Chapter 157

Itai no wa Iya nanode Bōgyo-Ryoku ni Kyokufuri Shitai to Omoimasu 157

Defense Specialization and the Elite Corps

The once peaceful jungle was now echoing with the sounds of multiple battles .

There were more players here now, and one of them was Pain .

“Hah!”

Pain blocked an attack with his shield and cut the monster open with his sword .

It didn’t take Pain too long to kill all of the monsters that were surrounding him .

“Good . Now, what do we have here?”

Pain looked through the dropped items but didn’t find anything special .

Pain had already discovered several moss-covered ruins, but none of them led to him acquiring anything in particular .

“I have to move carefully . ”

Pain’s HP was already down by 30% .

He hadn’t taken any strong hits, but the sheer number of enemies had very slowly chipped away at him .

And since he could not heal here, he wanted to avoid getting damaged as much as possible .

Pain began to walk again, in order to find something new .

As Pain walked, the faint sounds of a battle reached his ears . He had been in this jungle for a while now but had only heard others fighting a few times .

He was struggling with his exploration, even though he was using all of the information he had gotten .

“There may be something . I should just go and check . ”

Pain reached the place where the sounds were coming from . But there were dense and tall bushes, and he could not see what was happening inside .

However, Pain had a feeling that whatever was happening, was not normal .

It wasn’t surprising, since this suspicious bush was thicker than any Pain had ever seen before .

“…I should look inside . ”

Pain spread the bushes apart and was just about to go inside when the sounds of fighting stopped .

Instead, the bush started to shake, and he could hear the sound of something coming closer to him .

Translations by AsianHobbyist Website Pain raised his shield and pulled out his sword in preparation to fight . He would fight whatever it was that was coming out of the bushed . The sound became louder, and the tip of something shot out of the bushes .

“Here it comes!”

The face that popped out in front of Pain was familiar . No, it was the face of an unforgettable monster .

“Hahh…I’m tired… Oh, you’re…Pain, right?”

It was the head of a monster with no pupils .

And the voice that came from it was also familiar .

It was without a doubt, Maple’s voice .

After meeting, the two walked together for a short while, and then sat down in a small clearing .

Maple was still in her monster form .

Since there were limits on healing, she could not discard this valuable outer layer .

Pain sat down by the root of a tree, and Maple lay her long body next to it .

“So, you’re going to stay like that?”

“…? Yes, I guess . ”

“I see…”

Pain felt a little uncomfortable deep down, but if she said she was going to stay like that, then there was nothing he could say .

The reason that they were together now was simple . They had decided to explore together .

It was hard to meet others in this wide field . And this chance encounter between two strong players was an opportunity that neither Maple or Pain was going to ignore .

Translations by AsianHobbyist Website Pain suggested this to Maple, and Maple had no reason to refuse him .

And Maple did not think very deeply about it .

The only thing that she considered was that having someone with her during an attack like the last one, would make it easier to escape .

And so this elite corps was born .