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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 337 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 337: Dragon! Dragon! Part 3 Part 1

「NGYAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!」

Letting out a mighty roar like that, I slam Aradval Rebuild into the leg of the red zombie dragon. But since it was quite large and its leg was as thick as the bark of the trees around here, I might have as well slammed my sword into the actual tree itself. The result of those two actions would have been the same, either way. I mean, the sword surely started doing what it was supposed to do here: its edge burning bright, it started to cut through the bright red flesh and digging deeper into it. However, soon the scorching-hot sword came to a halt. As expected with an object this thick: the sword was able to penetrate it to some point, but it would not go all the way to the core, or cut it off completely from all the rest.

「This is bad! This is bad! This is bad! THIS IS SERIOUSLY BAD! Deepslaughter’s DPS is not nearly enough to dent this thing!」

「The DPS are more than enough here to make a difference, but only in case of humans, you know! Come on, see for yourself, Sanraku-kun! See how it is for yourself when your damage does nothing! And then despair and sleep with me to make that despair go away!」

「Pya……」

「「Ah.」」

There was a sudden change in the behavior of the red zombie dragon. Something started to bulge on its back. It looked like strange flesh seeds or something alongside those lines. Before long, those seeds got ejected from its back and shot into the air, eventually falling to the ground. Next, they started to bury themselves into the ground and what came next…… it was really hard for me to describe properly. No, I know! They started to grow! Meat seeds started to grow into things that looked like trees made out of flesh, the only way to describe them would be “gross”. Of course, being a gamer as I am, I know all too well that leaving things like that be for too long is not a good idea and that it will eventually come around to bite us in the ass. Then, about one minute after the trees started to grow…… all of them started to pop with a loud and sickening sound.

「PYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!」

「NUOOOOOOHHHHHH!?」

Seeing what was about to come, I assumed the defensive position while placing Dis Pater right in front of me and braced myself for impact. A moment after that, there was a loud shriek followed by a huge shockwave. That shockwave was carrying droplets of blood and chunks of flesh with itself, and almost managed to knock me off my feet. But the shockwave was so long and so strong that it was impossible for me to withstand it completely, and after a few seconds I was knocked to the ground and fell on my back.

Now it was a good moment to actually pat myself on the back for not using Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand here. If I would have done that, I would have been blown away with even greater force that would have killed me for sure on the spot. So I guess that the “Overflow” state is not going to be of much use during this battle, no matter how much I wish it was useful. …… But anyways, here is what we managed to get out of this situation: the trees do explode shortly after being planted in the ground. The range of the single tree covers about sixty percent of the whole battlefield, which already makes it difficult to avoid completely. And if it was not bad enough, a maximum of five trees can be planted at once. In other words, no matter what you try to do here, you cannot avoid taking damage.

「Correct me if I’m mistaken here, but…… trees normally don’t explode like that, right?」

「The man body! Here it comes!」

And above all else, the meat trees are only the optional enemies. Even though they continue to grow and explode, that does not stop the main body from pressing on with it normal attacks. But, I mean, well…… what did we expect? It’s a raid boss battle, after all. Something that was meant to be cleared by a larger group of people, not three players like we were doing right now.

So in the face of the charging dragon, I stand up and jump to the side, avoiding the fleshy tentacle tongues that was short from its chest at the same time. It’s been roughly five minutes since the battle has started, and it looks like we were slowly getting accostumed to its moves and current attack patterns. At the start of the battle we may have been mere punching bags facing off against the great unknown, but right about now we were getting close to the level of a wise men who was getting familiar with the dangers the opponent poses and was able to deploy the right tactics in order to fight back and minimalize the possible dangers on our end.

「For the time being, those damned trees pose the biggest threat here. I guess we have no other choice but to cut one down before it explodes and seek refuge in the part of the arena that is not going to be affected by the blast.」

「Or we can simply try to predict what part of the arena is going to be relatively safe and go there at the last possible moment……」

Yeah, we certainly can, but that would be like treating only the “symptoms” of the problem while omitting the root cause of said problem. And that would lead to all sorts of different problems. Not to mention that the main body does not stay passive during the trees’ explosion and you have to handle that as well. Aradval’s special ability certainly comes in handy here, but it is only a type of attack that is effective to some extent. It is effective, don’t get me wrong, but not nearly effective enough to be able to strike a decisive blow in this fight.

「QYARORORORORORORORORORORORO––––!!!!!!!!!」

Letting out yet another loud roar, the back of the red zombie dragon started to shake and swell once more.

That place…… originally it must have been where the dragon’s real back was located. But right about now, looking into it made me think about a kettle filled with red soup with lots and lots of chunks of meat swimming through that soup.

What emerged from that simmering pot of red soup was a tri-headed Tyrannosaurus, as well as many other smaller monster. All of them shook the red soup of their bodies and made loud roars. The image was gross, but it was also fascinating to some extent. Could it be that those were all victims of the red dragon? That it devoured and assimilated all those creatures into itself? And while the dino monsters slowly started to crawl their way out of the dragon’s insides, I could even see the appearances of the two Elves out there that were the most recent victims of this raid boss monster.