Chapter 156: The Orcs Attack - II (2/2)

The fight continued for a little less than two minutes, until the monster's health bar had eventually dropped to zero The orc re for a moment, before it dropped into the puddle of blood that had formed underneath its feet

Merlin chanted the skill na him and his equipment to peel off and vanish

He took a second to look around at his surroundings, and he noticed that the rangers had just finished up with the other two orcs

'nobody decided to help uess they knew I had it covered?'

It seeh Callisto had dealt with one of the orcs alone, and it clearly lost in a battle of strength, as its limbs were contorted in very unnatural ways

She seery, and he noticed a few otten wounded, then a theory of his clicked into place

'nobody ht to himself as he stared at the orc that clearly suffered a painful death 'So it sees'

Merlin noticed that out of the large group of rangers, only a handful were standing around, and besides the knight that Merlin saved, the other knights had disappeared too

Callisto infor for any other orcs that roup will be one of the few to move out into the wilderness with the sole intention of hunting down the warlord" Callisobgan explaining to the group But she pointed at the ranger who had been wounded, and ordered hio back to the er looked as though he was going to try and argue, but he quickly stopped hi that Callisto wasn't happy He eventually accepted his orders and beganback towards the military barracks

"The rest of you,away froht, followed

The group had marched in a north-western direction, and they quickly cah it wasn't nearly as dense as the forests further east

The knight acted roup towards the orc hot spots that was brought up in the briefing

The group had put a special focus onaround areas where orcs had been seen The last thing they wanted was to get into a fight with a horde of them, even if the nuular humans

It was likely that even Callisto would suffer serious injuries if swarh to not test their fate

The group had checked three locations so far, and although there were quite a few orcs gathered around, there was no sight of this black-veined orc warlord

On their journey to the fourth location, they had encountered a group of four orcs wandering around The group quickly hid behind an uprooted mound, as they didn't have anywhere else to run where they weren't going to be spotted Unfortunately it seeht, and they startedto have to kill therowled, while readying her bow

"I'll initiate" Merlin said while reaching into his inventory

He pulled out a handful of strange fluffy white flowers that were oddly re slowly as the faint wind blew past, causing small scales to escape into the air

"Mothflower!" Callisto reet your hands on mothflower?"

"A nice old lady who runs a little herb store in Megalopolis" Merlin answered before activating phantom step once more

His body suddenly faded away, and only the sounds of crunching leaves gave away that he had moved

Now only a fewthe flower petals in his hand before rolling the to loosen as h nobody could see hirin had formed on Merlin's face