99-CHAPTER 98




After a while, it seemed that the whole battle had been settled.

That meant that they had defeated all the Orcs, which consisted of more than thirty of them and one platoon.

There were apparently no casualties on their side, and in fact, not a single person was injured.
This does not necessarily mean that the mission was a cakewalk, though, since a single injury could be fatal.

But in any case, the mission was completely accomplished.
An easy victory, I'd say.

I'm going to go to Satsuki and the others with Eileen to say thank you.

'Yo, Will. Have you finished up there too?

Satsuki, noticing us, raises her hand to greet us.
In front of her was the figure of an Orc General who had received many sharp sword wounds and had died.

At Satsuki's side are Mee and Cyril.
All three of them seemed to be unharmed.

'Ah. It looks like it's all over for you too.

'Yes. Well, that would have been easy too if the princess was here.

Satsuki said so carelessly, but Irene, who was standing beside me, shook her head.

'No, it wasn't that bad. He was strong. If I hadn't ...... been wounded, I probably would have had a harder time. If you get even a single blow, it could turn the tide, so I was on the edge of my seat the whole time.

'Oh, ......, seriously? Was he that strong?

'Yes, seriously. ...... Hey Will, the enemy general is stronger than that, right?

Irene looked up at me and asked me that.
What I saw in her eyes was not a feeling of excitement at the prospect of fighting a powerful enemy.

It was a sense of duty, a sense of mission, or determination.
What I saw in Irene's eyes were those feelings.

If I'm going to fight a higher enemy, I'm really risking my life.
And it's my job.
That's what Irene thinks.

But...

'Squishy...'

I put my hand on Irene's head and ruffled her hair.
She's a little too self-conscious right now.

'What are you doing, Will? If you do that now, my emotions will be messed up, so don't do that!

'......? Is that right? I don't know, I'm sorry.'

When I removed my hand, he glared at me with a resentful look, 'd*mn.
I really don't know what's going on, but I'm going to pull myself together and tell her what she needs to know.

'Irene, your directness is a virtue, but you should consider your position a little. Is this a situation where a princess of a country should risk her life?'

When I asked her that, Irene replied with a look of annoyance.

'Now ...... that's what I'm talking about! It doesn't matter if you're a princess or not! I'm not going to do that. I don't want to do that!

Irene's shout drew the attention of the surrounding elves to her.

Oh no.
It was inappropriate to ask this question, knowing Irene's straightforward sense of justice and honesty.
Whether or not it's the right thing to do from a social point of view and whether or not the other person will agree with it are two different things.

Also, I may have been a bit duplicitous.
If she had the intelligence to discard the small and take the large, she wouldn't be here now.
If we affirm her goodness, we must also affirm her stupidity, which is inextricably linked to it.

'...... Sorry, Irene, I misspoke. I'm not saying to abandon her either. But I'm not prepared to risk my life for it. I've got an idea.

What idea? Next time, we're going to capture a base, and the number of enemies there will be greater than this time, right? And I don't know if they'll play my game as well as they did this time. If I don't take down the top of the enemy by myself, there's nothing I can do... right?

Her perception of the war situation wasn't that far off from mine.
While I was calculating the war situation with theory, she might be sniffing out the situation with her intuition and sense of smell.

'Ah. If you're assuming a head-on collision, you're probably right. But that's not what I'm thinking of. I'm thinking of using the dimension gate spell.

A dimension gate.
It's an extremely high-level spell, one I couldn't cast until a few days ago.

The fact that I can now produce four magic missiles at the same time instead of three means that my level as a magician has increased by one level.
So it occurred to me, and I experimented with it last night before bedtime, and I succeeded in casting the spell.

The dimension gate is a spell that swallows up all living things within a certain range, centered on the magician, and isolates them in another dimension.
In doing so, of course, it also targets myself and my allies around me.

The duration of the effect is about three minutes, and once the time is up, all swallowed creatures will be returned to their original world.
That's all there is to this spell, but...

'...... I'll tell you more later. But that way, we don't have to leave them behind, do we?

'Yes, that's the plan. In the end, it's up to Irene and the others, but...'

'Okay, I'll leave that to you. And if that's the case, I'll trust Will.

Saying that, Irene made a fist and tapped me lightly on the chest.