Strength of Body Armor.
Heaven’s Devil: I am the foremost expert in Strength of Body Armor.
Heaven’s Devil Majesty, maintain some dignity!!!!
Senior Heaven’s Devil explained Strength of Body Armor better than I expected.
He really is an expert.
Heaven’s Devil: Have you ever been swimming? Think about the sensation of water flowing around your body when you’re in the sea or a river. Try to replicate that sensation using your magic power.
Simply put, it’s about maintaining the feeling of lightly coating your body with magic power.
Following that explanation, I was naturally able to maintain a barrier-like aura covering my body.
Fortunately, unlike the rippling seen earlier, it wasn’t pure white – it was slightly more transparent.
After about eight hours of study, I recorded the Strength of Body Armor technique and uploaded it to the gallery.
Showing the white energy flow covering my arm.
Title: This Took a While
Author: Anon
– Successfully covered everything thoroughly. No issues with movement. Adequate defense against attacks.
– Anyway, blocking with armor is primary. This is just for emergencies.
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– Correct, you understand properly.
– Anyway, you’re learning fast.
– Sewer Sword Sage: You’ll get a feel for when to use it as you keep practicing.
– Water King: Wow, fast. So fast.
Heaven’s Devil: For the next lesson, I’ll teach you fist and leg techniques.
Famous Guy: Incredible that even someone who usually doesn’t care like Little Heaven’s Devil is doing this.
Anon: How do we increase skill tiers? Magic power stats increasing won’t automatically raise tiers, right?
Light Sword: Magic power values do matter, but insight is even more important.
– Even we normal commoners have mostly reached the fifth tier. Able to imbue weapons with energy. Properly circulating and accumulating magic power gets you to fifth tier.
– We weren’t just randomly summoned to the tower after all.
– Those summoned have potential to reach at least fifth tier, whether through nature or nurture.
– Pioneer: That’s true. Seemingly everyone here has their own specialties.
– Sob, thank you, Senior.
– Taking care of commoners like us is definitely Senior’s job alright.
Heaven’s Devil: Skill tiers shouldn’t be viewed as absolute measures of power. Beings with massive capacity can reach the fourth tier later than smaller beings.
Spear King: Still, if the opponent is seventh tier, you need to be cautious. Seventh tier is when one begins to cultivate their own dominion.
Locked Room Theorist: By that measure, one should be somewhat careful against sixth tier too, at the level of imitating dominions. – This world is composed of giant locked rooms.
Anon: How about the senior members?
Archmage: Those above ninth tier. After returning alive, we found out that to clear the 100th floor on hard difficulty, reaching ninth tier is unavoidable.
Demon Dragon King: Beltwo – That’s right. 95% who couldn’t make it died.
Archmage: There are those who reached tenth tier, though I’m not one of them. Anyone at tenth tier?
Water King: Would you raise your hand?! Most are probably Ninth tier. Even those claiming to reach tenth might question if they truly did. Hahahaha
Hearing the numbers, I realized how far I am from the senior members of the hard difficulty group.
Anyway, I’ve learned everything I needed to know for now.
Anon: Will rest deeply today and set off tomorrow morning.
Tomorrow we enter the fourth floor stage.
Sorceress: Really, there are still two days left on the inter-dimensional trade cooldown, right?
The two seniors lined up for inter-dimensional trading with me were the Sorceress and Heaven’s Devil, weren’t they?
The Sorceress will need to consider trades based on my current stage, but trading with Heaven’s Devil sounds quite intriguing.
Learning fist and leg techniques from the most powerful individual in the martial arts world is very appealing.
Since mastering the technique of emitting sword energy, especially starting yesterday after realizing the boundless applications of Light Sword’s Dragon-Slaying Sword Technique using sword energy as a reference point.
I inhaled a cream bacon pasta that I brought for lunch but didn’t have time to eat.
Sitting cross-legged, I held the bloody dagger.
Stabilizing emission of sword energy.
I kept letting out sword energy for practice.
Swish!
I also continuously practiced Strength of Body Armor that I just learned.
Magic power replenishes while resting anyway.
Using magic power makes it replenish faster.
I trained thoroughly to eliminate any variables during combat.
[Skill ‘Concentration Enhancement’ level increased. Lv.5]
It was a welcome gain.
Hmm.
Since being summoned to the tower, I’ve never had a proper night’s sleep, but today was deeper than usual.
Was it facing the information of death lurking after floor 13?
Or was I just tired?
Last evening, I ate bulgogi over rice. Another missed meal prepared for the third floor stage.
[Fourth Floor Coin Shop]
1. Food 2. Beverages 3. Potions
As expected, not much different from the third floor.
[Cooking]
1. Ramen, small amount of kimchi – 10 coins
2. Pork bone soup – 10 coins
3. Fried rice – 10 coins
4. Cream bacon pasta – 10 coins
5. Sandwich – 8 coins
6. Nuts (peanuts, walnuts) – 6 coins
7. Jerky – 6 coins
8. Bulgogi over rice – 13 coins
9. Pork cutlet – 13 coins
Pork loin tonkatsu, it seems.
Served with salad and soup like the bulgogi over rice.
Why are prices going up?
Crisp!
It was delicious to eat tonkatsu after a long time.
Realized while clearing the third floor stage that I could bring more food than expected.
Inventory has 60 slot registration limits, but weight isn’t considered.
Coins owned: 2,451
Coins are very abundant.
Thanks to receiving 1000 coins for placing first at the exchange meet and 800 coins as reward for clearing floor 3.
Rolling up…
Put away the sleeping bag that greeted me at the entrance of floor 4 into the inventory.
Checked the clock on the wall.
Current time, March 2nd
Time remaining until next exchange meet D – 23.
If possible, I’d like to reach floor 9 or 10 before the next exchange meet.
Title: Heading to floor 4
Author: Anon
– Will come right back if things get too tough inside.
What kind of crisis awaits the climbers this time?
– Wonder what it’ll be. Hopefully no quest-type.
– Don’t set flags!
Come on, not another quest type, right?
Ice Queen: Stay warm, take care of yourself!
Sorceress: Hahaha, adventurer’s fortune looks not bad today.
Light Sword: Come back safely. Return immediately if anything happens.
Heaven’s Devil: Put what you’ve learned into practice and write a reflection.
Absolute Monarch: Good luck to you.
Haha, senior is finally back
Anyway, can’t miss a send-off right?
Sewer Sword Sage: The most important thing is always to survive.
Archmage: Let’s go!
After skimming through the farewell messages, I turned off the Transcendent Gallery and put the terminal into the inventory.
Took a deep breath.
“Huff.”
And exhaled.
Another start to a difficult journey.
Clomp clomp…
Moved my steps toward the grey door at the end of the waiting room of the fourth floor.
Opening the door, light flooded my vision.
“The fourth floor of Pandemonium difficulty is of the dungeon type.”
Dungeon.
“The objective is to clear the dungeon ‘Golem’s Fortress’.”
Similar scenery to the ‘Cobold’s Cradle’ dungeon from the exchange meet.
Elegant yellow and grey walls laid out in an enclosed space.
Dungeon name: Golem’s Fortress.
And appropriately, a cobalt rock golem was crouching low.
Clomp…
Approaching, there was no reaction.
What is this, is it sleeping?
Quickly pulled out the gallery terminal.
Flash.
The golem’s two eyes glowed red.
Yet, there was still no sign of movement.
Took a photo with the terminal.
Title: What is it? It’s standing still not moving.
Author: Anon*
– Should I just break it? Is there a quick-kill spot?
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This time, the chat filled up faster than usual.
– Shit, bow down.
– Archmage: Bow down.
– Archmage: Find cover.
– Light Sword: Flatten yourself.
– Absolute Monarch: At the base of the back neck in humanoid terms, is the magic core. That’s the golem’s heart.
– Ice Queen: Probably! Beware of magic beams! Cold!
– Heaven’s Devil: Look closely at the eyes. The direction of the magic beams about to be unleashed is hinted there.
– Pioneer: Left first, then right.
Bang.
A rumble spread through the dungeon.
Woooom!
The cobalt golem’s mouth quickly gathered red light.
Quickly put away the terminal and dived low.
Peeeeeeeeeew-
An odd sound, then a red beam swept across horizontally.
KOOOOOOOOOOM!!
Chills ran down my spine.
Damn.
Is this a bullet hell shooting game?
Held the Shield, Mirror of Change, in my left hand.
Look closely at the eyes.
The direction in the left red eye is a diagonal line. The right eye’s direction is vertical.
[Magic Physical Enhancement Lv.5 – Skill activated.]
As I manipulated magic power, the Strength of Body Armor manifested.
KOOOOOOOOM!
Evaded the diagonal beam by lowering my body like an acrobat.
Keening!
Deflected the vertically descending beam by enlarging the Mirror of Change.
凝聚氣機於雙腳
Roarrr!
Bent my knees and pushed off to leap high into the air.
Literally hovering in mid-air for a moment.
Pressed the bloody dagger in my left hand against the golem’s shoulder, then climbed up like rock climbing.
The golem’s heart is the magic core at the base of the neck in humanoid terms.
Directed my Qi-filled Dragon King Sword at that point and smote down.
Boom!
The cobalt golem’s body tilted as the magic core shattered. Landed back on the floor.
Peeeeeeew!
“…”
Farther ahead, in the darkness, red lights began to flash. Not just one, but over a dozen.
Took a step forward.
If I stop, I die.
Damn Pandemonium.
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