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Volume 4 - Ch 3.09
Volume 4 - Ch 3.09
So, how do you feel about fighting the enemies on this floor? Think you will be able to handle them? Because if you think that they might be too difficult for you, be sure to tell me right away, okay?
I asked all those questions to Sherry while I was healing the wounds she has sustained with the Monks Skill: Medical Treatment and applying another plating to her in the place of the one that got removed from her when she was hit by the Needlewoods attacks.
Y-Yes, I do not think fighting with the monsters in here is going to be a problem . . . . . . . by the way master, is what you are using right now Recovery Magic?
That is right.
So you are using multiple Jobs after all. . . . . . . *mumble mumble* *mumble mumble* . . . . . . . . .ah, no. please, do not pay any attention to what I said just now! A-Anyway, at this level, I think that I will not be hit like I was just now more than once or twice!
Sherry replied hurriedly when I finished healing her wounds. Just now, her curiosity at me being capable of using Healing Magic in addition to to Attack Magic simply outweighed her sense of pain, right? That seems like a dangerous thing to do, but as long as she is not getting seriously hurt and claims that she will be capable of avoiding such attacks, then I guess everything is still all right to the point where I think that we can go to the higher floors with her, but it would also do me well to remain cautious and have just about enough MP saved up in case I would ever need to cast some more Medical Treatment on her.
Sherry, mind if I borrow your club for a bit?
Ah, n-no, please, go right ahead, master!
Sherry handed her Club over to me. Okay, now that I got my hands on it, let me try and narrow down the possibilities here. For the next few monster encounters, I am going to try defeating the enemies while using the Club myself. If I end up getting some new Jobs that way, then it will mean that it probably is not one of the conditions required for unlocking the Job of a Master Smith, but now it got me wondering what possible other Jobs could this method of dispatching the enemies unlock? Well, I guess we shall see in about a few more minutes. However. . . . . . .
Damn. . . swinging this thing around is a lot harder than I thought it would be.
Maybe it was because I was not used to fighting with such a large and heavy weapon, but swinging the Club around was a lot harder than using Durandal, or any other regular sword for that matter. Everybody says so when they first start using two-handed weapons, but the trick to using them more effectively is to utilize the centrifugal force instead of the strength of your own arms whenever you swing them. Since they have their center of gravity at their tips, you are going to feel the noticeable difference, because it is going to feel like the tip of the weapon, or in other words, the part of it that is going to come into contact with the enemy, is going to be hitting with a much greater weight behind it, thus amplifying the strength of the attack.
Once you learn how to do it, the rest is just gong to be a matter of chaining such attacks effectively without expending too much of your stamina.
Sherry gave me an extensive lesson on how to use two-handed weapons effectively. I guess what she said is definitely true. Each type of weapon has its own unique characteristics to take into consideration when attempting to use them, and it was wrong of me to think that I could just take the Club and swing it around like a normal one-handed sword and the rest would just naturally sort itself out. So taking her words to heart, I applied the information I learned onto my style of fighting with the Club, and a dozen more encounters later where I was killing the Needlewoods by smashing their heads and ramming them into the walls, I opened up my Party Job Settings menu while being filled with tension to see if I got any new Jobs or if something changed in me, but. . . . . .
(So it was a bust this time as well, huh?)
Exactly. All those monsters killed by using nothing but a Club, and no new Jobs to show for it.
(This. . . . . this is not going to be as easy as I had hope it would be, huh?)
Not allowing this minor setback to discourage me, I continued to defeat more enemies, this time by using a Copper Spear, but the ultimate result was much the same.
Uhm, master? Why are you handing me these weapons? You should know that I prefer using a sword instead.
Next, I wanted Roxanne to try killing the monsters with the club and a spear, but just from that reaction alone it was obvious that she did not like the idea of using them all that much.
No, I do know that, but it is for the sake of experimenting and trying out something new, okay?
But naturally, Roxanne did not obtain any new Jobs as well, just as you would have expected. I guess it just means that not every weapon has a Job that can be unlocked by using it in battle, or if they do have them, they might also have other conditions required for obtaining them that I have yet to discover.
In any event, even after we advanced to the higher floors and defeated the monsters there with different weapons, neither of us have obtained any new Jobs, Master Smith included.
Any thoughts on using the Club, Roxanne?
It is definitely hard to use if you are not used fighting with a weapon like that. Not to mention that in order for it to be utilized effectively you need to have enough strength in your arms to actually be able to swing it around continuously without tiring yourself out after a strike or two. From that angle, I prefer my Scimitar much more due to how fast, light and efficient it is.
Roxanne commented as such after defeating another monster with Sherrys Club. So it would seem that Club is going to remain a Sherry-exclusive weapon, because I can say that I do not like fighting with it as well, but that is probably because I got too used to fighting with Durandal. It looked like a spear was much more up Roxannes alley in comparison to the club, but since it is a poking weapon that is more suited for those in the back row to be supporting the rest of the team by stabbing the monsters in front of them from behind the safety of the distance or a shield, it was not compatible with her, since Roxanne stated herself that she would always wish to be place in the vanguard on the frontlines, where she could be the most useful, slashing our enemies to ribbons, and I shared that opinion of hers as well. I had more than enough chances to see how amazing Roxanne is, so I have no doubts that when she says that her place is in the vanguard, then that is truly where she belongs.
Currently we were on the third floor of Vales Labyrinth, where I told Roxanne to look for the groups of monsters that consisted of something other than Kobolds. They are the weakest monsters in this world, so I have no doubts that Sherry would have no trouble at all with swiftly dispatching them. What I want to see right now, is to see how well is she going to do against the monsters with higher level than the ones on the first and second floors, but even here on the third one, Sherry seemed to be doing just fine, holding on her own even against the larger groups of enemies. Normally she looks all small and cute, but if I had to sup up her appearance whenever she was fighting, then I would have to say that she looked very dignified, or at least as dignified as you can look when you are swinging around a club that is almost twice your size. I have no idea if she is going to keep her pace up on the higher floors as well, but based on what I am seeing right now, it looks like she can fight as good as Roxanne and I, meaning that her biggest concern has just been alleviated: as long as she keeps fighting exactly the way she is fighting right now, there is no way for her to become a nuisance that would only slow the two of us down.