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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 599: Starting a New Life! Cooking Monster Wimp! Part 2

The never-before-seen Extraordinary skill “War Orphan”. It is the skill that is derived from the abilities and characteristics of the Fossil Miners’ War Orphan. It is a Fist-type skill, and I’m not even sure if it was obtained simply by defeating it in battle, or maybe doing something else while the battle is still going on.

The effect of the skill is that it causes a powerful knockback every time you hit your opponent with it. It’s simple in theory, but in practice it possesses the additional effect that the higher the damage output, the smaller the knockback distance. It’s just something that you can’t circumvent no matter what. But the vice versa is also possible here. The less damage this skill deals, the greater the scale of the shock wave.

It’s the kind of a skill that somewhat reminds me of the monster that was affiliated with it while it was still alive. But it is certainly something interesting to use in the real battle. And I am most curious about the maximum and minimum size of the shockwaves that can be created using this skill.

「Ahh, and what’s this…… You still sulking about that?」

「M-My home…… My special place……」

Ahh…… Oh yeah, the entrance has now completely collapsed there. If this just a plain and ordinary wasteland, it might have been possible to dig it all up and salvage whatever we can…… Yeah, right. This is Sigmonia Frontline Valley that we are talking about here. This place is actively a minefield that changes into an active warzone on a regular basis, where truly nasty monsters clash with each other on a regular basis. So……It’s impossible to excavate. So I guess that we have no other choice but to give up on this place once and for all.

It’s regrettable, but I know at least one more place where we can go, so I wonder if I can do something about it by forcing the “Library” out of that area…… No, the problem is the Wimp herself. Although she has become a little stronger, this area is a high-level area that even level ninety nine player or an NPC might struggle with.

「Does that mean that we would have to venture all the way back towards the Frontline Base at this moment……?」

The base of the Conquest Dolls is out of the question for obvious reasons. And even if we were trying to accommodate Wimp there, it would be something more similar to imprisonment rather than living. How about the village of the Bug People? No, just because they can talk, it doesn’t mean anything. They are pretty much uncivilized barbarians. What about the former Elven Village? …… Well, it’s the only place where the level cap can be released at the current moment, so it’s a place with unique content, so it might not be all that bad…… What about the inside of the Skull Azuchi Castle? No, that place is overflowing with those chumps from the production sector. Not to mention all the bigshots and powerful Guilds….. Huh? Wait a second? Could it be……?

「Frontline base, base…… New continent, branch office……」

「W-What? What is it?」

「Hey, Wimp? Correct me if I’m wrong here, but you CAN cook, right? I mean, you’ve been preparing your own meals all this time, right?」

I remember being asked for cooking utensils at one point in time, which means that this wimpy excuse of a Unique Monster must be able to cook. Or at least possesses some basic knowledge about that craft. It doesn’t matter if it’s backed by skills or its taste is ass, but what matters is that an NPC can cook.

The important thing here is that her cooking skill is “one” and not “zero”. And even if her abilities were not all that good in the first place, then we can always make up for it with some skillful roleplay instead.

「Alright, Wimp! The plans have changed! Wimp, from now on…… You are going to become a Wandering Cook!」

「Huh?」

「Listen up, we are going to go to the Frontline base now…… We will take you to a place where a whole lot of humans are gathering. If you let them know who you really are, they will most certainly try to take you down.」

Because she’s a Unique Monster, it’s more than certain that someone is going to be like: Hey, let’s kill it! It’s not something bad per se, but it would surely be inconvenient. Skull Azuchi Castle has a lot of people in it, and the Church has a resident Saint there, so it’s the same … But there aren’t many people there, and above all, my “face” is all good.

「That’s why we are going to ask some associates of mine to hide you. We can go there and you can be safe no problem.

I wonder how is this wimp is going to perform there…… Oh well, I guess we shall see. I mean, what’s the worst thing that can happen, huh?

「…… No way. No fucking way.」

「What happened, Sanraku-san?」

Karma value…… Seventy Five.

No way…… No way…… There is just no way that it is true……! Tentatively, tentatively that little bugger…… It’s a value of a Unique Monster…… Goldunine the Inexhaustible killed about one person, and their Karma value is sitting way below the levels the of what we could consider to be a criminal……!!」

「You…… Even if we were to kill you, we would not even be able to gain all that much from it, to be perfectly honest……」

「Useless to kill…… Well, I guess that this is good for me……? Is it?」

「Yeah? You don’t say?」

So, if we are going to kill it somewhere down the road, would it actually be considered as an act of mercy? Is that it? At least that’s the way I see it. I used to be a hitman once, in some other game. An assassin, a berserker, and a high school student, always trying to do something useful for the world that surrounded me…… But no, that’s not what we should be focusing on right here! Time is money, as they say! Especially for a high school student such as myself! No matter how much I would like it to not be the case here! We can be impressed with it sometime else, but for now we should focus on our priorities.

「Pointing out a problem: What should we do about the individual named Sammy-chan?」

「Hey, there is no rule that forbids a nomadic cook from taming a monster as their pet, right? Yeah, thought so, so we’re gonna go with that. Also……」

Compared to the idiots over there at the Frontline Base, they are the ones with really healthy motivations to them, and we can certainly talk things out. And then there are the ones with the super unhealthy motivations, and with those guys we can DEFINIETLY come to an understanding, with enough money or enough violence as a negotiating tool…… So, it’s not like we do not have options for us to choose from. But let’s not worry ourselves about that for now.

「Alright! Our goal is clear to us! We am for the Frontline Base! And to be more specific, the “Snake’s Apple” Branch Office that is situated there!」

If you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest! And if you want to hide one snake, then hide it inside of another, even bigger snake! It’s time for an all—out, all-night march!