The strategies were censored.
We still had access to what monsters spawned, but not on the strategies on how to fight them.
“What’s first?” Ether pushed her plate towards the outside of the table. She was blocked in by Fray, who was still eating.
“Temple Dungeon.” Rix did something and the window began to display what was in front of her. “It’s an uncommon one, so the boss is going to have features from both floor monsters, plus an extra one.” She looked at the screen in front of her, then the two monsters appeared. “It’s mostly rocky terrain, because Mive is at the foot of the mountains.”
“An elemental and a wurm?” I looked at the boss that looked like a worm with scales “And the boss is going to be solid rock and able to burrow underground.”
“That’s going to make it hard to tank…” Ether started tapping her fingers on the table. “It’s also going to be hard to hit if it’s underground all the time.”
Fray looked down at her CB. “I’ve only got the katana. That’s not going to be good against rock monsters.”
“We need some air skills.” I pointed at the screen. “Are all the monsters there earth elementals?”
Rix pulled up the second floor, it looked like the earth elemental was also on this floor, while the second monster was a lizard.
“Don’t we have those at the Cathedral?” I pointed at the Dust Lizard. “We never fought them, but I’m pretty sure that was the third monster.”
“It is.” Ether agreed, “But ours was a first floor monster.”
“So different monsters can show up on different floors in different Dungeons.” I guessed it made some sense, since there were Dungeon tunnels that connected different Dungeons together, that they would also share monsters at some point.
“The boss of the Cathedral first floor had their breath attack, do you think that’s what we’ll see here?” Ether looked from the two monsters to the boss of that floor.
Just like with the wurm, the boss looked like a Dust Lizard, but with stoney skin instead of scales. “This is another boss that Fray is going to have trouble…” My mind started running with the word trouble. I realized that the people that we had with us would not make a team.
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“Trent? How are we supposed to plan this out? We have both tanks and no healer.” I looked at our other teammate, “MItchel, you should probably be over here.”
“Neither team has a Shooter either, so you can’t plan for how they will factor in either.” Trent partly turned around so that he could look at us. “Right now, you’re trying to determine who can come up with the best strategies, then we’ll evaluate them and I’ll prepare something special for the winners.” He turned back to driving.
I got out of my seat as Shelly walked over. Rix was out of the booth right behind me. She sat on the counter across from us as Shelly took her spot. I slid back in beside him.
“Do you have any thoughts?” I motioned at the window where the three monsters were displayed.
“Getting elemental gear for each dungeon is going to get expensive.” Shelly shook his head. “I know we have the All Mister Vowler gave us, but that’s going to run out. Once it does, we’re going to have to start funding ourselves again.”
“What do you propose?” I could see his logic.
“We should try it with what we have first, then decide what we have to have and go get that.”
I remembered our GIant Slime boss fight in Harror. “We tried that strategy already.” I looked at the green woman across from me. “Fray got hurt because we didn’t bring the right gear, so I’d rather not go through that again.”
“Oh.” Shelly looked down, “Sorry.”
“It’s a valid point.” I glanced at the driver’s seat. “This class has already moved around more than most, from what I have heard. So normally, getting one set of gear and running with it would work, but it seems like we need a new element every time we go to a new city, which means…”
“Each person would need eighty items to fully gear themselves out in all ten elements.” Ether provided the information. “Though your accessories could probably stay the same.” She began fiddling with the green ring on her hand. “Which means sixty-two pieces of gear.”
“Each.” I emphasized the first word she used. “Trent. How many pieces of gear can our CBs hold?”
“Twenty.”
I looked around the table. “Which means three sets of gear is the most that we could carry with us anyway.” I turned to Shelly, “So you are right, not only from a financial sense, but also from a storage sense. We can’t get all new items for every dungeon, but…” I looked at our Hitter. “Fray won’t be able to fight the Earth Wurm with her katana, so she at the very least, has to have a new weapon.”
Shelly just nodded silently.
“Let’s try to figure out the bare minimum amount of gear that we need to get to help us with the fights.” I looked at the snowy woman diagonally from me. “Ether can keep up with the list.”
“Third floor has an earth elemental and a mountain goat.” Rix pointed at the screen. “The boss is the same as the last two. The second monster covered in rocky skin.” She pointed at the window and it moved forward to the fourth floor. “The event floor has earth elementals and spiders.” She looked at the front. “They aren’t fighting the fourth floor boss?”
“You can leave off the fourth floor boss.” Trent chuckled, “I think Mavery would have a stroke if you hit level five before we got back.”
“Which means everything in the Temple Dungeon is earth element.” I leaned back in my seat. “What does everyone think?”