The sword went slashing down at full speed but Souta was fast on his feet, he rolled out of the way of the blade that went smashing against the ground.
He thought he had successfully rolled out of the slash in time, but he was surprised when he found a huge cut on his left arm dripping with blood.
"Are you kidding me? How did an orc get to the first floor?" He fell to his butt trembling in fear, "I thought the 10th floor raiders had confirmed the first-floor safe".
Four more orcs popped out of the opening at the side of the wall, they all turned to see Souta who was still shocked at the sight of the three orcs coming from his back and the one orc marching towards him.
During his state of panic, he suddenly remembered the advice given to him by Miss Ai, his raid adviser.
"Listen Souta, if there's a monster you can't beat, don't be ashamed to run away" the words rang in his head over and over again in Miss Ai's voice.
Souta immediately took to his heels panting with every step he took, he began running for his life turning back occasionally to see the big orc charging towards him.
He took a sharp right and he wasn't so lucky this time, he crashed to the ground rolling over a couple of ft. before his body finally stopped moving.
Still on the ground, he turned around to see the orc dashing towards him, their feet shook the entire structure as their mouths started drooling from the sight of Souta's frightening position.
"I don't want to die" he yelled, scared to death at the thought of what those orcs might do to him, "Stay back, I don't want to die" He wiggled his dagger to the air, carelessly thrusting it left and right in fear.
Not wanting to become victims of these hungry monsters, he dashed towards one of the orcs stabbing it in the stomach, the orc stared down at him not feeling a single thing.
The orc smacked Souta to the side with its blade, the impact broke four of Souta's ribs, he coughed out blood when his back hit a wall and he fell to the ground.
He could no longer make out what is what anymore, he was already at the brink of death, he was a boy who had nowhere to run and his life was flashing before his eyes.
*Flashback*
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" Souta's grandpa asked, both he and Souta sat down in the open field, the field was filled with beautiful flowers and the sun rays only brought out the color and beauty of it all.
"I want to be an adventurer" he yelled in excitement, grabbing a stick that he found on the ground and slashing it around as if it were a sword.
"You want to become a great adventurer like your grandpa ay!" he picked Souta up, spinning him around.
"Nuh Uhn" Souta nodded negatively, "I wanna be better than you, so I can show off like you" he continued to wave his stick.
"Then promise your old man that you'll become the best adventurer there is, even better than me" he said.
"I promise" Souta patted the stick on his chest.
*Flash back ends*
"I can't die here, I won't die here" his vision was blurry because of the blood that had covered his eyes but he could still see the five orcs marching towards him.
"I haven't yet fulfilled my dream of becoming the best adventurer" he began to struggle to put in all the strength he had into trying to stand up. "I can't die here!".
He suddenly felt an immense amount of energy flow through him, he didn't think twice, he ran towards them grabbing his dagger from the ground, one of the orcs smacked his mace at Souta but he dodged it, he then jumped, stabbing the orc on his chest and sliding down opening the orc's guts in two.
Another orc appeared behind Souta and tried to slash him with its blade, Souta turned using his dagger to deflect the huge blade the orc was carrying, although he was able to deflect his dagger still broke in half as it was not able to withstand the force of the blade.
He hastily threw the broken dagger away and charged towards the orc, he landed a solid punch to its stomach causing it to crash to the wall behind it, he instantly picks up the blade of the second orc and uses it to slash two more orcs.
"That's four down" His hand was dripping with blood as he turned to face the last orc.
After witnessing the brutal way Souta killed all his comrades, it didn't want to end up next on the list, it began to run away, like a prey that just spotted a predator.
Souta ran away from the orc and was eventually able to catch up to it, he picked up his broken dagger as he continued his chase.
Once he had gotten close enough he leaped up into the air, landing on the orc's neck, he sat down comfortably and watched as the orc panicked trying to get Souta off him.
Souta spun his dagger and stabbed the orc's eyes continuously before tightening his thighs on the orc's neck and twisting the life out of it.
"I did it" he was panting so hard that he could hear the sound of his heartbeat, he was so exhausted but the happiness he felt at that moment surpassed it all, his body was dripping with orc's blood and anyone who walked in at that moment would know that a massacre took place there.
He made slow but steady steps back trying to head back outside, he was so tired and far gone that he even forgot to take the crystals from the dead orc.
"I'm coming Miss Hine, I did.." before he could finish what he wanted to say his body gave out on him, he fell flat on the ground and watched as his entire surrounding began to fade before he finally passed out.