strictlysupreme Chapter 1054 The Last Routine 233
Chapter 1054 The Last Routine 233
Chapter 1054 The Last Routine 233
In preparation for the mission, Kobayashi and his group arrived at Wiz's magic item shop. However, as soon as they entered, Aqua angrily ran to the counter and slammed something against the counter and in front of Wiz.
"Ahhh, this magical artifact!!"
"W-What's wrong, Aqua?" Kobayashi was startled and made a sudden noise that made everyone pause.
Aqua, enraged, shouted, "You lich fraud!! You're still selling these evil magical artifacts... I, the Goddess, will punish you myself!"
"Eh eh eh————" The timid lich girl screamed in panic, begging for mercy in pain, "Lady Aqua, stop it! I, I'm going to disappear, I'm going to disappear...!!"
But Aqua ignored her and instead exerted even more force, causing Wiz to become transparent, looking as if she was about to ascend to heaven. Darkness quickly stepped forward to stop the enraged, foolish goddess.
"Calm down, Aqua." After using brute force to separate the two, Darkness asked, somewhat puzzled, "What's wrong? What are you arguing about?"
"This, this!!" Aqua angrily tossed something out and threw it in front of everyone. It looked like a cube, like a Rubik's Cube, and it had to be said, this magical item felt incredibly familiar.
“It looks like an accessory, but…” Megumin picked up the magical artifact and examined it closely. After a while, she twitched the corner of her mouth and said, “This, this is… could it be, a forbidden magical artifact!?” It has to be said that her words made everyone present look strange. After all, they had all been poisoned by forbidden magical artifacts and had developed resistance to them.
"What troublesome magical item?! It's still here..." Kobayashi was also playing with the magical item in his hand, and couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth, feeling extremely speechless.
Aqua complained angrily, "Because of this magical item, I can't drink bubble wine anymore! I never want to feel that way again! Don't come near me!!" She angrily raised the magical item, intending to throw it, but Wiz pleaded with her to stop her.
The timid lich explained, sounding aggrieved, "Indeed, I've also had the problem of not being able to enter the shop. But this item isn't all negative effects..."
"It's all negative effects!" Aqua ignored Wiz's explanation, slamming her hand on the counter and shouting angrily, "This is a terrible magical artifact that will cause the user pain!! If you sell it as a commodity, no one will buy it, right?! Did you even consider that?!"
"Waaaa, Aqua-sama!" The magical artifact was thrown away forcefully, and Wiz picked it up tearfully, as if afraid it would break.
Darkness, looking intrigued, muttered softly, "Will it cause the user pain...?"
"Hey! You were just thinking that suffering wouldn't be so bad, weren't you?" Kobayashi grabbed her shoulder, his eyes turning hostile. "Isn't that right?"
"I didn't even think about it!"
No, this guy must be thinking about that kind of thing.
Kobayashi rolled her eyes in annoyance, then, ignoring Aqua and Darkness's complaints, quickly bought the items and equipment needed for her dungeon adventure, and left Wiz's magic item shop.
Arrived in the underground city.
Kobayashi had originally planned to go down with Aqua, but Darkness and Megumin insisted on going down too, hoping to get a share of the food, so they followed along on their own. There was nothing she could do but let them come along.
However, unexpectedly, the guild's intelligence was flawed, causing a large number of monsters to appear in what was originally an ordinary dungeon, leaving everyone at a loss. Trapped in a dead end by hordes of monsters, Kobayashi was already considering whether to use brute force to break through and escape.
"No, this is bad..." Huihui said with some fear and tension, "There are more monsters than we thought! And we can't use Explosion Magic here..."
Aqua, standing beside her, continuously used purification magic to cleanse all the undead attracted by her constitution. However, there were simply too many undead surrounding her, and she gradually became exhausted, shouting, "Aaaah, there are more and more undead, it's never going to end!!"
"Damn it, I really should have bought some holy water or something at Wiz's shop..." Kobayashi gritted his teeth in frustration and regret, but he didn't have the time or the means now. He said to the others, "Never mind that, let's keep our distance for now—"
"Wait a minute, I have a plan." Darkness suddenly said this, and then, under the somewhat incredulous gazes of the crowd, she pulled out a Rubik's Cube-like object from her bosom and said, "Let's use this to break through!!"
"This is...!" Kobayashi stared intently, his expression contorting. He shouted, "Isn't this a forbidden magical item from Wiz's magical item shop?! I told you not to take it!! How did you bring it out?! You pervert, weren't you right under my nose the whole time?!"
At first, when Kobayashi saw that she was eager to try out that forbidden magical item, he thought that he must not let her get her hands on it. He did not expect that this perverted female knight would still bring it back. How did she manage to do that?
"Protecting everyone is the Knights' mission. No matter what suffering we endure, it doesn't matter as long as we can fight our way out of here!!" Darkness spoke with extraordinary grandeur and decisiveness, but—
"You just want to suffer, don't you! Ah, hey!!" Kobayashi saw right through the guy's thoughts, but before she could stop him, Darkness used the forbidden magical artifact, and then light radiated from her entire body.
"Look, look! Darkness looks different! So, so handsome!" Huihui pointed at Darkness excitedly. In fact, she had indeed changed a lot. Her whole body was covered in black armor and orange silk. Although a large area of skin was exposed, she still looked very defensive. Moreover, the cross-shaped boots she wore were quite hot.
"Amazing...!" Darkness clenched her fist, a look of delight on her face. "Power is surging from within my body, and this outfit that will attract the attention of lecherous men is... pretty good!"
Meanwhile, Aqua was being chased by monsters. It turns out that the undead were attracted by the idiot goddess's special physique.
"Whoa, they're coming this way!" Aqua hid behind Kobayashi in fear, but Darkness stepped forward, raised her knight's longsword, and spoke with a resolute expression.
"You want to use your sharp fangs to strip away this already revealing outfit?! I can't wait any longer, I'm off!!" Darkness charged into the monster horde without another word.
"Darkness!!"
Kobayashi wanted to stop her. While forbidden magical artifacts were indeed powerful, they had a fatal flaw. He didn't know what Darkness's flaw was, and what if it had a bad effect…
"Drink up!"
"Ouch!"
"...Eh?" x3
Darkness swung his sword fiercely at the monsters, and the cross-shaped sword landed squarely on one of them, causing it to let out a painful groan, which made everyone gasp in surprise.
Even Darkness himself was astonished.
"Darknis's attack...it's unbelievable!"
"Hit!!" x3
The crowd gasped in shock as the monsters continued to charge forward, but Darkness relentlessly pushed them back. Gradually, the monsters could no longer withstand the onslaught and fled. Darkness single-handedly ended the battle.
"...Really?" Kobayashi smirked. "Darkness's attack... hit... Is this the power granted by the Forbidden Magic Item?"
It must be said that the boost Darkness received after her attacks hit their mark was enormous. Her stamina and strength were already ridiculously high; some monsters simply couldn't withstand her powerful blows. Normally, this would be the case, but Darkness's attacks had always missed, which was why she seemed so foolish. Now, the forbidden magical artifact has changed this, instantly transforming her into a powerful being.
"Wait, let's talk about that later!" Aqua shouted fearfully, pointing at the monsters that were closing in from afar, "Darkness, they're here again! Hurry up and take care of them!"
"I couldn't be happier! I'll be your shield!!" Darkness rushed forward, wondering if this guy was deliberately avoiding attacks because he knew his attacks would hit, preferring to experience the thrill of being ganged up on. But what was even more unexpected was that, perhaps this forbidden magical artifact was too powerful, she was actually immune to the monster's attacks.
"Darkness, that's amazing!!" Megumin exclaimed, her eyes shining. "This time, it was attacked head-on, but it didn't budge an inch!!"
"W-What's going on? This feeling..." Darkness clenched his fist, looking at his body in disbelief, as if he were questioning the meaning of life.
Kobayashi was already in a state of shock, shouting with his arms outstretched, "Ohh ...
"Hey, why are you making it sound like I'm not a decent fighter?" Huihui rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Watch out, or I'll show you whether violent magic counts as a fighter or not."
"Well done, Darkness!" Aqua shouted excitedly. "Thanks to you, we can easily conquer the dungeon this time!"
"No, that's not right..." Darkness looked utterly devastated. She stared at her outstretched arms and whispered in disbelief, "It... doesn't hurt...?!"
"Hey, what's wrong, Darkness?" Kobayashi patted her shoulder happily, pleased with the new addition to the team, but to his surprise, Darkness showed no excitement at all; instead, she looked particularly unhappy.
"It doesn't hurt!! It doesn't hurt at all!!" Darkness shouted angrily, "I was attacked fiercely by a monster, but I feel no pain at all. This is completely wrong!"
"Isn't this a good thing?" Kobayashi said with a grin, "The side effects of this magical item have worked very well. Darkness has actually become so reliable, has he become a true Crusader...?"
Xiaolin shed tears of emotion, as if her own daughter had finally grown up.
However, Darkness cried out in despair, "How strange! Where is the intense pain? Where is the humiliation of being stripped of my equipment?! None of that! I was expecting the side effects to intensify the unbearable pain... Why are you being so cruel to me!"
Our young lady will never waver.
"Aqua! Use Ignite! Use Ignite to hit the enemy!!" Darkness said this insanely, and even shouted, "No, we should go out. There are all sorts of monsters."
"But if the number of monsters defeated increases, the rewards should also increase, right?" Megumin asked doubtfully. "Isn't Darkness currently capable of defeating a considerable number of monsters?"
“Indeed!” Aqua nodded in agreement, saying, “I see. Thanks to Darkness, we’re having a big meal tonight!”
Without hesitation, Aqua used her skill, attracting a large number of monsters.
However, that evening, when Kobayashi and the others were having dinner at the union, Darkness had no food in front of him.
Darkness said somewhat uneasily in a low voice, "Um...why isn't there one for me?"
"You brought this on yourself!" Kobayashi snorted, causing the perverted female knight to tremble all over.
Huihui sighed, looking distressed, and said, "What bad luck..."
"Yeah, I shouldn't have used the skill." Aqua was also a little scared as she recalled the scene when she used the skill.
……
"A huge group of monsters gathered around Darkness, what an amazing sight!" Kobayashi exclaimed in surprise.
Darkness cried out in frustration, "What's going on... You've been attacked like that, but it doesn't hurt at all? How can anyone stand this?!"
"Darkness! I know you're not in pain anymore! Hurry up and defeat them! If more monsters gather...!" Megumin shouted anxiously, but it was already too late.
More and more monsters gathered around Darkness, making it impossible for them to break through. When they saw Kobayashi and the others nearby, they bared their teeth and charged over.
"Wait! They're coming this way! This is bad! Darkness, hurry and take them down! We finally managed to hit them!!"
However, Darkness couldn't hear Kobayashi's shouts at all; she remained immersed in her own world.
"Waaaah... Even when I'm surrounded by monsters, it doesn't hurt at all... Why, why ahhhhh—"
Listen to what people are saying!!!
Unfortunately, with Darkness in a bad mood, Kobayashi and the others were completely unable to stop the monsters and could only run away. It was only Megumin's explosive magic that saved the day; otherwise, they would all have met their demise at the hands of the goddess Eris.
(End of this chapter)