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"I need to find out what's going on....and fast!"
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Itachi landed in a crouching position after leaping through dozens of trees to arrive at the place he left the rest of his team. He stood up and started looking around for tracks they might have left behind so that he could find them.
'Its like they got overwhelmed by trolls,' Itachi thought noticing the visible signs of a fierce scuffle between his team and the trolls. 'Trolls can't possibly be able to deal with Mai and the others.....unless they're numbers were impossible for them to deal with. No even then it shouldn't be possible,' Itachi trying to figure out how everything went down from the little information he was provided.
"The signs of a battle continue on this way. The trolls or whatever they were fighting must have driven them away from here," Itachi stated out loud as he noticed the broken tree branches and deep trenches in the ground heading deeper into the forest.
He leapt in that direction without a moments hesitaion as he surveyed the uprooted trees in his way. 'For something like this to happen it has to be more dangerous than a troll,' Itachi thought with a grim expression as his worry about the team increased.
After a while of leaping around in the forest Itachi came upon another clearing that lead to a settlement of some kind.
'The signs of the battle ended a while ago, but I continued forward and ended up here,' Itachi landed elegantly on the ground as he thought this.
Out of nowhere a club, the size of Itachi himself, made of stone was beaming straight for Itachi. 'Again!?' Itachi widened his eyes as he pulled out his kunai in time to block the powerful mid-air projectile. The recoil of the block rattled his bones as he was skidding his feet across the ground to stop his momentum.
'I can't believe I didn't sense this until the last moment....just like last.' Itachi narrowed his scarlet eyes at the perpetrator. "An Orge. If there were multiple of these monsters then it makes sense why I couldn't find the others," Itachi muttered under his breath as he noticed the grotesque monsters appeared from their hiding spots to surround him from all sides.
—Note—
Ogres are inhumanly large, tall, and as well as a disproportionately large head, abundant hair, unusually colored skin, an appetite for human flesh, and a strong body.
They usually found in high A-rank or S-rank gates making them extremely dangerous to take on alone as one of them has the strength to match an A-rank hunter.
—Note—
'This is dangerous. I'm hopelessly outmatched in terms of physical prowess and they also have the numbers advantage which isn't good,' Itachi quickly analyzed the situation as he kept note of all the monsters surrounding him with his sharingan.
He then refocused on the Ogre that threw the club at him as it moved slightly to allow another monster to go past it. This Ogre was slightly different from the rest as it had unnaturally-colored skin, blue horns, and Japanese-style attire on. It was pulling something behind it, letting drag across the ground as it took few more steps before stopping a good 15m from Itachi.
'The mana I'm seeing from this one is different from the rest. Is...is that a person it's dragging across the ground?' he thought bewildered but his facial expression was as expressionless as a brick wall.
The strangely dressed Orge then swang it's arm to throw the person towards Itachi. He caught the body and identified them immediately as the A-rank tanker, Tanaka Kenjo.
Tanaka was bleeding from a cut under his left eye going horizontally towards the bridge of his nose, he was breathing very lightly as his beaten up body twitched everytime he exhaled.
Itachi bowed his head with Tanaka's body in his arms as he couldn't help but feel responsible for the state he was in. 'If only I saw what was happening sooner then maybe...' he thought gritting his teeth. "Wait! What about Mai? What did you do to her and the rest of my team?" he questioned the blue horned monster in futility as he knew the answer to that, but surprisingly it seemed to understand what he was saying and signaled to the Orge on the left of it.
Itachi looked to up as he saw multiple bodies get thrown his way, all of them impacting the ground harshly like thrown out garbage.
"I-Ita-chi is th-that you?" the extremely weak voice of Mai called out to Itachi. "Yes it is Mai," Itachi responsed in his stoic voice trying to shut off his emotions. "I-I don't think I'm go-nna make it. P-please get out-ta here....Itachi," she struggled with nearly every word because she was in so much pain.
Her arm was bent at an awkward angle, a ugly purple bruise on her eye, and a bloodied bandage wrapped around her leg.
"I'm sorry this happened to you," Itachi said sorrowfully as he stood up glaring at the now grinning Orge with his glowing scarlet eyes. His mana was slowly becoming visible as his anger reached a boiling point.
[Baa! Grr. Ragrr.]
The monster growled out as if trying to gloat to Itachi about his fallen comrades.
"But I can't run away when I can still fight," he said more to himself than to Mai.
The air in the dungeon was still as all the adversaries faced each other ready to kill each other at the slightest movement from the other party. Itachi closed his eyes for a few moments trying to process his feelings and then opened then again as his three tomoe Sharingan blazed to life.
The blue horned orge saw this signaled his other compatriots to attack which they did without a moments hesitation.
Two ogres jumped high in the sky and then soar down with impossible speed to crush Itachi with their clubs. Itachi saw all of this in slow motion because of his Sharingan.
[Fire style: Grand Fireball Technique!]
He spit out a fireball twice the size of the one he blew out earlier, it sent the two descending monsters wildly off course as they collided with the ground harshly with severe burn marks on them.
Ogres from Itachi's left and right then blitzed Itachi by switch sides and raised their gigantic clubs to demolish Itachi, but he took out his kunai in time to block the clubs threatening not only hius life but the lives of his comrades on the ground.
"Let's not fight so close to my team," Itachi gritted out as his feet where deeply rooted into the ground due to the recoil of the block. 'I can't keep blocking their attacks otherwise they'll shatter my bones. I need to take this fight away from the others,' Itachi thought as he looked at the fallen bodies of his comrades surrounding him.
[Genjutsu: Sharingan!]
He glanced at the eyes of his opponents with his sharingan as the stood frozen in place as Itachi slashed them apart in that same moment causing them to fall over dead.
The A-rank assassin then took out his shuriken and jumped into the air doing a flashy spin as he threw the shuriken out with deadly accuracy towards the remaining ogres. He then did a handsign as the shuriken exploded the moment they made impact with the high ranked monsters.
He landed and stared straight at the blue horned ogre which raised its grotesque hand launching lightning magic his way. Itachi widened his eyes briefly before side flipping out of the way causing it to fly past him and pulverize the tree behind him.
'I knew there was something strange about you. You must have been the one manipulating everything to get me to this point. You're a Magician,' Itachi glared at the magically inclined ogre from his kneeling position after the side flip to dodge its opening strike.
[Grrr! Raaa. Mmmh...]
[Genjutsu: Sharingan!]
'What are you trying to say!' Itachi thought as he used his sharingan to delve deep into the mind of his opponent to try and understand its speech.
(You're very impressive for a human. To be able to dodge my attack at a moments notice....I must commend you human.)
It said with a slowly forming grin on its deformed face. "It was you that was hiding the presence of all your allies wasn't it," Itachi stated more than questioned.
(It was although I must admit those eyes of yours were quite troublesome to deceive. But in the end it all worked out.)
"I was your target the whole time?"
(Not at first, our objective was just to kill all you humans. But after you spotted my archers with those eyes if yours then I immediately became interested. I had to ramp up my concealment spells so that my guards could kill you and bring your corpse to me for study.)
Itachi's face formed a slight frown on his face at the information. "This was all a ploy to get me by myself from the moment I spotted those archers through the treeline," he concluded from the statements of the Ogre.
(Yes. And now your eyes interest me even more because of this neat little ability to cast illusions of this caliber as well as freezing my high ranking guards.)
" I see.....then I just have one more question. Do you have a name?"
(Why would want to know that?)
"I want to know the name of the creature's life I'm about to end," Itachi said with stone cold glare on his face.
( It's Roncole of the Coalition between Trolls and Ogres, not that it's going to matter soon...)
Itachi just dispelled the genjutsu as he saw the cackling form of Roncole regain his composure and signal for his remaining guards to kill Itachi.
"We'll see about that," Itachi said as he moved to meet the guard head on.