288. Nihonium, face-to-face




 He wanted to help Neptune, first of all, to break the retrospect.
 I knew I had to complete the attack on Nihonium.

 While keeping my promise to Plumbum, I holed up in Nihonium and left on time in the evening.
 I repeated the process for three days.

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Level: 1/1
HP SS
MP SS
Power SS
Strength SS
Intelligence SS
Spirit SS
Speed SS
Dexterous SS
Luck SS
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"Oh, ......

 When I saw the status on the portable nowboard, I shuddered with emotion.

 It reminded me of my first days.
 I'd measured after Emily and despaired at all F's, and now I'd grown up to be an all-SS cheat character.

 As I've been steadily building up the seeds one by one, I'm more than impressed.

 Now, this will work.
 Finally, we'll be able to meet Nifongnium.
 Come to think of it, it was also Nifongnium who taught me the magic fruit for the repetition.

 Once I returned to the mansion, I used the transporter room to fly to the room in front of one of the spirit rooms.

 A five-meter square cube, a block of pulsating rotting flesh.
 The creepy object was still there, unchanged.

 I went around behind it and manipulated something that looked like a now-board.
 The abilities appear one after another, glowing every time the SS appears.

HP-SS.
MP-SS
Power--SS
Strength-SS
Intelligence-SS
Spirit-SS
Speed-SS
Dexterous-SS
Luck--SS

 After the whole thing showed up in SS, the chunks of meat melted down.
 It melts down into a sludge and then gets sucked into the ground and disappears.

 I kept my distance and waited for it all to melt away.

'Another dragon zombie!

 After all the flesh disappeared, a dragon zombie appeared in the place where it had been.
 It looks exactly the same as the one on the ninth floor, in terms of size, presence, and the miasma emitted from its body.
 The only pattern I've seen before is the count on its head, which is "9", but apart from that it's the usual dragon zombie.

 I thought this would lead to a path leading to Nifonium's room, but I was a bit shrugged off.

'Either way, let's take them down first, since there's a nine count, and in nine moves--'

 Instantly, an alarm buzzed in my head.

 Intuition is the only way to describe it.
 Total instantaneous judgment based on extensive experience - I think of it as "gut feeling" or "intuition".

 My previous experience has made me stop attacking.
 I've recently been increasing the number of attacks to match the count of dragon zombies in order to develop my judgment, so I thought for a moment that I'd take this guy down on the count of 9 as well.

 Nine.

 There's no way I can get that count for any reason here.
 There's no way that nine came out in this room, which should be called a summation, on the entire ninth floor of Nifonium, and it can't mean anything.

 It's bad, probably very bad, to beat it with nine moves.

...... Repetition!

 I used the strongest round-robin magic, representative of a move, to defeat the dragon zombies.
 The count was reduced by one, and the three-headed dog zombie appeared right after that.
 The three-headed dog zombie's count was 8.

''I knew it!

 Organize the situation while dodging the dog zombies' bites.
 Nine floors, nine different monsters with a nine count.
 When you kill one, the count decreases by one and the next one comes up.

 Defeat them all in one hit and show me how much you've grown so far.

 I felt like that's what I was told.

'Then--' 'Hey!'

 I tried to take down the three-necked dog zombie with two choices of attack, after firing a tracking round, but I realized right before I shot that it would take two moves in itself.

 Putting a drop of time on the dog zombie and then fleshing it out after firing a tracking round.
 The blown up head was correct, count one less, and the dog zombie was gone.

 Count 7, Electric Mummy.
 Count 6, Poison Zombie.
 Count 5, Red Skelton.

 This area was safely killed in the blink of an eye.
 Count 4--Mummy.

'Oh, yeah, this one needed two moves too!

 I apply a drop of time like the dog zombies and take them down with one fairly grown-up growth bullet, then burn the remaining bandages on the ground to make them disappear.

 Finally, with the Mummy, Zombie, and Skeleton.

 On a count of nine, I killed all nine monsters.

 After waiting for a while, an entrance appeared.
 The long-awaited entrance, this time leading to the location of Nihonium (、、、、、).

 The air changed.
 Intuitively, I'm sure it's all right now.

 I take a deep breath and step over the long-awaited entrance.

'We've been expecting you, sir.'

 There was a woman there in a life-size clasp sleeve.
 That woman I had met many times in miniature size.

 There was the spirit, Nihonium.