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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 416 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 416: Side Story 13 – Pulling Out the Main Role – Part 1

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It may come as a surprise for some, but the player named E-Miria does not have the kind of personality to holding grudges towards others. Or at the very least, not all that much as others may thing she does.

However, E-Miria is a woman who thinks that anyone who does not apologize for their own wrongdoings is someone who deserves to be beaten to death with a stick.

「Building a keep in Tier Platen!? And I’m the one doing it?」

「Yes, that’s right. And the rumors are that E-Miria is going to be leading the construction once it is kicked into full effect. I thought that you might want to know about that.」

One day, news like that were delivered to E-Miria through one of her many friendswho were currently at Skull Azuchi Castle. It happened roughly around the same time as a certain half-naked player has managed to reach the center of the continent, and was getting blown away by the time-lag scorpion lasers.

「Hmm? So, we have rumors like that floating about the place, huh……?」

In the end, E-Miria smiled broadly while tilting her head slightly, recalling some of the things that has transpired recently. She remembers saying she wanted a paved road to appear across this continent for the sake of making the “hunt” a little bit easier, but she did not remember ever mentioning that she would like to have a second Azuch Castle-class object erected around these parts.

However, it is a fact that it would be way less difficult to build a new castle on the already cultivated soil of Tier Platen than having to deforest and cultivate the area around the Sea of Trees from scratch.

「So, does that mean it’s all a hoax? It’s not true at all?」

「I mean, I have no intention of building anything like this Skull Azuchi Castle anywhere else around this place…… At least for now.」

Skull Azuchi Castle, a keep made almost entirely out of bones, is the result of the efforts and hard work of not only E-Miria, but also the production workers who gathered around her from the very beginning, a thought of building a castle the glory of which would eclipse even that of the royal palace of the Old Continent. Although her driving force was based on anger and jealousy, E-Miria was also holding onto her ambition of making this place better accessible to everyone else as well as making the position of the production workers more essential.

「But still…… the development of Tier Platen is a rather urgent and time absorbing task in and out of itself…… And it also seems that those guys are even more potent at base-building than we are at the current moment, which is a little bit frustrating, I won’t lie……」

Although this place was originally meant to be just a frontline base in conquering the New Continent, it has now started to develop into something that was more resembling of a fortified city. But of course, it is only a given that strengthening a place like Tier Platen was more worth it from the gameplay perspective, which was already well-fortified by nature and possessed a facility that was giving it a greater strategic value.

In fact, once the plans of building a castle were solidified, the plans of building the roads were pushed aside indefinitely, but it was also a fact that the structures inside and outside of Tier Platen were developing rapidly as of late.

「And besides, it would be quite difficult to build the second Skull Azuchi anywhere else, and the one that would be strong enough to withstand Noirlind’s attack at that. I mean, I poured most of my New Year’s bonus into that project.」

「Not to mention that the process of building this place was so hard and complicated that it almost driven you insane. It was like watching a scene out of a bad horror flick whenever I have come to visit you.」

Then there is the fact that at the current moment Skull Azuchi Castle was a place where not only King Toravante and his daughter were currently located, but where the Saint Iristella was staying as well. So the keep was a kind of a VIP lounge for the moment. However, since technically the ownership rights to the Skull Azuchi Castle belonged to E-Miria, only those who have formally belonged to E-Miria’s party could enter the castle’s tower and stay there.

And it is precisely because of that, that…….

「Whoa, what a magnificent view this is……! It only adds to the value of this place that this is something that normally only the members of the royalty would be able to see!」

「Hello there, Deepslo-san, and once again, thank you so much for before…… So? I heard that there is something you wished to talk to me about?」

「Ah, you see…… This is about the best special thing that you could ever imagine……」

The smiling Deepslaughter, who was an existence filled with eeriness and mystery for the most of the players, could also use the castle tower as a secret meeting place of sorts.

「And who might that be?」

「Oh, please don’t worry about that for now. Umm, that’s my real life friend, and I’m sure that you are going to get along just fine.」

「Hello there.」

「Hmm, I see…… Alright then, I guess……Then, why don’t I change my voice for the occasion to something a little bit more fitting?」

「Whoa, you can really do that? Changing your voice on the go like that? That’s amazing! And you sound really handsome right now as well!」

Playing around with her voice was Deepslaughter’s favorite tactic of gaining trust with other people. Then Deepslaughter quickly related what she wanted to related, getting some information in return and becoming convinced that the seed that she had sown some time ago had finally started to grow…… Just as planned.

「I have no idea if it is due to the influence of the Unique Scenario EX or not, but it might be entirely plausible that the other color dragons other than Noirlind might start targeting this place.」

With the word Noirlind being spoken, the atmosphere in the room visibly tensed up.

For a moment out there E-Miria was doing everything in her power to try and maintain her smile, but after a few seconds it all started to crumble away.

「…… Is that so? Well, even if it is like that, there is nothing we can do about it at the current moment.」

「But in that case, what are you going to do? It would be wise to at least confirm the number of dragons that are here. Otherwise the story might repeat itself, but with a much worse result than in case of Noirlind.」

「Out of curiosity, how did you found out about it?」

「There are some various circumstances behind it, but let’s just say that I managed to spot one dragon from afar. However, since it was looking to be a strong one I decided to back away and not risk engaging it. The risk of me dying was far too great.」