Chapter 94

Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri s . h . i . tai to Omoimasu 94

Defense Specialization and the Reconnaissance Team

“Hmm…this one looks like it only has a few members . ”

Sally looked down from the shadows of the cliff and saw that there were only 5 players here currently .

Unless they had someone like Maple, it was not possible for just one person to defend .

Usually, you would a . s . sign a lot more people to defend your base, and since they were not doing that, Sally could guess that they were a similar size to Maple Tree .

“Alright…Let’s beat them . ”

Sally slipped out of the shadows and moved, all the while keeping herself hidden .

Approaching a base in large numbers was bound to get you spotted, but she was alone and could stay hidden if she was careful .

“Oboro, ‘Quick Shadow . ‘”

When there was nowhere left for Sally to hide, she disappeared and in a second, hid in the bushes near the guild .

She pressed her ear against the wall and listened . It seemed that the players had not noticed her yet .

When Sally had observed them from afar, she saw that they were not always looking up, only one of them was . The others walked around and checked the narrow paths for any intruders .

“Now…here we go . ”

Sally quietly moved out of the bushes and approached the player who was on watch near the cliffs .

Sally was more than capable of killing the guard without allowing him to scream, but she purposely delayed her attack .

“ambush!!”

The player screamed before falling down and dying .

As it was the player who watched from above that screamed, the remaining four all came closer and looked up .

They were close to the bushes that Sally was hiding in once again .

The four players’ attention was focused above them, and it took a second for them to notice Sally dashing forward in a low crouch and slashing at them .

As their level and equipment were far lower than Sally’s, they were unable to retaliate, except for the last person who was able to block her attack just once before falling .

“This is going well, I didn’t even have to show any skills… And it won’t be too much trouble if I get chased by this guild . I think I’ll do one more . ”

Sally s . n . a . t . c . hed their orb and took the narrow path back to the top of the cliff .

She checked her map and thought for a few minutes .

As she had just taken an orb, the other players of this guild would know her location, so it was dangerous to stay here for too long .

“The next one is also small… No, this one looks dangerous . Hmm… Maybe I should go and search a little farther out? I would like to know where the larger guilds are located as well . ”

Sally decided what she would do and then ran in the direction that she had not explored yet .

Maple and the others fulfilled their role as defenders brilliantly .

The only important skill that Maple had shown was ‘Dedicated Affection,’ and no one had been able to tell that this skill was weak to piercing attacks .

After beating all of the players into a pulp, Yui and Mai sat down next to Maple .

“Ahh…ha… . I’m tired…”

“Hmm…haa…yeah…tired . ”

As Yui and Mai had been in charge of all of the attacking and moving around, their fatigue was severe .

“Well, I don’t think anyone will come knocking here for a while . There is no way that they would come back for more after being beaten so badly . ”

It was just as Kanade said, the other guild had already given up on retrieving their orb completely .

It was unthinkable to die twice when the first day had only just begun .

“The other three are out scouting, and Sally…is very far away, huh…”

Maple muttered as she looked at her map .

Sally’s icon was moving farther and farther away from the guild .

Maple closed her map and sighed .

“Okay, let’s get some rest . It’s not like we can go out and attack others . We’ll leave that to the other four members . ”

Three out of four of the Maple Tree members that Maple put her hopes in, who also acted as breaks and guardians, were now scouting the area as planned .

“This thing is really useful . ”

“Isn’t it? ‘Doping Seed’ is so strong . ”

‘Doping Seed’ was an item that Izu could make with ‘New Frontier . ’ It allowed you to raise a single stat by 10% at the cost of lowering another stat by 10% .

You could use up to 5 at once, and its effects lasted for an ample ten minutes .

However, you only knew which statuses it would affect after making them, so she had to use an enormous amount of materials to get the ones that they wanted .

Izu had acquired the materials in exchange for gold and was able to prepare the necessary seeds for the guild members .

Izu had given Sally 10 Doping Seeds that raised AGI and lowered VIT .

Chome was given seeds that raised VIT or STR and lowed DEX .

Kasumi’s seeds raised STR and lowered INT .

Kanade’s raised INT and lowered STR .

As Maple, Yui and Mai were not affected much by lowered stats, Izu was able to give them the leftovers, which made her job easier .

The amount gold that Izu had used to make all of these seeds was enough to create two guilds .

“Hehe…I expect you to make up for all the gold spent on these . ”

“Of course . Leave it to us . ”

Kasumi found some players through Far Vision, and so the trio went out to defeat the group of players .