We found a good place to watch them fight, while our cover was abundance of leaves of the thick branch, we could sneak glances at battle, we stood on rather high and thick tree with thick branches, trunk and even leaves were thick

And there I saw the real orcs for the first time in my life, they stood on 2 meters, their muscles were bulging, not that they were overly muscular, but their muscles could be discerned at a glance

Their heads were of a pig, but it was dark green, have you seen a green pig? Me too, so they did not really look like a pig, while they did

Let's not follow the weird logic and watch them fight

They fought barehanded but they still got the advantage, they fully deserve their title of brutes, their mighty swing on that meaty arm would shake the trees and even tear apart ones with small and feeble trunk

Oh, am I drooling? Why you say?

Cause I've heard the rumors that their meat is even tastier than boars, honestly I do not believe it, but I really want to try it

But there's no chance I can do that yet, if orcs win, then no meat for us, if goblins win then they will take their corpses, I'm sure

The best scenario would be that single orc wins and everybody else dies, he could not carry everything by himself, or he could be wounded and exhausted, though even in that state we should be careful, because their actual strength is of level 5, not to mention their inhumane strength that is amplified by level bonus

We would become a meaty paste in a single swing of their arms

But it's too early to make conclusions, let's just grab some popcorn and watch the ground shaking battle unfold

I do not have a popcorn, do they have it in this world?

Lots of weird ideas are going through my head, why you say? Because there is a chance for free loot, oh, there's nothing better than free loot

Imagine doing literally nothing, folding your arms, watching battle while yawning and then grabbing loot from their corpses

Hahahaha

Ahem, it's bad to be in good mood when there's nothing decided yet, I do not want to stay disappointed by the end

I am still drooling though

* Roar

The orc roared and with a stomp ground shook, several low level goblins flew in the distance of 2 or so meters away due to impact while higher level ones stood their ground and slashed orc's leg

Orc roared in pain and other one tried to help by trying to grab the nearby low leveled goblin, then he threw the poor goblin with pure brute force, the poor goblin smashed his comrade and turned into disfigured anomaly while the level 5 goblin who was smashed with his own comrade was visibly injured too, he swung the dead goblin away while crouching and puked some blood, he did not give up though, I was admiring a little guy, what courage, what determination

Truly, where is my popcorn, it's so exciting watching a battle, though it would surely be awful to be in their shoes, but don't worry, I've got my own shoes, sandals to be precise

* Roar

Another angry roar and orc tries to root out a whole tree and he fails miserably, what a rock head, think a little bit, sure you are pretty strong but rooting out a tree? Really dude? Aren't you a big brainless muscle head?

He was taken advantage of and slashed and pierced with daggers, while wounds were not deadly they were surely accumulating, orc would lose more strength and stamina as he fought and surely fall sooner or later

Ah that's bad, we were rootin' for orcs, I am left disappointed, I knew it, I should not have been so excited, what do you expect from a brute that can not do a simple thinking, if you ask him how many fingers they've got they'll think a lot

Hmm, how many fingers do they have? I can't really see from here, ooh, right angle, they got five fingers, good to know

Another orc roared with lung splitting sound, wow, calm down, my ears are bleeding

- He's calling reinforcements

The leader mumbled

Hmm?

- Is that bad?

- Probably, if there are more of them they would think of taking the whole loot

Ah, no, my loot, don't take them

- Can't we do anything?

I really did not want to lose that loot, their weapons are of much higher quality, it would help in battle, if I appraise my equipment their durability is sinking towards zero day by day, at this rate I'll be left naked, and I refuse to buy some rough leather workings of my incompetent tribesman

- Look, the goblin

Hmm? Oh, what is happening?

Suddenly level 5 goblin's skin turned light red, or pink, whatever and his attacks seemed to deal some critical blows, orcs were losing their footing against a little 1 meter tall midget while they were a little bit more than 2 meters

- What is happening?

Leader was deep in thought and then shook his head

* Roar, roar, roar~

Bunch of angry monstrous roars came from far, their reinforcements are coming

Goblins seemed to be anxious and each and every one of red goblin's attack was getting more fleshy and brutal, green blood painted the ground, trees, goblins and orcs themselves, they were about to be butchered alive

Goblin screeched and some started to flee, but soon miserable cries resounded in the forest and 3 orcs appeared, one of them wore a huge leather armor and pants, his body was domineering, being at least 2 and half meters, his muscles were bulging and he held a huge club made out of wood in his hands, he had a small tusk under his mouth and he roared, surroundings shook and I truly felt fear, even from this far, I appraised it

Orc Level 6

Level 6? That means he can smash level 7 monsters to pulp with his club, formidable!

Ah, goodbye loot, but still I want to see the battle until the end, there are some serious conflicts going on in this forest

Once they made their appearance all three of newcomer orcs held goblin corpses in their hands that tried to flee seconds ago

Bad ass!

Go kick their asses, I am still rooting for orcs, cause, who knows, they might leave some loot for us, even if it's little, as for goblins, these greedy bastards they won't leave their corpses, not to mention our tribe is in conflict with them, it would be good if their strength was reduced, oh I know we should report the death of 2 level 5 goblins from enemy's camp and we might even get rewarded, hurray!

* Roar

Ouch, oh, come on, I hear you, everyone is scared alright, why need to roar all the time?

- Hey leader, is poison going to work on these big bad guys?

I asked with anticipation, if these orcs won and I am sure they will, if our poison arrows work on them then we could quickly loot the battle area and flee

- He is much higher level so effect would be minimal, not to mention his huge body, it will take a lot of time for poison to spread and it will disappear much faster then you expect, we can't risk it

- Oh, come on, even if it's 10 seconds we could just loot couple of mana stones

- It's dangerous, but... you really are a reckless one, huh? Alright, we shall do as you say, if situation turns bad then your life depends on yourself, we shall try to flee, separately!

- Let's use trees to flee

- You are not going to jump from tree to tree are you, these huge trees will be inconvenient for that, not to mention if you fall you die and if you just wait until they are gone, they won't, they'll station some orcs and change shifts until they hunt us down, orcs are persistent and keep grudges, at least that's what I learned from my previous leader

- Your leader fought an orc? Wow, was not he just level 4?

- Yeah, he fought one, but it was low level orc, still he had a lot of trouble killing it, even though orc was of lower level he just kept going until death, it did not want to keep the humiliation of losing, they have a lot of pride

- Wow, they sure have a lot of useless pride for brainless bunch if they keep on fighting until death

- Yeah, so that's why, let's be as swift as possible, you two, we will depend on you, do not miss the arrows, ah, there's no way you can miss their huge bodies but anyway, mistakes are not to be made or else it will cost us our lives

We nodded solemnly, we were about to do some very dangerous shit, but time was not ripe yet, let's wait until one side wins, more corpses are welcome, we will have to deal with less alive ones, but I do not think the goblins can turn the tide of battle, I think they are doomed, so that means we will have to deal with 3 orcs, one of them having power of level 7 monster, these two are too battared to move, these two orcs are at their death's door so they are not threat anymore since that goblin smashed them to pulp in his frenzy state

It's going to be nerve wrecking, but there is no reward if there's no danger, that's why, we won't lose and loot them, raise in power and soon, we won't have anything to be scared of anymore!