Chapter 9 (1/2)

Chapter 9: Fierce Battle! The menace of Area 5

A couple of notes:

First, this chapter is huuuuuge compared to the other ones, with over 3,000 words, as compared to the previous chapters’ less-than-2,000

Second, I’ve changed “Skill Points” within Self-Evolution to plain old “Points” in this chapter and all previous ones That’s because the points only apply to Self-Evolution

Third, I changed the classification of Goblins and their ilk from “Evil” to “Evil Beasts”, because of a certain description in this chapter

Fourth, the Author see the Set/Memory Skills of Sword-bro, so I’ain I haven’t read ahead (because I need to translate this stuff to read it in the first place), so I’m not sure if they’ll do it eventually but… Just a heads up

Fifth, I’ tomorrow So… Yeah Don’t expect a chapter for the next day or so

That’s all, read on!

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It’s the been 10 days since I started wielding Magic

My day-to-day life hasn’t changed; I spentfear into the hearts of Deside that, I absorbed enough Magic Stones for Self-Evolution’s rank to reach 5

I’ve also gained a large number of Skills, as well as Skill Proficiency The hideout of Gourmet Orcs, which is a subspecies of Orc, was especially delicious as they had a great nuic Skills

As for their racial characteristics, , both going up to about Lv5 It’s laughable, but despite being a Skill that I’ve had no opportunity to use, now the only Skill with a level higher than those is Swordplay

80 of the Plains have been doarden

『Alright, shall I go?』

The next thing to do would be to explore outside of the Plains It’s a place that I named “Area 5” without permission

Soth of the Demonic Beasts isn’t distributed evenly around here The farther away froer the Demonic Beasts It seems that around the Pedestal, only snated that area as Area 1 As the nu Demonic Beasts

And for now, Area 5 is set as the maximum difficulty

Outside of Area 5 is completely uncharted territory But from what I can see, the Plain suddenly becolimpse of Demonic Beasts that move between the trees, but they don’t seem much different from the small fries from Areas 1 and 2 There certainly don’t seeer than the Demonic Beasts of Area 5

Well, as for the question of why Deht be able to understand once I’ve reached there

『There’re no small fries』

As the Area increases on the Plains, the number of Demonic Beasts tend to decrease Instead, the Area widens, and the nue Demonic Beasts increases In Area 4, which was my main battlefield until yesterday, I was only able to hunt about 20 of theic Stones’ values exceed 15 each, the gain is overwhel 100 Goblins

Ah, by the way, this is my current Status:

Name：Unknown

Race：Intelligent Weapon

ATK：314　MP：1000/1000　Durability：800/800

Skills:

Appraisal：Lv6, High-Speed Self-Repair, Self-Evolution〈Rank 5・Magic Stone Status: 1366/1500・Memory: 34・Points: 23〉, Self-Modification, Telekinesis, Telekinesis ↑ Low, Telepathy, ATK ↑ Loner ALL Stats ↑ Loner HP Recovery ↑ Low, MP ↑ Low, Meic

With regards to Skills, I changed the them, there’re a lot of Skills that can’t even be used, too

As for ones that I use all the time, Swordplay has a Skill Lv Up bonus, so its level is particularly high

Initially, it didn’t dooverwhel effects As it increases one’s ability to manipulate a sword, what do you think happens if you are a sword? I became able to attack my opponent’s weak points with deadly accuracy

In addition, iant Demonic Beasts also increased Because I have the body of a sword, it’s no exaggeration to say that this Skill rose both my Offense and Defense

『Oh, a Demonic Beast!』

Race：Goblin：Evil Beast：Demonic Beast Lv3

HP：10　MP：2　STR：7　END：9　AGI：8　INT：4　MGC：2　DEX：7

Skills:

Cooking：Lv1, Vigilance：Lv1, Poison Resistance：Lv1

Description: An evil being born of a frago These beings are born with strong malice and hatred towards those not of their own Race, so it’s impossible for it to theility and Dexterity, and they’re violent and cruel by nature Upon discovery, it is recos immediately Threat Level: G

Magic Stone Position：Center of the body; the Solar Plexus

I discover a Goblin walking near the end of Area 2 The Goblins’ nest was annihilated, but you can still see them occasionally

As for the explanation provided under the rest of its Status, it’s the effect of De Self-Evolution Points It’s capable of being used in tandem with Appraisal

Thanks to that, battles have becoic Stone, has becomes clear With that, I’m able to turn my initial attack into a certain-kill

『But seriously, reht…? They’re treated just like cockroaches』

This is the first tie, but I’ that they’re ht Well, that could siinally a human, and so I’ve decided to side with the huuys into EXP from now on

In that way, Itheir descriptions

『Hyahoー!』

I had coreat movement method the other day

1： Use Telekinesis at maximum firepower, and blast off

2：Entrust

3：Repeat

I had thought of it while using the Telekinesis Catapult Attack I name it: The Telekinesis Catapult Movement Method (¹) Because the only expenditure occurs at the start, I can save MP

Repeating the Telekinesis Catapult Movement Method, I arrived at Area 4 before noon The Demonic Beasts in Area 4 are quite formidable The amount of opponents I can defeat with one attack decreases, and a fair amount of Durability is decreased by attacks from the other side Where my Durability doesn’t decrease by the attacks of Goblins at all, attacks from the Demonic Beasts in this Area can decrease it by over 100 if I’m hit directly (²)

And finally, while hunting De the way, I reached Area 5

『Well, what kind of Demonic Beasts will appear in this Area?』

I use multiple exploration Skills to look for the De a pree, after all In soe

『However, there don’t seem to be any Demonic Beasts』

I looked around for an hour, but I wasn’t able to discover any Demonic Beasts at all

Are there perhaps absolutely no Demonic Beasts here? I had named this place Area 5, but is it possible that Area 4 actually had the highest difficulty?

As I thought so, I got a little ie of the area There was a giant reaction in terical Power (³) Undoubtedly, it’s a Deth

『Uhyoー! What a strong ic power reaction!』 (⁴)

Until now, the Deic Poas a Flare Leopard which was in Area 4; it was a fire-attribute Deth of ~7-8 ic Stone had a value of 47; it was a brutal fiend

But this reaction exceeds it

『Let’s gain a bit of altitude』

I fly upwards as to not be discovered on the ground Using Skills, I can conceal h the level of each individual Skill is lohen combined the effects of multiple similar Skills, the effect raises It’d be difficult to detect

『I found it! But… What is it? A puddle?』

On the Plains, a lone Puddle(?) can be seen It’d be ~5 meters in diameter?

But, froic Power H inside of it?

Should I approach it?

At first glance, there doesn’t see inside of the Puddle

『I should approach it a little more, and then Appraise it』

As one would expect, Appraisal won’t ith the current altitude difference I have to get within ~20 meters

And so, I approached the Puddle

Burururn

The surface of the water shook

The wind? No, the ouldn’t be able to shake the entire thing It seeelatin? (⁵)

Bururururururun

The Puddle shook even ive off the illusion of it exploding Looking closely, it’s not water at all

『Ugee! It’s a huge Slime!』 (⁶)

It seeht was a puddle was actually an extrehting stance

The Slith exceeds 15 meters Its surface if Blue, but within its interior, it’s e Steamed Bunmade out of water

This is the first ti Ordinary Sliher ranked ones don’t exceed 2 meters

And that body of over 15 ic Power It’s… A bit overwhel

『Well, first I should use Appraisal』