Chapter 11: Miniature Sharks
(Thanks to Bandaru for your tips and support)
"I can understand your feelings." "I was born in a small town that evolved from a pioneer village, and I grew up listening to the history of the city lord, and since I was a child, I dreamed of following the path of the city lord's past, defeating the devourers of the world, leaping from commoners to nobility and owning a territory of my own...... It wasn't until I became an adult that I knew what it was like to really fight. ”
Perhaps when he honed his own combat skills, he discovered an irreparable birth defect.
Maybe when he first walked out of the novice village, he was beaten by a few slimes and urinated.
Perhaps it was when he challenged the depths of the earth that he encountered a powerful enemy that brought him a lifetime of death.
It doesn't matter what kind of experience he had, it was enough to know that he was beaten as an arms dealer by reality. From this point of view, it is that Lyle is not qualified to understand the arms dealer, Lyle's thirst for strength has not reached the level of [dream], and he has other things that are more interesting.
"It's just that life is still passable now~" The arms dealer pushed the reassembled automatic rifle 'Mini Shark' in front of Lyle, and put the neatly stacked 35 gold coins next to him into his magic backpack, "Brother Lyle, you are an unprecedented skilled craftsman, it is too wasteful to lose your life for no reason, you should learn to stop in moderation." ”
"Don't worry, I've given up on some things." Thinking that until now he was still slow to climb a tree, Lyle had to face up to the problem, "But I have other areas to work on, and it's too early to say surrender." ”
The four elements of combat: attack, defense, evasion, and recovery
You don't have to think about evasion, but you can work on the three aspects of attack, defense, and recovery...... This doesn't mean that Lyle has any good plans in mind, maybe he can't beat the Eye of Cthulhu until he dies in this life, the focus is on a positive and enterprising mentality.
A good attitude may not be rewarded, but it can always leave a glimmer of possibility to change your fate.
"Then I wish you success." The arms dealer replied nonchalantly, he had already given up completely and didn't even bother to ask, and casually took out the 100 bullets that came with it from his backpack, "Finally, a reminder, the weapons I sell are limited in power and are not suitable as the direction of your efforts." ”
As a seller, it's hard to say, but he really doesn't think that Lyle, who can deal explosive magic damage, will look up to the pitiful damage of the minishark.
Lyle smiled and took the bullet: "I know this, the current research direction is explosives. ”
"Explosives?" The arms dealer frowned.
Even though everyone on the Trailblazer team is good at different weapons, and he and the Demolitionists don't compete in business, it's still a little uncomfortable to hear that someone else's product has the potential to be tapped.
"From what I've observed, the Eye of Cthulhu has a rather low intelligence." The basis is that it didn't run away with serious injuries, and the pioneers can't fly, as long as it is determined to fly into the sky, no one can stop it, "I think we can try to set up a special trap-like battlefield in advance, let people seduce it, and then-"
(click) Lyle voices the action of pressing the detonator.
“…… You can try it. The arms dealer nodded reluctantly.
This plan is very expensive, and a detonator in the Demolition Specialist's shop is 20 silver coins, and setting up such a battlefield is equivalent to trying to smash the Eye of Cthulhu with platinum coins.
This plan is very material-intensive, and most of the explosives in the blasting expert shop are purchased from other parts of the country, so they are not subject to the limitation of reserves and production capacity, and it may be fine to use them once or twice, but it is not possible to use them as the main means of responding to the enemy.
However, no amount of shortcomings can erase its operability - of course, it is impossible for him to try this scheme himself, and his hard-earned money is more worth sending, such as pursuing a nurse.
"It's a simple solution that anyone can want~" Lyle shrugged, he didn't think he would be a pioneer.
It is estimated that the predecessors saw that the pioneers could use cold weapons, guns, magic, boomerangs, and summons to solve the Eye of Cthulhu and the Eater of Worlds, and thought that there was no need to play yin, and this high-cost plan was gradually forgotten.
Well, forgotten along with the Pioneers who died at the hands of the Eye of Cthulhu and the Devourer of Worlds.
"Unless there is an incomparably powerful enemy, this plan can only be shelved." Lyle picked up the minishark and walked out of the gun shop, "All I have to do is improve the recipe for explosives in advance." ”
The improvement of the recipe was put aside for the time being, and Lyle, who wanted to try the thrill of 'Sudden Surprise', came to the house complex of the pioneers in the village.
In the middle of the five's house, there is a straight down passage under construction known as the 'Hell Drive', which is the standard shortcut to the underground area in the Pioneer Village.
If you don't have a magic prop to prevent cushioning, you may need to slide down with your hand on the rope, and Lyle fooled from his father's shop to the magic horseshoe when he was a child, and he didn't have to worry about anything, and he jumped down and was done...... Ahem, it's still a must to get your feet on the ground, and the magic horseshoe can't protect your head.
To be honest, the free fall of tens of seconds was still quite scary, and the glow of the torches that kept flying upwards told Lyle how fast he was falling.
(Bang!) Failed to predict the time of landing, and sat on the ground with the wrong landing action.
The impact was great, but the impact of the damage had been offset by the props, and the buttocks finally did not split into three or four petals.
"Speaking of which, Fili seems to have said that when falling from a height, use the hook to position the fall as much as possible to interrupt the fall to prevent it from falling directly on the monster's head." Lyle stood up and rubbed his ass.
Lyle looked around and saw a large black space next to the shortcut that had not yet reached the magma layer, and there were no torches to know that the pioneers had not explored, so he immediately used the jet skills of the lightning boots to leave the passage.
"It's the first time I'm exploring the underground alone, so let's be safe." Standard exploration items such as torches, grappling claws, glow sticks, and nightmare pickaxes are essential, and Lyle even pulls out a gravity potion from his backpack.
A condensed version that has been formulated by the hand for a long time.
"Wow!" And then it is also several times more unpleasant than the normal version.
The potion transforms into a unique power, giving Lyle the ability to freely switch between 'gravitational' and 'universal repulsion' states for a period of time.
Gravity reverses, and the head and feet fall on top of the underground space.
"Sure enough...... The texture of the rock at the top is different from the rock at the bottom. Lyle stomped his foot, and a small lump of dirt came loose next to him, and flew 'upward' past him, landing on what Lyle saw as the 'top of the hole'.
The Gravity Potion is a regular item for exploring the Sky Islands where the ancients lived, but I haven't heard of anyone drinking this to explore the underground. It's just that Lyle must be useful for drinking this thing, at least the cave slimes, all kinds of skeletons, and all kinds of traps can't hit Lyle who is located above.
"The cave bats are coming out, I'm hungry for 100 bullets." Lyle's first underground exploration is destined to be safe and easy.