CH 14

[A Dangerous Guy Is on the Loose!]

“Francoise, I’m here to get my equipment~!”

“My, Yuri-san! I read the world message! Congratulations on being the first to solo clear a dungeon!”

It was the third day since the game launched. I was visiting the shop of Francoise, the clothing craftswoman.

Gotta say, the underground tomb was such a fun place! I’d almost died on my first try exploring it, but after I started 1 HP play using the insane equipment, it was smooth sailing!

From now on, I’d collect even more equipment, and become even stronger!

“Fufu, knowing your situation, I was genuinely surprised, you know? Despite your unfavorable circumstances, you have achieved something that no other players can. Just the thought that I was making equipment for such an admirable person like you brought me so much joy!”

“Ou! This is just the start, though! I’m planning to steal the spotlight in the battle event two days later, and I’m sure it’ll make for great publicity for your equipment, too! So, can I get it now?”

“Yes of course!”

When she answered with a smile, a message popped up in front of me: [A gift from Francoise has been sent to the item box]

It seemed to be a set of equipment composed of head piece, body piece, and feet piece. As soon as I tapped on them from the item screen, my body was wrapped in light and…

“Uwah?! I already mentally prepared myself, but it really is a women’s dress?! What’s more, it looks like the ones worn by idols…?!”

…in the next moment, I found my outfit had changed to a black and white gothic-style dress!

However, it largely exposed my shoulders and armpits, and its long, frilly skirt was layered manifold. It was a really flashy dress.

As I was suddenly overcome with embarrassment, Francoise said while breathing heavily, “Fufufufufufufufufufufu! Impressive, Yuri-san! As you say, the design was inspired by the dresses worn by singers and idols!

To match your long and beautiful silver hair, I chose to use a gothic color scheme. Of course, I didn’t forget to prepare a black scrunchie to style your hair in a side tail!

Moving on, I chose to use white fabric for the chest area to empathize your enviable, large, protruding breasts, and to balance it, I chose black so that—!”

“I-I’ve got it! That’s too much detail!”

After stopping Francoise who had ben speaking very fast while squirming, I immediately decided to check the performance my new equipment.

Let’s see what we got here~

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・Head piece ‘Shinigami’s Hair Ornament’ (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30)

・Body piece ‘Shinigami’s Dress’ (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30)

・Feet piece ‘Shinigami’s Boots’ (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30)

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“Oh~! It increases MP and Luck~! Nice~!”

Now I could use more arts to support Pontaro and the gang!

Summoners depended on their monsters to battle. The further I could strengthen them, the higher my combat power would be!

“Ufufu, I’m glad you like it. …At first, I thought to strengthen your HP and Defense, but you are maxing out your Luck, so even if we were to increase your endurance, it would never match up to that of other players, right?

So I figured that it’d be best to further strengthen your strong points, instead.”

“Yeah, the answer you came to is the same as mine, Francoise! You see, I’ve been fighting with an accessory that set my HP to 1!”

“Bueeee?! You managed to solo a dungeon with not only all of your stats other than Luck zero but also 1 HP?! …Yuri-san, your playstyle truly is abnormal—ah, no, I mean, unique!”

Fuhahahahaha, it’s only a matter of course! If you’re a man, you have to strive to be the one and only, after all!

As I laughed heartily, Francoise suddenly made a thoughtful look.

“What’s wrong?”

“Oh no. I was just wondering, you seem to have had your attacks covered, but what about your Agility?

I mean, going forward, the monsters you will be faced with will get faster and faster, some may even go beyond human comprehension. It will also cause you to take time to travel.”

Ah~ good point. Mid to late game, vast dungeons that were created with the premise that the players had become extremely fast with their feet would start to appear. I likely would have a hard time exploring them.

I had settled on counting on ‘Guts’ to solve my defense problem, but for my movement speed, I still wanted a way to increase it.

…Oh, I know!

“Come out, Maa-kun!”

“Ng—! Ng—!”

In response to my call, a black haze appeared from the empty space.

Seeing it, Francoise got startled.

“Eep?! W-what is that?!”

“This guy is Maa-kun, my summoned monster. He is a Living Armor Knight, and also the boss monster I defeated yesterday, but he’s become my friend now.”

“Eh, can boss monsters be tamed?! I never heard that during the beta, though?!”

“Yeah, I did succeed in taming him, though it seems to have caused his power to regress and he lost his ability to speak. Did I succeed because my Luck has exceeded 1200, I wonder?”

“1200!? How did that happen!?”

Disregarding Francoise who had raised her voice in shock, I gave an instruction to Maa-kun.

If a monster possessing a weapon resulted in the monster’s Strength being added to the weapon’s attack power…

“Maa-kun, can you possess my boots?”

“Ng—?!”

“What, you don’t want to? Then will you get into my dress?”

“Ng?!!”

When I said that while fluttering my skirt, Maa-kun, for some reason, immediately rushed into my boots almost as if saying, “F-fine, I’ll go with the boots!” Then, the thing that I’d expected happened.

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Equipment ‘Shinigami’s Boots’ is possessed!

The monster’s Agility is added to the feet equipment’s movement speed!

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“Oh, it’s exactly as I expected! Maa-kun’s Agility will increase as his level gets higher too! The problem of my movement speed is now solved!”

Armor Knight was a fairly fast monster, so I thought I could expect great things from him!

Okay, now my equipment had been completely upgraded! Thanks to it, my status had become like this:

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Name: Yuri

Level: 20

Job: Summoner

Weapon: Bow

Stats

Strength: 0 Defense: 0 Magic: 0 Agility: 0 Luck 290 x 3 x 2 + 29 + 90 = ‘1859’

Skills

[Luck Enhancement] [Guts] [Fatal Strike] [Head-to-Head] [Giant Killing] [Heartless Shinigami]

[Absolute Zero] [Use It Properly!] [Conqueror of Adversities: Is activated due to HP being 1. All stats are doubled] [Psycho]

Equipment

Head: Shinigami’s Hair Ornament (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30)

Body: Shinigami’s Dress (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30)

Feet: Shinigami’s Boots (No requirement. MP +30 Luck +30 *Possessed by Maa-kun)

Weapon: Beginner Bow

Accessories: Cursed Ring (Sets the wearer’s max HP to 1) Evil God Contract Necklace (Triples Luck when the wearer’s HP is 1)

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……Wow.

“My bad, Francoise, turns out my Luck isn’t 1200.”

“O-oh, so it really isn’t?! Well, it is only natural~! For normal players, it would already be amazing if one of their stats could even reach 300 after being enhanced by all sorts of skills, but 1200? Even if you put all your stat points into Luck, that would still be too far-fetched…”

“Not really, my Luck is actually over 1800.”

“Over 1800?!?!” Francoise let out a loud scream.

No, no, no, I was surprised too, you know? How would I know my Luck would jump so dramatically after changing my equipment…?!

“Alright, I know what I’m going to do today. I’ll increase my Luck to 2000!”

“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, please don’t?! Isn’t it already high enough?! If you go rampage on the field with such a crazy number of Luck, just how many rare materials will you get?! It will ruin the balance?!”

“Sorry, Francoise. To make those bastards who underestimate Luck repent, I will even become a demon!”

“Please don’t become a demon?! Those who underestimate Luck, please quickly change your minds!

Ahh, just who was it?! Who was it that gave this person who already has monstrous Luck equipment that further increases his Luck?! Wait, it was meeeeeeee?!” Francoise’s face turned from red to pale white as she clutched her head and screamed. After saying goodbye to her, I dashed out of the shop!

“Just you wait, you evil beta testers who deceived me! With Summoner, the bow, and Luck you make fun of, I’ll surpass all of youuuu!!!”

In preparation for the battle event two days later, I wanted to raise Pontaro Family’s and Maa-kun’s level, I wanted to clear other dungeons, and so much more! Hahahahahaha!