A Certain Middle-aged Man’s VRMMO Activity Log

Toaru Ossan no VRMMO Katsudouki

Author: Shiina Howahowa

The Challenge from the Dead pre-preparations.

As well as the siblings of the ridiculous crafted equipment preparations.

After a long time, theres an announcement from the devs about whats considered to be the 2ndgreat combat area and player upgrades.

For the servers stabilization they finally arranged for a line-up of optimizations, and now its become possible to receive twice the number of people; in order to make the custom VRs necessary equipment more stable as well, they finally decided to order additions.

With that, after last times maintenance, they had added another abnormal status.

The [Break Arm] status, to put it simply, is when you put your opponent in a state where he is unable to hold onto held weapons or shields; its that kind of brutal abnormal state. Of course the conditions were announced; one way for this condition to occur is if the hand and arm is effectively stunned or petrified.

And one more way to end up in this condition is if you take the greatest damage, 25% or more of your HP, on your hand or arm.

And once it occurs, the result is that you will drop your equipment, and continue to be in a state where you are unable to pick it up for several seconds.

But, monsters and other players will not be able to steal the dropped equipment.

For those who have had their rare equipment stolen before, they can rest assured.

Following that, they also announced the highly anticipated addition with the next update; the completely random dungeon titled [Challenge from the Dead] was going to make its appearance.

A randomly generated dungeon with a 1 hour time limit, the goal would be to see how far you can delve.

Its certainly a PV aimed towards advertising the 2ndgreat combat additions, but

That PV has collected together all the actions of players that have stood up until now.

The people whose faces came out that I knew were Zwei, Grad, and Silver also made an appearance.

As for myself, they used the sequence where I defeated the Fairy Queen in the PV.

It doesnt really show the Fairy Queen well, but from the whips restraint to the bow&kick combo, all of its there. Dont show everyone that ~!

Even if I yelled that theres no way I would get it to stop, even though I have a bow that I can only have in a fantasy.

Anyway, in order not to lose against the devs brutish ways, Ill have to put my battle abilities in order.

When I think about that, from hereon I predict that a shield is probably going to become necessary.

I expect that only being able to evade to defend myself is going to make things way too harsh in the future.

Not to mention, since the usually solo me has a high tendency towards playing solo, theres no way I will always be able to make surprise attacks, and with the new dungeon thats going to be even more likely.

But you know, having a regular old shield isnt really that interesting,naa?

Anyway, the type you carry by hand is obviously rejected, since if I cant pull draw my bow theres no point; as expected its going to be the type you stick on your arm if I do that then the buckler-type, Small Shield would be the safest.

And from here the true strength of the strange-weapons maker can be demonstrated.

Even though I knew about a good bow, I couldnt implement its mechanisms in the X-Bow; the compound bow, that is.

Using pulleys, its easier to put more power behind the draw of the bowstrings; truly a bow with nothing to criticize, but no matter what I did it was impossible to work that mechanism into the X-Bow, so I let that one pass.

Previously Ive been gathering meat dish materials and practicing with the shield steadily in repeated battles.

Carrying a hastily made iron shield in my [right hand], I defensively received opponents attacks with the shield, and the Skill Level grew steadily.

As for why the right hand, its because Im planning on equipping the shield to my right arm; anyway, I wasnt planning on making a straightforward shield to begin with so it doesnt matter Ill probably be standing out in a bad way again, but Ill just ignore that aa, ignore that!

For now Ive upped my Shield Skill to about 5 on Wolves, so now Ill use Rock Ants in the forest to raise the Skill further.

These Rock Ant shells might also have some merit to use, so Im also collecting materials at the same time.

Naturally, Im using Thief Skills Radar to properly keep an eye out in order not to pull other Rock Ants in by Link.

The result was spectacular; in an instant the Shield Skill shot up to 25; the initial Skills really do level fast.

Assaulting Kick also shot up by 4, so heres a pretty nice spot; if I come here again tomorrow I bet Ill be able to advance and specialize in the buckler-type Small Shield.

By the way, the Shields next specializations are Small Shield, Medium Shield, and Big Shield; Medium Shield corresponds with things like kite shields, and Big Shield corresponds to things you can pretty much hide your body behind, like tower shields.

After I returned to town I transferred to Nexia; my objective is an Advanced crafting set.

With Cooking finally reaching 50, Ive advanced on to the next level, Advanced Cooking, and Ive finally become able to use the Advanced crafting set.

With this it looks like Ill be able to make steamed items, so I intend to try to make meatbuns. For that reason I bought cake flour-like wheat flour; after this will be more experimenting. Though I have doubts whether Ill have the time

Now is the task of crafting ingots; anyway, if I dont make them I cant proceed.

In order to make the compound bow, it looks like Ill need a mountain of materials again, and on top of that Ive already decided on the deformation mechanism Ill be needing to some degree for my own compound; anything beyond that will just be unnecessary time and effort.

And then, because Ill have to make arrows strictly for the compounds use, Ill be using up even more tons of ingots no matter how much Light Metal I have itll never be enough

Even more so in making the reverse bow1 I bet, when I finish it all my blacksmith buddies will definitely ask, Can you even use this thing?Maa, there should be no problem; since its a battle weapon designed specifically for me, then its fine.

In the end, today I only hectically moved around collecting materials and raising the Shield Skill.

The Dungeon addition is in one week; it has a feel to it, like challenge yourself on how far you can raise your battle power by then.

After I choose my Shield specialization, then Ill probably concentrate full-force on crafting the compound.

Looks like Cooking will be done in between as a break

SKILLS

[Wind-Blown Hunting Bow]Lv1

[Kicking Assault]Lv16 4UP

[Farsight]Lv47

[Craftsmanship]Lv47

[Shield]Lv 25 (NEW!)

[Stealth]Lv38

[Physical Ability Reinforcement]Lv17

[Thief]Lv33

[Whip]Lv34

[Fairy Language]Lv99 (Forced Acquisition) (Unable to be moved to Reserved Skills)

Reserved Skills

[Woodworking]Lv28

[Blacksmithing]Lv33

[Alchemy]Lv40

[Advanced Cooking]Lv1 (NEW!)

ExP 7

A/N: There have been comments coming in here and there saying, What about the compound bow?

But in order to use it here I couldnt use it for the X-Bow.

The ridiculous equipment will soon increase in comrades.

In other words, Earth has completely charged down the path of unique weapons.