CH 322

“How many levels do you have now, Carina?”

“Uh… 96.”

Then I guess we’ll be leaving here in a couple of days.

It has been a week since Shana evolved. Thanks to the fact that Shana prioritized Carina’s level up over her own, it looks like Carina will be able to evolve on schedule. Bequa will be surprised when he hears that Carina has evolved. I wonder if Carina’s twin, Urza, will be disappointed.

“Our levels haven’t improved at all, have they?”

“Well, yes.”

Except for Carina, I didn’t level up at all, probably because I evolved once.

“Zeros-san, may I see your lightning armor once?”

“Yes, sure.”

I did the lightning armor to show to Carina.

“Ummm…”

The reason why I am showing it to her is that Carina hasn’t been able to acquire the armor skills for attributes like lightning armor, which is originally limited to beastmen, which is the original source of the lightning armor.

“Carina isn’t as obvious looking as Bequa.”

Bequa looks like a polar bear beastman no matter how you look at it. So what are the armor skills that can be acquired? If someone asked me, I would be able to answer ice armor.

But since Carina is a cat beastman and doesn’t have the characteristics of a polar bear, there is no attribute that comes to mind.

“Maybe we should ask Bequa about all this when we go to the beastman country.”

“I agree…”

I only got it thanks to the title I earned, so I don’t really know how to get it.

“Oh! Carina! Try to take my lightning armor.”

“Huh? Ah! I understand!”

Come to think of it, Carina has never taken my lightning armor from me. Even if it’s a skill she took it from me, she might be able to at least get a clue to acquire it.

Carina opened her golden eyes wide and took my lightning armor.

“Ah, so this is how it is… I feel like I’m being properly protected by the lightning, but it’s not magic… It’s a strange feeling.”

Indeed, it might be a strange sensation, since Carina, who usually took my enchantments, doesn’t use magic power.

Then, two minutes passed and the lightning armor automatically came back to me. Carina’s eyes also became a little stronger and she was able to take something like enchantment for two minutes.

“Thank you very much! It helped me get a little sense of things!”

“Then I’m glad.”

Carina had gotten the hang of it now, and she began to meditate and concentrate. If this is the case, I should have let her take it away earlier.

“Ah!”

“Whoa!”

Within a few minutes of concentrating, Carina changed. Something pitch black appeared from Carina and clung to her like armor.

“It’s done!”

“Congratulations! By the way, what attribute is it?”

“Huh? Wait a minute!”

Carina said and checked the status.

“It’s called dark armor!”

“I see.”

The color of the armor looked like dark armor. Is it dark armor because Carina’s hair color is dark purple?

“I know you’re happy to get it, but if you use it too much, it will interfere with your nighttime hunting.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

There is less than an hour left before the night hunt. The beastman’s armor skill doesn’t consume magic power, but instead consumes physical strength. She just got and isn’t used to it yet, so her physical strength will be consumed quickly.

“I know you want to use it now that you finally got it, but don’t use it too often, okay?”

“Yes!”

In the night hunts after that, Carina was able to hunt more monsters than ever before using the dark armor.

“Nyah….”

“I told you not to use it too much…”

In return, she is now resting more lazily than ever on my lap during her current break time. She must have used up a lot of energy.

Carina’s dark armor was not magic like my lightning armor or Bequa’s ice and snow armor, so it was possible to physically touch it and attack it. However, what was a little different from mine and Bekua’s was that the dark armor blocked the attacks of the monsters as if it was absorbing their attacks. Is this a characteristic of dark armor?

“Sophie, Elira, take over!”

“Yes.”

“Okay.”

“Okay, Shana, let’s go.”

“Nn.”

So Sophie and Elira were replaced by me and Shana, who went to fight the monsters. Shana had evolved and was now fighting without support, just like me, Sophie and Elira.

We kept hunting monsters like this, and finally the time came.

“Oh! My level reached the max!”

Two days after Carina acquired the Dark Armor, her level also reached MAX.