Sorcerous Stabber Orphen: The Wayward Journey Volume 20 by Yoshinobu Akita

Author:Yoshinobu Akita [AKITA, YOSHINOBU]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: J-Novel Club
Published: 2022-10-21T00:00:00+00:00

“Orphen, I think I see something!”

Orphen opened his eyes when Claiomh called his name—apparently he’d nodded off. He shook his head to clear away his drowsiness, surprised at himself. He must have been truly exhausted to actually fall asleep in this situation.

“What’s ‘something’?” he asked, sitting up. Behind Leki’s head, he couldn’t see much in front of them.

Claiomh turned around, a strange expression on her face. “Well...something! There’s a bunch of people.”

“The remnants of the defeated, no doubt,” the lord said coolly without looking.

Orphen ignored him and climbed up Leki’s head. Leki flicked his ears in annoyance, but Orphen ignored that too.

The rest of the wastes were still unchanging, but it was true that there was a group up ahead of them. And they certainly fit the look of the survivors of that battle. It was some dozen people huddled together as if to stave off the cold.

Orphen quickly realized that it wasn’t the cold they were trying to stave off but something else. Even from a distance, he could tell that they were all limp with exhaustion.

They couldn’t possibly have missed the enormous Deep Dragon lumbering toward them. It was clear that there was a commotion brewing between a few of them—one giving instructions to their exhausted comrades. Either to retreat or to fight.

Orphen thought of the corpses that had likely been slain by the Red Dragons. These must have been their escaped friends.

Retreating or resisting would be futile against a Deep Dragon. They must have known that.

I wonder how much they know about dragons. If they were who he thought they were, then he could guess what they’d do next.

They were attempting to get into a formation while Leki was still at a distance from them. He’d thought there was no way they could be decently organized since they didn’t even have a lookout, but once they started taking action, they moved swiftly. They immediately spread out and formed several groups of four or five people each. In those groups, they’d likely split into those concentrating on offense or defense and then launch an all-out attack. With this method, they’d be able to utilize their maximum firepower without suffering any casualties—if they weren’t up against a Deep Dragon, that is.

They had a strong leader. That was Orphen’s judgment.

They were still too far away to be able to distinguish any of their faces. Orphen squinted down at them and whispered to Claiomh, “You can talk to Leki, right?”

“Huh? Yeah.” She nodded.

Orphen nodded back. “Then tell him to go past that group without hurting them.”

“I think that’s probably what he’d do anyway, but... Leki, did you hear that?”

Leki didn’t reply in any sort of way—of course, if he’d nodded, the two of them would have gone tumbling off his head.

Still, Orphen didn’t feel the need to warn him again. Claiomh was right—that’s probably what he was planning to do already. If he wanted to wipe them out, they’d be wiped out by now. And Leki’s previous behavior had shown that he didn’t intend to hurt anyone.

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