514 514. Princess and party




 The next morning, the first floor of the tellurian basement.

 I was earning money and figuring out my current power.

 My abilities dropped from SS to F across the board.

 I looked at the slime that jumped at me with a counter punch - but I couldn't defeat it.
 On the contrary--.

 Googie!

 I heard a not-so-good sound from my wrist and hurriedly pulled my arm back to kill its momentum.

 Speaking of the slime that hit him, he was pinned down.
 It was rather furious and gained even more momentum to hit me with its body.

 I tried to dodge the attack, but my body was heavy.
 My speed has dropped from SS to F, and I can't seem to avoid it as much as I would like.

 I pulled out my gun in a flash.
 I aimed at the slime with the normal bullets I'd loaded in advance.
 Pulled the trigger, at close range where it pounced on me, I was able to shoot it out with no problem.

 And - drop.

 A large amount of sprouts were dropped from the slime.

'This one's no different.'

 It was a bit of a relief, of course.
 The only thing that was "forfeited" to Nihonium was the combat stats I raised in seed through the dungeon.

 The 5 stats in the drop were already S when I dropped (transferred) to this world.

 A unique skill unique to me that has nothing to do with Nifonium.
 This one was still the same S, so the sprout drop didn't change at all.

 And although my physical abilities were greatly reduced, my gun attack power was completely unchanged.

 I pushed the magic cart and walked around in the tellurium.

 The usual scene, the everyday life of tellurian life.
 I saw a few adventurers here and there, eyeing and bowing to each other as we walked.

 We walked for a while, and encountered a new slime.
 I held my gun loaded with normal bullets.

 I waited for the slime to fly by and guided it to come on the magic cart - I couldn't.

'Mmm.'

 I quickly ducked the body hit, the slime grazed my cheek and flew backwards.

 Guidance ...... What was I doing?

 The technique of guiding it onto the magic cart, and when you defeat it, the drop goes straight into the magic cart, a short technique for laps.
 I couldn't do that, I couldn't guide the slime, and it moved unexpectedly and nearly ate the attack.

 The slime tried the next body hit while bouncing.
 This time I aimed at it normally and took it down.

 I picked up a large number of dropped sprouts and put them in my magic cart.
 I thought to myself, "What if...?

 After retrieving all the bean sprouts, I walked for more slimes.
 I quickly encountered them.
 This time it was an encounter, a long-range shot.

'Mmm, I knew it!

 The normal bullets I hit grazed the slime.
 Literally grazed, the slime angrily pounced on me.

 I fired a series of loaded conventional bullets and managed to take it down before it got hit by the body.

 It was just as I had guessed.

 I couldn't guide it anymore, and even if I aimed normally, it would miss at a distance.
 The gun's attack power itself hasn't changed, but its hit rate has visibly decreased.

'...... and then...'

 My brain was rapidly adjusting to the current situation as I realized some of the negative effects of my diminished abilities.

 I tucked the gun back into my Grand Eater's pocket and pushed the magic cart through the dungeon.

 Slime and Encounters, hand in hand at the head of the encounter - and

Repetition!

 I chanted.
 The slime popped instantly and dropped a lot of sprouts.

 The repetition seemed to work fine.

 Well, it would.
 It's a magic that I acquired through the guidance of Nihonium, but the magic itself is the result of eating magic fruits, so it's not a Nihonium thing.

 And that's not what I want to know either.
 I push the magic cart further and look for the slime.

 Encountered.
 I cast a repetition and blink the slime away.
 Pick up the sprouts, press the magic cart again, and look for the next slime.

 Encountered and repetition.
 Encounters and repetitions.
 Encountered and repetition.

 After a convenient sixth time--

Repetition! --I can't...

 The slime didn't go down, but rushed at me with a body.
 I knew I was expecting it to a certain extent, and I thought "maybe it's time," so I was able to duck the rush with plenty of time to spare.

 After I dodged it, the slime came at me with more body blows and I used the normal bullets from the gun I pulled out to shoot it out.

 I take out my portable now-board and use it.

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

---2/2---
Plants S
Animals S
Minerals S
Magic S
Characteristic S
--------- ...

 Repetition is magic, which means it consumes MP to use.
 With MP back to F, it's no surprise that the number of times it's used is significantly lower than it was before.

 That's not the only problem.

 Repetition's MP consumption is proportional to the strength of the enemy.

 A tellurian slime can use Repetition with no problem, but as a Dungeon Master, even if your MP is S or SS, it will take up so much of your MP that it will be emptied in one hit.

 If your MP is F, your repetition is practically useless.

That's a bit annoying.

 Well, as far as repetition is concerned, I can get away with "a little".
 I'm not relying on them to begin with.

 I'm not going to be able to get any more of them.
 It's so strong that if you've defeated a monster once, you can make it die instantly without exception just by casting it.

 In a world where everything is dropped by monsters in dungeons and life is based on them, adventurers circle the dungeons over and over again, endlessly.

 Repetition is the strongest of all, as it allows you to continue to safely defeat the same monsters with minimal steps.

 That's why I didn't use it much on a regular basis.
 If you use it too much, you'll lose your edge.

 It's the same as if you played an RPG for a long time and then suddenly played an action game, your fingers wouldn't be able to keep up.

 And when it comes down to it.
 And when the time comes... The amount of time you lost could be fatal.
 That's why I've been fighting as little as possible without using repetitions, using only bodywork and guns.

 The loss of the repetition is not that big of an impact.

I'm just glad I always do.

 I chuckled and headed to a nearby rest stop.

 This is the rest stop that Cell had the Cyclo dungeon build after he became the head of the dungeon association.
 Monsters don't come close to that resting place.
 In that safe zone, I decided to take stock of the current situation.

 First of all, I'm now at ability all F.
 It's exactly the same as it was right after I moved in.
 My body isn't used to it yet, but it's the same as the 'original', so my senses will catch up to it soon.

 And all the magic is still there.
 Repetition, window cutter, and silver quick.
 The magic that I got from eating the magic fruit was still there.

 By the way, I tried it out before I came to the rest stop, the magic was there, but I didn't have enough MP to activate it.
 This is a physical thing, when you can't grab it because you don't have enough MP, nothing happens, but you feel a sense of emptiness in your body.
 Through it all, I confirmed that I had all my magic left.

 And the guns were still there.
 Two normal guns and two +10's.
 This one had nothing to do with Nifonium, so it's no surprise.

 The bullets - this might be the biggest problem.

 It's easy to understand, in a way, that the ability has been mercilessly lowered to all F, but it's all down.
 But the bullets are not.

 A good half of the bullets I have, in fact, are from Nihonium.

 Frozen bullets, flame bullets, recovery bullets, straitjacket bullets, ironclad bullets, slashing bullets, etc.......

 Nine levels of special bullets were missing.

 In particular, the recovery rounds and iron wall rounds are quite painful. The others are frequency of use and other replacements, but these two are inevitable.

 Well, there's no point in asking for something that isn't there.

"Ryota-sama.

 A sullen, elegant voice called out my name.
 I turn around to find Margaret standing there.

Good night. How's it going?
It didn't make any difference to me at all.
Okay.

 I nodded.

 I asked Margaret to go to Nihonium.

 A dungeon that doesn't drop anything - a dungeon that only drops air for everyone but me, Nihonium.
 Hence, the only adventurer who goes there is now Margaret, who makes air boxes.

 She continues to go to Nihonium the same way, even though she is now drop-all A.
 He said, "I have someone waiting for you," he said.

 The result of having that Margaret go.

'It didn't change at all, did it?'
Yes, I do.
Okay, all right.

 That means that Nihonium has been decisive with me.

 Nihonium, my obsession as a spirit is to annoy people.

 That was inspired by this one incident, but it means that it's only being demonstrated on me.

 Then, I thought, well, maybe that's okay.

'Lyota-sama,'
Hmm? What?
Why don't we have a party for a while?
Party?
Yes. Ryota-sama and I look just like each other now.
I see.

 That would be interesting, and I was starting to have a little fun with that.