Day 21-30/Day 24

Day 24
Today, after morning practice, the 4 of us went hunting, and the first thing we encountered was a large, 70 centimeters in length black spider with characteristic yellow lines on its carapace. I decided to call it【Demon Spider】. Because it’d made a nest, I burnt it to a crisp with my【Pyrokinesis】ability, thanks to this I had some trouble preventing the fire from spreading to the surrounding trees. If it had turned into a conflagration, we would have also died.
【Ability learned: Spider Thread Creation】
Thus, I can shoot spider threads from my fingertips now — no wait, won't it be something like goblin thread? Anyways, it was gushing forth from my fingertips at my will. Seeing threads come out from my fingertips vigorously with a “buryuryuryuryuryu”-like sound, it felt quite surreal, however, it’s unquestionably an extremely useful ability.
Unfortunately, as I am now, I can’t control it delicately. Skillfully manipulating the thread like a spider is impossible. The best I can do is to simply immobilize the target. If I make the slightest complex movement, I’ll end up tangled in the web myself, unable to move. Yes, compared to sewing, spinning webs is in a league of its own.
Thus, in order to be able to freely control the thread, I decided to search for more Demon Spiders. After some time, I found a few, and this time I tried killing them using electricity before eating them. In a short amount of time, I caught 3 spiders.
【Ability learned: Thread Wielding Arts】
With this, I became able to delicately manipulate the threads. The threads were very durable, so I'm thinking of using them to make clothes and such from now on. Also, the Demon Spiders' carapaces seemed sturdy, so I think they will make for good armor materials.
After this, while walking around the forest, we found a group of Orcs for the first time after the last one we killed. The place where we found them was close to where we found the Orc from the last time, because this place was quite far away from the cave, we didn't explore the area, but now I think that we should have come here earlier.
The Orcs we found were in a group of 6, and wore vastly different equipment compared to the one we met last time. These orcs were carrying some splendid looking weapons like halberds, staves, hunting knives and long swords and wore either breastplates or full plate armors. Moreover, I think that the halberd-wielding Orc with the best physique was the group commander — The Orc Leader.
We decided not to attack them, but gathering intelligence is important, so we followed the Orcs and arrived at the foot of a mountain after walking for around an hour, where we discovered the location of the Orcs' base, a mine. There, I saw dozens of Orcs with pickaxes, and the sound of their efforts could be heard even from where we were watching them. For the time being, I was satisfied with this, so we left quietly. If we try attacking this many opponents with our numbers, we’ll die.
True victory is if the 4 of us could escape with our knowledge and remain undetected. Or so I thought, but then I spotted 3 Orcs walking in the direction of the mountain. Even if they called for help, since the other orcs were far away, it would take a considerable amount of time before reinforcements could arrive, so we decided to quickly attack them.
Hiding in the bushes, we waited for them to reach our shooting range. Gobumi-chan and Gobue-chan killed 1 Orc each using the crossbows. The last one was stunned by my lightning, after which I calmly walked up to him and slit his throat. To transport the corpses, Gobukichi-kun and I each carried one orc while Gobumi-chan and Gobue-chan helped each other with carrying the third one until we reached a place I deemed as safe where we leisurely took our time to eat.
【Ability learned: Stench】
Yes, this is clearly an ability that I don’t need.【Stench】, seriously? Well, because I'll not activate it, I'm not that bothered by it, and since orc meat is really delicious I'll endure it. Moreover, if I were to find a use for this ability by any chance, it can be considered a profit.
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Category:Re:Monster Volume 1
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