Next chapter in 4-6 hours hopefully...Somehow I wasn"t satisfied with my translation of this chapter. Lots of vocab block and I felt like I could have re-worded quite a few lines a bit better.
Year 7444, Month 5, Day 28
"It will take time, around how much?"
If it"s just several tens of seconds then I can probably earn it. If it"s at that speed (the speed an adult and walk quickly) then if we just do a lap around the doughnut depending on the course we might be able to earn three or four minutes.
"Probably over 10 minutes.."
So it"s no good.
Then how about this?
"Let"s pull it closer and then throw the rocks with {Light} cast on them at it without letting them touch my {Anti-Magic Field}."
"Eh? I understand."
I"m sure she has some doubts about it but it"s good she obeys right away.
Miduchi quickly picked up a random rock and used the spell {Light} on it. Simultaneously I threw the second {Long Duration Rock} I had into the center of the pa.s.sage in order to secure light.
I guess because I had been standing still, the eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d had already approached to within 10m.
The rock with {Light} cast on it hit him right in the center of his muddy white eyeball with a thud. There was no change to the rock. It"s HP didn"t decrease and there"s no change to the number of uses on Magic Reflection either. I guess it doesn"t reflect low-threat magic?
We raised our speed again a bit and increased the distance. Something we can throw..20 throwing needles and a knife with a chipped blade. Miduchi has a total of 9 knives. 4 throwing darts. Blowgun. We don"t have anything decent..If Bel was here we could have her shoot consecutive arrows from behind the anti-magic defense wall though...
Even if we try using the blowgun with wind magic instead of blowing into it according to Miduchi due to problems with the durability of it, the power can"t be increased very much. Maybe I"ll challenging the production of metal air gun when we get back. In the past I made several varieties but according to the stories I heard about crossbows it"s power was below that. Due to problems with the shape of the ammunition there was too much air resistance. It ended up being single shot but I went through quite a bit of trial and error to prepare my bayonet.
I made an iron pipe and then put an exclusive arrow in from the back. Then put some cotton in the middle or back of the arrow and use your fingers to seal the remaining side and use wind magic from that finger. It will only fly about 40 meters or so and there"s a limit to how much power it could have. Though because the arrow will have cotton on it, it will quickly decelerate. Even if you raise the level of wind magic your hand will come out of the pipe this time and it"s pretty much the same in the end, since you can"t aim there"s no meaning to it. Integrally speaking it"s a bit better than just blowing a blowgun with your breath but in the end I gave up on it.
In any case no matter what we throw that we have onus right now it can"t do any damage to that eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d. If we were to throw ours swords and it hit right then it might be different but if throw it once it"s over after all.
"It"s fine already, next is..I"ll get even closer to the inner wall. You hide behind {Anti-Magic Field} while making dirt walls in an appropriate location on the other side of him from the pillar. The height will be where I can hide from them and a width of 1.5m should be plenty... now, go!"
"Yes!"
After confirming that Miduchi had run off I glared at the eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d again. He"s still looking atrocious as usual. I"m sure if I were to release {Anti-Magic Field} here even once I"d die an in instant. I really want to make fighting in close combat while holding my long sword and using {Anti-Magic Field} at the same time my last resort. After all his Magic Reflection takes effect around 50-60 cm from his body. Since I don"t know what will happen if {Anti-Magic Field} touches it, I don"t have any method of attacking while maintaining that much distance. I"m sure if I were to jump over the {Anti-Magic Field} even if I stab it, if a beam hits my hand I"d probably die. I raise my speed of moving backwards against thinking I should increase the distance to 30 m or so.
"I did it!"
I heard Miduchi"s voice that she"s finished the work.
"Alright, standby just like that. I"m going to move into the inner walls so you follow along it as well!"
I threw down the third {Long Duration Light}. Suddenly I looked the left where the pillar is acting as the core of the doughnut and I can see a pa.s.sage just like here. The pa.s.sage bends directly to the right and obviously I can"t confirm the teleport crystal.
"I"m 5m behind you. I made the wall about 2m to my right."
Miduchi called out to me.
"Alright, pull back at the same speed as me. Just before you can"t see me anymore stop. Once I"m hidden behind the wall count to 20 seconds and let me know."
"Yes."
A wall appeared in my field of sight. The eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d is about 30m ahead.
I quickly hid behind the wall and released {Anti-Magic Field} before using a new magic.
It"s a spell I just had Karl teach me at the start of this month. I"ve still only practiced it using the standard amount of mana but it should be plenty.
"{Delayed Blast Fire Ball}"
Of course it"s also possible to use this like a normal {Fire Ball} but it"s true worth is that there"s no need to fire off the warhead. Or to be more correct you send it flying but since you"re just moving it about 1 cm it"s not much different from not moving it. You can set the time on the delay before it explodes, and quite literally like a landmine, it"s possible to match the timing up for when it explodes. This time I"m setting the time. After all I can"t let go of {Anti-Magic Field}. I was able to create 10 of them in the 20 seconds before Miduchi gave me the signal. I set the timer on all of them to 5 seconds later and then used {Anti-Magic Field} once more before quickly retreating along the inner area of the doughnut.
It seems the eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d lost sight of me since I was hiding behind the wall but must have guessed I was behind the wall. Without floating around in that spot it kept moving without slowing down over here. It"s already in a place about 5m away. 4 more seconds.
It seems to have sent off a beam of light towards me after I appeared from behind the wall and some lightning ran along the surface of my {Anti-Magic Field}. Oh~ I forgot to Identify. It"s MP is 51 huh? Alright! Another 3 seconds.
With {Anti-Magic Field} still deployed I quickly retreat. There"s only about 2 m between the dirt wall and the inner wall of the doughnut. The only way for it to chase after me is to follow along the outer side of the wall. Of course it could fly over it as well. If it uses Magic Reflection to reflect the wall then that would be even better. Another 2 seconds.
There"s also 10m of distance opened between it and myself. Miduchi has grouped back up with me as well. Another 1 second.
Come!
I saw it fly over the dirt wall. The moment before it landed all of my {Delayed Blast Fire Ball}s exploded at once. Along with a loud noise the burning rocks were sent flying all over the place including my direction but were blocked by the {Anti-Magic Field} and disappeared long with the lightning.
There"s no choice other than to repel these.
It seems that he"s still unharmed. However, just as planned his Magic Reflection changed to 6. It"s a success!
When I"m reflexively taking a triumphant pose and,
"Alright! We"ll do that once more. Go and make some more dirt walls just the same as before!"
I said that ordering Miduchi and then we started retreating again. While I was at it I threw down the last {Long Duration Light}. It"s about time we"ve done a full lap...
Just like last time I had behind a dirt wall again and this time I used a different spell. If it has emotions then it should be getting quite impatient about right now. If it doesn"t have any then I don"t mind at all though. Well it would have been fine to do this with the dirt wall just before but it was critical to get the number of uses on his Magic Reflection below 8 uses so it can"t be helped. If it"s 8 then just one attack of my attack magic will take it out.
"Clone {Mirror Image}"
I activate the spell for 10 seconds or so and 6 clones of myself appeared and ran in both directions out from the wall. Right away one of them took a green beam and disappeared. The second one took a blue beam and disappeared. The third one took a yellow beam and disappeared. The fourth one took a pink beam. The fifth one probably took a transparent one. The sixth one...Isn"t disappearing!! I quickly released the {Mirror Image} and used {Anti-Magic Field} once more. After leaving the wall I used Identify. It"s MP is 1!
Take that! This rotting eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d {Rotten.Eye.Ball}!
I wonder if that remaining 1 MP is really just a decimal point? It"s just using Floating Beam to keep itself in the air right? One of it"s upper tentacles was always facing itself.
I made a ferocious smile with my teeth showing while releasing the {Anti-Magic Field}.
Since it can"t do anything, even then it"s still trying to float over here and use it"s only remaining weapon that is to bite with it"s fangs.
I calmly used attack magic.
{Fire Javelin}
Eight {Fire Javelins} went flying towards it"s body covered in a chitin sh.e.l.l. Six of them were deflected but the remaining two pierced through it"s sh.e.l.l and let off a boiling sound from the structure of it"s rotting body cooking. I felt like I could smell the scent when you cook crab or shrimp with an outer sh.e.l.l. I guess it wasn"t it"s vital point, or in the first place it may not even have a vital point but each hit only did about 100 damage.
"We can already do this. You finish it off."
I said that to Miduchi and she used magic as well.
The same {Fire Javelin}.
However it"s only one. Even then the damage is the as mine (that"s only obvious though) 100. One more and even further one more. She"s already dealt 300 damage to it. Her elemental magic should have leveled up. I thought about Identifying her but I should remain watching the eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d. This things HP is still just over 600. Come to think of it when we were up against Franken our damage was strangely low. After it"s HP enters the negative I"ll try punching it to confirm it.
It"s HP smoothly decreases. I"m saying "Another three hits..two hits..for the final one use a weak attack." and giving out instructions to Miduchi, it"s HP went to -9. The moment it"s HP went into minus the eyeball fell to the ground and stopped moving.
I said "Let me punch it once." and approached the eyeball b.a.s.t.a.r.d and then swung down Toris"s long sword with all the force in my right hand. HP is -85. I was able to do 76 points of damage. Since it seems like the defense of it"s sh.e.l.l is pretty high you could say that"s about appropriate. Then, in that case I guess that Franken"s original defense was just abnormally high.
"After heating it once more it should completely die. However, wait just a minute. I want to read everything."
I said that and opened all of the sub-windows of the Death=Tyrant.King before reading them.
I see now, it"s strong. However, it"s certainly not an opponent that can"t be beat. Since it was just Miduchi and I this time we were able to win without any victims. If you don"t mind victims then if you have a unit of about 50 people and surround it then I"m sure about 30 would be incapacitated but in the end you should be able to beat it from all sides. Though putting it in reverse, if you wanted to get rid of this thing you would need 50 people who all attack it simultaneously and it"s necessary for them to be prepared for more than half to be taken out. If it"s a living Eye=Tyrant then I"m sure even more people would be needed but it shouldn"t be impossible to kill them. No, I guess even then it"s impossible, if it"s living it seems they"re tremendously intelligent after all. Hmm...
Well if they end up running into one in the dungeon when I"m not around then I"m sure they"ll be wiped out...I guess it"s fine.
"Swing your sword a number of times checking the sensation and weight of your sword before you kill it with that. Once you kill it try checking the differences swinging after."
After I said that and Miduchi nodded before repeating swinging her sword a number of times. It seems she"s doing something like combo techniques as well. After that she walked close to it and dealt the final blow to the Death=Tyrant.King.
Then she started swinging the sword again, after testing out her combo techniques she seems to have understood.
"Level up was it..I feel like my body has vaguely gotten lighter but it"s certain if you don"t pay close attention to it you wouldn"t notice..Honestly speaking, if I wasn"t told about it I definitely don"t think I would have noticed it. Even after I was told I was still half in doubt about it."
Just as I predicted, it gave a tremendous amount of experience points. It"s level and HP were high, and it had a large serving of special skills after all. It seems it was over 40,000 originally, and since I have the bonuses from the 1% and Gift of Natural Talent, even though I only did about 20% of the damage to it I got around 22,000 experience. If I had been the only one to damage it I"m sure my level would have gone up.
【Alan.Greed/5/3/7429】
【Male/14/2/7428 ・ Human ・ Viscount Greed Family Second Son】
【Status： Normal】
【Age： 16 Years Old】
【Level： 21】
【HP： 178(178) MP： 4829(7442)】
【Strength： 29】
【Speed： 39】
【Dexterity： 27】
【Endurance： 29】
【Unique Ability： Identify (MAX)】
【Unique Ability： Gift of Natural Talent (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Water Magic (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Fire Magic (Lv. 8)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic (MAX)】
【Special Ability： Void Magic (MAX)】
【Experience： 1358264(1430000)】
【Midu~ritto.Chizumagurol/5/3/7441】
【Female/14/2/7428 ・ Dark Elf ・ Lail Kingdom Commoner {Lilac}】
【Status： Good】
【Age： 16 Years Old】
【Level： 11】
【HP： 116(116) MP： 92(257)】
【Strength： 17】
【Speed： 25】
【Dexterity： 20】
【Endurance： 18】
【Unique Ability： Unit Organization (Lv. 6)】
【Special Ability： Infrared Vision】
【Special Ability： Inclination Sensing】
【Special Ability： Earth Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Special Ability： Water Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Special Ability： Fire Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Special Ability： Wind Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Special Ability： Void Magic (Lv. 5)】
【Experience： 172656(210000)】
Now then, since we"ve finally been able to take a deep breath, there" some important to do. First off is the magic stone. I don"t really want to dissect this rotting sh.e.l.l but I can"t overlook it.
It took over an hour but we took the magic stone out. It was considerably heavy and a hue that you could almost call it pure white. The value when I identified it was 1...12,345,678..Seriously? If I were to sell it wouldn"t that be close to 100,000,000 Z! Rather~ I wonder if a magic tool shop in Baldukk would really buy this? Up until now the most expensive magic stone hasn"t even exceeded 4,000,000 Z once. It"s suspicious even for the capital.
After that is the main event. There was a magnificent globe shaped crystal that came out from the large center of it"s biggest eyeball. It"s a big help that it doesn"t require being polished but it has a diameter of even over 30 cm. The weight is easily exceed 40Kg and feels like it might even be close to 50Kg. I can"t easily carry it around. There"s no other choice than to roll it but I don"t want to damage it.
I wonder if there"s no other choice than to do it here...
I don"t think a new boss will appear for at least 10 hours but I think we should at least go one floor above.
Also, it"s only obvious but there was nothing else that was worth anything. I thought there might be crystals inside of the eyeb.a.l.l.s on the tentacles but that wasn"t the case and they were just filled with a gooey gray fluid.
We tried investigating the room in the hole in the center of the doughnut but after all the teleport crystal rod was standing on a pedestal there. However, there was no incantation floating in it. I wonder if that means this is the lowest floor and you can"t proceed any further than here so there"s no other choice than to return to the surface? We went through quite a bit of labor to carry the crystal ball over and I somehow managed to hold it with one hand while holding the crystal rod together with Miduchi and chanted the incantation.
"Return us."
..............
The location we teleported to was the corner of a teleport crystal room that I haven"t seen before. The walls were made of rocks almost like sandstone and there was fine sand along the floor making it a bit hard to walk. However, it should cause any damage to the crystal and this place should be safe for the time being. I guess you could even say it"s suitable for the urgent business. I exchanged glances with Miduchi and I guess all of our tension up until then dispersed, we both fell backwards exhausted on the floor. Since the place we fell backwards to is the same white walls of the dungeon and a ceiling of about 10 m that gives off light there"s no need to use {Light} anymore.
The sand that"s a bit of distance away from us giving off a light the further the distance it is from us but it still looks like each individual grain is giving off a shining light so it even has a sort of ill.u.s.trious beauty to it.
It would be fine after we return to the surface as well but I doubt anyone would hear things here.
I lean my back against the wall and placed the crystal ball on my right side. On my left Miduchi stretched out her legs in the same way.
"Since we can finally relax and talk..Let"s talk about the things we were holding back on until now.."
After I said that and Miduchi hung her head down a bit,
"Yes.."
and said that in a small voice.
"Since I didn"t know when it would come to combat until now I intentionally didn"t try asking...I didn"t want to cause any disturbance in you after all. If it"s something you can talk about then I"ll listen. Though I won"t force you to say it.."
".."
Miduchi isn"t saying anything.
"Well it"s fine. I can imagine it for the most part. I"ve heard about that "Rank 1 Warrior cla.s.s" being an a.s.sa.s.sin job after all...You were attacking the party of Rokis, the son of some n.o.ble right?"
"That is...Umm.."
After hearing my words Miduchi looked at me once but quickly hung her head down again. Positive huh?
"..It"s not like I"m angry over it. That"s your job right? G.o.du~guru-san was it? You need medicine for your older brother right?"
"..Yes."
Miduchi responded with a voice that was about to disappear.
"How much do you need?"
"Eh?"
"That"s why I said, how much do you need to buy that medicine?"
After hearing my question Miduchi hanged her head down and said in a whisper.
"..Twice a day, he needs to drink medicine, made from a special mushroom called Rakuhogg, it costs 10,000 Z..It costs 7,200,000 Z per year. Even then my older brother"s body just keeps getting weaker..If my uncle and aunt hadn"t been taking care of him he already wouldn"t be able to walk on his own. That"s why, if I don"t take on lots of jobs there"s no way for me to buy the medicine..you"ll look down on me right. I"m killing people all over the place to save my older brother. I"ve already long since gotten numb to it, I can kill without even thinking anything. I"m a murderer."
It seems it"s true that as long as you pay money Dark Elves will take on a.s.sa.s.sination jobs. It was a rumor I had heard in a bar so I didn"t put much trust in it.
"Even I"ve killed people as well. I wouldn"t particularly think anything about that at this point. Don"t worry about it."
"But.."
"There"s no but or anything about it..I"m sure it was painful up until now.."
"Eh? I"ve never thought killing people itself was painful. Since I was educated and trained that way after all."
Miduchi said with a confused tone of voice. What was that, really~ Even though I thought to comfort her with a bit of a good feeling to it and it"s this. Even further Miduchi,
"Though it was painful since I remembered the life of Shiina Junko, and there"s such a large difference in values and how we"ve spent our lives. If I just remained Miduchi then it"s true I had various complaints but I had already come to terms with killing people as a job so I didn"t think anything about it."
and declared that. I see.
"Here, you can have this. Take it with you. If the value is normal then it should be close to 100,000,000 Z. If it"s you then you should be able to sell it directly to the country right?"
I said that and gave her the magic stone of the Death=Tyrant.King that we gathered.
"Eh? But.."
"It"s fine. Even if I held onto it I don"t have any place I can sell it. In the first place, you dealt most of the damage to it."
"..Thank you very much. It"s a big help."
After receiving the magic stone Miduchi courteously lowered her head.
"Yeah, don"t worry about it."
I said that and continued my words.
"And, did you finish up your job with Rokis?"
"..Yes. I was finally able to finish him off. The job this time"It"s fine, you don"t need to say that far. However, let me ask one thing. How were you able to specify Rokis"s location inside of the dungeon?"
Up until then Miduchi had been looking at me but she faced ahead of her and looked at the teleport crystal rod.
She casts her head down a bit and takes a deep breath, before finally, clearly speaking.
"..It"s hard to say....I seduced one of his party members."
While I was quietly looked at Miduchi"s face and a slightly unexpected response came back.
"Seduced you say, you did?"
I really can"t imagine Shiina being able to do it but I guess that means that if it"s Miduchi she can calmly do it.
"Even if I"m like this I"m still an Elf after all. In my hometown I"m considered unsightly but my face isn"t all that bad right? And, just look, my b.r.e.a.s.t.s are unusually large for an elf after all.."
She said that a bit embarra.s.sed and made a sad smile. A single line of tears was shed down the side of her face from the direction she was facing me. She sure does cry often. It"s true her b.r.e.a.s.t.s are plenty above a D cup and are quite large for a 16 year old Elf. However, if you were to see Bel you"d fall over backwards.
"..I"m dirty..And I used the Unique Ability I used on you today to form a party with them. Of course I made it so the man I seduced couldn"t tell my location from his end. I laid in wait in the 1st and 2nd floors. While hiding in the darkness I got rid of them using throwing darts and the blowgun. I used magic as well.."
"I see..How does it feel when you can tell the location of party members that are on a different floor in the dungeon?"
I wanted to change the topic.
"I don"t know."
"Eh?"
I wasn"t expecting this response. What does she mean she doesn"t know?
"The dungeon is a strange place. I can only determine the location of members who are on the same floor. I can tell if they"re on a different floor or outside of the dungeon but I can"t tell what direction or how much distance there is."
"Hmn.."
There"s nothing more to ask than this. It"s fine as long as the mystery is solved. And, I didn"t want to listen to anymore, I don"t want to see anymore of the pained face she"s making.
"I see, got it. And.."
I grabbed Miduchi"s arm as she was sitting on my left and pulled her over to me.
"If you don"t like it then say, just as you wished, from now on you"re my woman."
Her forked tongue moved pa.s.sionately inside of my mouth...
Simultaneously I dug out my wallet from my large pocket on the right thigh of my pants.
I only have one, d.a.m.n it...However..this is..I guess this is the suspension bridge effect? No, the dangerous has long since pa.s.sed. Well, now that it"s come to this it doesn"t matter at all.
...........
"That was my first kiss."
"I see."
So the blood of dark elves is blood as well. The blood has rushed to her head and her cheeks are a light pink color. No, it might be more correct t osay light red-purple.
"Thank you very much."
"Don"t say something like thanks."
We were laying on top of the fine sand while talking. Miduchi has her head on my left arm and is facing here while wrapping her left leg and left arm around me.
"After this is, about me, probably about both of us. Have you heard of a spell called {Report}?"
I shifted my body facing the left and looked at Miduchi"s face from the front.
"{Report}? No, I"ve never heard about it."
I"m sure. I"m sure it"s necessary to confirm first here. I"ve tried coming up with random excuses in order to use {Anti-Magic Field} on the heads of each one of the reincarnated people in my party a number of times but not one has the light in my hand disappeared. During those times I convinced myself that "It"s not like they would have the magic cast on them forever. I"m sure it"s just a time they aren"t using it." However, right now I"m confident of it.
"Just watch."
I used the bare minimum {Anti-Magic Field} with my right hand and held it to my head while concentrating on the {Report}.
I look at Miduchi"s face who"s eyes have gone wide seeing the things that occurred in front of her and I use {Anti-Magic Field} once more while holding my hand to her Miduchi"s head and tried concentrating on the {Report} that should be cast on her. Just as I predicted, the {Anti-Magic Field} lost it"s effect and dispersed along with a small flash of electricity.
I brought that hand just like that before Miduchi"s eyes.
Miduchi has her eyes wide open while looking at the palm of my hand in front of her in shock.
"It should be related to your memory loss as well. There were a lot of things you remembered once you saw my face right? I"ve forgotten about a number of things as well.."
I guess my words as I was calmly talking didn"t enter Miduchi"s ears,
"Eh? This..Magic is cast on..."
and was whispering in a daze. I"m sure it"s only obvious you would be dumbfounded over it.
"Hey, for now put your clothes on. This magic called {Report} is troublesome and you know.."
............
We spent a bit over ten minutes putting our equipment on while I explained the details of the spell {Report}. Miduchi was so surprised over things that she couldn"t say anything. It"s not unreasonable.
"And there, that"s where {Detect Magic User} and {Telepathy} come in. I don"t know if it"s alright to call it by chance, or whatnot, but I was able to get my hands on a splendid crystal ball to use as the catalyst. I can already use both of these spells myself. Prepare your resolve, I"m going to use them."
"Eh? Wai..Wait just a minute. That can"t be, so suddenly..It"s a {G.o.d} or a {Demi-G.o.d} right? At least let me prepare myself mentally."
She said in a panic interrupting me.
"Prepare yourself mentally? Something like that, always make sure it"s prepared. So you don"t panic when the time comes. I"m starting."
I said that and started to concentrate on the spell, kneading in the necessary mana. A shining light started to come out from the center of the crystal ball.
Miduchi is looking at the radiant crystal ball as well.
Gradually the radiance from the crystal ball calms down and something like an image of a marble pattern of yellow, or violet, or some limp black appeared and turned into a steady single image..What is this?