MV – Chapter 13: Minor Villain of the Base

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Lanpeach decided to protect this base first.

The winter story events are all tough, but he remembers them not happening in the first city exactly because they are tough.

The winter has dangerous monsters, blizzards, and you will get a debuff at night, so you can’t go outside. If you have narrowed your levels to only one or two skills at this point, you would normally reach 4-5 days, but even a player who has specialized in one point can’t fight against the special and powerful monsters of the winter.

You normally hole yourself up by using crafting skills in your first year, and you can tell that this is the scheme of the developers to have you use crafting skills.

But that helps out now that it has become reality. That’s because it allowed wiggle room for Lanpeach to prepare himself.

(It is possible I will wake up and it will all end up as a dream if I die, but I have no intention of killing myself for that possibility.) (Lanpeach)

Lanpeach wanted to raise the white flag inside his sad spacious room with worn out concrete and nothing worth mentioning, but he couldn’t, so he reluctantly opened the Status Board.

Libra, who was sleeping by the side of Lanpeach while floating, noticed that he was about to do something, so she moved her face closer to him with a sharp amused face.

She would sleep, read manga, sing, and eat sweets because she didn’t have anything to do. She is way too free of an Artificial Spirit.

But the game had a complex system where she would have taken similar actions to this one unless you were to move her directly, so Lanpeach didn’t question this.

[Ooh, you will be taking a skill, aren’t you? What are you going to take? Definitely the cooking skill.] (Libra)

But he thought ‘isn’t she living way too freely following her instincts?’.

“I won’t take the cooking skill. I also won’t retort with ‘why the cooking skill?’. There’s the need to protect this base first and foremost.” (Lanpeach)

Lanpeach said this straight and made an evil smile. It looked as if this minor villain was scheming something evil. The more serious he gets, the more he looks like a minor villain. It is a sad reality, but it is the side-effect of leveling Minor Villain, so you could say he dug himself into that one.

Libra knew that the impression of his surroundings would grow worse if Lanpeach were to smile, but it was amusing, so she had no intention of warning him.

[To protect this base? Is this base that important? Well, I know that a base doesn’t come often, but there’s also the option to pass this to some other team and work as an explorer, you know?] (Libra)

“Don’t joke around. There’s young children. The slums is a world where the strong feed the weak. They would die easily. I can just think of the children I see on TV from other countries that are suffering as pitiful, but I wouldn’t be able to endure having children die because of my own actions.” (Lanpeach)

[Aah, so you don’t want to be responsible. Well, I get it. There’s a lot of people like~ that~.] (Libra)

Lanpeach made a sour face, but it is not like he is a charitable man or a saint. The conscience of someone steering towards being good is not rare.

The type that wouldn’t think much of rumors and things you hear on the TV, but would be bothered when it involves himself.

“Also, I will be able to protect myself as well if I have a base.” (Lanpeach)

The All-Purpose Fodder Minor Villain Lanpeach showed up in front of the 7 protagonists in a variety of ways.

In the case of Dry, he had the role of a hoodlum killed as a tutorial, but for the other protagonists, it would at times be the boss of bandits, an assassin, an android, the boss of a team ruling over a base.

Now that he is in this position, he wanted to file a complaint about how the developers have been using Lanpeach too much.

If they wanted to slack, they could have at least changed the color of the clothes and changed the names.

It is difficult to avoid all the death flags, but the one with the highest chance of victory is Base Defense. The difficulty is high, and he remembers he died countless times as a player.

And if it is such a strong defense, he thought that maybe he had a chance of winning against the other death flags if he were to just wait for them in the base. That maybe he could steer them to his advantage.

“Moreover…this base has an issue.” (Lanpeach)

[Issue? I think it is full of issues. Or more like, is there a point that doesn’t have any issues?] (Libra)

The question of Libra is natural, but Lanpeach’s face turned serious, saying ‘there obviously is’.

“I can’t take it. Look at this room. This room.” (Lanpeach)

“Room? There’s nothing. If I had to mention anything, it would be that there’s rubble?] (Libra)

Libra tilted her body in midair as if saying she doesn’t understand at all, and her twin tails hung down.

Worn down concrete and spacious enough to have a party with more than a dozen people.

They call it a bedroom, but this is basically a boss room in games to wait for the protagonist. There’s a single chair placed in the room, and the only thing else is rubble piled up at the corners of the room. The windows are also covered with wooden boards.

It is a tasteless room.

“You don’t get it? It is dirty! Dirty! I really hate this kind of room. That goes for a bedroom too. The pipe bed is covered in dirt and there’s rubble on it. Look, the floor is dirty with dust and mud. And most of all, it is weird that there’s rubble in a room!” (Lanpeach)

[Aah, so you are a clean freak, Soldier. No, it is normal to feel that way, huh. I think the people from the slums have a different perspective, but it is true that it is dirty.] (Libra)

Libra placed a finger on her cheek after the preaching of Lanpeach.

“Right? Everyone is treading the line of not stinking probably because they regularly wipe their bodies with water or something, but I can’t endure a room filled with trash.” (Lanpeach)

It is way too dirty. It is unbearable for a Japanese person.

In the first place, he didn’t like that he had to wear shoes despite being indoors.

Lanpeach wants to put a prohibition on shoes indoors, but he wants to clean this base first.

The minor villain was worrying about hygiene more than avoiding his death flags.

“And so, I will be obtaining the Base Defense Knowledge.” (Lanpeach)

(Obtain Base Defense Knowledge.)

[Obtained.]

(Should I make my base this one? Hm, can it be assigned? Oh, the list showed up.) (Lanpeach)

Lanpeach tapped the choices with good tempo and was relieved at how it is the same as the game.

[You have registered the Lanpeach Complex as your base.]

More windows were displayed one after the other.

[Tutorial: You have cleared Obtain your First Base. Obtained 5,000 Exp.]

[Learned Base Defense Knowledge all the way to Level 3.]

He used all his remaining experience points without hesitation. It is something absolutely necessary.

Even in the game, Base Defense Knowledge is useless unless it is level 3.

[Learned Artificial Spirit (Combat Engineer) Creation.]

[Please choose the army branch of your Artificial Spirits for defense.]

[Sword Soldiers: Close combat exclusive soldiers.]

[Shield Soldiers: Soldiers that block the attacks of enemies.]

[Bow Soldiers: Soldiers used for silent kills.]

[Gun Soldiers: Gun exclusive soldiers.]

[Magic Soldiers: Magic exclusive soldiers.]

You can obtain Artificial Spirit soldiers from level 3 and on. 3, 5, 7, 9, and 10 are the breaking points where you get one army branch. And so, you can obtain all the army branches in the end, but the first one to obtain is obvious.

(Gun Soldiers.)

[Obtained. You have obtained the Artificial Spirits (Gun Soldiers).]

There’s no choice other than gun soldiers. In base defenses, the ones with the guns have an overwhelming advantage. Or more like, there’s no need to raise Base Defense anymore than this.

[I have been thinking this the whole time, but there’s no hesitation when you raise your skills, Soldier. Wouldn’t you normally hesitate when you get the protection of the strengthening system? Also, you know things that are not normally known.] (Libra)

Libra looked at the face of Lanpeach in wonder. She asked with a dumbfounded and cute innocent face, but Lanpeach answered with an unfazed expression.

“Really? It must be because I am pretty decisive. How are the others obtaining their skills?” (Lanpeach)

Lanpeach couldn’t just answer ‘because this is the world of a game’, so he tried to play dumb. What he was more curious about was how the others do it.

[Eh? You are the only one in this era that has the strengthening system, Soldier. I was really surprised since you are the first human to access the Space Library in 1,260 years, you know?] (Libra)

“…Only me? How are the others obtaining skills then?” (Lanpeach)

[They can’t install it, so they would share their fragmented memories between each other to obtain skills. But they are not set techniques like you, but changed and inferior versions of the original skill.] (Libra)

All of humanity was genetically modified so that they could use spirit abilities in the past.

They were set skills in a package like Lanpeach, but the present humans have inherited this factor as memories.

They can’t provide maintenance with Space Library, so the factor has changed more and more.

Even if it looks like the same skill, they would be greatly deteriorated compared to the past or adapted to match the modern era.

[The skill to stop time, Instant, is a skill only you can use, Soldier. I think there will be many other differences.] (Libra)

Libra waved her finger and explained with a smug face.

The unexpected reality made Lanpeach think ‘so it wasn’t just a convenient game setting’.

It is true that [Instant] was only usable by the player. If the enemies were to use something like that, the game would be impossible to clear.

“I see. Aah, then it would be better to not show the player exclusive skills to others.” (Lanpeach)

He doesn’t remember well which ones were player exclusive, but he thought it might be better to be careful with the strange powers.

He felt like this was going to be an unexpected handicapped playthrough and was bitter about it. He had a feeling a whole lot of issues will crop out if it is discovered.

Lanpeach has cleared the game several times. He has confidence in his own carefulness and thought he would be fine.

“Well, I pride myself on always being careful, so there’s no need to pay that much attention to it.” (Lanpeach)

(Base Display.) (Lanpeach)

His own base is shown in front of him. A half-transparent 3D building was displayed.

(I want to make this base comfortable more than anything. I will give up on the outside since it is the slums, so I want to make the inside be on the level of a hotel.)

He felt this strongly as a gamer.

[Yup yup, self-restraint is important. Libra thinks so too. So, what are you going to do?] (Libra)

“A clean up.” (Lanpeach)

[Create Artificial Spirits (Gun Soldiers).]

Lanpeach used the skill and a complex magic circle was drawn in front of him, and 10 Artificial Spirits showed up from inside that.

“I plan on cleaning up the rubble with this for now.” (Lanpeach)

[Yup yup, self-restraint is important.] (Libra)

Lanpeach didn’t question his own actions at all while humming, and Libra was watching him with lukewarm eyes.

[It has been 1,260 years since my last soldier. Do your best, Soldier.] (Libra)

Those eyes were mysterious and fascinating, and would make you feel fear, but Lanpeach didn’t notice because he was concentrating on the base map.

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