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Volume 10 Chapter 2 Part 1

Chapter 47: Yoke

『Roxanne』
Current Levels & Equipment:
Knight Lv.34

Equipment:
Rapier
Steel Shield
Dragon Skin Jacket
Damascus Headband of Wind Resistance
Hardened Leather Gloves
Hardened Leather Boots of Willow
Sacrificial Misanga

「Alright then. Shall we get going to the Boss Room?」

「Yes, that would be nice.」

「However, we won’t be going any further than that today, and if possible, we won’t be fighting any enemies on the twenty-fourth floor. Are we clear?」

I made a very clear declaration, since I cannot allow myself to be dragged around by Roxanne and her desire to fight stronger enemies on the higher floors. That’s why I need to hit that nail firmly on the head here.

We cannot do anything strange or dangerous. We should proceed forward at a safe and slow pace.

「So we’re going to do the battle against the Floor Boss of the twenty-fourth floor tomorrow, right?」

Oi.

This is exactly what I don’t like about Roxanne, and that’s why I have to stay alerted.

「…..Ah…」

「I don’t think it’s going to be a good idea to make any such judgements at such an early stage. First of all, we should check how well are we going to do in the battle against the Floor Boss here on the twenty-third floor.」

Sherry offered a nice follow-up to my words.

That being said, if the Boss battle on the twenty-third floor turns out to be an easy one, I am afraid that Roxanne was going to insist that we move on to the twenty-fourth floor immediately after it.

「Well, let’s just wait and see how it goes.」

I also don’t have the courage to ask Roxanne about that and see what she’s going to say, so we silently entered the Waiting Room. Just like on the floors below, there was no one present here when we entered, and the door leading directly to the Boss Room opened before us immediately.

「The Floor Boss variant of a Gumi Slime is called Jelly Slime. Just like the Gumi Slime, it is resistant to all manner of physical attacks, but on the other hand it is weak against magic attacks, and all the types of magic aside from Earth Magic are its weak points. However, starting from the twenty-third floor and onwards, the Floor Bosses are going to have not one, but two additional monsters to aid them in battle.」
So instead of a slime made out of gum we’re going to be facing the one made out of Jelly? And from now on we’re going to be dealing with not one, but two additional monsters? Isn’t that going to make the things much harder for us? Sherry, next time I want you to tell me such important things ahead of time!

After Sherry’s briefing, I enter the Boss Room along with Roxanne and the others. Are you guys all okay with what she said? No, rather, am I the only one who’s not okay with what Sherry said?

Since I have Durandal not unequipped after the battle earlier, I don’t have to equip it once more.

Normally I am only using Durandal during the Boss Fights, but since there are two more enemies to deal with instead of one, then maybe I should switch to using magic to defeat them quickly?

In the first place, both Gumi Slime and Jelly Slime are resistant to physical attacks, so because of that maybe it’s really going to be better to use my Rod of Offerings for this battle instead of Durandal? On the other hand, even if it’s going to be more difficult to attack, Durandal allows me to recover both my HP and MP, and you can never go wrong with that.

When we finally entered the Boss Room, smoke gathered in the middle of it and three monsters appeared: one Jelly Slime, one Gumi Slime and one Clam Shell.

「I will focus the Boss’s attention on myself, Miria is going to take on the Gumi Slime and Vesta will fight the Clam Shell.」
「Yes, desu!」

「Understood!」

I see. If they’re going to go into battle, Roxanne is going to give them precise instructions, so there’s no need for the girls to have any longer briefings.

I used 「Abnormal Status Resist Down」on the Gumi Slime that Miria was heading towards, and after shooting a single 「Water Storm」I turned around and faced the side of the Clam Shell that Vesta was standing in front of and attacked it with Durandal. Just because I pulled out Durandal doesn’t mean that I have removed the Mage Job. It’s the first time we’re fighting this Floor Boss, so there’s no reason to be stingy about it.

Sherry is in a position where she can properly attack both Jelly Slime and the Gumi Slime without any issues.

「Did it, desu!」

By the time when we managed to dispose of the Clam Shell, Miria managed to petrify the Gumi Slime. And once that was taken acre of, the rest was going to be easy.

Everyone surrounded the Jelly Slime and started beating it up. No matter how tough or resistant to attacks it is, as long as we have Roxanne standing in front of it, it won’t be able to hurt us no matter how many attacks it’ll try to launch towards us. The same thing goes for magic attacks, since both Sherry and I have the means of cancelling its chants.

I didn’t use 「Abnormal Status Resist Down」on the Jelly Slime so taking it down took a little while, but in the end we managed to win without any major difficulties.

「You know, I think I would go as far as to say that this Floor Boss battle was not difficult at all.」

「Yes, that’s definitely true. Since master was using magic, it almost feels like too easy of a victory.」

「Right? This makes me want to try fighting it again while using a different fighting style.」

No matter what Roxanne is going to say, I have no intention of going to the twenty-fourth floor and proceeding with its Floor Boss battle. There are also some problems with that current formation of ours.

If I am to use 「Status Ailment Resist Down」, then I would prefer to use it against the Floor Boss. If I want to do just that, then I might assign Miria to fight the Floor Boss and Roxanne to take care of the small fries.

Since we’re facing against the enemy’s maximum strength, then we should answer that with our own maximum strength.

Roxanne can shut out even the Floor Boss’s attacks, rendering it pretty much powerless. With that, it won’t even matter how long the battles themselves are going to be, but is there really a limit to it?

Realistically speaking, putting Roxanne to fight against the Floor Boss is an optimal solution.

「If the monsters are going to be too far from us, it will be difficult to properly monitor their magic and Skill activations at the same time. And since we cannot really do anything about the Floor Boss, it would be good if you fought a bit closer to the rest of us, Miria.」

「Understood, desu.」

Miria is listening to Sherry’s words carefully. So she noticed that there was a problem with our earlier formation as well? As expected of her. She also thought that Roxanne being the one challenging the floor Boss was the most natural occurrence.

「So cancelling the magic and Skills of three opponents at once is going to be difficult after all?」

「Right. I can definitely cancel two Skills or magic uses from up to two monsters. To some extent I think I could even manage with the three of them, but if another monsters far away from me would start chanting a Skill or magic while I would be cancelling the ones in front of me, then I might not be able to cancel them in time.」

If Sherry could really deal with the magic and Skills of the Floor Boss and one enemy, then I could easily deal with the other with my Durandal.

Now, how difficult would this fight get if I decided to put Durandal away and only fight by using magic?

Difficulty-wise, the twenty-third floor still poses no threat to us, since the Clam Shells from the twenty-second floor and Kettle Mermaids from the twenty-first floor still appear here quite often.

The only problem is going to be when we get to the higher floors where the monsters would genuinely start using area of effect magic. If you fight with magic at that time, then you will be able to charge in even after taking a certain amount of damage.