CH.388 Ria and Wilma vs. TinaWood

CH.388 Ria and Wilma vs. TinaWood

The next day was somewhat the same as yesterday, except that I had Ria and Wilma with me. Wilma was going to try her hand, or hammer, at the challenge rooms while Ria wanted to test if she could take on a floor 7 challenge room.

I also had something to do in the dungeon today. My goal was making a Card Summoner skill orb. I tried to do it by combining my cards with skill orbs, but I couldn’t do it. I could make a bunch of other skill orbs, like Sword Technique skill orb, Lightning Magic skill orb and so on, but I couldn’t make one for Card Summoner. Laura ended up testing every card I have in my Collection, but not a single one, when installed into a blank skill orb, resulted in a Card Summoner skill orb.

So because of that, I came to TinaWood dungeon, the dungeon that can give that skill. My idea was that if this dungeon can make/give the skill, maybe if it learns how to make skill orbs, it can learn to make a Card Summoner skill orb. Then if I can analyze that skill orb, I should be able to make more with HomeBase.

Because I decided to prioritize my objective, I headed straight for the dungeon’s core room. We can go up from there and take on the challenge rooms on the way.

At the core room, I opened up the core so I could look over all the dungeon details. It took a while, but I think I finally managed to learn why Card Summoner can be given as a reward.Discover new chapters at novelhall.com

Basically, the challenge rooms have a set ‘loot table’ where they pick a reward from. These are all the different kinds of weapons the dungeon can give out, and they can of course be made of different materials. The dungeon automatically prioritizes weapons that are used by the person that challenged the room when rolling for the drop, so for someone like Unika who carries a bow, arrows and a knife, it would prioritize those drops, lessening the chance of her getting something like a spear or a sword. But she could still technically get a spear or a sword, the chance of that happening is just very low.

Now as for where Card Summoner comes in, well it comes from a chance rollover. Basically the dungeon calculates your performance based on how much damage you did, how fast you cleared the room, how much damage you took and so on, and from that, it gets a number that decides your drop. The value should always be between 0 and 1, but if that value exceeds 1, the dungeon doesn’t have a set drop for that so it defaults to the highest ranked drop it can give, which is giving out the Card Summoner skill.

(Laura, can you calculate the optimal way for someone to get that value to over 1?)

(I can, but it has to be done on an individual basis and can only be done after we know what they are facing. And even then we would have to have a perfect battle plan and it would have to be executed flawlessly. And if any of the monsters they face do something I didn’t predict, then the plan is useless. In short, it cannot be humanly done.)

(... shame. Well, let’s check if we can make this skill orb.)

Because Ria got bored while I worked, I opened a path for her and Wilma to get to floor 7 of the dungeon. They should be able to manage, as Ria has some good cards and even without them, she is quite powerful. I’ll just keep an open screen to the side so I can keep an eye on them while they do what they do.

And if they run into any real trouble, Klaus will surely inform me.

[Wilma POV]

“Are you sure it is smart to go without Brian?” I asked.

“We’ll be fine.” Rhianna reassured me. “The worst we will run into is an A-rank and we can take care of an A-rank.”

“... if you say so. But are you sure?”

“I’m level 99 and B-ranks are not overly difficult for me to take on. I think I can take on an A-rank.” Rhianna said with clear confidence in her voice.

“A-Alright.” Level 99? She is max level? I mean, she has been with Brian even before me and if he has been leveling her up it does make sense, but it is still surprising to hear. “I’ll ... I’ll do my best to back you up.” I decided.

I then opened up my Item Box, bringing out my hammer and shield. The once heavy weapons now felt light in my arms. Maybe I should make myself a new shield and hammer. I wonder if Brian would be able to get some adamantite that I could use for them? It is the ultimate metal in terms of durability, as far as I know. So if I could use some of it, I could make an unbreakable shield and the mightiest hammer. But can Brian acquire some?

... Or maybe I could make some, like how we made Star Titanium. I’ll ask Brian if he has any ideas about that.

We stopped next to a solid rock wall which leads to the rest of the dungeon.

“Alright. Behind the wall should be the dungeon’s boss.” Rhianna said. “I’ll take care of it, so can you try and keep the lesser monsters off of me?”

“Y-Yes. I think I can do that.” I said, as I took a better hold of my hammer.

“If the opponent is an A-rank, I’ll summon a monster that will deal with the lesser monsters so that we can both focus on the boss.”

I simply nodded in acknowledgment. I wonder what monsters she can summon? She has that skill needed to use Brian’s cards, so maybe she has a super strong monster.

I wonder what Brian would give me if I had the skill? Maybe I could have that large golem that can be piloted? That one was fun. I wonder what other mechanical creatures Brian can summon?

“... what if the boss is something we can’t deal with?” I asked.

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She jumped almost all the way to the roof of the room, before she used her wings to slow down her fall, landing gracefully on the skeletal bull.

She then began throwing powerful punches to the bulls back, while I again tried to taunt the bull so that it wouldn’t use a spell that would knock Rhianna off.

“Hey! Are those bones for show or do they do something?!” I yelled.

Good. The bulls attention is on me again. It began to rush at me, so I moved to the side a bit, and used my shield to parry the sword horns to the side, and when I was right next to the monster's cheek, I hit it with my hammer as hard as I could, leaving some cracks in the bones.

“Wilma. Fall back. I’ll use a big one.” I heard Rhianna call from top of the bull.

I quickly looked up and saw her body engulfed in flames. I hope that is her magic and not the bulls, but even if that is hers, it would still hurt a bit if she doesn’t have Fire Resistance.

“Flare Impact!” I heard Rhianna call out as she brought both of her hands down onto the skeletal bulls skull. I then heard some cracking sounds, as the skull gave away under her power. The skull then began to dust away, and with that, the two sword-like horns of the bull clattered to the ground.

We did it. We took down an A-rank. ... and it wasn’t even that difficult.

“Here. Have a potion.” Rhianna had activated another card that made a potion bottle that held some red liquid. I opened it up and drank the liquid inside, feeling the wounds inflicted by the bulls attack heal.

“Thanks. ... you were right. We did manage an A-rank.”

“Couldn’t have done it without you. You were able to keep its attention so I could attack freely. I didn’t know you had the Taunt skill.”

“... I don’t. I just ... did what felt right.”

“Maybe you should get it. Brian can give it with an install, I think.”

“... I’ll consider it. But what about you? That last attack was amazing!”

“... thanks. Agunan showed it to me, but that was the first time I actually used it outside of practice.”

“And what about that Phoenix? Is that your strongest monster?”

“No, second strongest. Brian also gave me an Infernal Flame Emperor.”

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“... I don’t know what that is.”

“You should search for him in the Factory. Unlike most of us, you can access it freely.”

“... how did you know that?”

“Oh? Was it a secret? I’m sorry. And Agunan told me.”

“... just don’t share it around. I don’t want to be famous for having the System Support.” I told her.

“Don’t worry. I already keep a bunch of secrets, so I can keep my mouth shut. At least when talking to someone who doesn’t live on HomeBase.” Rhianna said. “Now come on. Let’s go before Neppy kills all the monsters.”

“A-Alright. But what about the ... Wait! Where is the corpse of the skeletal bull?”

“Brian probably absorbed it for points. Come on. Let’s go! We have more monsters to kill.” Rhianna said, as she took a hold of my right hand and dragged me behind her.