CHAPTER 6 – CHOOSING A WEAPON
Soon it will be the first day of the month. We continued to hunt Goblins on the 3rd floor. I already have amassed and secured the necessary budget of 5000 Zeni to purchase a weapon.
What I am buying this time, is a one-handed mace, a weapon that is oriented solely towards beginner adventurers.
There are surprisingly a lot of advantages to a mace.
Although you have to possess some physical strength to use mace skills to a certain extent, you can also handle it without them.
It is different from a sword which you can’t straightforwardly swing without having any plan regarding the direction of the blade. Even simply swinging down the mace with all one’s might will allow you to expect plenty of damage. You could even say that the mace covers the users inability to use skills to some extent.
Furthermore, the weapon degradation is small.
For example, something like the knives Yuel uses where their sharpness are an important aspect, would end up with a chip in the blade before long after continuously striking the hard monster parts like bones and claws.
There is also the possibility of shattering the blade if the attack of the opponent is intercepted poorly.
To put it bluntly, the mace is just an ordinary iron shaft.
Even though the grip portion is coiled with leather to allow grasping it, it has a shape where the center of of gravity is located at the upper portion of the shaft.
However, due to that the mace has different sturdiness than an edged weapon, allowing it to be used to stop monster attacks without worrying about the weapon’s durability.
For someone who doesn’t possess the necessary skill to evade the incoming attacks of an enemy, it is very user-friendly.
Maa, if you talk about the priest class it has to be blunt weapons anyway, isn’t that so? Even though such simple way of thinking was just an excuse, after listening to the arguments and examining it, I got the impression that blunt weapons are easy to handle.
Thus, it will be the mace.
This time I will purchase an iron rod similar to a metal bat.
The only difference from a bat is that its upper portion slightly increases in width towards the tip.
Though I wanted it to be something stylish like a club covered with thorns, I was advised by the occhan from the weapon shop to give up on something like that.
Such things as flanged maces and maces bearing spikes are apparently difficult to use for repelling attacks.
I don’t want to be defeated by monsters just because I tried too hard to act like a Gori Gori macho (T/N: Gorilla) either! But that’s not all there is to it, receiving an attack while in a disturbed defense position can send you flying due to the impact and lead to a quick loss. Apparently there have already been situations like that.
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The stairs leading towards the 4th floor of the labyrinth.
Going beyond this point, there will be the monsters of the fourth floor, Greenbies.
Greenbies are plant monsters who imitate people. At the same place on both arms they have something resembling ivies to attack with as characteristic.
By delivering whipping blows, it appears that the ivy restricts the approach of the opponents.
Restraint.
As the female adventurer is tied up and suspended in midair, she will be single-mindedly groped there …..
There might also be such an unpleasant development like her loudly crying as the ivies spread her open, huh?
In case the female adventurer were to be surrounded by a great number of Greenbies, she might also be weakened due to quickly being covered all over with ivies and thus becoming immobile, isn’t that right?
The delusion advances.
I definitely want to see Ruruka’s party battling these by all means.
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We advanced following the signpost.
There was only one of them in a large room.
Yuel, who saw the Greenby first, started dashing towards it.
Today I am holding the sandwiches and water flasks as well while spectating.
Although I brought the mace along carrying it on my back for the time being, I don’t have any intention to fight on a regular basis at all.
I have no doubt that I would only become a hindrance to Yuel.
The Greenby, who wielded the ivy like a whip, made it difficult for Yuel to close the distance.
Using the green ivy with great vigor, it decided to aim at Yuel describing an arc.
And then, drawing the same trajectory was Yuel’s knife.
The ivy was cut and flew away.
Following the flow, the second ivy likewise flew in the direction of the day after tomorrow.
The Greenby already lost all it means to mount an attack.
Yuel thrust her knife into its neck as it simply stood stock still. (T/N: It’s a plant after all *nods*)
It became light particles and vanished without being able to stop the dashing Yuel even once.
The combat was merely a few seconds.
But even so, originally the ivy attack, which is just like a swinging whip, is a formidable threat.
Even if I tried to block the ivy with my mace, I am sure the flexible ivy woul