425. Two-stage acceleration




 Pry open the entrance with an iron wall bullet, and once you're outside, reset the dungeon.
 Then immediately enter the dungeon again, kill the monsters on the way with Repetition and go down to the basement level again.

 Take a deep breath there.

 From here, it's all about speed.

 +The +10W accelerated bullets can stop time more completely compared to just accelerated bullets, but their effect time is shorter.
 Just a moment ago, the effect time expired right after I turned back to the entrance and arrived there, and the light vortex disappeared.

 You have to think about the fact that you have to counteract the light vortex as well, and you have to move briskly, or rather at full speed.

 So I took a deep breath, stretched, snapped my finger bones, and concentrated on - seriously - the real thing.

...... Okay.

 +I load the +10 gun with W-accelerated bullets and shoot at myself.
 The air stops - time stops.

 I ritually walk up and down the stairs on the spot, ceremoniously fulfilling the conditions for the entrance to close, and then run up to the entrance at full speed.
 With a little bit of time to spare, I came back, the light vortex was properly there.

 I jumped straight into the vortex of light.

 A dazzling light enveloped my entire body. I hold my hands in front of my eyes and turn my face away.
 And the effect of the bullets wears off.

''Eh--''

 I heard someone's voice - a moment.
 My eyes were enveloped in more light.

 When the light subsided - to my surprise, I was outside the dungeon.

 I looked around.
 The adventurers looking at me from afar, and the statue of me sitting at the entrance of the dungeon.
 Definitely, right outside the carbon dungeon.

'What's the matter, Master Satou?'

 Then Cell, who was here again, spoke to me quizzically.

'The spirits have thrown me out.'
We're getting there fast. That's good.
I got kicked out.

 He replied with a bitter smile.

 That voice, probably the spirit of the Carbon Dungeon, is definitely Carbon.

 Then that room over there through the light vortex is the spirit's room.
 It's the opposite of Tennesin.

 Tennesin invited me in, but Carbon kicked me out without a second thought.

'What are we going to do?'
I'll be back.

 I entered the carbon dungeon and jumped into the transporter gate I'd put on a short distance away.
 Thanks to the transfer gate, I was back at the mansion (Vanadium) in an instant.
 As it was, I designated the destination to the transfer gate - Carbon's spirit room.

 The transporter gate was activated.
 It was only for a moment, but the bookmarking still seemed to be successful.
 I jumped into the transporter gate.

''Eek! I'm persistent!

 The next thing I knew, I was sent out of the carbon dungeon again.
 I put my hand to my chin and thought about it.
 Cell didn't speak to me, probably because he saw that I was in my thoughts.

 It was a little bit of trouble.
 That he had used the transfer gate.

 At that moment, I could hear the other person's voice all the way through, and then I was sent outside.

 That's a momentary reprieve, unlike forcing the entrance to close.
 But even that reprieve is more than the normal me - speed SS.
 I'm not very good at it, but I can't make it happen.

 And even if you want to shoot an accelerator round at yourself, it's too fast to get there in time.

"Let's try to force ...... to do it.

 I enter the dungeon and head back to the basement level again, making plans.

 I use the same +10W acceleration round as before to run to the entrance and jump into the vortex of light.
 After that, I fire more accelerator rounds at myself, dodging as many as I can to duck the spirits' eviction.

 It's faster than the speed SS, but it's not an overwhelming difference.

 It feels like an action game that asks for a tenth of a second of control, but it feels like you can do it after a few tries.

The problem is that if you do it too many times, they're likely to come up with something new: ...... Well, you'll have to wait and see.

 Hungry, go to the carbon basement level again.

 Make a W-accelerated bullet with vanadium bullets and prepare a +10.

 Review the procedure.
 +Enter with a +10W accelerator round, then add an accelerator round as soon as the effect time expires to avoid it.

 +Combined with the short effect of the +10W accelerator round, I have to go more and more into concentration.
 I took a deep breath, straightened the joints in my shoulders and elbows, and thrust the muzzle of the gun at myself, trying to go for it.

''--!''

 A moment later, a possibility flashed in my mind.

 I somehow fired a conventional round.
 The bullet flew straight at me and slammed into the wall.

 Then I fired a W-acceleration round at myself with my normal gun.
 He made another W-acceleration round and shot himself with the +10 gun.

 Then he shot again with his normal bullet.
 The bullets didn't pop out, I expected them to, so I slowly pulled the gun back and the normal bullets stopped in mid-air.

 +Due to the effect of the +10W accelerated bullets, the normal bullets stopped completely.

 After a while, the effect of the time stop wore off.
 Then, the normal bullets began to move sluggishly.
 It's a slow-rolling, W-accelerated bullet that's comparable to a steel wall bullet.

'I can do it!

 Good is quick, I repeated the same thing.
 I waited for the effect of the W-accelerated bullets to wear off completely and shot another W-accelerated bullet at myself, and then shot another +10W accelerated bullet on top of that.

 Closing the carbon entrance in a world that has come to a complete halt, I rush to the entrance, climbing up and down the stairs.

 We jump without hesitation into the vortex of light that has reappeared.
 There, the acceleration of the first stage (、、、、) runs out of time.

"Sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

 The slow regeneration of the slow regeneration's spaced out voice could be heard.
 Because the effect time is longer than normal accelerated bullets and +10W accelerated bullets, the voice is interrupted by the remaining effects.
 And the light that was poking at me also slowed down.

 I avoid it with all my might - relying on my voice to flesh out in a world blinding with white light.



 Halfway through, the effect of the accelerated bullets wore off and the other guy's voice returned to normal.
 I grabbed their arm, and they tried to shake it off, but wouldn't let go.

 Eventually the light subsided, but I could clearly see a woman in her thirties trying desperately to shake it off, but she didn't let go of me.

...... Okay.

 The break-in was sure to be a success.