Chapter 344 – Floaty Cubes.

“Wait here.”

“Are you going to be okay? Even if you are at tier 3, two monsters at once might be troublesome.”

“I’m going to be fine, it’s just two berserkers, they are the easiest to handle. They will blindly charge at anyone that gets in range. If you follow after me they might target you instead of me, it will complicate things.”

“If you say so… we’ll be cheering for you!”

“Agni you too, just wait here and protect them.”

“Woof!”

Lobelia gave Roland a big thumbs-up while smiling brightly. Behind her was Armand who repeated the gesture, Mary on the other hand continued to stare at the surroundings without saying much. She seemed to be constantly on the lookout for potential monsters, traps, and occurrences. It was clear that she was a true professional that didn’t let her emotions wander during a mission. Agni on the other hand seemed a bit disappointed but when he was ordered to protect the whole group his eyes perked up.

From the look of things, he judged the three people correctly. His two friends here were concerned with his life while the Ninja Maid was not. If something happened to him he could probably count on her prioritizing her own life. This was fine as their relationship was only blossoming. Perhaps after more time had passed, a better partnership bond could be created.

‘Two berserkers, I said that it wouldn’t be a problem but I’m not entirely sure myself…’

Even though Roland spoke confidently he still had some butterflies in his belly. In theory, the skeletal fiends that weren’t over level hundred sixty should pose no threats to him. They were weaker than Emmerson that he faced and also lacked tactical thinking. Their main skill was going berserk which enhanced physical stats.

They were usually endurance, strength, vitality, and agility. Yet there were debuffs that came with the power increase as their intelligence dropped by a significant amount. The stronger their power became, the dumber they got, and turned into rage monsters that could only react.

‘Will he end up like them when he advances?’

While moving forward away from his current party he glanced in Armand’s direction. His newest class was of the Berserker family and could become a problem in the future. It was possible to master this skill at the higher levels but it usually had a downside. Roland knew of it as he had engaged with Armand in single combat. If he wasn’t capable of defeating the enemy after his buffs ran out, then he would be at a massive disadvantage.

‘But would it be smart to switch now, he is probably used to fighting with timed buffs and should know how to manage his resources. Would he even listen to me if I told him to take something less volatile?…’

Roland had to accept the fact that even if he told Armand to go with a specific class, his muscle-brained friend would probably go for another one on purpose. Perhaps if he went with a reverse psychology approach or asked Elodia to do it for him it could be possible. Yet there were merits to choosing such an iffy class.

The increase in physical stats was tremendous, it put them on the level or even above prestige classes. This meant that if Armand managed to progress enough in his stat-boosting skills and learned to control everything, his strength wouldn’t be something to scoff at.

‘There should be ways to alleviate the mind debuffs, I should be able to make something…’

There were mind-cleansing spells out in the world. Now that he could tap into the field of the magic of the priest and cleric classes, he could do something about it. This was even on of the tactics used by high leveled adventurers when a berserker was inside their group. A priest could calm their rage down if it got out of hand or install some buffs to let them focus better. With Roland’s skill set, he could probably create an automatic piece of armor that would cast the spell whenever Armand’s mind was affected. If he implemented this, he wouldn’t have to worry about getting a rough fisting from behind.

‘That would cover the idiot then what about Lobelia…’

When analyzing Lobelia’s status screen he could see through the item she was using. It displayed her Thief class as the Scout class instead and also hid all of her other classes from view. There were special conditions to meet when getting the thief class. Usually, people looked down on others that went with this route so this was expected. The adventurer guild wouldn’t look down on them but this didn’t mean that other adventurers wouldn’t.

Lobelia was focused on ranged combat but not fully. The Bow Rogue class would help her with getting dagger-related skills. It was quite the expansive class that gave a person a lot of options and also opened up paths to various assassination professions. One of them was the Silent Arrow class which as the name stated, allowed people to remove sound when using ranged weapons involving arrows.

‘She is a bit less problematic but I might have to enhance her status-altering enchantment, if I can decipher it so will others.’

She would just require regular archer-related equipment such as arrows. Her class was similar to Roland’s and relied on outside sources. With the correct ammunition like elemental arrows for the right occasion she could potentially deal with almost any hurdle.

‘Instead of making hundreds of various types of arrows, why don’t I focus on designing multi-purpose ones just like with my armor? That’ll probably save a lot of time and resources.’

Roland had been able to change the elemental attribute of his spells since forever now. While Lobelia didn’t have any rune-related skills to alter the runic operating system, it was the same for him when he started out. Thus he already knew how to design the arrow shaft and tip for her. The only problem would be the materials as he couldn’t just use regular wood.

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When it came to Mary, on the other hand, he could see equipping her with some powerful stealth weapons. She was probably going with the assassination route, giving her something to cancel out sounds in a wider area would probably enhance her potential. Some spells that produced shadows or generated sounds in other areas would probably allow her to infiltrate areas better. Yet before she received her tier 3 class he wasn’t sure what to go with. Throwing knives seemed to be something that she used normally and creating ones similar to the elemental arrows was a possibility too.

‘Now let’s focus on these two, at least those guys did their job with rigging this place up.’