Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyusoukyoku (WN) - Volume 1 - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: 2

 1-2 . Written Dream Read as Ephemeral

Having weak presence, I've been called Satou since my school days for some reason, this is Suzuki .

Even though you don't feel pain in a dream, you can still feel the signs of pain when you dream of dental caries .

No?

Well, that's good too .

<TLN: This is how a chapter begin whenever it feature Satou's perspective, it usually don't have anything to do with the actual plot at all . Just some random musing, so don't think too much of it>

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I seem to have fainted for two hours following the severe pain after the Meteor Shower receded .

Time is displayed on the menu . Convenient .

My body is half buried in the ground .

Huh? I can't get up . . .

Feels like when you can't get up off the bed during winter .

My hands seems to move but menu operation is troublesome since it feels heavy .

If only I had ESP to operate the menu and check the log .

When I imagined such thing, it really happened . Truly a dream . It's unrestricted in strange places .

When I see the log while thinking that, the message [Satou Level Up] showed up and harassment-like [Chararacchara~] famous level up SFX rang when I scroll through the log .

Continuing for a while, I finally found a different message log .

> Skill [Summoning Magic: Foreign World] Acquired .

> Summoning Magic [Meteor Shower] Acquired .

<TLN:Whoops, was also skill earlier . Edited>

[Meteor Shower] is that meteorite summoning magic, right?

A magic that does not exist in FFW . Summoning magic is only supposed to summon spirits or golems . Though the world part bugs me . There is no [Foreign World] in either FFW or WW . It bothers me even for a dream .

The [Level Up] messages continue on .

Since there's a time stamp, the order of message can't be wrong . In order it's [Skill Acquired] [Magic that belongs to the Skill Acquired] [Level up]

In other words, this is the kind of RPG that does not let you automatically learn skill and magic as your level rise! <TLN: They work independently, you can learn skill or magic regardless of level when you meet the required condition>

"No no, why am I doing analysis inside my dream . . . "

Apparently my habit of analyzing thing from gamer era surfaced .

But it's alright, even if it's embarrassing inside a dream, let's continue the analysis .

Even in this situation, my real body is properly taking a rest anyway!

I close the log and decided to check the magic and skill tabs .

"But, before that . "

I set the [Log] to open by default from [Setting] .

It's troublesome to switch every time .

The magic are [Meteor Shower] and [All Map Exploration] .

The skills are [Summoning Magic: Foreign World][Nature Magic: Foreign World] .

Seems that [All Map Exploration] belongs to the nature magic category .

Are usable magic and skills registered?

But I can't use it if I don't remember it anyway, this time the exclusive use of initial bonus seems to be an irregular pattern . As a programmer I immediately deny the notion .

My status has changed considerably . After all, my level has been raised to 310 from 1 . The limit in FFW should have been 50 at the time I went to sleep . Though we raised it to infinity when we ran stress tests for the server, so the memory from that time might've affected this dream .

Experience point is lined up to astronomical 9 digit number I don't feel like reading it . I want to have a comma splice for every three digits . Let's propose it for the next update .

Strength (STR) and Intelligence (INT) attribute values are 99 . FFW client stopped the value at 99 but there is no actual upper limit . During the time when we lift off level restriction the attribute value also rises accordingly . . . In other word, the actual value might be higher here too?

Endurance (HP) and MP (Magic Power), and Stamina (SP) became 3100 harmoniously . These were set to rise by a fixed 10 for each level . There are many approaches to reduce consumption by various skills .

It's made this way since, according to the Planner, the adjustment is troublesome if we raise each one differently .

In addition, availale skill points are also 3100 .

Did it decrease from the acquired skill earlier?

When I properly look at the skill column, both skills just now are greyed out . [Magic Art : Foreign World Lv0] shows up when I tap it . Tapping the Lv text shows [Please Allocate Point (1-10)] confirmation dialogue, so I tried to put 10 .

Without any SFX the text becomes white and changes to [Magic Art: Foreign World Lv10] . Skill points become 3090 . 1 level = 1 skill point . Easy to understand . When I try to tap on it again, [Maximum Level] message shows up .

On the magic column, [All Map Exploration] text is white while [Meteor Shower] remains in grey .

It seems that you can't meet the condition to use magic if you don't allocate points to the skill level . So I also put 10 point to [Summoning Magic: Foreign World Lv0] .

There are also many things added to title column .

First [Monster Slayer] . Yep, I understand this . Then [Scale Tribe Slayer][Scale Tribe Calamity][Scale Tribe Natural Enemy] I'm not sure what scale tribe mean but they're probably reptile monsters . Furthermore, [Wyvern Slayer][Dragon Slayer[Lower]][Dragon Slayer[Infant]][Dragon Slayer[Adult]][Dragon Slayer[Ancient]], and other [Dragon Slayer] with inside continue endlessly .

Well, with this many dragons I can understand why such an impossible level-up to the 300 range happened . The map was dyed red before the attack earlier .

Then, just like the title for Scale Tribe, [Dragon Tribe Natural Enemy] appeared and the last title is [God Slayer] .

Do you believe in god?

"Wait, when did I kill one?"

I tap the log and search for [God] .

>Defeated the Dragon God AkonKagura!

There, the cause for god slayer . I see, the meteor shower also killed the god .

I see, I killed it . . .

Only 2 remain, god slaying technique!!

No no, why would I kill them?

However, the log doesn't show damage so I don't know how powerful it was . In FFW and WW, the last blows damage should have been displayed but . . . I guess there's no point questioning a dream .

Since it's become easier to move, I raise my body .

I turned off the display icon for [Meteor Shower] in [Setting] since I don't want to become the enemy of humanity by carelessly clicking it .

Oh right, I haven't used the the magic column yet .

I switched to the tab with [All Map Exploration] and [Meteor Shower] in it . Now then, how do I use it . I wonder if tapping it normally work .

There is no particular change when I try to use [All Map Exploration] .

When I check the log there's [Magic: All Map Exploration used] message . MP become 3090 in the status . Seems like it uses 10 MP . I added HP and MP to the basic indicator since it's annoying to check it every time .

There's nothing reflected in the radar besides myself .

It's nice that there's no enemy but mass killing like this is not funny . No, wait, it's normal for a game .

Since there are no victims I guess it's okay? I slowly tap on [Meteor Shower] . It feels like something is greatly pulling out my vigor . I saw my MP continue to decrease . It stopped after consuming exactly 1000 points .

It didn't feel like this the first time I use it, guess it wasn't using my own magic power back then .

I look up at the sky . There's no meteorite yet . Considering before, it should be soon .

And then groups of meteorites tore apart the cloud .

Huge . What the heck is that .

It's 100 times bigger than the earlier meteorites .

I instinctively run before thinking .

Of course toward the opposite side of the drop zone .

I run as fast as I can with the continuous huge meteorite impact sound in the background .

As if running through water, the air resistance is too strong . It normally feels sluggish when you run in dream, is it just me?

I rolled over to the other side of a table-like small wall of rocks . Even though I said small, it's about 100 meter in radius so it will do fine as a shield .

A tsunami of dust sweeps apart just right after I went into the shelter . People-sized rock occasionally roll through the dust cloud, my spine becomes a bit cold .

I wonder how long it will elapse . When the dust cloud settled I climb the rock wall to see at the fall .

Since the slope is pretty steep I tried jumping over 50 cm height .

Pon . I fly 5 meter feeling like hearing such SFX .

Landing on the ledge of a rock with slight panic .

"This status rise, what a joke~"

I tried to deceive my trembling body by speaking to myself .

"That giant meteorite earlier is probably thanks to INT increase too~"

I run up the wall by alternatively kicking through various ledges and rock edges like some kind of ninja in games and manga . How convenient . Even in a dream, I have pretty high adaptability if I may say so myself .

I can see the collapse of a mushroom cloud in the distance . Most likely, it's sediment that got caught up on the fall . This would create crop failure and health damage disaster if this was the real world, due to reduction of sunshine .

"It's a dream anyway, there's no helping it even if I think about it . "

I think it's bad that it's too real .

TL Note: I changed Spirit World to Foreign World since I realized that it's actually about summoning the meteorite and don't want to confuse it with Seirei which also translate to Spirit . I'm sorry for people who have read it early .

Edited by : Fate Trooper