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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 507 Part 2

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 507: I! AM! CURSED! PRISON! Part 2

「Well then…… I’d say that right now is pretty much a do-or-die kind of situation, huh?」

While it may be true that I do not wish to overexert myself here too much, I do not wish to intently lose here, either. So at the very least I need to make sure that the battlefield is going to be stirred quite a lot because of my actions.

「It’s time for the last battle. So I guess it’s time to prepare ourselves for the greatest stage ever!」

Let’s make this whole W Delta a whole lot more interesting of an experience, shall we?

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At the same time, the real world (expanded with the AR technology) was in quite a bit of an uproar.

「Aaaaand it is decided! Cursed Prison controlled by Masked Hannya loses! Could it be that we are witnessing the birth of the new Real World Cursed Prison in the making!?」

「Congratulations! Ameila! No Face! You are the best! The best there ever was!」

「Umm, Staff members? Could you please do something about it? Pretty please?」

Seeing what kind of chaos was about to unfold in a moment, Sasahara Eight cast a quick glance towards one of the side operators, hoping that they would be able to do something about it.

「I must admit, what a show that was to watch! The way that No Face played that fight was simply magnificent. Do you think that perhaps he planned all that in advance? Maybe ever since the previous stages?」

「I thought that it might have something to do with the surveillance cameras, but I never would have expected something quite like that. Maybe we will see the birth of a new trend in the nearby future?」

「Yes, you might be right about that. Also, that form just now…… This is something that was actually never seen before. Could it be that he managed to discover it in secret before the day of the event? That would have been sick, huh?」

When it comes to the targeted enemies, the kind of characters that the AI is going to control is usually determined right after the players finish selecting their characters, and it is all based on the characters selected. So in other words, it is possible to manipulate the AI into picking certain characters as long as the players pick certain characters themselves.

「So that was the reason why Dust wanted to crush TV-Head so quickly. He needed to have the TV-Head out of the game as soon as possible so that she wouldn’t use the cameras around the city to discover that No Face was actually playing the long game here. And the less information Masked Hannya had, the greater the advantage of No Face was becoming.」

「Also, if TV-Head were to be left in the game for a longer period of time, No Face could have been prevented from finishing his strategy, or he would have been caught in a trap at the worst moment possible.」

「Also, it seems that he really needed that middle to long range combat capability in order to successfully capture both “Colonel” and “Commander”. Ahh, now it all makes sense. Because getting close to them can be extremely difficult at times, and once you do there is hardly any advantage that you can have from that.」

The commentators were in the middle of a rather heated discussion, but at the same time the comment section was also getting rather busy, with new comments coming so fast that none of them would stay on display for longer than a second.

「The comment section also seems to be pretty excited about this outcome. And truth to be told, I can hardly even blame them for that.」

「Also, the name of the technique that No Face was using at the end…… I’m not very familiar with it, so do you think that you could fill me in on what that thing was……?」

「Mortal Lariat is a Special Move characteristic of a certain character from the other game called Death Match 4…… The idea behind that technique is to first catch your opponent into a lariat, and then to start rotating in order to blow your opponent away. It is also a rather flashy move, because the camera movement that accompanies it is special as well. As for this Air Tall attack…… Well, the way it was executed was slightly different from the original, but it is definitely a technique from one of the characters from the game called Venus Fight. Incidentally, it’s a game that takes various gods from various mythologies and changes them all into beautiful little girls.」

「Umm…… So, from what I gather, this is not one of the techniques that were originally invented for Cursed Prison in this game. So with that being said, is there even a reason for why the players in this game would want to use something that comes from another game?」

「Hmm…… No, I don’t think there is, aside from the fact that you would want to show to everyone how sick of an attack you can perform…… But this time around, there were merits to this. Two of them, in fact. One of them was to simply confuse Amelia Sullivan.」

Imitating those moves meant recreating two distinct battle styles, one coming from the East and one coming from the West. If anything, it was a good way of making your own battle style pretty much irregular and confusing your enemy, making them unable to predict what comes next.

「Even a simple hammer fist is not without consequences here. Switching from throwing moves to striking moves throws your opponents off pace, makes them unsure what to expect. And that is what fighting games are all about. Because let’s face it, how emotional would the battles be if two people were just trying to brute force their way through their opponents? Not very emotional, let me tell you.」

「Right. But then, what is that other condition that you have mentioned?」

「Succeeding in pulling something like that off makes your tension rise accordingly.」

「Umm, I don’t really get it……?」

「NO, I mean, seriously, just get a look at this guy…… You see, there are people like No Face and Silvia Goldberg, for that example. They are the ones whose performance in game tends to increase the more tension is being pressed against them.

「Yesss! I’m here! Is everyone watching me!?」

「Now, now! Miss Silver Mask! Please don’t wave your hand like that just because you have heard the name Silvia Goldberg!」

With that, the battle situation was pretty much evened out. Although Cursed Prison lost about thirty percent of his initial HP, he still had the advantage of hovering and quadruple movements. On the other hand, Masked Hannya was about to bring her third character, and this one was coming straight from the GC: B, or Galaxia Heroes: Burst…… her character would be Xenosargus, needless to say, in perfect condition.

「Which of those two is going to win? What do you think?」

「Hmm, I don’t know. It’s really hard to say.」

「Alright then! Then without any further ado……!」

「Allow me to enlighten you about one thing, Eight-san. When it comes to the exciting battles, even God himself is unable to predict their outcomes. It is only for the ones fighting those fights to decide, and only the future is going to show us the results.」

The Triangle Trinity battle in the middle of Chaos City was finally going to approach its final phase.

On one hand there was a warrior clad in Cursed Armor. On the other hand there was a foreign Drifter. And there was also…… Valkyrie, who was yet to be defeated.