Episode 167 Narukami Dungeon 1st floor
The next day, I went to the Narukami Dungeon. The Dungeon House was under construction because it was a newly created dungeon. After changing clothes at a temporary hut built nearby, I went inside.
The first floor of the Narukami Dungeon was a vast grassland and forest area. Various monsters lived there, and the density of monsters seemed to be high.
Among the monsters discovered on the first floor, the most formidable was the BlueOgre. Since the rough topography of this area was known, it seemed that they divided it into eight sections and looked for the stairs to go down to the second floor.
When they investigated up to the 7th section, they discovered a staircase leading down to the second floor. Most of the adventurers headed for the second floor.
This was because information had spread that there was a treasure chest in the Wyvern's nest on the second floor. Adventurers who thought there might be other Wyvern nests seemed to start moving.
I remembered the saying that leftovers brought good fortune as I headed for the remaining uninvestigated area. Hearing that a treasure chest was found on the second floor, I thought that maybe I could find a treasure chest on the first floor as well.
Unfortunately, the uninvestigated area was deep in the forest where BlueOgres lived. Other adventurers hesitated to investigate because they didn't want to risk going through the BlueOgre forest.
I entered the BlueOgre forest. I encountered a BlueOgre again near the place where I defeated a BlueOgre for the promotion exam. I held up my Black Staff and stepped forward.
The BlueOgre noticed me and attacked me with a roar. I countered with SeventhOgrePush. The BlueOgre couldn't dodge the high-speed rotating Ogre Plate that was fired at close range.
The five-fold activation would only push it backward, but the seven-fold activation 'Ogre Push' had tremendous power. The BlueOgre was knocked away and slammed into a tree trunk.
I shot a QuintColdShot to finish it off. The BlueOgre desperately avoided the D-Particle Cooling Pile. If I didn't continue to press and attack here, I would receive a counterattack. I activated QuintPileShot.
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The BlueOgre could not dodge the consecutive attacks. The BlueOgre, whose chest was pierced by the D-Particle Pile, died. Luckily, it seemed to have penetrated the heart.
[ That attack setup just now, wasn't it quite clumsy? ]
Metis criticized.
"Where was the problem?"
[ You should have done damage with 'Pile Shot', which activates quickly after hitting with 'Ogre Push', and then finished it off with 'Cold Shot'. ]
"I see, did you analyze that 'Cold Shot' was dodged because it was a little slow to activate?"
[ That's right. For the BlueOgre that was knocked back by the OgrePlate, you should have activated 'Pile Shot' at the same time as it was slammed into the trunk of the tree. ]
The difference in activation time between 'Cold Shot' and 'Pile Shot' was a fraction of a second. It seemed that the BlueOgre's reaction speed was quite fast.
After collecting the magic stone, I moved forward. There was the staircase leading down to the second floor. Today, I would go deeper into the forest without descending. I encountered a second BlueOgre at a point about 5 minutes deeper.
It was another battle, but when I fought according to Metis' attack plan, I defeated it with 'Ogre Push' and 'Pile Shot'.
I killed three BlueOgres while passing through the BlueOgre forest. Since this monster dropped a red magic stone
After passing through the forest, there was a meadow. Inhabiting that grassland was a giant Venus Flytrap-like monster with spider-like roots, with a total length of about 1.5 meters.
[ That's a KillerPlant. ]
Metis told me.
"Huh, didn't you say you couldn't extract information about monsters in advanced dungeons?"
[ KillerPlants are monsters that exist in intermediate dungeons. They're surprisingly quicker than they look, so please be careful. ]
The spider's leg-like roots moved faster than expected, shortening the distance to me. A leaf like a big mouth attacked me to bite me.
I knocked it away with a QuintOgrePush. The KillerPlant, which flew about seven meters in the air, skillfully landed on the ground, roots first.
"How can it land cleanly like a cat?"
[ It's just that the roots are heavy. ]
"What's its weakness?"
[ Cut off the part of the stem that is close to the root. ]
I activated QuintBlade on the KillerPlant that was approaching and cut the stem horizontally. When the KillerPlant died, it released a liquid that smelled like burning rubber.
"What is this strange smell?"
[ It's a pheromone that attracts other KillerPlants. ]
"That means ..."
A large number of KillerPlants gathered from the surrounding area. I cut them one by one with QuintBlade, but they came together one after another.
That burning rubber smell was getting stronger and stronger. And, the number of KillerPlants gathering had also increased. I swung a QuintHighBlade sideways towards multiple KillerPlants.
I defeated about six KillerPlants at once, but they were still gathering. I knocked them down with QuintBlade and stopped counting when I reached 20 or so.
"There's no end to this."
When I was wondering whether to withdraw, I noticed something like a box placed at the far end of the grassland. It was a treasure chest. I recklessly did my best to defeat the KillerPlants and move on.
However, the KillerPlants increased to about fifty and I gave up. I threw my body diagonally backward with a TripleCatapult, and when I landed with 'Airbag', I escaped into the BlueOgre forest.
"Haa haa ... I couldn't even recover the KillerPlants' magic stones."
A feeling of frustration welled up from the depths of my chest. I got a little worried and checked the remaining about of magical power with the Magic Counter. I only had about half left.
"I lost to the power of numbers."
[ It can't be helped. Trying to defeat that number alone is reckless. ]
Metis said soothingly.
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