Blade Skill Online: With Trash Job ‘Summoner’, Weakest Weapon ‘Bow’, and Rotten Stat ‘Luck’, I Rise

[Korin-chan, the Dragon’s Lunch!]

“Eeeeeeeeeeek, I’m going to dieeeeeeeeeeee?!”

When I arrived at the place where the voice was coming from, an unbelievable sight greeted me.

A small cat-eared girl in a short-skirted kimono had her limbs bound by a seemingly countless number of ivies.

She was crying and trying to swing the short sword in her hand, but her wrist was tightly clamped and it seemed unlikely that she would be able to escape.

“Ugaaaaaaaa!”

Suspending the girl in the kimono was a giant plant monster that looked like a fusion of a dragon and a flower.

It popped its slimy mouth open and brought its face closer to the girl as though it was going to eat her!

“Waaa?! Please don’t eat meeeeeeee!”

Whoops, this was not the time to be standing around watching!

I hurriedly nocked four arrows to my bow and fired them toward the ivies that bound the girl’s limbs!

The ivies got torn off without resistance, and the girl in the kimono fell to the ground. Just before she hit the ground, I promptly ran up to her and caught her small body.

“Got you. Are you injured?”

“T-thank you very much…!”

Ugugu… I couldn’t even hold the girl for a few seconds with my zero Strength. I put the girl with black and white eyes on the ground and stared at the plant dragon.

A description of the monster was displayed at the edge of my vision.

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Rare Monster: Dragon Plant

A plant monster that has consumed the corpse of a dragon and absorbed its power.

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“Ugaaaaaaaaaaaa!” The Dragon Plant roared. Maybe it was angry at me for interrupting its meal, it threw a number of ivies at me.

“Ah, it’s dangerous?! Let’s run away!”

The girl in the kimono screamed in response, but…

“Well, just watch. Let’s go, boys!”

[Kishaaaaaaaaa!]

I fired the Pontaro Family swiftly and shot down the approaching ivies! Pontaro, whom I had shot last, pierced the dragon’s head!

“Ugaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

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‘Giant Killing’ activates! Damage increases!

‘Fatal Strike’ activates! Damage increases!

‘Absolute Zero’ activates! Damage doubles!

Critical hit! Damage increases dramatically from hitting a weak point!

‘Heartless Shinigami’, activates! Critical hit damage increases!

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The Dragon Plant screamed taking the hit strengthened by my large number of damage-increasing skills.

Incidentally, the girl trembling behind me screamed, “Fueeeeeeeeeeee?! They say arrows have a crappy hit rate, yet those same arrows just hit all those incoming vines with pinpoint accuracy?! Not to mention, one of them did a lot of damage to the Dragon Plant?!

Hey, may I know what bow are you us… wait, is that not Beginner Bow?! Why are you using that?!”

“Well, this is the only one I can equip because I have zero Strength.”

“Zero Strength?!” The cat-eared kimono-wearing girl screamed. Giving her a sidelong glance, I summoned back Pontaro and the gang to finish off the Dragon Plant.

“Alright, boys, let’s get this over with! ‘Power Burst’, ‘Speed Burst’, ‘Hyper Power Burst’, ‘Hyper Speed Burst’!”

I cast on them a stack of buffing arts, which was possible now thanks to the increase in my MP!

The arrows emitted crackles of lightning and jet-black light. I nocked them to my bow and…

“This is the eeeend!”

“Ugaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!”

…fired them all at once toward the dragon! Pontaro and the gang, having been strengthened to the limit, blew off the dragon’s head and pierced through its body!

As its death throes echoed through the forest, a message appeared before me.

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Rare Monster: Dragon Plant is defeated!

Yuri, Korin, Pontaro, and the rest have gained experience points!

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Korin? Ah, it must be the name of the short girl in the kimono. So she was treated as having been participating in the battle because she had done some damage to the dragon before I’d helped her, huh?

When I moved my eyes toward her, I found her trembling as she watched the dragon disappear.

“F-fuaaaaaa…?! T-this must be a dream! There is no way anyone could defeat such a high-leveled rare monster with Beginner Bow…!

J-just what in the world is going on?! I don’t think I remember ‘Archer’ having art that can make arrows release crackles of lightning and black light and fly like lasers?!”

“Well, no wonder, it comes from ‘Summoner’, after all.”

“S-Summoner?! That Summoner who has an obscenely rough time catching monsters, and who once summon their monsters, their monsters will take up party slots so they will get told that they would be better off just choosing a normal job from the start and teaming up with other players?!”

…Korin was out of breath after speaking so fast. Judging from what she had said, it seemed she knew a lot about this game.

“Korin, could it be that you were a beta tester? …This may be a strange thing to ask, but have you ever written false information on the strategy guide site to deceive beginners?”

“Huh? I’m a beta tester, yes, but I never did something like that…”

“Ah~ I see, I see, sorry for asking that out of nowhere! If you know someone who does it, please let me know, I’m gonna go kill them.”

“You are going to kill them?! What did those people do to you?!” Korin’s cat ears jumped. What, they weren’t attached, but growing out from her head! Amazing!

“Korin, I know it’s rude, but can I touch those cat ears…?”

“No?! They’re more sensitive than real ears!”

She hid her cat ears with her hands. Tch, she really said no, huh~.

“There are many things I would like to ask you, but… for starters, thank you very much, Yuri-san. I would have died if it weren’t for you…”

“Don’t mind it. More importantly, why are you here alone? Where’s the rest of your party?” I asked as I put my hands on my knees and bent forward to match our eye level.

Her big eyes sparkled at my question and she explained with a laugh, “Fufufu! That is, of course, because I’m going to solo this dungeon! Yesterday, a person named Yuri became the first-ever player to solo clear a dungeon! As a fellow beta player, I want to follow in their footsteps and………… wait, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!

C-c-c-c-c-could you be the Yuri-san from yesterday’s world message…?!”

“Yeah, that’s me.”

“Fuaaaaaaaaa?! You are a Summoner, use the bow, and have zero Strength, but you managed to solo a dungeon?!”

“Ou! For your information, all my stats other than Luck are zero!”

“Y-you mean you put all your stat points into Luck?! I… I was beaten to the punch by a person with such a crazy status… Fueeeeeeeeeee~…!” Korin released a voice that sounded like her soul was going out of her body, paled, and froze.

He~y, earth to Korin~?