Only I know that this world will end – 082 | Sousaku – 創作

Werewolf

After parting with Nao, Akira greeted Karube and asked to borrow one of his gadgets.

"Binoculars, is it?"

Karube blinked at Akira's request.
Probably he didn't expect to be asked for such a thing after his conversation with Nao.
Soon, however, Karube nodded his head in approval of Akira's request.

"I understand. Let's get it ready. Although, what we have are binoculars with reticles…… Do you know how to use them? "
"Ah, no…… But anything that even increases the magnification is good enough for me right now."
"I understand. Please wait in your room then. "

Bowing to Karube, Akira returned to his hospital room.
He then picked up the Minotaur's battle axe and waited for a while before Karube arrived.

"Here you go."

He handed him a pair of military binoculars that had probably been used by one of the members of his unit.
Akira accepted the binoculars, politely thanked him, and left the hospital.

Akira checked his status screen as he walked toward the center of the city.

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Ichijou Akira 25 years old Male Lv1 (39)

Stamina：６６（＋１Up）
Strength：１６６（＋１Up）
Endurance：１３５（＋１Up）
Speed：１５０（＋１Up）
Magical power：２０【２１】（＋１Up）
Luck：４０（＋１Up）

Points：１
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Unique Skills:
・Return from Hell

System Expansion Skills:
・Inventory
・Scenario

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Skills
・Physical strengthening Lv３
・Analysis Lv１
・Magic Circuit Lv１
・Magic regen Lv１
・Auto Regen Lv１
・Dash Lv１
・Sixth Sense Lv１
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Damage bonus
・Goblin races ＋３％
・Wolf races ＋１０％
・Plant-based monsters ＋３％
・Beast monsters ＋５％
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The trophies earned in his last life had given him a large damage bonus against wolf monsters.
In addition, he had gained one more point for his level-up.

(……Huh? Last time I used Dash, I thought my current magical power value was two less than the maximum, but it's only one less…… Perhaps it had recovered at some point? )

If so, the time it took to regenerate magical power with Magic Regen Lv 1 would be approximately one day.

(Long…… I have to do something about that, too, by raising the skill level.)

With that thought, Akira let out a sigh and closed the screen.
Akira then sat still and thought about what was to come.
As long as Nao was in that state, he could not go back from death in vain. If he wasted his time going back to death, it would only make her more likely to wake up on the battlefield with Killer Bees.
Considering that it was an unnecessary burden on her mind, it was essential to defeat one of the bosses with as few deaths as possible.

(First, I need to gather information about the boss…… The clue to that is that monster train.)

Akira muttered to himself and turned his feet to the place where he had met the man.

Akira knew.

That the monsters infesting the city in the vicinity of the boss's appearance will be frightened and will flee from the area as if to disappear from the scene.
But there were no more monsters in this city that could be called bosses.
The minotaur that had this city as its territory was indeed killed with his own hands, and he now had the trophy war axe in hand as proof of that.
Based on these facts, two main possibilities could be considered as the cause of that monster train.

(……Well, is the Minotaur back? Or another boss has come to town.)

Akira pondered the possibility in his mind.
Nevertheless, he thought it was unlikely concerning the resurrection of the Minotaur.
The screen that was displayed when the minotaur was defeated showed a decrease in the world reversal rate.
If the Minotaur is being resurrected by the passage of time, then the world reversal rate itself, which had been declining, should return to normal with the resurrection of the boss.

However, no such screen has appeared even once until now.

Perhaps the Minotaur will be resurrected in the future, but since there was a system called the world reversal rate, which decreased as the boss was defeated, it seemed impossible for the boss to be resurrected once it had been defeated.

(Which means that there is only one possible cause of the current large movement of monsters that was taking place. ……It means that the bosses that have appeared in other cities are coming to this city.)

Akira exhaled heavily at that conclusion.
As to why the bosses from other cities were coming to this city, he did not know.
But the position of boss currently in charge of this city was vacant.
So it seemed to make sense that the boss monsters who ruled other cities were invading this city in search of new territory.

"Whatever it is, I have to see the boss first."

Akira whispered in a small tone.

In previous iterations, Akira had fled to the surrounding towns.
Each time he was killed by the boss monster that ruled that city, he thought that as long as he could find the boss that was invading this city, he could find out from which city they had come.

Akira continued on his way, making sure to kill the monsters that attacked him on the way to his destination.
Eventually, he came to the spot where he had died the last time.
Nervously, he searched for signs of his surroundings, but there was no indication that the monsters were fleeing in fear of the boss.
He stepped forward just a little to see if there might be a fleeing monster somewhere, but a goblin jumped out of the shadows with a strange cry, and Akira swung his fist at the goblin with a click of his tongue and blew it away.

"Hasn't the boss attacked yet? And it's still some time before that man is being chased by the monsters.…… I guess I'll just pass the time by leveling up as I go along for a while."

Muttering, Akira let out a small sigh.
After changing his mind, he began to hunt monsters in the area at random to strengthen himself.

Then, a few hours later, it happened.

Akira, who was working hard leveling against monsters, suddenly noticed that the number of monsters around him was increasing.
Upon closer observation, it appeared that the monsters were streaming in from the residential side located to the east.
By the looks of it, Akira sensed that the boss was just around the corner, and he began to move.

Swinging his axe at the fleeing monsters, he surely ended their life and turned them into experience.
Sometimes he would avoid combat with monsters that moved in large packs, hiding in the shadows to avoid the hordes.
And so, as he continued on his way, the monsters gradually began to diminish in number.
Akira was convinced when he noticed that it had become so quiet that he could not feel any sign of life.

(…………This feeling, no doubt.)

It was a familiar sight.
The world was dominated by a stillness that was different from tranquility as if all living creatures had died out.
The heavy pressure of the strange, almost murderous atmosphere in the air unknowingly made Akira's skin crawl.

(Now I just have to figure out where the boss is……)

Akira moved forward, hiding in the shadows.
Then he spotted a tall building standing out among the rows of houses. It was a three-story building of apartments for rent. Since the third-floor balcony was in front of the eaves, if he could leap from the railing and hold onto the eaves, he would be able to reach the rooftop by sheer force.

(――Maybe there! )

Quickly, Akira slipped into the apartment as if to rush in.
Placing the battle-axe at the entrance to the middle staircase, he immediately ran up to the third floor, kicked in the door of the nearest room at hand, and entered.
The room was empty. With the appearance of the monsters, the residents here must have left in a hurry. It was as if people had been there just a few minutes ago, in the midst of their daily lives, clothes, and small and large bags to carry around were scattered on the floor, in addition, the smell of half-rotting food left in the refrigerator, which had not been closed properly, irritated his nose.
Akira went to the balcony as soon as he entered the room.
Then, from there, he looked up overhead to measure the distance, scrambled to the railing, and leaped at once.

"Huh. Hmm……! "

The distance that would have been impossible to reach in the past was no problem now that his status had improved.
When his fingers hung over the edge, he put all his strength into it at once, lifted his body with just the strength of his fingers, crawled up, and arrived safely on the rooftop.

"……Alright."

Muttering, Akira took out his binoculars, which he had tucked away in his pocket so as not to drop them, and looked around.
A small alley. The roadway between residential areas. And a parking lot lined with abandoned cars.
Without missing a single one of them, he searched for the boss.
That's when he turned his attention to a series of alleys.

(――――There.)

Akira spotted the monster.
A bipedal wolf, you might say.
A boss monster that ruled a different city than that one infested by Orcs or that one ruled by the Giant.
Akira bit his lip once and exhaled, remembering that he used to be killed as soon as he saw that figure.

(Did that guy come to this city? Perhaps he's attracted to the effect of my trophies and that is the reason why he's invading? …………Either way, if I leave him alone, he's going to take over this town sooner or later.)

Akira muttered this in his mind and immediately used 『Analysis』 to burn the monster's information into his eyes.

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Werewolf Lv９３

Stamina：２３７
Strength：２１３
Endurance：２５７
Speed：４１２
Magical power：７０
Luck：５１
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Individual information: Cannot be displayed due to insufficient level
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Possessed skills: Cannot be displayed due to insufficient level
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"…………Quite the bastard."

Unintentionally, he clicked his tongue at the high numbers.
Although he knew it, there was indeed a big difference in status between the enhanced boss monster and himself.
Fortunately, however, although that boss had a rather high Speed, the rest of his stats were still within his ability to cope.
As long as he could take away his mobility, he would still be able to do something about it.

"Alright……"

Muttering, Akira stepped off the roof of his apartment onto the balcony again.

Whatever was to be done in this life had already been decided in Akira's mind.