253. Mie bullet launch




 Darn!

 Eighth floor of Nifonium, I took out a three-headed zombie with a conventional round.
 The three heads of the zombie are invincible, reflective and weak, respectively.

 Invincibility means no matter how many times you attack them, and reflexes mean that the damage will be returned intact.
 You have to attack the weak point's head to defeat it, and if you miss three options, the heads will shuffle and you'll have to start over.

 As it is, you have three choices, but somehow the tracking round flies towards the "reflex" neck, so you have two choices except for the tracking round, which fires a tracking round and then aims at it until it lands.

 If you're invincible and weak, it doesn't matter how many attacks you make, you just have to start over at worst.
 Shoot the tracking round and attack the two remaining heads of the two options faster than that round.

 I took down a few of them, collected the seeds of luck on the porch, and took the transporter gate back to the mansion.
 I went into the basement and met up with Leia, who was waiting for me.

'Ta-da!'
I understand.

 Leia nods nonchalantly.
 I pull a seed out of the pouch, careful not to touch it.

'Revive.'

 Leia cast a spell.
 It's called resurrection, a magic that turns you back into a monster from a drop.
 Since it's out of the dungeon, the seed of luck hatched into a haglemono.

 Like in the dungeon, I shot a tracking round and blew the remaining heads off after making two choices.
 I hit it invincible, started over, and took another two choices from the tracking bullet - this time I took it down normally.

 A new bullet dropped, one I hadn't seen before.
 I pick it up, now what kind of bullet is it--.

'Master-'
Yeah? What's up, Leia?
Why not use the repetition? It's much faster.
Repetition, is that what you're talking about?

 I held out another seed and sucked my chin at Leia.
 Leia nodded silently and cast a spell on the seed.

'Revive.'
"Repetition.

 I was covered up and I used my magic too.

 The seeds almost wiped out the process and became bullets in an instant.
 Even though defeating monsters in this world is more and more a production aspect, this is more and more production.

 If you do this enough times, it will be on the level of putting chrysanthemums on a sassimi.

'You're asking why we don't do this?
Yes, sir.
'This guy is a thankless monster. You have to be faster than a tracking round, so you're used to high speed combat, the ability to make a split-second decision between two options, and the ability to recover when you fail. Fighting this guy will train all three of these abilities at the same time. You don't want to waste your time skipping out on repetitions.
I see. The master is a hard worker.
I'm a hard worker, I mean, I'm a bit of a stickler. I liked time attacks, even in kart racing games where you use a lot of items, I would run forever against my ghosts, not the items, but my own ghosts.
I don't know, but I know it's great.

 I've never told anyone anything unnecessary, and I can't help but talk about the other side of things.
 I'm grateful for Leia's response of understanding, "I don't know, but I understand," and I can't help but talk about it again.

'Well, that's good to know: ...... This new bullet.
Would you like to test the effect?
Yeah. It's probably some kind of special bullet.

 I loaded my new special bullet into the gun.
 Leia brought the flowers stacked in a corner of the basement and revved them up.

 Flowers from Arsenic, the monsters are Arsenic monsters.
 Like an Arsenic monster, it was a stubborn-looking rock that didn't move at all.

'Here you are, Master.
Thank you.

 I fired a new round at the motionless rock monster.
 After the bullet landed without a problem--

 Pow!

 The sound of an explosion echoed and rocks shattered.

'An explosion, is that all?'
...... Leia, one more time, please.
I understand.

 Leia silently prepared a new monster without asking me anything else.
 He shot a new bullet into the monster that regenerated instantly with Revive.

 Pow!

 There was another explosion, and the rock shattered into pieces.

'......'
What do you think, Master?
Again.
Yes, sir.

 Three times, I set up the monster.
 Before firing a special bullet, he fired an accelerator round at himself and Leia.

"Master?
Check it out with me.
I understand.

 Leia nodded, and I fired a special bullet.

 In the accelerated world, the bullets flew lazily through the accelerated world.
 It landed on the rock monster.

 Papa Paan!

There were three explosions.
Yeah.

 I knew it wasn't my imagination, I felt like I heard it three times at normal speed, but I wasn't sure, so I used two precious - and only one accelerated bullet per day - to confirm it.

'One more, please, while I'm accelerating.'
I understand.

 Leia moved very crisply and revived from the flower, but the speed at which it hatched into the haggle was normal and didn't make much sense.

 She struck to place (,) a special bullet on a rock that slowly hatches in an accelerated world.

 Papa Paan!

 Another explosion sound.
 It's the fourth explosion.

That doesn't sound right.
Is that so?
Don't you get it?
Yes, sir.
Let's ask him again on the assumption that he might be.
Yes, sir.

 The fifth test, a blink-and-you'll-hear-it from Revive.

 I looked at Leia.

'Yes, it's a bit different. Only the second time is a bit odd. I don't know why.'
'I think the first and third time it's exploding from the outside, and the second time it's exploding from the inside.
Is that so?
The way it sounded, or the way it was caged, was different.
'Is that so? I'm not sure.

 Leia says she doesn't know, but I'm 99% sure that I'm sure of it.
 The rest of the time, why is that so: .......

'Leia, one more time.'
Yes, sir.

 In terms of time, this is the last of the accelerated bullets.
 I fire a series of bullets at the rock Leia has set up (...).

"Master? Isn't that a conventional bullet?
Yes.

 I fired six conventional rounds.
 I divided them into three routes and fired one, two, and three, respectively.
 In the accelerating world, 2 and 3 rounds were perfectly aligned with each other.
 I fired a shot that hit and followed closely to avoid becoming a fusion bullet.

 One bullet slammed into a rock.
 Two bullets landed in rapid succession, causing an explosion.

 The place where three bullets landed in rapid succession caused an explosion as well, and the flying debris literally shattered.

'I knew it,'
What do you mean?
If you deliver a series of shocks in almost no time, the fragility of the previous attack is replaced by a new shock, which makes it more effective than normal. This special bullet does that three times, three impacts at once, to maximize its destructive power.
Yeah, I'm not sure.

I've had the idea of a double round since we got the accelerated rounds, but this one is kind of a self contained triple round.

 Newly acquired special bullets, triple bullets.

 The destructive power was one of the best bullets I've ever seen.