A Certain Middle-Aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log c27

Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki

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Right before the Second Half … I guess?
Looking at the whole thing, I don’t know if you can say the Second Half is actually half of the written text.

[Physical Ability Boost] has now reached LV50.

It’s now called [Physical Ability Reinforcement], and what’s changed is that there are two Arts I’ve learned… 1 pa.s.sive and 1 active each.

By the way, a “pa.s.sive” is an Art that you don’t have to use in order to have the effect, while an “active” you must use it yourself or the effect won’t be there.

Of the two Arts I obtained from [Physical Ability Reinforcement], the pa.s.sive is .

With this you can be largely unaffected by most terrains with bad footing.
You’ll even be able to stand properly on ground with swamp-like conditions.

The other one is the active skill .

It’s a powerful Art with a 20 second cool down that lets you take control of the s.p.a.ce above your opponent.

Of course I don’t have any airborne bow Arts that I can use, but I think there’s a possibility of getting them by raising [Physical Ability Reinforcement].

Learning these two Arts expanded the battlefield greatly.

But I’d like to hide it for a little longer.
It’d be dull if I spread it right away for it to be copied en ma.s.se.

In order to confirm that my movements got significantly better after getting my hands on [Physical Ability Reinforcement], I decide to charge forward to my first dungeon.
The goal is increasing Skill Levels. [Hunting Bow], [Wind Magic], [Kick], and [Thief], preferably.

I’ve arrived in front of the dungeon … the first dungeon is located in the forest; it feels exactly like a cave-type dungeon.

It’s pitch-black, but thanks to [Farsight] I have so it’s no problem.

… this is it; this is what I’ve been looking for.
As I step-by-step proceed into the Dungeon, memories from the past came back to me.

I couldn’t have been more than 10-years-old at the time.

That place was fun; it’s not like there was anything special in it, but it was a place I’d never been before, and there was a feeling of both fear and excitement mixed in with the darkness.
Doing nothing but walking around like that inside was incredibly fun.

And then, about 10 years later, I happened to drop by the same place once.

Once I understood it, the fascination and excitement was no longer there; just a sense of nostalgia.

And that’s all 10 years in the past. That place has now been leveled for a residential area.

Since I’ve suddenly become a bit lonely, I stop reminiscing.

I mean, of course, in the middle of a game, I’m looking for a fun adventure.

I’ve been unable to immerse myself in the feelings from that time … the feelings of adventure from when I was little.

But, but! Right now, isn’t an adventure reflected in front of my eyes?

It’s this world that lets have in an avatar in the middle of all this.

Isn’t this the best?! I’ve been purposely avoiding all the dungeon information on the info sites just for this payoff.

It can only be an adventure if you don’t know about anything. If you go in knowing how to defeat all the monsters and where all the treasure chests are, it just turns into work.

Even if I’m going in with the goal of raising my Skills, there’s no point if I hate being in a dungeon;
Right now just having fun going on an adventure is fine.

Step by step I proceed with … I’m going in solo.

The monsters in the dungeon are particularly strong, so I have to take special care to fight a different way.

There’s more than enough lone Dungeon Spiders all over the place; I’ve shot through them with [Hunting Bow], sliced them up with [Wind Magic]’s , and at time’s I’ll use [Whip]’s to pull one closer and trample it with [Kick].

From the amount of Dungeon Spiders you can tell they’re this area’s lowest trash mob, but even so they take 4 hits to defeat; as expected, dungeon monsters are tough.

Thanks to this excessive, more than usual use, the Skill Level is climbing at a terrifying speed.

After sealing the movements, I can recklessly use [Kick] to finish something off.

If I run away, the precautions I’ve successfully taken in the middle of combat will be lost by moving away from the well set-up situation; for the me that’s solo, it’s suicidal.

Aside from the Dungeon Spiders this dungeon also has Lesser Lizards and Dark Wolves.

It would be reckless to challenge it since a Dungeon Spider takes everything I have to defeat.

There’s no point to dying because right now I’m having a good time doing lots of exploring and raising my skill levels.

There’s the presences of Fairies here in this dark world too.

They’re not noisily coming over; they probably don’t have the spare time.

The ones that come to the crystal soon head off.

… but then, it happened after I’d walked for a while.

Drawing closer and using once to the front I determine there’s no sign of a monster.

Acting on that thought I carefully inspected the place where the Fairies are hovering; from floor to wall I couldn’t find anything like a trigger or door.

There’s that “something’s here” feel … but it’s getting towards that time where it would be bad if I don’t start heading out of the dungeon.

I consult the dungeon that I have mapped in my brain for the return trip as I continue forward.

After checking the time I see that I’ve already been in the dungeon for about 1 hour and 40 minutes.

The time seemed to move faster than usual because I was reminiscing about when I was a kid.
I decide to come explore this dungeon again tomorrow.

By the time I broke out of the dungeon, it had become night outside.

If I don’t hurry back to town this could get bad.

Somehow or other I was able to get back to town safely and logged out.
Dungeon exploration is challenging; let’s seclude myself in it and work hard at it.

SKILLS

[Craftsmans.h.i.+p]Lv39

[Thief]Lv19   [Whip]Lv21

Reserved Skill(s)
[Blacksmithing]Lv20   [Woodworking]Lv19   [Alchemy]Lv32

EXP 8

So basically it’s dungeon time.

haikai – humorous or vulgar short poems, where often the previous lines act as prompts to the following. From the context, I would a.s.sume there’s lots of poetry that depict nighttime youkai-like interactions. I did a little bit of research, but mostly just got “haiku comes from it”.I think this is where I admit my lack of knowledge to the culture…

But I’ve now added a status thingamajigger in the side bar so you can be a.s.sured I’m working on it when it takes longer than usual like this.>