Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 48

Proof of Wildness

Each person had their own way to enjoy playing game.

That still applied even in Pandora.

There were people like the clearers who prioritized efficiency and calculated the most optimum way to become stronger.

Conversely there were also players who considered some hardship to be spice for enjoying the game.

「Ponsuke-san」

The girl who sought for help with tearful eyes――Sierra whose outer  appearance was a female avatar had gotten captured by the high elf  knight. She now had a blade being pressed on her neck.

If the cold and gleaming blade was strongly pressed just a little more, Sierra would turn into red light and burst apart.

Ponsuke and the others stopped resisting and lowered their weapons when facing the NPC who had captured Sierra.

The knight commander sported a vulgar grin when he saw that and opened his mouth.

「You have really done it now you pigs. My knight order is obliterated  because of all of you. I’ll take my time dealing with all of you one by  one after this.」

It was an expression of emotion that was hard to believe coming from  an NPC. In addition there was his ability to take initiatives.

Ponsuke was taken aback by that vivid performance while moving only his gaze to look at Alfie.

Alfie’s red dress was slathered with mud with some even clinging on her blonde hair.

Alfie moved her gaze. She guessed what Ponsuke wanted to do.

The knight commander forcefully dragged Sierra while aiming at Ponsuke first just as he said.

It was also because Ponsuke was nearest to him.

Sierra squeezed out her voice while trembling.

「Ponsuke-san……I-I, will revive again after dying so, um, that……attack」

If everyone surrounded him, even the knight commander would be defeated.

「What are you saying, we are friends aren’t we? Besides, we……already  threw away the thinking of prioritizing efficiency from the start.」

He was playing as orc that was called as a joke race. In addition  Mariela and Alfie also weren’t choosing class and skill that were  optimum for clearing the game.

They were really just doing whatever they liked. They decided on those things based on their own preference.

The gathering of that kind of players had no interest in something like a solution that focused on efficiency.

「We’ll save you and also win. To do that, first――」

The knight commander interrupted Ponsuke’s words.

「You’re noisy you piigg! Vanish with my magic!」

Magic was fired from the commander’s left hand. Ponsuke couldn’t dodge that attack.

He took the attack and gritted his teeth to endure it.

(This is, more painful than I thought!)

Even though he had acted tough and said some cool lines in front of Sierra, his image would be destroyed if he yelled here.

Ponsuke thought like that and endured the magic attack while glaring at the knight commander.

Wind assaulted him. It whittled his equipments and stabbed his skin.  His cheek was also deeply cut by a blade of wind and blood flowed out.

Ponsuke managed to endure dozens of wind blades.

Cloud of dust whirled at the surrounding. Ponsuke was still standing  in the middle of that. The knight commander’s smile was twitching when  he saw that.

「It’s this. This is why I hate orc. You should just die instantly from my magic!」

The knight commander began to prepare his next magic, but Mariela who  had been climbing on the tree and hiding behind the dust while lying in  wait jumped down. Then using the short sword in her hand, she cut off  the right hand of the knight commander――the arm that was holding a sword  and holding Sierra in place.

「――Eh?」

The commander let out a stupid voice.

The feat was accomplished magnificently partly possible because of a  skill, but it was also because of player skill――because of Mariela’s own  ability.

Next it was Nanako who rushed out from inside the cloud of dust.

Nanako was using an avatar of beastman who excelled in instantaneous  force as well as possessing high status in physical aspect. She got into  a striking distance with the commander and punched.

「Ei!」

Her yell sounded cute, but that attack blew away the elf off his feet.

The commander was blown away and rolled on the ground. Then Nanako hugged Sierra tightly.

「I got her!」

In respond to Nanako’s words, the dust cloud cleared and in that  place the orcs reached toward their weapons and smiled at the knight  commander.

The blown away knight commander lifted up his face and saw the orcs had surrounded him.

「You have done it now, you bastard.」

「How dare you hit our princess.」

「Prepare yourself you elf bastard.」

They were normally very loyal toward their fetish, but this time they seemed to be irritated as expected.

The knight commander pointed his left hand toward the orcs who were approaching him.

「Ponsuke, I’ll heal you right away.」

Meanwhile, Alfie approached Ponsuke who was horribly damaged. She was  holding a healing item that she was going to use on Ponsuke.

But the knight commander caught sight of that.

「I’ll at least take you with me to hellll!」

The knight commander fired magic toward Ponsuke and Alfie.

Ponsuke grabbed Alfie’s hand and dragged her forcefully behind him. Then he crossed his arms together to endure the attack.

(This attack might kill me.)

As expected it seemed like it would be unlikely for him to be able to  get hit by the enemy boss’s magic in succession without dying. But then  Sierra dashed in front of Ponsuke.

「Oi, what are you doing!」

The wind raged because of the magic. It caused dust to fly everywhere and he became unable to see anything.

Sierra was hit by the magic and became unsteady on her feet. Ponsuke caught her in his arms before she could fall.

「Why did you get in front of me? You should just leave me alone.」

「I, I too, umm……want to do my best.」

Sierra smiled. Ponsuke hugged her tightly and whispered to her that  they would meet up again later. Then he kept that posture until the dust  cloud cleared up.

Alfie too had gone slightly pale seeing what Sierra did. But she said nothing about it.

However, Sierra hadn’t vanished even after the dust cloud cleared up  and the knight commander burst into light particles after getting beat  up by the orcs.

「……Eh?」

She just wouldn’t vanish even though she should have gotten hit by a powerful magic attack.

Ponsuke too thought that something was strange and looked at Sierra’s HP.

He saw that actually the damage to her HP was just a little.

「Sierra-chan……it seems you’re fine.」

Ponsuke said that. Sierra slipped out from Ponsuke’s arms and lowered her head awkwardly.

「I-I’m sorry. Thinking back, it wasn’t really that painful when the magic hit me.」

But, that magic was something powerful that even Ponsuke with his  really high status wouldn’t be able to survive after getting hit twice  by it.

But Sierra looked completely fine even after getting hit by that.

Sierra tilted her head.

「E-eh? But, I had also died several times before from magic. Besides my HP decreased more quickly at those times before..」

Sacrificing herself in order to safe another and died because of  it……such scene didn’t happen, so Sierra started looking for an  explanation.

Then Nanako put her hand on her chin and fell into thought. She then arrived on a conclusion.

「Come to think of it, since we partied together with mister orcs,  sometimes she would still almost die from the shockwave of physical  attack, but she never got hit by magic anymore since then.」

Prey lifted up his face slightly and recalled back while agreeing with Nanako’s words.

「Now that you mentioned it, that seems right.」

The gazes of everyone there moved toward Sierra.

The person in question turned bright red from embarrassment while those around her thought.

(Isn’t half-fairy……too strong?)

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The orc who was knowledgeable about game even among the orc group gave an explanation about Sierra’s case.

The place was at the clearing of the Cam Village.

The stolen jewel had been taken back and inserted into the altar.  Then the old orc came out, called back the surviving orcs, and they  started to repair the altar.

Ponsuke and others who got nothing to do were talking about half-fairy.

「In other words, because of half-fairy’s trait as a specialized type,  the increase of their stats is also extremely focused on magic related  stats while all the other stats only increased slightly.」

Everyone nodded in understanding I see~ while listening to the knowledgeable orc’s explanation.

「If the player is still below level ten or even twenty, they will  still get a lot of damage even from magic. With their small HP the  half-fairy will die in one hit.」

But, Sierra partied with the orcs when she had gone over level  twenty. She had never gotten damaged from magic until now after  obtaining those tanks.

「If you fight monster at the surrounding of the Capital of Hope  around level 30, you should be very strong against magic using enemy.  The average magic will become unable to hurt you much.」

That kind of thing couldn’t be decided just from status alone because this was online game.

There were various factors, like element for example, but Sierra’s  resistance toward the knight commander’s magic was extremely high.

Mariela listened to the orc’s explanation while asking a question.

「Hey, does that mean……half-fairy isn’t weak, or rather it’s not a joke race?」

The orc shook his head.

「No way. Besides specialized type fundamentally isn’t weak. The  avatar is simply very difficult to use. Besides, there’s also the  premise that it’s possible the avatar will become useless if you pick  the wrong job or skill. In other words, it’s an avatar that is difficult  to use if you don’t know what you’re doing.」

The avatar demanded the player to have some amount of player skill to  use it, and if they weren’t any good than the character would die  easily, so the growth became slow.

It also required tank to guard the avatar no matter what, so the party composition had to follow a requirement to some degree.

It had a lot of problems accompanying it, even so half-fairy was strong.

The orc continued.

「It seems there’s also the race’s unique skill and the like, so it’s  simply powerful. I think you’ll be able to feel just how strong it  actually is if you can reach level 30 or 40 with it.」

Sierra fell into thought.

「That reminds me, I became able to use a lot of magic around that time and the battle became really easy after that.」

Although it was extremely weak against physical damage, it also could be compensated by strengthening the avatar.

Perhaps the avatar would become really strong when it reached level 100. That was the conclusion that the orc gave.

Ponsuke thought.

(So this is why the clearers are hurrying to remake their avatar.  They aren’t simply investigating it, they know that it’s strong.)

It had several big problems but, it couldn’t be treated as a joke  race with all the advantages. It made Ponsuke felt a bit lonely.

While everyone was chatting like that, the altar’s repair was finished and the old orc came to inform them.

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Cam Village’s altar.

All of the drop items from fire dragon were offered on it.

The old orc was shedding tears seeing all the offerings.

「Heroes, for you to prepare this many proofs……surely our god will grant new power to you heroes.」

The nine orcs lined up and began the ritual.

The items on the altar shined, and then something that looked like tattoo formed on the orcs’ bodies.

There was burning pain, and then a sensation that they never felt before.

(What’s this, it’s very――)

Ponsuke felt like he was about to sense something, then he heard the voices of Prey and the other orcs.

「Uooooo……it feels good」

The orcs started yelling that the burning pain felt good. Because of them Ponsuke was pulled back into reality.

The ritual ended while that was going on. The orc’s strengthening was over.

This time the strengthening was a removal to some weapon limitation.

In addition they also obtained a new skill.

That skill was Proof of Wildness.

It was a skill that would turn them mad and rampaged as a monster.

The old orc spoke to the nine orcs.

「O heroes who have obtained the [Proof of Wildness], may god’s protection be with you.」

The orcs who had obtained the second proof left the altar while talking about their impression.

「It would be better if the pain was soaking deeper.」

「We also got removal of weapon limitation before.」

「Getting a skill just for rampaging wildly is a bit……」

Among them only Ponsuke was still standing in front of the altar. He was looking at the offered items.

「There wouldn’t be a problem even if we just offer one item wouldn’t it?」

He needed to report about this event to the information broker.

Ponsuke thought.

「It would be more helpful if this event give us more things, like convenient skill or bonus stats.」

He was grateful with the removal of weapon limitation, even so he  didn’t get what was so interesting with a skill for rampaging wildly.

「Let’s try it later.」

Ponsuke muttered that and walked away from the altar.

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The revived orc village was selling rare products that weren’t sold at the Capital of Temperance.

The four who were using female avatars were walking around and taking a look at those items.

Mariela, Alfie, Nanako, and Sierra were looking around at the various items in this village that was in a festival mood.

There was large shield, large sword.

There were a lot of weapons that were suitable for an orc’s huge body.

Sierra was sighing amidst all that.

Mariela talked to her.

「Are you still bothered by that? Just forget it already. All of us  thought that you would definitely die after getting hit by a magic that  strong.」

「T-that’s not it. That’s not what I……look, I can’t really feel that it’s real even if I’m told that half-fairy is strong.」

For Sierra, she only felt troubled that she suddenly got called strong after being called weak all these times.

Mariela laughed.

「It’s fine isn’t it? It’s true that you will die right away just from  a bit of damage anyway, you are you after all. Besides, you can’t be  called the strongest just based on your race. It might change depending  on other things like the job and skill that you chose.」

Things weren’t so simple that a player could be called strong just based on the race that they picked.

The jobs and skills that they chose also played a part.

Besides, even if a player selected the race, jobs, and skills that  were said as the strongest, it would be meaningless unless they also had  the player skill to make full use of them.

「That’s true. Ah, come to think of it where are Ponsuke-san and the others?」

Sierra looked around. She was searching for their orc friends who weren’t anywhere to be found.

Nanako pointed at the spot where the orcs were huddling together.

「They are there in the middle of the female NPCs.」

There the nine orcs were being surrounded by female orcs.

「S-stop, don’t treat us kindly!」

Prey was looking bewildered because the female orcs were being kind to him. The four girls laughed seeing that.

And then Alfie looked for Ponsuke thinking that he must be looking troubled too right now.

「Surely Ponsuke is also being troubled……eh?」

Ponsuke was also being surrounded by female NPC, but rather than looking troubled, his gaze was fixed on a single spot.

He was staring at their breasts.

The female orc NPCs all had big breasts.

Ponsuke was staring intently at them.

The four girls looked on their own breasts, and then they looked at the breasts around them.

Mariela was the biggest with Alfie next after her. And then Sierra and Nanako followed after her.

However, both Sierra and Nanako were very small.

Sierra spat out her words.

「Man is the worst.」

It was unknown whether Ponsuke was really male or not inside the  avatar but, with that reaction he was undoubtedly a man. That was what  the girls decided.

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