NOVEL WEB Chapter 12:
Get [Snatch] with Oraora Move
What should I do if I can no longer advance as far as I like?
If there is a wall, why don't I attack and overcome it again and again? That sounds like something a hot-blooded teacher would say, but if I try that on the third floor, I'm guaranteed to be infected by an unknown disease. I'm a single guy, and I don't even have a girlfriend who would help me if I got sick.
Then, I must hurry up and get rolling. Raise my level to overwhelm the disease with my ability value, and raise my skills to kill the monsters with my firepower. For example, if I could learn to use an acid attack like the Rust Hurricane, which can dissolve even mechanical beasts, I could beat any monsters.
That is why I headed for the first floor.
That is where I would capture the slimes and get the skill orbs. But I had already used all the chlorine that was useful for slaying slimes. And the polyethylene bucket has become a drop storage.
What to do, then, is to use my head and technique.
First, I quietly approach the slime and gently press the bat in my left hand against the slime. The slime becomes squishy and irregularly shaped when it attacks, but its basic form is like a bun. So I press down on it slowly so that it halves in half, with enough force that it will not be thought it's getting attacked. Then, the slime nucleus will move to either the left or right side due to the pressure.
And the state of being closer means that the internal pressure is increasing. Therefore, if I aim my knife at the nucleus and thrust it, I can easily stab the slime nucleus.
That's called a soft touch attack.
Softly hold down the slime and then stab at the vital point. If I don't make a mistake, I can kill the slime faster than if I throw it into chlorine. That's also the result of my careful analysis of the slime, including taking videos of it.
Thus, I sat down and killed the slimes one after another with the bat and knife in my hand. But even after three hours of slime hunting, I got no skill orbs.
Naturally, my level did not go up, and I got tired from sitting on my back for so long that I got irritated and took it out on the slime.
"Hey, give me a skill orb, for God's sake! (Jubuah!)"
I spat out a threat like a thug and picked off the slime's nucleus with my leather-gloved hand instead of a knife. And then, oh my… The slime disappeared in a puff of smoke, but the skill orb remained in my right hand.
"Wow…a skill orb!"
As expected, since it is the third one, I immediately sense that it is a [Acid] skill orb.
["Kyuwah~…pah~!"]
Skills.
[Acid 3], [Agility 5], [Disease Resistance 2].
The level of my [Acid] is now 3. But more than that.
(What was that? I put a piercing hand into the slime to get it to give me a skill orb, and I got the skill orb in one shot.)
Is it a coincidence, or is there such a backdoor thing?
"Ora ora ora! Give me the skill orb, Gorrrrrr! (Jubububu!)"
Then, I hunted slimes with a tinfoil move and a stabbing hand. As a result, I could acquire 5 more skill orbs in 2 hours. Wow, it's not 100%, but it's a pretty high probability.
["Kyuwaa~…pah~!"]
["Kyuwawaa~…pah~!"]
["Kyuwawaa~…pah~!"]
["Kyuwawaa~…pah~!"]
["Kyuwaa~…pah~!"]
Skills.
[Acid 8], [Agility 5], [Disease Resistance 2]
Ugh, Burning it continuously is too bright and hurts my eyes. But now my skill [Acid] has reached level 8. I'm sure that the power of this will be great.
Now, what should I do? Shall I work a little harder and try to get to level 10? But temptation got the better of me, so I decided to go down to the second floor at level 8 and test its power at the cockroaches.
"I'm used to the net, with a hint of acid. Let's use acid. Level 8 Acid Fog."
I never cut corners when testing.
I quickly built a simple defensive formation while humming a tune, then released a thin acid mist in the underground hall to gather the giant cockroaches, lured them into the kill zone in front of the net, and delivered a level 8 acid mist.
["Juwawaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"]
Amazing…! First of all, the sound was different. In the past, if I wasn't concentrating to make it like Acid Bullet, it wouldn't make a sound.
"""Gyuuii…! Gitch….! …!""""
The giant cockroaches plunged into the Level 8 Acid Fog at high speed while chasing me, and like a car with burst tires, they lost control and crashed one after another.
That was because the thin outer skin of the joints of their limbs began to melt. Before, they would bounce around in agony and eventually turn over and twitch their limbs, but before they could do so, they were all gone, reduced to smoke.
The way they melted away was like being hit by a beam of light.
["shwah~~~……"]
"Amazing…is this the power of [Acid 8]."
The acid smell was strong even when I'm wearing a gas mask, a kind of mask for farm work that you can buy at a home improvement store.
O, I've got a tremendous amount of power.
……….
"Ora ora ora! Give me the skill orb, Gorrrrrrr! (Jubububu!)"
If I think so, it's power I can obtain, there's nothing better than having it. So, I relentlessly continued hunting slimes and collected two more [Acid] skill orbs.
["Kyuwawaa~…pah~!"]
["Kyuwawaa~…pah~!"]
Skills.
[Strong Acid], [Agility 5], [Disease Resistance 2].
Then the skill [Acid] evolved to [Strong Acid] as it reached level 10.
"Oh… I see, so the skill evolves when it reaches level 10?"
I made sure to take note of the important things. It is important. Then I went back to the second floor to see how powerful [Strong Acid] was and found that it was even worse than when I used [Acid 8].
And with two train cockroaches' exp, my level also went up.
Current Previous
Level 20 19
Race: Human
Strength: 66 60
Stamina: 72 66
Knowledge: 70 64
Mental Strength: 84 78
Agility: 81 (+5) 75
Luck: 3 3
Dexterity: 74 65
Mental strength and agility are still prominent, but dexterity increased by +9 in this level-up. That may be the result of the soft touch attack on the slime and the subsequent crush of my hand penetrating its nucleus. I am happy that the increase is more than I expected.
In addition, I got one more [Agility] skill orb. I'd like to increase my [Agility] to 10.
["Kyuwah~…pah~!"].
Skills.
[Strong Acid], [Agility 6], [Disease Resistance 2], [Snatch].
But that…? I don't know what's happening, but my skills are increasing.
[Snatch] is a usurpation of the throne? Could it be because I was picking slime's nucleus with a thug move? That makes me think that [Snatch] would be more appropriate… But if I view the skill of the skill orb as a right or power, then [Snatch] is fine?
But that's great. I had assumed that self-acquisition of skills would be possible, but wouldn't that usually start with something relatively familiar? For example, I would have learned [Club Art] since I use a bat as a weapon. Why [usurpation]?
I twisted my head around and looked back at my actions.
Hmmm, I must be a greedy man. I see, that's why I can get a skill like [Snatch].
From the looks of it, it's just to increase the drop rate from the targeted person. Well, whatever it is, I'm thankful I got the skill for free."
But if I get a new skill, I want to try it out.
"Ora cockroaches! Give me the skill orb, gorrra! Skill [Snatch]!"
I drown the swarm of giant cockroaches in acid hell and aim for the skill orb with a thug move. Today had bad weather.