Soul Devourer Chapter 3 Episode 38 — A Superior Version of the High Ogre Series
After defeating the mutation-enhanced form of the Ogre King, the Ogre Emperor, I opened the treasure chest that appeared before me.
Inside the chest were materials from the boss, along with a jet-black pair of gauntlets and greaves that gleamed with a dull luster.
Picking up the jet-black gauntlets and greaves, I immediately activated【Appraisal】to check their detailed information.
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《Black Ogre Emperor’s Gauntlets》
・Type: Gauntlets
・Effects:
① Destroys magical phenomena upon contact. The probability is determined by the user’s Spirit stat and the opponent’s Intelligence stat.
② Indestructible
③ Strength +80, Spirit +80
・Rank: Mythical (Gods)
《Black Ogre Emperor’s Greaves》
・Type: Greaves
・Effects:
① Destroys magical phenomena upon contact. The probability is determined by the user’s Spirit stat and the opponent’s Intelligence stat.
② Indestructible
③ Strength +80, Spirit +80
・Rank: Mythical (Gods)
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I see. So it can destroy magic that comes flying in through punches or kicks.
However, the destruction chance is determined by a combination of my Spirit stat and the opponent’s Intelligence stat.
Wide-area annihilation spells would probably be impossible, but for single-target attack spells, it means that even magic used by S-rank-equivalent monsters or hunters could be destroyed.
I immediately switched my equipment from the High Ogre series to the Black Ogre Emperor series, returned outside via a magic circle, and stopped by the branch office to sell the materials from seventeen Ogre Berserkers.
“The purchase price for materials from seventeen Ogre Berserkers comes to 170 million yen. As for the Ogre Emperor materials, we will transfer the payment once the appraisal results are finalized.”
“Thank you.”
After finishing my business at the branch office, I returned to the hotel where I was staying and washed off the sweat from dungeon crawling.
“Well then, I guess I’ll go get some dinner.”
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Heading out into the nightlife district, I stopped by a yakitori place that caught my eye, filled my stomach with skewers, white rice, and alcohol, then started looking for a girls’ bar or a cabaret club.
“Ow… the hell are you looking at when you walk!? Haa!”
A heavily drunk man staggering toward me from the front bumped shoulders with me. He shoved his face close enough that our noses almost touched and started picking a fight.
“I’m sorry. Um… could you calm down a bit?”
I tried to placate him by backing down, but instead of calming down, his aggression only grew, and it looked like he was about to throw a punch.
“H-Hey! Stop it, you idiot! S-Sorry! Hunter Matsubara!”
The two companions who’d initially been enjoying watching him cause trouble gradually turned pale and desperately grabbed his shoulders to restrain him.
“H-Hunter M-Matsubara! We’re truly sorry! We’ll make sure to give him a good talking-to!”
“I understand. Please tell him that drinking too much isn’t good for him. And you two shouldn’t get carried away either.”
““Y-Yes! We’re very sorry!””
Since they apologized, I left the scene. As I continued searching for a place with girls—
“Ah, you’re Yuito, the S-rank hunter! Hey, wanna chat with me?”
A blonde girl dressed as a bunny girl called out to me, inviting me to come into her shop and talk.
“Sure.”
“Yes! It’s been so hard to catch customers lately, I was getting super bored. Seriously, your timing is godlike.”
(E/N: Just imagine Nagatoro and her gyaru friends talking. "Maji de~" or "De saa~", something like that.)
Thinking she was a total gyaru, I followed her into the shop while glancing at her cleavage and the curves visible beneath her fishnet stockings.
“Hey, it’s 3,000 yen for 60 minutes all-you-can-drink. Is that okay?”
“That’s fine.”
“Cool. So what’ll you have first? I’ll get a Coke highball.”
(E/N: Whiskey + Coca-cola)
“I’ll have an Oolong highball.”
(E/N: Whiskey/Shochu (Japanese Sake) + Oolong Green Tea)
“Okay, wait right here.”
Then the girl who’d been calling out to customers, Nana, went into the back and returned with our drinks.
“Alright, cheers!”
“Cheers!”
“Ahh, so good. Hey, Yuito, what brought you to Hiroshima?”
“I came to clear an A-rank dungeon.”
“Ahh~ that big, scary-looking one… what was it again… the ogre something. So, how was it?”
“I defeated the boss and fully cleared it.”
“Seriously!? I watch boss fight streams on Huntube, but other hunters really struggle to beat it, and I’ve never even seen anyone fighting the boss.”
“The difficulty jumps a lot from A-rank onward. If other hunters are managing to defeat it too, that’s pretty impressive.”
“Just being able to fight monsters is already amazing to me. I could never do it. So what was the boss like?”
“It was almost twice as big and strong as an Ogre Berserker. Plus, it leads ten Ogre Berserkers with it, so hunters are at a numerical disadvantage.”
“And you still beat the boss, right?”
“Well, I am an S-rank hunter. And compared to an S-rank dungeon boss, the Fire Dragon, it was weaker, so I didn’t really struggle.”
“Oh, right. You cleared an S-rank dungeon solo, didn’t you? Don’t you have any videos from that?”
“I don’t stream on Huntube or anything, so I didn’t record it.”
“What~!? That’s such a waste. If you streamed, Yuito, I think you’d get tons of views and make a lot of money.”
“Streaming, huh…”
After that, while answering Nana’s many questions about hunter activities, the fun time passed by quickly.
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E/N:
New Equipment! And new girl? Not like the author's gonna make her stay anyway 😂!
Stay tuned! (2/3 chapters)
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