ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 578 Part 2
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 578: A Firepower Worthy of Fifty Thousand Yen or Above Part 2
Oh well, if we were to look at things from the perspective of a simple gunball, there is nothing wrong with chasing after your dreams. Especially since we are more than likely to be defeated here, so aiming for a compensation prize is as sensible of a choice as ever. That way, no matter what happens here, you are going to be victorious.
「Okay then, let’s take this new Sanraku air cruiser for a spin. Especially since it was given us for free!」
「Whoa, seriously? Is that true? If so, I would really like you to take me out for a ride!」
「Nuoah!?」
It was the player who wore a reptile helmet, not a mammal one, who all of a sudden came out and cut in between the gazelle and the rhinoceros.
「Is that supposed to be a snake?」
「It’s a python.」
「Aahh………… So, what do you want? You want to go for a ride? Do some carpool? Is that it?」
「Yeah, yeah, that’s right! You see, I happen to specialize in electronic warfare, so…… You could say that piloting spaceships is not really my strongest suits out there.」
「Okay, but in that case, what about Rhino—san over there?」
「Huh? Ahh, no it’s okay. I don’t really mind……」
Okay, so for the time being it is safe to assume that we are in the clear. Anyways, she’s a female player and her voice sounds feminine enough, but…… How should I put it……? I mean, her words and her actions seem to be strangely “blurring” together…… I mean, maybe she’s just a template-like idiot…… But still, my Evil-Sensing sensor seems to be tingling like crazy right about now…… No, it’s better not to think about it any more than absolutely necessary……
Apparently, players who want other transport ships are also gathering for boarding, and it seems that if they bother to want a transport ship, there is a chance for them to win this thing. Or that’s what they must be all thinking. As the metal animals are separated, two more people will come towards me. It seems that people were avoiding the transport ships the best they could, but now that everything else seemed to be filled up, they had no other choice but to approach me, since I must have been the only one who still had free spaces available here. Oh well, sometimes there are things in this world that you just can’t help……
「Is that something that you have come up with yourself?」
「No, that’s actually a fact…… Ah, my name is Wolf! Pleasure to be working with you all!」
「I’m fox.」
Wolfs, foxes, snakes, rhinoceros, gazelle ……… Isn’t gazelle technically a cow? Or is it a goat? Well, five people is not bad for one team. Or rather, I don’t think it’s too few to divide the gunball into five.
Why shouldn’t each person get on a transport ship and do a large breeding disturbance operation? That’s a thing worth considering.
「So, where exactly are we going with this? Are we perhaps aiming for something specific?」
「Nah, from here on out it’s nothing more but an ad lib.」
I don’t think we can aim for the main command center right from the very beginning. And I am sure that a whale player like that has countermeasures installed for all kinds of different strategies and enemy approaches. At least before the update, the countermeasure for boarding was to stun the NPC with a shock pulse, but now I have no way of knowing if there are no actual countermeasures for plays like that.
「Alright then, I guess it’s about time……」
「Yo, there! We’re counting on you out there, Pilot!」
「Just leave everything to me! No matter if it’s a curtain or space debris or a black hole, I’m going to fly us through any obstacle out there!」
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The corner of space known as the Moscow Mule Nebula.
「Umm, testing, testing~. This is the Supreme A Fleet, over. Please excuse us for using the open line like that instead of the encrypted channel, but surely you understand. Special circumstances and all that other jazz……」
「Oh my, thank you for being so polite. This is the Grand Fleet of Futatsuoka, G-Cup Breast Meat…… and we are the member of the coalition who will help us as comrades in upcoming battle.」
「Hmm, coming at us from both right and left, huh…… Hmph! Aiban-san, please be gentle with me today as well……~」
「No, no, no! I know that this is pretty exciting, but let’s just all control ourselves here, alright?」
「Now then, I wonder just how long this thing is going to last? A week at longest? Alright, let’s give it our all as to finish this in about three days, shall we?」
「No, no, no! Just because our situation is that even if we win or lose we get something out of it, we mustn’t allow ourselves to underestimate our opponents! So please, guys! Keep it together! And let’s make that a Round-Trip!」
Round-Trip is a slang term in this game that refers to those who can make a round trip from another galaxy to their home back on Earth in one piece. A person who has a ship that can move freely between galaxies beyond even interstellar level…… In other words, it is a term that refers to a Super Whale Players who has a whole lot of experience doing large scale battles as well.
In this battle, the total number of players participating is at least a couple dozen versus our squad. So in the large scale of things we are at a disadvantage here, with the fleet of Futatsuoka topping us both in terms of raw strength and outnumbering us like six to four or something…… if not even more.
And then, just like that……
「Alright then, so…… Before we even begin this private little war of ours, I have to ask you guys this one question: are you absolutely sure that you have not even the slightest intention of surrendering yourself to us? You can still reconsider while it is not too late, you know?」
「Hahaha, we could trouble ourselves with answering you guys, but how about this, instead? Instead of answering, we are all going to turn you into space algae…… YOU STUPID ASSHOLES!!! EAT THIS!!!」
「What the hell!? Care to run this by us again!?」
In the end, the tactics that we have finally agreed on unanimously was the one of the surprise attacks. Of course, it was supposed to be a surprise attack utilizing the highest amount of firepower that we all had all at once. The thing that we were supposed to use here to attack would be the reproduction of the thing called the Demise Gun “Big Crunch Laser”. As for how it was supposed to operate, it would tap itself into the Great Wall space fortress, and convert all of its power into a pure destructive power. It would be a firepower far greater than anything a mere fleet of spaceships would ever be able to produce even if ganged up together.
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