ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 620: Wisdom’s Hall of Fame Part 2
Well, please do not look so surprised, Rei-san. If we are talking about the progress in certain areas, especially damage-oriented, you are probably the one who’s got that developed the furthest out of each and every single one of us. Even if it was the minimally exceptional levels of progress, it would still be something that was setting her apart from everyone else in here. Not to mention that she surely must have seen some of the monsters of the New Continent that we were yet to witness. And that would also mean that Rei was in the possession of some useful info about the New Continent itself.
「But, surely it’s not all that straightforward, right? I mean, surely there’s a catch in here somewhere, right?」
「YES, THAT’S RIGHT. IN ORDER TO VIEW THE SPECIFIC INFO FILE, YOU MUST HAVE PREVIOUSLY SEEN, HEARD, OR OWNED THE FRAGMENT OF INFORMATION CONNECTED TO THE GIVEN SUBJECT.」
Ah, I see. So, it means more or less that you cannot browse through the information that you don’t know at all.
Apparently, the distinction is made by touching the rising hexagonal column and Leviathan analyzes the body of the next generation primitive human being that activated it, and makes the judgment based on what it sees…… What the hell is this function even? Sounds awfully dystopian, if you were to ask me?
「Alright Mold, off you go to blaze the trail! Come on now, don’t be shy!」
「Hmm? Oh, y-yeah…… A-Alright, I guess.」
I don’t feel like I should volunteer for something so unknown like that as a first person, so let’s get Mold to do the honors. Not even realizing that he was playing the role of a decoy here, Mold stepped forward and touched the hexagonal column in a dreadful manner. Then, there was a line of light that started to travel down the hexagonal column, and it looked as if there was something being sucked out of Mold’s palm in the place where his hand touched the column. And then that something was being quickly transported into the ground.
「…… How is it, Mold? Don’ you think as if your HP was being decreased?」
「No, I only think that it took a small amount of my Experience points. But a really small amount.」
「Umm, Mold…… -san. For the time being, you’d better check on your…… MP, just to be on the safe side……」
「Wait a minute…… Could it be that this is the reason why you made me go first!? Because you wanted me to be your guinea pig!?」
No, wait, you see…… That’s because this thing might be some super crazy dystopian machine as far as we are concerned, you know? So better safe than sorry, wouldn’t you agree?
However, it seems that there was no such thing as absorption of vitality that we were worried about. And contrary to the previous time, when the line of light rising from the ground gathered on the palm that touched the pillar, now the line was circulating around Mold himself. And then several system windows have appeared.
「One, two, three…… about twelve, I think?」
「Could it be the amount of subjects that it was able to extract out of Mold?」
「Hmm, maybe so, but…… it would be unwise to just assume such a thing without any means of confirming it……」
Why is everyone looking at me when they were saying that?
For some reason, I have a really bad feeling about the way in which everyone was looking at me right about now. Fortunately, at the same time Rust stepped forward and touched the hexagonal column somewhere else…… and the number of system windows that appeared all around her seemed to have amounted to sixteen.
「Hmm? It seems that this side is more related to purely womanly-topics?」
「…… I have researched some dungeons on my own, the ones in which Mold would be unable to enter. Maybe that’s where the disparity is coming from.」
Why would Mold be unable to……? Oh, is that perhaps the gender compatibility problem? But is there really a place that allows only a selected gender inside of it? Because if there is, then it is extremely shitty solution, I won’t lie. Hmm, but with the power of the Holy Grail in my hand, it should be a problem that should be easily circumvented. It would be a good idea to go and visit such places somewhere down the line.
「…… But I’m only looking for custom blueprints for Tactical Warbeasts, so I don’t care about the number of windows that relate to other things.」
And once again, why is everyone saying that while looking at me?
After that, it was Yashiro Bird’s turn, with fifteen windows in total. Then it was Survival with twenty windows and Rei-san with a total of sixty eight windows.
「No ……… Yeah, I happened to meet quite a few interesting things on my way throughout the game, so that explains the sheer amount of it, yes.」
「Oooh, interesting. Care to tell us all about that sometimes later?」
「Alright, Tsuchinoko, your turn. Don’t disappoint us.」
Huh? Tsuchinko? I am positive that I have no idea who you are talking about here. Besides, Tsuchinko has already been hunted down by me. It molted its skin and evolved into a giantess that tried to kill me. And she was now dead, but not fallen from my hand, but by those oversized snake-dragon things…… But that’s the truth that only I am aware of.
「Alright! Let’s do this thing!」
I slam his palm against the hexagonal column and let the Leviathan read the career of an individual named Sanraku. Obviously, when the load time is longer than the other guys, I already have a bad feeling, but no, it’s just that the OS is tired because 6 people worth of load time, I’m sure. It would be a meaningless action for the “Brave Fish” to smile in a smug way right about now, but that was what she did. And it is also due to the fact that there are clearly many lines of light returning from the ground to the part where the palm touched the pedestal.
「Uwah, gross! Like, seriously! That’s actually gross!」
「It looked as if his upper body exploded just now, and there was a whole lot of small windows that came out of it right after that.」
「Sanraku……-san, umm, are you…… alright?」
「…… Does that mean that I’m actually a…… System Windows fairy?」
「Fairy…… He actually said fairy…… Fukuguh!」
「You guys just like to say whatever the hell you want in situations like that, aren’t you……?」
「HMM, LET’S SEE HERE…… THE TOTAL NUMBER OF UNLOCKED FILES IS ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY TWO, IT WOULD SEEM.」
Gee, so much? Seriously?
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