YM778.TV Chapter 10: Area Boss
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「Hurry up, let’s try those skills!」
「I thought you would say that…though, other than the monsters in this north area, we already beat them in a single hit. I guess we have no choice to try them here…」
「Now that you mention it, you are right!」
「In that case, let’s go and find some goblins that are not in a big group. A 「Al-miraj」 at this level would probably get one-shot after all, even if you wanted to try out 「Act of desperation」…」
「Hyahah! A new monster!」
「Listen to me!」
Yumir rushed at the 「Al-Miraj」.
I’m glad, it’s only one…seems like she has at least heard about half of what I said.
It’s just that, there’s no meaning in activating the skill like that!
Yumir activated 「Act of desperation」 and attacked the monster.
She’s only lowering her own defense here…is she trying to self-impose a challenge upon herself?
「Why you!」
Failed.
「Take this!」
Missed.
「Why!?」
She’s not hitting it.
Having a higher level, its speed had also increased accordingly, Yumir was unable to follow its movements.
Yesterday, in order to gain experience, we gave preference to hunting a big amount of them, she probably thought of them as low-level monsters.
While having difficulty dealing with it, lots of them had started to gather…
「Gyoeh!」
「Uwah…」
Yumir was hit by a multitude of horn attacks simultaneously.
Having her whole body skewered here and there, her HP vanished instantly.
Well, when it comes to the sense of pain, it would only be at the level of being poked by a finger.
Even then, the sight in front of me was quite…shocking.
How should I say this, I didn’t have time to cast any healing or supporting spells…
Since we hadn’t dealt any damage to them this time, I just stood still until the group of 「Al-Miraj」 left.
…Is it fine now?
「She even died while standing…is she Musashibo Benkei?」
I opened another 「Holy water」 and sprinkled it on top of her head.
She’s gradually becoming better at dying…
「…Hah!」
「Oh, you are back. How did it feel, dying pointlessly?」
「The fluffy ones are scary…they are scary…Wa-kun, those fluffy things with horns…」
「She turned into a child!? Hey you, you are trying to use that as an excuse to gloss over your failure, right!? Let’s go earn enough to cover the expenses of you wasting that 「Holy water」, hurry up!」
「Tsk, he noticed…」
Even going as far as to call me in that nostalgic way…
However, we only have 1 「Holy water」 remaining, you know?
What are we going to do now?
「Hey, Hind. If we defeated a monster that is isolated fast, it would be efficient, right?」
Towards the troubled me, Yumir made an unexpected suggestion.
「Hmm? Let’s see…by quickly killing an isolated monster, you mean to use 「Act of desperation」 and defeat it before more gather, right?」
「That’s right」
「Since there are a few players here, it would take a while to find them…but well, it doesn’t sound like a bad idea. It’s true that as long as you manage to hit them they would take around double the damage, even if it was a goblin, it would probably die within 2 hits. As long as you don’t get one-shot, you probably won’t die after all」
「In that case, want to give it a try? Going back would be a pain, I want to try staying here」
「Hmm…it’s quite the decent suggestion for someone like you…」
「Right!? …Hmm? Right now, didn’t you just make fun of me?」
「It was just your imagination」
Fields in this game are quite vast after all…when she said that it would take time to move around, she was right.
There was some truth to what Yumir had said.
It’s better if you don’t have to go back.
「In that case, let’s do this. Once we die once and use the remaining bottle, we’ll go back. Until then, we’ll remain here. What do you think?」
「Oh! That means you are depending on me, right!?」
「If it’s a「Al-Miraj」 I should be able to defeat it in a single strike too. Keep that in mind when fighting」
「Umu, understood!」
After that, Yumir showed great effort as if to cancel her previous carelessness.
Against 「Goblins」 she perfectly hit them and retreated repeatedly, she soon got accustomed to the 「Al-Mirajs」 speed too.
Level 13,14,15…when I realized, we were close to level 16 and our weapons were on the verge of breaking, we were able to successively defeat our enemies without anyone dying.
After reaching level 15, our stats were high enough to deal with groups of enemies, so we fought them normally.
While sorting the item drops in our inventories, we took a breath after finishing healing the damage we had taken.
「We did it…this is amazing」
「Fufun! See!?」
「The way you are able to concentrate at times like this, does surprise me」
The truth is, that is a part of Miyu I respected since we were small.
Should I call it a latent power? It was like a power that was displayed in a scene of high pressure. I won’t say that directly to her though.
Because of that, the times she usually fails or is careless are too many to count though…
「However, the endurance of our weapons is at its limits. Let’s return to the village and have the old man repair them」
「You are right. Though, where is this place? I was too concentrated in defeating the enemies, I get the feeling we went in quite deep」
「You are right. We should turn back her-」
*thump thump*
「…Hey, Yumir. I’m getting a really unpleasant feeling here」
「Such a coincidence Hind, me too. I would love to say that I’m looking forward to it, but that would only be when we were in perfect condition-」
The sound approached us.
The tremors made it obvious that it was a big creature.
It was not a sound that the previous monsters would make.
「Guaaaaaa!!!」
「It came out! Ogre!? Level 20!? It’s impossible for us!」
「R-retreat! Retreat!!!」
The three meter 「Ogre」 swung down a lump of iron to attack us.
The soft earth of the plains was gouged out and sediment started to vigorously scatter…
「Adadada! M-my HP! Does the flying sediment count as an attack!?」
「Hind! I’m faster so I’ll act as a decoy!」
「Ah, you idiot, stop!」
「It should have enough endurance for one more strike! Take this!」
Yumir’s 「Slash」 cut into the ogre’s arm.
A bit of the enemy’s HP was shaved, but since she couldn’t take the sword out, she was hanging in midair.
「E-eh?」
「Let go of the sword!」
I cast 「Guard up」 on Yumir in a hurry.
The ogre swung the arm that was cut, along with the sword, Yumir was dropped…
「Gah!」
It swung its club.
Naturally, she had no means to dodge in midair.
「Ginyaa!」
「What are you doing!?」
Yumir was blown away while still holding onto the sword.
Wait, she got one-shot!? With her HP gauge at 0, she started to roll on the ground flashily.
My support spell didn’t help at all…wait, it’s not the time to think about that!
The place Yumir was blown off to, was luckily a good direction to run away from the ogre.
I threw the last 「Holy water」 and started to run while carrying Yumir, who was slowly standing up.
「It hurts! Hind, isn’t your way of carrying me too sloppy!?」
「Shut up! It’s not the time to be carrying you gently! -Hye! That’s scary!」
It swung the club horizontally to the ground.
We kept running like that…once we reached the central area, the ogre finally let us go.
…So it’s area of action is the whole north area…isn’t that too wide…
I’m so glad there had not been any players in our path.
Seems like the average players are still in the Dondery Forest and Homa plain areas.
「It was overflowing with killing intent, huh…Hind」
「Hah, hah…go die over there one time! It showed that kind of evil intentions from the developers…it looked like one of those beginner killer monsters」
「Well, I did die one time like the developers intended!」
「Don’t put on airs! If you had let go of the blade, you wouldn’t have died! Why-」
「How could I throw away the first weapon you have made! I won’t let go even if I die!」
「Eh…it was because of that? …hah, geez. Even though it’s just game data, this girl…」
「Hmm? Right now, what did you murmur at the end? Hind」
「Nothing. Don’t mind it」
「?」
She sure has a strong sense of duty…if she says that was the reason, there’s no way that I can say anything about the matter anymore.
…That being said, it was a very messy fight comparable to that of launch day.
We have run out of items, our weapon endurance is low too, so we decided to return to the village.
So, we returned to the plaza in 「Altrowa Village」.
It was nearly 12pm if I don’t sleep soon the day will change.
Yumir seems reluctant, but she asked me if it was about time or not.
「Is this all for today, Hind?」
「It should be. However, before I forget, I should go and fix the weapo-」
*beep beep beep* There’s an abnormality occurring with the user’s body!
The VRX3500 will force close in 5 seconds.
5,4,…
What!? Abnormality!?
「Y-Yumir!? There’s a warning coming from the VR gear for some reason!」
「Hah? …Wataru, don’t tell me that you forgot to lock your roo-」
I didn’t lock the door, when I tried to say that.
…The connection has been terminated.
After hearing that message, my consciousness was cut from the world of TB.