The King's Mandate: Anomalous System

Chapter 21: That Doesn't Matter

[You are not going to log out?]

I forgot about her.

"I thought I should hang out here for a while."

[I see.]

"Yeah."

.....

"....."

[....]

"You can go now."

[I can't go until you log out.]

"Why?"

[Because we are together.]

'Why?' Is what I want to ask, but it will be a waste of time to talk with her.

[So where are we going?] 

Lily asked, tugging on my ear.

"To the sea." I tried to pull out of her hold.

[Yay, a date with Adas to the sea!] She chirped.

"It's not a date"

There is only one girl I want to go on a date with and that girl is--

"Hey! Stop pulling my hair."

[It's a date, right?]

"..."

[It's. A. Date. Right?] 

She asked again.

More like threatened.

She is scary.

She is pulling my hair with all her might. How is she so strong even though she is so tiny?

"Yeah, yeah, it's a date. Now stop pulling my hair."

[A date with Adas, I am happy~] 

She giggled.

Lily then sat on my head, like always.

We arrived at the sea.

"You wait here, Lily. I will be back."

[You are going to find the sea monster from yesterday, right?]

"Yeah, so what?"

[Let me say this, even if you kill it, it will just respawn again in 10 minutes.]

"I know that. I...know that and that..."

That doesn't matter.

"This is just for self-satisfaction."

I opened my inventory and unequipped the armor.

[Armor Removed]

[Defense -8]

"Let's go."

[Wait, why did you remove the armor?]

"It's the first thing Elena gifted me. She has bought it with her hard work. It might give less DEF, but it is the most important thing to me, and I can't let it get damaged."

[Then, wear the lame overcoat.]

Do you find it lame too?

[Defense +200]

[Deactivated Skill-Faker]

[Warning: The Equipped Item Is Damaged. It May Break By Further Damage]

[Durability of Item 50%]

The Dragernix fire damaged it?

[Sadly, there is no mention of this overcoat in the game. So even if we go to the shop, the materials won't be enough to repair it. We don't even know what material it needs to improve]

"It's fine. I couldn't care less about this. 50% is enough."

I opened the menu to confirm my stats.

[LVL-15]

[HP-100]

[ATK-192]

[DEF-385]

[AGILITY-312]

"How long can I hold my breath in water?"

[Depends on your agility, defense and attack, so let's see,] she pondered and said, [You will be able to hold your breath for 12 minutes.]

I had some stats points that I got from leveling up, 128 to be precise. I added all of them to my ATK.

My ATK is 320 now.

"How much now?"

[18 minutes now.]

"It's more than enough."

Now I need to search for that monster.

"You stay here, Lily; I will be back."

[I am coming with you.]

"No need."

[We are always together.]

"What's that supposed to mean?"

[I am coming with you.]

That's a pretty simple meaning.

"Do what you want."

I dived into the sea. 

Not going to lie; it's beautiful. Underwater world. I want to show this scenery to Elena, but she hates the sea.

I am a gold medalist in swimming.

After swimming underwater for about 10 minutes, I found a door.

I asked Lily what it was, she tried to say something, but I couldn't understand.

I opened the door and entered it. The door closed as soon as I entered.

This place looks like some ancient ruins which drowned in the water.

I saw something in the corner of my eye. I turned around, but no one was there.

I took my sword in my hand.

I can feel someone is here, but where? I don't see anyone.

I saw Lily flapping her hands as if she was trying to say something.

What is she trying to say...up?

I looked upwards, and there it was.

The sea monster. It looked like a big fish with big teeth, red glowing eyes, and of course, it had horns. 

Its skin has tiny thorns that were moving back and forth.

It is big, very big, not as big as the Dragernix, but it must be around thirty meters.

It dashed at me, making the water around it move like a wave. 

It opened his mouth, and he started swallowing the surrounding water. As if it was trying to gulp me down in one bite. 

"Argh!" 

I barely dodged it. It was sucking everything in its way.

My overcoat was half torn now.

[Durability of Item 30%]

It's coming for a second attack.

Dammit!

Holding a sword in water is hard; you can't even get a grip properly.

I tried to attack it, but my attack was missed due to the water or the monster's skin.

The sword touched its skin and got deflected by its horns.

It's coming for a third attack.

The monster opened its mouth and spat something out. 

Even after dodging, some of the liquid got onto my overcoat. The spot of my coat where the liquid touched disintegrated.

[Durability 10%]

[The Item Will Break In One Hour]

Dammit!

Are secret bosses this hard to defeat?

I looked at the rocks where most of the liquid touched; the rocks also disintegrated into ashes. Even the water itself evaporated.

This was dangerous. If it keeps going like this, then I will run out of time.

It has already been 15 minutes.

There is only one thing I can do now. 

I gulped down as I thought, 'I hope it works.'

Lily was still flapping her hands, but she was flapping her wings too.

I grabbed her and threw her as far as I could from the monster.

The monster came at me with its mouth open, swallowing all the water and sucking everything around it.

Come on, eat me.

With one bite, it ate me. 

Not only is it hot here, but my shoes are already turning into ash. If I spend a little more time here, then the same thing will happen to me.

Now then, it's time to cut you down.

I held my sword with both of my hands.

The sword started sucking my energy and started growing in size.

It became long enough to slice this monster in two.

[Leveled Up]

Heh! It wasn't that hard.

[New Item Found]

I saw Lily, who was trying to say something. 

She is telling me to go up?!

We went back to the surface.

[Adas, you idiot! How could you do something that dangerous!]

"It's okay; everything went well."

[What if it hadn't?]

"I would have died and respawned at the login point."

[But you should have act---]

"By the way, Lily, it wasn't the same monster who ate Elena, right?"

[...]

"As expected, you knew it."

[I...I...] 

She started stuttering.

"Why didn't you tell me?"

[How did you figure it out?]

"I may be new to the game, but I know that that was the boss of the secret quest Rikka was talking about."

[That's right.]

"And I am sure that boss doesn't go around eating people from the shore."

[.....]

"And besides, the monster who ate Elena wasn't that big."

[So what? Now you will go in again and search for it?]

"No, I don't need to search for it because," I took out my sword.

Yesterday Elena was standing in the same spot. It is at the same time; everything is the same.

"It will come to me." I glanced back.

The monster came. The same one as yesterday. 

As it was about to eat me, I grabbed my sword.

This time, there is no need to increase the sword size, no need to dodge.

I just held my sword and stood there; all I had to do was cut it.

I swung my sword, and it got cleaved into two.

"You should be grateful."

To be honest, I want to find the developer who designed this and kill them.

"Now I feel satisfied."

Now that I think of it, I got a new item. 

I opened my inventory.

"Armor?"

It was blue colored shining armor. 

I opened my menu to check its stats.

"It's an SSSR, and," I swiped down and said, "It will give 180 DEF."

[Nice, you got new armor.]

"My overcoat is torn up."

[Unequip it.]

That overcoat has an undefined class. 

As soon as I removed the overcoat,

[Item Destroyed]

[Defense -200]

"What?!"

[That's what happens when the item is damaged.]

[Now wear this new armor.]

"I don't want to. I will wear the armor Elena gave me, and I will give this armor to Elena."

[Materials Obtained]

"Huh?"

[Your overcoat got destroyed, so you got some materials.]

"What do I do with them?"

[You can use it to upgrade items. Or take them to the shop and craft something new from the materials.]

I selected the silver armor Elena gave me and used all the materials on it.

[Item Enhanced]

The silver armor is now shining, and it enhanced SSR.

And I still have half of the materials left.

[Defense +130]

I lost 200 defense. But I enhanced the armor Elena gave me and got 130 defense.

I lost 70 DEF. Well, it's not much of a big deal for me since I won't be playing this game a lot. 

"Well then," I opened my menu and said, "I will log out now."

[Okay, I will wait for you tomorrow.]

"You will?"

She nodded as she puffed her cheeks.

"You look cute when you do that."

[W-What is y-you saying?!]

"I just said what I thought."

Her face is red, but why? 

She flew and hid in my hair.

What happened?

"I am logging out now."

I pressed the log out button and logged out.

My head hurts, and my legs were numb.

I looked at the time, and it was 00:48 AM.

"It's pretty late."

I want to go to her house right now, but I will go in the morning.

Her father is a pain in the ass.

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