18. Hunting requires preparation (1)
My schedule for the day starts with climbing up the watchtower and watching snakes with half-open eyes.
Normally, I would eat a simple breakfast and go out to the beach to start reconnaissance, but as this is the body that has to fight the snakes, I had no choice but to advance the schedule. If the snake babies are completely exterminated, there is only one dungeon left.
If you break through the dungeon…
Can you escape?
Right now, the only place I haven’t been to on this island is inside the dungeon, so it’s clear that the only place to get a hint to get out of this island is the dungeon. The problem is, you never know what might be lurking beneath that dungeon.
Seriously, another final boss from Survival Academy could be waiting inside.
Of course, there’s no way that guy could be sleeping on an island like this… But he might pop out. In the first place, this island itself was not a place that came out of Survival Academy. Maybe it’s the island that was intended to be released as a DLC. Because they were the ones who had one DLC arm vomited out.
New map added! New Quest! New colleague! New Monster! Find the secret of the uninhabited island with your friends! I mean the same feeling. There were times when I wondered if the company had a public relations team because one of those adverts made my life really bad. After, now I miss that too.
The time when I sat at an angle in my chair, put my hands on the keyboard and mouse, and played games comfortably.
It was the time when, while swearing at DLC, I was honest and entered my card number into the payment window like a black cow.
I remembered it while playing a game, but it’s been months since I didn’t open the status window. Where should it be useful There is no such thing as a level up system, so I can’t take a picture of the stats, and I can’t even recognize it in the first place, so I don’t know if it was made for the purpose of humiliating me. I’d rather have the status window open so I can use it as a weapon.
Anyway, it didn’t seem bad to open the status window after a long time.
Even if it was dead during the 10 years of drifting, something might have changed since the heroine of the survival academy appeared.
I shouted a word I haven’t missed in a long time.
“Status window!”
[Johan Quartz]
!*(@&#^!&*!@*(&!*($#!@* ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ (&$*(#!&!@(*&()#!)($()!& ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ @!*&$(!*@&*)(!&$##@*) ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞[!@&^!#*^] ＜Br＞ ($&!(*@!&)*&#$)!*(@&^(*! ＜Br＞ !@*()&!#)*!$ ＜Br＞!*@(&!*(&!1 ＜Br＞ “…f*ck, what I want in the status window is an idiot.” ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ It’s the same now as it was 10 years ago. Why the hell did you give me a status window that can’t even play a role? ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ Stats, skills, and everything are all in alien language, so I can’t see any benefit from the status window. After. If you’re going to possess it, sprinkle some cheat keys on it! I want to become a loser at the end of the century who can beat all bears and snakes with my fists by getting EX-class growth traits! Annoyingly set traps, use poison and stop walking! ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ “Oh, I don’t know. It’s a status window and it’s nabal, so you should just ignore it.” ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ It’s not that important right now anyway. It would be beneficial to take a look at the trends of the snakes at that time. I waved my hand and pushed the status window away from my eyes. The status window was swept away by my gestures, and it dispersed and disappeared like smoke. ＜Br＞ ＜Br＞ Haam. ＜Br＞
I took out the hard beef jerky I brought from home and put it into my mouth. The salty taste tickles your tongue. After all, there was nothing like salty beef jerky to wake up. Come to think of it, there wasn’t much beef jerky left. When this is done, I’ll catch a rabbit and make enough to fill a crate full of beef jerky.
If possible, let’s make it so that all the rabbits living on this island are dried out.
If, if the whirlpool disappears, then we’ll have to start a long voyage.
It’s a story that really only makes sense if there is a clue to escape in the dungeon.
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Ah, I’m thirsty. My tongue hurts from chewing something salty. I took out the leather bag I had just made and drank the water in one gulp. After all, well water tastes good. Water made by distilling seawater has no taste. Boiling a pot and barely extracting a cup of water is at the peak of inefficiency. When the water supply is difficult, that would be appreciated, but well… Since the well has been purified, it is not anymore.
Big. Cool. I wiped the cool water running down my lips. Drinking water while looking around the panoramic view of the island from a high place was really awesome. It was quiet today. In the end, it seemed that the snakes had succeeded in stopping the zombie rush. As proof of that, I couldn’t see the baby hydra moving. Wouldn’t it be exhausted by now?
“Is it about time?”
If Hydra is tired, there is no good news. Being tired was synonymous with being vulnerable to surprise. However, looking at the tail of the place where the snakes lived, it seems that this is not necessarily the case.
“It just turned into a poison swamp.”
The scenery created by the mixture of poison, acid, blood and corpses was quite a frightening sight even to me who had never seen one before. The forest that was green just a few days ago has gone, rotten trees that have turned purple at some point, hills where the trees have melted to reveal their shabby skin, and purple swamps that have appeared in territories that have revealed their bare faces.
A space that could literally be called the land of death was created.
“… Was it too much?”
Aren’t those things evolving in a strange direction? Like a crazy snake that poisons not only its teeth but its entire body. Like shooting poison like a water gun. Or that even anaconda-sized snakes are poisonous…
I shuddered at the terrible thought. It’s a useless imagination. Snakes are annoying because they act shady, but if you evolve like X Pokemon, it becomes a lot more annoying. I’ve been filming drifting stories on Hell difficulty enough so far, but can the difficulty level rise further here? To say that evolution is not so easy in the first place, even in the survival academy, there are mutant monsters that evolve rapidly.
Oh, I’m dizzy.
When I think of all the possibilities, I naturally get a headache. It seems that delusional illness has relapsed again as I have a family where I am not always alone. After living for 10 years in a place where life is lost if you get twisted once, you have no choice but to become a shadow boxing expert, but you have to fix it soon.
“…That’s it.”
I’m going to go get some food.
Nothing will change if I think about it here anyway. It would be better to discuss it with Lenny while eating. In the end, the real battle will be with Lenny and me.
Since Karina is in charge of treatment, she was scheduled to wait for us in the rear. There is no guarantee that we won’t get injured while fighting the snakes, and we don’t know what kind of reaction the dungeon will have when we wipe out all the snakes. So, we needed solid insurance. If it was a saintess who used excellent healing magic, that role was perfect.
If I remember correctly, neither Karina nor she really knows how to fight. Even when she came out as the final boss, she didn’t have a pattern other than just spewing magic.
Even that was weak…
“Don’t ever say it’s over if I’m breathing…”
I awkwardly hummed a song I couldn’t even remember the tune of, and headed home.
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“Ah, are you here? Please sit here! I made breakfast!”
…Now you’re a local. I thought as I looked at the clams and caterpillars floating in the boiling pot.
“John. Here you go!”
Karina held out a bowl full of soup to me. I carefully took the bowl and sniffed it.
The smell of the soil and the smell of the sea, which are unique to caterpillars, are mixed to give off an indescribable scent. I slightly turned my eyes to look at Lenny, and he was bringing the soup to his mouth with a half resigned expression.
You look a bit like Karina.
You eat everything well, whether it’s caterpillars or lugworms.
…Is Karina strange? Just from her looks, I don’t think she could say that, but she ate too well.
Except for the first day, she had a face with little resistance. Rather, it seems to like it.
…Is it my mistake?
“Is it delicious?”
“…Yes.”
I awkwardly answered Karina. Lenny was fine, but when he was in front of Carina, her words caught in her throat and choked her. Even though it’s been almost a fortnight now. Is it because I’m Mosol, or is it just because I raised her head as it were to talk to the flower on the cliff named Carina?
The answer is the same either way, so there is no point in worrying about it.
“How are the snakes trending?”
“It turned out to be hell.”
How many snakes will remain? It was hard to guess how many snakes would be left in the land that had been ravaged to that extent. And that’s not all. The terrain had also changed dangerously, so it was necessary to revise the plan as a whole. I couldn’t step into a poisonous swamp where my whole body would turn purple if I touched it.
No matter how much Karina has, it is not possible to use her healing magic indefinitely. If I did, I would have ripped off her hydra head with a hydra raid pod on her long ago.
“Hell…Is it good?”
“No. Forests collapsed and poisonous swamps were created. We need reconnaissance.”
I could go alone, but since we have to fight together anyway, it’s more efficient to go scouting together with Lenny. In case of emergency, just having a bait, or a reliable partner, is reassuring. It hasn’t been cured yet, so it doesn’t emit the terrifying force of the final boss, but…
Even though the kids here are strong, they can cut it well enough.
“After eating, they immediately go on reconnaissance.”
“I will use my body after a long time.”
Lenny seemed happy to be able to go outside. It seemed that Karina was frustrated at the bottom of her heart when she said that the patient had to stay calm and didn’t allow her to move. I emptied the bowl neatly and set it on the tray I made two days ago. It was an object made to make it easy to move the dishes to be washed.
“I still can’t get used to it…”
Hearing Lenny grunt, I put the things I needed into my favorite leather pouch. Jerky and various tools to relieve hunger. Small bottles to contain the poison. And leather to cover the body. The rest of the ingredients had to be procured locally, so this was enough.
“Go right.”
“Oh, wait a minute. Miss Karina. When you go outside, be sure to take a good look around you and don’t leave the house if you can. Without us, we can’t guarantee safety. No, you’re going to hide away while we’re gone…”
“Lenny. It’s okay, so let’s go quickly.”
I don’t know if it’s that Lenny who makes Karina, who is a good person, look disgusted, is great, or is Karina who stops at being disgusted.
If I get overprotected like that… I might be happy.
Because it is better to have than not to have.
“Hey, what’s wrong? Why are you bruised? Are you sick?”
“Nothing. Depart.”
Somehow, it looks like it will be a noisy reconnaissance.
For some reason, seeing Lenny made me think that way.