Volume 8 Chapter 3 (2/2)
The moment we entered the dungeon room, I felt many eyes staring at us.
”There's lots of D rank monsters here. They'll be great for leveling up Tiro-chan!”
Like that, Tiro took a step forward to sniff and look at the surroundings.
It seemed like the many monsters here were hiding behind the rock formations, waiting for their chance to strike.
One foolish monster had its tail jutting out, so I used my Demon Lord powers to look at its status.
Race: Fire Salamander
D rank
Name: Unnamed
Level: 35
Physical Strength: C
Endurance: D
Agility: C+
Magic: E
Luck: D
Special: E
Skills:
Fire resistance
Camouflage
Fire Breath
It was a small fry monster without anything worth mentioning.
However, the danger with them was their numbers. Once we got close to the rock formations, it was likely that the Fire Salamanders hiding there would attack us all at once.
At any rate, seemingly done with reconnaissance, Tiro looked down at the rock at her feet. Not even a moment later, she jumped head-first into that rock and vanished.
Actually, she didn't vanish. To be more accurate, she dove into the other dimension using the acute angle present in the said rock.
The next thing I knew, a Fire Salamander hiding behind a rock a few meters ahead fell into the ground and died. Its head was missing.
Aside from using the ever-present acute angles as entrances to the other dimension, her skill used it as exit points as well. When exiting, the skill allowed her to pretty much teleport to any acute angles within a certain range.
In other words, it was the strongest ambushing skill.
Right after surprising and decapitating her prey, Tiro dove back to the other dimension using a nearby acute angle, repeating the process over and over.
The Fire Salamanders, who were waiting to ambush us, had no clue on what was happening, and yet their heads were flying one after another. They weren't even able to perceive Tiro's presence.
Looking at the nightmarish scene unfolding before me, I gulped down my own saliva.
Her skill was much, much more terrific than I anticipated.
Coupling the teleportation blind spot attack with her insane stats—Physical Strength S and Agility S+—it was a genuine one-hit fatal attack.
I couldn't picture a way to prevent such an unreasonable attack. Those that didn't know about it would be killed without much resistance. Those that knew about it would forever be on guard which was impossible as sooner or later there would be a miniscule gap in their defense and that would be all that was needed to kill them. Meanwhile, Tiro had the option to simply stay in the other dimension and wait until that opportunity presented itself.
After leveling up enough, she was going to become invincible. This hunt has reaffirmed that belief.
By the way, Tiro's sense of smell was fantastic. Even though she wasn't able to use [Supreme Hunter] as it required visual confirmation of the target first, she was able to locate all of the hiding Fire Salamanders with just her excellent sense of smell.
Anyway, after finishing the last of the Fire Salamanders, Tiro returned to us via the acute angle in the pebble on the ground.
She was carrying the head of a Fire Salamander in her mouth. When she was near enough, she dropped it in front of me.
”Gau!”
With her tail wagging and a triumphant look on her face, Tiro barked so.
She seemed like she wanted to be praised, so I petted her head. When I did so, she hummed sweetly.
”You're so amazing, Tiro-chan!”
Kuina excitedly praised Tiro like that. An absurd battle like that was definitely worth a praise.
”Kuina, if ever you and Tiro fought, how would you go about it?”
Kuina was one of my strongest monsters, if not the strongest. So, it got me thinking of what kind of methods she would employ against Tiro.
”Hmm… First of all, Kuina will melt everything a few meters around me. That way, there'll be no nearby angles. I'm sure I can make it smooth and all curvy, even the ground. If I have a few meters of that, I have nothing to worry about 'cause then I'll have enough time to react with my [Ultra-rapid Reaction].”
I see. Removing all acute angles in the vicinity is definitely possible for a first-rate monster like her.
”Plus, Rorono-chan and Aura-chan can just fly up to the sky and make that the battlefield. There won't be any acute angles there.”
”It seems it's not as undefeatable as I thought, but she should still be extremely hard to counter if the enemy didn't know anything.”
I decided that we should keep details of Tiro's skills a secret as much as possible. Particularly the fact that she used acute angles to enter and exit the other dimension.
”Yup! Although, I think I can still win against her even if I knew nothing.”
”How?”
”Let's see. The moment she bites my head, I can focus my magic power into my head to harden it. And then, before she tears it off, I would have shot her in the gut with my shotgun! So, yeah, I'll probably be fine!”
Kuina was impressive as always.
Contrary to her appearance of being a cute little girl, she was actually already a veteran soldier who has survived countless of battles before. Being one of Avalon's strongest wasn't just for show.
”Anyway, good job, Tiro. Do you still have enough magic power to go on?”
”Gau!”
The person herself said she could still go on, so we hunted a little bit more.
Due to the large number of enemies defeated and also to the fact that she was still just at level 1, she leveled up a lot all at once.
At that point, I remembered Rorono's request and made a digital camera using [Creation].
It was for recording the next battle.
According to Rorono, if she was able to see how Tiro fought, an idea for Tiro's equipment might come to her.
After seeing Tiro fight myself, I thought she would like to have a close-range weapon with high offense capabilities.
Now, to properly record her next fight. Incidentally, why don't I record Kuina too? So that someday, far into the future, we'll have something to look back on and smile at.
”Kuina, Tiro, let's go to the next spot, okay? Let's go level up a whole lot more today!”
”Yay~ ♪”
”Gaugau!”
Like that, we hunted in the [Crimson Cavern] until it got late.
Afterwards, we returned to Avalon. Because of all that moving and fighting, we decided to eat.
To double as the celebration for Tiro joining our ranks, we should eat luxuriously tonight!