CH.149 Search and Destroy
“Here. I have a carriage waiting for us.” Paulina said as she led us outside.
We had finished breakfast and were on our way to the adventurer’s guild.
“You thought that far ahead? Nice.” I comnted. I was just going to summon Overdrive and use it, but this is nice. Overdrive would get so looks. It got looks in Alewatch and most people there seed to know about and my chanical carriage.
“Good morning.” Lua said, as she spotted us. We had gotten to the guild easy enough. We did get a few looks from the adventurers leaving the guild when we got out of the carriage, but we should be fine.
“You brought an extra person with you.” Alex comnted.
“Yeah. That kind of happened.” I quickly passed over that problem. “So, what are we doing today?”
“We took on a search and destroy quest on a potential orc settlent.” Tye answered. “There have been multiple orc sightings and we need to search an area for their settlent and destroy it if we find it.”
“An orc settlent. That should be a B-rank quest, correct?” Paulina asked.
“Yes it is.” Tye answered. “I know your party isn’t B-rank, but you can still be a support party, so there is no problem.”
After quick introductions that totally didn’t turn sideways after a minor freakout when Saber Fang realized that both Alice and Paulina are daughters of nobles, we accepted the quest and were on our way out.
I also learned that Paulina is an adventurer. And C-rank at that. Alice was a bit jealous that Paulina was higher rank than she is. Paulina said that she registered so she could go to a dungeon that is in a town close by.
By the way, the nas of the other Saber Fang mbers are, Arvin the great sword guy, Rhys the sword and shield, and the archer lady is Vivien, but she goes by Vivi.
We got onto two fast carriages that Saber Fang had secured for us. With them, we could get to the area that we were going to search in just a couple hours.
“Should I go ahead and do a scouting run?” I asked before we even got out of the city. With Gradius, I could fly over to the area and scout it out from the air. That way, once the others get there, we could go straight at the orcs, instead of wasting ti on the search.
“And how are you planning on doing that? Summoning a dragon in the city is not a great idea.” Tye comnted.
“I have other things than just dragons.” I said. “But I would need soone to co with as I don’t actually know our target area.” I added, hoping that Tye would instantly want to co with as we would be riding on a summon.
“Brian, what will you summon?” Alice asked.
“That spaceship that I summoned in the manor’s backyard back in Alewatch.” I answered. I think Alice saw Gradius that ti.
“What is a spaceship?” Tye asked.
“Basically a flying golem.” I answered. I know that is not true, but Overdrive is a golem carriage so Gradius can be a flying golem.
“Then why don’t we all use that?” Tye asked.
“Sorry, but it can only fit and one other passenger. But it should be perfect for scouting.” I said.
“Oh. Well, that’s too bad.” Tye said. “Could have made the trip faster.”
Well sorry that I don’t have B.E.S. Big Core yet.
“Gradius.” I said to summon my monster.
We had gotten outside of the main wall of the city and were in a clearing that was large enough to fit Gradius. Paulina had opened the noble’s gate for us with her dal. It was similar to the one I was given, but hers was gold.
“... WHAT IS THAT!?” Tye yelled out.
“Gradius. My spaceship.” I answered.
“No. No. NO! There is no way you can summon sothing like that. That’s not real!” Tye was in disbelief.
“... But it is real. So are we using it or not?” I asked.
“Of course we will use it. If it makes us do the job faster, why would we not?” Vivien asked.
“Then let’s get in.” I said back to her.
Vivien, the archer and scout of Saber Fang, was going to co with on Gradius. She had the best idea about our target area, so she was the obvious choice. I didn’t pick her because she is a girl.
I jumped into Gradius’ cockpit and turned around to give Vivien a hand, but she didn’t need it and instead just jumped up like I did. Jumping up like three ters feels a bit strange, but if I can do it, why not.
“Strap yourself in and make sure not to press any red buttons. Those are bad.” I warned Vivien. They aren’t bad for us, but for everything on the ground below us.
Vivien seed to take a look at the five-point harness and asked. “How do I do that?”
I turned around in my seat and helped her strap in before strapping myself in.
“Well be off.” I said to the others before closing the canopy. (Lua. Contact if sothing happens.) I added to Lua through our system link.
(Brian. Yes. Please do the sa.) Lua responded.
One of the ‘issues’ with this plan was actually finding our team again after we located the orc settlent, but with Lua there would be no problem. Well, more like between the two system supports, they could compare their map data and we could find each other that way.
“I think this should be the area.” Vivien said after just a few minutes of flying.
We had flown south, towards a place called wyvern mountain. The settlent we were searching for should be at its northern end.
“I see. Then let’s fire up every scanner this thing has and find our target.” I said, basically giving a command to Gradius. While I knew so of the buttons, I hadn’t studied them all yet, so I would still need to command Gradius either verbally or have Laura transmit my order with the mana control thod.
I hadn’t flown at high speed, as I didn’t want to overshoot our target. I learned last ti just how fast Gradius can be, so I’m not making that mistake again. Well, I probably will, but it will be on purpose, so it won’t be a mistake.
I now switched the ship to hover mode, so we could use the scanners Gradius has to search out our target.
“Is that it?” Vivien asked. “It’s tiny.”
We had spotted sothing that could be called a settlent. And only because Gradius has heat sensors.
“Well, there are at least six orcs there, so probably.” I said.
The ‘settlent’ was just a few logs that were propped up against a sheer cliff of a mountain, covered by so vegetation.
Well, I guess more advanced building thods would be too much for monsters. At that point they would be at the sa level of intelligence as primal humans. Actually, even this is not bad.
“We could do another search. We could find a larger one.” I offered.
“Yes. Let’s do it, just in case. I don’t usually have a chance to scout like this.” Vivien agreed.
As we got back to the search, I contacted Lua and had Laura send over the information about the location of the settlent. We also added a potential footpath from the road to the settlent.
“We will have to call it quits now.” I said to Vivien. “I can’t keep Gradius summoned for much longer.”
We had been searching for about ninety minutes, so I wanted to use the rest of my summoning ti to set us down into a safe spot.
We hadn’t found any other orc settlents, but did spot a potential kobold cave. At least based on the number of kobolds around the area.
We also went a little too close to the peak of the mountain and got a wyvern’s attention, but I just used Gradius to speed away from it. I kind of would have liked to see the face the wyvern made when we sped off at mach 2 speed.
“That’s too bad. But we did find our objective, so this is fine.” Vivien said.
I also had Laura mark a lot of potential spots where we could head after the orc settlent, in case we didn’t get enough blood from them. The main one being a group of 20 D-rank herbivore monsters that looked like evolved forms of the boars that live around Alewatch.
Of course we could also go after the wyverns at the top of the mountain, but we already killed over ten of them just a bit ago, so probably not the best idea. Better not to overhunt and all that.
“Took you a while. We were waiting.” Tye comnted after we got out of Gradius.
“Yeah, sorry about that. I really didn’t want to stop until we were sure the one we found was the one we are after, so we went a bit overboard.” Vivien admitted.
“So, how many orcs are we dealing with? And how was the settlent?” Tye asked.
“We spotted six, but there might be more. The settlent is just so trees leaning against a five-ish ter shear wall.” Vivien inford everyone.
“Sounds normal enough. On the smaller side though.” Tye comnted. “But it’s good that you found it. We can get this done today.”
“Hold. We are close.” Vivien said as we approached the settlent.
We had our battleplan all ready to go, even if so mbers of Saber Fang weren’t sure I could do my part. They expected that I would stay back and use my summons to fight, but I offered to go into the frontline with Alex and Rhys. For Alex and the others that saw holding off an orc during our escort quest, it wasn’t anything strange, but to Saber Fang that only knew as a summoner, it might seem a bit weird.
“Tye, you as well Brian, now is a good mont to summon sothing if you are going to do it.” Vivien reminded us.
“Sorry, but Ceart is still out of commission and Sally won’t be able to deal with orcs.” Tye said quietly.
Sally? Interesting na. I think Vivien told that Tye has the tiger and a salamander. So he nad the salamander Sally. Or do summoned beasts already have a na?
(They do, unless that happens to be their first contract. The first contractor is the one who nas the beast.) Laura said.
“And you, Brian?” Vivien asked.
“Sure, but how strong of a summon do you want? I might steal every orc if I summon sothing too strong.” I said.
I know I want to summon Dark Paladin, Laura even put a toploader onto it for , but it is overkill.
“... Well, sothing that won’t completely annihilate the orcs would be nice. We need their at so we can sell it.” Vivien said.
“I also need the blood.” Lua added.
“That’s what I thought. Then this will do.” I said as I pulled out a fusion monster from the collection. No. Not Dark Paladin. This one is one I have summoned before. I also got Millennium Shield while at it, but I’ll summon it later. “Flower Wolf.”
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