ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 438 Part 2
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 438: Dragon, Oh Dragon! PART 15 Part 2
In the first place, the only reason as to why the players around the battlefield concentrated their attacks and efforts on the Red Dragon was because the Skull Azuchi Castle granted them all a buff that raised the players Fire resistance quite considerably.
For better or for worse here, when it comes to this decisive battle, everything is left in the hands of the free will of the players involved in it. And the conditions of clearing it are only one of the two: you either destroy all of the Colored Dragons or annihilate Siegwurm, the Heavenly Emperor. There is little to no place in here for creativity. Therefore, there are many players who just follow the target markers designated by the system, without really giving it that much of a thought at all. That would explain where there are so many players here with various degrees of equipment.
Not to mention that the lord of the Skull Azuchi Castle also happened to be the head of the Anti-Noirlind faction…… Or not. More than a lord, this person was this place’s builder. So it should go without saying that the Skull Azuchi Castle’s target should be Noirlind and the colored dragons.
「This is bad…… This is really, really bad……」
Unlike that time when the battle with the Gravekeeper Wezaemon took place, in ShangriLa Frontier there is no way of conveying messages to people other than verbal communication and sending texts through carrier animals. And the voice is limited to a certain range, so you can communicate verbally with someone who is, for example, on the other side of the current battlefield. Which is why there is little to no way of actually getting in contact with Pencilgton and asking her for advice, since she is basically the “brain” of this entire operation.
「What is it that you are going to do? Which one are you going to be aiming for?」
And it was exactly at that time.
SWOOOOOOOOSH~~~!!! …… BOOOM!!!
「「「!!!!!!!!!」」」
Surprising everyone who was able to see this, there were fireworks blooming in the night sky right in the middle of the battlefield. They rose high in the sky with a loud sound and then exploded into myriad of colors……And then white. White flowers started to bloom all across the sky.
「It’s white!!」
At that exact moment, the entire battlefield was sprung into action once more.
「White!」
「Yeah, it’s all white!」
「Wouldn’t that be considered to be some sort of a signal?」
「Surely it must mean White Dragon! What else would it mean!?」
「Alright! Everyone! Aim for the White Dragon!!!」
It came completely out of nowhere. It came out from no one in particular. It’s just that vast majority of the players managed to reach kind of the same conclusion all at once.
The white fireworks.
White fireworks mean White Dragon for sure.
And the White Dragon means that everyone should focus their aim on taking down the White Dragon.
Just one word, and it managed to basically throw the entire battlefield into a state of the uproar. However, even if no one really knew if that was really the case in here, the players would start to move towards the White Dragon. That’s how powerful the crowd effect can get. No one wanted to be left out in case the assumption was going to turn out to be true.
「Sanraku!」
「Huh? You want to talk now of all times? Can’t it wait a little bit?」
「Was that the part of Pencilgton’s plan? To get everyone to focus on the White Dragon?」
「Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa……! We do not want to be lumped together like that! Scatter a little bit!」
Sanraku shouted a command like that while slamming his sword into the ground, at the same time grabbing one of the smaller dragons that was clinging to him quite obsessively in a chokehold and slamming the beast against the ground as well.
「Alright! And that’s a TKO!」
「Don’t you mean TPO? It was the small dragon that you have knocked out, not the other player!」
「It doesn’t really matter which one it was, you know!? So? What do you think? About that “signal” just now……!?」
「Yeah, getting swept alongside with the general flow, really clever!」
The first stage of the plan that Pencilgton managed to come up with was quite simple, and it did not required that much of thinking at all.
It was about hiding a “collaborator” amongst the players present in the crowd during the fight. Someone who would not stick out to much and would be able to act undercover. The role of that particular person would be to divert the attention of the players from one dragon to another in case one of them would become cornered and about to be finished off.
Of course, there was no way for Pencilgton, Sanraku or Katsu to be sure that the players would swallow the bait when it would have been presented to them. Rather, they were skeptical from the very beginning. But if out of a hundred people even twenty were to go away to another dragon, the battle efficiency of the rest that would stay would diminish by twenty percent. And that’s at least something.
And that signal was the white fireworks that everyone saw just now. There was no need to redirect the players towards Brockentreed, since its natural toughness would make it hard to kill anyway. And Noirlind was a no-go, since it was in the air most of the time and that would make it hard for the players to attack it constantly. That is why they have decided to switch in between Red How and Brylienego in order to stall for time.
And wouldn’t you know it? The bait was a success. Almost everyone, with the exception of a handful of people, went towards the designated target. Now, Katsu turned towards the White Dragon itself, buffing himself up.
「It’s ridiculous to think that you would be able to go wild enough in here and cause all the players to follow suit, you know?」
「But it’s high time to show the world my new form.」
「Huh? Are you going to change your appearance once more? Now this is going to be a complete metamorphosis……」
The only response that Katsu was showed from Sanraku’s side was a fat middle finger.
「Ahh, umm…… Sanraku-san.」
「Ah, Rei! Hey there! And Older Saiga Sister is here as well, huh?」
「I have confirmed the appearance of the signal and rushed here as fast as I could. But it was so flashy! As if some idiot wanted to send a message to everyone gathered here! …… But anyways, what are you going to do now?」
「Huh…… Just you wait! I’m going to show you! The limit of the DPS……!」
Just then, a strange red object appeared in Sanraku’s hands. While he was pulling it out, Sanraku also stabbed his sword into the ground and started to quickly operate his inventory.
It was a strange red skull-like item. It looked neither like that of a mammal nor reptile, but it at the same time had the characteristics of the creatures that do exist and does not exist at the same time.
「And that thing is?」
「A reward for defeating the Raid Monster.」
「Ah, yes, I see…… OR NOT! I don’t see that at all! What the hell is that supposed to mean!?」
「We shall talk about that sometime later! For now, we need to focus! Focus, people!」
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