As dusk fell, the surroundings beca pitch black, with only the lights illuminating the sandy beach.
At the sa ti it was cue for us. Let us begin the top of classic sumr event—Test of Courage!
Everyone had changed into their usual dungeon ready equipnt, and so did I to my ‹Firmant Series›.
"Attention everyone! We will now comnce the beginning of ‹Monster Hunting in Night›!"
Oh, the actual, but hidden for reason, na of the event was ‹Test of Courage›. As a matter of fact, specific only to the sumr night, a ship would appear in the ‹Sea-Dun›.
"There's a huge ship anchored in the south a few minutes away from here. Our goal is to hunt down the monster there, collect their drops and search for treasures from inside the ship."
Night at sea and a ship where monsters appear...did it sound familiar? And indeed, it was nothing but the Ghost Ship!
The specific setting in the ‹Sea-Dun› was such that a ghost ship would appear in all floors as the set during the sumr night. And would disappear as soon as the white glow of dawn illuminates the sky. So it was basically a night only event.
The special part about this Ghost Ship was that the treasure chest lying sowhere inside it was a special one which would spawn back again the next day while taking another shape. Wasn't it an intriguing chanic? The fact fueling that thrill even more was the drops of treasure chest changes on a daily basis, and so too the rarity of the treasure chest!
A treasure loot specific only to sumr night. Doesn't this get you pumped with excitent?
"Also take the ‹Lamp› here everyone, since it is dark. Also, we will all move into a team of limited mbers, it's a ga after all, and race for who can get the treasure chest first. There are around 3~5 of them, anwhile we will split into seven teams. Any team who would return with treasure chest would get a special prize!"
"Treasure chest?! Hurray, it's going to be fun, isn't it, Hannah?"
The expression of Lana and Hannah, the treasure chest enthusiast, dazzled with smiles. In contrast, dark clouds were hovering over Sierra's expression.
"Say, Zephyr. The enemy in this ‹Monster Hunt at Night›, are they perhaps......."
The realization dawned upon Sierra. I presu she must have studied about the monsters that appear in ‹Sea-Dun›.
So it's finally ti. I held back my gushing nervousness and unveiled the details of our true event.
"Most of the monsters are actually…ghost and skeleton type. And the ship is actually a ghost ship."
"........."
"Ack!? Hold on, Sierra. My head would co off if you shake so much!!"
Sierra grabbed by my collar quietly and started shaking violently. W-What's with this power, she's damn strong! Help guysss!
"Errr. It's your fault, Zephyr-kun."
"You reap what you sow."
Ack, Hannah clearly shirked away from helping , so did Lana.
"Calm down, Sierra! I'm sorry, alright, cough, but didn't you say you will work hard to get used to ghosts?! It was just a preparation for it."
"Ugh......"
She finally stopped.
She gave adorable glare with faintly puffed out cheeks and stared at silently for a while.
"I will let you off only this once."
Phew, I finally got my neck free.
Did she decide to forgive ? I guess It would be better to apologize to her later. I firmly noted it down in my ntal note.
Anyway, aside from her, there were a couple others, Alulu and Nico, who also shook hearing the na of skeleton and ghost ship. It seed like they were not good with such stuff either.
"Brave-kun, I still haven't recovered from fatigue from dayti, so it seems like this is my stop. I will be waiting here."
"Y-Yeah! I am also from the production job, so I think it would be better for to stop here as well!"
"Well, you're coming with us either way, Nico. Your presence will be required to increase the appearance of treasure chest and drop rate up too."
"G-Give my old bones so breakkkkk!"
Nico let out a miserable howl at my statent.
It only left Alulu alone who wouldn't be participating, but it seed like she was afraid of being alone so she decided it would be better to tag with us and changed her opinion imdiately.
With that, we left for our destination imdiately after.
Also, we didn't have any plan to co back here, so we retrieved ‹Light› etc items and used the lantern-type ‹Light› to light up our way and started moving.
It took only a few minutes to arrive there.
"This...I was sure there was nothing earlier......."
I could feel a slight tremor in Sierra's speech as she looked at the battered galleon.
It wasn't just Galleon that appeared out of nowhere, a similarly battered and uncanny anchorage had also appeared there.
"It's so rag down. I wouldn't be surprised if ghosts suddenly started to co down."
"Eeeek! P-Please stop giving spooky predictions!"
Nico showed a scared expression as Ester muttered her impression. Whoops, seems like she really has low resistance against ghosts.
Alulu, too, had stuck herself to Hannah.
"Y-You look so calm, Hannah-san. Are you not scared at all?"
"I guess...so. After experiencing that scary incident, ghosts etc are nothing."
"S-Sothing even more frightening than a ghost? You seed to have far more experience than you look, Hannah-san..."
I am sure I had explained it before, that was just a sli you know... nothing such drastic. Though Alulu was looking at her like she was so kind of battle-hardened veteran.
Hannah blushed, but otherwise didn't seem to find it bad at all.
We sort out teams via our typical lottery system.
I would like to avoid any party imbalance since there were going to be seven teams. There were 26 mbers right now, so it would basically be a team of three combatants along with un-combatants Alulu, Maria, lina-senpai, Kairi and Nico joining either of them.
Hmm? You ask why not production job holder Hannah as well? Ahahaha, Hannah herself packs more than simple firepower after...all… wait, is it or there’s sothing amiss here? Hmm-mm…..alright, there’s no need to care about details in ga, yeah.
The composition was basically a high level mber joining hands with low-level mbers who were going to be chosen through lottery.
It was still the upper floor and skeletons weren't that strong either, so we hardly needed a dedicated attacker. I an, a max leveled mber was literally invincible here.
So I made sure each team had at least one max-level mber, while the other mbers were chosen randomly.
"Alright, now each team will board in order! The ti limit is until 8:30 PM, about an hour. All ready? Then let's start our test of cou—ahem, I an let's start ‹Monster Hunt at Night› event! Hop on, team A!"
The seven teams were nad from Team A to Team G who would be boarding the ship in alphabetical order.
Team A would be facing multiple battles as the one at the lead of our train, though it was balanced by more exploration ti.
I was in the last team, Team G. We would hardly be seeing battle, and the exploration ti would be equally less.
The mbers were I, Sierra, Sachi and Nico. Sierra and Nico were slightly scared so I decided to bring them in last team/
The Team A—mbers being Lana, Pala, Noel and Kairi—had just entered when we heard their screams coming out.
"Woaah, why in the na of ghost there are slis!? I got my shoes stained with them-desu."
"Kyaa~, ghost ship is scary~."
Yeah, they seem to be enjoying it thoroughly. The slightly monotone voice after Pala's was probably Noel's.
Man, that girl sure has the knack to liven the mood unexpectedly, doesn't she? No, wait. I guess that make sense in her case huh.
Well, in either case, Team A also had the bane of Skeleton and Ghosts, ‹Saintess› Lana. They shouldn't be having any problem, ‹Seeker› Kairi was also in their rank after all.
That's why, O' Knight Maiden Ester of Team B, could you not give reproachful glare? This is a ga—ahem, I an test of courage so what fun would there be if you chase after them, right?
Also, Nico and Alulu......you know there's really nothing to be scared about from Noel's voice. It's the typical made-up kya-kya of girls you would hear from a haunted house honestly.
Just in case, I explained to them lest they keep making a face if they were being sent to a butcher's shop.
Amidst the howl and cries and kyaa—all...alright, majority being fake—of the mbers, rest of the teams boarded in the order.
Alright, it's finally our team turn then, huh. Let's goooo!
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