237 – 237 – Summer. festival. Fireworks #12
237 – Summer. festival. Fireworks #12
From a certain moment on, Victoria often had dreams.
It was a dream of talking to a place you have never been to or meeting someone you have never met, or doing things you wouldn’t normally do.
It was the same with a dream I had recently.
I don’t know why, but it’s a dream in which Balmung is inserted into Viktor, who has changed terribly.
The process is different in many ways.
The result is always the same dream.
Why did I have such a dream?
Maybe it was because of the story I heard from Viktor the other day, I thought.
The story that if Victor had continued to have his quirks, he might have become a monster like Therese.
And, the words that Victoria might have had to end such a Victor by herself.
Of course, this is a future that hasn’t happened.
However, even if it was just one moment of wrong choice, it would have happened enough.
“Student President, be careful!”
At that time, the voice she heard from somewhere brought Victoria to her senses.
As I turned my eyes, the flames that came right in front of my face roared.
– Kyu-i-ing… !
The fire ring, a lower flame spirit and animated flame, made a loud noise.
The bubbling appearance looks as if it is about to explode at any moment.
“Light… !”
Victoria spread her palms forward.
＜Mirror of Light＞, a magic that protects damage by installing a shield formed of light in front and reflects a certain amount of damage back to the opponent.
However, perhaps because of the slow casting speed, she ended up getting caught up in an explosion before the mirror was completed.
“Kyaaagh!”
Victoria let out an unbearable scream.
It felt like my body was floating in the air. And it was inevitable that the wingless Victorica would fall to the ground.
“Fluffy, «grass blanket»… !”
pod.
Victoria hit the floor.
However, the ground was softer than expected, so he did not get hurt.
“Student President, are you okay?”
Vigilante Akasha reached out to the fallen Victorica.
“I don’t think anyone was seriously injured in the explosion. Still, it was a dangerous situation. It wouldn’t be strange if he lost his life.”
“… sorry.”
Victoria meekly admitted her mistake.
Something trickled down Victoria’s thighs.
blood?
No, it was a fairly pale liquid.
Some of the cooling potions that were stored in the potion pouch at the waist had been shattered by the impact of the recent explosion and fall.
“Kuu… .”
Akasha added a word to Victoria who bit her lower lip.
“To be honest, student council president, you aren’t helping at all right now. It’s to the point that that cute Cloudling is playing her role three times more than you.”
– Ying-ying-ying.
“I honestly expected a little bit because I heard that he was the top of the sophomore year. It’s worse than what I’ve heard. My mind seems to be focused elsewhere. If you’re going to do that, go back before you get seriously hurt.”
Akasha’s evaluation was quite cold.
Listening to what he said, somehow Victoria seemed to think of a man she knew well.
Maybe it’s because they look similar and talk alike.
It’s the same thing that makes it hard to hear the right words.
Still, Victoria had nothing to say.
Because it happened while you were careless for a while.
You’d better calm down
It was Victorica who slapped herself on the cheek.
Victoria’s eyes soon turned to the pink-haired girl who was looking around.
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Just now, when Victoria fell to the floor, it must have been Nike Mokey Moka who used strange magic to dampen the impact.
“… Hey, thank you,” said Victoria lightly.
Then, Nike met Victoria’s eyes, made a complex expression in many ways, and said, “I, wake up. I won’t help you next time!” he growled.
* * *
therefore.
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Quite a bit of time has passed since Victorica, Nike, and Akasha entered the dungeon.
It must have been about 30 minutes.
I took 10 cooling potions, so I must have consumed about 3 each by now.
Then, you would have reached the halfway point.
“Which route would you have taken?”
Ifrit’s dream has a route to the volcano and a route to the flame lake.
In fact, it didn’t matter where you went, since both routes had to fight the same boss anyway.
But that’s a story from an ordinary strategy.
Things are different for me now.
“after.”
I took a short breath and opened the second bottle of cooling potion.
It’s a potion I made, but it’s smooth to the throat.
The taste is milky taste.
It is said that you must brush your teeth well after drinking.
Maybe someone is wondering
Why am I drinking a cooling potion in this hot infernal dungeon?
Yes, it was because I also secretly followed Victoria and Nike into the dungeon.
Actually, it was a 4-person position, not a 3-person position.
I don’t know about anyone else but me because I came in a little late.
-Surely… .
Soon, a lizard with rock-hard scales appeared in front of me.
It is described as a lizard, but the size is that of a crocodile.
So, is it correct to say that it is a crocodile and not a lizard?
Anyway, the guy had a flame in his mouth, and the fire was roaring with flames at the end of his long tail. A salamanda, a medium-level monster with fire attributes.
ㅡ Fire.
The flame that is held in the reptile’s mouth.
As soon as they encounter it, the pattern of spewing out «fire breath» seems to be the same.
The only way to attack is to attack first with a higher speed.
“Shadow Slash.”
Shuk.
Before he could unleash an attack with the flames in his mouth, I delivered a quick attack.
Sasak-.
The sword cut through the air and cut through Salamanda’s snout, creating a gap.
– Kreuk… !?
Kwaaang-!
Exploding snout.
“It looks like it explodes if you get hit while preparing for Flame Breath.”
-That’s right… .
He put his sword through the throat of the struggling monster and finished it off.
A corpse that disappears.
Items come to mind soon.
「Flame Scales: Scales that contain scorching heat. It’s hard and stiff, but surprisingly soft and flexible. If you take it to a skilled artisan, it seems that you can make armor.”
「Sharp Claws: Claws that split leather clothes like paper. If you touch it incorrectly, you may get seriously injured. It seems that it can be made into a weapon through special processing.”
「Roasted meat: Wild meat that contains hot heat. Although raw, it is already baked. When consumed, resistance to heat increases slightly for a certain period of time and heals burn effects.”
It was the same item drop I knew.
Didn’t “Crystal of Pure Flame” come out?
well, what I’ve only caught one so far, but I can’t be greedy.
“Then, shall I prepare myself soon? You will get to the other side of the boss room faster than anyone else.”
I rubbed my body against a nearby wall with the feeling of hitting the directional keys repeatedly.
I feel like my body is passing through the wall.
“Okay, that’s easy.”
Now, the wall piercing skill can be easily performed anywhere.
If you pass through all the terrain features in this state, you should be able to progress faster than Victorica, Nike, and Akasha by standard dungeon clearing.
“Using the dungeon shortcut route is the basic of the basics.”
Whenever a dungeon with a good reward is reset, enter it and quickly get the reward and come out.
This is the basic knowledge of ‘OO Run’.
Here, too, I ran a lot to get the “Pure Flame Crystal”, which is a guaranteed reward for clearing.
However, what I was aiming for now was not the “crystal of pure flame”.
Skip.
As I constantly broke through the wall, I saw strangely shaped ruins.
“The Resting Place of the Spirit King”
Originally, it was a place where you could enter after defeating the “Boss: Demon of Flame” guarding the entrance of the ruins. Since they came through the wall, bloodless entry was possible without a fight.
The reason I came here is because of what I see there in front of my eyes.
A box that sparkles with gold.
“The Spirit King’s Treasure Chest”
“great.”
As I approached the box, I felt a warm energy.
When I put my hand on it while enduring it, the box opened with a rattle.
Soon, Paba Babat- and items popped out.
It’s mostly useless junk.
“I can’t help it.”
It’s not a treasure chest in the first place, it’s a dungeon you enter to learn the flame crystals given by 「Boss: Demon of Flame」 with certainty.
But.
There was at least one usable item in this treasure chest.
「Blessing of the Spirit King」
“Originally, it’s an entertainment item, but I mean.”
* * *
“Miss Victoria, you are slowing down.”
Nike said coldly to Victoria.
Victoria immediately strengthens her legs and speeds up her steps.
Several battles have already ensued.
It seemed that the ‘end’ of this dungeon could be seen now.
Those ‘ruins’ located beyond the shores of the burning lake.
Those ruins that look like boiling magma are probably where the boss, the core of this dungeon, exists. However, prior to entering the boss battle, Victoria was in a bad state.
“Whoa… .”
Breathing gets faster and sweat pours down your face like rain.
His body was drenched in sweat as if he had fallen into water.
“… … .”
Nike was slightly dissatisfied.
I had vaguely noticed from the moment I entered the dungeon that Victoria was ‘hiding’ something. Because I didn’t tell you about it.
‘… In that respect, he resembles Victor.’
Victor and Victoria.
Both of them are people who don’t confide in their feelings.
So Nike always had to learn how to look at the expression or read the mood to read the meaning. In Nike’s opinion, Victorica had a lot of problems right now.
“Miss Victoria. Be honest. what’s the problem now Perhaps… , that day?”
Women have their own difficulties.
Victoria said, “What… ?
“No, no. The fact is… .”
The reason why Victoria is having a hard time.
It was because of this sweltering heat.
Because the [Cooling Potion] that Victorica possessed had already run out, there was no means to protect herself from the heat other than her own heat resistance.
“Really, I’m not as savage as I thought… ! This is why rich girls… . Now, don’t cause a big deal later and drink this.”
Nike held out a cooling potion from her waist to Victorica.
It would have been fine if I had just given it to him, but I thought he said something cold to himself.
‘I was originally such an angular person… ?’
Nike was surprised by his own personality he didn’t even know he had.
Soon, Akasha, who was watching this, said a word.
“You guys, now that I see it, your ‘likeability’ towards each other is very low. That’s why we end up tickling each other or saying harsh things.”
Victorica, who received the cooling potion given to her by Nike and drank it all, asked back, “Am I likeable?” as if she was interested in Akasha’s story.
Soon Akasha crossed her arms and said.
“I don’t know, you guys are still in second grade. In the third grade, you learn a lot of things before the health class. Likeability is also an important law in Ludens. It is the realm under the control of Goddess Freyja.”
Parr – Trembling Nike.
“I can’t control my feelings… Is it because of the rules of the gods?”