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The first thing the orc did was not to seize the kids, nor to attack them.
Thud!
The orc smashed through the rope with its stone axe so that we could neither cross over to them, nor they to us.
“Cliffman!”
Splash!
“Ugh! Ack!”
Cliffman, who had been dangling from the rope, fell into the water flowing through the ravine and was swept downstream. Ellen, Connor Lint, and I were stranded on the opposite side of the ravine, while the orc started chasing after the other fleeing kids.
“Wh-What is this? What’s happening?! Is, is this even allowed?” Connor Lint exclaimed.
Connor Lint, having seen Cliffman being swept away by the river and the massive, hulking orc emerging to pursue the other kids, was trying his best to deny reality.
Orcs…
They were a staple monster in medieval fantasy, and although I had intentionally arranged for them to exist in this world, seeing one in person was extremely chilling.
In this world, orcs were not the trash, weak mobs that every other novel portrayed them as.
Think about it—why would a race with such overwhelmingly superior physical attributes when compared to humans be considered mere weaklings?
As I said before, while I didn’t pay much attention to historical accuracy, I had a peculiar persistence and stubbornness for things, which consequently made this phenomenon possible.
Anyway…
Seeing a Dwayne Johnson look-alike appear before your eyes with green skin, wielding a stone axe and roaring, would be enough to unnerve anyone, wouldn’t it?
“Damn it….”
I hadn’t expected the creature to make its appearance in such a manner, and I too felt a shiver run down my spine.
Connor Lint’s face turned pale. “Cliffman…” he mumbled in a daze.
“He probably failed the mission. The teachers will save him.”
If he was left as he was, he would certainly drown, so he must have been rescued by now. The button-shaped artifact that we had been given at the beginning was a device that would allow us to give up during the mission, but it also served as a device that...
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