BXBX NOVEL 31 Episode 23: Man Eater And The Destruction
"You can't. Pretty girl tentacle attack is good in itself, but when you're already dead, you don't adore it at all."
Mio is right. Even with a girl who can't feel alive hanging, it's just pitiful and has no erotic vibe at all. Normally, if it's a preserved meal, I think you can keep it alive, but what about there?
A: The rotting sprinkles taste best.
... Seriously?
Refresh your mind and check your maneater and surroundings.
"Ugh, just give me this far enough. Drop your stats a little and make it combat training."
"Okay. How do I fight this time?
Sakura responds to my remarks. Hmm...
"Well, let's change our tastes this time, and focus on ranged warfare. The main force is Sakura and Mio, and we'll support it. Apparently, the man-eater moves slowly, and if the acid and poison don't get close, it's not a threat. The tentacles would be somewhat safe if they were far away."
Even if the damage is small, I don't really like scenes where the pretty girl's skin is poisoned or acidic. I wish I was acid in my clothes.
"After that, I'm going to retrieve Yurica's body"
"Why is that? No particular reason, though?
Surely, from what I've said so far, you won't see any reason to retrieve Yurika's body. But things have changed.
"It's a personal emotion, but I want to stop feeding people to maneaters"
I need to keep an eye out for him more than his shadow flickers.
"Okay. Then I will approach and collect it."
Maria bought a collector and left, because Maria would be the fastest. When it comes to competence, it's competence.
Dora can take it.
That's it. Skills have given Dora everything, so it's already LV7. Then you won't even get caught by the tentacles.
"You should say you have both. It's just that Dora hasn't let us have much air combat. It can be tough if you're unfamiliar. I'm going to leave it to Maria this time."
"I'll take care of it. I'll make sure you succeed."
"Mu"
Dora, who was not chosen, is peeling. Lovely. If you find Dora cute, you just have to stroke her. Naturally I stroked it.
Eh heh.
"It will be what. I'm supposed to be the one who got you chosen, but I feel so sorry for you"
Looks like Dora's in a better mood. But Maria looks a little sad. You just have to stroke it, right? Naturally I stroked it. Or rubbed my ear.
"Whoa, whoa..."
Still responding well. But it's a monstrous forest here. What? I rubbed it. Don't you say? Ha, ha.
"Maria, I hope you can use 'Warp' to come back to us when you collect Yurica."
"Ha... no, I'm fine. We're going to cut off some tentacles as we go back."
Maria, back in sanity, said that. Maria's ability to evade would also allow her to sever the tentacles that strike her as she returns here.
"If you think it's dangerous, use 'warp' right away."
"Yes, I understand"
Incidentally, all of Sakura's including 'Warp' has been mastered. Anything, it seems that the magic you created once can be recreated at a relatively low cost from next, and you've got everyone's share of the magic ready, but it seems to have been done with less than half the previous MP. Does it feel like development costs and mass production costs?
Then we discussed it a little and the final tactics were set.
We're ready to retrieve Mr. Yurika.
This one's ready.
Me, too.
"Then the battle begins in five seconds. Five, four, three, two, one, go!
My signal leaps Maria. Maria jumped from the top of the hill near Maneater towards Maneata and cut off her tentacles to retrieve Yurica.
I was not hesitant to let him use it because the top of the hill was a blind spot in placement. We're on the extension line that connected Maria to Maneater. To be able to run straight over here after Yurica's retrieval.
The tentacles are cut off and the maneater who notices Maria releases the tentacles. Maria cuts off her approaching tentacles as she approaches this one.
"Fireball!
Sakura unleashes magic. The angle is upward, so it won't interfere with Maria's behavior.
"Yes!"
Mio releases a bow. Actually, apart from Mio and Sakura positioning, I decided I should attack them from two directions rather than solidify them in one place. Because of the high firepower of the individual, it would be better to disperse the tentacles and destroy each.
I was assigned to Sakura's escort and Dora and Serra to Mio's. Maria is scheduled to join me. Serra was not a shield, but had her spear and one-handed sword equipped so that she could turn around small. Maria and Serra are the tentacle-crushing clerks, and me and Dora are the basic tactics to deal with demons dropping by.
"Huh, ha."
I can hear Maria hanging. Maria has shown enough evasion to suspect that she may even have eyes on her back. How do I get my tentacles pulled closer from behind? Ah, a map.
Maria came pretty close. Give me this far and my tentacles will be much less threatening. Tentacles have also come to Sakura and Mio because they have made several ranged attacks so far, but they have been rounded off without difficulty.
The man-eater itself is getting a little closer, but since we're moving this one along with it, the distance won't clog.
"All right, Maria, thank you for your hard work. Don't hesitate to raise your firepower from here."
"" "" Yes!
Yes.
Keeping a constant distance, the maneater doesn't seem to have an effective hit, and HP is shredded more and more. The number of tentacles has also decreased a lot, and at last even the tentacles that hung the preserved food have participated in the attack. Not a big threat, of course.
"Don't be finished soon. Don't hit the acid that's still in the center hole after you knock it down."
Where HP cut 30%, the man eater suddenly starts to nod.
"What!?
"The demons are closing in from around us!
"Could it be a fierce mode?
Oh, it's common when it's a game, right? A boss who enhances or has more people when his HP is down... As we talked about, the demons around us came together all at once. Did you even serve some weird pheromones?
"For now, Dora and I are dedicated to the annihilation of the demons around us."
Okay.
"Also pay attention to the movement of the man-eater itself. Maybe it's changed somewhat."
"" Yes!
Maria and Serra, the escorts, respond.
"We're almost there with the remaining HP. Fire squad push in all at once!
"" Yes!
If Sakura and Mio can be sharpened, we win. The tentacles and the man-eater itself moved a little faster, but not more than they could handle. There are many demons around us, but they are not so strong that they are annihilated by me and Dora.
It didn't take that long to get the rest of Maneater's HP to 0. Falling maneater. Acid splashes around, making noises with juju.
"Huh. It took a long time."
"Right. But given this status, it seems natural. Unexpectedly, their status is high."
"So is that. Sakura, Mio, how'd it go? What's the mass battle at the center of the ranged attack?
This was my first fight with Sakura and Mio as the main focus, but I think it worked surprisingly well. How about personally?
"Right, that's surprisingly something to fight for. But I think it was difficult without the escort."
"Well, you don't have to worry about that because there's no such thing as letting the rear guard stand on the arrow without an escort"
I think the guard who will do that will say:
"I don't think it's going to take long for us guards to attack because we're not in a streak."
"Right. If you didn't use the magic you put in or normally < no chant >, it would take time. Bows don't have the means to save that time."
"Well, a bow isn't a weapon that shoots in a row..."
It's more than a weapon trait. It looks like there are no guns in this world, and even if there are, the rules are different, so I don't know if I can expect normal power... Probably what, but if you build a gun, you can't expect the original world-wide power to be corrected for attack power.
Is there anything else called a long-range, stretching weapon? No, I can't think of any. I guess I'll have to ask Mio to give up.
In the meantime, we decided to retrieve the demons we defeated. When I defeated the demon I called in Anger Mode, I couldn't afford to retrieve it.
"Speaking of which, Sakura..."
"What is it, Jen?
"So you can resurrect the dead?
Second, I cut out what I was thinking. Sakura shows off the sleigh she thinks about. Probably making sure it's possible.
"You can't. Not enough magic."
"Lack of magic means you can make it as long as you have magic?
"Yes, perhaps..."
I thought it might not be possible, but it seemed possible.
"What? Your husband. Even Yurica will bring you back to life?
"I'm going to do that for once. It's not good intentions. There's a human body that's not even hostile, so I just figured it out. There are some experimental aspects."
In case my buddy dies, I used resuscitation magic then, but I failed, because then it won't go out of style. It would be just right to experiment in advance.
Wait... Then Yurika won't be in trouble unless she treats him like he's missing. If this forest anomaly persists, a massive sweep battle or something could begin. If Yurika remains missing with an anomaly in the woods, she could be treated as dead. Then it would be nice to decide that there was no abnormality in this forest.
"Let's get this forest back to normal to treat Yurika like she's missing. If you're missing in a normal forest, it'll be better than death."
"I know what you're trying to say, but what are you going to do to make it normal?
"How about we wipe out all the plant-based demons and wait for them to return to nature and their original surroundings"
"You mean sweep battle. Finally, it's my show!
"Everywhere."
Dora, you shouldn't remember those words.... Is it my fault?
In the meantime, the policy came together by saying sweep battles. If you look at the map, you can tell the leak, so there won't be a problem.
"Later, plant-based demons are surprisingly high in MP and magic. A sweep could make a lot of magic for the resurrection of the dead. By the way, you know how many percent right now?
"Uh, Jen, that's roughly 20% of your total magic power."
That sounds pretty harsh. You're going to take a while if you don't make money aiming.
"It's a corner, so why don't we all fight individually?
"Individually? Me and Mio, too?
Sakura looks surprised. I just had a long-range main fight right now, and it could be quite harsh as soon as I had a personal fight or something.
"Oh, of course, the status goes up to almost maximum. I think it's a good opportunity to try acting completely different from me."
"Speaking of which, we've never fought without Jen."
"So is that. It's bad for you forever, maybe just fine."
Sakura and Mio don't seem to have any problems either.
Let's get you together.
"I'm sorry, Dora, but good luck."
Ugh.
"Become?"
"Yeah, good luck..."
Dora seems to have accepted it, too.
"As far as I'm concerned, I have no problems. Just don't Jen do too dangerous things. I don't care if Jen finds herself in a crisis in a place where no one is watching..."
I'm so worried about you. For once, I'm going to be pretty strong.
"No, I'm not doubting Jen's help. I'm just asking for peace of mind."
"Okay. But naturally, no one has to."
"" "" "" Yes!
That's a good reply. The status is almost completely open, so if there's nothing wrong with it, I'll be fine.
"Individual battles of extermination. This is the situation where I (I) seem to be most active."
Sella confidently says. I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean firepower.
"Wait a minute, please"
But Maria put the wait on it.
"What is it?
"I want to be of service to Jen. So we can't give you the number one activity"
It was just a declaration of war.
"Um, I know how Maria feels, and I'd give it to you if I could... but it's my (me) show in the corner..."
Looks like I'm having a little trouble as a Selah too. I mean, aren't you too hungry for Serra's turn? Since the food hunger has been quenched, have you become hungry instead?
"Well, let's have a fight. Which one of us can defeat a lot of demons?"
"That's good. Compete between the same avant-garde. Of course, there's no grudge in winning or losing."
"Naturally. Because Jen doesn't like his men fighting."
"Right. 'Compete' would be nice, but I don't want 'fight' to stop."
Apparently, the two attackers were going to compete, so I even added a word to it as far as I was concerned.
"If the crusade counts, you can count it on me, so I promise to make a fair decision."
"" Please ""
Thus began our first full personal battle, and the crusade between Maria and Sera.
"For now, the goal is to wipe out all forest demons in an hour. Then dissolve!
"" "" Yes!
Yes.
Dora's the only one with more variations in your response.
If a member with full status goes on a crusade individually, of course, but it won't be long. So in the first 30 minutes, the demons of this forest were wiped out. There's no more powerful demon than a man-eater, and there's really nothing like talking about it at all.
I promised Maria I wouldn't be in danger, so I was just fighting Chimatima with as little as possible to deal with multiple demons. Shit, dull.
"It's my win"
"It was a shame... If you don't hang out with Dora there..."
I'm sorry.
"No, because that's my mistake..."
The battle between Maria and Serra saw an increase in armaments in Maria. The difference is 10. Serra approached Dora along the way, saying the crusade count had temporarily decreased. Perhaps Maria had also thought about the area and chosen the one with as many enemies as possible.
I couldn't be number one, but I'm pretty sure it worked, and Serra would be somewhat satisfied.
"Melee's tough, but you can handle it with a knife."
I'm giving Mio a knife as a subwepon. Not really, I'm sure you shouldn't have turned up, but it's a problem that you don't have any melee skills at all.
"Now I can chant as I wield my wand"
Sakura says, as I did at the bandits, it is ideal to chant while fighting multiple opponents in close proximity. Speaking of which, that happened.
"As far as the map goes, let's not leave any demons behind. Do you want to see the next demon that pops before you go home? It could be rare."
Speaking of rare demons, three rainbow mashes came out during the sweep. Me, Dora and Sella took down one at a time. I don't even feel the definition of a rare demon is shaky.
"Sakura, by the way, how long is it now?
It's not a very polite question, but it answers if you immediately guessed.
"40%, gone"
Which means you have to earn three more times, just like this one. Knock down a lot of MP plant systems for one minute in the woods. This alone sounds pretty harsh. You can't just rely on collecting MPs, let's just keep it in the corner of our heads.
Looks like the demon popped due to the passage of time when we were talking about that. Which one?
Doriad (rare and abnormal species)
LV40
< Secret Drug Formulation LV6 > < Cultivated LV5 > < HP Absorption LV4 > < MP Absorption LV4 >
Notes: Demons, also known as tree spirits. Sometimes long-lived trees change.
Rare and unusual species! I want it. All right, let's take a taste.
"I'm gonna taste what I just popped."
"Which... Wow, so many things are amazing."
Tame level is..., a little short. Convert non-refundable points to make up for what's missing.
Demon Tutorial LV6up
All right, you can go with this.
Head to Doriad's popped spot. What a coincidence, it was the first point where Maneater was. Doriad was like a girl 1 m tall, her skin was woody brown, her hair leafy green and stretched to the ground. Because I was just born, or I was looking up there in a blur.
"Well, I'm gonna go for a minute"
"Be careful"
Approaching Doriad. I thought it was a strong one because I call it the same mutant species as a man-eater, the same level. But when you look at the status, it's pretty weak. Probably someone with unusual skills of unusual species.
I'm pretty close but I'm not responding at all. Let out a formation for Tame for now and hit it.
> Tamed Doriad.
> name Doriad.
Why? I could Tame again without a fight. Did you do something to be admitted?
"Something's done, Tame..."
"Again? This is Dora's second example."
Nana Ma
"That's true..."
"That's Jen."
"That's really a lot out of standard..."
Activate the Contract Bond (Engage Link) and ask why.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Jen. Quick question, why did you accept Tame?
"You can't win..., lazy..."
That's a much more impatient voice. You sound like a vegetarian character, not because you're confused right after birth. That said, I plan on getting you to work harder than you were taemed.
I'll have to name it next time.
> Name it "Leah"
> name it "midri"
> name it "itchy"
Yeah. I knew you had itches. I guess the first candidate is Midori. Doriad's drizzle and botanical greenery aren't bad. Wait, the words "green" and "edge" are similar, so you can twist and itch... No.
"Your name is Midori."
"Ok... Regards..."
> Apathetic Doriad midri became one of us.
Yeah, satisfied.
But there's a quick problem...
"I don't want to move..."
This Doriad apparently doesn't like to travel on his own. Is it because it's a tree?
Since it was not clear, I decided to use the "portal" to carry it to the carriage. By the way, I checked the pop one more time and decided to conclude that there were no anomalies in this forest because normal fangwolves were occurring.
"Calm down..."
When he entered the carriage, it was a word that Doriad, who moved to the first corner, groaned. Don't you like trees where the sun hits? Why are we going to a sunless corner?
I decided not to think too deeply about it even though I felt a pretty drawstring smell there. Hobbies are people (?) Each.
"You're my paced girl."
"Right. But it's not a harmful personality, and you have to be good friends."
"Right..., nice to meet you"
Nice to meet you...
I'll react if I talk to you from here, so I guess I'm just saying I won't talk to you from myself.
"By the way, what can you do about this kid's skills?
Maria has been asking questions. As soon as I heard that line, I felt Midori tremble in a freak. You got something for me?
Secret Medicine Formulation
Be able to formulate secret medicines that are different from normal medicines.
Yeah. I have no idea. What's so different from dispensing?
A: Don't hesitate to ask yourself.
I can't hide my surprise at the rejection of the exact answer.
"Secret medicine formula, will you?
I asked Midori. I tremble freaking out once again.
"I have to..., no...?
"Oh, do it"
Even if they stare at you with their lukewarm eyes, there's more to it than Dr. Help said. You can't break it.
"Okay..., bin... there is...?
"Oh, there is."
Hand over the empty bottle of potion.
"Please... go outside..."
"Is that absolutely necessary?
"Yeah... but... please..."
I can't help it if they say so. We all get out of the carriage. After a while...
"Fine..."
That's what they said, so when I went inside, there was a clear liquid in the bottle. I'll try to appraise it.
Secret drug nectar
Notes: Kamikaze is said to cure all diseases.
"Midori made this?
"Yeah..."
"How did you make that?
"Eh..."
I dyed my cheeks red and told him to whine. Yeah, I kind of understood. Akan, here.
In the meantime, I decided not to ask in detail.
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Status (change minutes only)
Jin Tang Jen
LV45
Skill:
Equipment: Spiritual Knife/Unfinished
Sakura Kinoshita
LV37
Skill:
Equipment: Ruby's Wand
Dora.
LV35
Skill:
Equipment: Monk Battlestaff, Steel
Mio
LV30
Skill:
Equipment: Fairy Short Bow
Maria.
LV40
Skill: Assassination LV5new
Equipment: One Hand Iron Sword
Serra.
LV20
Equipment: Great Sword, Partisan, Kiteshield
Tamo
LV15
Skill:
Midori
LV40
Skills: < secret drug formulation LV6new > < cultivated LV5new > < HP absorption LV4new > < MP absorption LV4new >