A Certain Middle-aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log

Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki

A/N: With the Event over, the laid-back atmosphere is ?

Right now Im at the Woodworking workshop.

For the X-Bow that Ive abused up until now, I need to do large-scale maintenance or rather, its to make improvements.

I had maintained it little by little while I was hunting, but this time its worn out to the point where it would be bad if I didnt overhaul it.

First I should disassemble it into its parts. And now, replace both the main parts and the bowstrings of the wornout bow; the main parts were fixed by newly making them with good wood I singled out from within the area around Nexia.

Next, the X-Bows reinforcement part was iron, so Ill change it to be Light Metal made.1

It certainly reduces the heaviness, but Im using it because its strength is also improved compared to iron.

The parts that can be improved, should be improved.

Since the basic idea hasnt changed, I didnt go through the pains like I did when I first made the X-Bow.

Even the modifications of the fussier, detailed parts were easily done.

Afterwards, all thats left is carefully reassembling it.

Since all the deteriorated parts were completely eliminated, by including the enhanced parts, though the overall appearance didnt change, its performance has increased.

X-Styled Composite Hunting Bow Revised

A bow aiming to increase offensive power by adding 2 bows together in an X.

That an arrow can be fired from this strange shape can only be called a marvel.

The handlings difficulty is greatly increased; a beginner with bows will absolutely not be able to use it.

With the parts largely all revised, the power has increased.

Quality 7 Atk+46

With this Ill be able to fight for a while longer.

After so long, for this quality to come out when I remade it is good.

The new bows form isnt at all wobbly or floatynaa.

Um, if Im looked at so much, I cant calm down and focus you know?

Looking over my shoulder I, call out.

There are other Woodworking Crafters there, but theres also people who clearly dont even have any Crafting Skills looking my way.

The reason is, even if I dont need to say it, because of the last Events final battle.

Because of that, even if I dont want to deal with it, the result is that I stood out; even just walking around gets me noticed.

These gazes are things that make me uncomfortable.

Not to mention, before the event I was mainly a Solo player, and with the Thief Skill I mostly hide myself to fight and kill my presence off, so I feel the stares even more strongly.

When I looked behind, most of the people immediately looked away.

Watching a bow being made is somehow interestingne~?

Along with that, [Hes been doing strange thingsna~] they might be saying about the novelty of it,naa.

I pray that a situation like with the Queen before wont come again.

Maa, even if it does, because of the one time before it would be ok.

Anyway, with my business finished here, lets withdraw from the crafting station.

Even though I feel like hiding myself with , with that, even though I up the Skill Level, the speed with which MP is used has not improved, and because of the short duration I cant hide, so I cant misuse it in this situation. Truthfully you can only use Skills in places that allow their usage, so its not something great that you can use to*poof*away from the gathering gazes.

I get it, I totally get it, but you know,naa.

That I would stand out this much because of the Event was something I didnt think of.

After the Devs uploaded the video of that battle, the view-count became something amazing.

And from that theyre editing a portion and using it as one of the official promo-videos; because of that Im standing out even more. The X-Bow has already become my trademark.

Is this what they call the pain of being famous? Theres probably nothing more troublesome than thisna~.

But even so, theres no way I can just not do anything.

I cant stop putting out the Cooking stall, and I also want to go hunting to gather materials.

For now hunting should come first so thinking I aimed for the towns exit.

I wont be hunting Horned Rabbits, though,ne.

Once you go outside the town, is this opening day or something!? About that many players are there.

Yes, thats right there are a ton of players who took Bow.

Because theres a lot of players for which the starting weapon, the vendors crude bow, is still a good weapon, its quite the mismatched scenery.

Theres especially a lot of attack types, probably because they chose the bow as a counter-plan to sword attacks and magic, so theres a lot of heavy armor and light armor players.

Within this crowd, I wonder how many people will able to use the bow to any degree?

For now, to avoid getting in the way should I take my leave

People swinging whips are also here as well.

Once Whip reaches 10 and you learn the Arts, the playing field instantly increases.

I hope they do their best to train to that level.

As always, I basically assassinate Dread Wolves and Bears with the and bow combo, securing quite a large supply of meat. Its almost like Im poaching, but if I let that bother me then Ill have lost.

I really dont want to do another full-frontal battle ever again.

Ive refused all requests for PvP. If I accept one than it will become a vicious cycle.

A major part of the scope of my abilities have already been found out, and I have no interest in aiming to be the strongest.

Somehow my desire to compete is pretty lowdesuyo

Sneakily having fun like this is good enough.

come to think of it, didnt I just have a strange magic I learned? Right now there are no other people around, it should be fine to experiment.

Within the ring the Fairy Queen forcibly equipped on me, there was a restriction lifted for a magic called Prism Nova, so I should be able to use that magic.

However since its type of magic is unknown, theres probably no way to improve the Skill.

I immediately try it out on my Bear opponent.

Just now Id shaved off at least 80% of the Bears HP and limited its movement.

And now to trigger it so its a magic that needs a designated target, theeen Ill trigger it in the middle of the Bears heart.

The instant I triggered it my MP reduced by about 40%, and rainbow-colored balls came falling from above like meteors and exploded.

The Bears remaining HP was about 5%; I wonder if the power is weak because my own magic abilities are weak? thats what I thought, however.

The pitiful Bear had become a stone statue what is the meaning of this?

After that I faced about 10 or so Bears and shot it at them many times.

The result; it turns out, [The damage is low, but its a magic that randomly inflicts on of several abnormal statuses] that Queen had another ridiculous magic.

If I used this in front of people, theres no doubt it will be treated like a cheat

Other than when Im in a really tight spot, its sealed, this magic is. Recklessly using it is a definite NO.

By the way, the abnormal statuses I can trigger are 7; Poison, Burn, Blindness, Confusion, Restrain, Paralysis, and Petrification.

Poison and Burn are often induced, but Paralysis and Petrification dont occur often.

Maa, when Paralysis and Petrification are triggered, then at that moment the fights pretty much settled,naa.

And the cool-down is 20 minutes. If you think about the power, not being able to rapid-fire it is a given.

Somehow its become kind of unpleasant, so deciding in my heart that, normally, I will definitely seal this away, I returned to the town in order to do some cooking, but

Oi, you! Over there! I got some business with you.

I heard a voice saying that. I dont know who hes talking to, but what a disasternaa.

If theres anyone who has it in his heart to turn around and face someone who calls out to him like that, Id respect him as a Buddha.

Someone who says that with such a stuck-up tone has got to be a troublesome person.

You! Turn around, I said I got some business with you, didnt I?!

I dont know whos being summoned, but lets get the heck away and log out; getting involved would be too much of a pain.

They say a wise man will stay away from danger.

Lets do the cooking tomorrow; somehow I got really tired all of a sudden.

If he gets any more violent theres always the Call Game Master, so there shouldnt be any problems.

Oi you

Aa shut up, dont you get that if you call someone like that, then anyone would get as far away as possible~?

Maawhatever, lets hurry and enter an inn to log out.

And I was just finally able to get my cooking ingredients,naa.

Tomorrow Ill make my rounds.

SKILLS

[Wind-Blown Hunting Bow]Lv1

Reserved Skills

[Woodworking]Lv28 2UP

[Blacksmithing]Lv30

[Alchemy]Lv40

ExP 14

A/N: The bulk of the Rings penalty comes mainly from the Prism Nova magic; naturally you cant rapid fire it, it would be way too powerful.

But of course since its been player-ized it has been weakened.

Earths percentages are, poison 60%, burn 55%, blindness 30%, confusion 20%, restrain 15%, paralysis 6%, petrification 3%

The Queens percentages are, poison 95%, burn 85%, blindness 70%, confusion 60%, restrain 45%, paralysis 30%, petrification 20%; they are quite a bit higher.

It was important that there was no aria needed, since in the Queens fight its her symbolic magic.

PS, there is no cooldown time noted in its description.

The jerk in the last part uses kisama, which is an extremely impolite way to say you. Normally Id translate this to you bastard, but since he isnt directly insulting Earth, just being impolite, I tweaked all the sentences to have a rude feel to them instead of translating kisama as a direct insult. Its just changing punctuation/breaking up sentences, so I didnt bother writing up every one. But, yknow, Ill still let you guys know.>