Death March kara Hajimaru Isekai Kyousoukyoku - v01 (w01-1 w03-3)

by Ainana Hiro

  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 = 10 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 Killer]. Yep, I understand this. Then [Scale Tribe Killer][Scale Tribe Calamity][Scale Tribe Natural Enemy] I'm not sure what scale tribe mean but they're probably reptile monsters. Furthermore, [Wyvern Killer][Dragon Killer[Lower]][Dragon Killer[Infant]][Dragon Killer[Adult]][Dragon Killer[Ancient]], and other [Dragon Killer] 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 Killer].

  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 killer. I see, the meteor shower also killed the god.

  I see, I killed it...

  Only 2 remain, god killing 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.

  1-3. The Start of Wandering Life!

  * * *

  "Hello, Suzuki here. My character name is Satou, but I'm Suzuki."

  I want to talk with somebody instead of doing this monologue!

  Since the dream continued with no sign of it being over, I decided to look for human habitation.

  Thankfully at the edge of the wide map, there looks to be some kind of highway.

  Three days since then. I've been been walking day and night yet am still only halfway there.

  Stamina gradually decreases, but it's still 2800/3100. It decreased about 100 each day.

  If this was a game, I should be okay for 28 days, more but I'm at my limit already.

  I'm not sure if it's because of my stat or dream, but I don't feel tired. I did get sleepy but I endured it.

  Right now I'm walking, even if I run the stamina decrease rate isn't really different. If I jump around the stamina decreases faster than running but honestly, it's still within margin of error.

  Then why am I walking now? That's because I'm free.

  You don't understand?

  Yeah.

  At the start I was singing a one man karaoke while running.

  Originally my repertoire is small. I ran out of song immediately.

  The surrounding scenery is magnificent but unfortunately it rarely changes.

  Then, I decided to read the long log.

  I'm not a text mania but since it's painful to silently walk an aimless road I began reading the log from the very first entry.

  Of course, it's hard to read text while running, so the I began to walk. Absorbed with reading the log, I forgot my original purpose of getting onto the highway.

  The log started with [Magic Art: All Map Exploration is used], then [Defeated~] messages for defeating Lizardmen and Dragonewts until the Dragon God.

  Afterwards there's [Defeated All Enemies on the Map] and lastly [Source: Conquered Dragon God V
alley]. Source? What's that? Mystery words pop out.

  Then the log continue with loot and level up record.

  The loot records occupy 80% of the log. Common gold and equipment. Then various dragon materials like horns, fangs and scales. Up to this I can understand the quantity and quality of the loot, but in contrast the remaining ones are strange.

  Lizardmen and Dragonewts corpses are stored in the storage. Is it for Necromancer's use?

  The rest are probably daily goods used by the scale tribe like food and fuel. I can't lay out such items though... furthermore, they're all named with [Broken~] as prefix, aren't these garbage?

  As one would expect, reading through tens of thousands detail would be troublesome.

  Thankfully, WW storage window allow you to search and classify by item type and user tag.

  I designed them as a common interface to decrease working steps needed. I'm a bit proud making it on the same level as the latest OS filer.

  Of course there's also optional folder functionality, but when you tap the stored item inside the bag, the the sub-type will expand and you can take it out without confirming.

  .

  Of course you can also take out the item by dragging it too. In addition, you can also put user registered items on custom tab. This was added because it's annoying to input search word every time on a smartphone.

  Well, the story wandered off for a bit. I can't blabber on program scheme too long.

  I open two storage windows to begin organizing items. First, I create folder for each general type. Then I will create sub-folder for sub-types inside.

  In the setting screen I enabled the [Automatically Stack Identical Item Type] option.

  Without this enabled, the total number of item would be too much.

  By the way, we call overlapping position like this as stacking in FFW and WW. The term exists in most RPG's so I will omit the explanation. I wonder if the etymology comes from piling pieces in the old simulation board game?

  Anyhow

  Gold loot is mostly money.

  The most numerous one is [Ancient Empire Gold Coin]. It's 101.2K, wow. I tried taking out one, it's quite big and heavy. It's about as big as a 500 Yen coin and as heavy as five 100 Yen coins. If I remember right, it's about 30 grams. Since in real world money, the coin is about 4-7 grams, this one is too big and heavy. If we calculate, the total is 303 Tons... an absurd weight. In the real world, about 2500 Tons of gold is mined a year. Hoarding so much gold like this, is very Dragon-ish.

  The next numerous one is [Saga Empire Gold Coin] of about 40K. I'm interested whether there are many empires or if it was a new empire built after the former one was destroyed by dragon. I tried taking out this one too, it's a bit smaller than 500 Yen coin but the weight is only about 7 grams.

  And the third, Crimson Treasure 30K. Fantasy-like money appears! Taking it out, it's about half as heavy as the ancient gold coin with ruby-like appearance. Sometimes it let out a flash of light from inside creating cyber (chick?) feeling. A bit mysterious.

  The rest are 10K of [Ancient Empire] silver and copper coin. [Saga Empire] and [Shiga Kingdom] silver, small silver, big copper, copper, pennies. [Drag Holy Kingdom] big silver, silver, copper, and various money with [~Kingdom] suffix. These are all in total 7000. For now, I sort it by country.

  Still, WW and FFW didn't have sets of money... In WW it was called Wol, and in FFW it's Kaane, there's no other currency beside it.

  These various currencies may come from the quiz show I saw during my break, impacting this dream.

  There are also jewelry, ornaments and works of art besides money. A simple silver ring, emerald fist, ornamental crown, life-sized gold figure, decorative short sword, and many valuable looking things numbered about 300K.

  Most are just expensive looking normal items, however there are magic items mixed in around 5% of the total.

  The detailed information for the magic items are long so I skimped on reading it. Think of it like reading internet slang that you don't understand the meaning of on a bulletin board. There was no mounted jewelry in WW and FFW.

  Understanding some of the explanations, there are some things that catch my attention. Able to produce 100 litres of water a day, [Hell Water Jug (Water Bottle)].

  I took out the [Hell Water Jug (Water Bottle)] when I found it and drank the water. I wanted to wash my face and hair with it but gave up since the dust from the meteor shower is still floating around.

  Other things are; able to keep 1000 sheets of money, [Magic Wallet], stacking 30 varied types of up to 30 items, [30 Holding Bag]. I put those 3 things on favorite.

  Since I have infinite storage, there's no point in a magic bag, but I like seeing a long sword slide in and out of the bag.

  The second day ended with such feelings after organizing treasury.

  ◇

  Moving on with this and that on the third day. The clock has crossed 0. I'm not sure if it's really the third day since I slip off the clock every 4 hours.

  Since I'd get tired if I sleep on this wastelands rough ground, I keep walking instead. There's a full moon tonight so there's no problem with visibility.

  Having principle of saving the best dish the last, it's time to check for the weapons and armors.

  I sort the type to show materials and corpses. According to the log There are only a few lizardmen and dragonewt corpses. This is most likely because of the meteorite, having received the full blow, there won't be many remains. However, there are a lot of dragon's corpse. Defeated Log shows that there are 2-3 times as many. This place become like a dragon version of an elephant's graveyard.

  Most are materials from body parts, but there are also iron ingots, medicinal plants, timber, and stone. They're probably from the things crushed by the meteorites. Random body parts and scales are many. Regardless of type, there are 7.9600K of them. Even an old dragon skin mold and husk exist.

  "Huge, if the scale is this big, wonder how huge is the body."

  Losing to curiosity, I took out an adult dragon's scale, it's about 50 cm. While I'm at it, I took out lower dragon's scale to check, it's palm size.

  [Broken] item are put in specific folder. I was thinking of throwing it away but stopped since it could become a literal mountain of garbage.

  Finally, it's equipment.

  There are around 30K things. The Scale tribe's spears are especially abundant, things which begin with [Scale Tribe's~] are around 20K. Neither are magic items, they're all normal items made of copper or iron. There are only few strange armors.

  I tried taking out a scale tribe's spear. 2 meter long wooden handle with sharpened bone tip comes out. It can't pierce when I tried it out so it probably isn't a war spear.

  The magic items are such like [Dragon Skin Armor] or [Dragon Scale Armor], seems like items blessed by the dominant tribe are around 100. Those are probably scale tribe armor.

  The remaining 10K of half are [Dragon] based large swords, spears and bows. These are probably legacy from the (scale tribe) people who beat dragons.

  The special effects kind are jewelry, but I don't understand the effects so let's put it off for now.

  There are several interesting things, especially [Holy Sword] and [Divine Sword]

  My long lost Chuuni heart is stimulated.

  Why are these [Holy Sword]'s are named [Excalibur], [Durandal] and such?

  There are also katana's named [Muramasa] and [Kotetsu]

  "Tension up~"

  I enjoy wielding Excalibur. It should be quite heavy but I swing it carelessly. Beautiful traces of light come out. However for physical weapons isn't sword disadvantageous? But it's popular in flashy games.

  Oh yeah, there is no specific name for the Divine Blade.<
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  I expected to get sword skill when I wielded the sword, but it didn't happen. It will likely come out if I defeat an enemy with a sword.

  Unusual things also exist. Cannons and ballistas That are usually placed on fort to counter flying enemy on the sky. Skimming the descriptions, it seems that it seems that it doesn't use gunpowder, but magic power instead.

  Another one, it's gun!

  Handgun 100, Rifle 50. Magic powered gun 12. Just for the record, there are no guns in FFW. There are cannons in WW though.

  I take out the smallest magic gun.

  It's a Derringer sized gun with excessive ornaments. The trigger guard is attached.

  In the real world, guns have safety locks, over here it's a switch with 0, 1, 3, 10 scale. I set the scale to 1.

  I aim at a rock nearby with one hand and pull the trigger.

  A psshh sound comes out, yet no trace of the shot could be seen.

  When I confirm the rock, a hole about as big as a 10 yen coin penetrated it. It's a 2 meter thick hard rock. MP consumption is 1. There is no recoil, it's a laser gun like feeling. This is totally SF instead of fantasy.

  With scale set at 10, the rock completely crushed. This would kill Ogre level demons in one shoot. MP consumption is 10.

  "It's way too efficient."

  It's an item that would totally break balance of a game. No one would want to use magic.

  After that, I played around with the gun while moving for 1 hour.

  ◇

  Finished checking items in general, I began thinking something that bugged me before.

  "What is Source anyway?"

  I mutter to myself.

  It's about the [Source: Conquered Dragon God Valley] from the log.

  ...this is probably not related to tax withholding.

  Besides on the log, there's no mention of [Source: Conquered Dragon God Valley] anywhere else.

  Usually I would have said "It's a dream anyway" but something is bugging me.

  Having a change of pace by thinking while running, I feel like coming up with something, I'm immersed in running while feeling good, I feel like anything's good.