Chapter 284
Chapter 284 – The last hurdle
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Morning, after waking up and exiting my room, I came across Ena on the way .
When she saw me, she had an awkward expression with her face slightly reddish .
“M-morning . ” (Ena)
“Morning . So you stayed over . ” (Ryouta)
“Yeah, I wanted to come over at first but~” (Ena)
As she was talking halfway, she stopped and looked around .
“This place is so bright, and it gives off a warm feeling inside of me . So it had me wanting to stay here for the night . How do I put it, like once I entered, there’s this magical force preventing me from exiting kind of feeling . ” (Ena)
“I know right!” (Ryouta)
‘Wah!” (Ena)
Ena was shocked at my sudden excitement .
“This is all thanks to Emily you know . The moment you stay inside a house that is revamped by Emily, you’ll be addicted to never want to stay at any other place anymore . ” (Ryouta)
“I see~” (Ena)
As she said that, she continued walking out of the corridor .
“By the way, are those rumours true?” (Ena)
“What kind of rumours?” (Ryouta)
“Like the Teruru Dungeon was so clean to the point that you were sleeping together with Slimes . ” (Ena)
“Ah, well yeah that’s true . ” (Ryouta)
This was quite a while ago, when I first met with Emily in the dungeon, and we were staying inside for a moment .
Even I was shocked when the Slimes were surrounding Emily and was sleeping together .
At that time, I thought that she was the Dungeon Master of that dungeon or something, when I didn’t know about the true meaning of what a Dungeon Master is .
“Wow… . . That’s amazing . ” (Ena)
“It is . I still remembered complimenting her like crazy, so to me I feel that Emily is the most incredible person I’d ever known in my life . ” (Ryouta)
“I kinda understand what you mean by that . The reason why Ryoutsan can have such an incredible performance is because you have an incredible place to go back to . ” (Ena)
“Exactly!” (Ryouta)
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I was getting even more excited .
Ena then suddenly said “Oh right”, and turned her body towards me .
“And with that, I want to stay here, so please take care of me okay~” (Ena)
She said and bowed .
And thus she is going to stay with us .
Nihonium, 9th floor .
While going around defeating the Zombie Dragons, I was trying to figure out the most optimized route to farm .
“This isn’t going as planned… . . ” (Ryouta)
I could defeat it quickly if it’s 2 hits like the first time I fought against them . Where I used the Invisible Blue Flame to defeat them .
But no matter how strong that bullet is, it can only defeat those Zombie Dragons with counters 2 or more .
If there’s any with 1 counter, then it’s impossible .
This is really difficult .
“There’s a 99???” (Ryouta)
In front of me was a freshly spawned Zombie Dragon, with the number on it’s forehead that reads [99] .
I thought that there was only numbers from 1~5 .
After coming here for several days, defeating several hundreds of them, this is my first time ever meeting a Zombie Dragon with a counter of 99 .
This tells me that it’s a 1% chance of encountering it, which means——-
“It’s a rare monster then . ” (Ryouta)
Even I was extremely excited with this encounter .
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I took out my gun, and used some Normal Bullet for a test .
And obviously the counter went down .
This in turn aggroed the Zombie Dragon, where it swung its tails, and used its nails to scratch me .
It’s an attack that I’m familiar with, and a style that’s no different from the previous Zombie Dragons that I’ve fought .
“So it’s the same as the other Zombie Dragons? —-Repetition . ” (Ryouta)
To test whether it’s the same, I used Repetition and it was defeated .
Since it’s able to be defeated by my magic, it means that it’s the same as any other Zombie Dragons .
Bummer, I thought that since it has a counter of 99, it would be different from——-
Was what I thought but nay, it wasn’t .
What’s different was that a staircase going down appeared .
“It’s about time . ” (Ryouta)
I knew it was going to happen eventually, but I didn’t expect it to happen that quickly .
I took some deep breaths, then proceeded down .
As usual, everywhere was white in the room, and there’s a room before I can enter the spirit’s room .
And in that room where I was at, there’s a huge block in the middle .
Instead of calling it a block, it looks more like an actual building .
It’s about 5 metres in diameter, and the materials used makes me uncomfortable to look at .
As the material looks like a pulsating meat .
In terms of a game, the block looks like a living chunk of meat, where there’s internal organs inside that block .
However, it was all rotten, like a zombie-like meat .
It gave me the feel of destroying it, like every other monster I’ve faced in Nihonium .
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I started my attack, by firing at it with the Flaming and Freezing Bullet, which fused and turned into an Annihilation Bullet .
It hit—-but nothing happened .
It did absolutely zero damage to that chunk of meat .
I tired firing all my other bullets, approached it even and tried hitting it, kicking it and pushing it with my full power .
However, nothing works .
It didn’t feel like I even caused a dent on it .
The meat mass is completely intact, and it keeps on pulsating irregularly .
Somehow, something felt weird .
It’s different from any other monsters I’ve faced .
No matter what I did with any straightforward attack, it won’t work .
Then, about halfway around the meat chunk, there was something like a K-I-A Board stuck onto it .
[………] (Ryouta)
While being cautious, I tried operating that K-I-A Board .
――― 1/2 ――――
Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Strength SS
Endurance SS
Intelligence SS
Mentality SS
Speed SS
Dexterity E
Luck SS
It was my usual status .
Then suddenly, the board shone .
HP SS .
The first part of the number shone .
Then, as if responding to that, the meat chunk started cracking .
MP SS .
The second status shone, and another layer of the chunk started cracking .
Everything was the same for the other statuses .
However, when it came to the next part .
Dexterity E .
When that happened, the meat chunk didn’t crack, then the K-I-A Board and the meat chunk disappeared .
What was left was an empty room .
“I see how it is . ” (Ryouta)
So there was a gimmick to this, and it was actually that simple .
I first need to collect the 3 items, the mirror, jade, then the sword .
That is to have my stats reach SS .
Then, if I don’t have all of my status be SS, I will fail .
Since I haven’t increased my Dex to SS, I immediately understood .
“I’ll come back again for you . ” (Ryouta)
I said as I returned up to the ninth floor .