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The Otherworld Conquest Method of a Reincarnated Porter Chapter 137 Part 1

Conclusion

The snow started to fall harder, making visibility worse and beginning to pile up. The battlefield was becoming unfavorable for those who fought while making use of their feet. The temperature was falling well below freezing, draining the stamina of those who fought there, but, in the height of a battle to the death, the warriors were moving about furiously and no one paid it any mind.

Nakulus and the male adventurer, who were dealing with the twenty beastfolks, wanted to quickly rout them and go to Ottilie and Sylphia’s aid, but the beastfolks turned out to be way more skilled than they expected, and they were having a hard time.

「Haa, haa, fuhahaha, so strong. I haven’t had a fight this enjoyable since my fight against the Beast King’s brats.」

The bearkin man was breathing heavily and bleeding all over his body, but they were all just scratches. The reason he talked in the middle of the fight was not to buy time, but simply because he was interested in Ottilie, his worthy opponent.

「Phew, the Beast King’s children, is it? If memory serves right, they’re of the lionkin tribe, right? So you must’ve fought them before they grew up and got strong.」

Every time he talked to her, Ottilie also stopped fighting and responded to it. It was not that she was interested in this beastfolk or that she was trying to recover her stamina. It was to set up her magic.

「Hahaha, say whatever you want. But the brats are dead and I’m alive. That’s all there’s to it.」

「Hmm, did the Beast King not retaliate?」

「He’s not the kind of guy who’d care if a few of his countless brats died. More importantly, what’s your name?」

「Phew, all preparations are done, here we go.」

「What?」

Ottilie, having finished her preparations, swung great down her sword with all her might. Like before, the bearkin man blocked her sword strike with his sword, but unlike before, instead of following it with rapid successive sword strikes, Ottilie put all her strength into just this one strike. However, the bearkin man had never been defeated in a battle of strength in his life, not even once. He intended to block Ottilie’s full-power sword strike, show her that he was stronger, and finally convince her to become his woman somehow. Putting all his strength into his body, he used body enhancement and blocked Ottilie’s greatsword without backing down even a single step from where he stood.

「Wha!?」

Perhaps the ground he was on was loose, as the moment he thought he had blocked her sword strike, the ground suddenly shook and he was overcome with a floating sensation. He couldn’t brace his legs. The ground had caved in. Was this woman’s sword strike really that strong? No, no matter how you look at it, it was just too strange. The bearkin man looked up at Ottilie as he fell into a deep hole.

「Kuh, is this a coincidence? No, she dug a hole with earth magic, huh. Hmph, ultimately, she’s just a woman. She thought she couldn’t win with a sword, so she avoided the fight. For her to resort to such a sneaky trick… Ugh, this is…」

As he regained his balance at the bottom of the hole, Ottilie filled the hole with water from the above ground using water magic. If he continued to soak in the cold water in this place where the temperature was well below freezing, he would lose his strength in the blink of an eye. In addition to his enormous size, the bearkin man was carrying a black iron sword of high purity, which was incredibly heavy, so it was not easy for him to get out of the hole. A premonition of death began to cross his mind.

The battle between Sylphia and the foxkin man was at a stalemate. The foxkin man, who was superior to Sylphia in swordsmanship, fought with a slender sword and was afraid that his own sword would be destroyed if it clashed against her sword, which boasted abnormal attack power, a number of times. He could not readily block her attacks with his sword. With his own physical abilities, he thought he would be able to close in on her at high speed and attack her vital points in one go, but in addition to Sylphia’s incredible reaction speed, he had ended up having his movements restricted by the piling up snow. It would be a gamble, but the only option available for him was to use full-strength body enhancement and instant step to finish the battle in one go, but the moment such a thought crossed his mind, Ottilie swooped in from the side.

「Kuh.」

The foxkin man barely managed to avoid the attack. He broke out into a cold sweat. If this woman was here, that meant…

「Ah, are you looking for that bearkin man? I’ve cut him down and buried him in the ground.」

Ottilie was bluffing, but the foxkin man was convinced that they no longer had any chance of winning this battle. Now that it had come to this, he had no choice but to run away, even if he had to do it on his own. He knew the terrain around here well, and was confident that he would not lose to anyone when it came to running away. The falling and piling up snow restricted his movements, but the other party was also in the same condition. The foxkin man used instant step and started running towards the forest.

「I won’t let you get away.」

「What?!」

In an instant, his path ended up getting blocked by Sylphia, who was unaffected by the snow thanks to her Heavenly Drive. As he exchanged blows with Sylphia, he was unable to dodge a powerful sword strike from Ottilie, who closed in on him from behind, and as he got flanked by the two, he was helpless and ended up falling after being hit by an attack. After finishing off the foxkin man, Ottilie and Sylphia proceeded to annihilate the remaining beastfolks.

「Huff, huff, huff.」

Using full-strength body enhancement, the bearkin man climbed the wall from the bottom of the hole and finally made it to the above ground. It would have been easier if he had left his sword behind, but he couldn’t afford to give up the fight. When he crawled out of the hole, soaking wet, he was greeted with a scene of all his comrades lying on the ground. The commonfolks who noticed him moved to surround him. Frankly speaking, four against one would be tough, but even so, he had no intention of losing. He was intending to capture the woman alive, but he no longer had the leeway to show much mercy. He hardened his resolve to kill them all.

「To think you’re able to crawl up here with that huge body of yours and that great sword on your shoulder. Whirlwind.」

Ottilie used wind magic to attack the bearkin man while keeping her distance. Its firepower was as good as nonexistent, but blowing up the snow in the surrounding area, the cold wind continued to blow ceaselessly on his wet body and rapidly deprived him of his body temperature. Chills ran through him, his body stiffened, and the sensation of holding his sword faded away. The bearkin man panicked, worried that at this rate, he would end up getting rendered incapable of fighting without even fighting. He closed in on Ottilie and swung his sword down, but the sword cut through the air and he was unable to move as he would like. He had lost more stamina than he thought he had.

「Those movements, it looks like you’re at your limit already. Are you ready to die?」

「Like hell I am!」

The bearkin man struggled desperately until the very end. He resisted ceaselessly, but it didn’t take long for him to be surrounded by the four of them and end up having his head lopped off.

「Sei, where is Sei? Laura, too?」

As soon as the battle was over, Sylphia noticed that Sei and Laura were missing. Even when she headed to where they had been, the traces of their battle on the snow were disappearing due to the falling snow. The trails on the snow extended towards the mountainside.

「No way, surely they couldn’t have fallen from here…」

Sylphia used her Heavenly Drive skill to run down the mountainside. Along with strong winds, the snow was beating down hard, so the visibility was poor, making it impossible to carry out a search. Due to the battle earlier, she also had only little magical energy left, and it would be difficult to continue the search any further, so Sylphia returned to where her comrades were.

「There’s nothing we can do in this blizzard. Let’s rest for the night and carry out the search tomorrow. Sylphia, Sei said that he had a lot of personal belongings in his storage. There should be blankets and food too, so there should be a good chance that they are still alive.」

「Yeah…」

After deciding that the search for Sei and Laura would be carried out tomorrow, the members of Cotton Clouds decided to go into the hut to spend the night there.

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