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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 430 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 430: Dragon, Oh Dragon! PART 7 Part 2

「I knew it, those guys certainly won’t make things easier for us, will they……? Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. Bow Corps! The enemy is right there! Forward, march!!!」

「WOOOOOOOOO!! IYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!」

Seeing the large group of Human Mandragoras soldiers rushing off towards the place where the Green Dragon was located, Argent Owl let out a long and deep sigh.

「I see that I am not the only one in here who is being swept away with a battle fever. Although their fever seems to be a little bit different than that of my own!」

And with a ferocious smile blooming on her lips, she also started to rush towards the place where the Green Dragon Brockentreed was located.

「NGUOOOHHH!! ANNOYING!! SO UTTERLY ANNOYING!! YOU STUPID, ANNOYING LITTLE INSECTS!!!」

The Green Dragon Brockentreed, even though called a dragon, looks more like a mountain-sized tortoise. Its main characteristics, aside from its sheer size, are high toughness and Vitality, as well as dull and slow, but very powerful physical attacks. A true mountain or even a tank of a dragon.

Therefore, even though it is pretty powerful and sturdy to the point where dealing damage to it seems almost impossible…… It is the exact same characteristic that makes it pretty much defenseless against the attacks coming from the Players.

Although the Green Dragon comes with skills and abilities that allow it to cancel or otherwise intercept various forms of physical attacks, this mechanism also possesses one fatal flaw –– it’s very nature. The interruption mechanism comes in the form of the many tentacles growing out of its body, but their original and prime purpose is to pierce the ground and suck the mana out of the surrounding area or for launching soil projectiles at its enemies. So it was never its intention to use its main power source for anything other than power gathering and having to swat down all of the nasty little flies and insects that were trying to cause it harm.

「NUUUOOOHHH!!!!!! OOOUUUHHHHHH!!!」

「Hey there, you old-fashioned geezer! Are you having fun over here?」

「YOU……!! IT’S YOU, YOU MAGGOT……!!」

The Green Dragon Brockentreed also possesses one more fatal flaw, but this one is connected to its personality. It is quite the obsessive dragon, one that has a really nasty and bad habit of not forgetting the wounds it has suffered from others, as well as the times when someone was laughing at it or looking down on it. Such obsession can be the source of great strength, but it could also be the thing that is eventually going to cause one’s downfall.

That is exactly why when a certain “maggot” that was unknown to it and did not show up in its memories appeared before it seemingly out of nowhere and punched its chin with all of its might, the whole of Brockentreed’s attention was directed at that particular maggot. And needless to say, that maggot happened to be none other than Argent Owl herself, ready to plunge herself into the chaotic battle with yet another strong opponent.

「Mandrake Number Three! Lend me your shoulder for a sec……!!!」

「IIIIIIIIIYYYYYYAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!」

It would be a mistake to compare her to a daredevil who acts before thinking which would often lead to her death in form of becoming a red wet stain on the wall. It is also a mistake to compare her to a professional gamer who stays calm and composed for the majority of the time, calculating her net move like a machine, cold and efficient. However, when it comes to making plans and strategies, Arthur Pencilgton is someone who could definitely be deserving of calling her a virtuoso.

In the first place, Arthur Pencilgton is mainly a spear user, and vast majority of her current build is focused entirely on mobility. It is precisely because of that fact that Pencilgton was able to jump onto Brockentreed’s back, achieving that by using one of the Human Mandragoras as a form of a stepping stone.

「And a heave! And a ho!」

Even though Brockentreed’s movements are slow and sluggish, surprisingly small amount of people thought about climbing onto its back and continuing the fight from there. But even though it was a monster classified as “dragon” it could not do anything about its physical appearance…… Which is why the plant warrior were now all climbing on top of it, attacking the dragon however they felt like attacking, without paying that much attention to anything else around them.

That, and there is one more thing here. One more weakness of the tortoise dragon that could be said to be fatal.

「Whoa! This is the best! Being able to completely ignore the enemy’s armor truly is the best!」

SWOOSH! With that short sound, the tip of Pencilgton’s spear comes swinging through the air, cutting the tentacle with the venus flytrap-like protrusion on it off from the Dragon’s body.

For plant-type monsters, when a tentacle like that is being destroyed, the portion of the damage is applied to the rest of the body as well. Therefore it is easy to go and target smaller tentacles like that, and they are way easier to cut down than the dragon’s main body. Sure, they are sturdy and you need to work hard to cut them, but comparing to the shell of the monster, the tentacles are like tofu in comparison. That is how useful the effect of Armor Penetration of the Holy Lance Caledovruff really is.

「Fufufu! A~~hahahahahahahaha!!! This is so fun! Like running around the fields and cutting down everything that comes under the blade of your scythe!」

「How about we call this thing a Harvest Festival, huh!?」

「Oh my, Argent Owl-chan, you were bitten quite hard to the head before, are you sure that you are feeling alright now?」

「If you think that this level of damage is enough to stop me…… Then you are sorely mistaken!」

Pencilgton watched just how Argent Owl grabbed the stem and forcibly pulled it out from Brockentreed’s back. It was quite the spectacle to behold, but she also had something else to do and so she quickly started to operate her inventory windows.

「Here it is! Super Farmer’s Hezelan Marker! And there we go!」

Originally it was an item to be planted in the soil, but it seems that Pencilgton’s idea that the condition can be met if it is the back of Brockentreed, since the plants were growing out of its back as if it was the soil itself was a correct assumption.

「Hey, hey! You’d better back away as well before things get dicey!」

「Huh? What is it? What are you going to do?」

「Alright! Engineers! Hazeran Bomb!! On the double!」

Marker, bomb. As you can see from the words alone, Argent Owl had a pretty good idea as to what was going to happen in the nearby future. So, she jumped off the back of the Green Dragon in a hurry, and immediately after that, the softball-sized “buds” thrown into his back detonated all at once……

「WHAT THE HELL IS THIIISSS!?」

「Alright! Its back is exposed! Everyone, let’s climb its back and fucking kill the bastard!」

「「「IIIIIIYYYAAAAAAHHHHH!!!」」」

Players cheer loudly and Human Mandragoras let out a loud hiss.

Brockentreed involuntarily moaned seeing the appearance of the insect players who all of a sudden started rushing towards it like a hoard of the hungry locusts.