Magical★Explorer Chapter 72 - Shadow Ruin 4

Shadow Ruin 4

When you heard the word dungeon, most people would think about [Traps].

including me, a lot of people who played Rogue-like games before had been a victim to such traps.

Literally speaking.

There would be a landmine explode under your feet, some sort of seals, and pitfalls with monster’s nest at the bottom.

Personally though, I considered all the unreasonable death as a trap. When you progress so smoothly through the game, you suddenly fell into a crisis and die just like that. I hate it. I seriously hate it.

Up until my high school years that is.

In the world of Eroge and Galge or even in the world of recent manga and anime, Traps are the best thing that could happen. What’s so good about the traps inside Eroge and Galge you asked? The traps would often drench you in some unknown liquid or entangle you with tentacles and force you into a very sensational posing and there would be the monster that only dissolves clothes at the bottom of the pitfalls. You can no longer make sense of the situation using common sense.

Magiero was no exception. There are a lot of Eroge-like traps in the game, when you activated a trap you would always get a picture (CG) and you would want to pause the game to enjoy the scenery while burning that image into your brain.

But unfortunately, as this is a reality, I can’t do that.

In the game, the emotion like [Aah I failed, I’ve done it now] didn’t even exist. Rather, I would desperately seek the traps out myself and purposely sent in my favorite heroine.

Well, I can’t do that right now anyway, I don’t want to do such a terrible thing to these girls in the first place. However, deep inside my heart, the feeling of [Just a little bit………….] would spring up and I have to desperately hold that feeling down.

Well then, the dungeon that we entered this time, the [Shadow Ruin] is, depending on the route, would be the first dungeon that you would encounter those traps. However, because you can’t capture this dungeon unless you activate the store exclusive patch and the fact that capturing this dungeon was not a necessary step to make your characters into the strongest, many gentlemen skipped this dungeon.

However, even if I say that it was not necessary, in the early game (New game with no previous playthrough), this dungeon was the place that you can get the items that will make capturing later dungeons a lot easier. Among those items, there’s an item that I want no matter the cost, I am even willing to get branded as a pervert to get it. That’s why.

“I have to get it no matter what……”

I punched the [Mummy] with third hand and let out a small sigh. When the mummy hit the ground, its body starts shrinking and turn into magic elements and magic stone.

Now, If you asked me what kind of monster a mummy is, it is a monster with the appearance of a dried-up human wrapped inside bandage with the only gap for their eyes. It’s the thing that got buried inside an Egyptian pyramid, the mummy you can find even in other fantasy games.

The first thing that came up in my mind when I look at them was that they are simply disgusting. Looking at their darken face with no sign of life was already made me mentally repulsed already.

Additionally, it will become much more troublesome fighting with the zombie-kind monsters in the later dungeons.

Since the mummies are dry corpses. The smell wasn’t so bad. However, the zombies emitted their foul smell from their entire body. The characters in the game even have a line that said [The smell is too much.] Honestly, I don’t want to fight them. But since they appear in the dungeons that I have to visit, I will most certainly have to fight with them.

We have been fighting with the human-type mummy so far but in the future, the dungeon I have to capture also have animal-type appearing like Goat-mummy, Gazelle-mummy, Lion-mummy and so on. There is no strong monster inside this dungeon so I don’t have to be so on guard though.

Nanami approaches me when I was picking up a magic stone.

“It was a wonderful battle, Goshujin-sama.”

“What, it’s thanks to your support Nanami. You even detect the traps for us right?”

Her support with the bow was really helpful, some monsters were defeated even before I can approach it.

“It’s not much but I’m glad that I can be of help. However, I’m not confident in trap detection so please don’t be overconfidence……”

Nanami said apologetically. But Nanami’s trap detection rate in the game was already G.o.d-tier.

There’s a skill for trap detection in Magiero in the first place, if you level it up it would become much easier to detect traps.

Nanami’s trap detection skill can be easily leveled up but her initial skill level was zero. The scout type character like Katrina will have a higher skill level from the start. They also possess some levels in skills like lockpicking and trap disarming.

I expected Nanami’s trap detection rate to be around eighty to ninety percent. However, looking at her one hundred percent detection rate on the first three floors, it seems like the Maid Knight Shiki Edition Angel-Model also equipped with some kind of special abilities. I don’t know what it is though. There’s still the possibility that it wasn’t just her luck as well.

Well, it’s good that we didn’t get caught in a trap but it was also very unfortunate as well.

We didn’t get trapped at all.

I thought that if Ludi and Sempai got caught in a trap we missed then it can’t be helped, but that never happened.

If they are going to be trapped then I want it to be inside this dungeon since the traps here are not dangerous.

But that wish won’t come true. Since Nanami has been detecting traps left and right, her detection skill level should have gone up quite a bit too. As this dungeon was aimed toward beginner, the traps here are only the low-grade ones.

Well, it seems like that side battle has ended as well. Sempai and Ludi are making their way toward my direction.

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