Stuck in a Chinese novel-Chapter 382 : Ice Orcs

After reading the lengthy but detailed description, Wei Jun couldn't help but mutter under his breath, "What the..."

Not only was the quest very, very specific, but it was also very strange. The rewards were something else, and Wei Jun decided to do it in a heartbeat. However, what intrigued him was one of the last statements and the description of the quest itself.

The description said that Wei Jun would be learning about something but the rewards never said anything about it so his guess was that the additional reward was related to that. Still, to make sure, he decided to attempt the quest.

However, the hard part of the quest, even though it wasn't mentioned, was that Wei Jun had to keep the orcs alive. He was already very low on confidence in beating them. Keeping them alive was a whole other story.

'Well, I can always give it up in between.' Wei Jun tried to convince himself but he knew he wasn't going to do it. Deep down, he knew that his nature of seeing things to an end would end up taking over and he'd do whatever he could in his power, even sacrificing some things in his possession to complete that quest.

So, with newfound determination and a little bit of lying to himself, Wei Jun prepared himself to face the orcs. The first and foremost task was to do recon.

Wei Jun couldn't blindly go in there and if there was a chance that he could kill a certain number of orcs and wanted to make sure he didn't end up overdoing it, he needed to know the exact number of orcs.

The recon took him about half a day. It was a long and tedious task but Wei Jun knew the risks associated were too big to worry about time when he had a lot of it yet. It had been at most two days since he came to the dungeon. He didn't know what the dungeon break process would be, like if the residents of this vast world would end up crossing to that world or not, but he knew for sure that he still had a lot of time before seven days were up.

So, with that decision made and the recon done, Wei Jun waited through the night while keeping a focused eye on the orcs in the camp. Once it was the morning and the orcs left the camp to hunt, that was when Wei Jun decided to act.

Instead of just storming the camp and facing hundreds of them at once, Wei Jun deemed it better to face smaller groups when they were out hunting. After all, yesterday when he spotted them, they were also hunting in the mountains so there was no reason they wouldn't be doing the same today.

There were five groups of orcs out of the hunt, each containing five male orcs. That made their number twenty five and Wei Jun decided to start with them.

The issue of female orcs was still a matter and Wei Jun could understand what female and male orcs were needed for.

Wei Jun approached one group stealthily but he was surprised, and very much so, when one of the orcs detected his presence and without hesitation or even a warning, attacked him. Wei Jun dodged the attack barely and immediately put his Qi into his arm and brought it forward.

As soon as he did so, a giant hand, almost three times the size of his hand, struck his forearm and pushed him back.

They were difficult. Their coordination was perfect. The orc who detected him didn't even have to speak and the others acted as if on instinct.

Wei Jun stepped back as two daggers appeared in his hands. Wei Jun stepped forward once again and the orc who had detected him the first time attacked him while the other four flanked him to surround him.

Wei Jun didn't care and headed for the orc who was also preparing an attack for him with his giant fist. Wei Jun stepped to the side, narrowly avoiding the attack and as he did, he slashed the orc only to be surprised once again.

'Hard.' Wei Jun said to himself while he quickly stepped to the side the swerved around the orc which he had managed to leave a slight slash on.

Still, the damage wasn't as high as one expected but it was enough for Wei Jun to avoid the orc and escape the encirclement of the orcs.

Free from their circle, Wei Jun dispelled all the skills from Yang Qi and activated the skills with Death Qi.

As the ominous atmosphere of the Death Qi surrounded Wei Jun, the orcs took a step back as if they were naturally afraid of it.

Wei Jun didn't feel any different except for the fact that his stats had increased by a whopping 100 each. Wei Jun felt the drastic increase and couldn't help but admire his strength for a minute. Once he was ready, he charged at the orcs again, his charge speed enhanced this time.

While the orcs were scared, they didn't back down when they saw Wei Jun charging at them. Wei Jun stopped just before the orc at the forefront could attack him, stepped to the side, and then spun in the air, along with his daggers, doing the same.

"Guoh!!!"

The orc yelled in pain when Wei Jun cut the arm off with that one spin and shoved him to the side with a kick in his head while he charged at the rest, reinvigorated.

The battle ahead was difficult but Wei Jun held the advantage in agility.

While the orcs were fast for their size as well, Wei Jun was not only faster, he was slippery as well. Not once were the orcs able to capture him with their big movements and Wei Jun took full advantage of that.

Wei Jun knocked them on the back of their heads but that didn't work. The orcs were too tough to be knocked out that way. So, Wei Jun tried an alternate approach.

[Qi discharge]

[QP -10]

Wei Jun touched one of the injured orcs who was its last legs and penetrated its body with a small amount of Death Qi. As the Death Qi entered the orc's body, the orc began to scream in pain until it got to a point where the orc fainted on the ground, its body still jerking in pain even when it was unconscious.

Soon, however, that too stopped.

[You have eliminated an ice orc]

[Your Death Qi has increased by 50]

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[You have obtained an E rank mana crystal]

[Warn...]

After that, there were a few more messages but Wei Jun was more focused on something else. "Oh? That much was enough to kill you?" Wei Jun wondered as he asked out loud to the remaining orcs who were trembling in fear.

"Well," Wei Jun said as he stepped forward and approached another orc, prepared for battle, "It's a good thing I have plenty of time to experiment."

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"Five, huh?" Wei Jun muttered as he looked at the three passed-out orcs on the snow, one of them being the one whose arm had been cut off.

All it took was a measly five number of Death Qi in their system to knock them out. The first one died after a few seconds but the other one lasted a few minutes. Wei Jun could tell it also depended on their condition. Those who were healthy and full of power, such as the orc who had fought him the least even resisted the onslaught of the Death Qi for a few minutes and fought Wei Jun to the limit.

Wei Jun was careful to not injure that one because he wasn't sure if the orc might just die if he were to injure him beyond a certain point.

After twenty minutes, Wei Jun had two dead orcs and three unconscious ones.

But the question was; 'Where the hell is that vortex?'

Just as Wei Jun thought of that, he felt a slight change in the air current and as he followed that pattern, his gaze shifted towards the sky where a black hole-like thing could be seen. Just as the black hole appeared, the strong air current sucked the three unconscious orcs in.

The strange thing about that vortex was that the strong vacuum didn't even affect the other two orcs or even Wei Jun.

Wei Jun looked at the scene with curiosity as if there was something familiar about that vortex. Something he had felt before but he couldn't quite put his finger on it.

He just knew he had seen, not just felt, the phenomena before but he couldn't quite remember when and where.

'You know anything about it?' Wei Jun asked the system.

[...]

[All I can tell you is that you should complete the quest fully]

[All the answers can be found there]

'...' Wei Jun remained silent for a while before he said, 'Let's see.'

Then, he turned his attention to the rest of the notifications Wei Jun had received when he killed the ice orcs.

[Warning]

[Mana crystal....]

[...]

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