Chapter 143

Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 143

Defense Specialization and a Present

Time passed, and it was now shortly after Christmas . In other words, the day that Maple was allowed to open the Present Box .

Maple and Sally appeared at the guild house at the same time by coincidence .

“Ah, Sally, it’s been a while…wait, not really . ”

“Yeah, winter vacation has only just started . Do you want to go somewhere after this?”

“Hmm… I don’t think so . Today I’m just going to open the present . Yeah, that’s why I came . ”

Maple said as she took the red box out of her inventory .

“So you got one too . So did I . ”

Sally said as she took out a yellow box . It had different wrapping paper compared to Maple’s, but it was also a Present Box that had dropped .

Sally held the box with both hands and looked at it seriously .

“Ah…that was so hard . I don’t even know how many I killed…”

Sally said as she caressed the box affectionately . Maple couldn’t tell her that she had got hers on her first try .

And so she decided to change the subject before Sally could ask .

“Yeah, so let’s open these up! I wonder what will be inside?”

They untied the ribbons and picked up the lids at the same time . Both boxes contained a scroll .

It was an item that gave you a skill .

“A skill, huh… I wonder what kind?”

Both of them checked the information on the skills from the scrolls .

‘Icicle’

Consumes 3 MP to create an indestructible icicle . Can create up to 5 .

Lasts for 1 minute .

‘Frozen Earth’

Freezes players and monsters that are within 5-meters of you for 3 seconds .

3 minute cool down .

The first was from Sally’s scroll .

The later was from Maple’s .

“Sally, this is my skill . ”

“This is mine . I guess there are different type… I haven’t used ‘Ocean’ recently anyway, so maybe I’ll use this instead? Mm, I should manage my MP too…”

Sally mumbled as she thought about what she would do .

It was a skill that would at least offer increased defense abilities if used well .

“So that means you can just freeze any monsters that look strong! Like this!”

“Well, yes . I think that’s what you do . ”

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“Okay! Okay! Well, I guess that’s it for this year . ”

“Hm? Really?”

Sally asked just as Maple was about to log out .

“I need to slowly get through my homework, and January will be busy…so I might not play for a little while . Sally, you should do your homework too, okay?”

“I already finished it, so I’m going to play . ”

Maple was a little exasperated at the discrepancy between the times she was motivated and the times she wasn’t, as she logged out .

Now that she was alone, Sally continued to make plans for the future .

“There should be a new layer soon, so maybe I should just relax here… That guy in the last gate still doesn’t have any known weaknesses, so I can’t beat him… Maybe I could explore the machine town again?”

Sally wanted to catch up with Maple while she was absent, but it was unusual for her to go out and explore without a clear vision .

“But it might be good to do this once in a while . Just like Maple . ”

With high hopes for the 5th layer, Sally headed back to the 3rd .

As for the results, she gained no skills and encountered no events .

The only thing Sally accomplished was finding out how to use ‘Icicle . ’

However, Sally had become obsessed with how useful ‘Icicle’ was .

Before this, she had used a magical disposable wall to block dangerous attacks .

So something that was guaranteed to last for 1 minute was almost too good to be true .

Sally did wish that they weren’t transparent, so she would be able to hide behind them, but she was still satisfied .

Now, Maple and Sally’s winter vacation had ended, and they were more than halfway into January .

And the 5th layer that Sally had been eagerly waiting for was about to be implemented .

On the day it was to launch, Sally came to the guild home first, but only waited for a short while before other like-minded members arrived .

“Ohh, we’re all here now!”

Sally had not imagined that everyone would gather together, and she raised her voice in a mixture of surprise and happiness .

“Hm? No, Maple isn’t here?”

“Ah…Maple is…”

Translations by AsianHobbyist Website Chrome had asked, and Sally explained .

“She got influenza…again . She gets it every year . ”

“Oh, I see . What should we do? Should we all come back on a different day?”

Everyone gave their opinion after Chrome’s suggestion, and they all agreed that Maple would be able to get through with just a few members helping her later on, so they should just move forward together now .

They were all in agreement .

If anything, Maple would probably be able to beat the boss by herself .

And so Maple Tree minus Maple set off for the dungeon that led to the 5th layer .