Chapter 77
Orc Battle (1)
I, alone, would stall the Orcs for at least a month.
I was thinking that there would be an opposition, both good and bad, about me doing it alone, but perhaps I intimidated them too much that my decision was unanimously approved.
The number of enemies was at least fifty normal Orcs equivalent to Rank 3, four Orc soldiers equivalent to Rank 4, and one Orc general of Rank 5.
Even if the militiamen were to fight along with me, with no combat skills, they would simply become a burden, even if the militiamen outnumbered Orcs ten to one.
A sane minded person would think that it would take more than a hundred skilled men to stop a group of that many Orcs.
That’s if they were sane.
I might be able to find the house where Gill and Shuri used to live, but I didn’t intend to take care of that at the moment.
For I would try to buy the residents time to escape, but whether Shuri and Gill’s brother and stepmother wanted to run away or stay here was their own choice.
The guild had given me the general location of the Orcs, but after getting more details from the scouts, I went to the Orc stronghold later that day.
The distance was said to be about two days by the adventurer’s legs, but I should be able to shave half a day off my trip.
The place had been a village until about ten years ago, so there was enough road for a carriage to pass through, but after ten years it was just an animal trail.