Assassination plan

Alice walked out her quarter to have a breath of fresh air but as she opened the door, Emmanuel had appeared right in front of her face.

"Doctor, how is she?" The latter asked

"She'll be fine, her life is not in danger anymore but she needs to rest, there's still a little bit of poison left in her body"

Hearing that Aleria's would be fine, Emmanuel breathes a sigh of relief but Arthur is puzzled, he had checked Aleria's condition before and he was sure that there is no poison in the latter bloodstream.

"Poison?" He asked.

"To be more specific it's foreign mana, the arrow that stuck on her shoulder had been coated with it, if you didn't bring her on time, this mana would have destroyed her body on the inside."

Emmanuel and Arthur's expressions suddenly turn dark, seeing that Alice immediately continued.

"But no need to worry, I had already put some of my own mana to combat it so there is no reason to be alarmed."

"Is that even a thing?" Arthur asked

"Yeah, mana within one's body except there own is poisonous and can kill someone if not treated properly"

Arthur looked at Emmanuel confused. He recalls that this idiot has been hit by dozens of such arrows but he seems to be fine.

Seeing his gaze Emmanuel, glare at him.

"What are you looking at?"

"Nothing, you f*cking monster"

"Your the monster assh*le"

Seeing the two is about to have another fight, Alice interjected.

"That's enough for the two of you, you might wake up my patients"

"And you, come with me inside and let me take a look at you." She said pointing at Arthur.

Arthur immediately raise up his guard "I'm fine no need to waste your time on me"

"We are at war, there's no time for you to be acting tough" Alice is suprised, she didn't not expect there was someone weaker than her that would be able to resist her charm.

Smiling, she touches Arthur's stomach, sending a little bit of her mana through him.

As her mana flows inside Arthur's body, the latter immediately feels a million of insects crawl inside him.

Arthur is alarmed and was about to draw his katana but before he could do anything however, he passed out.

"F*ck yo-"

"Emmanuel, can you be a dear and carry him for me"

Emmanuel looked at Alice shocked at what just happened but as the latter doesn't seem to want to explain anything, he just decided to follow her.

"You can go back now, I'll bring them back to you in no time," She said.

"Thank you"

...

When Arthur woke up, he can no longer feel a pain in his stomach, it's like the injury he sustained from the direwolf bite is long gone.

He took off his shirt and was about to exame his body, when a voice came across the room. It was a girl with a lollipop in her mouth.

"You look like sh*t" The girl said.

Arthur looked at the girl and immediately recognized who she was.

The girl has pink hair and a bulb cut hairstyle, wearing an extra small military uniform. She looks no more than a 16 years old child that has been left by her parents on their field trip but Arthur knows she was far from that.

"Oh, it's you. What the heck happened to you?" He asked, the girl like himself had numerous bandages all over her tiny body.

"Hehehe, you know me?" The girl replied playfully.

"Yeah, you're the girl who shot the mammoth down" .

"Hahaha" The girl laugh "And your the guy that take credit for it"

Hearing what she said Arthur laugh dryly " haha sorry about that"

"Don't mention it, I guess we're both been through one hell of a fight"

"Tell me about it" Arthur put his shirt back on and was about to walk away, he was not expecting to have a long talk to someone he just met, but on the contrary the girl continued talking.

"A Gobakji is like wooosh! It suddenly jumped into my place like it was its home and started wrecking the place like bang! bang ! bang! I was lucky enough to survive."

Arthur halts his step and looks at the girl like he was looking at another idiot."So we're really telling stories?"

"Yeah, what about it?" The girl replied nonchalantly

"You know we just met right?"

"But I wanna know what happened to you, come on tell me. Please. Pretty please"

The girl is forceful and keeps bugging Arthur, Eventually, he had no choice but to tell her something to make her shut up.

"Five Ombakti with there big bad wolves decided to gang up on me and my teamates are a unsociable block of ice and an idiotic moron who seems to only be good at making things worse, you happy now"

Hearing his answer the girl pump up her chest and said triumphantly "I guess I win"

"It's not a competition"

"Nonetheless I still win"

Seeing such a childish display Arthur face twitch "Alright, alright, I guess you win, your quite chummy to a guy you doesn't even know the name"

"Does it matter? We fight in the same side" The girls said puzzled

"Of course, fighting on the same side doesn't mean you're automatically an ally."

The girl's eyes shone bright hearing what Arthur just said, like she had learned something very important "Alright, My name is Sarah, what's yours?"

Seeing such innocence Arthur just surrender " My name is Arthur"

"So we're allied now right?" .

"I guess"

Sarah then walked over the unconscious Aleria.

"The woman over there, is she one of yours?" She asked

"Supposed to be" He replied

Sarah is intrigued "Suppose to be? what happened to her?"

"Insubordination, she goes after an enemy she can defeat"

Sarah had spotted an arrow near Aleria's bed and remembered something "It's the orc archer right? It looks like your team suck"

"Yeah, but that's what I'm stuck with" By this time of their conversation, Arthur already had a sad look on his face, he would be lying if he said he's not feeling a bit guilty of what he just did to Aleria.

Seeing an ugly look in her new friend, Sarah decided to give him a hug to cheer him up "Don't be so down and don't worry about the orc archer anymore, we're going to take it down"

Arthur minds blackout, he has no idea of what's happening right now.

…..

Arthur walks back outside to find Emmanuel's waiting.

"Sup!"

"Sup!"

"Don't worry about her man, she's going to be fine" He said, seeing Emmanuel's troubled expression.

"I'm not worried I just felt guilty, we could've taken that bastard down" Emmanuel said

"Yeah I know if you didn't got shot, we might have"

"F*ck you!" Emmanuel was about to punch Arthur again when the latter suddenly disappeared.

Arthur arrives at Emmanuel's back and taps him by the shoulder. "Don't worry about it, It's a long shot anyway, just breaking our way through a sea of thousands upon thousands of orc is just idiotic."

Emmanuel body is shaking "But it's a lot better than being a target"

Arthur slowly walked away "Tomorrow we will kill that bastard."

Seeing Arthur's acting all mysterious again, Emmanuel face twitch " The f*ck you acting all so mysterious about"

"Just shut up and follow me"

"What are we going to do?"

"Beg"

…..

Arthur and Emmanuel arrived at the command outpost. The place is still as busy as the first time they were there. People are running all over the place like their lives are depending on it, for this people this is their battlefield.

Arthur approaches the same officer they met before.

"We are here to see the general?" He said

The man is buried in a mountain of paperwork that would usually take a dozen people to finish; however, you can't see the complaint in his eyes.

"paper"

"Our commanding officer has it, he asks us to meet him at the general's place, we have an important mission to discuss."

The officer didn't even listen to Arthur excuse "Go back, I can't let you continue without the proper papers"

"But sir"

Seeing that Arthur and Emmanuel have no intention of leaving, he looks them dead in the eyes and said "Go back or I'll have to detain you"

Arthur and Emmanuel was about to break themselves through when Lieutenant Jeffrey arrive "It's okay sergeant, they are with me"

"Lieutenant Jeffrey, Understood"

After Lieutenant Jeffrey arrived, the officer didn't give Arthur and Emmanuel any mind and resumed doing his paperwork.

[Thank you sir]

[Cut the cr*p, I don't know how you know about it but you are here for the orc archer right?]

[Yes sir]

[You should have approach me first, If I find you guys doing something like this shit again, I would be all up your asses]

[Sorry sir, we just want to take that bastard down]

Feeling their conviction, Lieutenant Jeffrey had a dejected sigh

[Just follow me, listen and don't talk]

[Yes sir!]

….

Lieutenant Jeffrey had brought Emmanuel and Arthur to the generals quarters.

Arthur immediately spotted Sarah among seven others. She looked at him and wink.

"Everyone here? let's begin the meeting, our objective is to take down the orc archer" The general said