Volume 3 Chapter 15.5 - Epilogue 1.1 (1/2)

Volume 3 Epilogue 1.1

Translator: Kureha

Editor: Weasalopes

「I’m still amazed that we managed to win against that thing…」

As the group was having a very delayed dinner, or rather, a mid-night snack back at the inn, Tatsuya commented about the Stone Golem which they somehow managed to defeat. The Octogals have also finished eating their Takoyaki and now the only person who hasn’t eaten a thing was Hiroshi. Aearis and others have gone back to Igreos temple to sort out tomorrow’s schedule.

「That was a raid boss monster without a doubt…」

「Even if we’re just looking at tanks, we would need at least 20 or 30 of it, and probably about 200 volunteering soldiers. There was nothing we could do about it this time but that wasn’t a monster a 500 member party could defeat.」

Haruna added agreeing with what Tatsuya said. As someone who has fought in many front lines, the Tower Golem’s strength was something that could not be compared to any other monsters. If it came to monsters stronger than that, even Makoto could only name Dragon Road Balshem.

This Balshem is only a field class boss but there has been no record of anyone defeating this monster. Even the hardcore no-lifers have issues like lack of fire force. But moreover, Balshem could knock out any players with one sweep so hardly anyone could have decent combat with this monster.

「It would have been different if we had three more heat-tolerant extras. But if we fought according to theory, we would have definitely run out of stamina and lost…」

「You’re right, it didn’t have as much fire force compared to Balshem. But if our tanks got attacked three more times, they would have been destroyed. Thinking back to its defence stats, all I can say is as expected of Golems. We would run out of stamina or magic power if we only focused on breaking through its defence.」

「When you were back in our original universe, how easily do you think you would have defeated a monster like that?」

「I’d say fifty-fifty. I can think of about five players who had the useful extra skill but when it comes to monsters like that, nobody knows what weapon is most effective against it. Also, I didn’t have any extra skill at the time so …」

「I see, so it was a miracle that we managed to win against that thing.」

To Tatsuya’s conclusion, Makoto nodded seriously. To be honest, if Hiroshi and Mio never obtained an extra skill, the two of them would have been defeated. It was likely that a country named Darl wouldn’t have existed either.

「If Mio didn’t activate Armor Smash on her staff, I don’t think her attack would have given that much damage on the monster. But Hiroshi’s Titanic Roar would have caused a lot of damage on Golems like that without decaying them so I think something would have worked out in the end.」

「Hearin’ that, if Makoto-san used made another swin’ ya katana, wouldn’t it have shattered then?」

「Putting aside my stamina, it requires cooling time so I can’t use that skill a couple of times in a row. Extra skills that are at a novie level has a cooling time so long you’re not even sure if you can use it at least once every battle. Also, my weapon gets more damage against larger opponents so I doubt I could have made another hit.」

「True dat.」

To Hiroshi’s question, Makoto quickly explained the problem which cannot be fixed. Makoto’s Gale Slash had a problem with both its activation time and the frequency that she could use. It also doesn’t help with increasing any skill levels or provide any defence. Her weapon also doesn’t convert the stamina it is absorbing. So, the most they could do was place an enchantment on that cuts stamina absorption by 75%. This was how she was able to make an average amount of hits in all of the battles they have been in.

However, they couldn’t do anything about the cooling time. For example, with Makoto’s Gale Slash, since the skill level is only on novie, it has a cooling time of 1500 seconds. If the skill level was at its max, the cooling time will decrease up to 5 seconds. But this didn’t change the fact that she could not use this skill in a row. On the other hand, Mio’s Dragon Fall has a very short cooling time. However, there is a time where she would not be able to use it for around 3 to 5 seconds. Thanks to Haruna’s numerous extra skill, their limitations could have been minimized but issues other than that are much bigger than it is difficult to find any use for it at this current time.

The amour crash which Makoto mentioned previously automatically activates whenever the player is fighting against an opponent with a hard outer layer like Golems, or an opponent wearing a bronze armour. It automatically activates whether if it’s a boss class monster or not. However, even if the opponent is wearing armour, if the equipment’s defence status is any less than soft leather armour, then this skill will not activate automatically. There is also an abnormal condition where it cannot be used against monsters with extremely high defence status like Kraken. On top of that, certain metallic equipment has an enchantment on that can neutralize armour crash. In fact, as long as the equipment has auto-repair enchanted, the damage it gets from the attack can be healed fairly quickly.

「Anyway, from today’s battle, I can confirm that what I was worried about is true…」

「A thing that you were worried about?」

「Yeah, I was looking at Hiroshi’s defence which made me think about something. That there might be monsters which are too strong for us to completely avoid their attacks. Even if Hiroshi attacked them with his full set of holy steel armour.」

To Makoto’s comment, everyone gave a grave expression. It was because such problems could bring a matter of life and death.

「This world has some aspects which are different from the game. But putting aside the battle formations, the strength of each monster isn’t that different from the game in general. Don’t you think?」

「Well, you’re right.」

「And in the game it’s programmed so that at least one or two boss monsters which are almost impossible to defeat.」

「So what you’re saying is that almost impossible monster that’s been programmed in is the Dragon Road Balshem?」

「I’m not the one to say but if it’s Balshem’s strength, Hiroshi would be able to handle it with ease once he trains Fortress. Or even levelling up his stats until there’s not much more space for improvement. So even Balshem is within the range that Hiroshi can handle.」

To Makoto’s terrifying comment, Tatsuya lost his words. It was true that compared to Hiroshi’s abilities it was a fairly a low-level monster. If Hiroshi trained up to level 300, which would be easy for him, his HP would increase to the point where a Tower Golem’s fire fore wouldn’t be a threat.

Considering the number of monsters, they have defeated after being teleported, Hiroshi’s current level would be close to 200. Increasing 100 more levels may make it harder for him to level up. Yet it would still increase his armour by one or two points and his defence stats and HP would be ridiculously high.

「Taking that into consideration, I guess it would make sense for a stronger monster to show up.」

「Right? I don’t want any incidents happening so we really need to plan ahead keeping that condition in our mind.」