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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 596: And Just Who’s Fault Do You Think It Is!? Part 1

Seriously, this here is by no means a laughing matter.

Looking at the place where I dashed away from when I finally recovered, the wall has been bashed in so easily as if you were attacking it with a battering ram. This sheer destructive power is going to become quite a problem really soon.

「……It’s no use. We can’t stay here anymore.」

「Huh……? W-What do you mean by that?」

「It’s only a matter of time now before this entire place is going to collapse on top of our heads! And no matter if we fight or run away, the result is going to be largely the same! So we are about to run away from here while grabbing all the furniture that we can! We can always find ourselves a new home! Now, get to work!」

「N-No way! This can’t be happening! My home! The place I have spent so long building for myself……!!」

Stop whining and complaining! It’s not the end of the world here! Home is where the heart is, and housing can always be rebuild! And I bet if we get the Library roped up in this, we will achieve something even better than what we have here!

「Wimp! Start removing the stones that block the exit little by little! Don’t let it open until the very last minute! The last thing that we want to have on our backs right now are some bloodthirsty spiders!」

「Fuguuh … Ugh, alright! I understand!」

Alright then, sorry for keeping you waiting, you Cyborg Beetle Bastard!

「Sigma! Emul! Use some light firepower to beat that fucker up! But try not to get too violent with it! Otherwise we are going to have the whole Crystal Scorpion party on our heads before long!」

「Understanding: Roger that, Master! Deploying the “Cosmetic Box!」

「Yes, sir! Starting chanting now!」

「Alright you fucking Kabuto-looking ass! You want to dance!? Alright, let’s do this! I’m going to wrestle you really good!」

I changed my head equipment in a hurry to a nostalgic battlefield helmet “Shiho”. It doesn’t matter if you have more horns or that if they are out of this world! This here horn is a horn that competes with the swords and advanced weaponry of the Era of the Gods! …… So right now there is only one thing left for me to say here.

「I’m not going to go down that easily! Come and get me if you can!」

However, I absolutely cannot allow this thing to rampage too much around this place! So, what I need here is a fast change of my battle tactics! I’m not really all that proficient in sumo, but I will have to make due without it! Even if it tries to rush me, I must make sure that it will stay in one place as much as possible!

My body accelerates when I activate a number of connected skills in response to an assault that clearly targets me. The aim is not the beetle’s horn…… but rather the wing beyond that! With the horn serving as my foothold!

If I can endure this unstable foothold for just one second, it I am going to activate a skill that will give me a momentary boost to both my offense and defense. Then its time for some acrobatics that can be centered around the one horn of my helmet 「Shiho」 , all thanks to the Quantum Gaze that I also managed to activate there. Normally, if you keep it for 1 second, a good acrobatics will come in at a roaring speed. The result would be established the moment the two of us clash with one another, and I make a spin move while aiming my weapon at the wings of this freaking insect!

However, the response was not as good as I expected it to be, the wing was so hard that my sword was easily repelled off of it…… And was that a slight vibration? Super vibration? It’s obviously strange, the way in which a beetle like that is able to keep on flying in the air. But the swings that its wings are making are so terribly small. Is that really enough to make such a giant body flying? And if so, then it really must be all about vibration. Why are you floating, why are you flying!? It’s magic, isn’t it? It must be!

「Oh yeah? Then what will you say to that, huh!? Just don’t say I didn’t warn you! And don’t cry, because it will be to no use……!」

After landing, I store the nearby candlesticks in the inventory and devise the next countermeasure. Emul is still chanting, and Sigma is…… doing something. Now the question is: is she going to match Emul’s pace? Or maybe go ahead and collect some aggro? But I can see that it will be that first option here.

Well, not to mention the hardness of the outer shell of this thing. While flying, the attacks on its wings seem to be useless, so do I want to aim at its belly? The belly is the same as the outer shell, isn’t it? Now the attack is coming, and my thoughts are already on the move!

「Whoa there! Nice scaffolding!」

「No, my beautiful chair!」

I tried to avoid the chair by jumping over it, but the distance was not enough, so I decided to use it as a scaffolding instead. Naturally, the chair that is left behind is crushed by the Cyborg Beetle in a matter of seconds. GGGGGHHHHH! You asshole! That’s one more thing added to the list of things that I am not going to forgive you for!

「The desk! Use it as a shield! Hurry!」

「Noooooo!!! Stop it! Stop iiiiiitttttt!!!」

But Wimp’s cries were largely ignored.

「Emul! Signma!」

「Preparations Complete: Beginning the simultaneous bombardment.」

「Cluster Magic Storm!!」

Ah, you absolute idiots! If you use such devastating attacks in a narrow place such as this, then……!!

「Everyone, quick! We need to get the fuck out of here, and we need to do it now!」

「Hohuh!?」

「Hmmh?」

「Taking a wild guess: this whole place is about to collapse.」

Kuh, I really am going to be missing all of this great furniture!

Activating Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand by sticking my thumb into my chest I run out of the hideout as fast as possible, at the same time strengthening my own legs time after time as soon as the recast time would allow me to do so. Also, I randomly collect the furniture that can still be used, grab the confused Emul by the neck and run through to the exit at as if the Devil himself was onto me, and what do you know, Wimp happened to be right next to me. I see that no one has to teach you how to get the fuck out from somewhere, huh!?

I’m so terribly sorry, my dear landlords! Forgive me for wrecking up the place!

「Sigma! What the situation outside!?」

「As you can see, Contractor, there is already a fully-blown out war taking place there at this very moment.」

Huh! So, it is basically the picture of hell no matter where you look, is that it!?

If you make a riot so great that the entire hideout is shaking in its foundations, it only goes to reason to assume that the other inhabitants of this place are going to wake up as well. And this means that there will be a literal warzone waiting for us. And what do you know? The spiders and centipedes are already at each other’s throats, duking it out.

Out from the fire, into the frying pan, huh? Oh well, for now we managed to successfully land on the ground and not aggro anything. Now, if we could just keep this up, we might actually get the chance to……

It was then that the Cyborg Kabuto jumped out onto the battlefield, while behind its back the entrance to our cozy little hideout was actually crumbling into pieces!