Volume 1 Chapter 78 (2/2)

Defeating the lizard the battlefield and searching for loot took a lot longer Although most lizardman warriors had been killed, around one third of the such a painful lesson, they would not be back for at least three to five years Even if they were, it would only be for small-scale raids

”Captain!” A soldier kicked opened a door and shouted, ”There's a warehouse over here!”

Hanks pulled out his blood-stained sword as he walked over He looked around the place and said, ”They probably got the stuff fro in the wilderness to avoid taxes just to end up losing their lives How stupid!”

Apparently Hanks thought that the original villagers had all been slain and eaten by the lizardmen There were plenty of food and crops inside the warehouse If the villagers had moved in advance, they would never have left behind so ers had eitherthem with no tihtered by the lizardmen Soran felt that it was the former, because anyone with a clearraided and nearly annihilated Perhaps the lizard the villagers evacuate with haste, even leaving behind their precious food After all, the lizardht They still retained a large portion of their coht raid; that was pretty apparent when looking at the e

There was still sparse fighting occurring in the village The soldiers split into groups of three to search the houses for loot, with two looking for iteuard Back at the rear, the wizard had already stoay his goley at terrifying rates, which hy they were only used asan arh gee of tih, and theyremained stored away and idle most of the tie; to e mass and size, plenty of resources were required

The soldiers gathered all sorts of loot fro the ar they found, and they would have to hand the rest to the higher-ups Hanks looked through the items, then removed some to forray-robed wizard The three naturally received their portions and stowed the ite items to hand over to the city, then distributed the rest back to the soldiers It was sort of like a bonus on top of their standard salary

”The battle is over You have improved your skills in battle and learned skills froht!”

”Parry +5, Block +1”

”You have gained a slight understanding of the ability Combat Expertise”

A Combat Ability alert?!

Soran startled upon observing the notification Despite being a relatively basic defensive ability, it should not have been so easy to get its ability alert

Was it because I have Able Learner?

Soran tried recalling the battle, and found that he really could re techniques the soldiers had used

Coh nor Its effect was to allow the user to defend and counter-attack , the user could divert an ene use of the force from the previously received attack This ability had a prerequisite of having 100 points in both Block and Parry, because si the techniques did not mean one could effectively use them in battle There was a siher require more advanced

There's no time to train Block It'll have to wait, I suppose

Soran looked at the soldiers, then nodded at Yarse as standing not too far away The two turned to leave

Judging frores' territory tomorrow The battle at the plains was the key to the whole situation; the roads would only be re-opened after expelling the ogres It would be a battle where two forces went head-to-head, and even adventurers had to cover the are-scale battle