57 - The Water Polyp

I gave Peter and Ochazuke, who had arrived earlier, the promised before I forgot it, and waited for them to arrive.

When I gave Peter the transfer stone, I also mixed in a pair of bright red boomerang pants that Leo had sent me. Thus the pants are laundered without being worn.

< also included a pair with a rating of 6.

In consignment, the upper and lower limits of the price are determined for each item, and since there is no one else to make them now, even those with a rating of 6 can be sold for the highest price. So, the service is available in exchange for the extra 10. Since I have just released <>, I am not willing to sell <> with a rating of 10 yet.

My <> with [sky magic] can transfer from the field. Hooray for my first acquisition.

The normal [sky magic] is a transfer from city to city, [sky magic] is said to have a recast time, I don't know exactly what it is because I immediately became a [magic].

The rate of successful transfer is determined by the rating of the item, and a rating of 10 means 100% success.

If you set up a stall, you can set the selling price freely, but it seems to be a troublesome work to investigate the market and decide the price. I wonder if it would be OK to set the price of 10 as higher than the 40,000 shillings for the transfer fee of the temple, if we don't have to go all the way to the temple, even if it is in the city. But if the price is too high, it will cost time and money for a carriage, and there will be no demand for it. If the price is lowered, there will be competition with the temple, which is also a problem.

The last person to arrive at the rendezvous was Kikuhime. Thank you for working overtime.

I have taken a break and am ready for the meeting.

"Speaking of which, what are we going to do about the clan?"

Now that everyone is here, I ask what's on my mind.

"Ah, the guild of commerce or the guild of adventurers. Which do you prefer, Peter?"

"I heard that adventurers have special requests for the clan they belong to. I heard that merchants are sometimes asked to negotiate for items that are not available in the commercial sector, but I'm not sure which one to choose.

I vote for commerce.

"I want to join the Adventurers' Guild. I don't produce much.

"Oh, I'll have to deliver goods, do quests, donate money, and so on, as I raise my clan rank."

"Either way, it's up to you!"

"Donations."

"Well, I voted for adventurer because there are some people who don't sell much. I'll have the two who can't donate to the cause do quests for me like a cart horse!"

We talked about this and that, but we agreed to register as a clan in the Adventurers' Guild.

"I'll give you 50,000 shillings for the oatmeal.

"So I'm the clan master, not the girmas."

"Oh!　Nice to meet you!

"Please do me a favor."

"Thank you for your help."

I'm on it.

That's what happened.

They will send you an email inviting you to join the clan once you have registered. When you receive the email, go to the Adventurers' Guild and pay the 100,000-sil personal subscription fee to join the clan. I wonder if Shin and Leo have 100,000 shillings.

"Now, for the boss battle..."

Was it like a jellyfish?

"Yeah."

"There's some kind of object chasing the rear target, and they say you can't recover while you're being chased, so you'll each have to endure it."

"Yes, sir."

And so we arrived at the boss field to face the water polyps.

"[Surprise!

"What?"

"Eeehhhh..."

"What?

"Hey!"

"Boom!"

One of them ran into the opening, even though <> wasn't on.

"Hey Leo, it's about time you graduated from <>."

"At least I'll tell Homura that I want a !"

"Wa-ha-ha!"

Ochazuke and Kikuhime tell Leo. I was stunned before I could ask or answer.

I failed or rather didn't invoke [surprise attack], so the boss didn't take much damage and I didn't get tagged by Kikuhime, so it wasn't a disaster, but it was terrible.

"Hakurai!"

Lightning works well for water polyps.

I shoot two charges on top of each other while ing Leo with the sub wand.

> is a white lightning spell learned at [Lightning] Lv.20, consuming M! Before, I was not specialized in magic, so the higher the level I handle, the more M! I thought that I might have a hard time with M! Now I am able to use M! I am now thinking that I can just heal by slashing when I run out of M! I also have < and when I am soloing, I also have the effect of the title of "Solitary Adventurer". You don't have to worry about M!

By the way, you don't have to worry about M! is recovered by magic attack as well, but the amount used is much larger than the amount of M!

The water polyp splits into four spheres.

At first there were two. It seems that the longer the battle goes on, the more spheres there are. The fire polyp had a "burn" effect when hit, but this one has a "paralysis" effect. Polyps are larvae of jellyfish, so they are paralyzed.

The sphere returns to the original water polyp after a certain period of time, but it also returns when it is damaged beyond a certain level. If the sphere returns to its original state after a certain amount of time, it will be attacked by a total attack without a pause.

Since there are not many players, the strategy has not been established yet, but Peter and Ochazuke explain to everyone before the boss battle the method that was posted on the bulletin board by a few who cleared the game.

(1) When the sphere splits up, the fastest man such as a spy or a rogue takes the sphere's territory.

(2) Even if you attack, the target may shift to the person closest to you, so pull them to the perimeter and turn in a certain direction so that they do not collide with each other.

(3) Magic workers (including recovery workers) do not participate in the marathon because they are too slow and will catch up with you.

The first time you return to the polyp, you will be attacked by the entire group, so please be sure to get your H! (4) All the H!? (5) The recovery magic may not be able to reach them depending on the distance, so everyone must prepare their own recovery methods.

(5) It is better to have more than one person who can heal the whole body because the combo of paralysis and whole body attack will come near the end.

The solution to (5) is to save the summoning of spirits for the last, since all the members are water spirits and can heal as a whole. It is said that it is very difficult to take a target and timing of recovery, depending on where the spheres appear and who they aim at.

Fosu's Dade Lizard was also tough unless he put in a full recovery after the full attack.

We were a group of water spirits and all of us were able to use overall recovery, so even if we missed the timing of recovery, others recovered for us and we easily exceeded it, but I heard that many players are stuck at Foss.

"Hee~!"

Ochazuke is being chased by two spheres. Peter, Leo, and Shin are fighting the spheres.

Shin, against, against.

"Backwards, backwards."

They seem to have turned in the wrong direction, and now they've run into Shin and have no choice but to fight him there. And it looks like they are having a hard time fighting because they are not far enough from each other. Shin is hit by paralysis. Kikuhime is going around the perimeter with the sphere as planned.

She is in trouble, she thinks, but since reinforcements are not likely to come, she switches her staff to a sword and breaks in between the spheres and the ochazuke.

"[Isshin]!"

You don't have to say it out loud to use it, but sometimes. He slashes down two spheres.

"I'm a cool magic de swordsman!"

Ochazuke says as he casts [Recovery] on himself. I wonder how ordinary magical swordsmen fight.

Peter and the others seem to have been defeated. Ochazuke cures [paralysis] and restores the three of them. Kikuhime is just about to reach the four.

"Let's take them down!"

"Oh!"

"Oh!"

"Hadeshi."

A trap where magic can't reach.

I missed the ride!

I've got five squirts of water-polyp slime.

I have the staff of the water polyp.

I have the magic stone of the water polyp.

I got 10 water polyp eggs.

I have obtained the ring of intelligence.

"I should have killed it the first time."

"Wow, that's a lot of firepower!"

"It's a foul thing to do, I heard that if you don't have firepower, you can't beat the sphere, and then it goes up to eight spheres."

But at the end of the day, if you don't have two people to heal the whole body, it's going to be a disaster.

"I hear a lot of people are stuck here with the daylizards."

After the sphere was disposed of, the damage it took was significant, but with the help of the water spirits, the sphere was easily defeated.

Then, we went out of the boss field.

"Hello, did you defeat him?

A woman suddenly spoke to me.

"Oh!　I beat you!"

A timid Leo replies.

"Congratulations. So, excuse me, but can someone with high firepower or an attacker with recovery help me with this?

I'd like to register for the transfer as soon as possible, so I'll pass.

I'll pass too.

I decline following Peter.

"Oh, I know you wizards can't run, so I'll send someone else if I can."

What a rude woman.

I'll pass too.

"Ha-ha-ha, me too!"

In the end, they all pass and return to town.

"Why don't you recruit on the Adventurer's Guild bulletin board or at the gate, or did one of you suddenly drop out?"

"Oh, I heard there's some kind of local scouting that will make sure that anyone who's cleared the area is sure to make it."

Ochazuke replies to Shin's words.

"If you fail, you can't fight in a row because you have to wait for the despena to recover, so I hear it's pretty severe or even deadly," he said.

A stray party is not a fixed party, but a party of people you don't know at any given time. I don't know what other people call it, but that's what we call it in this group.

"But still, you rejected Homura, who has the most firepower..."

"I'm afraid I'll get in trouble if they find out, so I usually pretend to be a wizard.

When it becomes possible to rewrite the occupation column with [concealment], I'll change it as soon as possible.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!"

"Oh?　Roy's in the mail."

"Oh, I got one here, too."

Apparently, everyone has received the message. Sent all at once?

Roy: I got a C rank!　If you get stuck on a polyp, give me a call. Also, I made a clan!

"Oh, you're a C-rank now."

"Good morning."

"Short email as usual."

"Well, we'll take the promotion test when we register for the transfer."

"Let's go for a gondola ride, gondola."

Each returns a congratulatory e-mail and walks leisurely along the road at dawn. We fight the occasional enemy and make our way to the city of Faina.

"The canals are amazing, but the sea breeze?　It's sticky."

"The sea was much fresher in Secant, even if it was the same.

"The canal is too deep to see the scenery."

I think it's low tide.

"It's not too deep, but there are a lot of places where the back of the house is surrounded by walls."

The houses are kind of fun to look at."

"There are a variety of gondolas that I would like to charter one of these days."

"Leo, what's up with the quiet?"

"...... drunk."

"Hey!　Don't throw up in my lap!

Why is it that I don't mind riding in a carriage? I'll trade you for a seat at the end.

"Wait a minute, aren't you supposed to trade with Leo in the middle?　Why are we shifting by one there?"

I'll take the one next to me!

"Gee!　Leo, just stay towards the river for a minute!　Don't get stuck in my lap ahhhhh!"

"Nice scream."

You're not a good neighbor, are you?

It's so peaceful.

Unlike the first time I came here, it's sunny and I enjoy the gondola with much fanfare.

We register the transfer gate at the temple and return to the fast. Leo and Shin seem to have no money, so I register them, but they move on with my .

"Six people move and 570 M! I'm not sure I want to spend that much."

> is also level 20 magic and consumes M! is the same as that of <.

Yes, yes.

"Oh, dear, Mr. Homura."

!

Oh, my God, it's on!

Ekaterina!

We ran into each other as soon as we left the room with the fast transition gate.

"Thank you for the meat, Homura-san. My siblings are eager to see you..."

"Uh-oh?

"Hey, Homura?

With a smirk and a silent smile, he slides four crates on the floor toward Ekaterina.

A horsefly jumps out of the box and flies wildly.

"Run!"

"What the hell?"

There was a bit of a commotion in the temple, but we arrived safely at the plaza where the guild is located.

"Homura, what is that?

Peter asks.

"They don't sell paper boxes or trays. The quantity was too large and they were too freshly fried to keep the lids on.

The crates were made by a new woodworker to raise his level or something, and were sold in large quantities at low prices, so we bought them in bulk. The one I filled with horse mackerels was the size of a mandarin orange box, but there are some that could be made into candy boxes. When I had to pack them in a wooden box, I thought it would have been better to leave them as horse mackerels.

I don't understand.

"Why did you give the lady of the house fried horse mackerel?"

"No, I picked up some orphan-like thing and pushed it against the temple, and it tried to push me back, so I'm gently fighting back."

What are you doing?

So, why the ajifurai, then?

"You can't punch me or kick me. I'm not Leo."

You'll have to talk to me first, won't you?