9 - 7. Battle of Bath and Bathhouse at Night

I returned to the inn.

Leo and his friends had taken two rooms for three people.

We gathered in one of the rooms and talked about our plans for the next day, and those who wanted to use the bathtub first, and those who wanted to sleep first went to the next room and started sleeping.

Some say they haven't yet done so.

Since we have been fighting all day, we have decided to explore the town and renew our weapons and armor tomorrow when it gets light. Checking the general layout of the city on the map, we decided to go to the artisan district on the north side of the east gate. Before that, we decided to stop by the weapon and armor shops facing the fountain square to check their prices, and then we remembered.

"By the way, I heard from a stallholder earlier that there is also a retail store and a stall selling tools, weapons and armor behind the weapon shop and the armor shop."

"Yes, you mentioned that."

The plan was to stop by the armorers and armorsmiths, visit the retailers, and look at the stalls, which led to the artisans' district. We also decided to visit the northwestern section of the city if we had time, since it was a mystery what was in there.

We are late to the party, but we are going to explore the city.

But first, we have a pre-dawn battle to fight.

After the plans for tomorrow have been made and the hotel bills have been settled, Leo and Kikuhime go to the bath.

The inn costs 300 sil. per person, which is a lot considering our initial allowance!　Thanks to Ochazuke and Kikuhime for putting up my portion.

"Wow!　Another dimension!

I heard Leo's cry from the bathroom, by the way, Kikuhime is in the bath in the next room.

"What is it?"

"What is it?"

"Strange behavior in the bathtub."

"Huh."

After that it was quiet, just the normal sound of water, and the four of us were chatting when Leo came out. Crow's nest.

"Don't come out with a towel!"

Ochazuke's voice made me look at Leo, who had a really nice smile on his face and was still wearing his towel.

"Hey, hey. Hey, this is a different dimension!"

Leo tries to flip his towel, but his iron-clad guard prevents him from doing so despite its softness.

"Don't show me!　What are you, a schoolboy?

It's an inn, so let's keep it quiet, ochazuke-sensei?

After that, I went to the bathtub, too.

I undress in the changing room and change from my underwear to a towel provided in the changing room. It seems that I could not undress naked.

I wondered if the bath was plumbed, but it seemed to be set up as a magical tool.　As we entered the empty bathtub, the hot water started to rise up from the bottom of the bathtub. It was quite comfortable.

I was also in a different dimension.

There was a warning that the game was for adults or older, so I guess I could take off all my clothes by changing the settings, but I don't plan to do so for the time being.

Everyone got out of the bath and went to bed. The status of the guests will drop drastically if they do not sleep for about three hours a day in this time or log out for 20 minutes in real time.

By the way, if you sleep properly at an inn, the drop rate will be slightly increased for three hours after you wake up. It is still at a low level, and the rare drop will not be a big deal, but it is a good thing to wake up early, isn't it? Not that it matters.

Real time is 23:00. A day passes in three hours. You can choose to log out normally, or you can set it up so that you log out when you go to bed and fall asleep.

You can also choose to be forced to log out after five minutes if your body in the real world tells you that it needs to be physiologically active.

I will log out once more before the forced logout occurs. If I fall in the middle of a battle and rush to the bathroom and come back, five minutes there is four minutes here. Can't you do something about that?　I doubt it.

As I was thinking this, I awoke in the real world. It seems to be easier to sleep in the other world.

I took off my visor, went to the bathroom, made a cup of tea, and took a rest. I do some light stretching and put on the visor again.

I reluctantly get up when I hear Peter and Shin next to me getting up. It's dark outside, and with my senses replaying so well, I can't help but feel like lounging around in bed. It is strange that I do not feel sleepy at all.

When I wake up, my HPMP has recovered and my EP has decreased.

I was also surprised to receive a thank you mail from Galahad. He seems to have sent it drunkenly, and the contents of the message are not clear in some parts, but I guess that's what it should be about.

All right!　Breakfast!

The inn specializes in lodging for adventurers, so guests can eat in the dining hall anytime, even in the middle of the night. However, the dining hall is open to the public from 12:00 noon to around 10:00 p.m., so it gets crowded like last night.

I join my neighbor and go to the cafeteria.

Freshly baked round bread, bacon, three kinds of sausages, eggs, salad, onion soup or corn soup, yogurt.

Shin and Leo lament that there is no Japanese food, and I think the menu is chosen for ease of preparation, but when I break the bread, it makes a crispy sound and steam comes out, and the inside is moist. I'm happy with plenty of butter on it!

"Natto is not going to be implemented!"

"I wonder if there are any settlements with a Japanese flavor?"

For all their natto natto talk, they both finished their meals and were satisfied with the taste.

Outside the inn, we could see the Fountain Square through the guild, and the main street where the inn and the guild are located was illuminated by the orange-tinged light of the street lamps. The stores facing the fountain square were all lit up and open for business, so I went to a shop that the guild of apothecaries was offering and bought some H! I replenished my supply of H! I also bought some poison suppressants in case there were snakes in the area. I bought 50 bottles of M! When the enemy's level and my own level were low, hitting with wands and using magic did not make a big difference, but now it has become noticeably different, so I bought 50 bottles of M! But now it is very different and it is not a good idea to run out of M!

I should get a wand to save sil.

Even at this hour, there were people in the plaza and outside the gate. Although they were dispersing for production, rest, etc., there was no way that they would decrease on the first day, Friday.

There are still a lot of people here.

"Do you want to go to the chickens?"

Ochazuke makes a suggestion in response to Peter's musings. There were not as many full parties like ours during the day as there were solos, and the rampaging chicken place was relatively empty, so it would probably be empty at night as well.

"I wonder what the enemies change from day to night, I saw someone fighting with a snake near the gate (here)."

There are far more people than enemies by the gate, so I looked around and could not find even a snake.

"Yesterday I went out on the map at the first sign, because I was running away to stay away from them."

I should have checked what enemies are out there at night, Peter says.

"They're not as hard as slime, are they?"

"I'd like to go there after I get new weapons, but the stores aren't open at night, you know..."

"Never mind!　I don't care!

We confirm to each other that we will stay away from the waterfront at night, and head for the place where the rampaging chickens were during the day.

It seems that everyone has acquired night vision. I feel a little guilty because I seem to be the only one with full initial equipment.

The enemies at night are active, and I got tangled up with a snake while running. Leo seems to have applied the [dilution] this time, and it was Shin who got entangled.

"Geez!　I'm sorry!"

"Idiot!"

Kikuhime rushes to hit two snakes and take their tags.

"The snakes will be fine, don't worry about it, don't worry about it."

"Leo's trap. I think it was Shin who got tangled up, but I think it was Leo who got tangled up."

Shin also has [night vision], and the grassland is flat, so if there was no one (Leo) in front of him, he could have avoided it visually without [presence detection]. Shin must have entered into the range where Leo could not get entangled thanks to his [presence dilution], when Leo avoided him. Too soon to avoid, you guide!

"I think I should take [detecting signs], the lead is unreliable quality."

"You should also take the [dilution of signs], because if it's out, it will weaken the enemy's view of you in battle."

"Wa-ha-ha-ha."

Peter could have led the way to avoid the enemy, but Leo was running ahead of him, so I followed him. Sadly, I'm a mage who has [night vision] and [presence perception] but I'm too slow to lead.

It would be troublesome if I go to the camp in pieces and get entangled in a solo situation, so I have been acting in a group so that I can fight in a party even if I get entangled in a solo situation. The leader leads the party to the route that avoids the enemy, so Leo or Peter, who is fast and has 【Aware of presence】 by unspoken agreement, is leading the party.

The "presence dilution" is taken. 3S! The 3s! is big but it is much better than adjusting the attack in detail so as not to be tagged by the enemy in the party.

"Oh no, it's poison. ～～～～"

Kikuhime screams,Kikuhime's H! The bar is so small that you can just barely see it. Relieved that the poison doesn't seem to be so strong, I put the water needle into the snake. If it looks dangerous, I'll use my balls! It's true.

The poison anomaly disappears after the battle.

I got two brim snakeskin.

I've got two brimstone fangs.

I've got brim snake venom.

Cooking] has been added to the skill list.

That one from yesterday: ！！！！

"[Poison resistance] is here.

"[Cooking] is..."

Peter says in a voice that sounds like he's trying not to laugh.

"Why are you cooking?

"For all intents and purposes, it's Homura's fault."

Everyone laughed at Peter for being too greedy when he told them about last night. By the way, Leo and Peter were the only ones who went to the stalls before the rendezvous, while the others shopped at the stores facing the square. They had never been to the stores on the square before, and they took turns waiting for me near the guild and went their separate ways.

"I can't cook right now, so I'd like to have [poison resistance]."

"Let's all get bitten once."

That's what happened.

We arrived at the area of the rampaging chickens, talking about how we would go get [poison resistance] when our level would be higher and it would be easier to get it. There was a huge rat, a Brim giant rat. Contrary to my expectation that they would be in groups, they were all over the grassland, one by one.

"Let's do it anyway."

I'm gonna go get some!

Leo runs out and brings a big rat with him. Active enemies will follow him for a certain distance as long as he is within their attack range, so the fast Leo or Peter brings him to where everyone is waiting, and Kikuhime hits him, changing the target to himself and starting the battle. It is faster for someone to catch a target by baiting himself than for everyone to move to the scattered enemies to fight.

The set-up is that Leo forgets to apply the "dilution of signs" and catches the enemy when he doesn't have to.

"Rats, they're creepy. ～～～～"

Reddish-black eyes, tail covered with scale-like things, hard-looking body hair, even though I like hamsters, I don't like this one, especially the tail.

Back attack."""

"[Dragon] <!"

"<>!"

"[Throwing]!"

You're a [slash]!

"[Heavenly] <!"

It's the first time I've ever done this, so I'm going all out.

I've got the skin of a great brimming rat.

I've got the tail of a great brimming rat.

I've got the poison of the great blimmin' rat.

It's a good thing I can't see it, but that tail.

"You took them down without a second thought!"

Shin says, looking at the spot where the big rat was.

"Ochazuke, how did you get the [projectile]?"

"I threw a rock that was around and it came out."

Two of the sheikhs said that it was in their initial skill set. I'll put them on the list later.

"Aaaaahhhh!"

"I don't like it, I don't like it, I don't like it."

Yes, Shin and I threw stones that didn't do much damage because they weren't skills, and E! If we didn't use the surprise attack, which is powerful but also consumes a lot of E!

It's OK if it can't be defeated, but it calls for more friends!

I attacked the next one as hard as I could after defeating the first one, but one of them remained and I got more of them. That's the way it is with rats!

In the end, I was able to keep calling for my friends for five turns and killed eleven giant rats. I wonder if it is efficient or not. Soloing is out!

"I was shocked that the rats bit me. ......"

It's poisonous and the Chrysanthemum Princess is a mess.

"It might be tough, but maybe we should go to Dudu's?"

"M!? I've prepared more potions, that's okay."

"Likewise."

I and Ochazuke take Shin's suggestion. Even in the real world, Kikuhime is not good at rats.

"Sorry, can I have one more? I have ten tails to deliver and I'm at nine."

"Uh-uh, I'll do my best."

"Oh, I'll give you one of my tails."

I hate it, but I have twelve tails. In fact, it has nine skins.

So I exchange tails and skins with Peter and move on. We exchange tails with the others, so that we all have ten tails and ten skins.

There was a red speckled frog camped where Dudu had been, and it was croaking. The color of the frogs suggests that they are poisonous, and the plains at night seem to be full of them.

"Hey, is it possible that poison resistance doesn't go up unless you get poisoned?

"You've noticed."

Did Shin take [Poison Resistance]?

"I guess if you solo and get bitten by snakes for a long time when you get to the next level and don't take damage anymore, you'll get it."

In vain, Peter refreshingly suggests something terrible.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha. Good luck!"

At any rate, the poisonous frogs were hunted without incident, and afterwards we went to the forest and worked magic and throwing projectiles against the bats. The sun had just risen when Shin shouted, "You should have taken a projectile instead of poison resistance!

Now that my level is 7 and [water magic] and [gold magic] have been raised, I'm considering whether I should take a new magic before there's too much difference in level between the two.

I report to the guild and take a break at a restaurant in the plaza.

I somehow appraised the drinks served and the food brought to me, and found that the higher the price is, the higher the E! The food at the stall was tasty, but the E! The dishes from the stalls were tasty, but the amount of recovery of E! The more elaborate the food was, the more E! The more elaborate the dish is, the more E! The more elaborate dishes seem to recover more E! And the food made by the residents is basically fixed at a rating of 4.

I want good knuckles!

"I really want an item pouch with a higher capacity."

I complain over a cup of tea.

"Why don't you just sell it off and clean it up?"

"I'm a pharmacist, so I want to keep herbs and stuff."

I have several kinds of poisons and fangs that I might use in alchemy, and I'm putting a lot of pressure on my pouch.

We have a lot of skins too, don't we!

"Don't they have warehouses in this world?"

"Well, let's hope there are some where we are going."

The mining and fishing crews look comfortable.

"Oh, I heard you can unlock it with the interdimensional space option."

Ochazuke, who seems to have been reading the bulletin board while drinking coffee, suddenly broaches the subject.

"Will I be able to take off my towel in the bath?

"I don't remember that I've sculpted it to that point, but is the size determined by the size of the p*n*s?"

"He said I can take it off in the private room."

That makes sense.

You're a bad adult.

"By the way, Homura, there's a lot of talk on the message boards about who got the N!C card."

Goof!

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Homura Lv.7

Rank E

Occupation Mage, pharmacist

H!?　　160

M!?　　253

STR 10

VIT 11 (+1)

INT 31 (+1)

MID 13

DEX 9

AGI 10

LUK 10

N!?C!?　Galahad] [-]

Title [Interactionist

Skill (5S!?)

■Magic and Magic

Fire Magic Lv.3] [Gold Magic Lv.3] [Water Magic Lv.2

Production

Alchemy Lv.1] [Alchemy Lv.1] [Alchemy Lv.1] [Alchemy Lv.1

Collecting

Collecting

■ Appraisal and concealment

Tool and medicine appraisal Lv.1] [Plant and food appraisal Lv.2

Animal and Demon Appraising Lv.3

Presence Detection Lv.1] [Presence Dilution Lv.1

Enhancement

Intellectual power enhancement Lv.2

Others

M! Natural Recovery], [Night Vision], [Map].