Live Dungeon!: Chapter 199: Unexpected Contributions
Translator: Barnnn
Editor: Silavin
“Ayy! Let’s hop into the bath! C’mon!”
“Wha–!?”
“Huh, you’re actually kinda heavy, Hannie,” Amy said and proceeded to chuckle while looking over Hannah’s shoulder.
“You left
up without warning, and THAT’s the first thing you have to comnt on!?”
Hannah flapped her wings furiously, her face beet-red with frustration.
“Korinna, c’mon! Amira and Leleia, too!”
“Oh, bug off! You go in by yourself!” Amira responded irritably to Amy’s light-hearted remark.
Korinna and Leleia, on the other hand, remained silent. Disappointed, Amy carried only Hannah into the bathroom. Tsutomu, ignoring Hannah’s screams as they went past him, approached the dejected Korinna and struck up a conversation,
“So, did sothing happen during the fight?”
“…I ssed up.”
Korinna clutched the Talisman hanging from her neck and cast her eyes down, her religious attire giving her the appearance of a repentant nun.
Ollie, who had been watching the Monitors with Pico earlier, walked over and quietly handed Tsutomu a stack of docunts detailing the second team’s Winter General battle. In the beginning, she seed to have been too busy managing the Clan House, but now she had enough ti to go and watch the Monitors as well.
“I do appreciate this, Miss Ollie, but are you sure you want to keep doing this?”
“Now that my apprentice has beco able to handle the household chores by herself,” Ollie smiled as she looked at the girl in question, who was currently busy cooking up a al, “I have quite a lot of free ti on my hands, you see.”
“…Huh.”
With a slightly puzzled expression on his face, Tsutomu accepted the stack of docunts.
Having looked into Ollie’s background before, Tsutomu had a rough idea of why he had applied to work for the Clan. What he had not expected, however, was the sheer degree of her competency, which was why he had decided to let her manage the Clan House regardless of her end goal. That seed to have led to yet another unexpected developnt — these days, she seed to have beco more deeply involved with so of the Clan’s mbers themselves.
[What to do, what to do…]
It had been almost half a year since the Devourer Dragon attack, which ant the next Stampede was coming soon. Tsutomu had planned to take that opportunity to put in a good word for Ollie with the nobility, but now he felt that it might be a good idea to confirm her intentions once more.
While Tsutomu contemplated that issue, Ollie swept back her brown hair and proceeded to explain,
“To start from the end, their Winter General battle was over when the party was annihilated during the second phase. Their formation broke apart as a result of Hannah’s death, and while she was revived, Korinna ended up being killed instead — followed by Hannah again, then Leleia, Amira, and finally, Daryl.”
“Considering the order, their aggro managent must have gone awry.”
“…Yes,” Korinna replied with a somber look.
Indeed, the primary reason for the team’s loss against the Winter General was the death of the Healer.
Korinna had done perfectly fine when it ca to support and healing, efficiently providing protection from the cold using the
and serving as a damage sponge when absolutely needed.
Furthermore, Amy’s hit-and-run fighting style, focusing on dealing consistent damage via bleeding wounds, was technically not so effective against the Winter General. Her dance-like combo attacks with
were impressive, but their impact was often lessened by the wide-area blizzard attacks around the Winter General. Although Amy had excellent skills in anti-personnel combat, it was clear that she was at a disadvantage against this particular opponent.
Therefore, Tsutomu had only seen Xeno as a at shield to buy ti during the tis Garm had to take breaks, and Amy as a motivator for Diniel, primarily used to stall when necessary.
In the actual fight, however, both of them had perford remarkably. Xeno had never died once and had fulfilled his Tank role just about as well as Garm. His resilience during the crucial monts, especially when Garm was severely injured, exceeded Tsutomu’s expectations by far.
Having observed Xeno’s movents during the regular practice sessions, it was clear to him that Xeno’s skills were inferior to Garm and Daryl’s. Their fighting styles differed, so they could not be directly compared, but Tsutomu had expected less from Xeno than from an evasion-based Tank like Hannah.
[How is he able to endure that much pain?]
Tsutomu had known beforehand that Xeno’s movents would slow down whenever he was injured — and that even if he was cornered, he would not be able to push himself past his limits — so Tsutomu had tried to keep him at full health whenever possible.
However, due to aggro managent concerns, Tsutomu could not constantly heal Xeno. Therefore, around the mid-battle, Tsutomu had planned to temporarily give up on Xeno, letting Garm draw aggro and then bringing him back later with .
Yet, even though Tsutomu’s calculations suggested that Xeno should have already died, his movents never faltered. He was not moving as effectively as if he had broken his limits, but he was still alive. Tsutomu found that genuinely puzzling.
As ti passed, aggro values naturally decreased, allowing Tsutomu to heal Xeno from ti to ti. Tsutomu had also let Amy and Diniel take on the Winter General at tis, but even so, it would have been quite challenging for the team to defeat the Winter General without Xeno’s contributions.
Furthermore, Amy’s coordination with Diniel had been excellent. Despite the latter’s arrows flying repeatedly from behind her, she had fearlessly leaped at the Winter General without worrying about being shot. Her precise attacks on the weakened areas where the arrows had struck, combined with Diniel’s efforts, had effectively kept the Winter General under control.
They had also consistently applied pressure to the horse, preventing it from acting separately from the General. Amy had even managed to steal the right-handed swords, neutralizing the Winter General’s wide-area attacks — quite possibly the highlight of the fight.
[I did plan for Diniel and Garm to destroy the swords eventually, but THAT… I did not expect. Now I get why Diniel would imply that she had a habit of stealing things.]
Looking back, Amy’s stealing of the swords was truly a show — most likely no one had expected her to succeed on the first try, and not only that, take both of the swords instead of just one. Tsutomu could vividly imagine seeing the newspapers calling Amy a Phantom Thief on the first page tomorrow morning.
[…Oh, right. Stealing… did she actually steal anything from ?]
Recalling what Diniel had said during the battle, Tsutomu checked his personal belongings for anything unusual. He did not have that many personal items in the first place, however, so he should have noticed if sothing had gone missing. Nevertheless, there was nothing particularly wrong about the placent of things in his room, leaving Tsutomu puzzled.
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