Chapter 1458 December 13th: Minimum Participation Needed Is Pulling An All-Nighter Part 2

For that reason, we will try to going various places in order to level ourselves up accordingly, even if we are going to be forced to rely on this annoying Deepslaughter for help in order to achieve that.

But if I end up relying on that perverted asshole, I’m afraid that this will cause some gauge that should never be increased to increase by a WHOLE lot. However, even if you are about to eat poison, you should be doing that in small dosage. By doing that, you should still achieve some of the results that you were looking forward to, and with enough poison ingestion you are eventually going to develop immunity to a certain extent. But the line here is very thin, so you must always remember to thread carefully.

There is also a concept of a complete denial game in the world where NBC weapons are enriched for some reason more than anything else out there, even though it is a concept almost exclusive for the Musou game system. Musou means “I’ll beat all of the opponents by myself, even if I have to face hundreds or thousands of opponents at once!” As well as: “”Kukuku, the lives of a thousand people can easily disappear with the push of this button …!” So yeah……

It is really unscrupulous when during the development process things are addend into the game that can act as pretty much mass-murder weapons, but it’s that right taste of shitiness from shitty games that is not all that bad to experience once in a while.

As an aside, in the neighborhood, seeing the end of the game making company that went under in a really unsightly manner is called watching a “firework display”. Around the place where the ruin of others is treated as entertainment, I can’t help but to think that shitty game lovers are really twisted, and that’s what making them the best out there!

「That is what I am currently doing myself: I’m leveling myself up while conducting some side activities such as reinforcing my stats, weapons and skills, as well as clearing any kinds of quests that I might have been leaving on the backburner until now.]

「Hmm? Were you also conducting some Level Downs as well?]

「A little bit. But just a little bit.]

At the current moment my level is one hundred forty. I found out that by lowering it, I can level up some of my skills some more, but there was a downside to this as well: the Prime Arts skill stopped working. And apparently this is always the case when the level of the Player in their possession lowers below one hundred fifty. …… But since most of those skills in my case were Passive Skills, I tried to go to the Sea of Trees area and see how fighting the monsters out there would go. It wasn’t bad, but my movements were giving me this strange sense of discomfort all the time, so I decided that I must go back to level one hundred fifty as soon as possible to get back to how I used to be before lowering it……

「But here’s an interesting thing about the current Level Down system: the way it is now, you cannot go lower with it than ten levels. You think that this limitation might be related to Bahamut or Behemoth in some way?]

「Yes, that’s right. If you want to lower it even more, you need to go to the Behemoth and get it done there.]

Ahh, I see. The Behemoth, huh? …… Uhh, my poor little head already starts hurting when I think about it.

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「E-Ether Zero…… You, what the hell are you even doing here……!?]

Ether Zero. When I was capturing the Behemoth for the very first time, I had no choice but to say nothing about the strange appearance of that particular Player who managed to reach the innermost part of the Behemoth together with myself and the rest of our little entourage. We might have known one another for a fairly short while, but during that time I got a feeling that even though this guy might look kind of wild, he is actually pretty sharp of a Player.

「Hehehe…… I don’t really regret it, you know? I don’t regret even a single thing, Sanraku…… This is precisely what I wanted. This thing right here.]

「What you wanted, huh…… You, why are you always like this……?]

Why are you always insane like that? Because yes, that’s right. There was no doubt that Ether Zero was clearly insane. But even so…… Even that insanity was born out of a clear look towards one’s goal.

「The fact that you are here, this can mean only one thing…… You have come here specifically for me, isn’t that right? Because we are good old acquaintances…… So you expect me to tell you a whole lot, huh?]

It is right here and right now that this walking mountain of bulging muscles known as Ether Zero…… died. So that should be the end of it, and there should be nothing more that was left to say……

「Ether Zero…… Is that really true? Is it true that you actually have no regrets about anything?]

「Yeah, that’s right…… Because right now, my life is the most fulfilling that it ever was, you know.]

Looking down, there is a Player-made character, an avatar, that has currently shrunk down to being about five years old or so, and there was a whole lot of test tubes being connected to the pod in which that avatar has been placed…… It was one man who was now about to venture all the way to the fifteenth layer of the Behemoth, the absolute womb of this whole facility. And it was not even an exaggeration to call that place like that at all……

But he……He had an expression of pure happiness written all over his face for some reason.