Someday Will I Be The Greatest Alchemist?

Chapter 441: Are they making light of us?

Chapter 441: Are they making light of us?

I could tell that it was an immortal soldier in front of me by looking at its empty eyes.

?Sophia! Maria! They won’t stop till their heads drop to the ground!?

??Yes!??

I called out to Sophia and Maria, then I swung Ice Bringer, slicing the Immortal Soldier’s neck.

As I dodged the incoming sword, I cut its right arm.

The superficial attack was ineffective towards the Immortal Soldier. The man whose arm fell off, without showing any signs of feeling any pain or dread, attacked with his spare knife.

I stabbed the knife-wielding hand of the now one armed immortal soldier. His left arm froze, inhibiting his movements despite his intent.

?This is the end.?

I stabbed his throat with Ice Bringer and his neck froze. When I knocked him over with my spear, he fell and stopped moving completely.

I’d like to clean up the immortal soldier before the Black Ogre comes.

I glanced left and right to see how things were going, Tsubaki and Titan were wreaking havoc. It seems like the resistance of the organization was diminishing.

It was then. The Black Ogre roared and came running into my field of view at a speed that was unthinkable for a normal ogre.

?Sophia, Maria! Ill leave this to you!?

?Yes! Luck be with you!?

?Please leave it to me!?

I left the enemies in the front, which included the immortal soldiers, to Sophia and Maria while I confronted the Black Ogre.

It will be okay because Akane and Laeva were observing the entire battlefield supporting everyone appropriately. The few enemies that slip through from the front that were aiming for Akane and Laeva were defeated by Marnie and Lulu-chan.

After confirming all of my comrades’ situations, I sped up further towards the Black Ogre.

Buon!

The greatsword, which was prepared to match the ogre’s large build, was being swung with a swordsmanship unthinkable of a monster. Even as I felt weird about it, I easily avoided the greatsword.

Though the greatsword came in like a tempest, I continued to handle it with ease as I thought about why I was feeling this unease.

It wasn’t particularly excellent, but it was handling the sword very unmonster-like, and more than anything, I could feel resentment and fury in the gaze it was directing at me.

(Is it not just a higher species of an ogre?)

Thinking about something else during a fight leads to negligence, but I feel like I have to. Then, just when I thought for sure I was about to reach an answer, I understood the feelings dwelling in the Black Ogre’s eyes.

It was an organization that remorselessly exploits the use of an inhumane drugs that causes someone to be unable to feel pain and lose their own will. I don’t know what was forcefully done to this Black Ogre, but I do know that people can be turned into monsters.

Thinking about it, it was the same as those people in the Light God Faith. There were some monsters mixed into their troop during the war in the Savage Lands before.

?I’ll let you rest soon.?

I dodged the greatsword coming from above as I struck upwards with the spearhead of the Ice Bringer. The speartip of the Ice Bringer went towards the Black Ogre’s neck, and it indeed hit squarely into the neck.

?Master, do we kill that guy Or catch him??

After I finished bringing down the Black Ogre, Kaede landed beside me soundlessly. She pointed at the man who was the boss of the attackers, asking what we would do to him.

?You can just catch him. We have to ask him about the guys who attacked us.?

?Gotchaaa!?

Kaede did as I requested and happily ran towards the man in the back.

The moment he knew the attack failed, he ran away, but there was no way he could escape Kaede, and soon, the knight order would be coming in as well. There is no escape.

Looking around, the few enemies left started running away, but most of them were defeated by Titan and Tsubaki. In the middle, Sophia and Maria were safely annihilating the enemies up with Akane and Laeva’s[1] support. It was impossible for them to because the girls couldn’t go easy on the immortal soldiers or do things half-done. They would have continued to attack until they died.

When I looked behind Akane, there were a few enemies advancing, but Marnie and Lulu-chan seem to be finishing them off.

?Perform minimal healing on the survivors and restrain them!?

??Yes!??

?It’s annoying, but it can’t be helped. Those bunch of knights should hurry on over, seriously!?

Confirming that the battle has ended, I instructed everyone. Although Akane was grumbling, she began checking if the survivors were there or not with Lulu-chan and Marnie as escorts. I asked that she use minimal recovery magic on the people who weren’t dead and then bind their hands and feet.

?Master! I brought him~!?

?Good work.?

The man that Kaede had dragged in bound with her threads was glaring at me, seemingly wanting to say something, but Kaede seemed to have used her paralytic poison, so he couldn’t move, much less speak.

?Are you the leader of today’s attack? Well, you probably can’t talk right now, but I think you underestimated us too much.?

?………………?

He couldn’t speak, but I could tell from his eyes that he wants to kill me. I wonder what I did to make him resent me this much?

As I was thinking about the reason, I saw that the knight order’s horses and carriages approaching.

Now then, I have one more job to do.

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Footnotes:

1. Raw says Lulu-chan instead of Laeva