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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 336 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 336: Dragon! Dragon! Part 2 Part 1

Raid monster. Great Red Devourer – Crazy Blue -. Current number of participants. Maximum number of participants.

The conclusion I managed to arrive at after carefully analyzing all of the above elements was short and extremely simple.

This is impossible, right? No, but seriously, I mean it.

「Tottori, please, I beg of you…… Take the People of the Forest and run away from here as fast as you can. …… Also, can I ask you to take Emul with you?」

「I knew it. This really looks to be impossible, right?」

「This is classified as a Raid Boss battle. There is no way that we are going to be able to clear it with just the three of us. We would need a whole player army to bring this thing down! I will act as a meat wall here, while you run towards the frontline base as fast as possible!」

「You said that you’re going to be a meat wall, but I think this thing will make you into a minced meat in no time here!」

「Believe me, I intend to oppose this thing for as long as I am going to be able to move. Even if it rips me apart and leaves only shreds of meat behind.」

「Yeah, that’s really graphic description right there, but at least I get that you are truly passionate about doing this.」

Does that mean that you are going to treat me like a chunk of meat from this moment forward?

「W-What are you talking about, Sanraku-san!? Are you out of your mind!? Don’t leave me behind! I am going to fight as well here!」

Silly Emul, I said it myself, didn’t I? There is no Save/Load feature in this game. Whatever happens, happens. And it stays that way. That is why I absolutely cannot allow you to just throw your life away for a battle that is meant to be lost to begin with.

「Emul, please don’t worry about it. Think of this as coming for a sleepover to a friend’s house. Besides, the previous save point made by the Elves is no longer here, so…… I am going to be brought back at the last save spot before that. This means Skull Azuchi castle. So go ahead and welcome me back there, alright?」

「B…… But……」

「There’s more to it, Emul. You know that I have accepted the quest to escort those two back to safety, right? However, there is no rule that states that I must be the one to deliver them to safety myself. It could be anyone. Can’t you see? This is what it meant by being the right person at the right place? So, think you can protect His Majesty and Her Highness from the Third Knight and his goons in my absence? Can I trust you with that?」

Emul opened his mouth as if he was going to say something here, but then he closed it right away. He then stared at me in silence, as if he was having trouble with properly formulating the thoughts that were running wild inside of his head. Finally, he let out a deep sigh as though he gave up on trying to persuade me.

「Uuuhhh…… Alright, I get it. I understand.」

「That’s it, that’s the spirit! Good boy! Well then, You Majesty, Your Highness. As you can see, this opponent right in front of us might be a little bit much to handle, so I would like you to evacuate while I am going to make sure that this beast will not follow after you.」

「…… Right, I understand. I am going to be forever in your debt after this is all over, Sanraku.」

「Sanraku-sama…… Please, stay safe. And come back to us in one piece.」

It is highly dangerous to kneel in a situation where the enemy is right behind your back, so for the time being a light bow here will have to be enough. Still, due to the current circumstances, I don’t think that anyone would blame me for not following the rules of the etiquette to the T.

「Sanraku…… As well as Deeplslaughter-san. I’m sorry.」

「Don’t worry about it, Tottori. After all, none of this is your fault. So yeah…… But if you truly are feeling sorry, then once this is all over, you can treat us for something to eat.」

「Which reminds me, I heard a rumor that someone from Black Wolves…… I mean, technically they are Black Sword right now. But a renowned chef from Black Swords is supposed to be here as well, and he’s thinking about opening a restaurant of his own.」

Chef, huh……? I have heard through the grapevine that honing your cooking skills is way easier than training your sword skills in this game, but I do wonder if that is actually the truth? It would be a complete joke if that was indeed the case here.

「Alright, if that’s what you really want…… Don’t forget to share with me the information about that monster later. Alright, everyone! Time to move out!」

So far it was a stalemate between us and that Dragon monster, but it was then that the Dragon apparently decided that it has had enough waiting and went on the offensive.

「PUYARRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!」

「Wha ––––––」

「Bueh!?」

Something red passes just right where my field of vision was, and it was huge enough to fill my entire field of vision. Fortunately, my body acted on reflex and I fell flat towards the ground, way faster than my thoughts were able to comprehend what was actually going on here.

And then, right when the huge mass of red was about to hit Deepslaughter and send her head flying off her neck, most probably just like the head of that Tyrannosaurus earlier, extinguishing her life……

「Eh?」

「Ah?」

The red mass changed direction, aiming towards the People of the Forest who were trying to escape here. The mass managed to capture two Elves that were at the very end of the group, entwining around them like tree branches and then retracting back towards the main body of the Dragon at an alarming pace. It looked just like a scene from some sort of a horror movie.

「Allure……!!!」

「Run……」

CRUNCH!!! And then,

The rib cage of the Dragon split open, and its ribs together with the insides looked like some sort of a monstrous oral cavity, with sharp fangs ready to devour everything that would be thrown inside of it. The red lump placed the Elf inside of the monstrous cavity, and it was at this moment that a certain thought occurred inside of my head: “There’s no way that anything placed inside of this nightmarish thing is going to survive. Just then, the rib fangs closed on its pray, shitting the rib cage close like some sort of organic Iron Maiden.

When the chest of the Dragon closed, its skin and innards started to move around and bulge in unnatural fashion, just like jaws when they are crushing and chewing on a piece of meat. It was something that was biologically impossible, but it was happening right in front of us all at the current moment. If the Elf could have survived the closing of the “mouth” on his, right about now there was no hope for him to emerge alive out of an ordeal like that.

The blood that was leaking from the holes in the “mouth” alongside chunks of meat and the accompanying sound effects were making this whole situation even more vivid and sickening.

Then, right at the very end, there was a motion that resembled of a huge mass of food being swallowed.

As a result, pieces of People of the Forest as well as the Tyrannosaur that it must have swallowed as well slowly started to grow out of the Dragon’s back, becoming a grotesque part of the monster.