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Chapter 208 – Part 3

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Translation: DarkHeartedAlchemist
Editor: Weasalopes

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「Is tomorrow at 6:00 AM too early?」

 

「It’s not that it’s too early, but I don’t think we’ll be able to gather literally everyone this early in the morning. Unlike you, some of these guys actually do have lives irl.」

 

「Can we at least hope that most of them will appear?」

 

「Of course you can, but I wouldn’t bet all of my money on it if I were you.」

 

「That should come as no surprise, seeing as how the quest started getting significantly harder when compared to the βstage of the game! Not everyone likes when the challenge is too hard.」

 

In my personal opinion, a player who doesn’t like facing impossible hardships has no right to call himself a player at all. But that’s just my own opinion.

Anyway, putting that matter aside.

Looks like this operation won’t score Reina’s seal of approval for itself.

Is she one of those players who hates when things get too hard?

 

「Anyway, since you fulfilled our request we’ll try to do what we can, but let me tell you this now: don’t get your hopes up too high.」

 

Well.

That was a little disappointing of Fina-san, but I can’t tell her that!

When she gets angry, she can be scarier than a raging Mammoth, and I certainly didn’t want to direct her wrath towards myself.

I’m not that suicidal yet.

「All right, so, what should we do for now?」

 

「Okay, time to call it a day for today!」

 

「I wonder what party composition should I use tomorrow?」

 

「Huh?」

 

Adel?  Irina?

They both turned their eyes away from me when I tried making eye contact.

「I’m logging out when I’m done talking with Mio.」

「Same here.」

 

Hmm….

In that case it looks like I’ll have a fuckload of free time before the operation tomorrow.

 

「Guess I’ll hunt a little bit more.」

 

「You still want to do it? Don’t you have enough?」

 

「Yes. I want to raise my strength as much as I can.」

 

Let’s just be honest here.

Yup.

I’m not lying! I honestly want to get stronger and stronger to continue to challenge stronger opponents!

 

「Maybe try to slow down with the grind a bit, or else people will start to call you a Battle-holic.」

 

Fina says so and laughs.

Considering one of my newly obtained titles, she doesn’t even know how sick of a burn that was just now.

I could only nod.

 

Now.

Where do I go from here?

There are not many options to choose from, sadly.

The first thing I did was to log out once at the Relay Portal.

Just to be on the safe side in case I died.

Death is so bothersome, honestly.

I return all Summoned Monsters and Log Out.

And then Log In right away.

 

Let’s review the current formation of Summoned Monsters.

Tigris, Shishiko, Telomere, Naias.

So far this setup seems to be working nicely.

The remaining position can go to Strand for the purpose of Leveling him Up.

After I summoned him, he crawled on top of Tigris’s body and tangled himself around it.

A monster piggyback ride!

Well, that should be fine I guess.

Some of my monsters have been piggybacked before, so I am used to it.

But Strand’s AGI is definitely a stat that will have to be raised considerably in the near future.

 

 

The Deva Emperors?

They are already waiting in line.

I understand because it’s closer than where the 12 Heavenly Generals are.

And I’m going to challenge them again.

Is the place empty?

It should be, with all the players still at the Relay Portal.

But there is also a plan for tomorrow.

If I want to take the Heavenly Generals Challenge again, I’d best finish it up by 9:00 PM.

Okay, moving in!

As usual, the place was littered with Orcs.

But I got myself a nice drop from Orc Leader at least.

 

「Material」Tsavorite quality B- Rarity 3 weight 0+

Green garnet. Higher in value than red garnet. Popular as a catalyst for magic due to its high transparency. Tends to be expensive.

 

Hmm….

Good.

I’m glad「Dismantle」 didn’t screw me over this time.

 

No one was fighting against the Heavenly Generals.

Just as expected.

At least I didn’t have to fight that disgusting Glow Lich no more.

However, there was nothing at the appearance point of Gozu and Mezu.

Well, it can’t be helped, right?

 

The time is 1:40 PM.

I still have a lot of time to spare.

Now then.

Who should we fight?

Why don’t we go in the same order we did the last time we were here?

So the first enemy…

Uhm, what was his companion…?

Well, no matter. Whatever it is I’m sure we’ll be able to pull through.

Heavenly General Mekira Lv.2

Heavenly General Target Subjugation Active

Battle Position: Ground Wind Attribute Fire Resistance

 

Raging Cock Lv.9

Monster Target Subjugation Active

Battle Position: Ground, Air  Wind Attribute

 

What?

Something seems different about those guys.

The number of Rampaging Cocks is certainly high.

There are four of them.

Oops.

Is this some kinda trap?

Or maybe they changed classes, much like my monsters?

 

「True Practiced Spirit!」

 

Be that as it may, our strategy will remain unchanged!

I didn’t know how bad of a statement that was until it was too late.

 

《Summoned Monster『Strand』 Level Up! 》

《Please allocate 1 Bonus Point to increase the value of the statistic of your choosing.》

 

Somehow we managed to beat them.

Strand certainly managed to Level Up, but at what cost?

He got hit by one of the cocks and got afflicted with something really bad because of it.

What is shown in the virtual window of his status was a sign of my absolute carelessness.

I think it’s safe to say that we’re lucky that we didn’t end up dead because of it.

 

But let’s put that aside for now and Level Strand Up.

The stat which got increased was VIT.

The other point will be placed into INT.

 

Strand Sea Snake Lv3 → Lv4 (↑ 1)

DEX 10 (-6)

AGI 13 (-8)

INT 10 (-6) (↑ 1)

STR 12 (-7)

VIT 20 (-12) (↑ 1)

SPI 9 (-5)

Skills:

Bite Entangle Water Breathing Heat Detection Presence Concealment Poison

 

Poor Strand.

Those negative modifiers to his stats hurt me physically.

But I have no right to complain.

I was too careless, there’s no other excuse for it.

I got too used to the previous version of the enemy, and now I had to pay the price for it.

Mekira’s name changed to Heavenly General Mekira.

But I failed to notice that.

I overlooked the fact that the enemy was of an entirely different rank then I expected him to be.

Basically, there is no change in the enemies’ battle style.

But his fighting ability is different from what I remember from the last time I fought against it.

I was also too careless around the Rampaging Cocks.

Over half of them managed to avoid Shishiko’s breath attack.

As a result, Strand suffered quite a bit of damage.

Fortunately Telomere saved our asses, but Shishiko was also quite damaged.

On the flipside, Tigris and Naias are mostly intact.

 

There’s no use reflecting on my mistakes! Pondering them over won’t stop me from making them in the future. That’s just the kind of guy I am.

I am fighting against true warriors here.

The only strategy I need is to strengthen my vanguard to match their strength with my own!

I might be getting myself into an event again, but if I do, I will see it through to the end.

Who’s next?

Oh, a classic fellow named Basara.

I can’t say I remember much from fighting him.

I think this guy had… Melt Attribute I guess?

His companion is a Hellhound.

A speedy monster with Fire and Dark Attributes.

It seems that I will have to strengthen us with spells even further.

If I won’t do that, we might end up getting ourselves into a lot of needless trouble.

I cast the Resist-type spells on my entire party.

I wonder if resists stack together?

Or is it that there can only be one type of enchantment in place at any given time?

Well, I will have to test it out on the fly I guess.

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