Lord of Training - Chapter 38
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38. Because I prepared well.
38. Because I prepared well.
“John, don’t be nervous! I’m well prepared.”
I said something to Sergeant John Cutter, who was swallowing saliva next to me.
“I know that too, but I keep shrinking.”
“Orcs won’t be able to do anything. They’re made of flesh and bone anyway, so if they get shot by a magic gun, they’ll all die.”
“yes······.”
Actually, my whole body was shaking.
At the Military Academy, I learned about the war between the orcs and the southern continent kingdoms that took place 40 years ago.
It was a shocking story of five tribes of orcs emerging from a giant gate and fighting humans with only swords and axes, completely wiping two kingdoms off the map.
Of course, back then, the performance of the rifles was poor, there were no powerful cannons like today, and airships could only carry about ten people, so the situation was very different from now.
There weren’t many aviation magic articles at the time.
‘Did you say that there were hundreds of thousands of dead people back then? Or millions······?’
The reason Orcs are perceived as fearsome and cruel monsters is because of rumors that they enjoy tearing human necks and limbs off with their bare hands.
And orcs never take prisoners.
Long ago, rumors about orcs spread beyond the southern continent, to all five continents.
So, it is understandable that the subordinates are nervous now.
“The head, neck, and genitals are the weak points of the orcs! The best way to kill them quickly is to shoot them in the face from the front. Everyone, keep that in mind!”
“yes!”
Ensign Phelps reminded his men of the orcs’ weaknesses once again.
Fortunately, orcs were known to be stronger the more muscular they were, so they rarely wore clothes. So they didn’t wear armor or other protective gear, and since they were large, they were more likely to get hit.
Of course, you have to hit a lot to kill it.
“come!”
Phelps said.
The current range of his magic detection skill is 700 meters.
It was said that an orc had come inside.
Phelps held up five fingers.
Now 500 meters.
I put the dimensional translator in my ear.
It was my favorite of the relics of my elven ancestors, a device that translated the speech of dimensional creatures with language.
Everyone looked around with eyes accustomed to the darkness.
I haven’t seen any of them yet.
But in an instant, only one of Phelps’ fingers remained, and something like a large shadow was seen moving between the trees.
50 meters away!
‘I’m caught!’
Papat!
Tsk tsk tsk!
“Kook!”
“Kkuak!”
Soon the sound of pigs being slaughtered could be heard here and there.
I stepped on a cold mine.
I placed all five of my cold mines in their path.
The detection range is set to 5 meters, and the cold range is 10 meters.
Anyone who enters the mine activation range will have their legs frozen solid.
If you stay still in that position, it will melt after 30 minutes, and if you use a healing skill right away, you won’t have to cut off your leg.
But what if you’re an impatient orc?
Crunch! Crunch!
“Kuaaaaak!”
“Kueeek!”
Orc screams echoed here and there.
“Kook! It’s a human trap!”
“Now is the time. Shoot!”
“launch!”
Ta-tang! Bang! Bang!
Tutata tata tang!
We fired indiscriminately at the orcs.
The orcs were sturdy, after all.
Some people didn’t fall down even after being hit more than a dozen times in the body, while others raised their arms to protect their faces.
Of course, his arm was covered in bullets.
Tuan! Tuan!
“crazy!”
The agents were astonished.
It was because the orc, who had lost both his legs to the cold mine, was lying down and firing the shotgun of rage.
“Retreat! Retreat!”
We quickly retreated.
“Kuaaaaah!”
“Ooooooh!”
The angry orcs howled in rage.
“I’m leaving the orc behind!”
“Chasing humans!”
They didn’t take the orc with the broken leg.
The orcs weren’t that stupid either. They slowed down the speed they had been running at just a moment ago and chased us while scanning the ground.
After being hit by a dozen cold mines and surprise attacks, they became more cautious.
But that meant we were already caught in another trap.
As I raised my hand, nine guns were pointed at the tree.
Because we were aviation magic knights.
It was when the orc came closer, within 40 meters.
“launch!”
“Shoot!”
Tutata tata tang!
Bang! Ta-tang! Bang!
“Kwak!”
“Kook!”
Boom! Boom!
“Magic Grenade!”
Swish! Swish!
Boom! Bang!
I exchanged the magazine, used the Penetration (lv. 3) skill repeatedly, and fired the machine gun again.
“die!”
My bullets also hit the orcs properly.
Then some orcs hiding behind the trees fired shotguns at us.
Tuan! Tuan!
But it doesn’t reach.
The effective firing range of a shotgun is 30 meters.
The tide has already turned in our favor.
But they advanced fearlessly.
“Retreat!”
“retreat!”
We flew into the air and slowly retreated backwards.
“Kooook! I’ll tear humans apart.”
“Orcs! Charge!”
An angry orc started running after us.
He is really an ignorant guy.
But only four people follow him.
We came down to a small open space and waited for them.
“Kuaaaa!”
Tuan! Tuan!
An orc ran toward us, shooting a shotgun.
[Use the Air Shield (lv.3) skill.]
[Use the Air Shield (lv.3) skill.]
Tuan!
Pufferpuck!
Puff!
Dozens of shotgun shells fell to the ground, blocked by the shield.
Although my marksmanship was poor, the shotgun was still very dangerous at close range.
“Respond!”
The prone soldiers fired their rifles from under the air shield.
Ta-tang! Bang! Bang!
“Kwak!”
A bullet hit their leg and they screamed.
Two of them fell, and we continued to shoot at them as they fell.
“Phelps, go!”
WHEEK!
Bam!
I threw the gravity generator between the two guys behind me.
Papat!
“Kook?”
“Kuuuk!”
Suddenly, gravity increased fivefold, and even the orcs with monstrous strength staggered in confusion.
During that gap, I flew upward and aimed at one of its heads from above.
Tutata tata tang!
Thud! Thud thud!
“Kwak!”
thud!
Now there’s only one left.
The remaining orcs held on desperately without falling.
Is it because he’s unusually large?
Withstanding 5 times the gravity!
After a while, gravity returned to normal.
“Now! Grab my arm!”
“Grab my arm!”
Wheezing! Thump thump thump!
Steel battle dolls rushed in from the left and right and grabbed the arms of the orc who had just regained consciousness.
Chuck! Chuck!
“Kook! What is this?”
That’s the legacy of the elven ancestors who weighed 120kg.
The steel fighting doll has the strength to lift and carry 500 kg.
When the two combat dolls grabbed his arms from the left and right, even the orc with monstrous strength couldn’t move.
Besides, this orc had been shot several times in the previous fight.
“Phew! I finally caught it.”
“Kooook!”
Then, as the orc screamed and thrashed, the steel war doll began to shake.
“Huh! Tie him up!”
“Tie it up really tight!”
The men rushed in and tied the orc’s limbs and body tightly with rope.
If I were to add a little lie, it would be like making a mummy out of rope.
They even put a gag in his mouth.
Next time I need an orc captive, I’ll need to get my elephant tranquilizer gun ready.
“Haa! Commander, what are we going to do with this guy?”
“We need to go deal with the other orcs first, so let’s lock them up in the dungeon in the castle.”
“yes!”
***
The battle last night had largely dissipated the fear of orcs.
Orcs are living creatures and can die after a dozen or so shots from a rifle.
And since I was able to kill the orc with two or three shots using Sergeant Douglin and Sergeant John Cutter’s Flame (lv. 3) skill, my Penetration (lv. 3) skill, and Sergeant Chris’s Enhance (lv. 3) skill, I was feeling confident.
However, Lieutenant Audrey and the other agents, who had only heard rumors about the orcs and had not yet fought them, had very nervous expressions on their faces.
“It’s okay! Don’t be scared. They won’t kill us as long as we don’t get closer than 30 meters.”
Plus, since we’re shooting from the sky, it’ll be harder to hit.
They were now hiding in the forest about 3km from the barrier.
With the orcs’ stamina and speed, it shouldn’t take long to get here.
But the reason we couldn’t rush in was because our air squadron was in the field where the guys were going to rush in.
Lieutenant Audrey asked.
“But why aren’t you coming?”
“We’ll move when the monster wave starts. They’re waiting for that.”
“The orc head is so nice?”
“No! There must be a human controlling the orcs. He must be watching us from somewhere in the forest right now.”
Either you have a dimensional translator like me, or you use the universal language of body language.
That was it!
Boom! Boom boom boom!
A volley of cannon fire was fired over the barrier.
And then the howitzers behind the barrier began firing.
Only then did the orc airborne unit emerge from the forest.
‘It’s at the level of a company.’
About a hundred orcs lined up at the front of the forest, each holding a shotgun.
However, there was a bayonet stuck under the shotgun muzzle.
“Gasp! How many soldiers are you going to kill with that!”
Sergeant Kalin looked at the orc’s bayonet and was shocked.
“Kooooook!”
“Ooooooh!”
The orcs stamped their feet in anger, preparing to run.
It means to pass through us.
I’ve come this far, so I can’t just go back.
“Kuaaaa!”
“Okay!”
As a particularly large orc ran, shouting, the other orcs all started running towards the wall.
Once an orc starts attacking, he won’t stop.
Chi-chik!
“Curtis, start!”
Boom! Boom!
Whew! Whew!
Boom! Boom!
A shell fell in front of the running orc.
Behind the wall now, Sergeant Curtis and six of his battalion men who had arrived yesterday were firing mortars.
The mortar gunner is Sergeant Leopold.
Since you have the Surveying (lv.3) skill, you will quickly find the target’s location.
Boom! Kwaang!
“Kuaak!”
“Kuuuck!”
Orcs fall one by one.
What makes them monsters is that unless a shell explodes within 5 meters, they will only get hurt and not fall.
Boom! Boom!
Two mortars continued to fire, and a dozen orcs fell.
“Okay! It’s our turn!”
“let’s go!”
A squadron of 16 air magicians, excluding me, took off.
“Attack!”
Bang! Tata tang! Bang!
He shot the guys with his pistol from above their heads without any mercy.
The orcs fired their guns into the sky, but our battalion members were shooting from 50 meters above, so they had no chance of hitting us.
If we were fighting in the forest, we would have been at a disadvantage, but in a field like this, they were no different from food to us.
The battalion soldiers did not fire indiscriminately.
Instead, he shot a dozen times, even exchanging magazines, to kill the orc he had hit.
It looked exactly like an Apache helicopter attacking a tank.
‘Huh? What skill does Lieutenant Audrey use?’
The orc hit by Lieutenant Audrey’s bullet fell to the ground, shuddering.
He looked as if he had been shocked.
I’ll have to ask later.
In this way, the number of orcs continues to decrease.
I glanced back.
As expected, Count Belief and the knights of the estate were looking this way from above the barrier.
Dimensional monsters charged from the front, but the soldiers were holding them back well with cannons and guns, and now the bigger problem was the orcs reaching the barrier.
No, even if it only reaches the howitzer behind the barrier, it will cause damage to the barrier’s defenses.
‘It’s my turn now.’
I raised my hand.
Doo doo doo! Doo doo doo doo!
About 500 cavalry charge forward, their bells ringing.
Mounted Rifle Corps.
The glory of the cavalry that once commanded the continent has already disappeared.
Perhaps this might be the last battlefield they could be active in.
And the most powerful force at present, the Aerial Magic Knights, might also be forgotten like them in the future.
If a faster or more powerful flying weapon than the Aerial Magic Knight comes out.
A galloping mounted musketeer began to pass beneath me.
[Uses the High-Speed Flight (lv.2) skill.]
Paaang!
I flew to the very front of the cavalry.
And when he reached the orc’s sky, he waved his hands from side to side.
“Split apart!”
The cavalry split into two and ran, surrounding the advancing orc airborne troops on the left and right.
“launch!”
“Shoot!”
Bang! Tata tang! Bang!
The rifles of the mounted riflemen opened fire.
Papa pat! Papa pat!
“Kuuuck!”
“Kuaak!”
The Orcs, already hit by mortars and attacks from our air battalion, were now felled by the bullets of 500 mounted riflemen.
The mounted rifleman, who had expended six bullets in an instant, put his rifle into the back of his horse’s saddle and took out another rifle.
A mounted rifleman carries three rifles.
They always carried three loaded rifles, as they could not reload while riding a horse.
“Turn around! Chase the orcs!”
I followed the orc, spinning wildly in the air.
The cavalry on either side of the orc turned sharply at my signal and began to pursue the orc.
“Don’t leave a single one alive!”
And then the rifle opened fire again.
Ta-tang! Bang! Bang!
“Airborne magic knights, go to the line!”
“yes!”
Paaaaang!
Leaving the pursuit to the mounted riflemen, I stood in front of the airborne cavalry and the howitzer positions.
On the ground, a squad led by Sergeant Curtis had two machine guns ready, while in the air, seventeen airborne knights aimed their rifles.
The orcs, which numbered over 100, had already mostly fallen due to the mounted riflemen’s actions, and only about 30 orcs were running towards them.
But I couldn’t let my guard down.
“Prepare to fire!”
Crunch!
“Don’t let a single one pass through here!”
“yes!”
“launch!”
Tata tata tata! Bang! Bang!
Waves of violent flames shot out simultaneously.
Orcs of monstrous strength who feared not death were swept away by the waves of flame and fell one by one.
“Kuaaaaak!”
“Kueeeeek!”
Boom! Kukookung!
The charging cavalry stopped, and the charging orcs also stopped.
“Cease fire!”
At that moment, the barrier’s barrage of bullets aimed at the dimensional monster stopped.
For a moment, silence fell everywhere.
“Wow!”
The first shouts were heard from above the barrier.
It stopped dimensional monsters and orcs.
It was a shout of victory.
“Ensign Phelps!”
“yes!”
“Catch the guy hiding in the forest!”
“Yes! I will follow your orders.”
Phelps’ formation flew toward the forest.
About 500 cavalry charged toward us.
Then the commander of the mounted rifles, Baron Waldes, stepped forward, placed his fist on his heart, and bowed his head to me.
“Glory to Alain Bombard!”
“Glory to Alain Bombard!”
And then the mounted riflemen all struck the heart with their fists.
This was the salute that knights of old used to give to their lords.
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