While listening to Dina criticizing orcs, I thought about how I was going to kill them all.
1: Go straight in and kick them to death.
Honestly, there’s no need to be afraid of them at all. Even if I went straight in without trying to hide, I could probably win easily. But I don’t know how many orcs I might let escape if I do things like this.
2: Use my skills as an Alchemist to crush the nest itself.
I think this is the safest route. I can’t use any attack magic, but with Alchemist skills, large-scale attacks aren’t impossible. But doing it like this destroys the nest, so I don’t know how many pieces of orc meat’ll get buried in the rubble, never to be found.
3: Use my skills to their limits to assassinate everyone before they even get a chance to scream.
Doing things this way, I won’t have to worry about anyone running away, and there’s no chance of not being able to get all the orc meat that drops. I’m not sure how this would look, a Great Conqueror going this far against just orcs, but the meat comes first.
I don’t know how many of them are in there, but given the drop rates, if there’re at least fifty I should get at least one or two pieces. And if there’re about one hundred, I should be able to get three. Orc meat raises HP between 100-300 per piece at random, so at the very least, I’ll get 300 HP with three pieces.
......Kinda eh? Not at all. Repeating this several times definitely stacks up.
“Now then, let’s get this over with quickly.”
“Go for it, Miss Lufas!”
I started creating some items using my Alchemist skills. The material was the dirt itself, and the end product was swords.
For now, I went with a light thirty swords, and I used the Esper skill “Psycho Throw” to make them float.
To be honest, I was far better at close combat, and out of my maxed out classes, four of them were specialized for close combat. No, Striders are pretty heavy on close combat, too, so I guess five?
On the other hand, since I couldn’t use attack magic, I ended up being not that great at long-distance fights. I didn’t even take the Archer class, and I’ve only gone halfway through the Esper class, with it being level 50.
But still, comboed with the Alchemist class, I could hold my own, somewhat.
The Alchemist’s item creation skill, just like it said, was able to make items out of materials that were either on hand or just happened to be around. The range of creatable items was wide, from healing items to equipment, and, depending on how materials are used or combined, you could make an almost infinite number of different kinds of equipment.
This time, I just created normal broadswords, but my class level was 100, so if I wanted to, I couldn’t make a legendary weapon, but I could make something close in ability.
And Espers were just what it implied, a psychic powers class. Espers could bind people or move things around without having to get near them. “Psycho Throw” was the biggest example of that, and it allowed me to launch my items at enemies.
I believe there was a nationally famous RPG in the past with skills like “Throw Item” or “Throw Zenny;” just think of it as something like that.
This skill worked really well comboed with the Alchemist class, and it allowed you to kind of feel like a last boss yourself when you started shooting countless swords at your enemies with your arms crossed.
All thirty swords flew at the orcs on watch, and they pierced through their heads, chopped through their necks, ran their hearts through, and cut off their arms and legs. They were filled with swords in an instant, and the orcs, which now looked like hedgehogs, didn’t even twitch.
I walked out of the bushes and extracted the swords with my psychokinesis before starting to take the orcs apart.
......Huh? Could it be this isn’t a 3% drop chance, but instead something I could just get if I butchered them?
“Ahh...... That’s no good, Miss Lufas. You ruined the fillet. The orc’s fillet—or the softest part inside it—is the part that increases your vitality, but if you damage it even a little while it’s alive, it loses its effect.”
“Hm? Really?”
“Of course. Although, orcs already fight a lot, so a lot of times their fillets are already damaged. It’s said that the chances of the fillet still being undamaged, as well as leaving it that way when fighting, is about 3%. ......Did you forget about all that while you were sealed?”
After hearing Dina’s explanation, I was impressed.
I see, that’s why it’s 3%. So, the drop rates in the game that I didn’t really pay any attention to had this sort of reasoning behind them. That’s pretty interesting. And now that I know this, that means that if I do well in defeating it I can raise the chances of getting them depending on my skill.
“That’s very useful. We shall be more careful from now on.”
I did something wasteful just now. Turning them into hedgehogs like this, there was no way there’d be any part of them left to salvage. Of course, the fillet wasn’t an exception. Unfortunately, while it seemed these orcs could still be food, they wouldn’t be raising my HP.
“Also, orcs are very hardy, so I don’t recommend hitting their bodies in the first place. Aim for their neck or head, Miss Lufas.”
“Understood. You’re quite knowledgeable, Dina.”
A single orc came out of the cave, saying, “It’s time to change watch,” so I used a single sword to quickly lop off its head.
Dina clapped lightly in response, saying, “Well done.”
I once again butchered the new orc, and this time, I found a nice and pretty undamaged fillet.
“Look, Dina. This time, We got one.”
“As expected! Good job!”
If it was just ‘me,’ I definitely wouldn’t have been able to look at an R-18 butchering scene directly or even kill another living thing. It’s probably not right to just be thankful for my situation when it’s convenient like this, but right now, I’m glad I have Lufas’ senses.
Now then, there’s still a mountain of orcs around. For the job, let’s make sure none of them get away.
“Wha—? Who the hell’re—...... Guaahh!”
“I-Intru—...... Grraaaggh!”
“Someone sent from that vi—...... Gyaagghh!”
“Heh, good job making it this far! I am the strongest of the orcs’ Four Heavenly Kings...... Nnwhaaaggh!”
“W-wait! Please, spare m—...... Hhgyaaahhhh!”
I suppose it should’ve been called a massacre. Corpses of orcs trailed behind me everywhere I walked, and orcs that were about to be corpses were arrayed in front of me.
Thinking this would be a good chance to do it, I was going to try out a bunch of skills, but doing it here wouldn’t tell me anything. I mean, no matter what skill I used, they all died instantly anyway. Like this, I wouldn’t be able to tell just how powerful each skill was.
“Dina, how is it over there?”
“This one is......no good. It’s a miss.”
After extracting each orc’s fillet and checking it to see if it was good, I was taking any usable fillets and keeping them in my bag. Anything else was being unexpectedly cleaned up by Dina.
Apparently, she could use teleportation magic, and she was moving all the orcs to the tower, since we couldn’t very well carry them.
Dina said, “Once this is over, I’ll go back to the tower for a bit and make them into examp—......I mean, dried meat.”
So apparently, that’s how it is. Man, I’m so lucky to have an actual, useful advisor.