Worthless Skill Escape (WN)

Chapter 66

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Chapter 66 – Roar (One-Hundredth)

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I turned my attention to the letters that appeared in the lower right corner of my field of vision.

It was enough for me to know that I could change the relative speed of the flow of time by being aware of it.

“It’s easy to understand.

There is no point in staying like this forever.

Let’s try the lowest magnification first.

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The light purple outline of the phantom beast dragon begins to flinch slightly.

Both of its jaws tremble as it roars, and the outline of its entire body becomes slightly blurred.

The roar and surrounding sounds can be heard as if they were being stretched out.

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I stop the flow of time for a moment.

“I don’t feel the pressure like before.”

Well, not exactly, not at all.

But it’s faded beyond comparison.

“I see! If time is going 0.01 times faster, that means the amount of pressure per unit of time is going down by a factor of 100!”

If at a constant speed, I felt a pressure of 100 per second, then at 1/100th of the speed, the amount of pressure per second (in my experience) should be 1.

No matter how powerful the pressure exerted by that phantom beast is, if it is diluted to 1/100th of a second, it is bearable.

Compared to the pressure I felt when I fought the level 2941 Hobbit Sumo Wrestler, it’s at the same level or slightly lower.

…That means this guy is almost 100 times more pressured than a level 2941 secret dungeon boss.

“Let’s just multiply it by 0.01 for now.”

I set the magnification back to x0.01 in the lower right.

The world starts moving at a hundredth of the speed.

The dragon roaring in super-slow motion was even humorous, depending on how you looked at it.

But… it is slow anyway.

It was strange to complain after having slowed it down myself, but at 1/100th speed, there was no sign of the roar ending anytime soon.

“My hundredth of a second is a second of reality…”

Even the powerful SSR confirmation performance is frustrating when shown at 1/100 speed.

But if I increase the magnification, I may not be able to handle the pressure.

The dragon, perhaps because it was so happy to be summoned or perhaps because it was trying to intimidate the summoner, roared very enthusiastically.

“I can’t help it. I’ll just have a cup of coffee.”

I took a tumbler out of my Item Box, uncapped it, and sipped the coffee.

“Wow, this is good. It’s calming.”

It’s like I’m making fun of it, but I can’t help it because it takes a long time.

But it’s still too long.

“Let me see. If the roar in the real world lasts 20 seconds, it takes 100 times longer, so it takes… 33 minutes.”

I think I’ll have to go to the bathroom if I drink too much coffee.

I can’t help it; I pass the time by looking at my status and skills in the DGP.

O…o…o…o…o…o…

“Whoa, its voice is getting a little shrill now.”

As expected, Dragon-kun seems to be unable to hold his breath.

…O…O…O…O…

“Oh, it looks like it’s over.”

I put the tumbler in my Item Box and waited for the end of the roar.

….!

The aftermath of the roar echoes off the ceiling of the boss’s room.

“It’s all over now, right?”

I force myself to come back to reality.

At that moment, the world regains its color.

There are a few echoes of the roar, but there is no more pressure to freak out and move.

“Oh, how can you receive my roar and not even tremble? Some people have a lot of guts.”

“Can you speak?”

“Even a human can understand language. How can I not?”

The voice of a dragon descends from a height that makes my neck ache.

“You responded to my summons, didn’t you?”

“I did not do so of my own free will. The summoning formula you used disrespectfully named me as a suitable partner for you.”

“So you won’t help me?”

“I did not say that. Not many people can summon me. Frankly, I’m interested in you.”

“Do you want to test me?”

I don’t want to fight with this guy.

If I use the escape from reality option every time he roars, I’m pretty sure I won’t be able to return to reality.

“Kuhahaha, what are you going to do with such a predictable outcome? Of course, I will win. You summoned the phantom beast in the first place because you wanted to borrow the power of something stronger than you, didn’t you? What’s the point of summoning an opponent that you can defeat?”

“That’s right, too.”

Even if it’s weaker than me, it will still be a force to be reckoned with, but then it’s not much different from Summoning Secret Monster.

“Then what?”

“If you are as good as me, you have the ability to see what your opponent is capable of. In the ‘translation’ of this world, it is called Appraisal.”

“You can use Appraisal too?”

“You… Oh, you’re a bit rude, aren’t you? You’re hiding your skills under Disguise, aren’t you? I like your caution. Then I’ll use Fathom.”

“Hey, hey, it’s bad manners to look at someone’s status without their permission.”

Ignoring my protests, the dragon tries to look at my status.

Through my Disguise, the dragon’s eyes turn to my status.

Ugh, I don’t know if it has that kind of ability.

“Since you can summon me. You must have a very high spiritual status….. Buhooohh!?”

The dragon reads my status by itself and is surprised by itself.

The dungeon is shaking, and my spirit is drained.

“Hey, hey, you have to be careful with that voice, even if it’s just a resonating one.”

I said, trying to use Appraisal on the dragon as well.

It’s okay since he was the first to violate etiquette.

Well, this guy isn’t an explorer, so I can’t really ask him to behave.

However,

‘You cannot read the status of an opponent whose level is higher than 10000.’

“It was rejected…”

So that means that this guy’s level is at least higher than 10001.

“Kuhahahaha! I can’t believe he summoned me at level 1! This guy is interesting!”

Dragon-kun starts to laugh, wondering what’s so funny.

“You have a low spiritual level, but your skills and abilities are far from human. How did you become such a strange being?”

“If I tell you, will you help me?”

“If you don’t want to, I won’t force you to tell me. You seem interesting. I’ll still lend you my power.”

“Then I’ll tell you.”

I don’t think anything else will come out of this guy.

I’ll tell him about the effects of Escape and summarize my earnings so far.

I thought the phantom beast would understand the details of the exploration, but Dragon-kun was very quick to understand.

“Kuhahaha! Isn’t that funny!”

He said, smiling in amusement.

“It’s really interesting! You’ve always fought against higher-level opponents at level 1, haven’t you? You are a man worthy of summoning me.”

He seemed to like what I had to say.

“But on the other hand, this is a very strange ‘translation.'”

“Translation?”

“When you’ve lived as long as I have, you’ve experienced a few times when a dungeon collapses and the worlds are connected.”

“Oh, so you are from another world?”

“Yes, that’s right. Worlds have different origins and different laws. When worlds are connected, there is a phenomenon that occurs to reconcile their parts.”

“Is that what you call translation?”

“That’s what I call it. When a dungeon appeared in this world, there must have been a phenomenon called translation―the phenomenon of redefining the events of the other world with the approximate events of this world.”

Haha. I’m starting to read it.

There is also what Haruka-san told me.

“In this world, skills and magic only exist in the context of the game. So the fantasy elements of other worlds have been ‘translated’ into the context of the game in this world.”

“It is interesting that you escaped this ‘translation’ and feel uncomfortable with the situation. As expected from the man who summoned me.”

“What should I call you?”

“K――#Da=-ve.”

“I didn’t catch that…”

There are some sounds that humans can’t pronounce. You can call it anything you like with a sound close to it.

“Kudave, I think.”

“Hmm. Not bad.”

Pronounce it correctly! I thought he would say that, but it seems that Dragon-kun―Kudave is the kind of person who doesn’t care about details.

“What kind of being is Kudave?”

“I am a Phantom Dragon.”

“Phantom Dragon…?”

“A dragon that has attained a particularly strong spiritual power and has moved its existence halfway out of reality is a phantom dragon.”

“You mean a being that is not bound by matter?”

“I would have said half a step. It is half bound to matter and half free. If I am completely free from the material world, then I can no longer affect reality, can I?”

“If you can’t influence reality, you can’t be useful in battle, can you?”

“That is what it means. If I were to look for a concept in this world that is close to my own existence… would there be a Bahamut?”

“Yes, there is. No, there is not.”

When I heard the word “Bahamut,” the first thing I thought of was the most powerful summoner in RPGs.

“But isn’t the real Bahamut a dragon?”

The word “real” is a bit of a misnomer. Nobody believes in myths anymore, but the fictional “dragon” represented by the “game” is more “real” in this day and age.

“…So, in short, it’s a game-like image of Bahamut.”

“It’s not a perfect match, but it’s not far from the image. Bahamut = Kudave, for short. It’s pretty cool, right?”

And Bahamut is happy to show off his chuuni sense.

“Don’t get too excited about a trivial enemy, okay? It’s too much to hope for something better than me… but pick a time when you have an enemy worth eating.”

“The one who is called is the one who gives the order. Well, okay.”

If he is that big, there are only a limited number of situations in which he can be summoned anyway.

The size of the body is not simply proportional to the strength of the monster, but big monsters are often strong.

“I’ll rely on you then.”

“Fumu. I’ll see you then.”

Saying this in a rather casual manner, the giant dragon disappeared into the void.