A Certain Middle-Aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log c15

The VRMMO Activities of a Certain Old Man
Author: s.h.i.+na Howahowa

First Time in a Party (Last Part)

 I watch the arrow that I just released at full-power.

And the result it …

Dosu~! …

It’s a hit but, but this is…

“It’s too shallow!”

Just like my yell suggests, there was a miscalculation.

The situation hasn’t improved in the slightest.

Despite that, at least the weak point of the Wild Bear that’s been stopped in its tracks has been exposed.
Zwei and Kazamine, Nora, and of course Reiji charge in for the attack at full power.

But it’s kinda sad, the image I had of myself dealing decisive damage didn’t happen.

But with the amount of damage we’ve done between that “decisive” arrow ‘til now, it doesn’t seem long before we can deal the final blow.

Thinking that, I play my final card to decide it here.

“!”

This magic is learned at leveling to [Wind Magic]Lv15.

At cast it greatly increases your speed for 10 seconds.
The reuse cooldown is a long 2 minutes, making it pretty difficult to time well.

In Beta it seems it was used for fleeing, to gain large distances for tactical maneuvers or Death Penalty avoidance.

There’s strength in being able to increase your mobility.

So why did I increase my speed? Of course it’s not to run away.

In other words, “kick the arrow so it pierces through completely”.

Willingness aside, the Wild Bear opponent is too tall for me to reach with my normal speed.
Without the Buff Magic it would really be too hard.

The party’s vanguards are attacking where the arrow is, probably trying to drive it deeper in.

Though the desperate attack does some damage, to ask the vanguards for anything more would be harsh.

Millie is trying to time a , betting the rest of her little MP left on it.
At the moment the only person with anything left to spare is me.

I dash out and close the distance in an instant, taking up a position out of the vanguard’s way.

’s effect is over in 5 … 4 … hurry, hurry!!
And then that moment came…

“Eat this!!”

It’s an over-used phrase, but it’s necessary to put the fighting spirit into that last step.

Those claws would be instant death, ripping through the face and stomach.

Compared to anyone else in the party I’m much weaker.

Reducing my fears with ’s acceleration, I jump at full strength, aiming at the arrow stuck between the Wild Bear’s eyes.

It’s a pretty graphic result.

I’ve put everything I have into making this one attack reach the Wild Bear.

“Goaaaaaaaaaar!?”

Even though he didn’t shriek when the heavily damaging hit him, the Wild Bear let out a wail now.

The arrow was driven so deep it disappeared.

The Wild Bear has about one ’s worth of HP left.
With the combined damage of kicking the arrow in and the 4 vanguards’ desperate attacks, the remaining 30% HP has been reduced to only 5% left.

“Millie, end it!”

Zwei commanded. Millie’s response is …

“!”

With this last attack of Millie’s, the Wild Bear toppled to the ground, and shattered.

“Finally, we finally beat it.”

Reiji sighed. No wonder. Of course he’s drained, the tank had to frantically endure this entire time.

“That was seriously too close. Zwei, aren’t we way too under level?”

Nora grumbled. Yeah, I think so too.

“My bad, didn’t think it was this strong …”

Zwei apologizes frankly.

“For now let’s eat something, and take a break.”

So saying, I use [Farsight] to confirm the safety of our surroundings and then call everyone to come eat.

Now that we’ve decided to take a break I bring out my the new dish.

“It’s a new recipe, but I’d like you to try it.
They’re barbequed Wolf meat skewers.”

Pieces of wolf meat are pierced through with a skewer, and onions are alternate between then.

The details are like this:

Grilled Wolf Skewers

A dish of Wolf meat, skewered and grilled.
Using herbs and lemon juice, a refres.h.i.+ngly light taste is created.

Quality 8    SPD Minor Increase (long lasting)

I’m looking for comments on how I well I barbequed the grilled skewers.
I was just testing out a new grill when I made them.

“Fumu, this is quite delicious.”

“It looks unrefined, but it’s actually well-made, hm?”

From top to bottom are Reiji, Nora, and Kazamine’s critiques.

By the way Millie is too busy eating to join in.

As for Zwei, he has …

“Why do I get NPC Bread!?”

Because I was waiting for that exact reaction.

Of course I’m going to give him a grilled skewer now? Going any further with the bullying is not within in my interests.

Right after all that, as we all agreed a Wild Bear is too tough we hunted several regular Bears, a rank below the Wild Bears, until it was time to return to Town and disband.

Reiji, Nora, and Kazamine were added to my Friend List,
And that is how my first time in a party ended.

SKILLS

[Bow]Lv29   [Kick]Lv25   [Farsight]Lv23   [Wind Magic]Lv17

[Cooking]Lv34   [Woodworking]Lv9   [Alchemy]Lv30   [Stealth]Lv19
[Physical Ability Boost]Lv31

EXP　１５

The tale of my first party has drawn to an end.
Now it’s time to talk about crafting.

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Translator Note:
While translating, since it takes approx 3xs longer for me to navigate the text than reading English normally, the build up to his final kick felt so overdone I was gonna laugh so hard if he missed…

Also, the switch from explaining battle in detail to explaining cooking in detail… @[email protected]
OVRMMO is not a cooking manga, er, 1/4th a cooking web novel?