Chapter Thirty-One: Orcs

Chen Feng froze when he heard the system notification. He wasn't ready to enter an Elite World, either. His original plan had been to run through two or three more Normal Grade Worlds before entering an Elite World. He hadn't expected to end up there early because of a series of coincidences.

The system probably knew the difficulty would increase after the world's promotion, so it had provided all Reincarnators with the location of Baqi City.

Chen Feng silently asked for Baqi City's location. The prompt pointed behind him. It seemed he'd gone completely the wrong way. Just as he was about to turn back, a figure appeared in the distance.

It was a humanoid creature with its upper body bare, a leather skirt, and a mouth full of tusks. It held a bone club and had a bundle strapped to its back as it ran quickly toward the depths of the mountains.

An orc? Chen Feng recognized the monster at once.

Curious about where the orc was going, Chen Feng decided to follow and find out.

As it ran, the orc kept looking around to establish its location, completely unaware of Chen Feng trailing behind it in the distance.

Chen Feng followed it around a bend, then suddenly lost sight of the orc. A cave appeared in a cliff not far away.

Just as Chen Feng approached and considered whether to go inside, a series of roars came from within. Then the orc with the bundle emerged from the cave, followed by more than a dozen obviously elderly orcs.

The orc that had come out of the cave froze when it saw Chen Feng. Then it let out an excited roar, raised its bone club, and swung it at him.

Facing the orc's fierce charge, Chen Feng held nothing back. He struck it squarely in the chest with his palm, sending it flying.

The orc died in midair. When it hit the ground, its bundle came apart, spilling a jumble of things everywhere.

Seeing this, the elderly orcs behind it showed no fear. They all roared and charged at Chen Feng. One of them, whose skin was different from the others, led the way.

His skin was blue. Though he was already frail with age, he was still fast, no slower than the young orc who had just wielded the bone club.

An Orc Warrior was no ordinary orc. Although the warrior was old, Chen Feng didn't let his guard down just because he'd killed one orc instantly.

He used Lingbo Weibu to circle behind the warrior and struck the back of his head hard with his palm. Then, without pausing, Chen Feng charged into the group of elderly orcs and sent them all flying with a single palm strike each.

After dealing with the orcs, Chen Feng caught his breath and walked over to the first one. The contents of its bundle were scattered across the ground: candles, several gold coins, a gold necklace, and other things like meat and fruit.

"Did I get a drop?" Chen Feng picked up the coins, necklace, and two potions. He shook out the orc's bundle, picked it up, and slung it back over his shoulder. Glancing at the other orcs, who hadn't dropped anything, he called them a bunch of paupers, then ran toward Baqi City.

Chen Feng guessed the cave behind him was the Orc Tomb, also known as Skeleton Cave. Like an elephant graveyard, it was where orcs went to await death when they knew their time was near.

Now that the Orc Commander had summoned all the orcs to fight, he naturally hadn't forgotten the old veterans. They were old and weak, but could still be used as cannon fodder.

What Chen Feng didn't know was that the orcs who had come to Skeleton Cave to await death wouldn't drop anything, since they'd already left their belongings to their kin.

The young orc he'd just killed had taken the bundle from some unlucky fellow he'd encountered on the way.

With Baqi City's location clear, Chen Feng headed there at full speed. In less than a day, the city's towering walls appeared before him.

At Baqi City's northwest gate, only two Archers were standing guard. There was no sign of a Blade Guard.

It made sense. If there were Blade Guards around, no matter how many orcs came, they wouldn't be enough to keep them busy.

Chen Feng had barely stepped through the gate and taken a few steps when a group of people surrounded him.

"Hey, you. Show us your ID." The man at the front wore a blue sleeveless short jacket, with vine scales protecting his chest and abdomen, and greaves on his legs. He stood out sharply from the crowd around him, who wore white cloth robes.

Light Armor. Chen Feng gave the man's clothes a closer look. Everyone had been in this world for less than a day, yet this man was already wearing Light Armor. Either he'd gotten lucky or he'd already had the equipment before entering the world.

Seeing Chen Feng's gaze, Nikalim felt a surge of smug satisfaction. He'd been lucky enough to enter the world near Baqi City, and had happened to save a merchant who was being attacked by orcs.

To thank him for saving his life, the merchant had given Nikalim his family's Light Armor. When he learned that Nikalim was looking for Baqi Mine Cave, he'd also given him a simple map.

But none of that mattered now. The Orc Army would soon be at the city gates. If they couldn't get through this, everyone would die.

The Reincarnators who had gradually arrived at Baqi City had been organized by a few powerful Reincarnators. They planned to band together and get through this crisis.

Their top priority was finding the person behind the "All Korean People" quest. If they failed the quest, everyone would die, and that would be that.

But if they managed to hold out until the Orc Army withdrew, they absolutely wouldn't let that bastard off the hook. They planned to catch him and throw him straight into the Orc Army, making him pay for what he'd done.

As someone with "high-level equipment," Nikalim had been entrusted with an important task. He'd been sent to the city gate to check the IDs of all the Reincarnators entering the city and persuade them to join the group in fighting off the orc siege.

When Chen Feng heard the man demand to see his ID, he realized they might be looking for whoever had activated the quest. But he had no intention of revealing his ID here.

After all, the Reincarnation Master had been making quite a name for himself these past two days. Chen Feng didn't want any trouble, and he was also very unhappy with the other man's attitude.

Chen Feng ignored him and tried to walk past into the city, but the group immediately surrounded him.

"Are you fucking deaf? Either show us your ID, or let us beat you up and then make you show it. Your choice." Nikalim stepped in front of Chen Feng again and said arrogantly.

"Get lost!!!" The unexpected world promotion had already put Chen Feng in a foul mood, and now someone else was asking for trouble. He charged into the crowd in an instant, his hands turning into a flurry of palm strikes. He slapped every person across the face several times, knocking them all to the ground, then calmly walked away.