CH 96

The B-team was waiting for Tauro and the others to arrive at the bushes in front of the Orcs.

Aeris and the others were at their side, it seemed they had joined up.

The orcs didn’t seem to be upset by the red smoke.

They must have interpreted it to mean that nothing would happen because the D-Team had done it first a few days ago.

This was the kind of shallow thinking that was typical of monsters.

“…Tauro, are you okay? There were five more orcs just now. Now there’s 25 of them.”

Aeris informs Tauro in a whisper.

“They’re distracted by the D-team on the slope, so it’ll be easy to surprise them, but there are too many of them. But if we all hit them together, it will be easy to win. Fortunately, the D-team that needs to be rescued is in a safe place right now, so we can go on a rampage without hesitation.”

The leader of the B-team smiled fearlessly and gave instructions to the C-team and D-team, the plan being to annihilate them in a semicircle siege.

Tauro and his E-ranked team, the “Black Golden Wings”, were to participate in the attack with magic and support coming from Aeris only.

The three of us were to protect Aeris.

The B-team decided that it was still too early to entrust the Orcs, which were the target of the D-rank band, to us who were E-ranked.

This decision was natural, and Tauro agreed with it.

Let’s just stick to backing up Aeris for now.

Once the teams were in position, they began to attack at once.

Aeris unleashed her full power of lightning magic on the orc swarm.

The fire magic of the B-team wizard was powerful.

As many as five Orcs were blown away in a single blow.

The Orcs panicked, and the adventurers slashed into them.

When Aeris confirmed this, she switched to defensive magic. Tauro, who was busy with support magic from behind, applied a magic power recovery potion on Aeris to restore her magic power, and secretly used dark spirit magic to reduce the abilities of the orcs.

This should make things easier for everyone.

It was a good thing, but Tauro felt his magic power dwindling, so he hurriedly drank a magic power recovery potion himself.

“It’s going that way!”

One of the adventurers warned.

Orcs had a habit of attacking those who looked weak first.

It seems they spotted us because we didn’t fight and stayed behind.

“Rumeya!”

“Come on! “Shield thrust!”

Rumeya jumped in front of Aeris, and with his large shield at the ready, he leapt up rather than catching the club that the orc was swinging down.

“Switch!”

Shin called out to Rumeya, and Rumeya stepped aside, then he jumped out of the shadow and slashed at the orc.

The orc yelled “Puggya!” at Shin’s sword-slash, and blood spurts out from the cut.

As he continued to stand, Shin, in quick succession leapt up with the sword he had swung down and this time slashed up at the orc.

Tauro jumped out with a small sword and stabbed the orc in the brain through the lower jaw in a follow-up attack.

The orc did not scream anymore, but fell back and died.

“Here comes the next one!”

Tauro called out to the others,  team “Black Golden Wings” never dropped their guard down.

After all, the B-ranked team was no fluke.

The Orcs, who had been overwhelming in numbers, were unable to resist the surprise attack and the fierce assault of this B-rank team, and they all collapsed, every last one of them being annihilated.

When it was all said and done, more than half of the orcs had been killed by the B-team, but surprisingly, the E-team “The Black Golden Wings” had killed three of them.

One was due to the magic of the first attack by the promising newcomer Aeris, but the other two were taken down by the team.

The D-team had killed two, the C-team had killed six, and the B-team had killed thirteen.

The D-team being rescued had been watching from above, and as soon as everything settled, a woman who seemed to be a wizard created a staircase on the slope with earth magic.

Two men came down from the stairs, lending shoulders to the wounded.

Fortunately, Bob wasn’t the injured man who came down, but the one that was lending his shoulder.

The two healers and Aeris immediately casted healing spells to treat him.

Tauro also walked up and poured an intermediate potion on the wounded man.

The two healers were surprised by his action.

Not only was the potion itself valuable, but it was an intermediate level potion.

They were also doubly surprised because it was an E rank team that was using it.

Aeris was not surprised because she’s known Tauro, but normally most people would’ve been.

“I thought that we should close the wound as soon as possible since it’s bleeding heavily.”

They were so surprised that Tauro thought he had made a mistake and followed up with the argument he had used.

“Well, yes. Good call.”

The healer, who had heard the reason, praised him.

Tauro handed out potions to the other three, who were also injured.

“Thank you, Tauro. You saved my life again.”

Bob thanked him as he received the potion. Tauro said, “I’m glad you’re okay,” and urged him to drink it.