258. Soft thrower Ryota




 The first floor of the Tellurium basement.

 On this day, I was killing monsters to get around efficiently.
 I updated the way I did the 20th floor of Lantern 20 twice after one of Mattia's cases, but I realized that the dungeon I usually go to is an old fashioned way of doing things.

 So I came to the first floor of Tellurian.

'Phew!'

 I grab the slime and throw it at the magic cart I keep a short distance away.
 The magic cart that Leia is guarding.
 The moment the slime reached the top of the cart, it sizzled and then disappeared, turning into sprouts.

 The dropped sprouts fell into the magic cart.

 I grabbed the slime and threw it, catching it as it hit my body and throwing it, and kicking it away with a direct volley as it flew at me.
 I sent the slime flying into the magic cart the way it was supposed to be there.

 On top of the magic cart, I shot a flameless bullet - a fusion of flame and azure bullets.
 The slime dies instantly as soon as it touches it, and the drop goes into the magic cart.

''How's that, Leia?''
Calculating ...... is only slightly less efficient than the way it was done before.
I knew it.
'Efficiency outweighs efficiency until the master makes his way to the enemy monster. After that, I'm guessing the wait for the resurrection is a loss.
"You can't go looking for them, because flameless bullets stay there when you shoot them. But if you use flameless bullets every time you move, that's what you get...
Yes, it's going to be even less efficient.
''That's right. I'll have to shoot flameless bullets at just the right height and put the magic cart right underneath it.

 That's where the loss comes in.
 Even if I increase the accuracy of generating fusion bullets, I still feel like it's a loss.

''This way, if I can push the magic cart, it's likely that efficiency will increase.
Hmmm: ......

 I put my hand to my chin and thought about it.
 Surely that would be more efficient.

 Would it be better if Leia pushed the cart - or in this case, combined, and pulled the cart by the arm?
 If you can throw an enemy on that cart and take them down, your efficiency will be even better.

 The problem is that the flameless bullets don't work: .......

'Yikes.'

 A small scream that came from a distance interrupted my thoughts.

 A female wizard I knew was injured by a slime attack.
 Without thinking anything in particular, I fired an infinite recovery round at her.

''Thank you.''

 She bowed her head in a bow.
 As it was, she circled around the fighting slime.

 The slime was purple in color.

 It was her fighting style, the way she used poison magic to take it down with percentage slip damage.
 She spun around the poisoned slime in a circle without touching it.

 After a while, the slime sizzled and melted and dropped a sprout.

 It's always a strange way to defeat it.
 Slip damage - a monster that has fallen due to continuous damage looks like it suddenly died even though nothing was done to it.

 It doesn't work for me, but it's a strategy that a lot of people do.
 After dealing a percentage of sustained damage, all you have to do is defend yourself, and you can safely defeat even slightly higher-ranked opponents.

 Because adventurers in this world place the highest priority on getting around, there is a certain percentage of adventurers who use this strategy.

 Besides the female adventurer from earlier, there were others who were doing it as well.
 Right beside her, another man is casting the same poisonous magic and concentrating on defense and evasion.

 The slime leaps and bounces and attacks the man, but it doesn't do much damage to the adventurer, who is focused on defending himself.

 Eventually, the slime is knocked down again in a very sudden way, and the sprouts are dropped.

''Ah!''

 The man made a troubled sound.
 The poison damage killed the slime the moment it flew to the ceiling and tried to recoil and fly back.
 The sprouts dropped by the slime that fell in its place were nearly half caught in the ceiling.

''I can't get it, that was a ...... waste of time.

 The man let out a sour note, but gave up on the idea that it couldn't be helped.
 I stared at the sprouts on the ceiling.

'Master? Do you want those sprouts?
No, it's not.

 I just said that, and I stared at the sprouts.
 The slime looked suddenly dead from the poison damage and the drop caught on the ceiling.

 Without thinking, I picked up a pebble that had fallen to the ground and threw it in the direction of no one.

 The pebble flew with a rotation and plummeted into the air.
 It was a vertical ball.

 That's right, depending on the amount of force like this .......

'Leia, push the magic cart and follow me.
I understand.

 Leia didn't hear anything, but followed along, pushing the magic cart like she was faithfully following orders anyway.

 I encircled the slime, and as it flew quickly, I caught it in the palm of my hand, grabbed it, and threw it towards Leia.

 The slime flew away and burst in the middle of the flight and dropped the sprouts - but I didn't have enough momentum and the sprouts didn't go into the cart because I was hit in front of the magic cart.

'Sorry Master,'
'No, no, it's not Leia's fault. Rather, just keep up the same pace and follow me.
I understand.

 Leia faithfully kept her word.
 She bent down and tweaked the magic cart that was following her at the same pace, and this time she grabbed the slime to snatch it up and threw it in an underthrown manner.

 I control my power the moment I throw it and try to get hit just as I reach the top of the magic cart.
 The second time, he had too much momentum and jumped over the magic cart, but the third time, the slime was properly knocked over the magic cart and the sprouts went directly into the cart.

''As expected of a master.''
We'll start with the cart, evenly spaced. Follow me.
Yes, sir.

 He took Leia, who nodded clearly, and went to work throwing the slime.
 I grabbed it and threw it, I came up with it from poison damage, and threw it so that it would fall over in time.

 It went in and out at first, but slowly I got the hang of it and started to get close to a hundred percent of them going in.

 After I was able to get in reliably, and after throwing nearly 50 of them, I asked Leia.

'Leia, what's your efficiency?'
It's up 1.1 times.
Ten percent more. Okay, I'll pick up the pace. I'll adjust the timing myself. Leia, just follow me.
I understand.

 Leia's cart was still coming off because she wasn't pushing it as fast as she was consistently, but once she got the hang of it, she was able to adjust it easily this time.

 Grab it and throw it, throw it and let it fall on the cart.
 The result of speed and timing as optimal in the moment and as improvised.

How's that!
It's 1.3 times the first one.
Okay, let's take it up a notch.
Yes, sir.

 It was a tellurian, and a day of further efficiency.