Reborn as an Extra - Chapter 510
Chapter 510: The Counter-Plan. Part-5.
The three SS-rankers were heavily suppressing the entire area and were ready to attack at any moment; they were purposely trying to intimidate and create pressure.
But instead of feeling intimidated or pressured, Raji was laughing like an innocent girl.
The current her didn’t have the aura of an SS-ranker who was suffering from the burden of a nation on her shoulders; she was in a very happy and relaxed mood.
This caused the three SS-rankers to feel insulted and angered to the extreme; they could see that Raji was not taking them seriously at all and was mocking them instead of panicking.
“Y-YOU!! YOU DARE TO LAUGH!!!”
Looking at the Ork King’s face, which was going red from sheer anger, Raji felt even more amused and couldn’t keep her emotions in check; even her flight skill became a bit unsteady due to letting her guard down.
“Pffff! I can’t… hahahah… This is the first time I have laughed so much in the past few years… phew~ my stomach hurts from laughing too much…”
As an SS-ranker with a powerful body, there’s no way her stomach was hurting from just laughing too much; she was just saying that to express how much she had laughed.
“Cough… Okay, okay, calm down… I have to be serious in situations like this… phew~”
Seeing that Raji hadn’t even deployed a basic mana shield and was keeping her guard down while laughing like that, Gradba felt humiliated and angered to the extreme.
For a mage, their mana shield is their most basic defense, and that is always the first spell they learn before anything else.
Keeping it working 24/7 is the basic-level skill that all mages aim to learn; they even use it in sleep.
Thus, it was humiliating that Raji hadn’t even created that to defend herself and was still laughing when three SS-rankers were standing so close to her.
That was not bravery; that was recklessness at its highest.
“ATTACK THAT D*MN WOMAN TOGETHER-”
Before Gradba could even finish his sentence, Raji, who was trying to calm down and stop laughing, burst into laughter once again, disrupting Gradba’s order.
“PFFFFTTT!!! After saying that you will show me your strength and will show me the gap between SS-rankers, now you are telling them to attack together! Ahhahahahaha…”
“Okay, okay, I have never seen a bigger clown than you, Orc King. You win, you win. You are really good at making people defenseless by making them laugh at you! Pfffttt!!! Hahahah!!”
“Seriously, you should have worked in a circus… a five-foot muscular Orc wearing fairy wings on his back and jumping through a ring while winking at the audience, pfffftttt!!!! How fitting! ahahahahaha….”
Even some of the ordinary people standing behind Rio broke out in suppressed laughter after hearing Raji talk to the Orc King in such a sarcasm-filled tone.
Although they laughed in a very suppressed way, for an SS-ranker, it was easy to notice and hear that, and that made all three of the opponents even more angry, and they nearly lost their sanity in rage due to humiliation.
“YOU!!! STOP LAUGHING, OTHERWISE I-”
Before Gradba could finish his sentence, a calm and familiar voice rang out in his ears.
“Otherwise, what?”
*Shatter* *Crack!*
The space-time fabric shattered near the Orc King, and a hand reached out from the empty space.
The arm grabbed the Orc King’s neck from the back with insane strength, and a man walked out from the empty void as if he were unaffected by the void storms happening inside that shattered space crack.
He was wearing a half-buttoned shirt with flowery designs on it and shorts with a brownish color.
His clothes seemed like what someone would wear when on a vacation or something, but no one dared to mock that funny clothing style.
The man’s face was just inches away from the Orc King’s face, as if he was looking down on Gradba while holding his neck like he was grabbing a fragile, helpless chicken who could be slaughtered whenever he wanted to.
The moment that familiar aura and face appeared near him, Gradba’s anger disappeared instantly; the two SS-rankers standing near him froze on the spot due to shock and fear.
Even Gradba himself couldn’t process the situation anymore, and his face looked like a ‘shocked round emoji.’
“Otherwise, what were you going to do? Why are you so silent? I am asking so nicely; won’t you answer me?”
Gradba’s body shivered like a frightened rabbit, and a chill ran down his spine as he started sweating buckets on the spot.
“Err… uh, I-I was just about to say that if she kept laughing, my feelings will be hurt and I would die, as I have a fragile heart you see… ehehe…”
The Orc King suddenly changed to a meek tone, and his loud voice filled with anger and roars was now nowhere to be seen.
It was as if he wasn’t the guy who came rushing over with the motive to kill everyone and do domineering things at all.
He seemed more like a captive who was caught red-handed and was now trying to prove his innocence by looking harmless.
And the reason for this sudden change was that he knew this face and aura very well.
He knew that dark red hair waving in the wind, and he knew those cold and domineering eyes personally, as he had met the individual before.
The person beside him was none other than the world’s strongest man, ‘Ashtel Rex,’ the ‘Walking Calamity’ himself.
He did not know why Ashtel was awake when he was supposed to be in a coma or why he was here; there was only one thing in Gradba’s mind right now.
‘I got tricked!!’
Gradba finally understood why Raji was keeping her guard down so much and why she didn’t even bother to set up a basic shield to protect herself even when three SS-rankers came to surround her.
He finally understood why she was able to laugh so happily and why she seemed so oddly free of burdens and troubles, even though she was carrying the problems of an entire nation on her shoulders.
It was not because she had absolute faith in herself or she had found some way to solve those burdens; she was in such a happy and relaxed mood because she didn’t have to carry those burdens anymore at all!!
She was free! She didn’t have to care about the nation falling apart every single moment, every single day, because Ashtel Rex had woken up, and there was no need for her to worry about anything!!
With Ashtel Rex awake, the nation was stabilized once again; it was futile no matter how many SS-rankers were sent to lay a trap against Raji. Ashtel Rex could shatter that trap and those SS-rankers both together!
Only now did Gradba understand this matter, but it was already too late; his plan had flopped horribly, and he didn’t even know where it all went wrong.
He had no idea that the main reason why Gradba’s plan failed was because of a sudden ‘Anomaly’s’ appearance in the plan!
‘Good!… my counter-plan worked! He’s awake! I was worried for a bit but now it’s okay!’
Yes, this was all the doing of Rio! Messing with the timing by infiltration wasn’t even the main part of the plan; the real counter-plan was bringing Ashtel Rex onto the battlefield to level down everything.
Seeing Ashtel appear and suppress three SS-rankers at the same time right after waking up, Rio felt relieved, and all the tension and burden finally disappeared from his shoulders.