Chapter 73
Fly was quite a bit more useful than I’d anticipated. We didn’t really know anything about the second floor, but his abilities allowed us to advance through it as quickly as we had on the first. He even managed to find a treasure box along the way.
Our trek was going smoothly. We basically hadn’t stopped since we broke through that one corridor with all the specters.
Seeing Fly in action made me want one of his species in my party.
I wonder if leveling up ghost magic’ll let me get my hands on something like him?
I decided to ask Jean about it, but he ended up cutting my hopes short. Apparently you needed all sorts of high quality magic tools and herbs to make it, so each specter would end up costing at least 10 million Gorudo. Actualizing it was a whole another matter, and that’d apparently take another 3 or so years in and of itself. To make matters worse, every single individual was different, and so not all of them would be able to use Shadow Clones the same way the one Jean summoned could.
In other words, you needed all three of money, time, and luck. Yeah, I guess that’s not happening. I’ll have to give up on the idea for now.
「Bored.」
「Ahahaha! Do you not think it wonderful to be able to experience boredom as you journey through a dungeon?」
「Still bored.」
Well, I guess that’s pretty much something that’s been due. I’ve been handling all the battles and stuff, so Fran’s started to get frustrated out of sheer monotony.
「Well then...」
「Hm?」
「It appears as if Fly’s found us a set of stairs.」
『Already!?』
「Already indeed. However, it seems as if the area is being secured by a guardian, an ogre zombie with a large horn sticking out its head. There are quite a few other zombies around it as well.」
「Really?」
Oh god damn it Fran, why is that your eyes started to sparkle the moment you heard that?
「Hahaha! How ever reliable you are!」
「Leave it to me.」
「Woof!」
「Hahahaha! Then why don’t we be on our way? Let us advance, for it has come time to exterminate the undead!」(Note: Lit. Exterminate Oni. Reference to Momotarou.)
Though, it looks like we’ve got a black cat, a sword and a wolf instead of a talking chicken, a monkey, and a dog, but whatever. Either way, it looks like we’re going to be getting something much better than a mere kibidango or two, so I’ll give it my all.
We grab the treasure chest and then head over to the corridor leading to the stairs, where we rendevouz with Fly, who was standing by with all his parts merged back into one.
According to Jean’s Undead Search, the corridor was filled with a large ogre zombie, twenty odd soldier type zombies, and about a hundred zombified dogs and rats.
『Alright, let’s charge in and then start by throwing a few AOE spells.』
「Understood.」
「Woof.」
Getting swarmed by all those mini zombies is probably going to be more of a pain in the ass than fighting the big one, so it’d be better for us to go with the Lv. 8 wind spell Gale Hazard. The spell isn’t too much of a hard hitter, but it compensates by covering a large area. It’s AOE is about 30 meters in either direction, so we should be able to cover the entire corridorif Fran and I both use it at the same time.
『I’ll leave all the soldier-types to you, Urushi.』
Name: Master
Wielder: Fran
Race: Intelligent Weapon
Attack: 524 Mana: 3000 Durability: 2800
Magical Conductivity: A+
Skills
Appraisal: Lv 7
Appraisal Block
Shape Shifting
High Speed Regeneration
Self Evolution: Rank 10 Magic Stone Value 4511/5500 Memory 89 Points 51
Self Modification (Superior)
Telekenesis
Low Telekenesis Up
Intermediate Wielder Status Up
Low Wielder Recovery Up
Low Mana Up
Intermediate Memory Up
Knowledge of Magic Beasts
Skill Sharing
Sorcerer
Unique Skills
Principle of Falsehood: Lv 5
Superior Skills
Sword Technique: SP
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Oh hell yeah! I can start leveling stuff up again! Alrighty, what should I level up this time? Or wait, maybe I should hold my points till we’re out of the dungeon first.
It even looks like my magical conductivity risen! Hell yeah! I’m one step closer towards the peak! I even got a new skill too.
Shape Shifting: Change into whatever shape is desired through the consumption of magical energy.
Does this mean I can change into other types of weapons? I guess I should give it a try whenever the situation happens to call for it.
That said, it seems like we’re having a pretty easy time right now. The dungeon’s interior is much easier to get through than the exterior was. I wonder if I’m just overthinking things...