"I must say, your naming sense is quite unique, Narcissus," Verina pointed out.
"Fortcracker, Hardlter—I can't wait for the next work that you will na!" Lupina chuckled, still finding entertainnt from a short musket-like weapon that shoots out pressurized corrosive sli.
As for Tahlia, he was rather terrified of the Hardlter. Seeing a fast jet stream of water from a portable device like that gave him an instinctive fear of being caught in the wetness, even though it won't hurt us as much as it corrodes tal and stone.
"It will take ti to get used to this, ahaha."
The plan using the Hardlter against armored enemies aside, we can also use it to efficiently expand this underground base faster than a mole.
With the Hardlter to remove any kind of tallic armor that a resilient Calamity Object usually possessed, our morale increased as we stayed comfy beneath the surface.
Then again, my ability to open the info screen of any Calamity Objects sowhat trivialized a lot of the dangerous encounters.
I was also afraid that Verina and Lupina might develop a dependency to my assessnt and orders, dulling their instinct and train of thoughts in the process.
After all, I'm a firm believer that a strong collectivity stemd from strong individuals who possessed the sa goal, not re individuals who only followed order.
It was only that I realized that not a single day had passed, and it should be impossible for the two of them to develop a bad habit in such a short period of ti.
The night felt like an eternity, and my mind started to beco restless. This was certainly a different kind of stress than the one I had back on Earth.
I didn't even notice that I hadn't blinked for a while.
"Say, the Ordeal of the Midnight tends to be much more dense in terms of enemy waves and threats than the Ordeal of the Dusk." Lupina scratched her head. "Not to ntion, with the Hollow Star that was stationed in the sky. So how co we didn't encounter many of them?"
"Firstly, our bastion is supposed to be up there," Verina casually pointed up with her index finger. "What is the easiest starting place to reach there? Definitely not here. As such, most of the Calamity Objects that spawned were mostly on the surface, and not here."
"And they probably die imdiately when facing the two Qliphoth Objects," Tahlia snickered. "In many ways, choosing to go underground at that ti is such a great decision."
This ti, hours had passed without a single Calamity Object spawning inside the cavern. Outside of the roots and so of the atballs that I carried in my belt pouches, we also attempted to process the edible part of the Crawlers and the Burrowing Terror.
Thankfully, Lupina existed, so I could always use her to test the food I cooked, since she would have a greater chance to survive after being inflicted by all sorts of poisons or food poisoning, thanks to the enhancent procedure that she got.
"Mmm!! This is good!!"
"I have never thought of using Lupina as a food tester," Verina comnted. "Thank you for the idea, Narcy."
"My na went from Narcissus to Narc and to Narcy.."
"So, when can we finally eat?" Tahlia drooled.
In conclusion to our als, the Crawlers tasted like shrimps, while so parts of the Burrowing Terror were straight hazardous to consu.
"Bluergh!!" Lupina puked intensely with an expression of pain. "They taste good, but they are awful. I'm dying, uerghh-"
Seeing her Health section of detail screen, she won't be dying anyti soon.
I was surprised that most of my plans post-midnight went well.
Too well in fact.
Though, I could still feel the looming dread that was the tempest happening above the ground.
The Wild Hunt and the Headless Horsen were still fighting, and I possessed not the slightest curiosity to witness their chaos made manifest.
"This feels weird."
I just noticed that the constant notification about the countdown to the ordeal had stopped for a while.
It felt strange not having that annoying, buzzing, and mind-rending pops-up every minute.
Though I did rember that we had already survived at least 6 hours through the Ordeal of the Midnight.
It felt harrowing at first, but hope was right there on the horizon!
We only needed to survive another 6 hours and we should be greeted by the morning sky!
Just need to survive a little bit longer.
"... This presence." Verina caught sothing within her vicinity. It might be her heightened Consciousness coming into play. "The Sandstalkers, they are here again."
"Urgh, right when we lost access to our Fortcracker," Lupina frowned.
"But this ti, we have the Hardlter!" Tahlia reminded everyone of our newest invention.
"Let's lure all of them to the designated area," I issued.
The open wide space had already been dug into fruition. As we stationed there, we all waited with caution, trying to sense from which direction the pack of the Sandstalker were coming from.
At this stage of the ordeal, there should be more Sandstalkers than the ti we encountered on the surface, especially with their tendency to stick together like a pack, ambushing a lone and most vulnerable target to increase their chance of survival.
As such, like the original plan, I positioned myself far away from the rest, hoping that many if not all of the Sandstalkers were aggroed to instead of the rest three of my fellow bastioneers.
Lupina's ears twitched, as her eyes flared with beastly instinct "Here they co!"
Three Sandstalkers erged at the sa ti right below .
Despite my lack of Sanity, I still had enough reflex to tily dodged the cowardly assault of these giant armored monsters.
"Fire your load."
"Attack!!"
The susceptible Sandstalkers were imdiately overwheld by a flurry of spell-made projectile and jet stream of corrosive sli.
Verina's usual prowess of firepower aside, the corrosive sli worked better than I thought. The Sandstalkers' claws imdiately lted and corroded into useless gunk while its hard armored body was blasted open due to the added power of the Hardlter's pressured thrust.
However, those corrosive slis weren't enough to imdiately kill them.
The slis could only stagger and inflict an unimaginable amount of pain to them, exposing them into vulnerabilities. A further offensive action to finish their threatening existence was needed.
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