Chapter 10: Gorgons
The orcs appeared in groups of five, more than six groups were watching the three of them. Hina quickly got to her feet, her body soaked and covered in mud brought back some memories for Haru. He used to watch mud wrestling matches between women wearing bikinis, it was more than entertainment, since he had learned the moves to fight, although he had thought he would never need to use that vast repertoire.
He knew that the orcs, no matter how heavy they were, would still slip easily. He still remembered a fat woman who relied on her weight to avoid falling, but her opponent, who was skinny, managed to make the woman fall and even tore off the bottom of her bikini, that was the first pussy he had ever seen, full of flesh, and the lips looked like a sandwich stuffed with ham.
’Their movements are also being hindered by the mud, their attacks won’t be very useful because of their numbers and their movements are reduced. In that case, all that’s left is to use ranged attacks and see who’ll be faster,’ he said, looking at Mio.
Mio agreed, she knew the quick movements of the Assassin class were useless on that terrain, the most she could do was use her daggers to attack whenever the orcs came toward her.
Haru aimed at the first orc, his aim was poor, but he always managed to hit his targets and, even when a shot only grazed them, he could still take down the monsters. The damage from each bullet was only 50% of the total damage he could deal, even so, they were effective shots.
Another orc was brought down, the first group ran toward him. Hina used defensive magic and the orcs’ attacks caused no damage, all five orcs in the group were killed. One group headed toward Mio, one orc crouched down and grabbed her by the leg, he swung her through the air before throwing her away. She was hurt, even with the defensive magic.
’Something’s wrong, these monsters shouldn’t be this strong,’ Haru said.
’What do you mean? The orcs don’t seem any different.’
’Their movements are different and they seem stronger.’
’No, you’ve gotten used to summoned orcs, that’s why these feel strange to you. Real orcs really are stronger.’
Haru kept firing.
[Level UP!]
Haru continued attacking, his movements weren’t professional, but they were enough to deal damage and bring down the monsters, that was already enough.
All the orcs were defeated, more than thirty-five crystals were collected with Mio’s skill.
’I almost forgot, I was going to ask why I have more copper coins than I should. I noticed that last time I got about ten coins and now two more.’
’Those coins are part of my class. It’s a passive skill, there’s a small chance of dropping copper coins with every kill, 1% to be exact.’
’So you can literally create money, isn’t that illegal?’ Hina asked.
Haru had never thought about it, but it made sense.
’Yes and no, for example, if you take metals and make coins at home, that’s punishable by life imprisonment for crimes against the Empire’s economy. But a skill that can create money isn’t illegal, that can happen and, in those cases, we’re supposed to report it to the Empire. But we won’t say anything, we’ll keep it a secret. Is everyone okay with that?’ Mio asked.
Everyone agreed, but one question came to mind, why did Mio want to keep this hidden? Haru wondered, but he let it pass and the question remained in his mind. Until he forgot about it after looking at Hina’s butt.
’Seriously? According to her, you two slept together and she was naked, and you’re still staring like it’s your first time,’ Mio seemed irritated.
Hina laughed and Haru felt embarrassed, but he still kept looking at Mio’s butt and body. Little by little, Mio got used to his behavior, although it still bothered her, she was simply overlooking Haru’s actions.
A new horde of monsters appeared, this time they were gorgons. Haru fired at one, the shot caused no damage. He remembered magical damage and used ice bullets, no damage was dealt.
’Are these monsters weak against anything?’
’Fire,’ Hina said.
Haru switched to fire bullets, a single shot was enough to kill two monsters, the one that was hit exploded and took the one beside it with it. Haru began firing without aiming. All twenty gorgons quickly died.
Four hours passed.
[Kanzaki Haru Level: 7]
[Attributes:
STR: 369
DEX: 358
COM: 358
DEF: 359
INT: 357
AGI: 363
LUK: 1.438]
Hina and Mio also leveled up.
’How many crystals do we have?’
’More than four hundred. We can still fight, let’s go to the sixth floor.’
Their slow movements were no longer a problem, little by little the terrain changed, the mud became packed earth, there was a lot of dust in the air, but nothing that was actually harmful.
More gorgons.
’Shouldn’t we be turning to stone?’
’No, these gorgons don’t do that, real gorgons do. These monsters only appear on the lower floors, around the twentieth. These ones are just tougher, but your pistol is handling them.’
A tremor.
Mio dropped onto all fours. Haru stared, the position looked like an invitation, he did nothing but look at the small piece of fabric wedged between Mio’s buttocks, part of her pussy was exposed, her full lips were more than the fabric could hide. The sight was like admiring a beautiful work of art sculpted personally by God, the creator had made those lips at the very peak of His creativity.
’An earthquake?’
’No, now we have a floor boss fight.’
’Don’t floor bosses only appear on floors that are multiples of ten?’
’Bosses can appear on any floor, these events are rare and give a lot of experience and drops. Haru, activate your skill.’
A horde of more than a thousand slimes appeared, Haru and Mio began attacking, Hina used her healing skill to reduce the fatigue both of them were feeling. Their movements improved.
It took them five minutes to wipe out all the slimes. Mio used her skill and handed a few crystals to Haru, he turned them into bullets.
’Slime crystals sell for two copper coins and produce five bullets, orc crystals sell for forty copper coins and only produce fifty bullets. It’s cheaper to use slime crystals to make my bullets,’ Haru said to Mio.
’Then it’s better to use all the slime crystals and only worry about collecting drops from the stronger monsters.’
A horde of white wolves and another horde of crystal serpents appeared, together with the monsters came a giant slime.