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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 609: A Magnificent View From the Height, a Staircase That Is Sloppy If You Look Down Part 2

「Shut up! You’re the one to talk! So come back once you have managed to develop something original about your character!」

You see, I’m that type of a player who likes to hide diamonds under the cover of gold, so to speak…… However, I know that using all-powerful attacks like that to take down the boss are the best thing that can be done here, but I couldn’t help but think that there was also something really anti-climactic about them. Wouldn’t you agree?

But more importantly than anything else……

「Hey, won’t you look at it? It seems that I have leveled up as well.」

Level one hundred forty eight, huh? So this means that I have two more levels before I reach another level cap. …… So this means that I cannot allow myself to fight another Extraordinary Monster, but hey, getting stronger is always a good thing, I guess.

In addition to the bonus for leveling up, it seems that the status points for encountering and destroying the Extraordinary Monster were also included, and it is troublesome to think about the distribution of twenty or so points in total, so let’s save that for later for the time being…… But it’s time for the main dish! What happened to the skills!

「…………… Hm? HMMM!?」

Nice, thanks to me using is so much in here the level progress of the Sunny Weather managed to progress quite a bit all at once. So maybe this means that…… Huh, what the? This is…… What the heck is this? So what, this is now like this, and that thing is like that? What about the next one……? HUH? Oh…… Oh, I see how it is……

「Fuguh!?」

「…… HUH!?」

「W-What’s wrong!?」

Rei-san and Survival ask me that all of a sudden once I happened to let out a short scream and got on my knees. G-Got damn you, Amachi Ritsu! Got damn you to hell, you utter bitch……! What a sneaky thing to set up!! What a nasty trap to lure poor and unsuspecting players into!! It’s so simple but so effective at the same time, really ingenious!!

「I see, I see…… Now, whatever the fuck is that “Sublimation “Stand By” is supposed to mean……?」

「What’s that?」

「You know how you can get rid of the level cap at the Elven village, right?」

「Ahh? Ooh, y-yeah, I know. That sounds about right.」

Survival (and Rei-san as well, since they cannot see the my face because of the ferocious helmet that I was wearing, but probably had the same expression I was having at the current moment) suddenly started to look very suspicious, but they said nothing as if waiting for me to continue to talk. This is all common to all players, and the two will no longer be unrelated to that problem, so I guess that’s okay.

「I suspect that there is going to be another level cap. This time around it should be at about level one hundred fifty.」

「…… What, seriously?」

「The skills I was using were all strengthened, but some of them only got the word “Sublimation “Standby” “to them, their effects did not evolve or anything.」

「Huh? …… Ahh, really now? Is it really about something as petty as that?」

For example, let’s have a look at the skill True World Observation “Quantum Gaze”. It has changed into the True World Observation Sublimation “Quantum Gaze Stand-By”.

Rei-san did not wanted to come forth and say that out loud, but it seems that Survival managed to notice that as well. And I mean, of course he would notice. After all, strengthening his skills is the cornerstone of his playstyle.

In this game, the skill change as soon as you level up, and the quality of the skill before leveling up determines the next skill you are going to obtain.

Then if so, this “sublimation” is probably the highest proof of the current upper limit level that is level one hundred fifty. That’s the current line. In other words, if you do not raise your skills to the “sublimation” stage by level one hundred fifty, you will have to rely on level down builds…… It is also a three-digit level that requires an amount of experience value that is incomparable to level ninety nine. Or that’s how I tend to see it.

「Sanraku, you……」

「I’m currently at the level one hundred forty eight. So this means that I need to sublimate my skills before I manage to gain two more levels…… Do you think it’s something that can be done here?」

「…… That, that would be seriously difficult.」

「If you want to grow stronger you need to come up with an answer to the question of what do you want from your build? Then you have to narrow your choices down and focus on developing them. But there are also required Experience Points and it seems that the number can be raised to some extent as well, although I don’t know how exactly you do that.」

Well, that sounds about right, I guess. That sounds about right, but…… I do believe that there is a trap laying in here as well. Yes, it’s most probably a Connection Skill.

The Connection Skill is a combination of two or more normal skills into one, more powerful skill. Instead of improving the effect even if the level goes up, it has an excellent effect all by itself from the get-go.

But of course, the level of the underlying skill does not increase during the process of merging them together. In other words, the connected skills cannot be “sublimated” including the skill used as the raw material materials for the process to occur in the first place ───!!!!!!

「Kuh ……」

The way it’s done is dirty, plain old dirty, I tell you! I was wondering why the skill wasn’t strengthened, but I wondered if it would be revealed at the end of the game, but not like this! Does that mean that the developers are a bunch of sadists!? Are they getting off off this while watching the anguish of the players while they just sip on some wine and smirk down on us in satisfaction!?

「Let’s just go ahead for now…… We have a long road ahead of us, and the time is waiting for no man.」

「Y-Yeah, I guess that’s right.」

Next up is the third layer of Leviathan, the “Playground”…… a literal iron fortress filled to the brim with enjoyment and entertainment that stands in front of the next-generation primitive human beings who were until now only partaking in their own primitive entertainment activities.