Chapter 155 What did I even do? (4) (1/2)
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Once upon a ti Zhou lived in China during the Warring States period
There’s this fa Zhou had a drea and fluttering around the flowers all happy and the like, but when he woke up, he had returned to his huo, ‘Oh, it’s just that kind of a drea like that happens to you
But as expected of a philosopher, Mister Zhou began wondering, ‘Did I become a butterfly in the drea Zhou? I cannot tell!’
What followed after that was sorade so all I could remember from this tale was the old proverb of ‘butterfly fantasy’
Oh, there was another thing that I did re used to express the attainment of unity in one’s mind with nature? Or was it the inevitable futility of life itself?
“Dad, are you alright?”
“Yes, I’ht me back from the pit of the philosophical abyss to the real world
She still looked unsettled, so I gently patted her head Her anxiety-ridden eyes began to calm down a little
“I’ht”
She buried her face inafterwards, I felt some wetness in my chest area
“No need to worry, ood reason why h-class h
“It’s finished, everyone”
“You worked hard, Sir Hero”
“It was nothing, really”
The hero pulled his sword out of the corpse and bowed slightly inback His sas stained with dark crimson blood
Of course, not just his sword but our surroundings were bathed in a pool of blood, too
“Hah-ah… Orcs, is it”
Orcs
Monsters with pig faces that I often ‘saw’ online in the past
Although, ames published by Blzzrd or, ehe lustful orcs kidnapping young fehts to ‘break’ them in some shady locations…
Not just in fantasy literature, but also frequent extras in ga soames, they don’t even appear all that often for soh
I don’t re Ara, Maple Leaf, and not even in Manogi! [1]
What stunned h, was that it was even harder to spot a single orc in this world where these piggy monsters existed for real
But that was understandable It was all because orcs caence
You’d find a few folks a the demon races that seemed to resenated as monsters were really stupid
That’s the only reason separating the orc-like beings of the demon race fro sword aura only ca countless battles and not through so else now?
Without any seence, you can’t craft weapons
So the orcs used weapons taken from their human victims or clubs made out of nearby trees they had yanked out
But, we shouldn’t forget that orcs were born with th and sturdy physique that allowed them to exhibit excellent combat abilities
As such… it was rather difficult to find orcs out in the wild
Unlike goblins that eaker than huular folks Without exception, knights and soldiers had to bean army required a lot of time You’d need to confirm the scale of the enemy, then prepare for supplies and spare equipment for your men just in case, etc, etc
That was not applicable when subjugating orcs, though
Whether that was back one year ago, a decade ago, a century ago… or even astupid and didn’t kno to advance their civilisation
It was fine to just check the orcs’ nu in coet some real-world co to orcs were chipped or worn out, while their clubs wouldn’t kill a well-aret’s head somehow That’s ho the orcs’ level was!
But then, orcs’ excellent instinctivethehts
Low risk of death, but strong enough to h battle…
There couldn’t have been a hts, then
So, whenever soht in that territory would trip over theres were too scary to fight unless an expert sword aura user was a your partyopponents Co hunted down so quickly that they ered species at this rate!
But so our journey with the hero party, we happened to coered orcs three ti a at us, it seems”
The hero wiped the blood off his holy sith practised movements, discarded the bloodied handkerchief, then sheathed the weapon
“Sure, if you say so…”
While staring at the hero, I fell into another bout of deep conte Zhou said he couldn’t tell if he was a butterfly or Zhuang Zhou after waking up fro a bit and apply it to my current situation
“Is it the case ofattracted to us because of the hero, or the hero is si to where ht five orcs But in between these encounters, we fought goblins seven tire, too
For reference, the nu e was ten tioblins in total!
In other words, I couldn’t si to us as a coincidence at all!
“Dad? What are youi to earnestly ponder whether the true axis of evil in this world was the hero party or not There was no need to explain that to h
“Dad, is this normal for so many monsters to appear in the wild?”
“I’hter up with one arm, then used my other arm to shi+eld her eyes froround
Do your best, es, it’s still uncool to say hter is too heavy to lift up, after all!
“Dad, I think the world is as scary as you told me”
“That’s why you must always remember and do what I told you, okay?”
“Okay!”
I patted her head two ti hter – and handed them over to her, too
Let’s be honest here, if this world was truly teehter, I’d have encountered reat reat e Even in such a reularly hunted down by the knights and the ar purposes’
So, witnessing these ular road had to be an abnor back to Yugrasia should be enough to tell you that any regular le summon called out by a student
Yet, so many of such monsters showed up before us like this?
Either so out an evil sche ranked 71<sup>st</sup> in the pecking order had to be in the eon defence nearby If it was none of the above, then there could be only one other explanation
It’s all because of the da near an existence called a hero was a sure-fire way to shorten your lifespan
“As I thought, we need to escape as soon as possible”
While reaffire and waited for the returning hero party
2 Their circumstances: a certain hero’s circumstance