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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 543 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 543: INTERLUDE: The One Who Sings And The One Who Plays Part 1

For as long as you are identical to someone with the same body and the same weapons in the same range, you will always be able to make the same actions and hope for their results to be exactly the same as your opponent’s.

But in reality, it all boils down to three basic scenarios:

The first one is that of reckless abandon, where you decide to abandon any form of defensive notions and invest everything into the offense, betting everything on the one last blow that will have to be the killing one. Otherwise, you are pretty much done for.

The second one is the strategy that requires a little bit of strategic thinking and is considered something that the Technical players like to do for the most of the time. It is a strategy revolving around provoking your opponent into attacking and then making sure that you are going to kill them in a one and swift counterattack. However, should you fail the counter, you are going to be on the receiving end of the killing blow and you would be done for.

And then there is the third and the final possible strategy. This one is basically considered to be called “Going back to the square one”, because the situation on the field is basically reset to how it used to be at the very beginning, with both players trying to bring one another down with a flurry of quick attacks and jabs that would hopefully take their opponent by surprise.

However, there is a clear distinction here that needs to be addressed. A distinction based on the notions of superiority and inferiority. A superiority and inferiority between the “me” and the “other” me. Because even though we are presented with the same options, the actions we can take will differ greatly and their results are going to be vastly different as well!

That is why there is only one option for me to take here: to try and go behind the other “me’s” back. Every other option here would basically mean that I would have been locked out from the possibility of victory.

Because the actions that we are going to be taking here are going to vastly influence the final results of this battle. By the way, are you familiar with the way in which you can win the game of Rock-Paper-Scissors? And I don’t talk about the mere “throw some figures at random” theory. I am talking about a surefire strategy to win every single match, every single time. That kind of theory.

In the very beginning, if you try to knock your opponent out with the Rock, the opponent is going to hesitate and will lock himself out of the only winning option that is available to him, which is “Paper”. This means that they will throw Scissors at you, which will result in the instant knockout for them. Using this mind games strategy I was able to defeat Katsu in this game more than three times already.

「I am going to show you what a true death looks like! Here we go! “Exceed Charge”! Activation Liberation!」

The effect of the Centipede Eight Zero Point Five Thousand’s Exceed Charge comes into play right here and right now! And its cost is that throughout the duration of the Exceed Charge the user’s MP is going to be constantly drained until it eventually reaches zero.

The original assumption here is that you are going to fight with the assistance of the armor for a prolonged period of time. However, both time and armor are the extra luxuries that I cannot really afford here. The only thing I need here is the time to make one full swing, and that’s all that counts. That is all the time in the world that I need.

And there is one more thing here: the right to choose one of the three options that I described above. At the current moment I am the only one who get to choose those things freely, mostly because I was the one who went with the initiative, so talk about a privilege! And it is precisely because the initiative was no on my side that the other “me” can only choose how to deal with what I am going to do, without having the right to make any attack on its own. Which is even greater still! The less you are able to do the better for me!

Would you like to try and attack me using your sword? Or maybe you would like to try and attack me with your fists instead? You can most definitely try to do something here, but you’d better do it fast, why are you still able to do so! Oh, and needless to say, I am not going to forgive you if you try to raise a white flag here!

「There! I’ve got you now! You won’t escape!」

Question Time: What do I need to do here in order to guarantee myself a checkmate without being afraid that the enemy is going to have a chance at scoring a comeback against me?

Answer Time: Use the Horizontal spear attack. That is honestly everything that you need here.

「What the……」

When it comes to the character of Sanraku, who would know it better than me, Sanraku himself? There is no other such person in the entire world.

Basically, when you get down to it, I am for most part a purely physical fighter. Of course, I have some means of using magic and even hold weapons with magical properties, but the root sources of those things always tend to originate somewhere outside the realm of MP. And that’s a fact that no one can deny. …… No, but it may be better said that my build relies in seventy percent on physical attacks alone.

This basically means that the vast majority of my actions here are limited to physical attacks and maneuvers, and even when I try to use some magical attacks or maneuvers, it usually takes a whole lot of effort for me to make it work in the first place, and the results are not always the way I wanted to them to be. So in a sense it’s much like trying to stay afloat in the pool or the ocean when you can’t swim.

Now, it’s not like I don’t remember everything from one to ten perfectly, but I have at the very least some idea of ​​what went into the Inventoria. That’s why I can affirm it with all certainty, I don’t remember putting such a thing in there….. And I most certainly don’t remember the skills and magic that can be used in that way …!

「No way…………」

Yes, no way indeed.

What does it mean to have a large number of musical instruments emerging from the crimson floor carpet in a manner that was clearly not a physical phenomenon? It’s as if they were being hidden away there waiting for precisely this moment, waiting to be struck by the swinging down of the whole body, and the attack coming from the Centipede Eight Zero Point Five Thousand!