After killing the entire goblins, everyone decided to celebrate their victories except for our group. hayato and others were sleeping soundly inside the tent and some of them sleep inside the car, while I and David decided to chase the two members of an unknown organization, it took us three hours just to chase them, and still got away from us. The two probably noticed we were tailing them because of how many summoned monsters appeared while chasing them, although it didn't take us a long time to kill their summoned monsters it still slowed us down.
The reason why we chased them is to make sure they won't bother us again in our next mission because they attacked us when we were off guard, luckily David was able to stop them and I immediately helped him after sending a signal to me. We were able to land a hit on them while fighting although not life-threatening it was still enough to make the two be aware of our presence and not mess with us again.
After chasing them for 3 hours, we decided to give up on chasing them and went back to our base. We arrived at 6 am which was already early in the morning. I wanted to sleep but decided not to since there are still many things I need to do like finding medicinal herbs and creating another excuse after reading the letter from mei using the owl I summoned through magic.
The contents of the letter are obvious so I think there is no need for an explanation for that, then, I wrote on to the letter that we earned at least thousands of gold after finishing the first mission, with that, she didn't bother to send us letters again and just told us to give her half of the amount we gain in each of us.
Then at 8 am, I and Wilbur decided to find some medicinal herb since David told us to take a break for now because two of our mission was completed the third mission was to help the recovery of the village but since it was destroyed, we decided to ignore it.
"That's the plan but, I didn't think all of you to come with us finding a medicinal herb here," I said to all of them.
"Don't be angry with us, we just don't have anything to do there, and being together is much more fun, although David did not come with us because he has some things he needs to do with other leaders" said Takeshi with a smile and feel sad at David at the same time.
"Yeah, but why are Kimura and Aoki here too?" I asked out of curiosity to half-naked Aoki and Kimura.
I know these two were sent here by the person named yugitsu to observe our capabilities, they even made an excuse as a guard of their next leader, so I wonder why they came here, we are not gonna do something special here, it's just picking some grass.
"We don't have anything to do there too, and decided to come with you, also, we came here to pick some ingredients needed for our business" he answered while picking some herbs I don't even know if they are ingredients but I ignored it since there is nothing wrong with it.
"Well, feel free to do whatever you want to do," I said before I dive into the water to see if some medicinal herbs are growing under the water.
As I look under the water, I found some black plants growing, without any hesitation I picked them up and showed them to others since I don't know what they can do. "Do you know what these things can do?" I said while showing them a black color plant.
Others who knew about it, immediately replied that it was a poisonous plant that can paralyze a person for a short period.
"What the hell, you're going to pick them, and you don't know what they can do?" Aoki taunting me.
"Shut up," I replied in embarrassment.
Hearing that, the others laughed at me.
I'm only interested in things like this because I need them in case I'm badly injured when fighting strong enemies, and I'm not that strong compared to when I was in my prime.
Still, I picked all those poisonous plants for my experiment, and later on, I found some medicinal herbs that can help me recover from any injuries and plants that can help recover a person's magical energy.
After looking for 1 hour, I went back to see what others are doing right now, but nothing change those who came with us without any purpose are just talking about some trivial things.
While walking towards them, I noticed Wilbur coming back from another direction and seems to have gotten more medicinal herbs than me.
"Brother your back," said hayato after noticing me walking towards them.
"It's still not enough, so I need to find more," I said when I arrived in front of them.
"If you need more, I can share some with you," Wilbur said after seeing the number of herbs I got.
"No, you can keep yours, I just need them for experiment and we still have more time, so can you help me, Phil?" I reluctantly declined Wilbur's offer and asked for Phil's help.
"I can, so, what can I do?" He responded.
"I just need your ability to detect some area if there are more medicinal herbs there," I said.
"But, I'm only familiar with some herbs so, don't expect me to know every single one of them"
"I can help with that," said Wilbur as he showed us his book about all herbs we can see in a swamp.
Seeing the book he showed to us, I saw some herbs that I ignored earlier, I thought they were just some ordinary grass but after seeing the book I feel like an idiot earlier.
'So that's how he got so many herbs, he is very knowledgeable about herbs I guess I also need his help' I thought.
With that, I asked for their help and convinced others to help me find them too.
They agreed after asking for their help. After that, we traveled to a different kind of place and saw many types of herbs, with the help of Phil birdy's skill we were able to gather more herbs than earlier.
As we were taking more herbs, an unknown creature lurking nearby is peeking at us, as if he is waiting for his prey to come nearby, of course, I noticed it but I pretend that I didn't, and I can also tell from Phil's reaction after seeing it from above.
Meanwhile...
Both Aoki and Kimura went back after catching some food they can eat, but they were already too late, everyone was already gone and went to another place.
"I think they left without reminding us"- Kimura as he picks up Tommy's garbage he left.
" if something happened to Takeshi, Takashi San won't let it slide and might kick us from the clan," said Aoki as he imagined all the things he will receive if something happened to takeshi.
"Don't worry about that, his friends are strong-" Kimura's words were cut as a green giant figure two times the size of a human attacked them.
Bang...
The ground shakes as the hammer hits the ground and left a crack. Kimura barely dodge it since he was surprised by this sudden attack and throw himself into the water nearby.
"Are you okay?" Aoki worriedly looked at kimura.
"You should worry about that thing that attacks us just now"
Kimura immediately stand up and unsheathed his katana, he looked at the figure that attacked him just now, his expression turned ugly as he recognized the creature.
"Why are there so many orcs here?" He said as his expression turned uglier, even Aoki's face sank but he immediately pulled out his sword.
Both of them are not scared of orcs but the reason why their reaction is like that is because of the number of orcs, there are almost 30 right in front of them.
...
We gathered around per my command, some of them are confused while hayato, Phil, and gallahan already know what I'm going to tell them so they protected us just in case the monsters are going to attack us while I'm telling others what was going on.
Without any hesitation, I told others about the current situation, that monsters around 70 of them are surrounding us.
After telling them, The three were surprised to hear this. Takeshi who suddenly remembered about the other two got worried after hearing what I said.
I want to tell Takeshi to stay calm but nothing would change even if I told him, nonetheless we still hold our sword and created a formation to defend ourselves from our enemies.
I take the front while hayato and gallahan are on the other side and Phil on the back to defend ourselves from the enemies in all directions.