CH 57

Somehow I’d managed to defeat the boss.

“Aaa, this feels good.”

An intoxicating feeling of accomplishment ran through my entire body. Exchanging blows with the emperor goblin, dodging it’s deadly blow to deal one of my own. That was so much fun! Things I could do here but not in the game, so many ideas ran through my head, I wanted more.

The battle was incredible, I kept remembering that last exchange of blows and the proof of clearing the dungeon, a shiny badge, appeared in my hand before I knew it.

“The real [dun-life] is so much fun!”

“What are you doing Zephyrus?”

“Huh?”

I was lying on my back and when I looked up Hannah was standing over me looking a little worried. Unfortunately the dress was long so even though I was looking up I couldn’t see anything.

“Congratulations on defeating the boss Zephyrus.”

“Yeah, thanks Hannah.”

“But you look a little beat up, and your HP is only at half.”

“It was a rare boss, it was so difficult but man was it fun.”

“Rare!?”

Hannah screamed in surprise, her voice echoing through the boss room.

“You defeated a rare boss!?”

“Yeah, it was the first time I had a hard time dealing with one.”

Hannah looked at me worriedly for a bit before breaking into a smile.

“I heard the rare bosses are extremely strong, but as expected of you Zephyrus, you still defeated it alone.”

Hannah’s look of envy was quite soothing, it made me decide to get up because I wouldn’t look as cool lying down.

“The boss was really strong but, look at those drops.” [Hannah I think.]

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“Yeah, there’s got to be something good in those right?”

Both of us were staring at two large golden treasure chests.

“Ok, Hannah you collect the boss drops like usual and I’ll open the chests.”

“What! I want to open a treasure chest too!”

“You want to open them just because you saw them. Since I went in solo this time I have the right to open them.”

“Please! I haven’t opened a golden one yet, if it goes on like this I’ll never be able to open one for the rest of my life!”

Hannah begs with both her hands together.

True normally production jobs would be dedicated to producing items after level 20, it’s abnormal for Hannah to even be in an intermediate tier dungeon.

However it’s true that there aren’t many chances for those with production jobs to open a chest, let alone a gold one. And when I think about it that way I can’t help feeling a little bit sorry for her.

“Fine, but only one.”

“Thank you so much Zephyrus! I’ll bring you a lot of delicious food later to thank you!”

I might be sweet on Hannah. (The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach after all…) of course there will probably be plenty of opportunities for me to open gold chests later so I may as well let Hannah open one. Although admittedly I’m looking forward to opening mine as well.

I let Hannah open her chest first…I wonder what’s inside?

“Aaaah! A white cat doll! It’s so fluffy I’m gonna die!”

“Seriously!?”

“W, what’s wrong Zephyrus? Why are you making that face?”

“What do you mean what’s wrong!? That’s the cat of fortune!”

“Cat of fortune?”

The cat doll that Hannah is holding is 100 times cuter than the beckoning cat and is loved by female players in [dun-life]. It’s commonly known as the lucky cat because it has only 1 effect, it gives luck. However the amount of luck it gives is enormous, to the point that rare drop rates increase, the chance of there being a rare boss increases, items become hard to break etc.

It’s worshiped as a God item, instead of feeling lucky I feel like I’ve just won the lottery!

“Oh most holy cat God, Grant me luck.”

I said while holding the hand of the cat doll that Hannah was clinging too. I’m pretty sure it nodded at me, thank you, your benevolent kitty-ness.

And now it was my turn to open my own golden chest.

“A rare monster flute!”

[Rare monster flute] : awakens the rare boss.

This item is supposed to increase the chance of a rare boss event if blown outside the boss room in the relief area. It’s like the Emperor goblin was asking for a rematch, you’re on!

“Did you get anything good Zephyrus?”

“Yeah, this is pretty amazing too! Yeah, there’s a limit to how many times you can use it though. It’ll break after 5 uses, but if you stop at 4 and repair it then it can be used 5 more times. There’s no other item that can be used to semi-permanently call forward Rare bosses!”

There’s nothing that can call a rare boss with a 100% chance of working. But the flute is still a great find. The only problem is we can’t use it because there’s not anyone that’s currently capable of repairing it. Maybe I should look for someone capable of repairing it on C street?