Chapter 144

Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 144

Defense Specialization and the 5th Layer

The seven of them tore through the monsters as they made their way to the dungeon .

Chrome drew all of the attacks towards him, and Yui and Mai hammered the enemies from the sides .

Aside from the fact that Maple’s absence meant that they moved slowly, their party was perfectly complete .

“Oh, I can see it now . ”

Chrome pointed at the entrance to a cave up ahead .

“Well, let’s hurry up and go then . ”

Kanade said as bookshelves rotated above his head .

“Yes, let’s go . ”

And so the seven of them quickly went inside of the dungeon .

The dungeon was overflowing with monsters that were immune to physical attacks or had strong resistance to physical attacks .

The ones who merely had resistance could still be one-shotted by Yui and Mai, but the others could not . And so Kanade would have to occasionally step to the front and fight as they made their way through the dungeon .

Aside from Izu who generally did not fight, the others had explored so much of the 4th layer that they were used to fighting monsters with physical resistance .

Chrome was able to speedily guard the fire attacks of the familiar looking fireball monsters, and Kanade killed them .

If they took damage, Izu would heal them immediately with items .

Having some resistance did little to change the fact that they were just mobs .

And it was no surprise that they were no threat to this party, even with one member missing .

Their invasion continued, and they soon arrived at the boss room without any trouble .

“Okay, I’m going to open it . ”

Sally said as she turned around . The others all nodded silently and readied their weapons .

In the next instant, the door opened and they rushed inside .

What they saw in the back of the room was a large nine-tailed fox . It’s glossy yellow tails swayed silently .

“Everyone, we go as planned!”

Sally ordered, and they all scattered .

Sally went to the front left, Kasumi and Kanade went to the front right .

The other four waited near the entrance with Chrome in the front .

While Sally and Kasumi were running, they used the items that they had been given .

They crushed the yellow crystals that were in their hands, and then their weapons began to crackle with yellow light .

This plan involved using a temporary paralysis effect on their weapons in order to paralyze the swift fox .

“Look over here!”

Sally slashed at the foxes front legs to get its attention . The fox bit and attacked with its claws . Its tails whipped at her, but Sally used her recently acquired ‘Icicle’ to avoid the attacks and counter .

Due to Sally’s efforts, Kasumi and Kanade were able to move freely .

“‘Paralyze Bomb’!”

“Fourth of the Blades . Whirlwind’!”

Kanade’s paralysis magic and Kasumi’s four attacks with a paralysis effect .

Kasumi was continuing to damage the fox so its attention didn’t divert, and after some time, the fox finally stopped moving, just like they had expected .

It would be harder for paralysis to work again once it wore off, so this was their one chance .

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Of course, they only needed one chance with Yui and Mai there .

Chrome had been protecting this ultimate weapon from the shock waves of the attacks, and now they went straight for the fox .

Their every step was a countdown to death .

“‘Double Stamp’!”

“‘Double Stamp’!”

Their great hammers had a long reach, and the successive attacks they pounded ignored the foxes second phase and sent it to its grave .

With these two, it was the norm to ignore everything . But if the guild master who was absent today was here, it would have been the norm for her to slowly crush her enemies one by one .

A few days passed after they had safely made it to the 5th layer . Maple came to the 4th layer guild home, but only Sally was there .

“Everyone went to the 5th layer already?”

“Yeah, do you want help? I don’t have much time, but if we hurry…”

Maple was considerate of Sally, who was in a rush, and so thanked her but said that she could log out .

“Oh, one last thing…how was it? Was it strong?”

“Hmm… Well, I guess it’s stronger than the monsters on this level?”

“Stronger…oh, really!? But…didn’t you fight it by yourself?”

“…? No, all seven of us . Well, I’m sure that you will be able to do it alone…”

“I see, I see . You guys can do that now then . ”

Maple’s face brightened as if those words had cheered her up .

“Huh? Yeah . I’m sorry that I can’t go with you . If I was free…”

“It’s fine! It’s fine! I’ll be okay! You said that I can do it . And now is the time that I can finally go . ”

And so Maple said goodbye to Sally and left the guild .

“Did she want to go right after her flu cleared up? Hmm? Oh, well . I better hurry!”

Sally quickly logged out so she would not be late for the matter that waited for her in the real world .

Maple ran straight towards her destination . Everyone else had gone ahead, and so she was determined to catch up with them .

“Okay, let’s do this…”

Maple took in a deep breath and stepped into the room .

Translations by AsianHobbyist Website “Excuse me!”

“Ohh…? I did not expect a human to come . ”

The person who answered Maple was a tall and white Oni .

Maple was going to go against the ‘strongest’ on the 4th layer .

“Hehehe . I’m going to go to the 5th layer!”

Maple declared energetically to the Oni .