A young man dressed in a blue shirt and black pants and a young blond woman approaches us. I look and them and say "hello, I am Daniel and this is Mark, I assume you guys are from another village in the tutorial".
They look at me and the young woman says "yes, but we need to move now before they send the army our way". I look at her strangely and say " by they you mean the orcs?". "Yes, now let's hurry"
We move with them to a far enough place before I hear large shouting I look back and far away a large group of orcs about 50 of them with around 7 orcs wearing the same armor as the one I killed are looking at the dead orcs body.
The young woman looks at me and says "lets move further". We move a little further.
"I am Sandra and this is Evan. We come from a village not far away from here" she pauses for a few seconds and says "the orcs have seized our village".
My eyes widen and I say "how the hell is that possible".
She looks at me and says " we met them a month after the tutorial began we killed some of their weak ones, when a whole group of them tracked us to our village a few of them exploded when they touched the barrier. Then they decided to surround our village, a few days later we starved, so we began to organize a strike team to breakthrough the orcs army, it was a suicide mission but it was the only option, their commander then stepped forward and drew some pictures of animals then it drew us delivering to them 10 animals, we thought that maybe we should hunt ten animals and they would leave but they wanted ten animals daily. So we now barely have anything to eat all our food goes to the orcs, we are out here to hunt food for them"
It took me a while to process all this information. Then I asked "do the orcs have a camp nearby?". She nodes and aays "yes they have a camp they number around two thousand and they have very strong commanders but I have never seen their cheif, what you killed was just a squad leader there are at least two ranks above him and then there is their cheif".
My face turns pale "shit" that means their cheif should be at least bear level 30. I could handle a strong opponent but never an army. We need to prepare. I look at Sandra and say "we can't help you". Sandra smiles bitterly as if she knew it. But I then continue " give us a month if you can hold on for a month we will wipe out the orcs"
Sandra's eyes widen "you say you can defeat an army of two thousand with your people alone in a month". I nod at her.
"Alright I hope you can do what you say there is nothing I can do anyways". They leave to search for some more animals and I turn to Mark "we need to up our strategy lets go back".
We return to the village and I deliver the news to them. I then meet with Oliver and I notice he is in a good mood "why do you look so happy?". He looks at me and smiles wildly "I managed to create a new skill called earth armor" its as name says he covers himself in earth like armor leaving the joint areas for mobility "its all thanks to you actually I got inspired by how you cover yourself in darkness". "No it is a total different story you worked really hard anyway good luck, I guess you are now ready to level up".
"Yeah take me with you next time I am going to give these orcs hell"
I check on Brian and find that he also finished his skill or skills, he learned how to cover his arrows in flams and he also learned how to change their directions slightly using wind magic, he can also amplify his flames using wind so there is that. "Looks like you are doing great you might actually get a very nice class"
Brian smiles at me "What do I say I am too awesome" he raises his bow and shots at a far tree but it misses and hits another behind it and I laughed loudly, Brian's face turnes red and says "I meant to hit that one". I look at him sarcasticly "yeah yeah of course"
Kane hasn't figured out anything but says he will level up anyway since he couldn't come up with anything. He just kept focusing on many types of magic trying to get inspired. I look at him and say "there is actually a very decent path called magic swordsman that focuses on applying magic to swordsmanship".
Kane sad expression brightens a little "I will do my best". "How about you train with me I will only use wind magic maybe you can learn something"
"Ok, thanks man I owe you one" we spare for a few hours and then I leave Kane is a man of little words but he works hard.
The people that most surprised me are Emilia and Frank, Frank is already level 9 since everyone's equipment is repaired by him but apparently he could also craft some leather equipment now. I look at Frank and say "although your path importance isn't very high right now once we return to earth you will be one of the most important people".
"I know, thats why I am doing my best to learn from this NPC before we return to earth but I am also enjoying this blacksmith path very much it is so interesting"
"Keep it up"
Emilia had me stunned for a few seconds she is now level 10 and choose the path of the druid where she can communicate with all types of plant and try to tame them. She asked me for a bunch of seeds when she heard about the orcs most of the seeds are for carnivorous plants, she gaines a whopping 50 attributes every level so she had me and Mark beat.
She also gained the skill heal where she uses mana to heal any creature. Apparently she will be our most important trump card in the coming battle, but as a downside to her path once she gets outside the forest she is very weak there is nothing she can do. Its not far fetched to call her a sitting duck.
"Emilia don't push yourself so hard you are already helping us plenty by making the forest as safe as possible"
She looks at me with determined eyes "I will help big brother defeat the bad guys, big brother always helped me when I couldn't move its my turn now" I hug her tightly although she maybe the most important person in the village she is my sister and I wish for nothing but to see her safe and not in danger. She hugs me back "don't worry about me I am sade in the forest you go beat the bad guys". If I was able to see her eyes I would have been stuned she has a murderous look 'anyone that brings harm to big brother will die'.
"Look at you two aren't you the sweetest" aunt Lara says to us. We break our hug "aunty Lara I can help big brother a lot now". "Yes you are a brave little girl, how are you doing Daniel?" " I am alright, how are you holding up?"
"I want to be useful somehow but I can't find anything to do everyone is helping with something but I am just useless".
"Don't say that aunt Lara you have helped me plenty already, how about this you used to make the best food I ever tasted Emilia can plant what you want and you can cook for us".
She smiles and say "that is actually not a bad idea there are some plants in the shop and the forest that can make very good dishes"
"No problem tell me about them and I will buy them as long as they aren't too expensive"
Afte chating for a while I take Oliver, Kane, Brian, and Mark and go to the orcs again we are going to whittle them down bit by bit while leveling up. We will also take some people with us when they are ready to level up.
Three weeks later, an orc scout finally found our village.