Vol. 3 - Chapter 204 - Silver treasure chests again, but with double the fun!

"Sierra, Lana, are you all right?"

"No problem."

"It just about scared me, and some kind of unpleasant sweat is coming out."

Somehow, both of them safely made it out.

The two of them look all fine as they come out from the billowing dust and smoke. Except that Lana's face looks a bit pale.

Now that I think about it, it was from her blunder in Bear-Cum-Anteater fight that she began to take boss targets seriously. Maybe because of the full power bombardment, her usual cheerfulness seems to have vanished somewhere.

Sierra on the other hand is full of life with the aid of Lana's healing, not minding the brunt her HP has taken. Her face looks as cool and prim as ever as if the full power bombardment of the gun's bulー, I mean shower of thorns earlier was a lie. That's quite heroic to be honest.

I also want to try brushing off the thorns bombardment with an indifference expression.

"But, I'm really sorry. I would have used my unique skill <Absolute Charm Shield> but it was impossible given the distance. I should have defended closer to the boss."

Sierra quietly mutters out.

<Shield Princess>'s unique skill, <Absolute charm shield>, can force the opponent the target to change its focus, for example, <Cowboy Cactus> focus could have been forced to shift to Sierra even if it intended to attack Lana.

However, Sierra and the boss had quite a wide gap in between as the <Cowboy Cactus> is a long distance attacker and that distance just happened to be outside of the effective range of her unique skill.

Sierra's unique skill's only flaw is its short range.

It's true that Lana would have been saved from facing the danger if Sierra had used her unique skill Immediately at that timing instead of dashing to Lana's side, nevertheless it was still a perfect response in my eyes, so I just followed Sierra on her reflection.

"Well, there wasn't any blunder, so you don't need to care so much about it. All is well when the result is well. It's great that you two passed this wave unhurt."

Rika and Karua catch up while I was making sure Lana and Sierra are completely fine.

"Both of you are safe is all that matters, and you were great as always, Sierra-sama."

"Hnn, it was amazing how you received the attacks."

"W-well. It wasn't that much of a big deal...... "

Ohh, the cool Sierra until now has changed to shy Sierra when Rika and Karua praised her.

Sierra rarely shows that side of her. She looks absolutely adorable with the slight vermilion color on her cheeks and her shy demeanor which have a gap with her usual expression! Fantastic. For the love of God, why the hell is there no screenshot function in the real <Dungeon Activity>!

With no way in, I could only etch her shy appearance in my eyes.

"Can you please stop staring at me so intently?"

"Oof, you returned to your usual stern expression. What a pity."

The moment of Sierra 's shyness ended as soon as it came. I secretly swore to see if I could switch on her shy side next time.

"Hnn, Zephyr. There are four silver chests."

"What! It's beautifying phenomenon!!"

I inadvertently yelled at the successive hit!

Four treasure chests shining in the silvery light entered my vision when I turned my neck with sparkling eyes as soon as Rika's report reached into my ears.

The silver chest, what's more, doubled! It must be the hidden grace of Sachineko-sama to have <Beautifying Phenomenon>.

"Woah, 4 treasure chests! I will open them!!"

"No, we are all going together!"

I quickly intercepted Lana whose eyes were also sparkling as she broke into a dash.

Next is my turn, I'm getting pumped all over!

"Wo-Woah! I got <Stage 3 Skill Reinforcement Jewel>!"

In the treasure chest lay two palm size red jewels.

I hold each in one hand and lift them up. Jackpot!

"What is this?"

"Nice question, Sierra."

I explained to her as she came by my side to take a closer look at jewels.

The name of the item is <Stage 3 Skill Reinforcement Jewel>.

Just as its name sounds, it's a disposal item which can raise the level of skills affixed to items or accessories by 3 levels. It's an extremely strong item.

Now, if some may wonder, Isn't it too strong to raise the level by 3, then one also has to remember the ocean of items/accessories in <Dungeon Activity>, the availability of such items is abysmally low compared to colossus demand. Even if you handpicked the items/accessories, they aren't enough even by then. In addition, there are many types of <Reinforcement Jewels>, and any of them is extremely coveted!

By the way, the one in my hand is the <Skill> version but there is also <Magic> version and they are available from the range of stage 1 to stage 9.

Normally speaking, <Reinforcement jewels> begin to drop from intermediate dungeons but since the strength of rare bosses in beginner-high grade dungeons is comparable to those bosses, Stage 1-3 reinforcement jewels are sometimes mixed in the drops of rare bosses.

I have to hurriedly think where to use them.

"What about Rika?"

"Oh. I got this, but do you know what this is, Zephyr?"

Saying that, Rika takes out an emerald color book from the chest.

"Isn't this <Book of Support Recovery>!? It's a valuable drop!"

"O-Ohhh"

"Hey, calm down Zephyr. Can't you see you're troubling Rika?"

"Very well, let me explain to you."

"Hey, are you even listening to Zephyr!?"

The book of support recovery Rika got is a book classified as a weapon. It's mainly used by magicians. Its effect is as follows : Magical power 13, <Healing 5> and <Protection 8>.

Frankly speaking, it's quite weak as the drop of a beginner-high grade dungeon rare boss. A type of a miss drop in normal times.

However, our guild <Eden> heavily lacks healers, and there's cutthroat competition for the recovery magic. Besides, since it's a weapon, it is naturally possible to turn it into a <Ability Orb>.

Hannah can equip it by powering it up and turning it into a <Magic Ability Orb>! She can become a bomber as well as a healer... Fuhaha!

It's getting more and more interesting!

T/N : Please read the note down there, or skip to the tl;dr section directly.

Hi there everyone, I saw some comments or reviews complaining about the use of "desu" many times in lines or "sama". To begin with the explanation, the "desu'' there in lines is a peculiar habit of Pamela, imagine an anime character adding desu after every line (for example Yae in In another world with my smartphone anime, she added de-gozaru). The only reason I didn't add any note was because the explanation in the chapter she introduced was self-explanatory. Now, I would have removed it for sure, but I am a translator, I can't cut things from raws on my own else it would just be like a fanfiction where I'm adding what I want and removing what I don't. For example, in previous translated chapters before me has cut off many lines and some few explanations like how the "berserker" job is actually a troll job and some other minor things.

Tl;dr :

If you want me to remove desu in further or before chapters, you can react on sign ^ for Yes or v for no in my comment in chapter 193.

As for honorifics, I will make some adjustments.

Readers can always comment on the site under chapters or in the discord server. I would have acted before but only saw one comment and the review in the novel update only today.

Have a nice day!