Chapter 177
Yes. This chapter totally required ALL 5 hours it took. Nothing else was spent than on this super long chapter. *goes back to watching Bokurano for the 999x time* Next chapter in 4-8 hours?... Also no need to read the below bold paragraph.
Actually, I think I spent the first hour or two looking over the dates of old isekai WNs after seeing a comment on Slave Harem Labyrinth manga over why Truck-sama didn't start it. I suddenly was curious as to when Truck-sama first started to appear so I scrolled back through dates of WNs on narou. Though the farthest back stuff dates to 2004. Most of what came out in WNs that time was romance/other genres but in terms of fantasy it was some D&D type fantasy and .hack clone/VR based stuff up until around 2006-2008 it seems, I think it was around the time Haruhi or some other novel based anime came out that the general number of WNs shot up insanely. Like multiplied several times in total number on a yearly basis after that, it really jumped up around 2010 and that was also when a lot of isekai series including Overlord started to increase a bit. After that a few good ones came out in 2011 (and one of the ones that has constantly been in the top 10 of narou since then Slave Harem Labyrinth which everyone hates(still rated #9 overall now)), 2012, and in 2013 like 75% of all the commonly known/translated WNs like Shield Hero, Arifureta, Death March, Monster Master, Mushoku Tensei, etc... like all of those came out in 2013 at the same time I think that was when Truck-sama first started appearing 2011-2013... Very curious...I should start up some kind of cult/conspiracy theory based on this.
Year 7445, Month 2, Day 14
Today is the birthday of us reincarnated people. We're {seventeen}. Somehow 17 years old has an unripe fruit kind of feel to it that is both happy and embarrassing.
Giberuti cooked the meat from the Matte Turtle he bought the other day in steaks for us. Everyone was saying it was delicious as they chomped down the steaks and finally we had some dessert that was something like boiled and chilled figs with sweet syrup. It seems that Gwine knew the method to make this fig compote and taught Giberuti about it. The weak point is that it uses a considerable amount of sugar so the cost of ingredients was quite high but it was no challenge for our desire to eat some real dessert for the first time in a while. I'll have him make some again sometime.
By the way, when everyone's age increased other than Gwine we all gained an increase in our Speed. I guess in exchange for that, Gwine's Endurance increased. That's quite like a Dwarf. Basutoral is smoothly gaining experience and now he's at a level 8 that's close to hitting level 9. In just a mere two months he's earned close to 70,000 experience and just in terms of level he's already caught up to Hirosukol.
Well, every time more than three ogres come out at once since I'm thinning out the extras in one hit, I'm earning an incomparable amount of experience points thanks to the boost from Gift of Natural Talent and since Miduchi is occasionally entering the dungeon together with Zulu and Angela they're earning a decent amount of experience points as well.
If we keep putting some effort into it like this until the end of this year then..Basutoral's level should go up even higher and I guess be around the same level as Bel and Toris right now? No, along the way he should be able earn experience easier (the chances for him to do damage to monsters will increase) so he might be able to make it a bit higher...And wait a second!
When I was staring at Basutoral's experience points I noticed it. The place where the numbers are, I can select it. Could it be..After all that was the case. It's possible to select the experience point numbers for skills as well. I can even open a sub-window for it. While holding my hopes high and opening it and I can browse through the relationship between experience points and level in table form. This is convenient. I wonder why I didn't notice this until now, and, I was a bit amazed at myself. Well, that is~ I never stared at the number for experience points for this long before after all...
Ah, that's right...After all that was the case. So this was the expansion ability for level MAX of Identify...That's pretty dull..or not I guess. Since all I could see up until now was the value to the next level so I never thought much beyond that but in some meanings you could say this is obtaining information from the future right...
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Year 7445, Month 2, Day 15