Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 40
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Chapter 40 12. Strange World (4)
-Waaaaaaah!
Watching the orcs charging in unison with thunderous war cries, Young-woo could only wear a dumbfounded expression.
‘Didn’t they say full assault earlier…?’
For a moment he wondered if he had heard wrong, but soon a line from the orc side drove the point home.
-Vanguard Unit! Raise your shields!
-Execute the combat soldiers immediately and secure the vehicle and remaining humans!
It was surprising enough that orcs were speaking human language, but the meaning contained within was extraordinary.
‘Combat soldiers… are they talking about us?’
Young-woo saw two orcs at the front center of the formation thrust their shields forward just as he had heard.
Clank!
‘Vehicle’ probably referred to the SUV behind them, so the ‘combat soldiers’ subject to immediate execution were most likely…
‘They must mean us who came out to protect the vehicle. Their plan is to kill the combat soldiers and capture the people inside the vehicle alive.’
But why would they try to capture some alive instead of killing all the enemies?
Though puzzlement surged up, resolving the crisis that had struck right before his eyes seemed urgent.
-Kraaaah!
-Die!
The orc vanguard was already attacking Yoon-ho.
“Ugh…!”
Yoon-ho, whose fighting spirit had already been broken, just stood there as if nailed in place even as a shield as tall as himself came crushing through the air toward him.
‘Damn, he’s already lost it.’
Young-woo had experienced a similar situation through Ye-chan before.
So he knew well what kind of words were a special remedy in such times and immediately put them into action.
“Jung Yoon-ho! If you die, what about Mother…!”
However, Young-woo was also a target for the orcs’ immediate execution.
-Graaaah!
Before Young-woo could even finish his sentence, four or five orcs came charging, casting heavy shadows.
「Sense stat has temporarily increased from existing 100 to 134.」
「Sense stat has temporarily increased from existing 134 to 168.」
Golden Flash’s Sense Steal messages appeared in succession, and simultaneously the Gyeongbuk Sword Technique’s hologram guide also appeared.
―Break
―Break
―Death Strike
‘This is insane.’
Due to the many opponents, the optimal Sword Path was also complex, but as his Sense stat rose accordingly, Young-woo’s guide execution ability was almost miraculous.
Swish!
His appearance as he nimbly slipped through the eerie metal and stabbed the orcs’ necks was that of a sword prodigy by anyone’s standards.
Perhaps that’s why.
The moment Young-woo had just pierced the fourth orc’s neck, someone from behind cried out desperately for help.
“Young-woo!”
“…?”
When he turned his head at the sharp emotion that sent chills down his spine, he saw Myeong-ae, who had jumped out of the car at some point, making a horrific expression.
“Ah.”
The moment Young-woo saw Myeong-ae’s tear-streaked face, he whipped around to look the other way as if burned.
And then he saw it.
“Huff, huff…!”
Yoon-ho crawling frantically between the orcs’ legs with bruises on his face.
He had fallen to the Floor without even exchanging a single blow with them.
And then soon.
-Graaah!
One of the orcs surrounding Yoon-ho swung a large axe viciously.
Whoosh!
From top to bottom.
It was a motion exactly like a person chopping up fish, and the same thing actually happened.
Thud!
With the sound of metal hitting the Ground, Yoon-ho’s head dropped at a very unnatural angle.
“…Uh.”
Young-woo instinctively knew.
That Yoon-ho’s torso and head had just been separated.
And soon after, when one of the orcs kicked Yoon-ho’s body away, Myeong-ae near the vehicle also learned this fact.
“Aah… ah…! Yoon-ho!”
A scream so terrible it felt vicious shot out.
It was such a high pitch that it was mysterious how such a sound could come from that small frame.
Perhaps that’s why.
Whiiiiine…!
Soon a familiar sound of cutting through air came from the sky over there.
‘These crazy bastards.’
The orc Support Unit had launched a second Artillery Strike in the direction where the scream was heard.
There wasn’t even time to warn Myeong-ae.
Whoosh!
Young-woo desperately threw his body and snatched up Myeong-ae, who was still screaming.
And not long after.
Crash, crash crash!
About ten spears that poured from the sky pierced the spot where Myeong-ae had been.
At this time, Young-woo was hiding behind the SUV with Myeong-ae, so he could clearly see three or four spears break through the car windows and slam into the passenger seat and back seat.
“Huff, gasp…”
Fortunately, Myeong-ho in the Driver’s Seat had miraculously survived.
He just sat with both hands on the Steering Wheel, looking at the Spear Shafts that had torn through the vehicle interior with a pale face.
Then the remaining orcs, who had been holding their shields above their heads, began grumbling and approaching the vehicle.
-We almost died too.
-Why did those guys launch Artillery Strike on their own?
-That human made a tremendous sound earlier. From far away it probably sounded like a flute.
-Stupid bastards.
As the orcs’ voices grew closer, Young-woo carefully spoke to Myeong-ae, who seemed to be in a daze.
“Your eldest son is still in the car. I’ll bring him out, so you must not move from here.”
“…”
Naturally, he couldn’t get any response from her, and Young-woo slipped out from behind the vehicle and drew his Black Sword.
Shing.
The orcs who spotted him flinched and stopped in place.
They had also clearly seen Young-woo take down four orcs by himself earlier.
Moreover, coincidentally, the number of orcs remaining here was also four.
-Hey.
Finally, one of the orcs pointed at Young-woo with his chin and spoke.
-You just go.
“…What?”
-Go away.
Swish.
The orc lifts its axe and points to the road behind them.
It meant they wouldn’t fight with him, so he should pass through here.
“What are you saying, you crazy bastards.”
Young-woo was already seeing several Death Strike marks in his vision, so he made a sharp expression and prepared to attack.
Then the orcs made gestures showing they were troubled, and at the same time Young-woo’s figure shot out like an arrow.
Swoosh!
-Uh!
-Watch out…!
Before they could even take a defensive stance, the body of the orc standing at the front collapsed, and then.
Whaaaash!
The black blade that had extended to 5 meters in length swept across the area.
-Uh oh!
-What is this…?
-S-spare me!
The startled orcs each showed different reactions.
Their reactions were even so vivid that even Young-woo, who was filled with killing intent, almost mistook it for fighting humans.
‘What is this… it’s too real.’
Young-woo had always thought that monsters were beings arbitrarily created to play the role of game monsters.
Like a kind of NPC.
But in the expressions and eyes of the orcs he had just seen, there was something more than that.
Something that beings programmed as consumables could never possess… should he call it attachment to life or souls?
Of course, even this might be proof that the monsters were extremely well-made consumables.
But what if they weren’t?
If they were really something that actually existed, what exactly were they and where did they come from?
“…”
Swoooosh!
In the end, Young-woo knocked down three orcs in an instant, then stopped his sword just before piercing the throat of the last one.
Thud.
Then the last orc, who had tightly closed its eyes anticipating death, slowly lifted its eyelids.
-…?
Again, a very realistic reaction.
Instead of immediately attempting a counterattack, it looked back and forth between the blade stopped in front of its throat and Young-woo with puzzled eyes.
-You, you…? Why…?
Even the fact that it was so surprised that words wouldn’t come out properly was realistic.
Young-woo pressed his sword against its throat and asked.
“What are you guys? Why did you come here?”
Young-woo was quite confused since he had never imagined a day would come when he’d interrogate an orc.
-We are…
Finally, the last orc moved its large green jaw and opened its mouth.
-Pioneers.
“What?”
Young-woo made an even more confused expression because an unexpected word came out of the orc’s mouth.
It was surprising that the opponent possessed enough intelligence to define itself as a pioneer, but before that…
‘Saying they’re pioneers also means they have a homeland they left behind.’
The orcs’ homeland.
No, could a homeland even exist for orcs, which were originally human creations?
“How can you guys pioneer anything? You’re clearly imaginary beings, aren’t you? Orcs.”
While Young-woo was saying this, the opponent’s ears twitched at the word ‘imaginary’ and got angry.
-You guys are the ones…!
“…?”
-You guys are the imaginary beings. You’re the ‘human’ from Kamole mythology, aren’t you?
It was brief, but some kind of pride flashed in the orc’s eyes.
At least it was sincere.
Since humans were imaginary beings from orc mythology, even in this situation the protagonist was the orc itself… in a way, the exact same position as Young-woo.
“What the hell…”
At this point, Young-woo had no choice but to form an absurd hypothesis.
Just maybe.
What if both humans and orcs were actually existing species?
They had thought of each other as imaginary beings until now, but this time they actually encountered each other.
‘But orcs clearly have an origin. Tolkien created them, and the process of D&D and Warhammer series adding settings exists as actual history.’
Of course, this would be the same from the orcs’ perspective.
Didn’t they say that a species called humans appeared in their mythology?
‘What the hell is going on?’
A feeling like the back of his head was going numb.
Soon all kinds of questions flooded in, but it became difficult to keep the orc detained any longer.
Tsk.
It was because Myeong-ae, who had been hiding behind the vehicle, discovered the orc in front of Young-woo and screamed.
“Aaaaaaah!”
It was so loud that he wondered if a third artillery strike might come flying, and the orc seemed to know well that this was a signal that would shorten its life.
-W-wait a moment.
It begged Young-woo for mercy with a very servile expression.
-Please spare me. We can communicate well. Let’s resolve this through dialogue.
However, Young-woo’s blade was already cutting through the air.
Swish!
Young-woo, who had cut the orc’s throat like lightning, immediately shouted to Myeong-ho in the driver’s seat.
“Start the engine! Unless you want to die here…!”
“…Ah!”
Myeong-ho had also been listening to the strange conversation between the two species in a daze, so he could only come to his senses after Young-woo’s command fell.
Clank!
As he put the gear back in drive and put his foot on the accelerator, he saw the rear door burst open and Mother being almost thrown in.
“…”
For a moment, the inside of his chest seemed to harden, but he couldn’t protest anything to Young-woo.
All he could do now was just.
Vrooom!
Step on the accelerator with all his might.
Then the SUV carrying the three people roughly jolted as it ran over the orcs and Yoon-ho’s corpse.
Like a ship meeting waves.
Perhaps that’s why.
Myeong-ho’s hands gripping the steering wheel also became damply wet as if submerged in water.
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