assassins and kobolds
Second day of the event. Hyde awoke and swam from the islet to the first sandy beach, whereupon she immediately entered the woods and began her search.
"Pugii!"
(Alright, there are no more monsters nearby. But I didn't expect there to be such a variety of monsters in the forest.)
When Hyde entered the forest, he encountered a total of five species: wolves, rabbits, forest quinbies, goblins, and the boar he just defeated.
The dense forest is dim with tree branches covering the sun's rays. There are many bushes and the terrain is suitable for a surprise attack, but Hyde uses it in reverse to launch a surprise attack on monsters from the top of the trees and defeat them.
(If it's a monster of this size, I can defeat it with a single blow without using [Assassination]. It's boring to just defeat it, so why not practice to keep hitting it at its vital points without any skill?)
Thinking that just killing monsters would be boring, Hyde began training to hit their weak points. Since Hyde's [Assassination] instant death condition is ``attacking a vital point'', the effect of the skill will not activate unless the attack hits a vital point in the first place. He usually hits the target with [Pinpoint Attack], but this skill has the disadvantage of being able to hit the target, but the power is reduced.
([Assassination] has a 30% chance of instant death, so it is more likely that it will miss. It is better to have a certain amount of power in case it misses. Above all, if the power drops, the attack will be more difficult depending on the opponent's VIT. If you don't enter, [Assassination] will fail.)
Right now, there is a defense penetration attack skill as a countermeasure, but due to the system, [Pinpoint Attack] and defense penetration attack skill cannot be used at the same time when attacking. However, if you can reliably hit a vital point without using [Pinpoint Attack], you will be able to use the defense penetration attack skill when attacking. That's why, when fighting monsters, I occasionally practiced hitting vital points without using [Pinpoint Attack] like this time.
(Oh, I found a goblin in just the right place! [
When the skill is activated, a red dot appears in the goblin's eyes and a red line appears on its neck. The red line on his neck was precisely traced by Hyde's small sword, and the goblin's HP was reduced to 0 with a single blow that attacked his vital point.
(Monsters can be dealt with without problems, but there's nowhere to find the all-important medals.)
Hyde thought that unlike the sea, there would be no situation where medals could be found in the gaps between trees in the forest. That's why I'm looking around for places where I can find medals, or even more likely, dungeons.
(This forest is fairly large, and I thought I would be able to find one or two places where medals could be found. Just as I was thinking about that, I discovered an abandoned house that seemed to have some meaning!)
Hyde quickly enters the crumbling abandoned house he finds. There is almost no furniture in the abandoned house, only tattered tables and chairs, dirty carpets and old chests of drawers. Even the windows are cracked and chipped in places, and are barely covered with glass.
(I thought it would be the kind of place where some kind of event would start once I got inside, but there's nothing there. Let's check the inside of the furniture.)
Hyde was unable to find the medal in this abandoned house, even though he searched for the inside of the chest and behind the furniture.
(In other words, this was a resting place that had nothing to do with medals. It certainly seems like the perfect place to rest, but I don't need it now.)
Having concluded that, Hyde quickly left the abandoned house and returned to searching for a place where the medal could be found.
In addition, a special event will occur at this abandoned house at night, but Hyde, who came during the daytime, will not know about it.
(It may be that yesterday was too lucky, but as expected, I want to find a medal soon.)
When Hyde pulled out the menu and checked the current time, it was already past 3pm. The sun is also leaning quite a bit, and it will be night in a few hours.
(Even though it's already a dark forest, I can't predict how dark it will get at night. If that happens, it's almost impossible to walk around. I can't find a place where I can get a medal before night falls. When)
Thinking so, Hyde moved as quickly as possible. Attack the monsters that appear during that time and defeat them.
After continuing to explore for a while, I discovered a cave this time. At the entrance, a bipedal walking dog, a so-called kobold, watches the surroundings like a sentry.
(...I have a bad feeling about this. Let's take a closer look.)
Hyde jumped over the tree and moved, but when he got close enough, the kobold suddenly looked in the direction where Hyde was. At that action, Hyde involuntarily stopped his movement. Even if Hyde stops moving, the kobold is still staring in the direction Hyde is.
(I feel like it's no use rushing in carelessly like this. But he hasn't been seen, and the moving sound has disappeared due to the effect of [Silent], so why...)
When I looked closely at the kobold, it was moving its nose twitching. Apparently they detected it by smell.
(Aside from appearance and sound, there is absolutely no way to deal with odors. In real life, as a countermeasure against odors, we would stain our bodies with grass and soil to assimilate with the natural odors, but this is a game...)
Due to the specifications of NWO, no matter how dirty the place you go, your clothes and equipment will not get dirty, and even if you enter the water, your clothes will not absorb moisture, so you can always continue the game without any discomfort.
Normally, it would be a very nice specification, but in this case, it's a disaster and I can't assimilate my own smell with the natural smell.
(A surprise attack seems difficult. But judging from the status of the monsters around here, if it's just a few monsters, I can deal with them without any problems. The only problem is, why are there guards?)
Until now, there were no guards in the dungeons, but only in this dungeon were kobolds guarding. That fact made Hyde hesitate to charge.
(Well, what should I do...)
"Oh! There's a cave!"
When Hyde was puzzled by the attack, he heard voices coming from somewhere. When I looked in the direction of the voice, the three men were heading towards the cave where the kobolds were guarding. Weapons are a one-handed sword, a shield, a large sword, and a staff.
"There might be a medal, so let's go in!"
“Yes.
“The one at the entrance… looks like a kobold.
"Alright! Let's go!"
The three men, unlike Hyde, didn't stop and went straight towards the cave. When the men approached a certain amount, the sentinel kobold looked around with his nose twitching again, and before long he caught sight of the men heading towards where he was.
"Aoooooooo~~~n!!
"Wow! Noisy!?"
The kobolds who found the men howled and rushed towards them. The men seemed surprised by the loud howl at first, but they easily beat the kobold without rushing.
"Oh, it was noisy"
"Kobolds are the first monsters I've seen, but they're not that strong."
“It seems so.
(From what I can see, the strength of the Kobolds is about the same as the Goblins. But the howling of the Kobolds just now is...well, let's keep it a little further away.)
Hyde, who had seen the whole battle, had a bad feeling about the howling of the kobolds and left the cave for a while.
On the other hand, the men let their guard down due to the low status of the kobolds and tried to enter the cave while talking casually.
However, just before the men entered the cave, there was a slight tremor, and a large number of kobolds jumped out of the cave.
"Whoa~~!! What's going on all of a sudden!?"
"Don't say anything and defeat it! The number is extraordinary!"
“[Fireball]! [Wind Cutter]! [Water Ball]!
At first, the men were trying to somehow defeat the kobolds, but even though dozens of them had already appeared, they were still coming out of the cave one after another, so they weren't able to catch up. Before long, the men were swallowed up by a wave of kobolds and their HP dropped to 0.
"Bow-wow!"
"one!"
"Oh~n!"
The kobolds who defeated the men returned to the cave except for one, and the area around the cave returned to normal as if nothing had happened.
(……No way. I don't think I can beat that many kobolds. It looks like I can't be found by the first lookout.)
Hyde thought about countermeasures while cold sweat appeared on his forehead.
(When the guards reacted to the scent of the guys who had just been killed, they were roughly the same distance from the cave as where I was when the guards reacted to my scent. In other words, the guards have a certain range. Once inside, it begins to detect the other person's scent.The distance is about 7 or 8 meters.)
The area around the cave is about five meters wide with no trees, so if you go near it head-on, you will definitely find it. It's even more so if the direction where the scent has already been detected is unknown.
(With these conditions, it's almost impossible to kill them before they're found. Then, even if they're found, there's no choice but to defeat them before they can howl. Those guards seem to know the direction by smell, but they won't call until they find them. If you use the skill of, you can approach without being detected)
By the way, what the administration was thinking of as a frontal attack for this dungeon was a long-range attack using magic, but it had nothing to do with Hyde, who couldn't use magic at all.
([Concealment] [Super Acceleration])
Hyde uses a skill that makes him invisible and approaches him at once. The kobolds also detect the smell when Hyde enters the range and turn their eyes to where Hyde is, but due to the effect of the skill, Hyde's figure cannot be seen. And Hyde went straight to the front of the kobold,
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He mercilessly pulled out his short sword while activating his skills and attacked his vital points. As soon as he attacked, the [Concealment] was canceled and he became visible, so the effect of [Hermit] lowered his status, but he attacked while pulling the short sword out of the scabbard, so [Iaikiri] ] is activated and STR is about 80% of the original status. The kobold, who had only goblin-like stats, couldn't stand the attack in that state, and disappeared into light before he could announce the enemy to his comrades.
(Okay, the operation was successful. It doesn't look like our kobolds are coming either, so let's keep going.)
After entering the cave, Hyde squats in a corner and listens carefully. Hyde's ears, which were able to hear a wide range of sounds due to the effect of [Hell Ears], accurately heard the sounds inside the cave.
(For that number of kobolds to move at the same time, there are too few footsteps moving around, so it's fine to assume that if the kobolds howl, they'll come rushing in. Let's try not to be seen as much as possible from now on.)
The inside of the cave is mostly a straight road, but there are several side holes. When I looked into one of the side holes, I saw a large number of kobolds.
(If each of these tunnels has its own kobold, then the number of kobolds just now would make sense.)
There were nearly ten side holes just visible, and there were dozens of kobolds in the holes Hyde looked into.
(Anyway, let's be careful with the side holes. If they get caught and make a fuss, Kobolds may come out from all the holes.)
Hyde moves while hiding from the side hole as much as possible. Unlike the previous dungeon that Hyde had dived into, this cave was a rocky place like a natural cave, so there was no problem finding a place to hide.
(Oh, it's a kobold. It's not just in the side hole.)
Beyond Hyde's field of vision, a kobold was wandering about in the middle of the lone road. It seems that the dungeon wasn't sweet enough to break through just by hiding and acting.
(Well, it's not a problem if it's just one. [
After using the skill to make his vital points visible, he jumped up to the ceiling with [Jump], flipped his body, and then used [Jump] again this time toward the ground and landed right in front of the kobold.
"Wafu!?"
([Power Attack])
Then, while the kobold was surprised, he attacked its vital point and defeated it.
"skill【
(Oops, what is this skill with a dangerous name?)
The notification of skill acquisition echoes in my head. Hyde temporarily hid behind a rock to check his skills, and then used [Hide] to hide himself and display the details of his skills.
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All vital points disappeared except for the neck. Halve the size of the neck vital point. 20% chance of inflicting instant death when attacking a vital point accurately.
Acquisition conditions
Accurately attack only the vital part of the neck 30 times in a row without using skills. Reset the count if it fails.
(Wow~ Seriously. It's true that the neck is easier to aim at, so I was aiming for the neck all the time, but it's an unexpectedly super useful skill get. The problem is halving the size of the neck's vital point, but... I've become able to attack without missing the target, but I have to practice again.)
After confirming the skill, Hyde goes inside the cave again. After a while, I saw another kobold. And behind the kobold, I could faintly see the door.
(That door is the boss room, isn't it?
Hyde's face convulsed involuntarily at the vital points that emerged.
(Hey! I've always been skinny, but I'm even skinnier now! It seems like I'll have a hard time getting used to it. For now, let's beat him. [Jump] [Jump])
Just like before, I land in front of the kobold from the ceiling and defeat the kobold. However, because of the thinness of the vital point, I have removed the vital point this time.
(Hmm, I tried it without [Pinpoint Attack], but I guess I missed it.
Since there weren't any more caves around, I walked quickly to the front of the door while being cautious of the traps, and without hesitation opened the door and went inside.
Inside, the ceiling and width are about ten meters, and the depth is nearly double that. There is a throne in the deepest part, and there is a gigantic kobold nearly four times the size of a normal kobold, groaning at this one.
"Gurrururu! Guaoooooooo~~n!!!"
Raising a loud voice that was incomparable to the guard kobold at the entrance, the kobold stood up and picked up the red sledgehammer leaning against the throne.
(It's noisy, so let's end it with a bang)
It's a little far at the current distance, so I start running to close the distance. When the kobold sees Hyde approaching, he swings his sledgehammer and strikes at Hyde.
([Jump])
But Hyde jumps and dodges it. Then, looking at the kobold, he confirmed that he was about five meters away.
(If you come this far, you won't reach it. [Shadow Barrier] [Super Acceleration] [Concealment] [Assassination])
Hyde deploys a black barrier, and as soon as he is out of sight, he activates multiple skills at once and wraps around behind the kobold. The kobold's line of sight was still facing the barrier.
([
Since the kobold is tall and the short sword cannot reach the neck as it is, Hyde uses a skill to jump up to the neck.
([Pinpoint Attack])
“Guruaaaaaaa~~!!”
Leaping within reach of the knife, Hyde uses a skill to precisely hit the neck's vitals. And with the effect of [Assassination], the kobold's HP became 0 with a single blow, and it turned into light and disappeared.
(Including the effect of [Headhunting], the probability of instant death is 50%. If the probability is half, it's quite good. It's hard to guess.
Hyde approaches the throne where the kobold was sitting. There is no decoration, but a large treasure chest is placed there. When Hyde opened the lid, there were two medals and a red sledgehammer inside.
(A total of 5 medals? It's going well. But why is the weapon a sledgehammer again...! This is the sledgehammer that Kobold had, right? I can't equip it! No, even if I get a dagger... The current one is the best, so I won’t equip it separately!?)
Who are you making excuses for when you are the only one, and what are you making excuses for in the first place? Hyde looks at the performance of the weapon while being confused with frustration.
"Fire Hammer"
[STR + 15] [Fire attribute attack]
[Fire attribute attack]
Optionally change the physical attack to a fire attribute attack that halves the damage.
(It has similar performance to the sledgehammer I got yesterday. Keep it in your inventory, or you might be able to use it for something.)
When you put the medal and sledgehammer into your inventory, Hyde will teleport on the magic circle that appears. When the light disappeared, I was standing in a different forest than before.
(The tree is huge. It's already getting dark today, so I'll sleep on top of the tree.)
Hyde decided to postpone the search of the forest where he was now until tomorrow and rest. I was tired and sleepy.
(Which one should I choose... this is fine)
Then, out of many trees, he climbs a tree that he randomly chooses and closes his eyes.
(Haa~, I was nervous. I hope I can find a medal tomorrow...)
With the expectation of tomorrow in his heart, Hyde's consciousness fell into sleep.
Hyde, as expected, continues to fight and explore without speaking. Mobs who carelessly put out. It's been a long time since I wrote a conversation. Next time, the third day of the event. And Hyde will be able to speak. A cave where kobolds that did not appear in the
original dungeon appear mainly. There is a sentry at the entrance of the cave, and the sentry will yell out to his allies when he sees an enemy. And ten seconds later, a large number of kobolds rush toward the enemy. It's almost a straight road from the entrance to the boss room, but there are several side holes. Dozens of kobolds are crowded inside. Also, the howl that informs allies is used when all kobolds, not just guards, encounter an enemy. Therefore, there is no choice but to defeat the kobolds before they are found. The boss room has the same shape as the Goblin King room that appeared in the original. Changed only weapon to sledgehammer. Bosses bark when they see enemies, but their friends don't gather.
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