Chapter 86 - The Academy Dungeon 4

The Academy Dungeon 4

As is often the case with online games, I personally believe that the most important aspect to raise your level efficiently is[The time required]. The time it took for one battle, the time until you encounter a monster, the time for your character to recover after the battle. You have to take everything into your calculation and go to the most efficient place accordingly. Well, depending on the drop items you can change your hunting ground too.

However, there’s a little different when you are doing RTA. Since you already knew the route you have to take to get to the end, you have to take the most optimal action to get there.

In reality, this method of RTA was also used in places like factories. Since you know what your finished product is, the rest is just to think about how to increase your efficiency.

Well, there are so many uncertainties so you will have to take measures to ensure your safety margin though.

My goal this time is to beat the fortieth floor within a week and join the three committees.

I considered that as my top priority so I put in a lot of money to prepare for this and done all the special training that I can think of to capture this place. Above all, it was for this dungeon that I sacrificed all those panties for.

One of the things I must do while capturing the fortieth floor is to gather the magic elements. Since the treants started to appear after the twenty-first floor I seriously want to hunt them! Or so I thought but there are also poison toads there. With that said, I can just start hunting on the twenty-fourth floor where the toad doesn’t spawn.

That is the place I want to go but there’s no treant spawning after the twenty-fourth floor either. The monster that spawning there are the imps so the developer must have known that this would happen. If you can shoot them down with light attribute magic or sniping them like Nanami then the imps are also a good source of income but if they fled to the sky then my only option is to use battle magic stone, it’s bad for my heart. I can also lure them to fight in the hallway as well but that would take too much time.

“So I basically have to run away after all…….”

There is also a new type of goblin spawning on this floor, it is a higher species called [Hobgoblin]. They wield weapons like clubs, swords, bow, and wand. Depending on its weapon, its attack pattern will change but they are still easy to deal with. Like in the game, they are trash mobs.

The knocker may look like a child but its strength doesn’t match its appearance. Above all, the thing that I have to be careful about is not its big hammer.

“So you finally appeared!?”

I directed third-hand at the magic circle that appeared in front of the knocker. Then besides the usual reinforcement I gave to the stole, I add in a water enchantment as well.

At the same time, a fireball flew toward me from the magic circle.

The most troublesome thing about this fairy monster is its fire attack using fire magic stone. I immediately close the distance while parrying the attack with my stole. However, as if it was expecting me to charge in, it swung down its hammer at me. I guard it with fourth hand and tried to use Iai to finish it off but the attack doesn’t connect.

The knocker used the impact from its hammer to widen the distance.

I almost said *What!?* There.

It is very acrobatic. If I add this to a video-sharing site it would definitely garner a lot of popularity from the Shota category.

Immediately after it widened the distance, it activates the magic stone again. Then at the same time, it also readied its hammer and approach me.

But unfortunately……

I had asked sempai, Ludi and Claris-san to help me train against the two-way attacks already. Since I knew that there would be multiple instances of enemies in the dungeons so I trained as much as possible to counter it. That choice seems to be correct.

I parry the attack with third hand and used fourth hand to block the hammer. However, this time there’s something different about the fourth hand. The moment the fourth hand touched the hammer, *puff* the sounds that rang out was like the hammer hitting the cloth, the hammer is now wrapped inside fourth hand. Just how long it took me to master this delicate hardening technique. (TLN: ( ° ͜ʖ °))

“Now, strengthen it then harden.”

The knocker was unable to pull out its hammer that is currently wrapped inside the hardened stole leaving its stomach defenseless.

Using Iai, I bisected the knocker. It soon turned into magic elements, magic stone, and a red jewel. I was surprised to see it.

“Ha? Y, you are kidding, right? How? And I only defeated one too!?”

I ended up looking at it twice. Rather than rejoicing, I am more puzzled.

It was not only because of the experience points that the knockers provided. Actually, they are hard to hunt down and there are better places I can grind but the reason I decided to hunt here was the drop item.

Unfortunately, that item has a very low chance to drop; Even the drop rate from those shitty gacha in smartphone games is better. But as long as you have money, you can still get it.

That’s not the case with this thing.

With that said, if I can buy it then I will. However, it would be too expensive even for my pocket money (New salaryman’s annual income class). Since it would make me unable to buy other things I would have to cut it. As I already obtained it, I might be able to cut down the total capture time by one day. Well, my family seems like the one that will give me extra money if I asked for it though.

Now then, there’s an additional magic stone that dropped from the knocker.

When I was streaming my RTA, someone said that I have a [Trash luck] but I ended up getting it to drop after one try. What a happy thing!

I pick it up and take a close look at its shape. Yup, it’s like when you appreciate the value of products in a store. This is the same, I’m sure of it.

It is a [fire battle magic stone, intermediate]

Even so, it’s still strange. Why is it that the knocker which usually uses low-level magic stones dropped an intermediate-level one? Well, they do drop the low-level one too though. It should use the intermediate-level magic stone without holding back. Even if the opponents looked weak it shouldn’t underestimate them. Well, whatever.

“Well, since I already got the magic stone.”

Saying so, I put the magic stone I from the kariyado I kicked away into my bag. I can’t stop smiling.

“Let’s hunt four more!”

The targeted (ambition) time is twelve hours. Let’s hunt as much as I can!

………….It’s the beginning of hell.