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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 415 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 415: Letting Your Heart Die and Earning It Right Back Part 2

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「Good morning…… Whoa there, why the hell are you glowing lie that!?」

「Oh, that? Please, no need to bother yourself with me. It happens all the time, so no reason for making a big deal out of it.」

「I’m honestly surprised that nothing like that did not happen earlier. I mean, this was my thirty eight resuscitation so far, so you would expect some sort of troubles at this particular point in time.」

Those Spiders are incredibly strong…… Those centipedes are incredibly strong as well…… I knew it, soloing this particular content is pretty much impossible…… After all, this place is the way it is for a good damn reason…… Not to mention the spiders being able to turn themselves into literal cannonballs, a mechanic that was a little hard to accurately describe, and one that would certainly take a whole lot of time to get used to.

All of that made me a bit careless out there, and before I could even realize it there was a centipede right in front of me, about ready to bite me in half. Yes, sloppy is a good word here…… Last thing I could see before I died was fire, gravel, dirt and smoke.

「Faultless Gargantua’s materials that you can obtain as drop items are as follow: the hardened outer shell plating, sensory hair, turret piece…… As for Treinol Sentiped Gustav it is: hardened outer shell, advancing leg, mortar piece…… Nice, materials like that are what makes me feel all fired up and ready to go.」

The hardened outer shell seems like an excellent material for armor, but I wonder if it could also be used as a weapon, since it is something that can completely disregard defense and go straight into the offense…… or maybe it could be turned into a shield? Tower Shield is difficult to operate with my current build, so maybe we could go with fisting weapons instead? Hmm, but I already have good fisting weapons on me, so maybe doing that would be a form of an overkill here?

「Alright then, I guess I’ll stop thinking about it too much and just go Scorpion Hunting for the time being.」

All three of the members of the different races: Emul, Wimp, and Sigma, look stunned hearing this, but…… I want the twin-core drop item of the Emperor Scorpion for myself, and the shitty drop rate of this thing is not ALL that bad. I mean, compared to some things that are even shittier. I already have one, but I want another one.

Tomorrow……I mean, since it’s a national holiday today, I would want to clear the President today or tomorrow if I could help it. I think that it has been enough of a detour already.

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Tsuruhashi is an excellent skill for destroying specific parts, as well as something that is perfect for hitting multiple body parts at the same time.

I have already completed about eighty percent of grasping the behavioral patterns of this Emperor Scorpion. And I assume that the remaining twenty percent is connected with long range attacks. So I say that I do not need to worry about it too much.

「That’s actually a big deal…… Now give me that heart of yours!」

If the laser is emitted at the outer edge, the light just flows out. Defeating a certain amount of Crystal Scorpions has caused fluctuations in the territory of the Crystal Crown Cliff, but at least if the maximum number has decreased, the individual territories will have expanded.

In other words, this also means that the degree of freedom in turning around has increased also increased! (Slightly, but it’s better than nothing)

「Right there!」

I avoid the tail swing that was coming right at me from the middle, and then I evade some more to avoid the Emperor Scorpion that lunged forward while swinging its scissors tail at me and then tried to crush me with its sheer mass alone. The tip of Tsuruhashi is then attached to the leg of the scorpion so that it could hit the other side from the front with only a small shake.

The scorpion’s leg is then raised in the air and its body overturns and falls to the ground with a loud crash, sending pieces of the soil and debris in the air. An unpleasant squeak sounds from the whole body as if to represent the moaning of a voiceless scorpion.

At the same time as the scorpion came crushing to the ground, I also realized that the dawn was fast approaching. At the end of the distant horizon, the rising sun, was slowly emerging, dyeing the whole area in bright red……

「Uooohhh!?」

At the moment, the Tsarberil Emperor Crystal, which grows on the Crystal Crown just like broken teeth, changes its color from bloody red to mysterious blue all at once.

At that moment, the color that I see in front of my eyes turns to blue as well. The moment when the environment itself matched the color of the scorpion’s body color, that was the signal of the final counterattack of the Emperor Scorpion.

The sight of the Crystal Crown Cliff, the same as the body of the Emperor Scorpion, is a paradoxical mimicry. The scorpion, Emperor Scorpion tried moving its missing leg, started to gather energy for one last attack, but I used that opportunity to get to its side where it would have trouble turning towards and reaching me.

Only the left part of the scissors strike, and a blow that comes crushing down from top to bottom is released my way.

Foolishness, Emperor Scorpion, such foolishness! The right eye of my Birdhead mask can correct my field of view and direct my attention towards the object that may be a possible harm to me. However, on the contrary, it feels strange even when it is out of sight.

The dawn has come and the Scorpion started to settle. In a moment that makes me feel the fateful déjà vu, my body avoids the beam and throws itself forward with a slight twist.

「This is it! The final showdown! It’s do or die from now on!」

I throw Tsuruhashi in full swing here, and as I accelerate I literally split the night sky for a moment out there while rotating vertically. The tip of my sword is filled with energy from my movements, and once it hits the Emperor Scorpion dead in between the eyes it easily managed to go in and penetrate its body all the way through.

The giant scorpion suddenly cramps and becomes rigid. And at the same time as the legs supporting his huge body succumbed to his own weight and laid down on the ground, its body turned into a drop item and disappeared as if it exploded on the spot.

「Haa, haa…… Did I…… Did I win……?」

Since I am finally starting to get used to this, first of all I release the Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand and then I can start collecting all of those sweet drop items…… Hm? What’s that? Something is flickering all the way over there?

Looking back, there is only one crystal that flashes red and blue among the crystals that shine in the morning sun. And its blinking starts to get gradually faster and faster for some reason…… Wait a second, no way!

「The characteristics of those beams should change depending on what kind of light shines down on them, right? So it’s either a sunlight or moonlight. So that would mean……」

Yes, just like a bomb that detonates with a time lag ……!!

「Oi, wait!」

The blue and red crystals explode into tiny bits, and the tiny crystal bits and pieces pierce my body all over, and naturally, the impact of the explosion blows my body away with great force.

What I saw at the end out there was a twin-core treasure that split in two in the aftermath of that giant explosion……

Since my motivation has basically dropped to zero here, I should take it as a sign that it would be about time to take a break, right? Or could it be interpreted the other way around.