Hellmode ~A Hardcore Gamer Becomes Peerless in Another World with Retro Game Settings~

Chapter 238: The Search

chapter 238: the search

"now, let's go find some medals."

"yes."

after i passionately explained the usefulness of a tank to my friends, we started to move.

(according to helmios, the conditions for obtaining the medal are...)

the hero helmios had previously told me about the dungeon conquering strategy in a cursory manner.

i already knew that we would need medals to go to the next floor and we would require them each time.

and the number and types of medals required were different for each level, but i didn't know what the medals looked like.

"there are three ways to get the medal."

"apparently so."

cecile and my friends apparently understood how to get the medals.

i uttered the three ways as if reciting them in confirmation.

the first was that every floor had a magical beast that was stronger than the normal monsters, known as a floor boss.

whenever you defeat that magical beast, you get one medal.

but it was different from the bottom floor boss of the c-class to a-class dungeons.

in the s-class dungeon, each floor has a boss somewhere in this area.

moreover, it seemed that there were several types of bosses on each floor.

the medals obtained by defeating the floor bosses changed from floor to floor as well.

bronze medals from 2nd floor bosses

iron medals from the 3rd floor bosses.

mithril medals from the 4th floor bosses.

second, the treasure chests in dungeons that contain various items such as weapons, armor, and status-increasing items had a certain amount of chance of having a medal.

the rank medal one got was linked to their method of acquisition.

treasure chests on the 2nd floor would yield bronze medals only.

in addition, we had heard that there were several ways to obtain the treasure chest.

the third was to do business with regular adventurers.

one could buy bronze medals through the adventurer's guild for 100 gold coins each.

with my wealth, i could have gotten 3 bronze medals in a trade for 300 gold coins.

it also confirmed that the bronze medals had a strong supply chain as i could have obtained them immediately had i paid.

but i wanted to first verify whether it was faster to trade or to obtain it from defeating bosses or collecting treasure chests by ourselves.

that's why our objective that time was to defeat bosses and find treasure chests to collect the 3 bronze medals as quickly as possible.

"griffs, come out."

""hah!""

i summoned a b-rank bird in the square full of adventurers.

i was told that i shouldn't summon them in the city, but we were on the 2nd floor of the dungeon.

i had foreign minister nukakai's permission and was allowed to summon.

(now that no one attacked...)

after confirming that i was going to be attacked, i got on the b-rank bird's back.

some of the adventurers picked up weapons, but they did not attack.

even if they attacked me, i planned to have c-rank stone to use its special skill [sacrifice] via , so i didn't think it was going to be a problem unless someone attacked with strength as strong as that of helmios the hero.

i had planned to spend a year attacking the dungeon.

it was impossible for me to avoid being seen every time.

because we stopped mid-way again.

"no, i'm sorry. but our target has vanished."

"what? what do you mean?"

i called cecile and everyone nearby to explain.

as we were on our way, the big chicken suddenly disappeared.

(is it re-spawning somewhere else? oh! there. there are adventurers near it, and now it's going to be taken. this seems to indicate that a floor boss who has not been in battle for a certain period of time will disappear and move to another location.)

i searched again with [clairvoyance] and found the chicken at a considerable distance away.

but i did not feel it was teleportation.

apparently, the floor bosses moved randomly on a timed basis.

"but if a floor boss suddenly appeared, adventurers might be in danger."

sophie looked troubled as she noticed the problem of the movement of the floor bosses.

we were in a very large space, so the probability of that happening was low, even if they randomly re-spawned.

however, if an adventurer's party was fighting another floor boss and or another floor boss appeared near when they were resting after a fight, they could get wiped out.

"that's right. i have heard that the floor bosses range from a to s-rank magical beasts."

regardless of the floor, i recalled hearing from helmios that the floor bosses were not always a-rank, but even s-rank magical beasts.

somehow i understood why half the adventurers who challenge the s-class dungeon died within a year.

"what are we going to do? they are hard to find."

"what are you talking about? the hunt has just begun. we're not done yet."

i answered cecile's question by saying that we were continuing.

(well, let's see. there was some other distinctive magical beast, something unusual. a red beetle? stag beetle? mm? at this rate, they'll run into other adventurers. i won't lose!)

i spotted a magical beast that looked like a combination of a red beetle and a stag beetle flying a little high off the ground.

there was also a party of adventurers a short distance away from that magical beast.

[clairvoyance] also captures the movement of adventurers.

they still didn't seem to have noticed the red beetle-like magical beast.

in a little while, that magical beast was going to run into that party of adventurers.

by my previous life's rules, that magical beast belonged to me since the adventurers were not already aware of it.

"it's close by. if we don't do anything, they'll take it. let's hurry!"

"hey!"

cecile filed a complaint as i suddenly rushed towards the magical beast but she didn't slow down because of that.

(if this is taken away from us, this will be my third failure. damn it, the adventurers will take it if i don't do this.)

"griffs, use [soar]!"

""gurulu!""

my shout caused the flight speed of b-rank birds to increase dramatically.

i approached the red beetle-like magical beast at a great speed.

however, the situation changed

the red beetle-like magical beast seemed to have noticed the group of adventurers first.

it accelerated the flapping of its wings and headed towards the adventurers.

(well, i am going to lose again. i mean, it's impossible to catch...)

it was at that moment when i thought i was clearly going to lose the battle for the floor boss again, the adventurers reacted differently than what i had expected.

the first person to notice was the party's thief.

he shouted something loudly.

the adventurers saw the red beetle-like magical beast approaching them and began to flee at once.