Chapter 157: The Orcs Attack - III (1/2)

Merlin could feel the grainy scales rolling around in-between his fingers, and once he felt like he had enough, he charged forward at one of the orcs

The orc was quick to notice so subtle with his movement at all But fortunately for him, he didn't need the stealth to complete his plan, it was just ht away

The orcs had started spreading out as they intended to circle around where the group of rangers were hiding, this worked in Merlin's favour

Once he was almost face to face with one of the orcs, he threw a pinch of mothflower scales at its face, he made sure not to throw all of it, as he still had three more orcs to hit

As the scale-like pollen splashed the orc's face, Merlin's invisibility quickly ran out, causing all the orcs to notice his presence They i on the location where the rest of the group were and all started charging towards Merlin

The one orc that was hit suddenly dropped its large two handed axe and reached for its throat Merlin saw that its eyes were almost immediately bloodshot, and he quickly leapt out of the way as it dropped to its knees and began throwing up bile

One of the orcs hada severely dented longsword Merlin barelyanother pinch ofthe sa to its knees, another orc had started swinging its axe at him, Merlin turned around in ti theoff into the forest

It didn't serve much of a distraction unfortunately, and Merlin had to ie the strike, as he leapt out of the way, he released the entire handful of e cloud of scales to appear in front of the orc

He unfortunately wasted everything but the few scales that remained stuck to his hands, but it see to suffer from the effects, so he realistically only had one threat to deal with

Merlin sent out his vines, wrapping them around a tree branch He quickly pulled himself up the tree and scanned the area around hiht it would have chosen to attack hiers instead

He saw a group of rangers and the knight run over to his position, with a dead orc laying on the ground behind them

The three orcs that were alive were still suffering the nasty effects of thethe nausea stage, while the first orc was desperately clawing it its own throat while gasping for air

Noing he was safe, Merlin leapt out of the tree and began dealing da the sa after

"I didn't iine you'd have mothflower on you" Callisto remarked, "You sure do always come prepared, no wonder Tuli likes you"

「You have earned +5 familiarity with Callisto」

"I don't have much, unfortunately" Merlin said, "So I'd like to save some for the warlord"

"Good idea" Callisto nodded before turning towards the knight She signalled for him to lead the way