738 75% chance of problems appearing (1/2)

Five tree demons instantly appeared while shooting out large amounts of bright red flowers at everyone!

Each flower petal had more attack power than an arrow at full speed. They were so dense that it was impossible to avoid. Thankfully, Seiji cast his [Turtle Armor] barrier in time to protect everyone.

”This is out of my control! Four of them appeared on their own!” Kazuko swiftly informed Seiji. ”I can sense that there's something different about the four that appeared on their own.”

”What's different about them?”

”I don't know, I just have such a feeling.”

”How did they get here?”

”I don't know that, either.”

Alright then, so there was an unexpected situation. Still, this was within overall expectations.

After all, during the four previous times that Seiji went to train in the Domain, unexpected problems had popped up three out of four times. In summary, based on his limited past experience, the odds of something unexpected happening were at 75%...

Seiji had already warned everyone during the strategy conference, so they were all mentally prepared.

The tree demons bombarded everyone with flower petals in a vicious barrage.

”Retreat!” Seiji shielded his allies and had everyone swiftly retreat.

The tree demons chased after them by moving with their tentacle-like roots.

However, the tree demons were relatively slow-moving. Seiji's group soon put some distance between them.

”These spiritual monsters have the weakness of needing one minute of recovery time to create more petals after they're finished shooting,” Seiji explained to everyone. ”We need to kill them in that one minute of reloading time…”

If they moved too far away, the tree demons would stop shooting, which was why they needed to stay within a certain distance to lure the tree demons' attacks.

The bright red petals they shot would pass right through the Sakura samurai demons without harming them. As Seiji's group retreated, they still had to constantly deal with attacking Sakura samurais.

At this moment, something abnormal appeared.

A seemingly perfectly ordinary Sakura samurai dropped a small dark red object after it was defeated and transformed into experience mist.

”What's this?” Yukari grabbed the object with a spiderweb strand and brought it to her hand.

This object was about the size of her finger. It was cool to the touch, and had a smooth surface like a round stone. Black and red intersecting runes could be seen flashing upon the object.

When Yukari looked at this object, she felt a mysterious urge to eat it as if she was a little kid who saw a delicious candy.

Yet, this was obviously no candy, nor was Yukari a young child. She immediately restrained this strange urge, and reported it to Seiji while showing him the object.

Seiji took the mysterious object.

[You have received an Inner World Crystal for the first time. You have now activated the Spirit House Crystal exchange function. You may use Crystals to open the door to your Spirit House, construct rooms, or exchange for furniture.]

Seiji instantly widened his eyes in surprise upon seeing this!

This object… this ”Inner World Crystal” had the same function as his system's points!?

He immediately wanted to open his system and check out more details, but this obviously wasn't the time.

He still didn't know what exactly this crystal was, but it was obviously something good and an important resource! This was something that his dating sim system actually wanted, and it could be used in place of points to exchange for the Spirit House's special items!!

”This is an Inner World Crystal, something quite useful…” He explained to Yukari and the others that if they saw any spiritual monsters dropping such an object, they should grab these objects. Of course, he reminded them to pay attention to personal safety first.

Everyone agreed to do so.

”Kazuko, do you know why this appeared?” Seiji asked the rather unreliable master of this Domain.

”I don't know… but I can sense that the four additional tree demons have a similar aura to this item,” Kazuko replied.

”A similar aura… does that mean that they'll drop this item if I defeat them?”

”Perhaps so.”

The extra four tree demons were bosses that would drop loot!? Seiji's eyes instantly lit up.