ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~ Chapter 194

Published at 24th of November 2021 02:19:40 PM

Translator: Kurehashi Aiko

Editor: ryunakama

ShangriLa Fronteir Chapter 194: Meaning of Climax Part 1

Evasion Tank. It is a job that the player can assume in order to be the shield that protects their party from the opponent’s damage. However, they employ their protection not by the art of soaking up damage, but rather focusing on evading it altogether.

When it comes to merits of a job like that, you only need a set of working legs in order to make this work. But when it comes to demerits, once you get hit at least once, it could be all over to you.

「Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!」

When I was starting out in this game, the Ninja class seemed to be really appealing on paper, since it naturally possessed many traits that the Evasion Tank would love to have in its kit. However, seeing that ShanFro’s system was really specific in some aspects, playing as a Ninja from the beginning would have been tremendously difficult and challenging. But now that I have acquired quite a lot of useful and wholesome skills, the Ninja class seemed to be less and less appealing to me by the day. Because on my own I came to possess some skills that were simply ideal for that kind of Tank.

「What’s wrong!? What’s wrong!? You’re not really all that fresh, huh!? Hey! Hey!」

Let’s talk about something different for a moment. The idea of ‘fishing’ for enemies, or should I say ‘baiting’? It was quite the elaborate system in this game…… Or maybe not? Was the ‘elaborate’ an appropriate word to use in here?

But at the same time, there is also a job called ‘Fisherman’ in this game. And apparently the trademark of this class is that it is being able of fishing for various kinds of fish right from the get-go, with as little as a basic fishing rod or even without it.

Salmon, sea serpents, lobsters, leviathans…… You name it, Fishermen can catch it. And switching fishing rods and baits to better, rarer versions only boosts the probability of catching more rare and expensive fish.

And if I can remember correctly, barnacles can be used as a bait for fishing…… So does that mean that this here ‘Barnacle’ could serve as bait as well?

「Uwah, won’t you look at that? Water shoots like jet pack propellant from it’s back!」

「Hyaaaaaahhhhh!? It’s coming this waaaaaay!?」

「Sure looks that way to me, watch out, everyone!」

So apparently it can also absorb the barnacles it generates and convert their energy into kinetic energy that enables it to swiftly move across the battlefield. It would also be wise to assume that it can change such energy in order to attack. It surely is a handy ability and one that you’d need to be wary about, but it has one distinct weakness. One that can be rather fatal.

Even if you were to suddenly cut the kinetic energy to zero, this does not mean that the object propelled by that energy is going to stop right away. That is why even if you are riding a car and you suddenly see a pedestrian right in front of you, even if you floor the breaks you will still travel some distance before you come to a stop…… Which is more often than not enough to send the pedestrian flying.

‘Barnacle’ was on a collision course with Alva, Sickle and I. It was only a matter of time before it slammed its body into us with full power. Which it did almost right away.

Apparently MP Recovery items and effect are unaffected by such things as monsters slamming into you, because Akitsu Akane used one of those at the last possible moment and shot a beam of energy from his mouth in order to make the impact less powerful than it could have been. It was a really surreal sight…… Are we even playing the same game here?

Ah, I bumped right into Sickle, it seems.

「Hooooooooouuuuuuhhhhhh!?!?」

「ONIIIIII-CHAAAAAANNNNNN!!!」

「I’m soooo sooooory!!」

I shall name this…… Apology Breath? Apology Gun? Sometimes it is really hard to decide on a proper name.

「I was afraid that it would be a whole lot harder than that, but with a party like that this boss turned out to be nothing more but a total pushover.」

「But you still have to hand it to it, it was quite fearless. It was really horrible……」

「Ahaha…… But the second half of the fight was really interesting in my opinion……」

In the end, it turned out that Snail Knight must have dropped that cutlass as some sort of event flag. But Barnacle only ended up dropping normal items and materials. There was nothing all that special to it.

And since our party was quite big to begin with, after splitting it all up the amount of items that a single person would receive was not all that impressive…… No, impossible, but what if, hmm.

「What’s the matter?」

「No, nothing. You see, I was just thinking.」

Oh well, there is nothing I can do about it right now, so I might as well save it for later? By the way, Emul watch out as to not hit your head.

With that, we have managed to take down three of the four bosses. That would leave only one more boss left to be slain. I wonder why those bosses nullify the things that they nullify and what will actually happen once we manage to defeat all of them? Honestly, I would like to go and defeat the last boss as soon as possible, preferably right now, but I know that I must be patient. Emul, watch it so that you don’t hit your head by accident.

Be that as it may, there is always the possibility that once the final boss is defeated, we’ll be locked into Kutanid battle without any means of actually preparing ourselves beforehand. Emul, I swear to God, if you bump yourself in that stupid head of yours……!

「What is it? Emul?」

「Above us ––––––!!!」

Above? As I lifted my head upwards, I could see something in between the bits of underwater snow that was falling down. Arctus Regalex, opening its huge jaw wide, was coming down right at Emul and I, apparently intent of eating us in one big swoop. Good thing that judging by its shadow, only Emul and I were within its reach. For now, at least.

「Oh shit, dodge ––––––!!!」

「PIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!」

Hollywood Jump, Hollywood Jump, god damn it! Judging from the perspective of the third party observer or the world itself, what I managed to do right now was a perfectly executed Hollywood Jump, one that could surely net me the nomination for the Academy Award, or maybe even the award itself.

The very next second there was a loud sound in the exact place where Emul and I were standing just a moment before, and the Arctus Regalex crashed into the ground with a loud roar, forced to accepted the full humiliation of being outwitted like that. If I were to name that action, it would certainly be something alongside the lines of Licking the Earth…… Hm? What was that? That’s not how the pecking order around these neck of the woods should go? No, I mean what are you even doing, mister? Licking the earth with your face like that? Are you mad?

Translator: Kurehashi Aiko

Editor: ryunakama

ShangriLa Fronteir Chapter 194: Meaning of Climax Part 2

No, something’s not right here. Why did it hit the ground so hard?

But anyways, we know that this thing is not friendly. That being said, I take out my weapons and prepare myself to rush into action, when……

GOOONNN!!!

「Heee」

Good thing that this game regulates the gore factor. That way, no matter how you brutalize the enemy or your fellow players, there will be hardly any blood to be seen, you won’t be able to see any cross sections of flesh and bones and there will be no innards spilling all over the ground.

However, I was sure of this one thing: right about now the head of Arctus Regalex was being crushed flat by a tremendous shock from above, caused by the weapon that looked strangely like an oversized sledgehammer. Of course, the one holding such a monster of a weapon was none other than our good old Saig0, wearing a demon-like armor and accompanied by the effect resembling steam erupting from it, even from the helmet.

I gazed at Saig0 looking like that……

「Finally found you……!」

「Kyu……」

Hey, wasn’t that the same kind of reaction that Emul did once he learned I wanted to go and face off against Gravekeeper Wezaemon? The one that was so over the top that it was actually quite entertaining? Why would he react like that right now?

To be perfectly honest I was more surprised than scared here, especially since I would not pin in on Rei to do something so gory and over the top for an entrance. But more than anything, I was feeling relief right now. Something alongside the lines of “Ah, she’s finally here”.

「H-Hello there, Rei……」

「………」

W-Why the silent treatment all of a sudden? The way Rei was behaving right now and the way in which she manhandled the Arctus Regalex just now made her look like some overly edgy boss character from a B-rate movie or game. And now it was even more ridiculous, because Arctus Regalex finally died, exploding into a geyser of polygons.

The sight of Rei standing in the rain of red polygons that once made Arctus Regalex was so overwhelming and shocking that for a good moment out there none of knew how we were supposed to react to that. Just then Rei put the hammer back into her inventory, took a step back, and……

「I am truly…… SO TERRIBLY SORRY!」

She bowed down so deeply that she almost hit the ground with her forehead.

Oh, oh yeah. I guess I should say something here, right?

「Oh, so I see I was right. You had some urgent business to take care of in real life.」

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「I am so terribly sorry about that…… I was unable to contact any of you for the last five days……」

So it must mean that whatever it was that Rei was taking care of in real life, it must have been some serious business. Especially since it was making her unable to log in even for a moment and to read on the situation, even in the evenings or at night.

On the other hand, once Rei rose her head and calmed herself down, I was able to ask her if she would like to participate together with us in the final battle on the seventh day here.

「Yes, that would be great! Please let me do it! There’s no problem with that!」

「I, I see.」

「Yes, that’s right. Obstacles… all of them………… I mean, I have taken care of everything that needed being taken care of.」

Oh, I see, that’s cool. But although Rei’s voice was the same as usual, a gentle female voice, for some reason her words just now made a chill run down my spine. I wonder what’s up with that?

「…… Sanraku, I have a suggestion. May I?」

「Hm?」

「It seems that all of the players have assembled here right now.」

「Yes, that’s right.」

「If so, why not challenge the fourth boss right here right now? There’s nothing that would prevent us from doing so anymore.」

「…… Seriously?」

No, but that might actually be a really good idea. Because we do not know how long it’s going to take us to defeat Kutanid, if we go to battle it too late, we might get forcefully evacuated from this underwater city if we run out of time.

And it that is the case, then the proposition of going to fight the fourth boss a well as Kutanid right here right now is actually the best possible course of action.

While I think about that, I take a look at the faces of all people gathered around me in this moment. After that, making a decision was only a matter of a few seconds.

「…… It’s true that I want to have a go at Kutanid at best possible conditions for us. But at the same time I don’t want us to go fight it as we are, without proper preparations. So here’s what we are going to do: we go and we fight the fourth boss. If it takes us straight to Kutanid after its defeat –– then fuck it, that’s what we are going to do. But if nothing happens, we are going to fight Kutanid during the seventh day, as early as possible. Any objections?」

There were no objections at all. And with the addition of Rei, our battle party was now officially completed. That being said, we went towards the fourth and the final tower where the last boss – ‘Married Couple’ – would await us……

How would you define a cripple?

Nowadays it can very well be a term used to define a person who sacrifices every moment possible from the interactions with the real world on something else. In this sense: gaming.

What is even a cripple?

A cripple is someone who, willingly or not, has reached the maximum limits allowed by the system.

What is even a cripple?

As far as our strategy for this boss was concerned, I have decided to leave it all to that one person so that the others could see that she was the real deal. That should be more than enough to beat it.

If so, then what is it that the cripples possess that makes them such a threat? Of course: it’s brute power.

「Physical attacks…… Are hardly doing any damage here.」

There are three way in which you can activate magic in ShanFro.

First in chanting the incantation and then releasing the spell that you have memorized within you. The number of spells that you can memorize is dependent on your skill levels. However, there are not all that many people in this game that can cast complex or powerful spells one after another that way…… And apparently the most mainstream way of spellcasting is to use spell books during battle, like the one that Mold has on him.

Next we have casting the spell with omission of the chant, which is probably the most popular way of spellcasting in this game. Although the speed of spellcasting increases tremendously, the power of the spells will decrease accordingly. The one to use that method are hybrid of mages and warriors, who focus on the offense but do not possess stats that would allow them to utilize spells potential to their full extent.

And finally, we have a proxy activation via a magic scroll. Although spells like that are weaker than normal ones, they can be cast by almost anyone, even a monkey, as long as they have enough MP to activate the spell. Generally speaking scrolls are best effective when using non-offensive spells, such as teleportation and the like.

「‘O the fierce flame, grand roar of heat that dwells in the beast’s throat. Thou art the great tusks of the beast that looms in the darkness. Violet eyes that stalks their prey, sends shivers down the spines and sinks the fangs of fear into the tender flesh. O the fierce flame, become the grand beast and rage on! BEAST DOOM FLAIR!!!」

And there is also that. A technique that is accordingly called ‘Complete Memorization’. I don’t know how some people manage to do that, but I know I would not be able to chant an incantation like that properly without biting my tongue at least once or mixing some of the words. Especially since some of them were repeating themselves quite often. And all that in the middle of the battlefield, with dangerous enemies being on our asses.

The Oni Armor places her hand over one of the faces of the ‘Married Couple’, and in the next moment a raging firestorm erupts from her hand. That firestorm takes shape of a huge fiery beast that will keep on raging about for as long as Rei’s MP bar would allow it. It raises its mouth and lets out a grand roar, one that could surely heat up the atmosphere itself.

In the next moment, the fiery beast sinks its fangs into the boss’s upper half, almost splitting it in half. I see, so that kind of attack technically does not count as physical attack, so it gets the job done. With the extreme heat burning its body and evaporating it, the boss monster lets out a tremendous scream that reverberates throughout the arena.

「It’s really convenient that they are of one set…… Emul, aim for the throat!」

「‘MAGIC EDGE!!’」

Emul’s attack hit the ‘husband’ right where it should have, and as a result it stopped moving altogether. Then Emul fired another shot, this time aimed at the ‘Wife’s’ throat. He transitioned to the next target so smoothly, as if he did not wanted to miss this opportunity.

The icing on the cake was the magical arrow fired off by Rust, which managed to finish the job alongside Rei’s fiery beast. All of that combined, it was a force that was simply too much for the boss monster to handle.

「Beware of the cripples.」

In the world of the MMORPGs, where everyone can proclaim that they are the protagonist of the story, there is only one thing that can be called absolute: power. And if there was one thing that could be called absolute power, it was the skill ‘Maximum Firepower’.

And as to its efficiency…… suffice to say that with the addition of only one person to our party, we managed to clear that last boss WAY faster than the other three.

And just like that, all of the four bosses – the Sea Kings – were defeated…

Chapter end