74. Shape experience points




Mr. Yoda! Mr. Yoda, you're okay!

 As I lay on my back, I could see Emily's frantic face from right above me.
 She came over and found me on the floor, apparently worried about me.

'I'm fine,'
But I'm hurt a lot.
I don't know what to do about it.

 With a slightly awkward motion, he loaded the gun with a recovery round and shot it into his arm like a syringe.
 The recovery rounds took effect, and my injuries healed and my strength recovered.

 I'll wake up my body, yes, I'll be fine now.

'Thank goodness ...... what happened?'
More importantly, .......

 I look around and see the Mummy appearing in the distance.

'There's a monster. Emily, what's the city drop?
Oh, yes. I just wanted to let you know that. We just got the drops back in all the dungeons.
I knew it.
You were right, Yoda did bring it back?

 Emily said with a look of half surprise and half respect.

'Yeah, there was a dungeon master here just now. The dungeon master of Nihonium, apparently that guy was losing all the drops.
Oh, ...... the dungeon master of Nifongnium, which drops nothing: ......
'That's what I'm talking about. But it's a tricky ability, affecting all the drops in the city, is it a natural phenomenon? In terms of impact, this is more than a magic storm.
It was a natural disaster. But Yoda stopped it.
That's something.

 This time it was a narrow victory.
 Well, I found what seems to be a strategy, maybe next time I'll be able to beat it more easily.

Well, let's get back to the report.
Hold on, sir. There's something on the floor.
'Is this a ...... dungeon master drop?'

 I picked up the ring from the ground.

     ☆

 In the dungeon society, the dungeon master, Clint, grabbed my hand and held it tightly.

"Thank you! Thank you so much! Thanks to you, Cyclo was saved!
You're not exaggerating, are you?
'No need to be so dramatic! I don't think you know this, but while the drop was missing, the goods disappeared from the stores in town.
Celeste told me that they bought up all the vegetables because they weren't producing them.
It wasn't just vegetables, then there was a hoarding of other goods.
Really?
'We were all panicking that much. I couldn't imagine how far things could escalate if the no-drop continued like that. So,

 Clint stared at me even more. My hands were clenched painfully in a gaze that was 100% grateful.

'Thank you so much!'
...... I'm just doing what I'm supposed to do because I need a drop too.
'Still, I'm sure Cyclo has been saved. I'll have to return the favor: ...... Yes, how about a year's worth of top-grade sugar?
'I don't need that much sugar! I mean, how much is a year's worth?
About 100,000 sugar cubes or so?
You eat 300 sugar cubes a day?
Mmm, sugar is too cheap to convey the feeling. I'll give you a year's supply of top-grade honey.
Stay away from the sweet stuff, please!

 I'm sure I'm diabetic if I get a gratuity from Clint.
 Other than that, the criteria for one year's worth are vague, and I wouldn't want to have to deal with a whole year's worth of them at once.

 I declined Clint's gratitude and left the dungeon society quickly.

     ☆

 We left the Dungeon Society and walked through the city alongside Emily.

'Hey, I heard the drop is back in the dungeon,'
'Really? What's going on?
Apparently, there was a dungeon master in Nihonium and it was his fault.
'It's Dunmouth's fault, he's totally disturbed.

 After all the madness that had occurred, the city of Ciclo was now completely back to normal.
 Once they found out that the reason for the disappearance of the drop was due to the dungeon master, they all agreed in an instant.
 It's a typical reaction for people in this world that revolves around dungeons.

'I'm still amazed that Yoda-san solved the case all by himself. If it wasn't for Yoda-san, I think it would have dragged on much longer.
'Well, it would have been a long drawn out ...... nihonium, I'm going through and only the very occasional Princess Margaret and her friends come in.
'People don't go to places where they don't drop, I think the dungeon masters have been very slow to find them.

 I don't think that's the cause of the problem in the first place.

I want to tell everyone that Yoda-san has solved the problem right now.
'Don't, I don't like attracting too much attention. The disappearance of the drop phenomenon has been resolved, that's fine.
Yes, sir.

 Emily pulled back easily, but she seems to be more itchy (、、、、) than usual, mind you.

"Let's go to the ...... dungeon, I want to check out this one I picked up earlier.

 I changed the subject and showed Emily the ring I had picked up from the dungeon master.

     Star.

 I came to the ground floor of the Nifonium basement.
 I went to the tellurian, but that place is flooded with adventurers because the drop is back, so I came here.

What do you want to do?
Put this on and take down the monster. Emily will have to wait a minute.
Yes, sir.

 Emily nodded, and I put the ring on again.
 I put the ring on my thumb because it's so big and pukey except for my thumb.

 I encountered a skeleton, shoot a normal round into the head of the encounter to take it down.
 I have the dropped seeds sucked straight into the pouch.

'Yoda-san, did you get your arm up yet?'
Yeah? Maybe so, because it used to take a bit of work with regular bullets on skeletons.
You could have taken it down in one shot.

 More skeletons appeared, and this one was defeated with a single shot.
 The wall collapses, and the skeleton is born from inside it and attacks, this one is taken care of in one shot as well as the moment it comes out.

 I take Emily with me as I walk away and take down the skeleton.

'Yoda-san is getting stronger, but what you're doing is the same?
You're with me.
Didn't that ring have any effect on you?
I think so. Maybe soon.

 Two skeletons emerge from the bend, so I take care of them all together with a series of shots.
 A seed went into the pouch, the next moment.

 The next moment, the ring flashed.

''What's wrong?
There you are.

 I extend my hand horizontally, palm upward.
 The light gathers in my hand, forming a crystal about ten centimeters across.

'It's a new drop?'
No, not a drop. Here, hold this.
Yes, sir.

 The moment Emily received it, the crystal emitted light and gradually disappeared.

''Aww, wow, what's going on here? It will disappear.
Calm down. You'll be fine.
Maybe because...

 Emily stopped in her panic at the disappearance of the crystal.
 Her expression changed from panic to surprise and then to joy.

'Mr. Yoda!'
Is he gone?
'Yes, sir! I've leveled up, I'm now 26!

 I nodded, it seems to have worked properly.

What's this all about?
This ring is apparently able to crystallize the overflowing experience after a level cancelling, like before, so that you can give it to someone else.
'Crystallized experience! I've never heard of such a thing.
No?
'Yes, sir! It's amazing!

 Emily marvels.
 I could have predicted that it wasn't usually there, after all, it was a drop from the dungeon master of Nihonium.
 That(...) was to be expected, so I'm not surprised.

 Instead, I was a bit happy.
 I've been thinking it was a waste of experience at level 1.

 Now I could give my friends the experience that was useless to me, and this was a nice item.
 This was a good item.