153. Still I




 When I woke up in the morning and came to the cafeteria after grooming myself in the bathroom, I saw Celeste propped up at the table, heaving.
 She was a tall, dark-haired beauty, usually crisp and beautiful, but she was heaving without a trace.

'Good morning Celeste, what's up?'
'Good morning, Lyota. I'm just having a magic storm this morning.
'Oh, I see. Are you okay?
Yes, as long as you stay inside the house, you'll be fine. I just accidentally went out earlier and that's all that got me.
Really? ......
I'll be fine.

 Celeste straightened up and returned to her usual crisp, beautiful demeanor.

'We're blocked off as long as we're inside this mansion, and the forecast was for things to return to normal after lunch.

 That's what Celeste says.
 It seems to be okay, and there's nothing you can do about it in the first place.
 When I was in my former world, I had a headache due to the low pressure, so I know I have no choice but to be quiet at a time like this.
 Fortunately, it's all right in the morning.

It's all Lyota's fault.

 Celeste smiled and said in a mockery, "I'm sorry.
 I know you're joking about not worrying me, but what do you mean it's my fault?

''It's something I was able to canst with Lyota-san. Magic storms are harder on you the better you are at being a magician.
Oh, that was definitely my fault.
I know.
'Then I owe you an apology. What do you want me to do?
'Well, ...... then, would you like to come out and have tea with me sometime? I found a great place in town. There's two of us there.
All right. We'll go next time.

 Celeste smiled happily as she said this.
 I hoped that I could fool the vexation of the magic storm, even just a little bit, I thought.

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 Nifornium, sixth floor.
 When I arrived in the Transporter Room, I knew something was wrong.
 The throbbing in the side of my head, not from damage or anything, but from the depths of my head.
 That's what Celeste and the others told me about the day of the magic storm.

 Why? That's when I thought.

'Ah ...... intelligence s......'

 It took an instant to understand.
 A magical storm that causes abnormalities in a wizard's physical condition. It was just said that the stronger you are as a wizard, the more you're affected by it.
 My intelligence is S, and I've raised my intelligence, which is a parameter of my magic attack power, to S.
 That's right, it will be affected.

 I stood there and checked my body's condition.
 It's hard, but not so hard that you can't move, and...

 Using the Absolute Rock stone to enter invincibility mode would greatly reduce it.
 Yeah, it doesn't seem to affect the hunt.

 Having concluded that, I began to hunt.

 Sixth floor of the Nifonium Dungeon, Poison Zombie.
 I continued to hunt it today.
 A technique other than status, which I felt more and more necessary when the Sulphur Dungeon came up.
 Sniping, shooting out the limbs, etc.
 While practicing various methods, I killed the Poison Zombies and dropped seeds.

 There were no accidents, and by noon, I had collected the planned amount of seeds and intelligence became SS.

 Intelligence also became ......SS.

---1/2---
Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Power SS
Strength SS
Intelligence SS
Spirit F
Speed SS
Dexterous F
Luck F
--------- ...

 The statuses I checked using the portable now boat were nicely aligned with the SS.
 This is the sixth one, with three to go.

 We're almost to the finish line.
 Also, ...... that one will be coming up soon...

 A sword, a mirror, and a gemstone.
 I think the last of the three is about to come out.

 I headed downstairs to aim at .......


 Nihonium Dungeon, 7th floor underground.
 No dungeon snow or poisonous fog, it was the same place as the first four floors.
 Since it didn't seem to be necessary, I deactivated Absolute Lock's invincibility mode.

Huh?

 I couldn't help myself.
 As soon as I disarmed it, I felt a pain coming from the back of my head.
 The pain of a magic storm.
 The same pain as when I entered the dungeon this morning, though.

''Wasn't it until midday?''

 With a twist of my neck, I returned to the sixth floor.
 The sixth floor, filled with poisonous fog, was damaging to my strength, but I didn't have a headache.

 Back to the seventh floor underground, headache.
 Sixth floor, no headache.
 Seventh floor, I do.

"Window cutter.

 Chanting magic, it was a dud.
 I see, it seems to be the special terrain of the seventh floor.
 The dungeon often has various special terrain and effects after the fifth floor, that's why you need a license after the sixth floor.

 It seems that the seventh floor beneath Nifonium is a level where magic cannot be used.

 Well, I don't have a problem with that.
 It gives me a dull headache, but not unbearable, and I can fight without magic.

 I pulled out my gun and loaded it and then proceeded.

 I soon encountered the monster and the monster and the encounter.
 The monster on the seventh floor underground was a bandaged mummy, a mummy.
 But it's not just a bandage, it's a mummy with a strange upside-down neck and a bee charged whole body.

 The mummy was surprisingly agile in its attacks.
 It's fast for the figure, but not as fast as Red Skelton, quickly dodge it and use a normal bullet first.

 The bullets flew straight through--they were extinguished by the buzzing electricity.

'Is that going to be armour?'

 It didn't take long for the bullets to go off, and then he quickly swapped bullets with reinforced conventional bullets.
 Both bullets were obliterated.

 I knew it.
 It's a magic storm that bans magic, and there's a good chance that physics won't be able to get through.
 So I started in with normal bullets, penetrating bullets, and reinforced normal bullets.

 As a result, predictably it was all obliterated by what looked like lightning armor.

 The mammy rushes in, bouncing around with its powerful arms and hitting me.
 I fly backwards while guarding myself and catch the power.

 I wanted to stay in the right place for that. The power is appropriate for what it looks like and my guarded arm tingles, plus the additional damage from the lightning bolt makes it chatter.

 I jumped back and this time I shot a fireball and a freezing bullet that added nothing.
 The bullets landed, and a magic circle spread out, burning Mummy's arms and freezing her legs.

 Mammy screamed a mixture of yelling and screaming. This one seems to be listening.
 A magic-free hierarchy, high physical resistance, tough on magic.

 Easy to see.
 Wait, there's one more thing.

 I set up infinite lightning rounds and boom.
 The projectile produced a powerful bolt of lightning that healed the Mummy.

 I knew it was just as I imagined this one would be, too.
 The bandages are bee-charged, so I wondered if it was possible, but the lightning attribute seems to be absorbed.

 Now I have a general idea, and I have a rough idea of the strategy.
 After lobbing a few firebombs at once, the mummy was burned and crumbled down.

 It didn't even revive like the fourth basement floor, it collapsed normally.

 This was the moment when the strategy was fully established.

 After the mummy disappeared, a seed dropped there.
 A seed that only I could drop, a seed that would raise my status.

 --The spirit has been raised by 1.

 It seems that spirit seeds drop on the seventh basement floor.
 Well, let's get all the seeds up to F to E today!

 Just as I thought that, a mummy was born from under my feet and attacked me by surprise.
 It was a surprise attack, and I chose the most reliable way to defeat it on a spur-of-the-moment basis.

Repetition.

 I cast a magic, but nothing happened.
 A magic that absolutely defeats a monster once it's defeated - but.

''A magic storm?!''

 Even the strongest magic is something that originally existed in this world, so it can't go against the reasoning of the world.
 The strongest magic can't be used in the first place if the magic is banned.

 I chose it to fight back, and during the unsuccessful time loss, Mummy teamed up with me. She opened her mouth so wide that it split open and bit me.
 I tried to pull away, but she had a tight grip on me and wouldn't let go.

'Ko......Reiki thing!

 I grabbed Mamie's head and kicked her in the body.
 Mammy still grabbed me tightly and wouldn't let go, but when I kicked or pushed her out with all my strength, the arm holding me was still intact, and her body was torn off her elbow and sent her flying away.

 It's a good thing that the arm that's holding me is still there, because it's not, but it's also a good thing that the arm that's holding me is still there, and it's a good thing that the arm that's holding me is still there, because it's not.

 It's a good thing we've been practicing this and that.

 Even if you can't use the repetition, even if you're limited in the types of bullets you can use.
 Still, I can still fight.

 I can even kill the third mummy with an annihilation bullet.
 It's so easy to fight.