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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 355 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 355: Dragon! Dragon! Part 20 Part 1

What was that supposed to be, a philosophical zombie? It may have very well been something that resembles a human being on the outside, but when it comes to the insides it was lacking any sorts of mind, heart, or emotion…… only the Great Red Devourer would be able to create something so grotesque.

But it doesn’t matter all that much now. Not when it was going to be buried under all of that soil falling down from the sky above us.

As the Red Dragon’s main body was falling down, the red tornado created by it naturally followed down as well. And it seems that realizing it was going to be crushed to death, the conclusion to overcome this situation that the Great Red Devourer managed to arrive at was an extremely simple and power-based.

「Ooiii.」

The way in which the red tornado was operating now seemed to be fundamentally different from that moment when it was simply vomiting monsters our way. Right now, it was swirling a great mass of something clay-like inside of it at high velocity.

「What the hell, is that supposed to be……?」

It’s color was obviously all red, but how am I supposed to describe this thing in one word……? Was it a corpse? A corpse of some sort of a giant cyclops whose body parts were a huge mess?

And that “Ooiii, ooiii” sound this thing was making…… was that a scream? Or maybe a cry? No, it’s not important right now…… The monster’s mouth was shaped like a human’s, with rows of sharp teeth clearly specified for murder and slaughter, and they were smashing against one another at regular intervals. It’s nose was in the place where the eyebrows should have been, and its eyes were horribly dislocated as well. It was one giant mess.

However, even if it was disfigured so much, there were still inklings that it must have been a cyclops at some point. That disfigured state of this monster was one huge problem here, and the other one…… It was that “arm” of his.

「Kuh……! For the time being……!」

We have a different, more pressing manner that needed our immediate attention.

Even if we were to simply wait here quietly without doing nothing, I would only end up being buried alive by the rain of soil from above me. So I had to quickly find a way out of this predicament, out of a few options that were yet open to me.

Using my skills I slow the world around me and start running up the wall of the giant hole, hoping to be fast enough to make it before the soil buries all of us alive underneath it. But that cyclops…… Just what exactly are these things?

It must have been created by utilizing most of the contents of the red tornado, but at this point in time it has already lost both of its legs and left arm. In other words, it was left with only the right are now, a pitiful existence that must have been cursed to have a short lifespan, meant to die shortly after being born into this world.

However, that bloat in its right arm…… At first I thought it might actually be something bad, but that might actually not be the case here. What is this bloat is the result of all of the muscles and their strength from the rest of the cyclops’ body being placed exclusively in that right arm?

Right now that arm was way bigger than its torso, in about a seventy five to twenty five ratio or so. It would be more accurate here to say that the arm was not attached to the body, but it was actually the body that must have been attached to the arm.

「Nuuu, oooooohhhhh!!!」

Oh shit! I was way too distracted with what was happening to the Great Red Devourer that I basically stopped paying attention to my surroundings! The falling soil, rocks and stones were already a whole lot closer than they initially were, closing some of the space and leaving but a few scarce openings for me to use as an escape route. But there was still time! I still had the time to run at full speed and make my way towards the light of the surface!

Fuck you, Deepslaughter! Damn you to hell! Once I get out of here, I’m Divine Punishing your ass so hard that you will beg me to kill you and shorten your suffering!!!

「I’m going to make……」

Arm.

Status.

Escape.

Ace up its sleeve.

All of a sudden, I had a premonition.

This is just a guess. This is a mere hypothesis on my part. But, it was enough for me to force my way back down into the closing pit rather than to seek refuge on the surface. This was a literal suicide, but I had to do it.

「Kuh…… The recast times are almost here……!」

The effects of my skills surely won’t last any longer at this point…… I am running downwards right now instead of upwards, but the height of this pit was still quite considerate. If I were to fall down from this wall here and fall right to the bottom, I am going to die for sure!

「Meteor Fall!!!」

I have to make sure that I arrive at the safe height myself, but while I’m being at it, I can also do some damage here. So I do just that, landing a diving kick right at the main body of the Great Red Devourer, turning the kinetic energy here into attack power.

So, how about that, huh!? How does it feel to eat a huge move like that! I may talk all I want here, but there was no satisfaction in that action. It was, after all, something completely basic, an attack that everyone could recreate and use. But if it means that I can interrupt this monster from using its lasers and help the tri-headed Tyranno at the same time, then you know full well that this is what I am going to do!

「However, with this we might be able to help each other out a little bit here…… I’m counting on you here, Great Red Devourer! Don’t fuck this up!」

There is already no way for both of us to escape from this. We might have used nothing but violence and killing as our main tools of communication not until so long ago, but right about now we are comrades in peril, in the true meaning of the word! I don’t know why, but right about now, I trust this monster more than I would ever trust Deepslaughter, or any other player or the NPC of the same race as mine. I wonder why that is……?

「OooooooooOOOOOOOOO……!!!!!!!!!」

With that loud roar, the Cyclops created by the Great Devourer started to move, it bulged arm starting to show signs of strength gathering in that one last arm it had left.

I was unaware of that fact because that arm was all red, but when the kinetic energy started to gather inside of it, I finally noticed: this arm was just bare muscle tissue, without any form of skin that would protect it.

But that exposure was not due to the damage from the falling soil and rocks. Honestly, it looked as though this arm was already like that to begin with.

How can I put this…… I get a feeling that this arm was specially made that way, so that it would be ready to squeeze as much firepower as it needed in case of emergency, something like squeezing water out of a wet rag.

「Wait… No, no way. There’s just no way……」

For some reason, the arm of the cyclops continue to grow and swell, reaching twice the size of its torso at the current moment. Then, the cyclops squeezed its hand into a fist. It was at this moment that I finally understood what this thing was going to do, what was the Great Red Devourer’s intention here.

Wait, wait, wait! I’m no expert when it comes to programming quite like that, so I don’t get how exactly that is supposed to work, but…… If this thing was to release all of that pent up energy just so that it could get rid of the obstacle that was in it’s way right now……!

It doesn’t matter if such a thing is possible or not here. This is a game’s world, so it’s no surprise that logic can get thrown out the window at times. That is why it would be possible to hit the hundred tons of soil that was heading your way and simply blast it all away!

However, this thing was sure to survive that because it needed to do so. Everything else was not part of the equation!

「Defense…… No, no, no! INVENTORY!」