"Well, it's not impossible for you to become an SSS rank, hence covers you going through many wars and invasions with your life expectancy" says Mike.

"Maybe you do not become king someday," Remi says in his playful tone.

"I king? It is easier for Mike not to be "attacked" by nuns and maidens of the sanctuary while he sleeps than I become king."

"Well, if that's true you're going to end up with a beggar then," Douglas says.

Mike stands up at this point to express his indignation, but he does not know how to refute our lines so he just stands looking serious at us with his red face.

After that the morale of our group finally rose to what it was before and that feeling of melancholy passed..