The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 138

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 138

Episode 138: Northern Warrior (1)

Once he judged they had become somewhat friendly, Mincheol asked the soldiers.

“What do you all think about Castle Lord Alcamalca?”

The conflict between the castle lord and the warriors had been weighing on his mind.

Perhaps, contrary to her bold exterior, she lacked popular support.

“You mean the Castle Lord? She’s an excellent person!”

“That’s right! You have no idea how much easier things have become thanks to her!”

“The meals have gotten tastier too!”

The soldiers praised the castle lord without exception.

“Since Lady Alcamalca became the new castle lord, the reward and punishment system has become thorough. Even lowly soldiers can receive rewards if they achieve merit.”

“When conflicts arise between orcs, if you run to her, it gets resolved quickly. She’s really smart, you see.”

“She made it so we can receive free treatment even if we get injured during training. You have no idea how fortunate that is.”

The soldiers praised Alcamalca’s achievements.

Judging by their expressions, it didn’t seem like made-up words.

“Hmph, what’s so excellent about that.”

Then, another soldier spoke up.

The soldier spoke to Mincheol with a displeased face.

“The Castle Lord is someone who doesn’t understand honor.”

“Even weaklings can receive rewards if they accumulate merit? That’s nonsense!”

“It’s also ridiculous to assign healers just because someone got hurt during training. Getting injured during training is shameful! It should be strictly dealt with under military law!”

The number of opposition members was also considerable.

They criticized the castle lord with heated passion.

“Moreover, you have no idea how many traditions have disappeared since she inherited the castle lord position.”

“Traditions?”

Mincheol asked with a puzzled face. The soldier immediately answered.

“Do you know what the first thing she did after becoming castle lord was? She banned blood duels.”

“Come for a trial if you’re insulted? Does that make sense! An orc’s honor can only be restored through duels!”

“That’s not all. When conflicts arose with neighboring regions, she attempted dialogue instead of war!”

“It’s dishonorable! No wonder even the warriors distrust the castle lord!”

Listening to the soldiers’ conversation, Mincheol roughly understood the situation the castle lord was in.

‘The castle lord who pursues practical benefits and the orcs who value tradition are in conflict with each other.’

The situation was not good at all.

Though Mincheol didn’t know much about military tactics, he knew that commanders were important.

In this situation, there was no way the command system could function properly.

‘Especially that orc called Kurmakdurumak had extraordinary opposition to the castle lord.’

He could only hope it wouldn’t negatively affect the war.

* * *

The next day came.

Ta- ta-ta-

Mincheol opened his eyes to the sound of the wake-up bugle.

“The Northern Army is advancing! Everyone get up!”

At those words, the soldiers began hastily putting on their equipment.

Mincheol also took out armor from his inventory, put it on, and came outside.

Then a waiting captain spoke to Mincheol.

“Avatar, I shall escort you personally!”

The place the captain took Mincheol to was a watchtower above the fortress gate.

There, warriors including Alcamalca had gathered.

“Sir Mincheol, was your sleeping quarters uncomfortable?”

“It was comfortable.”

Actually, his back was killing him, but he didn’t show it.

“I’m glad to hear that. More importantly, look at that.”

Alcamalca pointed beyond the castle wall.

Before they knew it, the Northern Orcs had filled the grassland.

But that wasn’t what Alcamalca was pointing at.

Towers stood tall among the Northern Army.

They were much higher than the castle walls. They were clad in iron armor, with several large wheels attached at the bottom.

“Siege towers. It seems they completed them during the night.”

Alcamalca’s voice trembled slightly.

It was understandable. The reason defense was advantageous compared to siege was because of the castle walls’ existence.

But siege towers completely neutralized that advantage.

Moreover, there weren’t just one siege tower, but seven of them.

“Sir Mincheol, could you neutralize those with the Ancestral Spirit’s power?”

Alcamalca asked with a desperate face.

Mincheol pondered seriously before speaking.

“It’s impossible.”

The siege towers were massive.

Even just the wheels looked like they would easily exceed 100kg. There didn’t seem to be any parts he could extract with Auto Looting.

Even Carving wouldn’t be a solution.

The range of Carving was very narrow. To topple siege towers with this would obviously take ages.

In that time, the remaining siege towers would have more than enough time to approach the castle walls.

“So even you have no method…”

Alcamalca muttered with a dark face.

“Ha! I knew it would be like this.”

Then, one of the warriors snorted.

An orc covered in scars.

It was Kurmakdurumak.

“Castle Lord, what did I tell you? I said you’d regret your decision! This is what happens when you rely on a mutant orc!”

Kurmakdurumak spoke triumphantly.

Mincheol looked at him with an incredulous face.

He couldn’t understand why he was happy when the castle was in danger.

“It’s not too late even now. Banish this mutant orc immediately!”

“I said it was impossible with my power. I never said I couldn’t stop it.”

Unable to listen anymore, Mincheol spoke to Kurmakdurumak.

“What nonsense…”

Mincheol took out a spear from his inventory.

It wasn’t the Dark Elongated One. It was a spare spear he had purchased for the Defensive Layer.

【Save Point is being destroyed.】

【Quest is proceeding.】

Then, with the message, the siege towers began to advance.

The sight of towers tall enough to leap over the castle walls slowly approaching was truly overwhelming.

【Preparing ‘Seongwangbicheon Application Style Manri’.】

Mincheol activated the skill.

He vividly felt the mana in his body being sucked into the spear shaft.

Manri was an application style that consumed large amounts of mana to snipe enemies at long range.

Originally, using Manri required a spear with high mana conductivity.

But when used like now, solely to increase power at short range, there was no need to consider mana conductivity.

‘Still, I can’t be careless. If I inject even slightly too much mana, the spear will break.’

Mincheol drew upon past experience to infuse mana into the spear.

As he was controlling the mana like that, one realization pierced through Mincheol’s mind.

【’Holy Light Heaven Soaring’ level increases.】

【Lv.1 -】 Lv.2>

A lightning-like realization.

Suddenly, injecting mana into the spear became much easier.

‘Not yet. They need to come closer.’

Mincheol waited for the siege towers to approach.

He didn’t have enough mana to intercept each siege tower individually with Manri.

He had to destroy as many siege towers as possible with just one strike.

It was when they got close enough to recognize the faces of the orcs standing on the siege towers.

‘Now.’

Mincheol took a stance to throw his spear.

At the same time, he activated one more skill.

【’Kaela Marbenia’ is activated.】

【210 mana is consumed.】

【Please designate an item from your inventory.】

The world stopped.

Mincheol selected the dark elongated item.

【’Holy Light Heaven Soaring Application Formula Manri’ is activated.】

【Mana ‘800’ is consumed.】

【An additional skill is activated by ‘Kaela Marbenia’!】

【An additional ‘2400’ mana is consumed.】

Mincheol threw the spear. Two flashes of light stretched into the sky.

But the direction he threw was strange.

Instead of throwing straight at the siege towers positioned in front, he threw to the right.

【Skill ‘Curve Shot’ is activated.】

The Holy Light Heaven Soaring that was flying straight curved sharply. It drew a steep curve as if it would break.

And it struck the side of the siege tower at the very end.

Kwagwang-

With a thunderous roar, the waist of the siege tower was destroyed.

The Holy Light Heaven Soaring didn’t stop there. It penetrated straight through the siege tower and continued forward.

The siege towers were destroyed in sequence. They began collapsing like dominoes.

“….”

“….”

All the warriors were left speechless by that overwhelming spectacle.

“Uwaaaah!”

“Tooshin! Our god!”

“Avatar of Tooshin!”

A beat later, the soldiers burst into cheers. The entire castle shook.

【You have perfectly blocked the Northern Orcs’ offensive!】

【What magnificent performance! You are truly a hero of war!】

【You gain additional points! Clear score increases dramatically!】

【You have reached the fourth Save Point!】

【The Save Point will end in 5 minutes!】

A message appeared before his eyes.

After reading the message, Mincheol was puzzled.

‘5 minutes?’

It was far too short. He was wondering what was going on when it happened.

Bang!

The upper part of a falling siege tower exploded.

“The avatar of Tooshin has displayed his divine power again!”

“Tooshin! Great hero!”

The soldiers’ cheers grew louder. But Mincheol’s face hardened.

What he had thrown was only the Holy Light Heaven Soaring.

In other words, the destruction of the siege tower’s upper part was due to another factor.

Whiiiiik-

Then, a sound of something cutting through the air was heard. The sound grew louder instantly.

In that split second, Mincheol could see.

‘Orcs?’

Orcs were falling from the sky toward the castle.

Some fell onto the castle walls, others fell beyond the castle walls.

“…Warriors. The Northern Army has deployed warriors!”

Alcamalca shouted. This was the first time she had looked so urgent.

The tops of the siege towers hadn’t been destroyed on their own.

They had been destroyed by the warriors stomping their feet to leap.

‘Who would have thought they’d place warriors on the siege towers.’

Even warriors couldn’t leap over castle walls normally.

But jumping from atop siege towers was a different story.

“If we stay like this, the soldiers will be massacred! Warriors, quickly stop them!”

The warriors immediately scattered.

They flew toward the locations where the Northern warriors had fallen.

“Sir Mincheol! Do you still have strength left?”

Mincheol put a mana candy in his mouth and said.

“More than enough.”

“Good! I’ll assign you an enemy commander as well!”

Leaving those words, Alcamalca also kicked off the ground.

Mincheol also jumped down from the watchtower.

Finding where the Northern Spearman had fallen wasn’t too difficult.

Smoke was rising in the distance.

“Uaaak!”

“Keuaaak!”

Orcs trapped under buildings were burning alive.

From within, a muscular orc raised himself up.

His red skin color made him easy to recognize.

It was a Northern warrior.

“A mutant, huh?”

The Red Warrior looked at Mincheol and tilted his head.

“This is my first time seeing an adult mutant. Don’t tell me the southern Piggies raise mutants instead of culling them?”

The Red Warrior sighed.

“This is why the southern Piggies are so pathetically weak. Mutants should be killed the moment they’re born.”

The warrior grabbed the axe hanging on his back.

It was quite a large axe. Even from an orc’s perspective.

【2 minutes remaining until Save Point ends.】

Mincheol glanced at the message.

King Burger had said that only promising members of large guilds would attempt the fifth Save Point.

Even they had a high probability of failure.

In other words, the strength of an orc warrior was above that of promising members of large guilds.

To challenge or not to challenge.

Logically, running away here would be the right choice.

There was no need to risk danger just to aim for rewards.

This was especially a dangerous battle where even promising members of large guilds had low chances of survival.

But.

‘This seems doable?’

The experience he had accumulated so far told him so. Most importantly, his instincts weren’t warning him of danger.

‘Besides, I’m curious.’

Spearmen were beings who could materialize the power of Ancestral Spirits.

But just hearing the explanation didn’t make it easy to understand.

How exactly did they fight by materializing them?

What kind of abilities did materialized Ancestral Spirits display?

【1 minute remaining until Save Point termination.】

While he was contemplating, a message appeared.

Mincheol made his decision.

【Time has expired.】

【Save Point will be destroyed.】

【Quest will proceed.】

The start of the Quest.

The fighting spirit emanating from the Red Warrior suddenly intensified.

Sensing the start of battle, Mincheol activated his skill first.

【Activating ‘Black Horn Bullet Form’.】

【Consuming ‘140’ mana.】

Mincheol lunged forward and brought his twin swords down toward the Red Warrior.

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