Chapter 69 - Combat preparations completed (2/2)
Maija was in the middle of the road, but we didn’t go through it this time and kept going forward.
We kept proceeding for a while and entered Yabilga Desert, Yumir looked restless and looked around.
「Are we not there yet? I want to test out the new gear already!」 (Yumir)
Yumir’s defensive gear was a 『First rate Desert Alloy Armor +7』, when it was completed and it wasn’t a +10, Selene-san was quite frustrated.
Even then, thinking about the degree of difficulty of blacksmithing, it had incredible performance.
Yumir was really happy with the result, and thanked Selene-san repeatedly.
In terms of numbers, compared to the previous leather armor, its defense values were more than double.
The armor was specially made by using plenty of the minor metals 『Cobalt』 and 『Chromium』 that we had gathered, in order to make the alloy we had to heat up the furnace to pretty high temperatures.
Other than that, Selene-san mixed in something else other than iron, but sadly she kept that a secret.
That being the case, I left the ratios and the rest of the materials up to her, so I didn’t know what to call that alloy.
By the way, leaving Riizu aside, our 「Weapons」 were already finished by using the same alloy.
In terms of name, they were all unified in a simple 『Desert Alloy』 series.
Naturally, since they all used the unique alloy Selene-san made so they were all arranged gear.
「Please, have patience. The place is further to the north.」 (Riizu)
「Riizu, you sure searched through quite the extensive range. Was it dangerous?」 (Hind)
「It was fine. Though I turned back right after I saw the monsters inside the pyramid we can now see over there being level 50.」 (Riizu)
As Riizu pointed out, before us stood a pyramid.
So there really were pyramids…I couldn’t see it because of the sandstorm.
Yumir and me, who haven’t noticed its existence until a moment ago, looked up to it and stood there dumbfounded for a while.
Selene-san was the only one that noticed before Riizu pointed it out, so she replied like this instantly.
「You sure did well to go in alone…if it was me, I would have been impossible because I’d be scared.」 (Selene)
「I only checked the monsters’ levels after all. Though I did defeat whatever I thought I could defeat.」 (Riizu)
My sister is quite cold-hearted and bold.
However, if the monsters are level 50, if we don’t wait for the next level cap update, exploring the pyramid will be hard.
Nonchalantly, Riizu said 「We’ll nearly be there after passing by the pyramid」 and we kept proceeding once she pointed further north.
It was a strange place.
Above the particles of sand, there were many camels walking around carefreely in the wild.
The scenery felt out of place and I didn’t know what to say, so I strained my eyes to take a better look.
Without minding that, Yumir carefreely got closer to those camels.
「Wait. Stop right there.」 (Riizu)
「Fuoh!?」 (Yumir)
After receiving a splendid foot sweep, Yumir beautifully fell down.
Right now, we had all got off our camels, our camels were standing by a bit behind us.
Ignoring Yumir who raised a protest, Riizu took out a stone from her inventory and threw it at the camels.
「W-What are you doing, Riizu-chan?」 (Selene)
「Yeah yeah! Isn’t that just animal abuse!?」 (Yumir)
「Be quiet and look. You’ll know soon enough.」 (Riizu)
Like that, once the second and third stone landed close to the camels…suddenly, the sand below them started rattling and moved-
A gigantic fish with its mouth opened appeared.
It gulped down the stones Riizu threw along with sand, and it went under the sand again.
What we thought were camels were tied to the fish’s forehead area, and along with its movements, they were shaking.
Our jaws dropped when we saw that happen.
「It’s a monster called Mimicry Angler. It looks similar to a football fish, the lantern part mimics other living beings and it lures its food with it.」 (Riizu)
Now that she mentions it, the movements of the camels that were moving around were somehow odd…
*End of the chapter*