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Chapter 180: Five Times as Strong
Name: Natsukawa Soushi
Job: 【Staff User】
Lv: 11
HP: 110/242
MP: 110/220
Strength: 16
Endurance: 16
Agility: 16
Magic: 22
Skills: 【Cooking】
Skill Points: 11
【Staff User】 is weak in a very easy-to-understand way.
Only Magic is high, so is it secretly a magic job after all?
The key is how much the self-buffs can strengthen him, but 【Staff User】's skills only show their true power once he reaches a high-rank job.
Just like 【Charge Spearman】's 【Charge・Spear・Strength Up】, the buff scales off the ratio of your base stats, so a strong job gets even stronger.
Which means super-mode me, with my high stats as a 【Charge Shielder】, is a state of being even further strengthened, huh...
Well, enough about me.
【Staff User】's skills like 【Strength Up・Self】 are versatile, and many of its other attack skills—【Weapon Enhancement・Staff】 and the like—can be used too.
Jobs like that inevitably end up with low stats, so I suppose it can't be helped.
I'd love to rush him up to Triple-Rank, but what jobs is he planning to pick at Floor 20 and Floor 30?
"So what should I take next? What do you think?"
That was Aikawa.
This bear girl has already bought her skills, you know.
Name: Aikawa Natsuki
Job: 【Dancer】
Lv: 11
HP: 110/275
MP: 110/165
Strength: 22
Endurance: 16
Agility: 25
Magic: 16
Skills: 【Partial Beast Transformation】【Dance・Stage】【Dance・Let's】【Weapon Enhancement・Dance】【Strength Up・Dance】【Endurance Up・Dance】【Agility Up・Dance】
Skill Points: 2
Scout-job-like stats, but her Strength is higher than an average combat job's.
And from here she gets further buffed by dancing, so no worries on the offense front.
Her low Endurance does bother me, though.
Wouldn't an evasion-type skill be a good pickup?
Ah, come to think of it...
"Magic Up. You should get Magic Up too. I suffered plenty from something like a side effect of buff skills, you see. When I went to the university hospital, the doctor told me that. Buffs strengthen you through Magic, so raising your magic resistance should take care of it."
Come to think of it, Dr. Amamiya was looking for someone who could cast Magic Up buffs on other people.
The university hospital's facility should be about ready soon, too—maybe she'll turn up...
"Then 【Magic Up・Dance】, maybe? Click, and it's mine. Looks like there's nothing else I can get for 1 point, so that's it for this time. What about you, Soushi?"
Could you agonize a LITTLE, at least?
The 【XX Up・Dance】 skills cost 1 point each, while the others seem to be 2.
【Weapon Enhancement・Dance】 is interesting.
Dancing enhances your weapon, huh.
Effect-wise it's the same as the basic 【Warrior】 job's 【Weapon Enhancement】—apparently it can enhance any weapon.
But because it isn't limited like 【Weapon Enhancement・Sword】 or 【Weapon Enhancement・Spear】, the effect is weaker, I hear.
That's the reason 【Warrior】 gets avoided.
Soushi's 【Cooking】-based weapon enhancement covers the broad range of cooking implements, so its effect is a bit weak too—but it's a special skill, with power on par with a high-rank job's weapon enhancement, so it's considerably stronger than a lower-tier job's specialized weapon enhancement.
I wonder how 【Weapon Enhancement・Dance】 will turn out?
"Hmm. 【Strength Up・Self】, 【Endurance Up・Self】, 【Agility Up・Self】—and if I take 【Magic Up・Self】 too, that's 8 points. That leaves 3. The question is whether or not to take 【Weapon Enhancement・Staff】..."
And THIS one overthinks things.
【Staff User】's 【XX Up・Self】 skills cost 2 points, huh...
Mine have long durations, and if I'm willing to burn MP, they can be whipped out instantly.
"Come to think of it, Haru-kun—is your job a buff-holder too?"
We never talked about jobs, did we.
"On Floor 10, I took 【Charge Spearman】. There's a skill called 【Charge・Spear】 that drains MP the whole time it's active, but it lets me use self-buffs too."
"Huh. So what was that side effect you mentioned? What kind? Muscle aches?"
"No, I don't remember much in the way of muscle aches? At some point I just started getting nosebleeds. At first they said I was overusing my skills, but with buff skills it's supposed to be because I wasn't using Magic Up."
I haven't used them much lately, so I can't say for sure, but it should be better now.
I don't have the points for 【Charge・Shield・Magic Up・High】 yet, either.
Once I take that, even using hyper mode—both super modes at once—should stop being scary, right?
"Nosebleeds aren't, like, really bad? You should go to a hospital... Ah, you did go. Come to think of it, you're already Double-Rank, right? Quit stringing me along and tell me your other job. What level are you even?"
Ahh, rank-wise I'm Double, but...
"No, rank-wise I'm Double. I've already broken through Floor 30, so I'm a high-rank job holder... Level 31, I think...?"
Name: Kasugano Haruki
Job: 【Charge Shielder】【Charge Spearman】【Scout】
Lv: 31
HP: 2325/2325
MP: 618/620
Strength: 124
Endurance: 155
Agility: 108
Magic: 62
Skills: 【Gate】【Charge・Shield・High】【Charge・Shield・Armor Enhancement・Shield・High】【Charge・Shield・Strength Up・High】【Charge・Shield・Endurance Up・High】【Charge・Shield・Agility Up・High】【Charge・Spear】【Charge・Spear・Weapon Enhancement・Spear】【Charge・Spear・Strength Up】【Charge・Spear・Endurance Up】【Charge・Spear・Agility Up】【Charge・Spear・Magic Up】【Charge・Spear・Aiming】【Presence Concealment】【Presence Detection】【Scouting】【Night Vision】
Skill Points: 0
"Eh? 31? Eh? So you're Triple-Rank?"
"No, I haven't filed the application, so I'm still Double."
"Eeeeeeh—. I can't make sense of any of this anymore."
A surprise... no, it isn't one?
Well, simply put, I'm about five times as strong as you two, I guess?