Itai no Wa 218
Defense Specialization and Tower''s 3rd Floor 5
On a new day, Maple and Sally had made their way back to the third floor once again. Their skill usage counter and such were reset as well and so they were fully prepared.
"Alright, we''ll get the boss today~!"
"Yeah, let''s do that. Although we don''t know if it''s ahead… and the enemies on the third floor are annoying too."
The two didn''t go looking for the ''Ten thousand year ice'' again and hade straight to the area with gushingva once again.
Same asst time, the scenery in front of them was teeming withva.
"Well then, let''s try using it. It''s probably an item for this area as well."
As Sally used ''Ten thousand year ice'', a blizzard blew beneath her feet and hardenedva to ck ice.
And with that, the scenery in front of them hadpletely changed into and of ice.
"Eh…… um, It hardened more than I had expected but… let''s hurry, Maple! It would be a pain if they were to melt."
"Ah, yeah! Right!"
As if it was just normal for her to do so at this point, Maple moved while being in between two floating shields.
However, Maple''s speed when doing so wasn''t much different than her walking speed so about half a minute of progressingter, the ice floor started breaking-exposing the gushingva underneath.
"Maple, let''s go! Get down, get down!"
"Ah, yeah! Got it!"
Maple slipped out from between the shields and connected to Sally with the thread and zoomed past theva zone.
However, as they were doing that, the pir of fire which reached close to the ceiling was back.
"Uuu… B-''Body lifting affection''!"
Maple hesitated a bit there but quickly activated ''body lifting affection'' and protected Sally.
And so she closed her eyes, preparing herself for the damage but what came instead was a feeling of suspension.
"With this, we can make it past before ites gushing out!"
"……? O-ohhh!"
''One Step towards The Underworld'', the skill bestowed on the shoes which Maple had found on the sixthyer and gave it to Sally.
With that, Sally created numerous foothold in mid-air, making it possible for them to literally leap in to the safe zone.
"Thanks to you, there''s no fall damage either so it''s all good."
"Thank you, Sally! Thanks to you, we didn''t get burnt…"
Maple let out a sigh of relief, looking back at theva behind her.
The two progressed further and found the door to the boss without any hindrance.
"Oh, it really is here."
"Just as expected, huh?"
"There are still routes we haven''t gone through but we used up the ice so…"
"Yea, let''s go! I am fully prepared for this!"
Saying that, Maple swung her arm in a circle. "Alright, then-" Sally said, opening the door.
A wide area filled withva awaited them inside the room, leaving them no choice but to be limited to stepping stones.
"Ugugu… I''m flying, right…?"
Maple said, floating in between two shields.
The field was hard to work with even for Sally.
"It''s hard for me too but… the boss… ising!"
As they were on alert, the ground started shaking and theva at the end of the room began sshing up, creating a form.
And the form was of a dazzlingly burningva giant.
"Sally, Sally! It looks really strong, what do we do?!"
"We probably should have saved some of that ice! But we got no other choice but to fight now! Maple, use it when the boss uses a bigva move!"
"Leave it to me! I will be watching from above!"
And like that, Maple kept raising the altitude while still being in between the two shields.
As the probability ofva type enemies doing fixed damage to Maple is high, it was difficult for her to use ''body lifting affection'' as well.
"''Icicle''… no good, eh? Okay."
As Sally confirmed that she couldn''t use ''icicle'', she skillfully made her way through the safe zone, creating a distance between her and the boss.
"''Ancient Sea''!"
And like that, with the skill she acquired during the 2nd event, blue glowing fish appeared around her, swimming in the air.
"''Waterball''!"
As she did with the small fries along the way, Sally tried using water type attacks first.
The giant''s movements were slow and because her water attack also reduces the ''agility'' of the enemy, the attack hit the boss easily.
"My foothold, every time it starts moving… tto, kugh!"
Every time the giant crawls on the surface, her foothold disappears into theva.
A new foothold appears after a while but the maintaining that timing was severe.
And while she was doing that, theva giant raised its arm from theva and tried to smack Sally to the ground.
"…….!"
Sally created a foothold mid-air and forcibly dodged it.
However, when the giant''s hand made contact with theva on the ground, a fire pir gushed up, closing in on Sally.
"I was looking properly, just so you know!"
Just when the pir was about to make contact with Sally, Maple came down making sure that doesn''t happen.
Maple, who hade in between Sally and the fire pir, was on top of her tworge shields braced herrge jet ck shield above diagonally and blocked the fire pir.
"Sally, emergency evacuation! Emergency evacuation!"
"Y-yea, thanks."
As Sally jumped on to Maple''srge shield, Maple started ascending like an elevator.
"Wah, it''s going wild down there."
Maple saw that theva giant was moving about on theva surface, smacking on it and creating fire pirs here and there.
"It seems the fire pirs won''t reach us here so let''s have a strategy discussion."
"Well then, our foothold is a bit unstable too so I will Syrup, alright?"
Maple summoned Syrup and erged it before carefully moving over.
"It''s easier to make a strategy after confirming that the enemy can''t do much against flying opponents…"
"Now, now,e over."
"Nn, then, don''t mind if I do."
And like that, the two leisurely began the strategy discussion above the burning field.