If there was knowledge he needed, he had to pull it out and learn it before he could use it.
Meanwhile, even after Salk chased the group of orcs and dashed into the forest, Eliza’s party couldn’t move for a long time.
It was a short amount of time, but the mental shock they experienced was far too great.
Everyone’s minds were completely blank from the eccentric behavior of a single man – from his bizarre entrance, his defeat of that massive group of orcs, and even his chasing after them as if that wasn’t enough.
“E-excuse me… what just happened in front of us?”
“Did something actually happen?”
Wondering if she had perhaps seen an illusion, Eliza looked at her companions’ faces, but their expressions were the same as hers.
In the end, it meant the sight she had witnessed was real.
“But was that a human?”
“He was naked and speaking a language I’ve never heard before, but he was definitely human.”
Gipel answered Bash’s question.
Because Salk had spoken the language of his previous world, they couldn’t understand him.
Still, it was clearly a human language.
“Then we should follow him and help.”
“Hold on, wait.”
Gipel quickly restrained the hot-tempered Bash, who looked ready to run off at any moment.
“Why?”
“Where are you going?”
“We have to save him.
You said he was human.
Plus, he saved us too.
It seems he chased them because he doesn’t know about Orcland, but if he runs into another horde of orcs, he’ll be in big trouble.”
“You think the four of us who are barely left can take on a horde of orcs?”
When Bash hesitated at Gipel’s self-deprecating words, Eliza stepped forward.
“I’m going.”
“But…”
Gipel tried to stop her again.
“We – no, I am an orc killer, a member of the Yasad Mercenary Troop.
I don’t know who he is, but he’s definitely a fellow human.”
Eliza spat out her words clearly, syllable by syllable, with a stiff face.
It wasn’t that she had no fear.
Even so, she had to go.
That was the pride that has sustained her until now.
“You guys aren’t part of our mercenary group, so you don’t have to follow.”
Eliza looked around at the group one more time before walking toward the forest where Salk had disappeared.
The Orc Extermination Squad was a temporary organization hastily formed only when monsters ran rampant.
Just like any other time, the Yasad Mercenary Troop took on the role of recruitment this time as well.
Since they were all seasoned veterans in orc subjugation, they took on pivotal roles in each unit.