Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 186

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Chapter 186 – Dungeon Date (Part 2)

Serika and I soon reached the farthest depths of the Shinjuku Central Park Dungeon.

Apparently, it usually takes two or three days to conquer the dungeon, but it only took us a few hours.

“I never thought we’d be able to finish it before the welcome party…”

Serika said, stunned,

“Do you want to do the boss fight together? That is if the boss can keep up.”

“Yeah, that sounds good. Let’s try it.”

Since the Shinjuku Central Park Dungeon has a wide variety of monsters, I’m not aiming for the special condition of defeating 400 monsters of the same type in a row this time.

I won’t be able to fulfill the special condition for low-level exploration, but… well, it’s a condition that can be fulfilled at any time, so it’s okay.

First of all, the purpose of today’s visit isn’t exploration.

The purpose of today’s quest is to go on a date (?) with Serika as a warm-up for the welcome party.

The dungeon boss in the boss room is the Orc King.

It’s a monster with a reputation for durability.

On the other hand, you could say that’s about the only thing it’s good for.

I didn’t expect much, but unfortunately, it wasn’t a secret monster.

On the way here, we’ve both seen how we fight.

When we enter the boss room, the boss will notice us anyway.

I can’t use the strategy of hiding my presence and then using a wide area of destruction magic.

If that’s the case, it looks like the quickest way to defeat it is to use the Hero’s Over Limit ability to increase the Hero’s own power and simply cut it down.

I don’t know if I can coordinate well with Serika, but since this is a rare opportunity, let’s give it a try.

“”Ready, go!””

Serika and I coordinated our speed and approached the Orc King from the left and right.

The Orc King, lacking agility, lost sight of Serika and me.

My magic sword entered the Orc King’s left side and exited through the front of his neck, while Serika’s slash entered from the right back of his head and split his chest.

The Orc King’s body was split in half from top to bottom by the two blows, which occurred almost simultaneously.

I was afraid that it might be a problem because it had been raised to the same level as Serika, but it was only one blow.

‘You defeated the dungeon boss!’

‘You don’t gain experience from dungeon bosses.’

‘You have gained 4225 SP.’

‘You have earned 23,190,475 yen.’

‘You have obtained the rare delicacy Crown-branded Orc Ham!’

“Oh, it’s a rare delicacy. We’ve done it! We can serve it at the welcome party.”

Serika’s voice is full of excitement as she holds the lump of ham in her hands.

…I don’t really have much of an appetite, considering it’s the flesh of the orc king I just defeated.

Well, I guess that just means it’s that delicious.

In the meantime, I’m looking forward to the continuation of the Voice of Heaven.

‘Special Condition Achieved. You have acquired the Synchronization skill.’

Congratulations! ────────────

Special Condition Fulfilled: Hit the final attack on the boss of a dungeon of rank A or higher with a margin of error of one-hundredth of a second.

Reward: Skill Synchronization.

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Skill─────────────────

Synchronization 1

The Synchronization skill allows those who have activated it to synchronize their attack timing for S.Lv times. While synchronized, the speed and power of all attacks will be equal to the highest of those who are synchronized. When synchronized attacks hit the target at the same time, a damage bonus of (number of attacks that hit x 100)% is applied. The number of times this ability can be activated is limited to S.Lv times per battle.

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“Wha, what’s this?!”

Serika is surprised to hear the same Voice of Heaven as me.

“So this is the special condition Yuto was talking about. I see~.”

And Serika is impressed.

“But what about it as a skill? It’s good for damage efficiency, but it’s useless if your allies don’t have Synchronize as well.”

It’s not like both attacks always hit at the same time.

There also seems to be a side effect where attacks become easier to read when synchronized.

However, when you use this skill, all attacks will be equal in speed and power to the fastest and strongest attack in the synchronized group.

There seems to be no limit to the number of people who can use Synchronize; so, for example, if five people succeed in attacking at the same time, the attack with the highest power among the five will be multiplied by five, and there will also be a damage bonus of (number of attacks that hit x 100%)-in this case, a 500% damage bonus will be generated.

Since it’s the highest damage attack x 5 + 500% (6 times), it would be 30 times the damage of the strongest attack in the sync.

If I were to use this skill…

“So it’s a special move just for me and Yuto.”

Serika smiles happily.

“Well, that’s right…”

I swallowed the idea that popped into my head at the sight of Serika’s happy face.

Because you can’t tell, right?

If I give the mini-slimes Synchronization, they’ll be able to use it, right? I wonder.

Is that all there is to it this time?

…I thought, but there was more to the Voice of Heaven.

‘Special Condition Achieved. You have obtained the SP Stat Conversion skill.’

Congratulations !!! ────────────

Special Condition Fulfilled: Acquire a skill more than 1000 times or level up a skill.

Reward: Skill SP Stat Conversion.

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Skill─────────────────

SP Stat Conversion

Allows you to convert SP directly into stats. Conversion efficiency is 90% of SP spent.

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“Whoa!”

I let out a gasp, and Serika tilted her head.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh, I see. It was just me, then.”

It seems that the Synchronization skill I’d just acquired with Serika was my 1000th skill acquisition and level-up.

I wonder how the SP Stat Conversion I got will work…

Skills that increase your stats, such as Attack Power, increase your stats by 1.2 times the amount of SP you spend.

However, with this SP Stat Conversion, it’s only 90%―0.9 times.

Ability enhancement skills increase your stats even more, but they don’t work like skills.

In other words, instead of having no effect as a skill, they increase your stats by 20%.

However, if you use SP Stat Conversion to convert SP directly into stats, the stats you increase will be reduced by 10%.

In this case, it’s better to just get the skills normally.

If you get the skills normally, the efficiency of converting SP to stats is the same.

What’s more, you get the original effect of the skill as well as the stat bonus.

…Well, in the way that most explorers think, getting skills is all about getting the effect of the skill, so the stat bonus is just a bonus.

However, the SP Stat Conversion Rate is detrimental to SP.

You might be tempted to wonder if it’s a bug in the settings, but when you think about it, it doesn’t seem like there’s any benefit at all.

For example, there are situations where you want to increase your Attack Power a bit more, but there are no skills you have not yet acquired that give you a stat bonus to Attack Power, or you don’t have enough SP to increase the level of a skill you have already acquired.

There may also be situations where you don’t know what skill stat you’re getting a bonus from because you’re trying to get a lesser skill.

There is also the idea (albeit a luxurious one) of not getting a skill on purpose and using SP Stat Conversion because you don’t want the skill column to be too crowded.

Or, if you think you don’t have enough firepower during a fight, you can immediately increase your attack or magic power… that would be an advantage.

You can also acquire skills during combat, but you don’t have time to sit down and look at the stat bonuses and choose a skill.

If you had that kind of time, you probably wouldn’t even think about acquiring a skill in combat.

There are some issues with conversion efficiency, but for me, who has a surplus of SP, this is a skill I can use somewhere.

So, will the Voice of Heaven continue?

For now, it has continued.

‘You have conquered the Shinjuku Central Park Dungeon!’

But that’s the end of it.

This time, Serika was with me, so I couldn’t fulfill the low-level special conditions that could be fulfilled even after the second time.

I thought there might be a condition that required the two of us to complete an A-rank dungeon, but when I thought about it since Lachesis was with us, we were a party of three.

There must be a reasonable number of explorers who have cleared an A-rank dungeon as a party of three if you look for them.

If there was a special condition for clearing a dungeon as a party of three, it would be strange if the existence of that special condition had not already come to light.

Finally, Serika says to me in a cheerful voice, after I’ve been subtly disappointed by the lack of special conditions.

“Yes, we did it!”

Serika holds out her fist, and I lightly tap mine against it.

“Yeah, we did it.”

It’s probably less efficient than solo exploration, but sometimes it’s not so bad.

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