So uh… Shadyna has acquired a new… errand girl?
Everyone has departed to protect Tyrel. Mera's detachment is going down south, as this part of the town has completely fallen to the horde. Welp. Let's hope this house doesn't get destroyed while we are inside.
…In this case, aren't I the one in danger?! I am stuck in here alone with a delusional waitress!
_ Shadyna: Anyway… I am going to mine some ores. Are you sure you want to come?
Why do you look so disappointed,
Many of my crafting recipes require metals. Very few creatures actually drop them, so [Mining] is the best way to acquire metals in any significant amount. Obviously, a LOT is needed considering how many things I have crafted in the last few days.
_ Miel (Party): Hessy, is my appeal so low
You are still not letting this go?!
_ Hessy (Party): Why don't you ask the degenerate patrons instead of me?!
I can only sigh as the party starts bickering about my preferences.
And here I thought she had been saner during our first meeting… Not social my butt, they are just less outwardly insane!!!
Sigh. I wonder what the patrons think of her when she's at the tavern's counter…
We go to the deepest part of the basement, to the corner where a small stone tablet is hung on the dirt wall. I really should spend some time refurbishing this part of the house…
_ Shadyna: I'm going ahead first. There is enough charge for you, but please wait a few seconds for the cooldown.
_ Miel: ???
Of course she would be puzzled. Oh well, actions speak louder than words.
_ Shadyna: [
I am engulfed in a blinding light before disappearing from the basement.
_ Miel (Party): I am going to explore
_ Mera (Party): My my~
_ Melodyn (Party): Your body will not be forgotten.
_ Choruse (Party): After Hessy,
_ Hessy (Party): I CAN HEAR YOU!!!
Where's my [Insanity Resistance], Sateri~?
I am now back to my secret base in the crystalline valley. In front of me is a hung tablet similar to the one I just used. Well, if I teleport and have to walk a long way to return, it will be a pain!
Let's wait until
*FLASH*
The waitress appears from the column of light a few steps away from me. So that's how it looks like when someone teleports huh.
_ Miel: This is…
_ Shadyna: My "house" in the valley. This is where I do [Mining].
She's inspecting the surroundings. The crystalline walls and ceilings are dead giveaways, even if she doesn't check the map.
_ Miel: The raid is not attacking this place?
_ Shadyna: My base's only entrance is below the surface, so the raid is not going at it.
Since I have the [Recall Tablet] now, I can simply remove the entrance altogether. I decided against it, however, because water is used in [Cooking] and [Alchemy], which is in surplus in the lake! And a hidden dungeon is no good if some random adventurers cannot find it by chance before dying horribly in it!
_ Miel: I thought it was because of the symbols on the walls…
_ Shadyna: There is nothing on the walls.
_ Miel: But…
_ Shadyna: There is NOTHING on the walls.
There is definitely nothing on the walls, and I definitely did not forget to erase anything after committing any kind of self-humiliation act!
_ Miel: …The tablet, is it an [Alchemy] item?
_ Shadyna: It is part [Alchemy].
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- Creator:
- Quality:
- Type:
- Enhancement: 12
- Enchantment:
- MEN: 24
- Alchemy: Recall Lv.5
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_ Shadyna: Rechargeable or enchanted items have their own MP pool, and having MP regeneration skill as enchantment refills the pool gradually, even if not equipped.
As far as I know, skill-granting weapons, like my [Refinery Dagger], are the only way to have more than one skill on a weapon without it being a hybrid item.
Meanwhile, [Alchemy] is the only item type that can invoke an active skill without smacking people. Even if
_ Shadyna: And I added MEN to it for good measure. I haven't tested if it actually gives more MP to the item though. I just made it earlier today after all~
_ Miel: …A teleport device…
_ Shadyna: Correct~ Maintenance-free too, because [Alchemy] items don't break by usage like weapons and armors!
_ Miel: Sateri-chan, please patch this exploit ASAP.
_ Shadyna: No~ It's working as intended~
_ Miel: But this is more powerful than expected, these hybrid items. Players think of them as trash because of the low stats, without exploring the hidden mechanics behind it…
She's mumbling meta stuff. Immersion broken~
_ Shadyna: Oh well, please play with it as you please. I'm going to mine now.
Surprisingly, she is still following me.
We go to the far end of the cavern, where there's nothing but a wooden door with a sign "Mining" above it.
_ Miel (Party): Goodbye everyone, I'm going to be forced into manual labor for the rest of my life until my body is broken.
_ Elri (Party): You are totally enjoying this aren't you…
_ Shadyna (Party): How rude! I am not enslaving anyone~
If anything, it's actually WORSE if she works in this area.
On the other side of the door is a small hole leading down that can barely fit one person. A ladder and some shafts are keeping the hole from regenerating.
_ Miel: Am I going to be spending the rest of my life down there?
_ Shadyna: Of course not~ You will die if you go in there you know~
_ Miel: Is there a monster with…
_ Shadyna: There's nothing down there. Please stop branding me as a ruthless dungeon master~
At the ceiling which is only a bit higher than the door, a "device" is installed.
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- Creator:
- Quality:
- Type:
- Enhancement: 14
- Enchantment:
- STR: 27
- PAT: 650
- Alchemy: Piercing Arrow Lv.5
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_ Miel: A reverse personnel mine?
_ Shadyna: A bow, probably?
_ Miel: …Probably?
It is a weapon, with ammunition. However, I think it's more akin to a cannon rather than a bow. I am not sure how Sateri would categorize the two weapon types, and I can name my crafted items after [Creation] reached level 5 so I don't care~
Bows, or ranged weapons in this game, have this whacky enchanting pitfall similar to shields. Because arrows are the thing dealing damage, enchanted offensive skills on the bow do not apply. They do apply if you use the bow to whack the enemies. PAT and MAT of bow do increase the arrow's total damage, for some unknown reasons.
Sateri is re~ally wary of skill stacking huh. Please don't nerf my stacked up gears~
[Alchemy] type because I want to use it without have to equip it, simple as that.
[Construction] type is to keep it in place.
[Piercing Arrow] is the ranged skill used for… well, piercing the target. The damage ignores some defense, but that's not what I'm after.
_ Shadyna: It shoots these.
I present her a cylinder that is smaller than the empty barrel of the excavator. It's a quiver, a revolving quiver to be exact. The game doesn't require crafting arrows one by one, thankfully.
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- Enhancement: 17
- Enchantment:
- STR: 33
- PAT: 910
- Alchemy: Refinery Lv.6
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This is the main damage dealer, so I made sure to retry crafting a few times to get a good blessing from Sateri. Her RNG, specifically.
_ Miel: …That doesn't look like a quiver at all.
_ Shadyna: Un, I made it with a revolver's cylinder in mind.
Just more bullets, but the idea is the same~
I cannot let
Recharging an enchanted weapon is expensive. It's only one step behind from making consumable [Alchemy] items, requiring magic-related items as materials. While the basic crystals here can be used, my items are so powerful the number required to fully charge one is ridiculous. Too wasteful!
The kitchen in Elri's house burns through roughly a full crater of [Red Crystal] to recharge, by the by. And we were recharging it continuously during the crafting session.
That was painful to remember…
[Enhance], and its use for repairing, is much cheaper. This "quiver" only requires about 30 [Red Crystal] to bring back to full 15/15 ammunition.
That's still a lot? No, that is way too cheap considering what I am going to use it for.
_ Miel: So, does this shoot the… bullets down the hole?
_ Shadyna: Yup~ The quiver has [Refinery] so it can be used for mining.
_ Miel: Would that only mine the ore it hits? Are the ore veins down there so rich you can sustain with only them?
_ Shadyna: Of course not~ Unless RNG has decided to spawn one right at the bottom, I don't think there's a vein in the trajectory.
_ Miel: Then… how?
_ Shadyna: These aren't arrows or bullets. They are bombs~
If anything, I was more worried about the shafts down there getting destroyed in the blast, undoing my [Construction] work. Thankfully, that's where the skill in the excavator comes in~
_ Shadyna: First, refill the quiver. [Enhance]~ Then, [
The excavator glows brightly then releases a "bullet" down the hole. Thanks to [Piercing Arrow], it will carve a hole down the terrain before…
*BOOM*
…Exploding thanks to the power of [Accelerate Power], which is activated on the bolt itself, not me running. If I equip the excavator and shoot, it will not activate. I wonder if it counts as an abuse…?
After the first one, it's fine to just continuously shoot because the new bottom is much, much deeper than before.
*BOOM* *BOOM* *BOOM*
After 15 earth-shaking blasts of pure kinetic (probably wrong) energy, I can no longer move because of the massive amount of materials pouring into my inventory through [Refinery].
_ Shadyna: Because the blast is so big, it destroys terrain and every ore veins in the area. [Refinery] gives items directly to me so I don't have to get down there and collect the ores…
I start throwing out trash materials down the hole which is now a perfect landfill site. Items in regenerated terrain are destroyed, unlike the [Grass] I planted around Gelly on my first day, which are supposedly cleaned up by raids.
…
_ Miel (Party): Not just my body, I think my mind is getting completely and utterly destroyed piece by piece here.
_ Mera (Party): So that's what
_ Shadyna (Party): What's that supposed to mean?! I haven't even done anything to you~
_ Melodyn (Party): You're a throughout girl huh,
_ Shadyna (Party): Slander, this is slander I am telling you~!
_ Choruse (Party): Your sacrifice to sate
_ Elri (Party): Why do I feel like my sanity is also sacrificed by being in this party…
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That was out of nowhere!
_ Shadyna (Party): Who…
_ Miel (Party): That sounds like
_ Choruse (Party): Not my fault.
I don't know what happened, but it's your fault for sure!!!
_ Shadyna: Dumped all the weaker materials. Let's get back~
Should I need more metals, I can use the trash crystals to refill the quiver then shoot another 15 rounds of explosion until I am satisfied.
The dumping of trash is mind-numbing though…
Besides, this area only has a few types of veins. I will have to setup the excavator in other biomes too. The [Recall Tablet] might come in handy here.
Putting the ores into storage, we harvest the trees peacefully. I might be able to harvest them all using the same method as mining, but it will destroy my fields and trees so it's rejected!
_ Shadyna (Party): Why~
_ Hessy (Party): You are seriously asking that?
_ Miel (Party): It is typical to gain power-ups using young girls as sacrifices.
_ Shadyna (Party): I am not sacrificing anyone~
_ Nerin (Party): Do
_ Choruse (Party): Half dark elf, mind you.
_ Nerin (Party): Same thing. Your age is never below 100.
_ Elri (Party): Asking a lady's age is rude.
Young ladies don't have to worry about telling their age though.
_ Shadyna: Hmm~ What to do now~
I don't want to spend all the time gathering crafting materials, and trees don't grow instantly.
_ Miel: Go on a world-ending adventure?
_ Shadyna: I am a sightseeing pacifist! *Sighs* I wish raids weren't so crowded… I wanted to enjoy the dark scenery too…
_ Miel: Apart from the darkness, there's not much change in the environment during raids. Unless you consider monsters part of scenery.
_ Shadyna: The fauna changes during raid?
I haven't thought much about it, but it wouldn't be strange for creature spawns to change. Otherwise the existing creatures will mix up with the horde, and it will look kind of weird.
_ Miel: They disappear and get replaced by a corrupted counterpart. If you use [Inspect] on bosses you will see different names, so they are different monsters.
_ Shadyna: Oh~ So even the [Laetque Eye] changes into something else?
…Wait a minute…
If the [Laetque Eye] is the magic part…
_ Miel: Yes, it becomes [Infectious Scarred Vallen Eye]. The "power" eye.
So that's the other eye!!!
_ Miel: You are familiar with [Laetque Eye]?
_ Shadyna: Un~ I played around with it the other day. Was intending to ask where the other was, but I kept forgetting!
_ Miel:
It was too good to be true huh~ I wonder if Sateri has not implemented it? The "god" part is too eye-catching to be just lore fluffs!
_ Shadyna: I am going to check out that boss then~
_ Miel: Right now? Why not next raid with a party for safety?
_ Shadyna: If I go with everyone a lo~t of killings will happen. As a pacifist I don't want that~
And cease that dumbfounded expression already,
_ Shadyna: You should stay here. I will be back really quick!
Even if I said "check out", it's not like I will be fighting it. I just want to use [Inspect] on it!
My [Inspect] is level 4 by the way. I have been training it properly, but the insanity-inducing skill just takes too long to train!!!
I go back to the basement using [
Back to the cavern, I run towards the flooded entrance. Half speed underwater sucks, but with my SPD and [Unstopping Hero] title, I will be fine if I accelerate now.
*SPLASH*
I jump right into the water and swim into the lake.
_ Miel (Party):
_ Nerin (Party): I don't think she's interested in the first place.
_ Elri (Party): I'm scared to think what her interests are…
_ Miel (Party): Exhibitionism, I wager.
Are you people trying to drown me?!
The moment I emerge, several pitch black monsters turn to me. Welp.
_ Shadyna: [Leap]!
Did you really think I would let you guys swarm me until I reach the shore? Too bad, I have a way to clear unfavorable distances now!
Before crafting the tablets, I was running between Tyrel and the valley whenever I need to get more materials. There were aggressive creatures along the way, but never this many! It is no doubt a horde.
No wonder why Elri had so many corpses lying around in the last raid~
…Let's have everyone dismantle later. I dread having to do it alone now that the potential corpse count skyrocketed, thanks to my own crafting.
Even so, I am so fast this amount of mobs don't matter. More importantly, I have to make sure I do not crash into them to avoid dealing damage!
Whenever there's no gap between monsters, I use [Leap] to jump over them. Jumping normally works too, but it's slower so they have a bigger window to hit me.
Not that the "slower" really matters at my current speed, mind you. However, I still have to keep it in mind for when it actually makes a difference.
It takes less than a minute from the lake to the woods where the [Laetque Eye] lived. Now then, what does it look like~
The trees are dyed black. The flowing "colors" now look like an oily lake flowing outwards. Everything looks black or purple during raid huh…
And there it is, the jet black sphere floating menacingly…
Not really menacingly, just that the fight with its counterpart makes me more cautious of it.
Same as before, chunks start dropping, revealing its "iris". I was hoping it would be a reversal of the [Laetque Eye] and have shining white iris, but nope, it's glowing purple!
Right, it's not [Vallen Eye], but [Infectious Scarred Vallen Eye]. So… it's wounded?
Anyway, [Inspect]!
[Infectious Scarred Vallen Eye: The former right eye of an ancient god. It used to hold the "power" while the
Does this count as a tragic backstory?
I saw [Laetque Eye] so it's referred directly now huh. Maybe that's why
Anyway~ It looks like this one is no longer considered an eye of the god, since it's corrupted.
_ Shadyna (Party): Does anyone know how to cure corruption~?
_ Hessy (Party): It's not a day in your party without you spouting random topics huh.
_ Shadyna (Party): I'm serious here~
_ Nerin (Party): Lore-wise, corruption can only be removed with divine magic. We don't even know what qualifies as divine.
_ Mera (Party): It doesn't seem to be healing or light magic though~ I tried healing a raid boss, but it was actually healed and the tanks got murdered~
_ Miel (Party): Don't remind me of it, you crazy woman.
Right,
_ Mera (Party): How cold~ Even though I resurrected everyone so you can die again and again and again~
Why do I feel like she was resurrecting without stopping the healing on the boss…
So light magic is out huh.
The rings formed by the chunks do not cast spells on me. They are spinning like a fan and slamming on me as if I'm an insect!
There's no [Physical Resistance] so I am not getting hit on purpose this time!
*WHAM* *WHAM*
It's so monotonous in attack patterns it's scary! A lot of rings and all they do is falling on my position repeatedly one by one. After some time the thought of getting squished by those are worse than the damage itself!
And then there's the horde to think about. They are rushing over here, to become collateral damage as the boss misses me and whacks them instead.
Despite dealing no damage, I have caused quite a carnage to the enemies. It's the boss's fault, not me, okay?
When we say "divine", a god is probably required. But I need "divine" to restore this "god". What's with this vicious cycle?!
_ Hessy (Party): Oh, raid's over. Thank Sateri-chan this is a shorter one…
_ Mera (Party): Aw~ We were just getting started too~
The area is getting brighter. Glorious sunlight shines upon the horde, burning them to ashes. What a sight to behold. Luckily I cannot smell in-game, or this might be like napalm.
It doesn't burn the boss for some reason!!!
The [Vallen Eye] still relentlessly orders its ring limbs to attempt crushing me. The raid mobs not burnt by the sun get "friendly"-fired by the rings anyway.
For the few ranged mobs outside the friendly-fire zone, they are annoying so I have Gelly pulverize them. My beast has grown so much… Mostly thanks to the gear I made for it~
_ Miel (Party): Should we go back to town,
_ Shadyna (Party): Un.
I am not here to fight, please just ignore those dead ranged mobs. Moreover, I have no way to deal with the corruption on this eye. Tactical retreat is the most suitable course of acti…
During the raid, it was so dark and chaotic, I did not notice.
The [Vallen Eye] did not spawn at the center of the battleground, but significantly to one side.
Now that the raid is over, the opposite side is the spawn point of the other one.
The [Laetque Eye].
_ Shadyna (Party): Uh oh…
_ Elri (Party): Shouldn't whatever problem you have happen during the raid instead of after? Can't you do anything like a normal person?
That snark was uncalled for, Elri~ This problem occurs exactly because the raid is over!
Revealing its black iris, [Laetque Eye] starts blasting its spells at me. Unexpected dual boss fight has begun!!!
Since the [Vallen Eye] was corrupted, I was hoping [Laetque Eye] would attack it. Nope, too bad, the player is always the highest priority target even if enemies are of different factions!
Double the attacks, more than double the pain! The physical rings dropping around me become obstacles, making it harder for me to dodge the magical rings. Thankfully I am much, much faster compared to our first fight.
*WHACK*
Youch!!! A stray wooden needle hits me from a blind spot, created by a physical ring. That's exactly what I'm worried about!
Over 200 HP lost. It's over 3 times the damage I took last time!!! Sure, I am using DEX gear which is not adding to MDF, and my MDF is not even 1000 yet. Still, aren't I supposed to be a bit overpowered even without gear?! My current HP can only take a dozen of those attacks!
Maybe it's time to blast these two eyes to smithereens using Gelly…? Dual bosses are either requiring to defeat both in a small time window, or the remaining one getting a big power-up after one dies.
Wait, calm down. I am doing pacifist run here. Old habits, chill.
I can't keep running forever like this though. Not that my speed is inadequate, but the [Vallen Eye] is creating too many blind spots where I will get hit due to inattention.
For now, let's run between them. The distance between them is not far, and since [Laetque Eye]'s rings stay close it, I can try to get a few friendly fire incidents as a small evasion will make the projectiles slam straight into [Vallen Eye].
Doesn't sound much like a pacifist after all huh…
As before, [Laetque Eye] continuously stares at me like a creep as I move. So does [Vallen Eye]. Double the eyes, double the uneasiness!
_ Miel (Party):
Seems like she's worried because I have been saying nothing after the "Uh oh".
_ Shadyna (Party): Really busy, can't speak.
I jump right into the center of the area as planned. The eyes turn to me without fail.
They stare at me, and as a result, each other.
Pretty sure human eye can't see the other eye like that.
[Vallen Eye]'s rings are still dropping from above non-stop. However, [Laetque Eye] has ceased all offense.
The magic-spitting rings loses all colors, reverting back to their pure white texture. They together form into a big circle in front of [Laetque Eye], with radius even larger than that of the boss's. If that doesn't scream "DOOM SPELL MAGIC CIRCLE", I don't know what will. My cavern's walls, maybe? Even though there's nothing on the walls~
And the worst, or best, part, [Laetque Eye] is staring at the other eye, not me.
…Ah, so that's how it is…
*WHACK*
One of the ring slams on my head while I was busy doing monologue! What the heck, you little twat, can't you see that monologue is a free action?! You had one job!!!
Well, it looks like Laetque could not… uh… see that Vallen was corrupted. If these two are opposite of the other, [Vallen Eye] would have black outer shell and white iris. Because they were gluing to me, [Laetque Eye] never had direct line-of-sight to the corrupted purple iris until now.
My not-so-pacifist behavior led to Laetque witnessing the true state of Vallen. As the result, the magic eye is charging its killing technique (probably) at the power eye.
Considering their outer shells acting like a protective layer appearance-wise, does that mean for the sure-kill attack to actually do anything that is not total failure like in movies, it has to hit the corrupted iris to work?
I have to stand "there", don't I? The center of it all.
*WHACK* *WHACK*
With barely any space to maneuver, I get hit a few more times as [Laetque Eye] charges up. What is with this rough treatment towards a little girl?! Even if it's only about 100 HP per hit, that still hurts!
The doom circle shines so brightly it's blinding. Yeah, have to run, now!
_ Shadyna: [Leap]!!!
I jump through the gigantic hoop of death, right in between it and [Laetque Eye] as everything turns to white.
Not everything, but that gigantic white beam it's unleashing is definitely flashy. [Vallen Eye] is completely engulfed in it, welp. Talk about overkill…
A shockwave blows me away from the area, out of the woods. I struggle to stand up as another massive ball of light appears in there.
To have this many scripted events running, these bosses are something else huh…
Well, time to go in!
[Warning: An
Now that I think about it, couldn't I just stand behind [Laetque Eye] at the time and still achieve the goal of having [Vallen Eye] looking at it?
…Let's not get stuck in the past, un.