Isekai Restaurant
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Chapter 12: Battle of the Ogre Village
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- Silas -
"From what Great Sage has analysed, the Orcs are under the effect of the Unique Skill: Starved. It is also what's granting them the ability to adapt to new situations by consuming the flesh of others. This Skill is unique to the Orc Lord and so finishing him off is our top priority."
We nodded at his analysis.
"The strongest one here is the fat clown. After that is the Orc Lord and then the bird head. Our first priority is the Orc Lord. I could take him down but I have doubts that the bird head and the clown will not let me do so. I could take on the bird head but the Clown would be too much for me." Rimuru finished.
"And all this is not even considering the orc army." Ainz added. "Well, I could keep them busy but that would require some time on my part but that still leaves us with the clown."
I opened my mouth here. "Well….if it's just delaying him for a while, I could do so. I am not sure I can kill it off though." I added.
"Are you sure, Silas?" Rimuru asked.
"Yeah, I just have to play the defensive battle style for a while. Moreover, it doesn't look like the guy can fly so stalling him would be difficult but not impossible. Just make it quick though. I am not sure if I could hold him back for long."
"You don't have to worry. I will only need fifteen minutes to engage the army. I will come and back you up after that." Ainz added.
"Got it. Fifteen minutes should be doable." I nodded.
"Alright then, let's get to work. Ranga, go and hide in Silas' shadow and protect him. Great Sage, connect with Silas' sage and keep an eye on him. I can use my trump card in case things go south." Rimuru shouted and just around this time, the ice wall started to crack.
"Hai, my Lord." The wolf answered as he jumped into my shadow.
Almost immediately, I sensed a presence trying to connect to me and allowed it access. It wasn't the first time so I was already used to it.
I looked around to see the clown using a roll type attack, which looked like something straight out of Pokemon to ram against the wall, shaking the huge wall with every hit.
- Rimuru -
He shot forward, using Water Blades to cut a path in front of him. The orcs were beheaded while the water swirled in the air forming many rain type droplets and freezing mid air, while the bodies of the orcs lit up with a purple-black magic circle and large Death Knights rose from them.
"Great Sage, guide the attacks to hit the vitals of the orcs. Target their eyes."
They had tried this move several times during the past two weeks when all three of them tried to create an ultra combo to fight a raid boss level enemy if they ever met anyone. It led to the discovery that Great Sage being a Skill evolved from Sage could connect to it with Silas' permission and use the extra computational ability to guide the magic attacks of Silas.
The guy was a lovable cutie but that was only till he fought. It showed him why he was a Devil. While using the Ice Devil Slayer magic he fought like a beast but it was his Water Magic that could send chills down anyone's spine. He used Water in ways that would ensure the most painful deaths to their enemies and yet used the least amount of magicules.
For example, he manipulated the water in a large bear monster's eyes and created an ice needle which pierced its brain, downing the massive beast in a moment.
He further reduced the use of his Magicules if the water and ice were provided by others or there was a source nearby, which is why, when fighting together, Ainz always surrounded him by Ice and Water elementals and he used Water Blade.
And now, with a field surrounded by ice, he was on his home turf. Whenever he got low on magicules, he just ate some ice and recovered.
Seriously, the Slayer Magics were such utter cheats. That's why when he said he would distract the strongest monster in the group, none of them even flinched, despite the huge disparity in both their powers.
Ainz immediately summoned some elementals to keep the birdface occupied.
The biggest orc roared and jumped to slash with his cleaver towards Rimuru. The birdface tried to attack but was distracted by the elementals. He parried the attack of the orc and used fire of Ifrit to burn through his cleaver and slashed towards the orc's face.
The orc resisted with reddish black tentacles of energy and countered him. They clashed with each other with injuries slowly piling on the orc.
It seemed injured already due to the previous fight with the ogres and was thrown backwards with a strong blast. Without giving it any chance to get up, Rimuru created a magic circle and blasted the area with a flame pillar. Immediately afterwards, the entire area was rained down upon by metre long icicles. Yeah, that should keep it down.
He turned towards the birdface who had defeated two elementals.
The birdface was shooting red spheres of energy like bullets all over the area to overwhelm the enemy but Rimuru could tell that it was not specialised in fighting.
The attacks were nothing to him because he could just Devour the energy directly with his slime physique.
He punched the birdface's stomach and it shot towards the same place as the Orc. What followed was a rain of several spells from Rimuru, the ogres and the elementals.
Silas had changed to target the clown.
- Silas -
Connecting to Great Sage was like having a super advanced AI in my head. I wonder if Tony Stark felt like them when he was using the Iron Man suit.
"Did you analyse the Skill of the Clown?"
'The Clown is using a Unique Skill called Amplifier. It amplifies the already strong physique of the monster, allowing it to do attacks beyond his level. By an estimate, it is as strong as a Demon Lord Seed level monster and can fight a Demon Lord Seed on equal ground with the Unique Skill.'
Demon Lord Seed…
Son of a…
Rimuru had explained the power levels of monsters in his world. The funny thing is that not even he knew what the divisions were and had to ask his Great Sage Skill when Ainz asked him the question.
Ainz was the type of guy who would read the whole guide book before starting a game while Rimuru was someone who jumped in to enjoy.
It was the basic difference between their characters and that's why they kept each other in check.
Demon Lord Seeds are monsters who could become True Demon Lords. The Demon Lord Seed not only showed that they were stronger than the rest, it was also a mark of Kingship, something which qualified them to become rulers.
Still, I don't need to kill it, only delay it for a while.
While the Ice Devil Slayer Magic was good, it was mostly brute force techniques. I preferred finesse in my techniques. It did have the effect of boosting the quality of my ice so that was always a plus.
The Water Manipulation Skill I had gained from this world complimented my Ice Magic very well.I controlled the water in the area and pelted it with water droplets. My normal icicle to the eye was not working because of its magicules protecting him. The attack was useless as it just bounced off his body but also told me that there were no weak spots to take advantage of.
Let's try something new.
I did the same move again and as expected, the clown didn't bother to dodge. This time however, I had infused the Ice Devil Slayer Magic in the attack and the attack pierced the Clown's eyes. The attacks on the rest of his body were still ineffective. That's one tough skill the guy has.
He fell on the ground and grunted in pain and looked at me in anger. He grunted before jumping into the air and rolling into a ball.
He even neglected the ogres he had been fighting to try and bash at the ice wall on which I was standing.
The way it attacked reminded me of the Rollout attack from Pokemon which got stronger the more they rolled.
He was bashing straight through the Death Knights which Ainz had created to fight the orcs as if they were straw targets without any kind of resistance.
Thankfully, I knew the way to handle it.
The clown looked like he was short tempered and harassing him with attacks which didn't cause any damage, especially after I had pierced his eyes but made it angry and gave up any of his enemies to solely concentrate on me.
He started attacking blindly, trying to topple the ice wall to get to me.
I manipulated the ice to make trenches around the area in the path of the rolling clown. And created a lot of inclined planes of ice on its path. He got caught on one such inclined plane and was thrown up in the air, in a direction away from me.
This slowed its momentum by a lot and gave me an opportunity to blast him with ice on all his joints. Great Sage can do a very great job of guiding attacks.
I concentrated mainly on his joints to cause any injury to slow it down and finally to land a heavy blow, I took a deep breath.
"Ice Devil's Rage!" The roar took the form of a beam of icy energy and blasted the clown into the ground.
The place where he crashed was frozen as a tower of ice formed in the area. Great Sage had however already analysed that the attack wouldn't take down the monster so we had to prepare for more.
"How long, Ainz?"
"Five minutes more."
Five minutes.
Okay.
Sure enough, the icy tower cracked slightly at first and then completely shattered as the clown howled in anger.
"Ogres." I shouted. "Attack the clown with fire when I command."
The red haired leader of ogres agreed and stood beside me, waiting for my order.
I took control of the ice on the ground and the wall and pushed my Demonic Power into it, freezing the limbs of the clown. "Now!"
The entire area was drowned by a shower of flames, with the guy beside me taking the lead.
A massive pillar of flames rose to the sky.
"Is it over?" The red haired leader asked me.
His answer however came from an entirely different place.
A roar resounded in the area as the flame pillar was dispersed.
The clown was releasing a massive amount of magicules but the injuries on his body were visible. He was hurt.
But my attack wasn't over yet.
His eyes shone a red light and rolled into a ball once more, rolling towards me, radiating insane amounts of magicules.
The monster however stopped before he reached the ice wall, and fell to his knees, looking at me in shock.
The very next moment, his body was riddled with holes from inside. Each part with a soft tissue and no muscles was shredded apart from inside and he fell to the ground.
The guy was still healing but the extent of injuries I had caused him would keep it down for a while.