Chapter 145

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<Saving a caged human
The soldiers who scouted into the ogre city for preliminary research and the humans who were reported missing are currently imprisoned within the city. Rescue the imprisoned humans before the slaughter begins!
[Rescued: 2254 / ???]
Time remaining: 6 days
Difficulty Level: A
Quest Reward: Saves X Helioca Merit 5000
After checking the quest, Ming Hu looked at the delay and said
"I only have five more turns to go."
"Yeah, I still can't believe… I still can't believe it."
Ming Hu replied with a broad smile. Ming Hu and Jian Chen began to walk to their next destination.
Jumbled
"Delay."
"Huh?"
"What time tomorrow?"
Delay's face flushed slightly at Myung Hu's words.
"My.tomorrow? Why?"
"You said you'd be here in three days, so I thought I'd go tomorrow. Are you free tomorrow?"
"Oh, no, no, no, come tomorrow!"
"Yeah, I'll be there tomorrow."
With that, Ming Hu and Jie Li continued to talk, and soon they were able to reach their destination, the prisoner of war camp.
"…?"
"…?"
When Ming Hu and Jie Li arrive at the prison camp, he is puzzled, for there are no prisoners or ogres to be found inside, only a bunch of cages and no ogres to guard them.
"Am I in the wrong place?"
Ming Hu glanced around, shook his head, and muttered, but then shook his head in disbelief at the delay.
"No, it's right here, and there's a cage."
"Right, but… why isn't anyone there?"
The cage was supposed to have NPCs in it and ogres guarding it, but the cage was empty and there were no ogres in sight.
"I hope I didn't come to the wrong place."
This was clearly a prisoner of war camp.
"Should we go somewhere else?"
"Yes."
Strange as it was, there was no reason to stay, so Myung-Hoo and Delay walked on to their next destination.
"W-what?"
"…"
But the next stop was no different. There was a cage, but it was empty, and not a single ogre in sight.
"Is there something…? Don't you think there is?"
To have this happen twice in a row, Ming Hu looked at Jie Li with a look that said something was wrong.
"Yeah, that's really weird."
Jie Li nodded, agreeing with Myung Hu.
"Let's just… Shall we go?"
"Let's do it."
After a brief pause, Minghu and Delay started walking again.
"…"
"…"
Arriving at their next destination, Minghu and Delay were speechless. It wasn't because the cages were empty or devoid of ogres like the previous POW camp, but because they were filled with NPCs and guarded by ogres.
"What's all this…
-Currrrrrr!
-Currrrrrrrrrr!
The problem was the number of ogres. The number of ogres guarding this place was very large. It seemed that all the ogres that were supposed to be in the prison camps we heard about earlier were here. They weren't the only ones.
'And… That user is…'
"Hey, Mr. Famous, it's been a while!"
Radis, himself dead, waved to Ming Hu and called out.
Sigh
Ming Hu looked at Radis, then turned his gaze to the huge man beside him, who stared at him silently. The man's head was topped with horns.
"Is it a boss monster?
The Revenia that Delay had killed earlier had horns on her head, similar to those of a man.
'So. Temus?'
The boss monsters here were Revenia and Temus, the leaders of their respective factions. Revenia is dead, so it's Themus who's left, which means that the man staring at you is Themus.
Swoosh swoosh
Ming Hu and Jie Jie looked at each other, and after a moment's glance, they turned back to Themus.
"Let's get started. Crazy"
"Huh?"
"Oh. I used a skill."
"Uh-huh"
After using Madness to increase his attack speed and movement speed, Ming Hu cleared up the misunderstanding and began to run toward Temus. At the same time, nine tails emerged from Delay's ass.
Smack Smack
Countless hearts, white beads, and white salt began to appear around the fluttering tail. Delay looked at Ming Hu.
"Moving Strike!"
Ming Hu moved to attack Themus with a moving strike, but Themus easily dodged Ming Hu's attack and stepped back.
Sigh
As Temus stepped back, Ming Hu quickly turned his head to look at Radis, who was beside him. Radis looked at Ming Hu with a puzzled expression.
"Traveling Strike? It's a warrior skill!
The reason Radis looked at Ming Hu with a puzzled expression was because of the skill Ming Hu used. It was a moving strike, a skill that could only be learned by becoming a warrior.
'Surely blacksmithing is a skill that can't be learned…'
There was one skill that the blacksmith could not learn, even if he had obtained a skillbook, and that was moving strikes. Radis paused for a moment to consider what was going on, then saw Ming Hu's fist coming at him and quickly dodged it. No, he thought he had dodged.
[You have been attacked by user 'myunghu'].
[Enter hostilities with the party of user 'Ming Hu'].
[Killing a hostile user in a preemptive strike does not increase your offender count].
[Reduces death penalty by 50% if you are killed by a preemptive strike].
"Huh? What? I dodged it!
It was a close call, but I managed to dodge it, but despite the dodge, a message popped up and my health was drained.
"Emergency Move."
Radis used his skill and quickly slipped away to where Temus was. Ming Hu looked at Radis with regret.
-Currrrrrr!
-Cool!
Then he turned his gaze to the ogres running toward him and shouted, "Ogres!
"Blood!"
After using the blood puddle, Ming Hu quickly charged at the elderly ogres around him. It was then.
-Cool!
There was a roar louder than any roar I'd ever heard, and at the same time, a message began to appear.
[Themus, prince of Ouka, is furious].
[Ogres' stats are increased by 30%].
[The Book of Seals was used by Themus, prince of Ouka].
[The special option for 'Gloves of Muneth' is sealed for 2 hours].
.
.
[The Book of Seals was used by Themus, prince of Ouka].
[The special option of 'Frost Armor' is sealed for 2 hours].
Frowning at the constant stream of messages, Ming Hu turned around and headed into the lag.
"Life Explosion! Blood Explosion! Earth Flip!"
Ming Hu, who had fallen back to take out the ogres with his range skills, looked at Jie Yi, and as if Jie Yi had been waiting for him, he began to unleash his skills.
Boom! Boom! Suck!
"Huh, I'll go in after the skill.
Ming Hu decided to re-enter once Delay's skill attack was over, but the ensuing situation left Ming Hu in a panic.
Bang, bang, bang, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
"…not done?
To your dismay, Delay's skill attacks were not over. Jie's skill attacks continued unabated, rapidly reducing the number of ogres. After what seemed like an eternity, Delay's skill attack came to an end, and Delay looked at Ming Hu and said, "I'm done.
"Ming Hu, I'm out of mana."
"Uh-huh."
Ming Hu turned his gaze to the ogres and saw that they had run out of mana. The number of ogres was drastically reduced from the beginning.
"Only the blue ogre remains.
Not a single Red Ogre was to be seen, all slain by Delay's relentless attacks. Ming Hu smiled at the absence of the Red Ogre and turned to see Themus and Radis standing beside him, looking at them in confusion.
Dada Dada Dada
Ming Hu began to run toward Themus and Radis again.
-Courtesy
Puck!
-Ku…uh
-Can't go…
Puck!
-Ew… human…
The chief ogres and ogres blocked his path, but they were not red ogres, so they were no problem, and Ming Hu quickly closed the distance between him and Themus.
"…what is it?
As he approached Themus, Ming Hu could only shake his head as Themus looked at him with a smile.
"Are you crazy?
It was unlikely that an NPC would be insane, especially an NPC named the Prince of Ogres, but with most of his men dead, it was a plausible story.
Sigh
Ming Hu continued to run and glanced at Radis. Their eyes locked, and Radis quickly pulled away from Themus, dumbfounded.
"Get it done as quickly as possible.
As the radix fell, Ming Hu looked back to Themus and thought, and soon he was right in front of him, and he quickly extended his fist.
"One punch!"
Boom!
Temus raised a golden shield with strange symbols and blocked Ming Hu's fist. A huge boom rang out, and at the same time, Ming Hu could see.
[He is deceased].
"What?