
“We have to prepare first.”
“All right I'll wait."
After they all finished their preparations. Ziruko decided to go straight to the Ezelic Forest.
A short while later, they had all arrived in front of the Ezelic Forest. It turned out that no ogre troops had made it out of the Ezelic Forest yet. But maybe the truth is not like that, they might be working out a plan before making a move.
"Listen, everyone, I'm actually not very good at making plans."
"It's okay, the important thing is we have a plan. Compared to we should attack is unclear."
"I think we just need to ambush them from every direction."
Azalea seemed to disagree. He immediately cut off Ziruko's conversation.
"Wait for Ziruko, then isn't it the same as suicide?"
"Then what else should we do? our number is twenty-five people, maybe there are a hundred ogres there, or it could exceed what I expected.”
"We can do guerrilla techniques."
"I don't think that technique will work. If this is the case, indeed the most to do is defeat all the ogres."
"Everyone is you, so it's up to you. But, instead I ask to attack from behind you guys. You guys have to protect me!"
"Why, Aza?"
"So long-range arcana is used, and I have to keep my distance from the ogre to cast magic."
"Well, I accept your request Aza. Is there anyone here who uses arcana again...if there is no, let's beat them!!!"
They headed straight to the west of the forest, Ziruko was sure the ogre gathering place was over there.
As long as they walked, they were already faced with an ogre. But, his ogrenya only amounted to one person.
"What's the ogre, are you surprised? I came here for your humiliation yesterday. Now I'll introduce my name, my name is Ziruko. The one who will become an emperor."
Azalea used her arcana, her arcana gave off a green-colored aura.
"Wind Slash"
The Ogre immediately lay helpless. Ziruko felt that he would win this battle easily.
"If this continues we don't need to take long to defeat them."
"Yes, sir, we're gonna make it."
After that, suddenly there was a bunch of ogres coming towards us. Ziruko and his group looked very excited, they immediately stormed all out the ogres.
Ziruko took out his weapon, and directly attacked them with his ability. Not to forget, Ziruko also gave encouragement to others.
"Everyone's spirit!!! beat them all!!!"
"Good Boss."
The fighting spirit of the Ziruko Group has not faded, the more ogres that come their spirit is increasing more and more. Some ogres are seen already lying on the ground. But there was one very important thing, Azalea was nowhere to be seen behind them.
"You guys, have you seen Azalea???"
"No boss."
"Then I'll look for him."
"Ready boss."
Azalea disappeared a moment ago. At that moment he looked very confident after defeating the ogre alone.
"If I knew the ogres were this weak, I wouldn't have run away from them at that time."
Azalea smiled looking at the current situation. Suddenly Azalea felt that there was the sound of ogre steps behind her. Azalea looked back, and it turned out that from a distance there were ogres running towards her.
Azalea felt confident that she could defeat all the ogres. He ran towards the ogre's army. He used “Wind Slash” to beat the ogres.
But right now, his magic did not inflict the slightest injury on those ogres. Suddenly the ogres burst into laughter.
"What's wrong with my magic."
"Are you confused young lady? do not compare us to our weak army. They were nothing more than ordinary ogres whose job was not to fight."
"It's too bad you're going to attack us from behind. Good thing I saw you guys."
"It is with confidence that you are young lady."
"I believe in my power, even if I lose. I believe that Ziruko will come to save me."
"Then try to prove it to young lady."
The ogres that Azalea faced had faster movements compared to the other ogres that Ziruko was facing. But, after seeing this situation Azalea could not run away anymore. He doesn't want to have to fight them.
Ziruko breaks into the front row in search of Azalea. He looks very panicked.
"Bos wait a minute!!!"
"What's up???"
"Bos you have a crush on him right, quickly find him. We'll keep them here."
"This is not the time to think about it. But, thank you everyone for worrying about Azalea."
Ziruko was already in the vanguard of the ogre army. But, there was something different about this ogre. They used an armor and used a mace made of stone.
Ziruko must defeat them all before these ogres attack his group.
"Come ogre, I'm getting excited. Hurry up against me!!!"
Ziruko had a little trouble fighting those ogres. But, he still had to endure all of them. At least until I see Azalea here.
Am I going to die here?
Then what about my dream?
Did I save my friends?
Those were all things that crossed Ziruko's mind.
Meanwhile, the state of Azalea is not so good. He had wounds on some parts of his hands. He's been fighting these ogres for hours. Despite the circumstances that might get him killed, he still hoped that Ziruko could survive against an ogre like this.
"I've started to feel exhausted, but if I lose here, I can lose them, especially Ziruko. I must quickly defeat these ogres."
Not long after that Azalea managed to defeat all the ogres that attacked her. He immediately ran towards the front row.
Azalea continued to shout out to Ziruko. But there was no reply from Ziruko. He immediately looked towards the surroundings, he saw the ogres and the group he formed with Ziruko lying on the ground.
"Did you guys see Ziruko???"
"It seems you've been fighting hard. I'm ashamed of myself being a man, I'm a man but I'm weaker than a woman."
"It's okay, in a battle men and women it makes no difference."
"I'm sorry, he ran there, looking for you. Let us help you!!!"
"Thank you. But it's okay, you guys just rest here."
Maybe this is something bad, it could be that the ogre there is stronger than Azalea had been facing all this time. He wants to make sure Ziruko is safe.
Not long before Azalea ran, she found Ziruko who was covered in ogre blood. At least for now his anxiety faded a little by seeing Ziruko doing well.
Azalea instantly cast magic, and directed it to the ogre who was in front of Ziruko.
"Wind Tornado"
The Ogre in front of Ziruko all bounced around. Ziruko turned to Azalea.
"Zimuko!!!"
"Aza, thank goodness you're okay. I'm worried about you, but I'm sorry I didn't get to see you."
"Are you really worried about me?"
"Forget what I just said."
"Let's get out of this forest, Ziruko!!!"
"What's right, our business here isn't done yet. If we dare to start, we must finish it."
Azalea was surprised to hear the words of Ziruko. He thinks that Ziruko is the one in charge.
"But you have to be self-aware, you're hurting, right?"
"Let alone Aza, all this blood is not my blood, but the blood of the ogres."
"It's clear it's Ziruko's blood, I can tell which ogre's blood is and what's human's."
Suddenly there was the sound of footsteps that made the ground they were on vibrate. Azalea started to worry about what was about to happen.
"It seems like this voice came from an even stronger ogre."
"You've been playing a lot..."
Seen an armored ogre carrying a mace made of iron. Judging from its appearance it was likely that the ogre was the leader of this army.
"Finally the boss came too."
"Well, it's only fate that determines Ziruko's fate."
"Just relax I can definitely beat him, Aza."
Without warning, the Ogre King swung his weapon at Azalea. Azalea was blown away by it, and Ziruko was visibly angry that the ogre was hurting Azalea.
"Hey King Ogre is stupid!!! how dare you do that to my partner. My principle is that I will never let women suffer."
"It is not you who are fools to have challenged this mighty King Ogre."
"If you hadn't invaded the city anyway, I wouldn't have beaten you."
"Unfortunately you know my purpose in coming here, boy!!!"
"This is an easy question for me. There's nothing else you want to do but to destroy the empire."
"Your answer is almost right, but my real goal is to take over the empire."
"You'll regret saying it."
Currently, Ziruko does not have arcana. There is no way to find it but to look for it. Maybe in the future arcana can be made.
Instead, Ziruko has quite strong physical strength, and also he mastered gaia. Gaia is a force that comes from the body of the wearer. His magic power comes from nature.
"King Ogre, I have a powerful blow."
"Interesting, I'll take your hit man. Please give up all your strength."
"Well if you force."
After King Ogre said that, Ziruko spontaneously gathered energy to the tip of his wrist. After that he smashed the energy he had accumulated into that Ogre King.
After being hit by that blow, King Ogre immediately crashed into the sky. Ziruko never imagined that his punch would be this strong. He thought maybe his gaia strength was his advantage.
Seeing that the leader had already lost, the remaining ogre troops ran towards the Ogre King was thrown. Because of this, the ogre cleaning operation can be completed without any casualties.
"We made it, Aza."
Azalea replied to Ziruko with a smile.