Level 1 Guy: Chapter 35 – The Homing Bullet’s Power

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TLN: For some reason I had a hard time translating this chapter…but in the end, I did it! Also, few things changed, I changed <Selenium> to <Selen> as it’s easier~ and sounds way more cuter.

Proofreading/Edit: Hue

Featured Image Credit: I have no idea why I chose this… Slime datta ken


After leaving the girl who has fallen exhausted to Emily, I decided to head straight to the dungeon.

First thing to report is of my arrival, and then gain some info of what I’m suppose to do next.

Gathering at the centre of Selen’s entrance, is a bunch of tents being built, making it look like a battlefield going for war.

And in the centre of that, many adventurers are wandering around here and there, while pushing their magic carts with drop items inside.

Those adventurers who are pushing the magic carts then gathers at a place where few tents are built right each other, and they are then displaying their items for purchase.

Just by gazing at them for a short period of time, you already know that the buildings are just replaced with tents, though the atmosphere is similar to the life inside a city.

At that moment, I caught hold of a passing young adventurer, and ask about the location of the person in charge of Shikuro’s Dungeon Association, and after confirming the location, I went straight there.

The tent that they built is certainly huge, and the design is similar to how the nomads build their tent.

They decorated their interior like an office, where several secretaries are busy running around, and there is a man in his thirties behind sitting down, seemingly the person in charge of this tent.

[Excuse me, I’m Satou Ryouta from Shikuro.]

[Oh, I was waiting for ya.]

After introducing myself, the man stood up with both his hands spreading wide, and came forward to my direction.

Because I show a gesture of asking for a handshake, the opposite smiled and grasped my hand.

[I have already received a message about you. Seriously, I can’t thank you enough for coming all this way. I’m the person in charge—my name’s Duke.]

[As previously mentioned, my name is Satou Ryouta.]

I introduced myself again, and immediately head straight to the point.

[Since I’ve only roughly heard what’s going on, but on what I’m actually here for, I do not know. Would you care to explain exactly what I’m suppose to do?]

[Obviously I will.]

Since the interior of the tent is built modelling after an office, there obviously is a sofa put inside the tent. Thus, Duke directed me there to have a talk.

[I’m sure you’ve heard about the information of investigating the rare monster’s drop, am I right?]

[Yeah.]

[Well about that, there’s some stuff that’s changed recently. That’s because Selen only has up till the tenth floor, and based on our recent survey, the drops of regular monsters are alternated accordingly as vegetables, meat, vegetable, meat and so on.]

[I see.]

[We have faced before this situation during the fight for other dungeons, but this time the drop of the rare monster are the same with vegetable, meat and vegetable accordingly.]

[Then isn’t there no point in investigating this any further?]

[But still, we have to decide whether the dungeon goes to either Shikuro or Hetero.]

Duke did not answer the question directly, and furthered the story.

And I nodded.

The conversation this time is a conflict between Shikuro and Hetero, the cities income, and because it’s taxes we are talking about, it has to be made clear through black and white.

[Hence we made a deal, we agree upon whoever can find the most amount of rare monsters drop during the designated deadline, gets the rights for the dungeon. Since rare monsters are, in fact, rare, they are times where even if you defeat it an item would not necessarily drop, so during this period of time, we also agreed that whatever isn’t drop from a rare monster is considered as [nothing] because it’s difficult to prove. Of course there are times when the rare monsters really don’t drop anything.]

Well that is true, that there are monsters which doesn’t drop anything.

[I understand, so basically I will just have to focus on defeating the rare monsters up until the fifth floor out of the ten floors, am I correct?]

Duke firmly nodded.

The conversation became simple.

If it’s like that then it’s easy to understand, since knowing what your objective and goal is makes it easier to act upon it.

[I got it, I’ll immediately dive into the dungeon starting from tomorrow—]

[Don’t worry about that, I made a reward for the adventurers.]

[A reward?]

[If a rare monster appears—if they appear on the floor where vegetables are dropped, I would ask them to contact me, and over here—to cut it short basically all you have to do is go there and defeat it.]

[Oh, I see.]

Since the efficiency of me searching a rare monster alone is horrible, Shikuro’s association then make adventurers give information about the rare monsters for a price, and I just have to go to that exact location and defeat it.

I thought that this is becoming more and more easy, and also easy to execute.

 

 

?

 

 

At that very same day we immediately got info of a rare monster.

Selen’s first floor, that was the information given about a rare monster sighting over there.

Duke and I both went there, and few people are over there.

There’s a young adventurer, whom he caught a slime-like monster.

The monster has a mollusk body where it is frantically trying to escape by wiggling it’s way out, but the adventurer is gripping it tightly, not letting it escape.

On one hand, not far away from the young adventurers lies a slightly elderly man, and an adventurer with a fearless face standing firm.

The elderly man took a glance at me and grinned.

How should I put it, I felt like I was being despised and felt strangely uncomfortable.

Being curious, I asked Duke.

[Who’s that?]

[It’s Harvard. Hetero dungeon’s association’s—he’s the same as me, the person in charge.]

[So he’s our rival huh.]

Now that he mentioned, he certainly does give off a person who is doing middle management job, in more ways than one.

[There’s an adventurer behind him right? His name’s Eugene. Although he is a skilled adventurer. Just so you know, his Vegetation drop is F.]

Drop rate of F on vegetation?

Why did Duke specifically mention about that?

There must be some explanation behind this, thus I tried thinking.

After giving it some thoughts, I suddenly got it.

[If you let an adventurer with the lowest vegetation drop to kill a rare monster that drops vegetables…]

[Then the chances of getting a drop from the rare monster significantly drops. And if this continues before the deadline——]

[In other words, he is a hindrance to our job.]

I get it now, that’s the reason why the opposite party is grinning so menacingly at us.

[What a sneaky bugger. However, it is a fact that he is a capable adventurer, nobody can stop him when he knocks down a rare monster, even I can’t stop him.]

[That’s a given.]

Because of his Drop being F, if he were to defeat it, then nothing will be dropped. If Emily were to know about this, something bad might happen.

Is it because the Drop rate is F, if one were to aim for a reversal then it is permissible to defeat a rare monster.

This is a difficult job for us as it substantially interferes with us—as Duke said it’s a troubling matter at hand.

[Anyways, we will win this time. That adventurer has a deal with us, besides capturing the monster Eugene cannot kill steal it, that’s cause the adventurer who secured the monster cannot defeat it without authorization.]

[I’ll defeat it right now.]

[I’m counting on you.]

I took out my gun, and loaded the normal bullet.

Since it’s an ally adventurer who caught hold of it, I thought that it was okay with just using a normal bullet.

[Please hold on to it as it is.]

[Leave it to me.]

The young adventurer firmly nodded.

I positioned my gun, and just in case I had both my guns out, and fired at the monster with the fusion high-powered penetrating bullets. (TLN: Are you freaking trying to kill that poor adventurer!!!)

The bullet went through the monster and it cracked like a crescent moon.

I looked up——and thought.

At the same time when the Harvard guy was grinning, the monster regenerated back.

As it was regenerating the volume increased, and it fell down to the ground from the young adventurer’s hand.

[That is.]

Hetero side’s adventurer, the person who introduced himself as Eugene said in a shy voice.

[There is a nucleus somewhere in the body. If you can’t destroy the nucleus it will regenerate again, and when it regenerates it will become stronger, it’s that kind of monster.]

[The placement of the nuclear vary from individual to individual, and the person who could find it and destroy it is none other than Eugene.]

Harvard then added.

[Plus if you blindly defeat it, it will turn even stronger, and it would endanger others. So you should let us handle it.]

After Harvard finish saying, he gave an even more delightful expression, showing as if he is undoubtedly the winner.

Duke who heard it had a displeased expression.

[Gu gu gu……Seeing that you’re awfully calm and composed, I see that’s what you’re trying to pull.]

Regretting, he showed me an apologetic face.

[I’m sorry, we are lacking in information. We will immediately find the weakness of this monster, let’s—]

Duke is facing defeat—-wanting to declare a withdrawal right now, I then switch to a different bullet and loaded it into my gun, then pulled the trigger towards the day after tomorrow(blindly shoot) without uttering a word.

This should work—while having such half-hearted thought I fired, the bullet then drew a trajectory like a boomerang and flew towards the monster that is bouncing around and went through it.

The monster that was shot, like before was cracked into a crescent moon—and without regenerating it crumbled.

[Wha——]

[Did you just hit the core?]

Both person from Hetero side immediately changed their expression.

Harvard was dumbfounded, and Eugene had a really displeased expression on his face.

While ignoring them, I stared at the monster that was crushed.

Immediately after the monster disappeared——a bean sprout dropped.

Looking at it closely, the sprout is gold in colour and it’s huge—it’s a soya bean.

A bean sprout….for a rare monster it does drop some shabby item.

[As you can see it’s a vegetable.]

Duke stared back at them, and made a speech as if he declared victory.

The two Hetero members had a mortified expression, and stormed out of the dungeon.

I guess it’s our victory for now.

After they disappeared for good, Duke caught hold of my hands and grasped them.

[Thank you! Seriously thank you for coming here!]

He thanked me many times.

To be able to fulfill the request immediately, I was relieved and felt a sense of satisfaction.


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41 Comments

Mesmerised · 29th May 2017 at 12:20 AM

Thanks for the chapter!

    Shiro · 29th May 2017 at 12:20 AM

    thanks for reading as always~~ :3

garigan · 29th May 2017 at 12:22 AM

Thanks for the chapter

Dark Jackel · 29th May 2017 at 12:53 AM

Thanks for the chapter! And so the tendency of conveniently getting the bullet you need right before you need it continues… ?

By the by… the MC dropped from a rare spawn himself, right? And Emily was the one who killed that rate mob. And although it isn’t conclusive, Ryouta is greatly attracted to Emily…

So, was the drop Emily received “a good boyfriend”? ?

    crywolf641 · 29th May 2017 at 1:36 AM

    I like that theory! ?+1

    Tup · 29th May 2017 at 1:39 AM

    If I remember correctly emily is a loli right?
    Maybe she recived good guardian(lolicon)

      plant pot-kun · 29th May 2017 at 3:09 AM

      But she’s the one who is all over him, aiming for the first wife spot

      then there’s that regrettable rabbit who wants his carrot

      Diggydawg · 29th May 2017 at 7:17 PM

      So a ‘Gentleman’ then?

      datvincent · 1st November 2017 at 7:24 AM

      But Loli dosent mean she is a lil kid, he says she is short (130cm) but she might just be that short, i have a friend that is 140cm tall and is a full grown woman xd, plus they haven’t mention her age. Same goes for the the rabbit girl they said she is short but is still considered a woman. AND Emily was drinking beer with him too, so at the very least she is old enough to be considered adult in that world.

Erwin · 29th May 2017 at 2:03 AM

Thanks for the chapter

inner-fun-cloud · 29th May 2017 at 2:14 AM

Thanks for the chapter!!! xD

libraryrocker · 29th May 2017 at 2:18 AM

Victory! Thank you plot armor?

XD

Thorindar · 29th May 2017 at 2:58 AM

Thanks for the chapter! And also, Slime datta ken (the on in the picture above) is another great reincarnation novel. I highly suggest everyone to read it if you haven’t already.

Shiba Tatsuya · 29th May 2017 at 3:32 AM

Thanks for the chapter ^_^
Also, there were 2 parts that were…poorly worded… let’s say that:

{It’s certainly huge, the tent that they are using which is similar to the nomad people.}

{The interior of the tent that is built modelling after an office has a sofa in it, and over there me and Duke went over there and have a sit.}

    Shiro · 29th May 2017 at 1:32 PM

    I’ll take that into consideration~ time to proofread it again ! Thanks again nii-sama ?

bazooka · 29th May 2017 at 3:37 AM

thks for the chapter

philippespalla · 29th May 2017 at 3:49 AM

thanks for the chapter XD

sfcipher · 29th May 2017 at 8:40 AM

Thank you for the chapter

natsukage · 29th May 2017 at 11:00 AM

Noooo….Rimuru got shot! >__< …..as if this level of gun could even hurt her (it). xD

Thanks for the chapter, glad you managed to get through. ^_^

wwlnl123 · 29th May 2017 at 11:55 AM

I still don’t understand why the Hetero side using Eugene for getting in the way, I mean what effect does it have if the rare monster didn’t drop anything?

    Shiro · 29th May 2017 at 12:11 PM

    If the rare monster doesn’t drop anything…then it will benefit the rival because now they have lesser vegetable drop and the rival will win because they have more rare drops

      wwlnl123 · 29th May 2017 at 5:03 PM

      But, if the Hetero side make their adventurer with high vegetable drop go, the Hetero side will get the vegetable drop right? That way, the Hetero side can increase their vegetable drop and also can prevent the Shikuro side from getting anything right? Or is there something that make the Hetero side sending adventurer with low vegetable drop more efficiently to get in the way?

        Shiro · 29th May 2017 at 5:15 PM

        It’s both 🙂 first is so that the shikuro side can’t get rare monster drop which is to just to interfere with them..and second if an adventure from hetero with a low drop rate for vegetation…and if that adventurer went and kill all those rare monsters…then shikuro would lose because now they are losing 1 rare drop and it might affect their outcome…plus in the novel they said that each floor starting from the first goes like meat then vegetables then meat…so what that means is that first floor would be meat then second floor would be vegetables and third floor would be meat again and so on…so rare monster are the same..following this rule….

          wwlnl123 · 29th May 2017 at 5:29 PM

          I understand about the floor system, but now I understand, the conclusion I come up with is that it just happened that the one in the story is an adventurer with low drop rate, it’s not like the Hetero side just use adventurers with low drop rate for getting in the way, I wonder if I got this right, I’m really bad at figuring things out when I got confused

          Shiro · 29th May 2017 at 5:41 PM

          No no wait…the Hetero association did indeed use an adventurer called ‘Eugene’ to purposefully interfere/interrupt shikuro side, hence why the person in charge for hetero’s side had a menacing smile when looking at our MC. The one that is holding the slime-like monster in this chapter is actually one of shikuro side…which they pushed it off as a “young adventurer”.

          wwlnl123 · 29th May 2017 at 5:53 PM

          But that doesn’t really mean the Hetero side only use Eugene to interrupt Shikuro side. If I remember, there are nothing in the story about Hetero only use Eugene to interfere. And After I think some more about it, I think I got the wrong idea about the Hetero side only use Eugene to interfere because the author really talk about how Eugene a powerful adventurer, but have low vegetable drop probability and thus I got distracted. While actually, like always the author did that so that the MC looks even more OP.

          morisa00 · 31st May 2017 at 12:31 PM

          Rare monster drop = 1 point for meat side or vegetable side. So if the ultra rare monster that drops vegetables gets killed by someone with a drop rate of f this means there is a really low to no chance that the mob drops an item = 0 points

Phoenix Rider · 29th May 2017 at 3:04 PM

Thanks for the chapter~

Rasta · 30th May 2017 at 4:28 AM

Thank you for the chapter! As always, convenient bullets are convenient. Anyways, too bad they can’t do taxes 50/50, or maybe on floors corresponding to each village’s drops. I mean, if different monsters are on different floors, and drop different things, they could just settle it like that. And does the other side always have to be malicious?

~Traveling Chef~ · 30th May 2017 at 9:10 AM

took me awhile to get to this and last chapter so… thanks for the work~~

morisa00 · 31st May 2017 at 3:47 AM

I finally had time to read;-;
But as always, thank you and nice job Shiro-kun ^-^

    Shiro · 31st May 2017 at 7:28 AM

    Finally~~ I was starting to miss you ><

GonZ555 · 9th June 2017 at 4:46 AM

Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ?w?)

Soya beans.. is he going to make Soya milk?

gantono · 10th July 2017 at 9:15 PM

It’s al planned for those franken and homing with those moving nucleus
thanks for chap

animemanganovelfiction · 5th August 2017 at 8:36 PM

why bean sprout ? ahahaha 😀 it’s looks like the Author really like bean sprout IoI ahahaha 😀

thx for the chapter ^^

habib1100 · 14th November 2017 at 5:04 PM

Thanks for doing this chapter!?

etherealrainbowcanvas · 10th March 2018 at 8:26 AM

“pulled the trigger towards the day after tomorrow” I like this expression!

DarkoNeko · 4th April 2018 at 1:47 AM

MC’s pointing the villainy of having someone with a F in vegetable looting to bias the result but… he realize they hired him because she know he has an awesome veggie drop rate, without checking at all about his meat drop rate ability right ? It’s the exact same thing.

Mr SpinelesS · 21st February 2019 at 2:31 PM

Thanks for the chapter 🙂
That’s some really nice Chekov Ammunition there, but a bean sprout is a pretty big let down from the 2x drop rate ring, and the MC that dropped from the last two rare monsters 😛

Chemist · 15th April 2019 at 10:51 PM

As a chemist when every other dungeon uses its scientific Latin name, “Selen” just sounds mentally challenged

WassupMANANAP · 24th October 2019 at 8:01 AM

Would’ve been cooler with the annihilation thingy

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