Chapter 67 – Spec Up (10)
10. Spec up (10)
Wouldn’t you want to open the skill book? Wasn’t it a bit like the fact that I, a main dealer by name, only have one dealing skill?
‘If you think about it the other way around, he said that he doesn’t envy every skill he has developed well.’
If you have one proper skill, you don’t have to look for an unknown dealing skill. In addition, the branded skill ‘Find a Wanted Criminal’ is a bounty hunter’s lifeline skill that hurts if you say it twice, and ‘Slashbang!’ Or ‘Where are you going to run’ were also useful utilities in their own right. It was also used in real combat.
‘Head crushing is still good enough. It’s a skill level 1, but it’s an ignorant skill with 4 humanoid damage. Originally, bounty hunters were also a class that had strengths against humanoid monsters.’
So I thought it was right to distribute skill books to Kaya and Shay, who lacked at least one skill… They kept refusing because it didn’t fit their bad luck and equity. It wasn’t a problem because each other said it was theirs, but it was a problem because they kept telling me to exclude themselves.
“I didn’t decide as your men, but as the captain of the HAT. It was a decision I made because I thought that was the best way to improve the overall strength of the Hero Corps. Give me a reason other than bad luck, or that it’s unfair that only the captain can’t eat.”
“Then selling mine…”
“To get something, you have to take risks. Can you get through that rough road without investing this much?”
Kaya and Shay looked at me and kept their mouths shut. They seemed to want to give me a copy somehow, but I shouldn’t have judged it that way.
“If it goes bad, it’s my responsibility, and if it’s a jackpot, it’s thanks to you. I’ll see you right here.”
I pushed the skill books in front of them again. They fiddled with the cover and hesitated.
“Eight.”
Of the two, it was Shay who carried the gun. She closed her eyes tightly and opened her skillbook. Then, a brilliant golden light burst out of the book and circled around Shay, before entering the vicinity of her heart.
“Ah… !”
While Shay and Kaya were gaping in admiration at the beautiful sight, I was gaping at the message.
[Shay has acquired the Crusader-specific skill ‘Last Crusade’ from the Adaptive Random Skill Book.]
‘The Last Crusade… ?’
[The Last Crusade]
– Engrave yourself with a stigma (1 turn)
– Acquired the status abnormality ‘never pushed back’
– Increases resistance against abnormal conditions
– Increases defense by 1
– Recovers 1 HP when attacked
– Counterattack with a certain probability when attacked (damage correction -25%)
– Can only be activated once per battle
– The stigma is lifted and you are stunned (1 turn) for 1 turn.
It was a skill I had never seen before. Even when I searched my memory, it was like that.
‘A DLC additional skill!’
There were a lot of lines. But as soon as I saw the first line, I grasped the essence of this skill.
‘Confirmed provocation!’
A top-notch tank skill that forcibly focuses all monsters’ attacks on Shay, except for wide-area skills!
Of course, if you focus the enemy’s attacks and can’t hold on, it’s useless, but Shay, who already has the highest defense among us, has this crazy skill that increases her defense and kicks her health when she gets hit? Even a counterattack with a probability there?
‘The usage conditions and penalties are a bit big, but… When the time is right, for example, when the back row is about to collapse.’
I don’t know because I haven’t used it in practice yet, but once I figured it out only through the message, it was at least average.
As I understood from the message, Shay, who had completely absorbed the light, had her eyes shining as if she had a sense of what skill she had acquired. She wondered if the expression she had a few minutes ago, saying that the skills she had now were enough, hadn’t been acting.
“Sister! Hurry up and open it too!”
“Is that so?”
Surprised to see Shay’s expression filled with anticipation, Kaya, who was surprised to see that Shay’s expression had unknowingly spat out her words, opened her skill book, brushing away the two twinkling eyes.
[Kaya has acquired the battle nun-only skill ‘All things as God wills’ from the Adaptive Random Skillbook.]
‘Ah.’
As in Shay’s time, the dazzling light floated for a while. Kaya’s face, which had been showing a slight smile, suddenly became depressed, as if her self had expected it a little.
“Rather good!”
“Leader. The bigger the expectations, the bigger the disappointment, so the disappointment isn’t great. You don’t have to comfort me like that.”
“No, really. Are you okay. Are you good?”
Duplicity, it was true that I felt regretful. But that’s also a duplication. As far as I know, the skill book containing the skill ‘God’s will’ could be sold at a fairly high price.
“It could be cheaper to buy the skills you want with that money. So it’s okay well picked Isn’t it Shay?”
“Sure! In a way, isn’t it the same as a free license? This is bad luck, deception!”
“Is that so?”
A relieved smile bloomed on Kaya’s face, as if her sincerity had come through. Yes, how nice it is to laugh
After discussing the disposition of artifacts, we left the inn together.
The place we headed to was a monastery.
**
“Welcome, Sister Kaya. Shay Crusader. And Mr. Hendrick.”
“Sister Cestia.”
I stopped by the monastery that serves Raella for two reasons. One is to really pray and make offerings to Raella-sama, just as we swore in the dungeon.
‘As long as the goddess exists, and as long as I know that she’s really watching over me, I can’t keep the words I said directly to the goddess.’
Please bless the future path of the combined service and combined service warriors.
“Are you sure Shay Crusader belongs to Hendrick’s corps of warriors?”
“Sure? I am very grateful to Cestia! Thanks to that, I was able to go to the dungeon with these good warriors. Justitia-sama will be happy too!”
“Oh my goodness.”
The conversation that went on was heartwarming. Kaya and Shay are not everything (like sex), but it’s about the ‘horror’ they experienced in the dungeon, what the hands of fear and elite monsters look like, how strong they are, and what kind of fear power they seem to have. He was handing information to Sestia in the form of a brief report.
‘Maybe this is how it feels to tell my mom where and how far she studied, and which of her friends and from what time to what time she hung out with them.’
Of course I never did. I thought of something else when they were talking about dungeons.
‘As for the combination I initially envisioned, the last place is Thun (Treasure Hunter)…’
Even in the 4th row (rear), depending on the setting, you can put in deals as good as the main dealer, and the treasure hunter is a class with excellent utility skills. However, after clearing Area 1, my thoughts were shaken. I don’t know what kind of crazy correction the monsters in District 2 will run amok, but is it really right to add Thun here? The thought of whether it would be appropriate to preserve her physical strength as an assari healing nun or to preserve her mentality as a bard came to mind. Or you could consider other jobs.
‘Who would have thought that in Area 1, only going through near death twice, two people would be encroached on.’
Overall, if the critical hit didn’t work out well. If the second roost hadn’t come along at the right time.
Our warriors would have been annihilated in an instant.
That was because there were only three of them, but… At least in my opinion, it wasn’t because the deal wasn’t enough, it was because the maintenance was terribly lacking.
‘I thought it was perfect because it was also included in the target of the gold hurray obtained after clearing Area 1, but… It’s kind of like sticking Thun in for fucking money.’
The second reason for following Kaya to the monastery.
As in the case of Shay, it was because of a trick that he might be able to make another fateful recruitment.
“Thank you for the valuable information, Sister Kaya. Huhu, thanks to you, I can already see the joy of the sisters who study horror and dungeons. By the way, sister. I have something to tell you.”
“I will listen.”
“Sister-sama and Hendrick-sama went to one of the heretic bases before going to the dungeon.”
“Yes. Did you do anything extra?”
“That’s right. Significant changes came while Sister faced the horrors in the dungeon. That, too, is a very undesirable change for our church.”
Sestia pulled out a necklace from a drawer and showed it to us. Her necklace was all black and was quite crushed, but Sestia’s sad face had become expressionless at some point. Kaya and Shay also checked her necklace and gasped, and their faces also hardened like Cestia. The warm atmosphere suddenly became bloody.
“Necklace… I think.”
I was uncomfortable in the atmosphere, and when I carefully opened my mouth, my colleagues looked at me with apologetic faces.
“Sorry. I was so surprised and angry again.”
Hard-
Shay had her eyes half turned.
“… That necklace.”
Sestia nodded her head and Kaya pursed her lips. She then rolled her eyes as if in agony, and spoke sadly.
“It’s hard to recognize the shape, but… It must be the necklace of a nun walking the path of generosity, similar to the one I am wearing. That too has been deeply engulfed by the aura of heresy…”
“Well, then. No way.”
“Yes. You have already gone to the side of the Goddess.”
“I don’t even want to imagine what terrible things they must have been through by now, considering the habits of those bastards who were less than fucking filth.”
That’s why Shay was so upset.
Only then did I understand the atmosphere. But just because I understood the atmosphere, it didn’t mean that I understood the reason for showing this necklace to us.
Would be upset I don’t know anyone, but Kaya was a member of the same church, and Shay was also a member of a close church. It was a natural anger, and I felt sympathy for the owner of the necklace. However, although they were Raella’s mace and Justitia’s sword, they were also HAT’s warriors, and I was their leader.
I had to stop being rushed into dangerous things out of simple anger, sympathy, and loyalty. I can’t help but feel uncomfortable.
“Miss Cestia. I would like to hear the intention of bringing that word out to ‘us’.”
Why?
If he simply wanted to mourn his missing sister, he could have only told Kaya. Until Shay for looking at me a little more. But if I dared to bring up this story in my presence, wouldn’t it be a voice telling me to listen?
Is it excessive delusion to suspect that, with a high probability, our warriors are trying to connect something related to that necklace?
Cestia met my eyes and smiled lightly. On the outside, it looked like a warm smile trying to unravel a hard atmosphere, but to me, who was already delusional inside, it looked like a troublesome smile with the meaning, ‘Tch, this is why a quick-witted guy is in trouble?’.
“Intentions… Not until. All the sisters in our branch already know about it, and since Sister Kaya came to the Bogocha branch, I thought it was a story that Kaya should know too.”
“Is that so.”
Okay? Really? Seriously?
With that meaning in mind, I half-raised my body with the momentum to leave. Then Cestia hurriedly poured out her words. It’s not just my mood that the corners of her mouth look like they’re quivering, right?
“A significant number of sisters have already been dispatched there, but I am very anxious because I do not think this case is a simple kidnapping case. Could it be that we made the decision to dispatch the dispatch too hastily, or that there might be problems with the sisters because of things we hadn’t figured out before?”
So what?
I watched quietly.
“I know it is very shameless to say this to someone who has just returned from a dangerous place. But if it’s the sisters and Hendrick-sama who’ve been to that place twice, if it’s the warriors who safely broke through a section of the dungeon with three level 1s.”
Cestia was holding both of her hands and staring at her darkened necklace.
“I have anticipation that I will be able to cope with any emergencies that may arise and that I may be able to find at least some traces of the missing sister.”
“Hmm.”
“If you accept, I will swear to Raella that I will give you the reward without any regrets.”
That’s normal.
I wanted to ask how much he would give me, but I passed it on thinking that since I had sworn to Raella, I wouldn’t give it in a small way. If you’re going to accept this job, you’d better leave as soon as possible.
I turned to my colleagues. Kaya nodded. Shay was shaking her body as if she wanted to run out at once.
“I will skip the departure report.”
“Ah… !”
“Let’s go. We need to get ready as soon as possible.”
“Yes, chief.”
A reward is a reward, but… Now that the level has risen, let’s try it out.
A level 4 body.
