[Oeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Yuri-chan!]
–The secret dangerous area ‘King Vortigern’s Cursed Island’.
It was a treasure trove of dark plant-type monsters.
A huge number of cryptids, such as the ‘Dragon Plant’ that I had tamed before, appeared and attacked me, Yario, and Crutteruo.
They were really tough opponents. I mean, with the island’s special rules, their level was much higher than ours while our stats were halved.
Welp, all we had to do was…
“—Dodge twice as fast and attack twice as hard! Special action arts ‘Hassou Tobi’!”
[Gogaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!]
With the jumping ability-boosting skill, I jumped between the hordes of monsters!
I made close shaves with fangs and claws, but none of them actually hit me, and on my eighth jump, I spun around while taking out my bow and arrows and shot at the enemies, all in one breath! I couldn’t miss the slightest opening if I was going to get rid of these dark plants!
“Wahahaha! This place makes a great training ground before the war! This is so much fun, don’t you guys think~?”
““Hell no!!!”” shouted Yario and Crutteluo who were struggling.
“Dammit, I mustn’t make a fool of myself in front of Master Yuri! Activate arts ‘Instantaneous Boost’, ‘Vanishing Spear’!”
Yario with his all-rounder job ‘Brave Lancer’ made up his lacking stats with all sorts of arts. Between his attacks, he also threw throwing weapons, steadily killing the monsters.
Crutteruo with her covert fighting job ‘Beast Riser’ was no less amazing.
“Activate art ‘Three-dimensional Drive’! And, consecutive ‘Fierce Kick’!”
Her agility was insane. She ran and jumped between trees, toying with the enemies. From there, she threw bullet-fast flying kicks, balancing evasion and attack.
“I should have expected no less from top players. I can’t fall behind, either!”
After all, I was their master! I had to show my disciples how cool I was!
I used ‘Arms Barrier’ skill to summon seven weapons possessed by Pon Gang. Grabbing three Pon Arrows, I took aim at the enemies, and then–!
“‘Raging Dragon Shot’ x30!”
I summoned a flock of demonic dragons and destroyed all my enemies in one fell swoop–!
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“—Ahh, I’m dead tired! But what the hell was that move, Master?! The one with lots of dragons!”
“You mean, ‘Raging Dragon Shot’ 30x? The dragons come from ‘Raging Dragon Shot’, an advanced archery art you can learn from Tengu Hermit if you meet the hidden conditions. You can use it with weapons other than arrows with some hidden conditions. That plus the Pontaro and the gang’s ability to split itself into three that they’ve got after undergoing special evolution under hidden conditions, you get ‘Raging Dragon Shot’ 30x.”
“What’s up with you and hidden conditions…? How did you even discover them?”
After finishing the series of battles, the three of us rested surrounding a bonfire.
By the way, we were in front of an old castle deep on the island. The closer we’d got here, the more monsters had appeared, but when we’d come to the front of the castle, they’d stopped attacking.
“There are places in dungeons where no monster spawn. We call these places ‘Safe Zone’…”
“They’re usually located on the border to an area where even stronger monsters spawn. Chances are inside of this castle is more hellish…”
Yario and Crutteruo looked fed up.
Seemed like they were spent from all the battles we’d fought. Well, there was also that wild ride we’d taken to get to the island.
“Okay. After resting for three more minutes, off to the castle we go~!”
““T-three minutes?! That’s it?!”” The two cried in shock.
I mean, every minute and every second counted. The war was only a couple of days away.
“Sheesh, you guys should follow the baldhead’s example. He’s been traveling and fighting around the highest-level areas around the world these past few days, you know? Many bosses were defeated for the first time by him—or so he told me on the bed.”
““On the bed?!””
“? Yeah, why?”
Wait, that was what they were surprised about? Be surprised by the bosses’ first kill, why don’t you?
–By the way, there was a feature in BSO where the name of the player who defeated a boss for the first time was announced in the form of a world message.
Buuuuut I mustn’t have noticed it because the baldhead’s username was Reindhardt-whatever.
“Honestly, of all names, why the hell did he pick Reinhardt? I mean, that sounds like the name of some nobleman. With his barbaric face, how are you supposed to put the two and two together?”
“…Was his lower part also barbaric?”
“Huh?”
I tilted my head at Yario’s incomprehensible words.
Anyway, this was enough rest. The monsters on the island were strong, but they yielded good exps, so let’s continue the hunt.
With that, we got up—at that time.
“—Wow, I’m impressed, Yuri-chan~. You can only get to this hidden area by getting swallowed by rapids and being thrown into the seat at the speed of 60MPH and then getting sucked into a whirlpool which will wash you away to this island. To think you’d still beat me to it after all that investigation I’ve done…!”
“Y-you are?!”
When I turned around, I found Merlin, the head-to-toe pink handsome bespectacled dude.
And next to him was…
“Oeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee… which madman created that route… my stomach is still churning…!”
――Alice, the silver-haired gothic loli who had once attacked me, tottering with teary eyes…!
Uh, you okay?
