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Over the Infinite – Chapter 6 (2)

 

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Translator: mii

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「By the way, what about your progress?」

「I think that《 Two Short Sword Style 》and《 Short Sword Technique 》are correcting my move heavily. It might be due to the weapon, but I think its correction is more powerful than《 Sword Technique 》.

The smaller the category range, the stronger the correction is. I don’t know if it’s overlapping.

《 Acrobat 》makes my body easier to move, and it’s easier for me to get into an unreasonable position.

《 Spatial Grasp 》makes me easier to recognize how far my attack can reach, how far the opponent’s attack can reach, and those kinds of sense of distance.

They definitely influenced me so that I can have a match with that lizard uncle.」

In fact, his movement changed visibly during that battle.

「But in the end, my skills have no firepower, so Tsuna’s《 Power Slash 》might be the key in the final round.」

「I guess the final level boss should be hard. Is there a possibility that they win in numbers? Like those goblin team in the third level.」

「I can only predict it, but I think it’s only one. One powerful individual.」

「Do you have any basis for that?」

「Like I said, I’m only predicting it. I couldn’t call this as a clear basis to this, but… we didn’t have any problems within the first three layers, but putting aside how that uncle was exceptionally strong, I didn’t think that a rearguard will be able to break through it solo, even if the boss is half of the power of that uncle. By all means, it’s a confinement that is boldly saying that vanguard is necessary.」

That old man was quick.

I didn’t know how the wizards fought, but it didn’t seem like they would have time to cast their spells.

It would also become tough for the bow users.

「That’s why, I’m guessing that the fourth floor and beyond aren’t supposed to be cleared in solo or small groups. If we’re talking about the normal play that the management side is assuming, aren’t the adventurers supposed to die at there?

So, after they trained and spent their time in making strategy, six people with different roles will gather as comrade like what Chitta-san said. Maybe something like, “Let’s defeat a strong enemy together”?」

「So you’re saying that it’ll be even more noticeable in the fifth level?」

「I guess so. Also, if we’re looking at this as a game, there aren’t many bosses who use human-wave tactics.

Since this is a tutorial-like dungeon, there’s a convention that the situation is not going to look like that kind of image, I think.」

It was almost certain that this dungeon was built with considerable game knowledge, so there were chances that it was really a convention.

The standard RPG boss was also only one creature, and there were many patterns where the boss would attack repeatedly using each of its different body parts. Other than that, there were a few minions at best.

Even the boss who could do seven attacks in a succession was mostly fusion creature.

「Then, what do you think will come out? We might as well bet on the dinner. How about it?」

「So we’re betting? I’m fine with that, but… What does Tsuna think will come out?」

「Since it’s a gateway to success, I think it will be Cerberus, in a sense of a gatekeeper? Maybe Gargoyle or something unexpected like the statue of the two guardians Deva Kings of Aun will come out, like those moving stone statue.」

But even though I said that myself, my first impression was that it didn’t think that I could win against them, except with the Gargoyle.

Gargoyle was also dangerous if it was flying.

「Then, Tsuna wins if the boss is one of them. Let’s bet on the payment for the foods, and the loser will just watch the winner eats.」

「That’s too cruel.」

For example, if I came to a situation where I could only look at the set meal that I ate today in front of me, I would certainly cry. I couldn’t endure it.

「Then, what are your prediction?」

「Minotaur.」

Yuki was betting on only one thing. How confident.

「Your answer is sure quite clear, huh? Do you have any conviction on that?」

「Intuition. …But I don’t think that it’s going to be that far from the two-legged humanoid race, considering the tendencies of the bosses we had faced so far. If we’re talking properly about boss’ characteristic, then it’s how their size is big.

So, under that assumption, when I think of the monster that is likely to be a boss, it should be Minotaur, Orc, or Cyclops that doesn’t shoot a beam from their eye.」

Why did he put that kind of specification only for Cyclops?

Other than in those American comics, Cyclops didn’t shoot those mysterious beams, you know.

「But as the boss around the middle stage in novels and games, the image of Minotaur is quite strong in battles that are challenging the protagonist’s growth. I wonder why?」

「Probably because they are big and looks strong, but isn’t it plain to put them out as the strong enemy in the second half?」

In RPG, boss characters that appeared in the second half would bring out the uniqueness of the game, so it might have a negative effect.

In the early stages, they would aim for impact, and in the second half, there would only be small fries or intermediate enemies appearing to feel the originality.

However, the original story of Theseus must’ve been best known for him exterminating Minotaur, but the story would still continue after that. So Yuki’s image itself was not wrong.

Leaving aside whether it would be Minotaur or not, the image of that creature was mixed with that person, who was practically the first in position among those twelve people who were wearing golden armor.

Well, having the boss as humanoids wet certainly likely. What we faced until now was all two-legged humanoid too.

It was also quite possible that Yuki’s hypothesis about the aim of the management side was true.

「I don’t know if it’s Minotaur, but since I believe it’ll be a giant two-legged humanoid, there are chances that its Orc which is over 3 meter in size. I don’t feel like we can win against those monsters.」

In fact, the intimidation, power, and weight that giants brought were the threat. No matter how big I was, the case was different.

As long as the status was not an absolute number and the laws of physics were operating to some extent, just being big was a sufficient threat.

This could also be applied with the adventurers, but the difference in races physical function were huge. It was also the same with that old man from before, but if I was comparing everyone with pure physical abilities, the human was the one who almost reached near the bottom, right?

In addition, the two-handed axe with a strong impression as the weapon that Minotaur used was not even the level of it being just “scary” anymore.

「If my prediction is correct, Tsuna is definitely the damage source. My attacks are light. 」

「Don’t you have those ninja tools you used for that lizard old man? Nin nin.」

「I’m already out of stock. I want to preserve them as much as I can, but that was not the situation where I can become unwilling to use my equipment, nin nin.

The basics of rogue games are not to spare anything after all. I’m really wondering whether this dungeon is rogue-like, though.」

It would be mostly impossible to spare equipment in actual battles.

「Is this completely different from a rogue?」

「Rather, the other elements are too strong, making it, unlike rogue. I can consider this as MMO, MO, or stand-alone, but the impression of a normal RPG is stronger.

It’s not unusual that when the player dies, they will get penalties and deported back home and lost their item. Random Dungeon is also something similar to that, though.」

「Maybe this dungeon is originally like that, but those elements are added in their update? Chitta-san said that it happens every month, right?」

「I think so. I don’t know when that simple code was written, but I think what we need to be careful about is generally the same.

・Prepare as much information as possible.

・Be careful of nervousness.

・Don’t spare items.

・”I can still do this” means things are already dangerous.

It’s something like that.」

I see. Since there was no checkpoint here, he had a fair argument.

However, there was something I was really curious about after listening to Yuki. It was very important.

「I understand what you’re saying, but you haven’t really put them into practise, you know?」

He didn’t gather any information before coming to this dungeon, and he was trying to challenge the lowest level one that no one had ever cleared in a go.

「Tehe. Well, it’s also because this is just a trial. I also realize that I haven’t been following what I said pretty well.

I would be more careful if there’s a penalty or if it has no effect to us after our debut, I want to aim to return the risk here.

If we die here, we will use the normal capture style for our after debut.」

「I’m fine with this as long as you know it. There’s actually little to no risk anyway, so I like how you aim to return for the risk. I want to live a good life anyway.」

If I did our best here, I could have a good life later, so of course I could accept some risks or get tired or painful here.

Until now, my life was all about high risk and no return anyway.

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