Chapter 284
The title is a part of the saying "Mercy/Pity is not for the sake of the people." There's also a saying near the end , I honestly have no clue how to translate that something about arrogance and prosperity from some book, but it's meaning is supposedly similar to "all worldly things are transient".
Year 7447, Month 2, Day 7
The fifth day since we entered the dungeon.
We're testing out firing the net gun against the bosses of monster rooms on the 8th and 9th floors.
It's the boring job of going over and solving the small problems that surfaced after actually trying to use it.
In regards to the gaps between the nets just as initially expected at 25 cm, quite a bit larger than a soccer goal, it was plenty in terms of size. However, we also learned that it would be best to increase the number of fish-hook like needles attached to there as well. Also, there was a bit of a trick needed in how the net was folded. We ended up failing a good number of times.
And then, in regards to the gun itself the largest problem we predicted was the weight of it but after all that ended up being a problem. After all the weight of a single piece is close to 10kg. It's a gun which I essentially forced a two piece gun into one piece and I ended up making the chamber pretty thick as well so it can't be helped.
I thought of having Bel use it but even with her high Strength value it was difficult to maintain a shooting posture for long periods. Though I say that, there was no problem for short periods of time so there's no other choice than for her to endure it. When it comes to transportation we have Zulu when he's around and if he's not then it's just a matter of Toris gasping for air. However, after all it's difficult to place any trust in the various status values that can be seen with {Identify} themselves.
Of course they're useful as somewhat of an indicator and just as is shown(It doesn't even need to be mentioned that her proportions are good just like the average female Bunnyman race but compared to the time when we first met her she's developed some decent muscles. Every time I touch her limbs and body to heal wounds I end up vaguely conflicted over the muscles I can feel under the fat layer. Even Miduchi has ripped abs.) Bel is reasonably strong in terms of power.
Other than running she also does strength training a bit. Also, it doesn't even need to be said but she's an adventurer, she doesn't slack off in training with the bow or sword so let alone a normal girl, she can move considerably fast even among adventurers. I'm just repeating myself but even her strength is quite superior. Even if it's not as high as the value shows..Even if it's doesn't reach the point of the Strength value, it's fine to say she's built up quite a bit of power.
If she were to arm wrestle against a random mob that hasn't done any decent training I don't think she would lose. However, I still think father from when I was a child has more power than Bel and Miduchi. Bel's current {Strength} is 24. It's about the same value as father's Strength when I was a kid but no matter how favorably I look at it, I can't help but think that father's strength was greater. Just the same because of the problem of level while Giberuti has the lowest Strength value out of all of us but I guess because he's always carrying things, he can display the greatest strength among the {Slaughterers} when it comes to carrying heavy things. Though that's excluding me.
Most likely, the various status values that can be seen with {Identify} are the upper limit of "you can train up to this value".
Well, it can't be helped since it was bothering me but there's no point in thinking about status values anymore than this, and above all else right now we're in the middle of testing the gun.
"I've already more or less gotten a feel for it. I'm pretty sure I can definitely entangle 5 or so of the Minotaur from the group at a distance of about 30-40 meters. Shall we go?"
The average size of the boss rooms are about 50 meters per wall in a square shape so it's difficult to do tests based on the assumed distance. It's not completely impossible if we fire it from the hall outside of the room but there's no guarantee that the monsters will all be grouped together after all. Well, it's possible to confirm how the net spreads out as it flies so that's still plenty for the test.
"Alright, let's go and try it. It's already late afternoon today so let's just do some decent earning for today and go to the center tomorrow."
After resolving on that and making my declaration I went back to guarding one of the halls while Ralpha, Gwine, and Basutral gathered the magic stones in the edge of my sight. This time Zulu and Angela are each leading the {Butchers} and {Exterminators}. There's only 8 of us but as long as those strong minos aren't mixed in there's no problem.
Even if they are mixed in I'm sure we'll be fine as long as we can restrain their actions and even if they don't get caught in the net as long as we can all team up against it I'm sure we can win.
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