Moto Sekai Ichi'i no Sub-chara Ikusei Nikki-Chapter 23: Limptfert Dungeon
Chapter 23: Limptfert Dungeon fđżeđđžeđđđšđ«đđĄ.cđđŠ
Episode 3: Slave Arc
After receiving the winning prize, the ăRing of Pursuită at the award ceremony, we left the Royal Magic Academy almost as if fleeing.
As for the promise with Maine, I told him that I would visit the Royal Palace after I settled down.
Curiously enough, I didnât receive any inquiries from Noir-san or the Knights, neither was I questioned by the headmaster Paula nor the head librarian Silk. Maybe since I pretty much became a magician under the Second Prince, they are unlikely to bring out those things that made me look suspicious.
And thus, my plan to acquire Magic finally succeeded. Itâs fine to learn the Fourth Form and the Fifth Form in the distant future.
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âWell then, my friends. Let me announce our immediate goals.â
Silvia and Eko straightened their postures after hearing me talk. They had a feeling of âItâs finally startingâ.
Iâve acquired ăArcheryă, ăSwordsmanshipă and ăMagică without a hitch⊠Next, I want to acquire ăSummoning Magică.
âFor the time being, letâs earn experience in a dungeon. In particular, letâs keep clearing it until Eko grows to an intermediate level.â
I think that raising the levels of the skills weâve recently acquired should be the first priority. Therefore, we will be doing dungeon laps for a while starting today. I also want to practice collaboration between us three, since itâs important that Silvia and Eko grow stronger and can cooperate. Besides, itâs also fun while aiming for the reward from clearing it. Again, killing four birds with one stone.
âUgh. Are we going to the Reus dungeon again? â
âDungeon! â
âNot the Reus one. This time weâre going to another intermediate dungeon called ăLimptfertă.
âUhmm. Well, if itâs intermediateâŠâŠâ
âOh! â
Eko has just been repeating what we sayâŠâŠ I wonder if thatâs alright. It should be fine, right?
âIn the Limptfert dungeon, itâs more likely to find monsters alone; their defense is high, but they have low attack power. It should serve as a good 1v1 practice. Also, we can get a nice drop from the dungeon boss, the Rock Turtle drops theăShellrock Shieldă. Just the right equipment for Eko.â
âI see⊠eh?ăWait, a shield you say?ăA shield for Eko? â
âEko is suitable to be the front-liner and defend us from the monsterâs attacks, so letâs raise her ăShieldmanshipă starting today.â
âOk, got it! â
âWait. Wait, wait, wait!ăSecond-dono! â
âThere will be times when the damage can go through even with a shield. For those cases, letâs have you learn ăHealing Magică too.â
âOookaay! â
âHey!ăD-do you want such a young girl to stand at the very front!? â
âDonât worry. She will become a proper vanguard before long.â
âThatâs not it. Why would I be worried about that!? â
I went to the weapon and armor store along with the annoying and noisy Silvia and the obedient Eko.
There, I bought a large shield, its height as tall as Eko, without delay. Since there was no armor that suited the body of Eko, I also bought a set of luxury leather equipment. The full set was 4 million CL, more expensive than my whole equipment. The shopkeeper uncle had a beaming smile on his face.
After that, we went to the Comiket and made her learn two skills, ăSoldier Shieldmanshipă and ăLance Shieldmanshipă. Eko was able to properly acquire the skills after around 30 minutes of reading the books while using a dictionary. I knew it, this girl might actually be quite excellent.
From there we headed to the ăChurch of Kamelă, and I noticed Silvia had been quiet. When I asked her if she was now convinced about the position of Eko, it seemed like she was quiet because we were in a library and a church. Ugh, will she be annoying again after leaving the churchâŠ?
âAlright, Eko. Letâs have them show you the Grimoire for Healing Magic.â
âIs that okayâŠ? â
âDonât worry. After asking a sister, Iâm sure she would show it to you.â
We enter the church from the front and tell a sister about our purpose. The sister easily agreed, and she immediately brought the Grimoire for ăHealing MagicăăSmall Recoveryă.
After Eko received the Grimoire, she began reading it with a dictionary in the other hand. I was a bit uneasy since the situation wasnât looking very good, butâŠ
âI learned it!ăSecond, thanks!ăI was able to learn it! â
After spending less than 20 minutes reading the Grimoire, Eko said that and came hugging me.
Sheâs loud even though this is a church. She showed her feelings straight out without caring for the public eye. Silvia said âNicely done! â and rejoiced as if this had been her achievement. While patting Ekoâs head, I directed a troubled smiled in apologies towards the sister. The sister only replied with a smile as if seeing something pleasing.
âOkay, shall we go then?â
Our goal had been achieved. Thereâs no need to be in the church anymore.
âWa-wa-wait, hold on!ăEh, are we just leaving like this!?ăLetâs at least pray! â
âŠâŠThere it is again, Silviaâs mother-like side.
âHaaïœâ
âHaaăŒâ
When I walked to the front of the God Kamel statue while sighing, Eko followed after me, imitating me. âI guess it canât be helpedâ, when I said so Silvia turned towards me and Eko with a questioning look, âEhâŠ? â, then we prayed together while lowering our heads.
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Four hours away from the Kingdomâs Capital.
This is the agricultural town ăPae Hoă, which is 30 minutes away from the ăLimptfert dungeonă. đđ«eđwâŻđŻđđŒŃ”đl.đođ
To think it would take so long to travel here without using a flying dragon, but now that I think of it, since coming to this world, I donât remember seeing people moving by flying dragon in the first place. Seems like it wonât be that easy to tame a flying dragon to move with.
By the way, I bought a horse for Eko. Its name is âLeaf Impactâ. Itâs quite fast.
Suddenly, wondering what Silviaâs horseâs name was, I asked her and she answered âWhite Silver â proudly. White Silver she says? No matter where you look, her horse is brown⊠I really donât get Silviaâs sense.
Anyway, after arriving at the town of Pae Ho and setting up base at an inn, we started to roam the Limptfert dungeon immediately the following day.
For the first 2-3 laps, we proceeded in a relaxed manner while prioritizing the acquisition of Ekoâs ăShieldmanshipă skills.
From ăShieldmanshipă I only want her to learn 6 skills. In addition to the basics ăSoldier Shieldmanshipă and ăLance Shieldmanshipă, there is ăKnight Shieldmanshipă, ăGold Shieldmanshipă, ăBishop Shieldmanshipăand ăDragon Horse Shieldmanshipă.
The other ones are attacking skills with shields, so these six skills are enough for defense.
Eko easily acquired everything except the ăBishop Shieldmanshipă and ăDragon Horse Shieldmanshipă. Each of their effects are: ăSoldier Shieldmanshipă normal defense, ăLance Shieldmanshipă piercing deflection, ăKnight Shieldmanshipă defense + knockback, and ăGold Shieldmanshipă range guided defense + knockback.
Among them, ăGold Shieldmanshipăis an easy to use skill that can be said to be the cornerstone of ăShieldmanshipă. Range guided defense refers to automatically leading an attack that has entered a certain range, into striking your shield instead of the intended target. It was often called âsuctionâ or âDaiânâ. Besides, it will even knock it back, so you can see the strength of this skill.
TLN: Iâm uncertain at this point what the knock back means for shield skills, it just says âknockbackâ in english in the description of the skills with knockback. Maybe return the attack? knockback the attacker? but what about ranged attacks knockback?
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A few days passed, and at around lap ten, Eko began to stand out as a proper Muscle Monk.
âHey, Eko!ăAre you okay!? â
A loud bang sounds.
It was the attack of an ăArmored Lizardă, a particularly powerful monster even inside the Limptfert dungeon, scoring a critical hit on the shield wielding Eko.
âHoâŠ? â
When Silvia flashily rushed towards her in worry, Eko just turned towards her and asked âEh, is something wrong? â in an unconcerned voice.
ââŠâŠâŠEh? â
Said Silvia confused.
No way, to be able to receive such a critical attack from an Armored Lizardââ is what Silvia is probably thinking, but indeed.
âIt looks like thanks to the shieldmanship, my HP and VIT have risen considerably.â
âI-is that soâŠâŠ?â
Ekoâs HP hasnât even been reduced by 5%.
âUp we go.â
Eko stood up and activated ăSmall Recoveryă on herself, recovering her missing HP.
She has been growing steadily in her role as a Tank.
âIt should be time to get Bishop Shieldmanship.â
I muttered while looking at the deepest part of the dungeon, to aim at the boss.
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âListen Eko. Activate your skills to match my voice as you defend. It should take roughly 15 minutes without breaks. But if you make a mistake, itâs starting from the beginning again. Can you do it? â
I give her some instructions before confronting the Rock Turtle.
ââŠâŠYep. I can.â
Eko nodded with an unusually serious expression and then closed her mouth.
âLetâs go.â
With my voice as the trigger, she rushed in front of the Rock Turtle.
So far, weâve defeated the Rock Turtle around ten times. Up until now, Silvia and I have been attacking it with ăArcheryă from the back while Eko defends at the front, but this time is different.
The condition for acquiring ăBishop Shieldmanshipăis: ăUse ăShieldmanshipăto completely defend the attacks of a boss stronger than you 100 times in a rowă.
The only bottleneck is the ăCompletelyă part. That means you must not receive damage. Therefore, the defense methods are limited.
You can either deflect the long-range penetrating attacks with ăLance Shieldmanshipă, or use ăKnight Shieldmanshipăor ăGold Shieldmanshipă to ăParryă while knocking back. Parry is a phenomenon that is triggered when you defend in time in accordance with the attack of the enemy, you get the additional effect of no damage received + weak knockback. By the way, if you were to Parry with ăSoldier Shieldmanshipă, since the knockback is weak, you have no respite until the follow up attack comes and you have to defend immediately, greatly increasing the probability of receiving damage.
If that happens, itâs no longer a rhythm game.
Itâs hard until you get used to it. But once you master the timings, youâll always be able to defend with Parry, making it possible to fight in a very advantageous way.
This time, one of the aims is to have her practice the timing while at the same time fulfilling the condition to acquire ăBishop Shieldmanshipă.
âKnight!ăGold!ăKnight!ăâŠâŠLance! â
I perfectly gave out instructions. Eko too was quite sharp as she followed them spot on.
Although the Rock Turtle is relatively slow and so are its attacks, it is difficult to grasp the timings for Parry at first glance. This boss was the reason why I chose the Limptfert dungeon, but it seems more difficult that I thought.
âAhh! â
Eko failed the parry and received the attack.
âThat right now was a little late. Can you do it again? â
âI can! â
Eko nodded strongly. She used ăSmall Recoveryă twice and headed back.
Then, about an hour later, while continuing to confront the Rock Turtle, Eko finally learned ăBishop Shieldmanshipă.