Chapter 416: Section 278: Search (Part 2)
As they approached the location mentioned by the Knight who had been driving the carriage, Malin pulled the reins. Continuing down the main road was no longer a good idea. With the War Dog and the two girls, Malin carefully made his way along the slope at the top of the main street on the east side.
This was the downwind side, and the wind coming from the northwest would carry the stench of the orcs, while their own scent would not be picked up by the opposition.
After rounding a corner and following the street, Malin saw a dozen or so orcs.
As a race that had not completed civilization, orcs were called strong orcs in the Middle Ages to distinguish them from the orcs living in The Great Forest Land. When Malin learned this knowledge, he had to restrain himself from asking old Hoffman if this world also had a white-robed mage with water on the brain.
There were thirteen orcs on the street in total, seven of whom were warriors with various melee weapons. They were strong, so their weapons were varied, with stone clubs and stone axes being the most common.
Three were archers with very rough bows in their hands – such bows would be garbage if held by humans, able at best to hit the largest target more than ten meters away, which was the ground beneath their feet. Whether they could hit anything else depended on whether the head of the target was well-positioned or not.
Two with staffs looked like shamans or druids — the orcs were skilled in natural Spell Formations, which is what shamans and druids typically used.
There was another one, right under Malin’s feet. This individual, holding a human military crossbow, was presumably their sentinel set up for ambush, tasked with watching to see if any fat sheep or prickly prey approached from either side.
Unfortunately for it, it failed to detect Malin and the two girls dressed in ghillie suits moving through the woods. Its nearly two-meter-tall stature and its green skin, which starkly contrasted with the surrounding environment, gave it away.
Eventually, Lorrin and Melo ambushed it, and it was strangled to death there on the ground.