Chapter 132

“Moving Strike! Blood Blast!”
After connecting with the blue ogres with a traveling strike, Ming Hu immediately used Blood Blast. The blue ogres around Ming Hu fell with a short roar, and Ming Hu began to run toward the blue ogres again.
“It’s definitely a Blood Knight.
Soma, who had now killed all the red ogres, watched Ming Hu run toward the blue ogre.
“How did he do that?
It didn’t make sense. From the skills Ming Hu was using, it was clear that he was a Blood Knight, the third class of warriors. But as far as he knew, Blood Knights weren’t this strong.
“Is it a tooth?
Soma scanned the exterior of the Minghu.
“Everything looks good except the helmet… is it a Legendary item?
The armor, weapons, and shoes looked really good, except for the helmets. Soma looked at the items and thought they might be Legendary items, the higher tier of Unique. As Soma watched Ming Hu, Ming Hu finished off the blue ogres and looked at Soma and exclaimed, “I’m going to kill them all.
“It’s done!”
“Oh, yeah.”
Soma flinched slightly at Ming Hu’s shout, then picked up the dropped item and resumed walking at the front of the pack. As Soma walked along the path, he spoke to Ming Hu.
“They’ll be coming at you in droves now, and if you’re low on health or mana during the battle, you’ll need to hide. Tell me.”
“Yes.”
Ming Hu nodded at Soma’s words.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
A short time later, Ming Hu and Soma were walking along the road when they were stopped in their tracks by the sound of heavy footsteps ahead of them.
“Wow… That’s a lot.”
Ming Hu exclaimed as he looked at the enormous number of ogres, unlike anything he had ever seen before.
“…”
But Soma said nothing to Ming Hu’s cry. No, he couldn’t. Soma stared at the charging ogre with a determined expression.
“…What’s wrong?”
Ming Hu tilted his head at Soma’s unlikeable reaction, and then Soma swallowed once, frowned slightly, and opened his mouth to speak.
“Be careful.”
“What?”
Ming Hu replied to Soma’s words of caution. Be careful of what?” Soma continued in response to Ming Hu’s retort.
“It’s not a good time to show up… there’s a wizard ogre.”
“A wizard ogre?”
Soma’s words made Ming Hu look at the ogres again. Upon closer inspection, he realized that among the soldier ogres was an ogre that was taller than the soldier ogres and wore robes. But even when he saw the wizard ogres, Ming Hu couldn’t understand Soma’s reaction.
“What’s there?
Soma hadn’t reacted the way he did to the ogres for nothing. There was clearly something about the sorcerer ogre.
“My lord, if you can, please kill the wizard ogres first.”
“Yes.”
Ming Hu nodded as Soma continued.
“Here we go!”
Hearing Ming Hu’s answer, Soma rushed forward and shouted, “Battle!” And so the battle began. Once the battle began, Ming Hu realized why Soma had warned him to be careful and why his expression was so stern.
Whip
Soma swung his sword. A pillar of black fire rose, just as it had before. But as it appeared, a shield appeared around it. The flame exploded, but the shield prevented it from harming the ogres.
“I wonder if that’s why…
Ming Hu relaxed and began to run toward the sorcerer ogre. The sorcerer ogre, with his black pillar of fire, could be a problem for Soma, but not for him.
“Moving Strike!”
Ming Hu first approached the closest mage ogre with a traveling strike.
Puck!
-Cure…
[You have caught the ogre].
[The completed Ogre Power Gauntlet’s options increase Strength by 2].
With that message, the Wizard Ogre collapsed. Whether it was Ming Hu’s sudden appearance or the mage ogre’s death, the surrounding soldier ogres roared and charged at Ming Hu.
“Life Explosion!”
Woohoo!
Half of the ogres that charged at Ming Hu were knocked down by the wave. Ming Hu did not fall, but roared as the ogres charged at him.
As expected, the only ogre that didn’t fall was the Red Ogre. Ming Hu frowned and turned his attention away from the Red Ogre, moving on to find the Wizard Ogre.
Puck!
-Ku…uh
Ming Hu slowly began to find and kill the sorcerer ogres. Their numbers dwindled, and Soma’s black pillar of fire began to work its magic.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
The ogres began to dwindle in number at a rapid pace as the black pillar of fire continued to burst forth.
“Are there any more?
After defeating the Wizard Ogre, Ming Hu looked around. There were no more Wizard Ogres in sight. Ming Hu immediately began hunting the blue ogre.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
Soma’s black pillar of fire was untouched now that the mage ogre was gone.
“Whoa…”
Soma slaughtered the red ogres in an instant, unlike when the wizard ogres were present, and he caught his breath to see Ming Hu hunting the blue ogres.
‘I didn’t realize it would be so easy.
The last time he had come alone, he had really struggled with the wizard ogre. But now, it was too easy compared to then.
Sigh
Soma turned away from Ming Hu and looked at the surrounding buildings.
“The wizard ogre is here, and he’ll be here soon.
In a few moments, we would arrive at the center we had been waiting for.
“Done.”
At Ming Hu’s exclamation, Soma smiled and began to pick up the dropped items, then resumed walking in front of him. As he walked, Soma spoke to Ming Hu.
“We should be in the center any minute now.”
“I see, but…”
When they reached the center, Ming Hu looked at Soma and trailed off. Soma then looked at Ming Hu with a puzzled expression.
“…?”
“I didn’t quite hear you when you were talking earlier, with all the ogres.”
“Go ahead.”
Soma smiled as he realized why Ming Hu had slurred his words. At Soma’s words, Ming Hu quickly opened his mouth to speak.
“You said we should deal with the Wizard Ogre first if he’s yellow, and if he’s green, we should jump him first.”
“Yes.”
“What do the yellow and green colors do?”
Red ogres were immune to physical attacks and blue ogres were immune to magic attacks. There must be something special about the yellow and green ogres, too.
“Oh, now that I think about it, the ogre girls were swarming me when I said that. Just to clarify, the yellow ogre uses invulnerability. I’m not sure if they have any other abilities, but I’m pretty sure they use invulnerability, and the green ogres…”
Soma, his voice trailing off, shuddered and continued.
“It’s addictive.”
“…What?”
Mingfu, who had been so excited to hear about the yellow ogre’s ability to use invincibility, couldn’t help but question Soma’s words. As if anticipating Mingfu’s reaction, Soma smirked.
“So if you hit him, you’re addicted. If you get hit, you’re addicted.”
“…Isn’t invincibility more annoying?”
Ming Hu asked. I didn’t understand why I had to jump when I encountered the green ogre, since invulnerability seems more annoying than being poisoned.
“Well, the poisoning is enormous. You lose 2000 health per second. If you get tied up by ogres while poisoned, it’s a piece of cake, ha ha.”
“Oh.”
From Soma’s words, Ming Hu could understand why Soma had said that if he saw a green ogre, he should run. Ming Hu opened his character window and looked at his health, thinking.
“I don’t have to jump.
I understood why he said I had to jump, but after listening to him, I realized I didn’t have to. Losing 2000 health per second was not a burden to me at all.
“Okay, I’ll aggro off the green ogres when they show up, and you can just quickly grab the red ogres.”
“Yes?”
Soma looked puzzled at Ming Hu’s words, then continued.
“Minghu, you mean poison damage is 2000 per second?”
“Yeah, I heard, it’s not that much damage, I’m a bit of a tank, don’t worry, just make sure you get the red ogre quickly.”
“Oh, yeah.”
With that, Ming Hu and Soma continued down the road toward the center.
“What is it?
Soma thought, remembering the words of Ming Hu following behind him.
“How do you tank for that damage?
It didn’t make sense to Soma that he would be tanking when he had so much damage.
‘You seem pretty confident…’
I didn’t think it was a bluff. We had only known each other for a short time, but Ming Hu was not the type to bluff. That was the moment.
Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
“Uh, isn’t that a dressed-up ogre?”
Soma was lost in thought, but Ming Hu’s shout made him look up quickly. True to his word, at the head of the rushing ogres was the leader of the group, a giant ogre about one and a half times the size of the others. Ming Hu looked at the chief ogre and continued.
“It’s green.”
The lead ogre running from the front had green skin, and upon confirming it, Soma couldn’t help but furrow his brow.
‘Damn…’
Even though Myung-Hoo said he was going to tank, it wasn’t clear if he was going to tank or not, so Soma was secretly hoping for a yellow ogre.
“I’ll go first, red ogre, please.”
With those words, Soma turned to the alleyway beside him, watching Mingfu run headlong toward the ogres.
“How do I…
If he jumped now, he could save himself.
‘No, I’d rather die than be found out. I’d rather be dead.’
Soma thought for a moment, then shook his head.
-Humans, how dare you come here!
The cries of the chief ogre, who, unlike the other ogres, could speak human language, were heard. Soma gritted his teeth as he heard the Chief Ogre’s cry. Soma’s skin flushed red.
“Yeah, try it, huh?
Hearing the Chief Ogre’s shout, Soma rushes forward to deal with the Red Ogres, but is forced to stop in his tracks by what ensues.
-Billion… human guy.
The chief ogre was falling.