As soon as the elves were ready, we began to move the base.
However, since almost all of them were still wearing their clothes, the preparations were limited to informing them of the necessity and timing of the move.

However, it is quite troublesome to move nearly a hundred people.
Under the cover of darkness, Finola and the elves who were in charge were somehow leading the way, but if the orcs discovered this place and attacked, we would be in trouble.

With that in mind, I decided to take one action.

'Finola, I'll leave for a bit.

'Hmm ......? Yeah, that's fine, but where are you going?

'I'm going to take a little walk in the sky.

'What's ......?

I told Finola what I was going to do, hid behind a nearby tree, took off my clothes, and cast two spells.

The first is Night Vision.
The first is Night Vision, a spell that allows you to see things in the dark as if it were daylight.

The other is Metamorphosis.
The other is Metamorphosis, a spell that allows the wielder to transform into any animal, and after the transformation, the wielder can operate with the abilities of that animal.
There is a limit to the type of animal that can be transformed, but unless it is a huge animal or a magical beast, it is usually safe.

After gaining night vision with the Night Vision spell, I transformed into the form of a giant eagle with the Metamorphosis spell.
Then, with a flutter of my wings, I flew up and eventually soared into the sky.

(It's been a while since I've flown like this. ......)

(It's been a long time since I flew like this, hasn't it?) After soaring to a height where I could get a bird's-eye view of the trees in the forest from above, I rode on the wind and flew leisurely in the darkness of the night.

Looking up at the twinkling stars in the night sky, the events of the world below seem like a small thing.
But now, I did not fly in the sky to indulge in such sentimentality.

I wanted to see if there were any orcs around.)

As a giant eagle, I use my night vision to fly through the sky and scout the neighborhood.
I swam, circled, glided, and flew all over the place in the air.

As a result, we could not find anything that looked like a pack of Orcs near the moving group of Elves.
I guess that's a relief.

(And then there's .........)

After I finished scouting the area, I slowly glided across the night sky and looked in one direction.
The surrounding landscape is filled with forests for quite some distance, but there is one place in the forest area where there is a concentration of lights.

It was the area where Finola had told me that their village was supposed to be.
The distance to that place was probably about an hour on foot, and if I flew at full speed in my current form, I could reach it in less than two minutes.

And the fact that there is a light there means that there is someone there right now.
Orcs, elves...

I'd better go check it out.)

I decided to extend my scouting trip.
I flap my wings lightly twice, tilt my wings, and head in the direction of my destination.

I fly under the night sky, slicing through the rushing wind.
As your destination rapidly approaches, you notice a dark cloud looming in the night sky ahead of you.

(Are those rain clouds heading this way? ...... It's going to rain in a while.)

It wouldn't rain during the reconnaissance, but after that, it would be a bit of a problem.

However, that's not something we should be thinking about right now.
You should not be a fool who is thinking about unnecessary things and get caught in enemy territory.

As I continued to fly straight towards my destination for a hundred or so hours, I finally reached the sky above the settlement.

It was a large settlement of treehouses that looked like the Elven settlement where the Lefannians had lived, expanded several times in size.
Bonfires were now burning in many places on the ground.

And there, a nauseating and disgusting scene spread out like this.

Here and there on the ground of the village lay the corpses of cruelly murdered elves.
Their necks and limbs were broken, their heads were crushed, and their internal organs were pulled out.
Many of the corpses seemed to be men, even among the elves.

On the other hand, around the bonfires that had been lit here and there, there was a disgusting feast being held.
A large number of Orcs were laying waste to a large number of Elven women while emitting unbecoming pig noises.

The voices coming from the elven women were not the simple kind of charming voices.
All of them are obvious screams, sobs and screams of despair.

This is what I mean.
This elven settlement was attacked by an army of orcs and fell, many of them killed or captured.

And it was mostly the male elves who were killed and the female elves who were captured.
The captured women are used by the Orcs as an outlet for their desires or as an object for procreation.

(......) No! Calm down. What can I do if I go down there alone now?)

Seeing the ongoing tragedy, my heart is almost seized with righteous indignation.
I'm tempted to go down to the ground right now, undo the Metamorphosis, and burn the orcs to a crisp with the Fireball spell.

But no.
That's not enough.
Depending on how the Lords and Emperors move, there's a good chance they'll turn me into a piece of meat before I can retreat.

It was I myself who told Satsuki and the others that they shouldn't go too far into this matter.
But now that I see the situation, my will wavers.
My sense of reason fades away, and my sense of justice and my instincts take over.

I, who plead that such things are not what a rational human being should be, am reduced to a corner.
Violent emotions dominate me.

But to my relief, my inner intuition is functioning normally.

I can't do this.
I can't do this alone.
I can't kill all these people by myself, and I'm the one who's going to get killed in the end.
That intuitive realization stopped me from acting on my instincts.

But at least I would get a glimpse of the enemy's commander-in-chief.)

I made a wide circle in the sky and looked down at the world below, searching for my target.
There are only a few places where I can see through the trees from above, so I can't see the whole village.

But...

Is that...)

Among the bonfires burning in the village, we found a particularly large one.

There were a large number of Orcs and a proportional number of Elven women there, but there was no feast going on among them as in other places.

At the center of the circle was a particularly arrogant being.
The Orcs around him, who were two times larger than ordinary Orcs, were offering the Elven woman in their hands to him as if they were serving him.

I thought about descending to take a closer look, but then the being looked up.

It was as if it was looking at me in the sky, and also as if it was pointing at me to tell the surrounding orcs something.

That's more than just a keen intuition.

It may have been that I felt strange that an eagle was circling in the sky without migrating at this time, or it may have been that I was just wary of the eagle as a normal animal as a slight threat, but the caution in me warned me that I should not get too close.

(......) Just for now, just for now, soak up your position. You will be crushed.)

I was aware that I was getting emotionally involved, and I smiled in my mind and jumped away from the scene.