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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 497 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 497: Double Cross Lonely Girl Digital Head Part 2

Oh yeah, I remembered something just now.

The fact that the NPC group are all characters who use minions in battle does not prevent them from entering the battle themselves. So basically, besides the big boss, the other two NPCs can already be……

「ENTERING BATTLE MODE……」

…… about ready to pop up at any second now.

They are somewhat similar to ShangriLa Frontier’s Conquest Dolls, but only in a sense that they were fashioned after human women. However, their complexion and armor were nothing like what Saina was wearing, plus their weaponry looked like a combination of melee weapons with firearms, in this particular case a rocket launcher. And the Valkyrie surely wasted no time in trying to attack me right away. Also, her eyes were emitting a slim laser thread that was centered right at the center of my forehead.

「Look, can’t we just talk about this……? I’m even going to let you go if you get the hell out of my way and won’t interfere with me any longer……」

The gun located in Valkyrie’s right arm fired, and at the same time the rocket launcher in her left arm sent a shell my way.

「Uooohhh!?!?!?」

HISSSS!!! Whoa, talk about frightening! It’s like splashing water over hot stones! Evaporation occurs so fast that you have trouble reacting to it!

I jumped to the side in order to avoid the missile that was coming right at me, and it passed right by my arm, almost ending up grazing it. It then passed through the opened bank door, flew inside and blew the entire place up.

「Hey! Now that’s not fair! It was supposed to be a normal attack, but it is more like a gauge technique if you look at it from the purely destructive perspective!」

Meanwhile, what do we players have to use, spears? I know that in capable hands anything can become a lethal weapon, but come the fuck on! It certainly wouldn’t hurt anyone to make some balance changes, right!?

Now what should I do? When it comes to the state of my gauges and reload, I cannot allow myself to fire a full—on barrage of bullets onto mere NPC enemies. However, no matter if I try to run away or to fight back, some bullets are surely going to be consumed here.

Dust has two gauges, one for Villain and one for Hero. That is because in the original work he was a man who was possessed by the Devil and was sent to Hell for the sins and atrocities he has committed. That is why the pistols he uses and the bullets he fires are also divided into “Good” and “Bad” categories.

Now, coining that lore info into actual gameplay, doing good deeds will let you accumulate Good Bullets and committing villainous things will net you Evil Bullets respectively.

Needless to say, Good Bullets deal extra damage to Villains and possess some special effects, while the Evil Bullets deal extra damage to Heroes and also possess special effects.

Also, while the TV Head over there may be the actual Villain, it’s the Valkyries that does all the work for him at that very moment. So in other words, it would be ideal here to preserve as many Good Bullets as possible and leave them for the time when I confront Amellia Sullivan.

「Tsk!」

I pull the trigger on the right gun a couple of times in quick succession, and as a result a few black bullets start shooting towards the Valkyrie. However, none of the bullets managed to reach their mark, for they were all knocked down by the sword that appeared in Valkyrie’s hand all of a sudden.

It looks like a maneuver that you can do in any sort of fighting game out there, but in terms of actual performance it must have been a guard move instead of an attack move. So I guess that unless it is an actual guard-breaking attack, any sort of projectile attack is going to be blocked and guarded against in such ridiculous fashion. And even though I know exactly what is going on here, I still cannot shake that certain feeling of helplessness.

「Kuh, ooohh!? Nuuuooohhh!?」

This is not a turn based strategy game here. So the enemy can and most certainly will continue to press on their assault, and it is pretty possible that I won’t be able to have “turn” myself if I won’t stop getting on the move right away.

The “Valkyrie” who wields the assault spear with a built-in missile launcher lightly closes the distance at once. If I knew that I would be in conflict with the target enemy so soon, I would have brought out Twinkle Pixie right off the bat and be done with it.

However, the reality is that I still don’t know what’s going to come after this, so I need to stick with Dust for as long as possible here.

Although Dust is a character mainly for long distance fights, it does not mean that he cannot fight at short distances. But if you were to ask me if he is strong or weak at close quarters, I would have to say that he is weak. Pathetically so. Therefore Valkyrie is the worst possible matchup for me, since she has a spear that can easily control the distance that is between us.

「But her ridiculous behavior is way too straightforward, if I do say so myself.」

The missiles do not have any homing effects, and you must always choose between them acting like a normal physical attack or rather accelerating them as a special action.

Swinging a huge assault spear with one hand is a threat, but since the other hand basically uses only a sword and that sword is also a “shield sword”, it can be said that it is actually an enemy armed with an assault spear and a shield. In other words, even though it is an assault spear, this enemy is just an orthodox knight type.

「After all, this is a fighting game NPC! So it must be able to balance both attack and guarding……!」

If just shooting is enough to cause it to switch into guarding stance, then I must make full use of the fact that this is a Full Dive VR! So avoid it’s attacks while continuously staying on the offensive myself!

In Galaxia Heroes: Chaos, the situation directly affects the game system, just like in ShangriLa Frontier. The heroic gauge accumulates just because the hero character is fighting a group of machines that destroys the city. At the same time, the bullets consumed by firing are also reloaded.

The first stage “Valkyrie” isn’t that strong, and if you take the time, you can defeat it with just a few perfectly placed bullets.

However, this is Triangle Trinity. If it goes wild in such an office district, it will naturally be reflected in the cameras…… Which means that this stupid TV-Head must already be onto me, since it can most probably survey about eighty percent of the entire map. So it’s going to be only a matter of time before……

「Yo…… You know, I really wanted to see you right now, Real Cursed Prison!」

「Isn’t your attitude completely different from what it used to be just before that?」

「Fight me to the death! With all that you have……!!」

「Huh! Don’t come back crying if I end up wiping the floor with you……!」

Saying that in her natural tone of voice and accompanied by the real time subtitles provided by the Babel Translation Engine, a villain unveiled herself at the top of the building. It was the character with their head being replaced by a large TV screen, and while wasting absolutely no time they jumped off the building and came my way……!!