Bubobio charged towards Basdia with the force of a brick wall. And then he swung his greatsword towards her head with a speed too fast to be seen by the eyes.

『Evade to the right.』

Basdia obeyed her instincts to dodge that lethal attack that her eyes couldn’t follow.

「Buh, BUOOH!」

As if dissatisfied that his lethal attack had been evaded, Bubobio forcefully pulled his greatsword back and performed a thrust.

『A half-step to the left.』

And in the next moment, Basdia had evaded that thrust as well.

「Buh… BUOH! BUOH! BUOOOH! BUGOGOOOH!」

As if panicking now that he had been dodged a second time, Bubobio began unleashing attacks one after another.

A sideways-sweeping【Single Flash】, a diagonal【Flowing Cut】from above, a【Triple Thrust】aimed at Basdia’s neck, stomach and leg.

If any of these brutal attacks landed, they would have been fatal regardless of Basdia’s well-trained body and high-quality armor.

But Basdia evaded them all.

Just how?! How could this female Ghoul move so fast?! Why did Bubobio’s blade not find its target, even though he was supposed to be unrivalled?!

The expression on Bubobio’s face had gone beyond anger, and there was now even some fear of Basdia.

(How am I able to dodge these attacks?!)

And even Basdia was surprised. Indeed, after the battle so far, she had seen that Bubobio wasn’t particularly highly skilled. He was about as skilled as she was.

However, there was a vast difference in their basic physical strength. If Basdia was lucky, she would be able to dodge one or two attacks, but having these attacks unleashed one after the other should have ended in her being chopped to pieces.

But for some reason, Basdia had known what she needed to do to avoid dying.

She had sensed that she needed to move right, immediately did exactly that and the greatsword had swung down at the spot that she had been standing.

She had sensed that she needed to take half a step back, and then the tip of the greatsword had passed right in front of her.

As if she could see the future, she had known what she needed to do to survive. It was as if she had acquired the【Future Sight】skill.

(I see; this is Vandalieu’s support!)

A cool, soft hand was supporting her. It was this hand that was telling her how to avoid being killed.

Vandalieu’s arm, which he had used【Spirit Form Transformation】on, had fused with Basdia’s back. Through that arm, Vandalieu applied the【Danger Sense: Death】that was constantly active for himself to Basdia.

【Danger Sense: Death】was a skill that detected the danger of death, which meant that it could definitely detect each of Bubobio’s lethal attacks.
【Danger Sense: Death】wouldn’t detect the attacks of a Kobold’s sword whose individual swings inflicted only light damage. If Bubobio had simply kept his composure and mixed feints in with his attacks, things might not have turned out so one-sided.

However, the enraged, impatient, scared Bubobio was unable to keep his composure and repeated only these lethal attacks that would kill in one hit.

The three brothers, Bubobio, Bubidis and Bugibulio, were weak compared to the Noble Orc race as a whole.

Rather than them having been born this way, their weakness was a result of the environment that they had grown up in and Bugogan’s failure to train them adequately.

Since they had been born after Bugogan had made his escape from his home into this Devil’s Nest, they had been surrounded by nothing but servant Orcs and slave Goblins and Kobolds from the moment they were born.

They had made most things work with the physical strength that they were blessed with from birth, and all the enemies they had faced were foes that were easily defeated by swinging weapons at them, not requiring them to improve their techniques.

Naturally, they neglected their studies and since they faced only lower-Rank enemies, their levels didn’t increase and their combat-related skills didn’t go beyond level 3.

The rivals that they did compete against were their brothers that were just the same as themselves, so rather than working hard, they simply competed over who could get the easiest achievements.

If this had been a harsh environment such as the large Devil’s nest to the south that housed many other Noble Orcs and other monsters that could challenge them, Bubobio and his brothers would have been forced to work hard to survive.

The Noble Orcs thought that children who could raise themselves were superior, while children that required the parents to directly raise them were inferior. If Bugogan had discarded this notion and trained his sons himself, then perhaps they would have had high-level martial and magic skills.

Instead, what he had produced were three foolish sons who had only experienced easy victories against weaker foes.

They hadn’t had any problems with this until now. Their enemies were all inferior, after all.

However, Basdia and the other Ghouls were far more diligent than the Orcs in training themselves.

Vandalieu and Tarea had even provided them with equipment even better than that of adventurers.

Factoring in the supportive spells and the effects of the【Strengthen Followers】skill, this was more than enough to overcome a Rank difference of one.

Even then, Basdia would have a hard time defeating a Noble Orc without taking any damage. But with Vandalieu’s support, she wouldn’t die.

Since a one-on-one battle would only end when one of the participants died, the outcome of this battle was already clear.

「Buhih, buhih!」

Now out of breath, the Noble Orc’s movements became noticeably slower and it stopped using its martial skills. Using martial skills normally consumes Mana, but in this case, it also drained Stamina as well.

「【Bisection!】」

「Bugiiiiiih!」

And then Basdia went on the attack and Bubobio’s arm was severed by her axe.

She unleashed a merciless series of martial skills, as if returning the favor.【Strong Flash】,【Instant Response】,【Single Flash.】

As Bubobio tried to turn and run, he toppled forward as Basdia’s axe, empowered by the weapon-throwing skill【Lightning Attack】, buried itself in the back of his head.

「I defeated him… I defeated him, Van! I defeated a Noble Orc!」

Basdia was likely exhilarated at the fact that she had gained a large amount of Experience Points by defeating this powerful enemy. She rushed over to Sam’s carriage and picked Vandalieu up and started swinging him around.

「You defeated him, you defeated him, so please put me down.」

He was happy that Basdia was so overjoyed, but having his vision shaken up, down, left and right wasn’t a pleasant experience. The other Ghouls wouldn’t stop cheering, either.