40. My own equipment




 The next day, I crawled into Seren's basement and shot every single one of the encircling slimes with a tracking round.
 Drop S dropped 100%, and Tracked Bullets dropped twice as much.

 I used the strongest pattern in the first basement floor to earn money by being mindless and not thinking about anything else.

 The reason why I chose the first floor is because when you're in mindless mode for efficiency, you don't think about it when you see a monster and you just put bullets into it, while in the second floor you'll accidentally kill rare torrents.

 I earned my money in the first floor so that I didn't have to think too much about it.

 I filled up my magic cart and grabbed about 80,000 piro.
 I repeated that three times, and the third time I escaped in the middle of the game because my tracking rounds ran out of bullets and my efficiency dropped.

 I made 200,000 piro.
 I was going to use it to do some tests.

     ☆

 A long way from the dungeon, where it wasn't very popular.

 The dungeon, the cluster of tents, and Celeste's trash pile looked much smaller, and I took out my bag.

 I put in about 200,000 pirouette, the four bangles I had earned today.
 Each bracelet has a different jewel on it.

 A pink sapphire.
 An orange sapphire.
 White pearls.
 Red rubies.

 All together, about 200,000 piro.
 Each one averages 50,000, one-twentieth of the ring I gave Emily.

 .......

 It can't be the price, yes.
 I get my mind back on track and put the pink sapphire bangles on first and keep my distance.
 Load the two guns with frozen and flaming bullets and wait.

 Flame and freeze, when waiting for unknown monsters, this is the best combination to deal with the situation.
 Of course, we have both regular and recovery bullets ready to be loaded in case of emergency.

 When I waited for a while, a hagure thing hatched from the bracelet.
 It was a burning monster, like a human soul.
 The word "lower class spirit of fire," vaguely appears in my head.

 Perhaps because of the distance, the spirits were not attacking me, but were drifting around instead of attacking me.

 I hold the gun, aim, and shoot a frozen bullet.
 The bullet hit, and cold air gushed out.

 The spirit of fire seems to have noticed us and is drifting in and out of the air.
 The momentum of the fire is weaker than before.

 I continued to fire the freezer bullets into the air.
 Every time I hit it, the momentum of the fire - the size of the human spirit itself became smaller and smaller.

 When I hit five normal freezing bullets from a distance, it disappeared without a trace, and the same thing as before it hatched, a pink sapphire bangle, dropped.
 I approach and pick it up.

 --mineral drop is +1.

 I heard the usual voice in my head.
 I see, so this is just one kind.
 All of the million-pilo rings are +1, and this one is only +1 for one type.
 Well, maybe it's worth the price.

 Next, I hatched an orange sapphire bracelet.
 A light blue human soul came out and I took care of it with a fireball.
 I picked up the same bangles, so I picked them up.

 --The mineral drop will be -1.

 Drops are going to drop!
 Well, there's some equipment like that, and the drop F is useful in some situations, so there's a use for it.
 No, maybe.
 A further -1 from F might reduce the drop to a complete zero.

 You'll still get a bit of drop at F, but it's not a complete zero.
 I think there are two types of probabilities.

 I think there are two main types of probability: 100% and 0%, and the other two.
 100% and 0% are absolutes with opposite vectors.

 -I'll get Emily to help me with that next time.

 Now the pearl bracelet.
 Now there's a dog.
 Medium-sized dog, vicious-looking, with a body made of fire.
 So I shot it with a freezer bullet.
 The flames on its body weren't extinguished much when I shot it, so I shot a fusion round of freezing bullets.
 The flame dog that was knocked down by it dropped a pearl bracelet.

 --10% more damage against plant drops.

 Huh?
 I found something interesting.
 A piece of equipment that increases damage to certain races?
 This is a useful one.

 As I thought about it, I felt a bit awkward.
 It's not a slime or undead type item, but a plant drop, which I thought was very typical of this world.

 At any rate, I should get another pearl bracelet or two.
 After a while, I'll go back to Cyclo, an agricultural city cyclo that mostly drops plants.
 I'd like to see more damage increases on plant drops.

 The last bracelet, a red ruby bracelet, also hatched into a hagremonium.
 This time, a black ball floats up, its body clad in crackling electricity.

 I don't want to get any closer to this opponent than the two from earlier.
 I play it safe. Sharpening my concentration, I shoot fire and freeze.
 They fused in front of the monster's eyes and turned into an annihilation bullet.
 The annihilation bullet swallowed the lightning spirit and took it down with a single blow.

 A red ruby bracelet is dropped, picking it up.

 --The number of hagre-mono drops is increased occasionally.

''Huh?''

 思わず声がでた。
 かつてスライムブロスの時に聞いたようなものに似てる、でも色々と違う効果が聞こえてきた。

 テルルの地下一階で、スライムブロスというモンスターは指輪をドロップした。
 あれはドロップが倍になる指輪だが、ダンジョン内でしか効果がでない。
 ハグレモノには効果がでないから、そのままエミリーにあげたままになってる。

 それとは違う効果。
 対象がはっきりとハグレモノに限定される、
 植物系にダメージアップと似てる、効果がハグレモノに限定される。
 多分ハグレモノにダメージアップのもあるんだろうけど、それはそれ。

 いまは、この腕輪の効果を詳しく知りたかった。

 おれは集荷箱を取り出した。
 ニホニウムから持ってきて、特殊弾を補充する集荷箱。

 それを置いて、距離をとって、五十体のスケルトンを孵した。

「……冷凍弾にしよう」

 スケルトンは通常弾で倒せるが、あえて冷凍弾を使った。
 込めて、撃って、込めて、撃って。
 一発一殺、冷凍弾で確実にスケルトンを倒して行く。

 50体のスケルトンはすぐに全滅した、おれはドロップした冷凍弾を拾い集めて、数を数えた。

 全部で、55。
 50体を倒して、55発。

 腕輪をつけてない時に比べて、1割増えていた。
 他の人のハグレモノは0%――「絶対」だから。

 この腕輪は、実質おれだけが使える専用装備だった。