“A spear user? It reminds me of the Shell Knight.”
This one is clearly stronger, but what is it… I don’t know if my memory is fuzzy or what, but this one looks weaker.
And level ninety-three? It’s a rare monster, but weaker than anyone here. Ah, wait, Izumi is a receptionist, so her level is lower. And Irina’s is lower than the rest. But since it’s my first time seeing it, I’ll finish it myself.
I take my eyes off it for a second, and when I face forward again, it’s gone.
“Hn!?”
It disappeared…? No I definitely feel like there’s something here, but it dissipated like mist and I can’t get a concrete grip on where it is. I feel like I would find it immediately with Omni Detection, but…
“…There?”
I feel fluctuations in the air and swing my sword.
Clink!
“Kurh!?”
It looks like I hit its spear. I was going for a head split, but it looks like I was off a little.
I guess it’s hard to find a hidden enemy I’m facing for the first time with Intuition alone, and no Omni Detection. But from the second time forward, Foresight IV will adjust it.
As I think that, it disappears again. But like Aira said before, once found, Invisibility stops working for a while. I can accurately cut its neck without Foresight.
【Level up】
【Leveled up from seventy-five to ninety-nine】
Ah… I was worried because despite its level, it had a large magic stone, but it didn’t quite get me to a hundred. And as I think that’s too bad, the smoke begins to rise.
Is the next one coming, or will it dissipate? Is it going to move…
“Good job darling!”
Ayane jumps at me, and I return the favor by patting her. Yes, without the camera.
Hn? Camera?
“Come to think of it, I fought and beat it without checking anything, but did you manage to film it?”
“No problem. We have been ready since the ninetieth monster.”
“We filmed from a distance, so it should be in shot.”
“I see. Thanks you two.”
“Hehehe.”
“Yes!”
I praise both, and Kasumi’s team whispers to each other a little further away.
“He stood out when he fought regular monsters, but he easily beat a rare monster too. Izumi is surprised.☆”
“We’ve only caught a glimpse of his power, but he’s on a different level than the guys that usually approach us.”
“It was his first time fighting that monster, right? I get why people look up to him, with how he gracefully dealt with a surprise attack.”
“Right?”
“Hahaha, Kasumi looks smug.☆”
“Well, that makes sense with such a great family member nearby.”
“He immediately saw through it when the monster’s presence disappeared, and finished it in two attacks. Miss Kasumi, I understand why your heart flutters with your older brother.”
“I feel a sort of mystical power from him.”
I can tell they’re praising me, but hearing girls I met today elevate me so much tickles.
“Aki, Aira.”
“Hn?”
“Yes?”
“Can you see this smoke? And the one that came from the hide hunter?”
“Nope!”
“Unfortunately.”
“I see. It’s the fifth floor, so the initial Luck isn’t enough…”
“Maki and I put points into Luck, so we could see it, but we can only see this one faintly~.”
“I see… Your Luck is over three hundred, right?”
“Yes.”
So they can see most smokes with three hundred. But even then, they can barely see this one. The fifth floor is harsh.
“Maki, how about we switch?”
We hug in turns for ten minutes, and the smoke finally moves.
“Oh.”
It looks like it really is moving to the top of the mountain. It’s about on par with my top speed, but it’s so fast that I don’t feel like chasing it. I’ve learned my lesson about going ahead alone, and that time the fact that the smoke went outside the map’s effective area played a big part.
This time, all the information about the fifth floor has been revealed, so I can open the map and head to where the red mark is.
I do that and watch the 3D map of the mountain. There’s a round red mark in the deepest point of what looks like a cave. And it soon disappears.
“Ah?”
“Eh? It disappeared…?”
“What?”
“It suddenly disappeared.”
“There are no white marks nearby, so no one took it down.”
I agree, so I can think of two possibilities.
First, it disappears in an unbelievably short amount of time if left alone.
Second, it has something greater than Hiding and Invisibility that makes it hide from the map.
“Regardless, we have to go and check.”
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