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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 507 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 507: I! AM! CURSED! PRISON! Part 1

「Accelerate! Then Explode! Push forward and never retreat!!」

「God damn it! I cannot possibly lose track of the movements just like that….. Do you really want me to break your spine in half!? Is that what you want here!? Will that stop you from moving around like that!?」

Come on now, let’s make it more fun for everyone involved! Since the Iai Fist technique has been unsealed here, things such as winning or losing no longer matter! So we might as well get lost in the fight and derive as much fun from it as we possibly can!

「This is the least that can be done for the general population to be able to have a crack at the Professional Gamer’s world!」

「It would really help if your words were making even the tiniest bit of sense here! Which they don’t!」

Amelia Sullivan is not like Silvia Goldberg, which means that as the tension of the battle goes even higher, her personal skills should not soar up as well. Which means that all the time she presents the absolute peak of her abilities, and even though her words may be crude, her actions are always well thought out and composed. This makes her a little bit problematic to read, but throughout the duration of this battle I was actually learning to do just that bit by bit.

What’s more, there is a huge experience gap between the two of us when it comes to playing fighting games. And that experience gap was showing alright. Of course, this is still a game, so the experience is something that can be bypassed to some extent if you for example have some real martial arts skills, however…… The fact still remains that at the current moment Amelia Sullivan is way stronger than me. And all that accumulated experience is giving her one hell of an advantage.

So, in that case, what can someone like me possibly hope to accomplish in order to bridge that gap between us? I would need to improvise to try to become as proficient as she is, but while having much less time on my hands.

Unfortunately this battle we have right now is the Weight-specific battle, and playing a Heavyweight character who is not all that mobile and agile to begin with puts me at a somewhat losing position to begin with. Or rather, I would have to refer to all of my previous knowledge from other games in order to make the difference here.

「Do you happen to know a game called Venus Fight?」

「I’m familiar with it! So what!?」

「Then I’m going to let you see it as the first one ever! AIR TALL!!!」

Oh well, it’s something that comes from a Japanese Bishoujo Fighting Game, so don’t be scared when you see it for the first time ever!

Before she has the chance to react in any form of a way, let’s go for a throw, and then let’s try some more of that centrifugal force rotation so that those pesky little lasers have a harder time with hitting me. And then some nice little uppercut as a finishing touch…… Alright, thank you so much for your much needed cooperation!

「I’m going to set your brain ablaze!」

「Took the words right out of my mouth!」

Instead of trying to catch the enemy Cursed Prison again I take a step away, watching it stop in the air and then starting to fall down…… And since I cannot really jump in this form of mine, what else can I do here in order to help her come down a little bit faster?

「There we go!」

「Guoooh!?」

As luck would have it, because my Cursed Prison has its lowered body strengthened and equipped with hovering modules, it is a little bit higher than Amelia Sullivan’s Cursed Prison.

I hold my hands together in the shape of the hammer and I bring it down right as the enemy Cursed Prison was at the level of my head, sending it downwards with a mighty blow that would probably instantly kill any other character if they were put in the same kind of situation here. However, she must have been anticipating something like that from me, since she twisted her body and managed to receive the blow with the reinforced armor plating covering her body, reducing the damage from that blow tremendously.

「I’m not dead yet!」

「Then you are going to be dead in just a second! That can be arranged!」

And yet another Cross Counter! But once more our fists crush into one another! Because of that our HP bars shrink once again, the enemy Cursed Prison now having only millimeters of it left to spare! What a wonderful present that is!

「How about a sudden attack, huh!?」

「Bring it on!」

Rather than attack once more with the right arm that was still locked in cross-counter, I throw my left arm. Now, how are you going to react? Are you going to take it? Or maybe try to twist your body and shoot that pesky little laser of yours once more? Good, let’s see who can deal the greater damage here!

And won’t you look at it! Her body tries to twist forcefully, bringing the mechanical wing as close to me as possible and using that laser. And apparently she does not her that her own arm is going to be damaged in the process, for she tries to attack me just like that without a single care in the world.

And then, let’s just give her a slight tap, just a little bit of a pull that only takes about one frame to perform, before she can realize what is going on and counteract that.

「Guhah!?」

And the moment when the sudden blow hits the enemy Cursed Prison to the throat, the light of the laser that was accumulating in the wing stops abruptly.

For a moment out there, there was nothing else but a complete silence. For a few seconds I continue to grasp onto the steel wing of the enemy Cursed Prison, expecting some sort of a comeback or a reaction. However, there is no such thing coming, and before long the steel giant slowly starts to fall to the ground.

「…… Very well, you are…… the real one…… The real deal. I’ll give you that, God damn it.」

The additional armaments and armor starts to peel off of Cursed Prison one after another. Also, I can tell that the smaller machines created by Mechanitian also stop functioning and go motionless, as if feeling that their commander has been defeated in battle. And then all the smaller machines catch on fire and eventually all turn to dust.

「But….. Weather it’s a win or a loss……」

The figure of the enemy Cursed Prison started to shine brightly, and then went all dark and eventually disappeared.

「There will be no boasting here, but let me just say this: Victory…… belongs to me!」

And because I am that kind of a player, I thought that acting in Cursed Prison’s character would be the most logical course of action here.

But also, you know…… From time to time a little bit of boasting should be fine, right? I mean, is that what we call fanservice? Yeah, and fanservice is indeed needed in situations like that!