Robbing

"Char! There are too many of them! We need to run!" Anne urged him as a dozen orcs came running at them.

"Yeah, we might have gone too deep into the hunting ground. These orcs even use some armor!" he agreed.

Char and Anne had been in the hunting grounds for two days, and they had accumulated a sizable score.

He about to call back the skeleton but it ran at the group of creatures by its own will, mana gathered like a vortex, and the moment it reached the group, it exploded to such a degree that it took half of their number in the explosion.

That stunned the girl, "you did that?" she looked in astonishment.

"Kind of, I used the magic tattoo," he lied, as he did not want the girl to know his secret.

"What is wrong with it, I did not order it to do that!" Char wondered as it was the first time the skeleton took action with no instruction. He did not even command it to fight.

The remaining orcs were bloody, the explosion took them by surprise and they only survived because of the dead orcs unintentionally shielding them from a direct hit.

"Char, should we fight?" she asked as the orcs were healing and if they wanted to finish them, that was the right chance.

"No! They will go berserk any moment now, your imp will not survive a minute, fighting against the six of them, let's run and wait for my skeleton, I should be able to re-summon it in five to ten minutes," he told her.

They ran to the outer edge of the hunting ground with the orcs hot on their heels, they could not lose them as the orc became faster after they went berserk.

These two days, they had fought multiple groups of orcs and were already familiar with their trait. Each of them has the same magic, the club strike, and regeneration magic.

They would go berserk when they suffer a certain amount of damage, and their physical ability will increase with it!

"Char, how much longer do we need to run?" She asked in the middle of running and panting.

"Just two more minutes, I think its level increased in the last two days, I need more time before the soul container is saturated with mana!" he told her.

"Damn, why is there so much Orc? Is this an orc forest or something?" she protested.

"I don't think so! At first, I thought we were just unlucky, but now that you said it, something indeed is not right in this place, we need to inform the teachers!"

It was then that they met a cliff, it was too high and steep for them to climb, "Char, we have nowhere to run!" she panicked.

"Go get your Imp to block them, I just need a bit more to summon my skeleton, once I summon it, I will just blow them to kingdom come!" he told the girl.

Anne became suspicious as he said it was the magic tattoo and she knew that he needed to remake the tattoo after its activation if the tattoo gets destroyed or the creature killed, but she had no time to question him.

She sent her imp to block the six berserk orcs; it did not need too much effort to attract the berserk creatures as they attacked the closest thing to them.

The imp expertly dodged their attacks, but fighting against the six of them, it inevitably got hit by their attack.

It got sent flying with a strike to the side, luckily its physical ability was superb that the hit only gave it a broken arm and ribs instead of an instant kill.

The imp continued to bait them. It gave Char enough time to summon his skeleton. Mana gathered and the skeleton apparition appeared beside him.

He did not even need to command it; it was already going after the group of orcs in a sprint.

"Anne, tell your imp to get back, if it got killed in the explosion then you will lose your score!" he warned the girl.

"Ah! Imp, get back now!" she commanded the injured creature, it moved back just in time for before the skeleton reached the group of creatures.

The orcs gathered at the skeleton and about to pile on it. In their berserk, they did not even think about the danger they barely survived before.

Mana gathered once more, and the skeleton exploded, killing all the orcs with it. The four of them could actually kill six orcs without using such a method if they were in their peak condition, but Char, Anne, and the imp were already exhausted while the or was in their peak condition thanks to their regeneration.

"It finally finished!" Anne said, but what happened next was out of her expectation.

Char quickly drew his black sword and killed the imp that just got back to her side. Blood spurted out of its headless body.

"Char! why did—," she about to question him when an arrow of mana pierced the still standing corpse's heart.

"Tsk! To think you noticed that, indeed, you are among the best of the academy," they could hear a voice from the forest.

"Who are you?!" Char asked in wariness.

"I don't need to answer that! I'm here to take your score, that's what is important!" a cloaked person appeared alongside a kobold archer.

"He seems prepared to rob others, he even prepared a cloak so others would not know who he is. I bet he already noticed us being chased by the orcs for a while and waiting for the right moment to attack!" Char lamented.

"Too bad then, there is no creature here for you to kill, I had spoiled your plan," he said toward the cloaked man.

"Indeed, you ruined my initial plan. I never thought that you could notice me and so cold-blooded to kill your friend's creature, but that doesn't mean I can't rob you!" they could feel evil intention from the cloaked man.

The man pulled out a knife from his pocket; it glowed green as he activated his poison magic.