Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 136

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Chapter 136 – Impatience

I took the Demon King at the shrine, and my job became Demon King/Magic Swordsman/Usurper/Dungeon Master/Warrior.

However, there is a problem.

In the battle against Nether Cerberus, I was only able to obtain a “Magic Key to the Third Floor of the Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.”

It doesn’t make infinite copies of itself like Shadow Roper.

It is only possible to teleport to the third floor from the entrance portal once.

If you can’t defeat it there, you’ll have to go back to the second floor and fight Nether Cerberus again.

There is also the option of collecting the magic keys by running through the second floor over and over again, but even with the presence of Shadow Yasha, it is still a pain to progress through the dungeon without getting hit by instant death attacks.

If I could, I’d like to decide it in a single match…

“Yeah, well, it’s hard.”

I was forced to retreat in the middle of the third floor, which I tried again the next day.

On the third floor, King Roper and Arc Sahagin no longer appeared, but new monsters called Redcap Goblins and Red Capes appeared instead.

The Redcap Goblin has a weak-looking appearance, with a red hat.

In fact, they are probably even slightly weaker than Arc Sahagin.

I’m grateful that they can be dealt with by the Hobijinkai, even though their weapons are daggers.

Also, the tactic of summoning a Hotei and spawning infinite Trehobis is effective…

That is if it’s just the Red Cap Goblin.

The problem is the Red Cape.

This is an adorable little girl with a red hood, right out of a fairy tale.

But instead of eyes, it has something that glows like a ruby the color of blood.

This red cape takes an apple from the basket slung over her arm and throws it indiscriminately at her enemies and allies.

Bomb apples, poison apples, hypnotic apples, and paralyzing apples to me.

She throws healing apples, attacks apples, and evasion apples at the goblins.

The bomb apple has the power to blow up all of our Trehobis at once.

If they eat the hypnotic apple, Trehobi, and even Shadow Yasha will turn against their allies and start attacking them.

While I’m busy fending them off, use the healing apple to heal the goblins whose HP has been reduced and then buff them with the attack and evasion apples.

In their natural state, Redcap Goblins are weaker than Arc Sahagin, but when they’re buffed by the apples, some of their stats become higher than mine.

To make matters worse, I’m level-locked.

The monsters that appear on the third floor are about 3% higher than those on the second floor.

The Redcap Goblin is level 10240, and the Redcap is level 10400.

The levels of Dark Gazer, Baby Cerberus, and Grim Reaper, all of which appeared on the second floor, have already exceeded my level.

What’s most painful is that I’ve started to lose to Dark Gazer in terms of level.

It is said that the probability of the Instant Death status effect also depends on the level difference.

Dark Gazer’s level on the third floor is 10121, so the Arc Sahagin and King Roper I’ve been collecting cards for on the second floor will be killed much faster than before.

The only good thing about this misfortune is that Shadow Yasha is level 10200.

Only Shadow Yasha is higher than Dark Gazer, so the chance of the instant death effect hitting his clone is pretty low.

But what if there are also Dark Gazers on the fourth floor?

According to the calculations, the Dark Gazer on the fourth floor will have a level of 10425, surpassing Shadow Yasha.

Well, it’s the third floor before the fourth.

In addition to the hordes of Redcap Goblins led by Red Cape, the Dark Gazer appearing out of nowhere and the Grim Reaper’s instant death combo are also troublesome.

It seems that Red Cape doesn’t buff monsters other than goblins, but the threat of these two lies in something other than their simple stats.

I’ve even tried summoning Redcap Goblins that I’ve turned into cards with Usurpation of Authority as a last resort… but the Redcap Goblins I’ve summoned don’t have Red Cape’s support.

If you fight a group of Redcap Goblins with Red Cape, you’re going to lose in a big way.

Turning Redcap Goblins into cards is pretty hard to begin with.

To use Usurpation of Authority, you have to weaken them as much as possible, but just when you’re about to finish them off, a full-health apple flies out of the Red Cape.

Even if they’re just small fry on the way, it takes some getting used to when the HP of an enemy you’ve just whittled down to a certain level is restored to full health.

Also, the Arc Sahagin I’ve been using as a shield no longer appears on the third floor.

I never thought I’d miss that slimy, fishy face, but now I find myself missing it even on the second floor.

However, I’m also getting stronger.

Unlike last time, when I was the Dungeon Master, this time, I took the job of Demon King.

As the Demon King, my skills are simple magic.

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The title of Demon King is a job that destroys all enemies with overwhelming magical power and excellent skills to control them.

It has an unparalleled aptitude for all kinds of magic and all kinds of magic-related techniques, and it has such extraordinary combat power that it can fight even when the whole world is against it.

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As the description says.

I can handle all kinds of magic, from the major elemental magic of earth, water, fire, and wind to buffs, debuffs, and magic that affects space-time.

The description also says that ‘the ability is beyond words.’

This is a phrase that doesn’t even appear in the wiki, but judging from the context, it must be a ‘degree of adjectival expression.’

The five levels of “degree of adjectival expression” known in this world are “somewhat,” “reasonably,” “considerably,” “extraordinarily,” and “abnormally (defiantly).”

“Beyond words” would be an expression that would fall into the sixth and highest level.

I’ve never heard of a sixth level of expression, but in the skill world, the skill level can be raised to six with the rare item called the Essential Book.

However, this does not mean that there is no bias in magic aptitude.

As the saying goes, “Even if the whole world were against me,” the Demon King is particularly good at offensive magic, especially magic that specializes in wide-area annihilation.

Even on the third floor, the Demon King’s long-range magic is still useful, but it’s not powerful enough to destroy the enemy with a single blow.

This is probably because my Demon King job rank is C.

I guess it means that the monsters on the third floor of an S-ranked dungeon are too much for a rookie Demon King who’s just starting out.

…and so my first attack on the third floor ended in an unfortunate retreat.

It’s a blessing that I can always escape, thanks to the Dungeon Master’s unique “You can only escape the dungeon when you’re not in combat” bonus (in the skill world, this would be the Evac skill).

I traveled from the portal of the Post-collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon to the C-rank Black Swan Forest Water Park Dungeon near my parents’ house.

From there, I biked home like a high school student (?).

“Phew…”

When I got back to my parents’ house, I suddenly felt exhausted.

Since there was no regular “Saber Saber” exploration this week, I was able to spend all the time after school on Friday and through the weekend conquering the Post-Collapse Okutama Lake Dungeon.

There is only one magic key to the third floor, so I went to the second floor first to get a feel for the new job, Demon King.

And today, I finally set out to conquer the third floor.

“…It’s not hopeless.”

It’s not that I couldn’t fight.

I was able to fight to a certain extent.

But it’s still not enough to reach the deepest part of the third floor.

“I just don’t have enough firepower…”

As long as I’m exploring alone, the golden rule is to attack before being attacked.

If I could defeat the Grim Reaper with fewer moves, the risk of being hit by an instant death attack would be greatly reduced.

Ideally, I’d like to vanquish them with the area of effect of the Demon King’s Annihilation Magic.

In other words,

“I guess I’ll have to raise the Demon King’s job rank.”

Unless I can increase my level, the only way to increase my attack power is to increase my job rank.

Fortunately, compared to the Usurper and the Dungeon Master, the Demon King is easier to gain proficiency in.

Simply firing magic at a group of monsters should count as fighting like a Demon King.

From the third floor on, the enemy monsters are stronger than me, and even the fights with the weaker monsters along the way give a bonus to my skill.

On the other hand, this also means that there are no loopholes for gaining experience.

It seems that there is no way to make a quick and easy way to level up like the Infinite Summoning of Trehobi used to level up Usurper or the Shadow Yasha Clone Battle Strategy used to level up Dungeon Master.

On the contrary, if I rely on secret monsters to fight, it will be difficult to gain experience as a Demon King.

“Damn, this is taking forever…”

While I was suffering from fatigue and impatience, June came to an end, and summer arrived.

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