Meaty ice cubes

[You killed a variety of sea creatures with the Green Plague explosion. 40,200 system points have been added to your sum as a reward.] The system beeped.

[In total, you've accumulated 213,800 system points.]

“Nice!” He thought. “Did I get any of the orcs?”

[No,] She answered.

“Of course…” His smile quickly faded.

The team, and the new Arch Magus waited near the large, burning fire, and were hoping to see some progress. At the very least, they hoped to find at least one of the Ancient Sea Orcs, and slaughter it, because then there would be one less orc that they had to worry about. They could always try to kill the rest of them another day.

The team was getting desperate the more they waited. An hour passed, and they still haven't seen anything that they could shoot at.

“This is becoming an extreme waste of time, gentle mages.” Cornelius expressed. “Where are the orcs supposed to be? They’re not here, and they likely pissed off hundreds of kilometers away already.”