With our roles for this battle decided quickly, we began our subjugation of the Blue Ogres.
âLetâs go! Iâll attract their attention so defeat them in the meantime alright! [Roar of the Guardian]!â
Ralf rushed ahead and stood right in the middle of the two before activating his skill.
As if hooked on bait, both Blue Ogres roared and began walking towards Ralf to attack.
âSnow, can you beat the one on the right by yourself?â
âAurf!!â
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When I pointed o the right Ogre and gave the instruction, Snow gave a howl and rushed in to attack it.
Normally, making a Silver rank monster take on a Platinum rank monster would be a a stupid thing to do butâŠâŠ..
Perhaps it was because its fur was all white, but Snow rushed in towards it target with such a high speed that it was difficult to even keep track of it with your bare eyes.
Of course, the BlueOgres that were completely focused on Ralf would have no way to react to such speed, and soon enough a close ranged Ice element slash attacked the Blueogre.
And while itâd didnât kill the Blueogre in a single strike, the slash still tore deep into its chest to its belly in a line, and the BlueOgre looked astonished from the sudden damage.
Only now did it finally look away from Ralf to try and find whatever it was that had attacked it butââ-it was already too late.
Right after launching the ice slash, Snow ran around the Blueogre and had already positioned itself behind the enemy.
Unable to deal with the rapid and deft movements from Snow, the Blueogreâs defenceless back got lunged at by Snow with its sharp ice covered fangs, and instantly, ripped its neck apart .
âŠâŠâŠ..Snowâs strength was so great that even I just stood there watching it amazed.
I really couldnât fathom how rapidly and how much Snow was growing as time passed by.
A while back, I tried to mock Ralf that Snow might be stronger than him but honestly, right now, even I might have trouble keeping up with Snow.
Reenergizing myself, I began my charge at the other BlueOgre that was currently being held at bay by Ralf.
I activated 4 skills and approached my target without getting noticed.
The best way to take it down was with a single clean strike while it was completely focused on Ralf still.
Without making any noise, I swiftly moved to the BlueOgreâs back.
And to not get shown up by Snow, I launched an attack to similarly sever its head with a single attack.
[Gale][Strong Arm][Hard Hit]
I activated three more skills after taking the enemyâs backââand then swung my steel sword with full strength.
My movements were perfect and so was the sensation of blade cutting through its neck.
Unable to sense me even to the very last moment, its head flew in the air as my sword slashed cleanly through it.
While the head was still falling , the severed head finally looked me in the eyes.
Its expression revealed that it still had no idea what had happenedââ-and once it finally noticed its body still standing further away from its head, it finally realized that it had diedâŠâŠâŠand its expression became extremely distorted as the head finally crashed into the ground.
This was my first time using this steel sword that I bought at [Ichiryuu] against an actually strong opponent and Iâm happy to say, that this sword felt incredibly easy to use.
It gelled well with my skills, and I was able to execute an attack that wasnât inferior in anyway to Snow.
I cleaned off the blood and sheathed the sword back and walked towards Snow and Ralf to praise and thank them both.
âRalf, good job drawing the aggro from both. Snow as well, that was a great attack. Had me completely stunned as well.â
âAwoo!â
Snow howled happily and began wagging its tail as it came to nuzzle against my body.
âNo no! what do you mean âdrawing aggroââŠâŠâŠboth you killed them instantly, I barely got to do anything! Snow and Chris, both of you are way too strong!â
âThat was only possible because neither of them noticed me or Snow till the very end. Not to mention, Ralf did you find blocking their attacks hard?â
ââŠâŠâŠ.Well no, it barely felt like I was in danger even! Each and every attack of their was below half in strength to Carloâs. Damn, did we really get that strong?â
âWeâve grown rapidly but weâre still far from calling ourselves âtoo strongâ. Remember, we came to Edestor to get even stronger after all.â
Thatâs right. If you get complacent from your current strength, youâll only end up stagnating and stop growing further.
Itâs because we have always been looking ahead and keep on training hard that weâve finally made it this far and with such speed.
But we need to still keep aiming for the top, and keep growing even more.
âââ-Oi oi oi oi ! Are you kids really gold rank!âŠâŠ..Instantly killing two Blue Ogres, thatâs something not even Platinum Rank adventurers can do you know!?â
âWell this was a humanoid monster which definitely worked in our favour. But, at the same time, this was not a fluke either I can tell you that much.â
âWell yeah I watched the battle with my own eyes so I can tell that this wasnât by chance! I had intended to help you kids out but I might really be the one whoâs gonna get helped here.â
Bors spoke seemingly genuinely surprised.
He must have gotten fired up from seeing our battle as while he spoke self-depreciatingly, his eyes were lit up with vigour.
âAnyway, we need one more to finish the request. But since we can hunt more and earn more, letâs hunt as many as we can butâŠâŠâŠBors, what do you wanna do?â
âOf course we hunt Blue Ogres for another 2 hours! After that, the monsters that appear here change so we need to leave the mountain quickly afterwards though!â
âGot itâŠâŠâŠâŠas for the âmonsters that appear here changesâ, is it a really dangerous monster?â
âNot a lot of dangerous monsters show up here in the foot of the mountains but, the miasma that gets released is very dangerous! And that miasma gets thick about 4 hours from now. Also the monsters that show up changes after 2 hours is also because of the miasma as the ones with strong perception skills climb down the mountain during that time.â
Changing monsters, MiasmaâŠâŠâŠ.this really isnât something that happens in a normal mountain, is it?
Also, this may sound obvious but man Bors was really knowledgeable about these things.
As expected of a 20yr veteran adventurer living in Edestor I suppose.
Now I havenât seen him fight yet however butâŠâŠâŠI wonder if weâll get to see that now that weâve shown him our ability.
âNext, Iâd like to see Bors fight as well. Would that be okay? Of course, weâll support you properly.â
âI donât think itâll be anything exciting like what you guys showed me, but sure!âŠâŠ..Allow me to show you what my experience has taught me even if you made fun of it!â
âI didnât make fun of it though. But sure, Iâll look forward to it.â
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So next up, weâll see Bors fight up front.
At first I wasnât really interested and us defeating everything would be much faster obviously butâŠâŠ.
His detection skills were the real thing, and he was even able to completely follow our battle with the Blue Ogres from afar as well.
From what my skills have shown me, Bors shouldnât be very strong but then again, I recalled Alyazi-san never had a strong presence either, so I want to see him fight for real before coming to conclusions.
If there is even a little I could learn from him, I absolutely will do that.
Rather than watching the most boringly strong people fight with brute strength, itâs often the weak ones that are aware of their own limitations and learn to work around it that give the best ideas and inspirations to grow even further.