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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 468 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 468: Dragon, Oh Dragon! PART 45 Part 1

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Welp, the long story short here is this: my brain is getting way too excited about this whole thing and it feels like I’m starting to stall.

「This looks just like a small cat being grabbed by the bigger cat by the neck……」

「Could it be this is what using your head too much looks like……?」

I honestly thought that I might have been a goner this time around and fell to my death, but I was saved from the otherwise deadly fall by Rust who united with the Tactical War Beast and managed to catch me in time. Needless to say, Rust got me back to the ground safely, just like a bigger cat holding the smaller one by the neck, following Rust’s on—point metaphor.

「Think you can still fight?」

「It may be difficult, but I just have to grit my teeth and do it……」

I tried to cut Siegwurm out there into pieces, but as expected it was not quite enough here. And honestly, if I tried to repeat that, that might be a little bit of an overkill on my end, so better not do that. I mean, I can try that, but it would only turn me into a punching bag for Siegwurm to take care of in an instant…… especially since the Golden Dragon basically turned himself into an annoying ticking time bomb.

What we need here right now is the super mobility to avoid those lasers that are shooting in every direction at random. I could bring out the Overflow state here to take care of that, but in this environment one false move means that I will turn into a red paste smeared all over the ground.

「Master, I have succeeded in recovering most of my weapons and the crystals that were scattered across the field.」

「Nice, good work…… Thanks a lot for that.」

「So for the time being, I am going to rejoin the battlefield, if you shall allow it.」

「Just make sure that you won’t fall apart out there!」

While I see both Rust and Sigma going away to rejoin the ongoing battle, I stop for a moment and start to think about what I am going to do from now on.

Is there something else that I can do here at the current moment? And I do not mean just blind swinging of one’s weapons around. For that I am not needed at all here. With so many other players out there, those idiots have the brute force solution more or less covered. But this is this, and that is that.

「…………………… Fuheh.」

「Just when I think that I have finally managed to figure something out, you waltz in with that stupidly evil laugh or whatever it was supposed to be of yours. Thanks a lot, asshole.」

「No, no, no, it’s not like that! It’s just that I have remembered all of a sudden about a small thing that I seemed to have forgotten all about! But that being said…… You really think you can do this? I, for one, don’t even know what’s going to happen from here on out, but we can only assume that things are going to get progressively worse. Like, way worse…… Hm?」

And just what exactly this stupid, oversized lizard is trying to pull off here? Some sort of a special move? No, something separated from his back just now…… do they think that they can use him as a physical barrier or a shield from the lasers, those bastards?

「I mean, we have to try and do something, right? Otherwise we are only going to wallow in our own regret if we just sit on our asses and do nothing. So we’d better get a move on here……」

Alright, so I guess that in this situation it is basically do or die, huh? I think that right about now trying to poke Siegwurm’s main body with my sword might be a little bit too much of a tall order, but that strange sphere in front of him should be an entirely different story, right?

「Alright, let’s relay some messages to Sigma, Emul and all of our people out there. And the content of the message shall be ––––––」

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Alright, so I guess we were bound to become criminals at one point in this game, but I was hoping that this moment could be postponed for as long as humanly possible. But I guess since we are in need of this, it’s better to break it in sooner rather than later, right?

All that I have to do now is to simply follow the coordinates and arrive at the specified destination…… Oh, I wish I could have met Alva-kun at a place such as this, that would be great, don’t you think……? No, no, no! It’s good to dream like that, but don’t forget where you are now! You are a Pioneer! And as a Pioneer you still have a job that you need to do! But still…… a little bit more help certainly would not hurt anyone, right? Right……?

Oh shit! It’s that thing again! The DeepSla Virus! Get rid of it! Eradicate! Eradicate! Kill it with fire!!!

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「–––––– AAAHHH, ALRIGHT, I SHALL ADMIT IT. AS YOU MIGHT HAVE ALREADY GUESSED, I WAS…… NO, I STILL AM LONGING FOR SIEGWURM. THE SUPREME DRAGON KING, THE SHINING IMMORTAL GOLD, THE FIGURE OF THE ULTIMATE HEAVENLY EMPEROR THAT WAS ALWAYS MY GOAL AND THE THING I WANTED TO BECOME NO MATTER WHAT.」

Noirlind started to confess after for some reason shrinking to the size of a large dog. It was surely a strange thing to witness, but not perhaps the strangest thing that’s happened today.

「EVER SINCE I HAVE GROWN CONSCIOUSNESS OF MY OWN, EVER SINCE I HAVE BECOME “MYSELF”…… I WANTED TO BE JUST LIKE HIM.」

Norilind continues to speak. He says that this is probably the reason why the Black Dragon managed to retain a relatively genuine dragon shape, even though all other colored dragons deformed and changed their bodies so that they could make them accommodate their unique abilities to a better extent.

「THAT IS WHY, I WANTED TO BECOME STRONG…… I HAVE KEPT ON CHALLENGING HIM OVER AND OVER AGAIN AS IF MY VERY EXISTENCE DEPENDED ON IT…… BUT THEN I HAVE COME TO REALIZE SOMETHING.」

「Realize? Realize what?」

「THAT HE IS ALREADY ABOUT TO END.」

It was a really strange thing to say, so Akitsu Akane could only react by shaking his head while they continued to run in front of them. What does that even mean that Siegwurm is supposed to “end”?

「PREVIOUSLY, THERE WAS SOMETHING IN HIS BEING THAT WAS WAITING TO BECOME “COMPLETE”…… AND THE TIME OF SAID COMPETITION HAS NOW COME. FOR HIM, WHAT IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW MIGHT BE CALLED JUST A BONUS, OR A BORROWED TIME.」

There used to be those who came to this world years after it was originally created. Then, the world as it is now was created as a result of the fight for survival of those people…… and their ultimate loss in that battle.