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Published at 9th of September 2017 08:19:24 AM


Chapter 262

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Chapter 192 - (Chapter 262): Black Topaz 2

But where was 1? Oh that's right 150+ chapters ago. Get used to the title because you'll be seeing it a lot soon.

Year 7446, Month 9, Day 6



All of us who had started taking a break in the rocky area just before the room the ogre mages nest on the 7th floor continued to watch the backs of {Black.Topaz} as they disappeared into the forest.

At longest I guess it was about 15 minutes or so?
What was? Of course before {Black.Topaz} entered combat.

The presence detection abilities of ogre mages reach 100 meters even in a dense forest with bad visibility. The diameter of the room is roughly 500 meters so if anyone from the outside intrudes into the room they'll notice from the center where the ogre mage group usually is when they reach about 150 meters inside.

The speed of advancing in this sort of forest for the first time I guess would be around 10 meters per minute or so.

They'll advance just a bit while hiding themselves behind bushes to check if it's safe in the surroundings. Obviously, I doubt they'll aim straight towards the center from the start. It seems they scattered soon after entering the room as well. That's why they're heading towards the center at a speed of 10 meters/minute.
That's about it.

For those progressing deep into the dungeon of Baldukk this ogre mage room is certainly a large wall. But recently even we've been able to claim victory with some leeway without even using paralysis poison or freezing them so if they can make it to the 7th floor on their own abilities then I'm sure they won't be wiped out. Or maybe they will?

If things get severe or if Anderson thinks things will get severe then I'm absolutely sure she'd call out to us. In that area, I think she's the type who would always choose her allies over her own pride in the end. However, just like an adventurer she also knows full well when to show some backbone as well. Previously, like the combat we saw between them with the {Frost Lizard} on the 5th floor, that was completely her showing her backbone. Well it seemed like they knew the general outline of the {Frost Lizard}'s abilities so in the end I'm sure she guessed they could have won though.

I think it would have been different for old man Viruhaima. That old man, he's amazing at seeing through the places where he can push things and where he can't after all.  All their members are completely veterans and just like that one time we encountered them on the 6th floor in the end they would manage without backup. The reason why they bought healing potions from me was nothing more than insurance.

That old man if it was a situation like this, I guarantee he'd urge us go ahead first. After that, he'd investigate the corpses of the monsters we defeated. I think he might even investigate the footprints on the ground and the directions they're facing. First he would check what kind of formation they're in the room, whether the intervals between steps are the same as the ogres you encounter in the halls, what things are different with the corpses, and whether anyone notices anything, he'd thoroughly investigate it.

And then, after returning to the surface he'd make assumptions as much as he can on the various variations of attacks and start training to deal with those. I used to steal glances at the training of {Verdure.Brotherhood} a number of times in the past but those details were definitely this. From a glance it just looks pointless so the first time I saw it I didn't notice.

However, after realizing it a considerable portion of it was good reference so I incorporated a lot of it into the {Slaughterers} training as well.

Honestly, my only basis is the sight of them training but for some reason I'm confident on it.




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It's almost been about 10 minutes.
I wonder if {Black.Topaz} has progressed about 100 meters yet?
I tried using the spell {Detect.Life} to confirm it.

Yeah, after all it's about that.
The group of ogre mages that are believed to be in the center are too far so I can't detect them.
It seems that {Black.Topaz} is moving in the formation {Double.Echelon}.

Everyone's long since finished drinking their tea.
They're all glancing at the forest here and there and are somewhat fidgety.
Putting aside Miduchi, they're about to leave the range that Ralpha and Bel can detect with {Detect.Life}. after all.

Well, it's certainly true that sis Anderson has some part of her that makes her liked by people.
She looks after people well after all.
Also, whether it's Basu of {Verdure.Brotherhood} or Kaku of this {Black.Topaz}, their sub-leaders all feel like worldly-wise men so I can't come to hate them.
It can't be helped~

"Hey, start getting ready for combat."

I said that while confirming the condition of my bayonet.
Giberuti quickly picked up the bags and then went towards the usual rock shadow a bit of distance away.
Zulu and Angela stood up expressionlessly and took out their swords.
Toris and Bel start making preparations as they stand up and just the same Ralpha stood up and is swinging her axe around in circles.
Basutoral and Gwine have the ends of their spears to the ground almost like walking sticks.

And then Miduchi stood up and smiled at me.

Everyone is paying attention to me.

Stop expecting it. We aren't going yet.

"{Half.Siege.Two}. On Miduchi's sign we switch to {Weapons.All.Free}. Miduchi, Bel, Toris, Ralpha, Gwine, Basutoral. If you see an ogre then it's fine not to ask questions so use the bow or magic or whatever you want to blow them away. Ah, {Fire Ball} is dangerous so it's no good. Make it so you only hit one of them at a time. Zulu and Angela will come with me around to the right flank. {Spread}."

Miduchi dived into the forest at an amazing speed without making a single sound.
With that as the start Ralpha, Toris, and Bel went to the left from the entrance.
Gwine and Basutoral held their spears low as they followed after Miducho to the front.
Zulu and Angela are following me to the right from the entrance.

The ogre mage room on the northern side is the same as the room on the southern side and is covered in a deep forest but in exchange for having almost no bushes or shrubs there's undergrowth from the trees that's about 50 cm ~ 1 meter or so growing everywhere.
It's just right for hiding yourself and even if you climb over it the sound you make is less than that of shrubs or bushes.

Zulu and Angela accompany me from behind and we ran about 100 meters along the wall of the room as quietly as possible.
If I just focus my awareness on it a bit then in my head the information of everyone's location flows through from Miduchi's {Party-ization}.

Angela is wearing rubber protectors as well so she's following about 20 meters behind not making much sound just like me.
Zulu is much further and should be approaching close to 40 meters behind around now.
He's wearing banded-mail after all.

It seems like everyone else has spread out as well.
Miduchi is the farthest one out but evne then she's about 60 meters from the wall.
I wonder what was with that first momentum?
On both sides about 20 meters behind her is Gwine and Basutoral.

Ralpha, Toris, and Bel are all scattering along the walls at different speeds.
They're still moving.

I guess they intend on moving along the wall until there's a sign from Miduchi.
It's more convenient for us the be as spread out as possible for the siege after all.




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After a short while I could tell everyone had spread out.

""Advance forward.""

An order appeared in my head from Miduchi.
It's not anything like ""Charge forward"" so I'm sure she means to just close the distance.
It seems everyone else understands as well and I can tell they've started slowly moving towards the center.

There's no guarantee that {Black.Topaz} will be brought to the verge of annihilation.
If they don't particularly seem to be fighting in a dangerous way then there's no need to help out.
If we can watch their combat versus magic then that's fine.

I hold my bayonet at the ready as I slowly advance forward.
That undergrowth looks pretty deep.
It would be boring to make a sound so I guess we should detour around.

It's about time and we can proceeding as everyone was about 100 meters from the wall.
It should be about time for {Black.Topaz} to get caught in the ogre mage's network of vigilance pretty soon.

We slow down our moving pace.
I try peeking through the trees and for a moment it felt like I saw the back of an ogre or ogre mage as I stopped my movements and slowly lowered my body.
It seems that the trees and overgrowth are in the way so neither {Black.Topaz} nor the other {Slaughterers} can see them.

They're slowly approaching the center.
Ralpha's already 120 meters away from the wall.
No, I don't know if there's measurement error in {Party-ization} though.

What about {Black.Topaz}?
It was just when I thought that.

"Gebyo!! Gugyabo!!"

I can hear the faint voice of what seemed to be an ogre mage sending out warning.
It's going to start.

"..!"

It seems {Black.Topaz} is saying something as well but the distance is too far so I can't hear the details.
They must have noticed they were noticed.
For the time being I wanted to casually watch from safety but the location is bad.
I can't see anything from here.

I quietly approached.




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Suddenly I noticed that I could see Angela a bit of distance away.
Her distance from me is about 30 meters or so.
It seems she has visibility of me as well as our eyes meet.

I nodded to her once and we were about to advance forward again.

""Charge forward.""

Ho~ it seems there was some kind of movement.
Furthermore something that requires us helping out.
I'm aware of the fact that I'm grinning as I dash off at full speed.
Simultaneously I try using the spell {Detect.Life}.

One, two, three..A total of 12 ogres huh?
That's a large serving.
It would be best to think that at least 5 of them are ogre mages mixed in as well.
Depending on the case it wouldn't be strange for there to be 7 of them.

"Shittt~~!!"
"Revenge for Rotto~!!"

Oh my~ so there's already someone who's died?
That sure was fast.

I can see them.
They're about 40-50 meters ahead.

I run while sticking out my left hand and send a {Flame Arbalest Missile} flying.
The target was what seems to be an ogre mage in the back of the group concentrating to use magic.

My {Flame Arbalest} smashes into the side of it's head and it magnificently killed it instantly.
Almost simultaneously {Flame Arrows}, {Javelins}, {Stone Bolts}, and such came flying from every direction hitting the ogre mages in the rear breaking their concentration.
Everyone's properly doing their job.
However, if we can either kill or break the concentration of all 6 that seemed like ogre mages then it's a fact that the front line ogres won't be able to do anything at all.

And then, before out attack spells arrived at the ogre mages they ended up firing off several spell bullets.

This can't be helped.

The ogre mages fired off a total of 4 spell bullets.
Of those two of them were deflected by Kaku(Kaku.Dankel)'s shield and flew off in a different direction.

Everyone, I'm sure they're on guard but don't get by a stray bullet.

One more attack penetrated through the shield Vikkusu(Vikkensu.Barukemi) was holding but it didn't go all the way through so it's just stabbed into his shield.
It'll probably disappear soon. It seemed like an {Ice Bolt} after all.

The last one seemed to be aimed at the head of Gary(Gary.Bagumaia) who was holding a spear but he tilted his head just before and managed to avoid it.

Even though they're in combat with the front line ogres they aren't half bad~

It's not unexpected or anything else but {Black.Topaz} was putting up a good fight.

They're covering for what seems to be the fallen Rotto(Rosutoru.Mirusutoron) as they put up a reasonable resistance against the 6 front line ogres.
It seems they've wounded them a good bit.
There's two ogres with crossbow bolts stabbed into their faces.
Two of them that seem to have been stabbed in the legs with a spear by one of the spear attackers.
And then one that seems to have suffered serious injuries from an axe but none of the ogres have reached the point of falling.

Kaku and Vikkusu have their shields ready as they spread out with some distance to the sides in front and they're focused on defense as {Shield.Holders}.
The battle axe user Baru(Baruteinesu.Zomu) is bracing himself in the center of that as he swings around a huge battle axe.
Behind them Roru(Roreiru.Naruzomerin), Gary, and Marin(Marin.Rukkima) the spear using attackers have formed a wall of spears and are covering the front line while maintaining an intense check looking for gaps to attack the ogres.

The leader Reddo.Anderson has thrown her crossbow she probably already fired to her feat as she aimed a {Flame.Javelin} towards the face of an ogre and landed the hit. She's got some good skills.

It's correct to say they're above {Sun.Ray}.

"We're going to step on Rotto!! Move more to the left! Marin and Roru attack with magic in order! From the right!"

She gives out orders to the members of {Black.Topaz} while I'm sure she's noticed our support, Anderson glances around the surroundings while shouting "I'm grateful!!", before starting to concentrate to use an attack spell again.

Now then..

Oh.

"Urya~!!"

In a position close to the opposite side from me Ralpha let out a battle cry while swinging her tomahawk and charged into the group of ogre mages that are wounded and in agony.
That's soon, too soon.
It couldn't be helped so I fired off one more shot of {Flame Arbalest Missile} towards one of the ones that seemed to have some vitality to finish it off. There's 4 ogre mages remaining.

Angela ran of.
The large silhouette on the other side is Zulu I guess?

They're both running towards the ogre mages.

An arrow came flying and stabbed into the face of one of the ogres {Black.Topaz} was against.

Again a {Stone Javelin} came flying and hit the shoulder of the ogre next to that.
The ogre that faltered from that was stabbed through the chest by Gary's spear as he was waiting in Kaku's shadow.

Marin fired off a {Flame Bolt} and hit a different one, and I guess after confirming that, Roru sliced the neck of a different ogre with {Wind Cutter}.

There's 4 remaining front line ogres huh?

There something like a swaying white ball went flying from behind Anderson and passed over even the ogres reaching and hitting one of the ogre mage group. Suddenly the white ball ruptured and covered the entire body of the ogre mage restricting it. It seems it dragged in the one next to it as well.

This is a chance.

I use the spell {Grow Spike} around the area where the two ogre mages restricted by spider web fell over.

Having their bodies pierced by 10 cm in diameter 1 meter high stone spikes that suddenly grew from the ground the two ogre mages died in no time at all. There's 2 ogre mages remaining.

Gwine and Basutoral ran past Anderson's both sides and joined in keeping the ogres in check.
Ralpha, Zulu, and Angela all arrived at the group of wounded ogre mages as they start finishing things off there.

It should already be fine.

Now then, I wonder what I should say?



Author's note: {Black.Topaz} Member list:
Reddo.Andāsen Woman Hyūmu Infantry-use sword.Crossbow.Magic 
Kāku.Dankeru Male Hyūmu Long Sword.Shield.Magic 
Rōreiru.Naruzomerin Woman Elf Spear.Magic 
Geirī.Bagumaia Male Hyūmu Spear 
Marin.Rukkīma Woman Urufuwā Spear.Magic 
Baruteinesu.Zomu Male Laiosu Battle Axe 
Vikkensu.Barukemī Male Dogguwā Battle Mace.Shield
Rosutōru.Mirusutoron Male Elf Long Sword.Shield.Magic





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