After swiftly taking on a quest at the Adventurer’s Guild, I found myself in one of Griffith’s underground dungeons, the [Perpetual Ore Mine].
“The target is Va-ri… umm, Variable, a tal Golem. A mid-boss… a rather tough mob that resides on the 7th underground floor.”
{tried looking for its aning, still have no idea}
“I bought a map at the Guild and I know the location of the stairs, so if I don’t get sidetracked or lost, it shouldn’t take more than an hour.”
“Can’t you trust a little!? Even if things go south, I can just use my ears. There’s even the flow of the wind to guide .”
Getting lost in a cave with a clear entrance and exit is not so common, unlike a landmark-less forest. After all, there are many factors other than sight to judge the path.
“And look, there are even so other players around.”
“I wish you guys would expect such things from others instead…”
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“To be honest, this place doesn’t really feel much like a dungeon.”
Around the ti I smoothly advanced to the fourth floor of the dungeon, I found myself muttering that.
“The dungeon I struggled the most in was the Trillia’s Demon Forest. Well, that was mostly because I stepped on a trap.”
“It’s only been about two months, hasn’t it? Feels like the most intense ti of my life… Huh?”
While reminiscing about the past, I saw sothing flying towards from the front and tilted my head to dodge it. It must have been going around 300 km/h.
“Yeah, I saw it… but what was it?”
I didn’t get a good look, but it wasn’t sothing like a stone or an arrow, and it didn’t seem to be a living thing. It was…like a bullet with golden hair spiraled around it.
As I cautiously stopped, I saw a humanoid figure approaching from the front.
“fumu fumu fumu. Crossing boundaries brings unexpected encounters, doesn’t it?”
Standing before was a woman with blonde hair, donned in thick armor reminiscent of a dieval knight. Yet, oddly enough, she bore no weapons, despite her heavily armored appearance, though it was but a trivial observation. Just one look and it was clear – she was not of human kin.
Protruding from her head were large canine ears, or perhaps more accurately, ears akin to that of a wolf. A bushy tail lay low behind her. Her eyes were srizing – deep, dark pupils set within silver orbs that bore a piercing gaze.
Every elent of her visage was decidedly non-human. However, sothing else about her was more attention-grabbing than her distinctive looks. A sense of familiarity swept over . I’ve seen an entity bearing a striking resemblance to her before.
“Nocturne…?”
Yes.
Her equipnt was different, and her color sche was the complete opposite.
Even so, I saw a striking resemblance between the wolf-eared woman and the Lunar Wolf Nocturne.
“That’s the na of my younger sister, oh child of the Oni-folk who defeated [Red].”
“Sister… you an, you’re siblings?”
“Indeed we are. Fumu fumu, you seem to have honed your strength sowhat, but still not quite there. I was impressed at how well you responded to the fur bullet I threw as a preliminary test. Ah, it was a fur bullet is like this…!”
With a very light movent, the woman swung her fluffy and large tail, and several bullets flew out from the tail.
“Whoa!?”
I was prepared, so I was able to dodge it easily, but if these were hurled at unexpectedly, it might be difficult to completely avoid them.
Perhaps surprised that I had evaded, the woman opened her eyes a bit, laughed for a mont, then imdiately returned to her expressionless face.
“Well, that’s fine. Either way, it’s the turn of [Black] or [White] next. As it’s not my stage, it’s still too early to judge. …See you around, child of the Oni who defeated [Red].”
“Wait!”
“What is it?”
“Your na… what’s your na?”
“Hmm? My foolish sister didn’t talk about ? Then again, she probably only thinks about fighting, so she wouldn’t bother to ntion . Fumu, considering that this city is far from my territory, it makes sense that you don’t know about .”
Perhaps recalling Nocturne from my question, the woman nodded in satisfaction after debating with herself and then turned her attention to .
“My na is Oratorio. I was given the na of the Radiant Wolf by the king, and I am the embodint of sunlight.”
With the first hint of her fighting spirit directed at , her na icon, which had probably been hidden in so way, beca visible.
《Radiant Wolf Oratorio Lv2■■》
“As long as you aim for our king, the day will co when we et again. You must beco stronger by then, child of the Oni who defeated [Red].”
The level display was garbled, a strange phenonon I had never seen before, different from Apocalypse whose level was simply hidden.
Before I had ti to consider its aning, Oratorio calmly headed towards the exit.
“Phew, that was close. I almost died there.”
Radiant Wolf Oratorio.
She appears to be a roaming nad boss monster that randomly appears in fields after Sephira… or sothing like that.
The only information I knew was that much, and the only impression left by the people who actually fought her was the word ‘impossible’.
“Speaking of which, there seems to be a setting that because I have the [Proof of Solo Subjugator], formidable enemies are more likely to co… But I feel like it was purely coincidence that she was here, where I just happened to co today.”
Asked if I could win in a fight now, I’d answer no.
In the first place, Oratorio is at least 50 levels higher than Nocturne, whom I struggled against.
If she has special abilities comparable to Nocturne, there’s no way I could win one-on-one, no matter how much I struggle.
“Well, never mind. It surprised , but it’s not like she did anything to .”
“Exactly. I also throw knives at monsters to keep them at bay, so it’s sothing similar.”
“Huh? The conversation seems to be going in a strange direction?”
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With no significant hiccups along the way, I successfully navigated my way to the seventh stratum of the Perpetual Mine. While my haul lacked any sought-after rarities, I did engage in so mining and skirmished with the odd monster that dared to cross my path.
The Variable tal Golem I had co for was precisely where it was rumored to be, on the seventh layer. However…
“Uhh… it’s weak…”
“I might not need to update my weapons…”
[Variable tal Golem Lv70]
It’s by no ans weak. The average level of players in Griffith is between 60-75, so from their perspective, it’s a reasonably formidable enemy.
However, my level is over 100, and due to my race-specific equipnt, my stats are 1.4 tis higher.
The status difference in a level double score is difficult to overco… When I hit the core of the golem, which is a vital spot, with a powerful art, the Variable tal Golem crumbled into dust without showing any of its ‘transformation chanisms’ as suggested by its na.
“Yayy, I got [Alloy Clay].”
“It’s okay, this Sukuna will do her best…”
Following this, in a sowhat reckless spirit, I expanded my search area to its maximum. Thus, all the Variable tal Golems that were appearing in the seventh layer – a total of twelve – were decimated by . With my task completed, I then returned to the surface.
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The appropriate level for conquering the Circulation Mine is basically 65.
However, the deep layers are a different story.
Oratorio visited the deep layers for so purpose.
The only unique entities that exist only on the main server are special NPCs and the like.
By the way, nad boss monsters are found on all servers, so there are other Oratorios on other servers. And since they are roaming nad ones, they can appear anywhere in the fields beyond Griffith.
However, Oratorio is a special nad. Basically, they share records between servers, so they behave as if they rember, as the sa individual.
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