Chapter 15 – Preparation (1)
6. Preparation (1)
Record?
What is this man asking?
Are you saying that the two heads you haven’t shown yet aren’t enough evidence? Or not… Do you know something
If it had been a longer terror, maybe our current in-dungeon would have been roughly the 〈 Heresy Evidence Collection 〉 quest, the quest NPC was the client, and the conditions for clearing it might have been destroying the altar or submitting the ‘records’ of heresy.
At first, I pretended not to know.
“What do you mean by record?”
“Didn’t you say it was definitely heresy? They said there was even an altar. It would be the same in any denomination, but the altar has an important meaning. If there is even an existence called a guardian, the meaning must be greater for heresy. So maybe inside the altar, or maybe the Guardian is holding something… I thought.”
It was a reasonable reasoning, I think. However, it bothered me a little to say that it was a ‘record’.
I shook my head at once. Anyway, the size of the dungeon was bigger than I thought, and it wasn’t a quest that could be solved by going back and forth once or twice in the first place. First of all, it could be said that the minimum trust in the client’s uncle was built by the fact that he did not run away and brought evidence.
“It is my desire to investigate a little more. You are free to stop the investigation here.”
“I think the first thing to do is to discuss it with a colleague. I will come back here no matter what conclusions I come to, whether I continue my investigation or quit.”
“Good. Do that.”
I put my head as evidence in a corner, took two gold coins, and left the bar. The visible income from this in-dungeon was 4 gold coins, including the 2 gold coins obtained by killing the elite monsters.
Of course, considering the amount of items still left and the cost of upgrading weapons, he earned several times more income than that, but the only money he could roll was 4 gold coins and a few silver coins.
‘I can’t even change my skills with this money.’
It was impossible to level up the skill, which was possible. Because the skill level couldn’t be raised above the hero level.
‘Still, let’s do some eye shopping to find out in advance.’
My body was tired, but if I went to rest now, I felt like I wouldn’t want to come out again. With a whip in my heart, I headed to the warrior training center I hadn’t been to before during the tutorial.
“Welcome. How are you doing?”
“I want to see your skills.”
“What about the class?”
“Bounty hunters and combat nuns.”
“Yes. Wait a minute.”
The training center staff rummaged inside the reception desk and handed out a piece of paper. At a glance, it was a document that required writing down the name of the warriors, their class, the skills they had currently acquired, and their level. When I quickly wrote it down and returned it, the employee frowned.
“HAT’s Hendrick Hero?”
“Yes.”
“Your level is 1, and it hasn’t been long since you’ve learned the basic skills… At this level, there aren’t a few skills that I can recommend.”
Are you worried, or is it because you’re bothered?
I wanted to say that if you’re worried about it, it’s useless, and if you’re doing it because it’s annoying, you’re crossing the line. To be honest, looking at that expression and way of speaking, 99% of it seems to be the latter.
But I’m only level 1. He was a level 1 warrior as common as a rolling stone. I had to filter what I wanted to say to the low-level staff at the Salem City-directly-managed Soldier Training Center.
“It’s because I want to know in advance other skills that might be useful. Please.”
“Haaa…”
The staff sighed openly as if to listen to me. This fucking bitch Let’s see if he’ll have that kind of attitude even if his level is so fucking high.
As I internally chewed on the employee in front of me, the employee who had disappeared for a while started stacking several skill books on the tuk-tuk reception desk.
“Take a look. Just look at the first page, and you can’t look beyond that. If the skill book is activated, it will be considered purchased, so please be careful.”
“Thank you.”
I quickly grabbed the skill books and put them on the table in the corner. Then, I opened the skill book of the bounty hunter class.
[Last hit!]
– Damage correction +10% when monster’s HP is below 50%
– Damage correction +20% when monster’s HP is below 10%
“No, why is this…”
Along with head crushing, [Last Hit!], The main damage deal technique, was changed to an ability that would make your eyes rot. That 10% or 20% seems like a very large number, but if I used it now, it was no different than +1 or +2, and the retardation conditions were also very insignificant. In the first place, if the remaining stamina is less than 10%, it is not much left even in absolute numbers, so the meaning of the damage itself has faded. Of course, if the level of the skill goes up, the value will go up and the damage condition will be alleviated, but that was the same for other skills.
Rather, to use this, it had 2 additional damage from level 1, and 4 additional damage for humanoids, and it was much better to crush the head, which even had an accuracy correction of up to 33. I don’t know if it goes to the second half, but my nose is three right now, but the second half will freeze to death.
‘Fuck, hold on. If this was added instead of head crushing…’
Creeps.
Covering it quickly as if I had seen something I couldn’t see, I opened other skill books, but the level of skills I could learn at this point were all there. In the first place, the skill pool wasn’t that wide in the game, and the only really good skills were obtained from treasure chests or purchased at dungeon shops at an attractive price.
As I calmed down, I looked at the battle nun skill books this time.
[The battle nun’s repentance]
-Inflict one’s physical strength by 1
– Recovers own mentality by 6
-Increase your various resistances
‘He’s out of his mind.’
Both the combat nuns’ repentance and the existing combat nuns’ penance all had self-injury as their base. On the front of the skill book, there was a picture of a nun with whip marks all over her body, but imagining Kaya using this skill made her feel uncomfortable. It wasn’t like I wouldn’t know if the effect would be very good after yielding a hundred times. Picked up right away
[Repent]
– Grants ‘stunned’ status abnormality to the specified monster with a certain probability
– When a monster is afflicted with a status abnormality ‘stunned’, an attack with a -50% correction value is applied.
– When the monster is not afflicted with ‘stunned’ status, it recovers the HP of allies in front of it by -50% correction value
“Oh.”
Finally, a useful skill came out. It had the best cc skill, stun, and even if the stun failed, there was insurance that the colleague in front of him would be healed. The position where the heel goes is limited, and I can’t expect much in terms of damage, so I wondered if it was a little difficult for a combat nun with some combat power to use… Considering the state of our warrior corps, which currently has no hard cc, it couldn’t help but be a very attractive skill.
I took another look to see if I had missed anything else that was good, but all of them were missing one by one.
“By any chance, how much is this skill book?”
“Repent in the combat nun class skill book… 20 gold coins. A 10% discount is applied to the first purchase, so it is 18 gold coins.”
“…”
Fuck.
Well, yes It wasn’t entirely my money anyway, and even if I had money to buy it, it would be right to discuss it with Kaya first. It’s not even a skill I use.
So, I had no intention of living in the first place. There was no
Fuck.
I quietly returned the skill book and left the training center at a price that made me swear.
“… Let’s rest for today. As soon as I hear the price, I get tired.”
The path to strengthening the warriors was too arduous.
**
Shoot ah-
“Haaa…”
In Salem, which boasts murderous and unreasonable prices, this is what I can say without hesitation if asked to pick what is at least ‘conscience’.
It was said that there was a bathroom in the inn room where you could wash your body with warm water.
The space was small, but you can wash with warm water in a private space, and that’s a big deal.
I unwrapped all the bloody bandages that had clumsily wrapped around my body and put my body in the hot water faucet, and soon the bathroom floor was filled with blood.
As the dried blood and scabs left in various parts of the body were washed away, a beautiful body with immaculate skin and trained yet feminine curves coexisted.
Kaya, the master of her body, thought as she ran her finger over where she had been hurt this time.
‘The scar is smaller than I thought.’
After checking every nook and cranny of her body, he suddenly lifted her own arm and sniffed it.
“Smell… Was it that bad?”
Kaya’s face turned red. She didn’t know if it was because of the hot water or because of embarrassment.
“Leader…”
Perhaps thanks to her divine power, her scars had healed to such an extent that I couldn’t even tell if they were there unless I looked closely, and after confirming that her smell was gone, she immediately remembered the face of a man leading her.
She must be no different from her in terms of experience. Same level, same equipment.
I hadn’t accomplished anything great yet, but I wasn’t afraid to follow his instructions. It was strangely believable.
‘Fate. Community of destiny.’
I also remembered the words he said in bed that made my heart quiver.
The moment he uttered the word destiny, he became Kaya’s destiny. So she also wanted to be his destiny.
At the very beginning, when she received divine power from the goddess she believed in and followed, she felt a different but similar feeling to the trembling she felt.
It was strange that she got that feeling, from a stranger, and that’s why she thought it was fate.
Thinking of the captain like that reminded me of the feeling when he wrapped the bandage. I wasn’t sane at the time, so I didn’t mind.
“My, what am I thinking right now.”
The captain was worried about himself, so he did an act with a pure heart that cared for his comrades… She, being a nun, was not right for herself to have these false ideas.
‘I am… Because it’s dirty Because I am a symbol of unhappiness. The reason I can be myself is because I am a servant of the Goddess…’
It is the mace of the goddess, and the one who will see the end of the dungeon with the captain.
He had enough of that. That’s it.
Foaming in her hair, Kaya closed her eyes. For some reason, her chest throbbed. Wasn’t she fully healed yet, she thought.
Knock- Knock- Knock-
After clearing her thoughts and washing her from head to toe with satisfaction, she turned off her faucet. She seemed a bit underwhelming, her drops intermittently falling on the floor, but she couldn’t do anything Kaya could do. She wiped herself thoroughly with a towel, put on her new underwear in the corner, and opened her bathroom door.
“Whoa…”
After washing her own mess, Kaya felt the smell of her blood all the more distinctly as she bent down to lift her armor, thinking that she would have it all sorted out before her captain came. Was
Jump-
“Kaya. I’m here…”
“… .”
“Ah, uh. Well, I’ll come back later.”
“Leader.”
“Uh, huh?”
“This is the room the captain and I share. It’s not my room. There is no reason for you to act as if you have sneaked into my room.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
Tired enough to close my eyes while walking, I suddenly came into view of the feast of immaculate skin, and the firm and stretched lower body in this direction. And plain but slightly wet underwear.
I swallowed my saliva without realizing it.
Squeak- clap-
The sound of the door closing was heard, and Kaya, still with her back turned, spoke.
“… Thanks to the captain’s consideration, I washed first, so please wash the captain comfortably.”
No, I thought it was okay to be so damn calm and pretend like nothing happened… What if my whole body turns red like that?
How red my face must have become when I thought so.
I covered my lower body as naturally as possible and went straight to the bathroom. Fortunately, it didn’t seem to have been heard.
