V7C146 (1/2)

(146) Roo‧Kanga

Translator: Tseirp

Even after opening my status multiple times, the skill that I should have acquired for reaching Jobless Lv90 was not displayed. For now, I listed the other skills I acquired and arranged them before hiding them from my status list.

Well, the Orc Goddess … er, Koshmar-sama mentioned that the Jobless job didn’t have skills in the first place and that somebody intervened with the system and configured the Jobless job.

Perhaps Koshmar-sama or the other Goddesses intervened with the system once again to fix it.

For now, I convinced myself that the 【Jobless skill: 「XXXX」acquired] notification I received was a bug from that intervention.

Essentially this meant that I lost one skill but my heart was calm.

If I can’t acquire any more skills by continuing to level Jobless, I could abandon the Jobless job without regrets and change my job to something like Sword Saint at the Church and register as an Adventurer in the Adventurers Guild.

I’ll finally graduate from Jobless and take my first step into the life of an Adventurer.

… But then, the reason I didn’t switch my Jobless job now was because I felt that since I’ve already reached this stage, it was fine to wait until I reached Jobless Lv99 and see what kind of great title I can get from reaching the Peak of Jobless. Assuming that Lv99 was the level limit.

“Nevertheless, there sure are very little monsters appearing … ”

“They’ve most likely fled after their danger signals detected the Flat Rats nya. This place would be safe for a while nya.”

Stella thought of it as a lucky break for us but for me, it was slightly boring. In that previous battle, the fighting was mainly done by Haru and I didn’t get to defeat many of them so I couldn’t make effective use of my 20 times experience points acquisition. Just the numbers were many so Dancer and Singer reached Lv12 but Blacksmith only reached Lv8 and Samurai only reached Lv6.

I thought this time I would be able to act as the main fighting force but it’s a shame.

Just like Stella mentioned, I could sense the presence of monsters far away but maybe they could sense our presences too as they quickly fled further away.

Well, there’ll be the boss when we reached the boss room so I’ll satisfy myself with the level ups from there.

After spending half an hour not encountering any monsters, we arrived at the very end of the underground fifth floor which was also the lowest floor of the labyrinth.

“This is the boss room nya.”

The door to the boss room was open.

Inside was a brown-haired monster that stood on two legs ―

“It’s the fighting rat Roo‧Kanga nya.”

“No, isn’t that a kangaroo?”

It was a kangaroo. Yup, the size was about the same as the ones I saw in zoos.

With its hands ― with its forelimbs covered with red gloves used in boxing, it repeatedly sent jabs in my direction to provoke me.

There was a belt around its waist and it also had another pair of blue gloves hanging around its neck.

The instant I stepped into the boss room, it was as if the sound of a gong rang out. The kangaroo tossed the blue gloves around its neck towards me.

Of course, the boxing gloves bounced off the barrier that separated the boss room and the corridor and didn’t reach me.

However, I understood its intention.

It was probably asking for a match with gloves on.

There’s no way I would go out of my way to fight my opponent in his own ring … I’ll just end it with a Slash here. Just as I was musing that,

“Stella-san, could Roo‧Kanga perhaps be an initiation boss?”

“Initiation boss?”

“A monster that exists as bosses in certain labyrinths. The common characteristic is that they request for special fighting methods and a job will be released if you could win.”

So there are such kinds of monsters. I didn’t know that.

“Exactly nya. If you win the fight by wearing gloves, the Boxer job will be released nya. However, if magic or other weapons are used, the job would not be granted nya.”

“I see, a no weight limit, no time limit, weapons ban one-on-one battle.”

I’ll switch my job to Pugilist if it gets risky. Thinking that, I entered the boss room, undid the strings, fit the gloves and asked Haru to help me tie the gloves.

Throughout that time, the kangaroo stared and waited for us.

It was wary but it didn’t seem like it would perform a cowardly attack.

Even though it’s an enemy, it is certainly praiseworthy.

The same time the strings on my gloves were tightened, the door to the boss room closed.

That meant in order for the door to open once again, either we defeated this kangaroo or all of us get annihilated.

Naturally, I don’t intend to lose.

I slammed the gloves on my fists together and showed a smile.