Chapter 1042 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 559: Press Double Ballet Part 1

Now, here is the real question: our enemy is an armored giant that makes its armor from various state-of-the-art fighter jets. So what can we do in order to make that armor come off, but without the use of the excessive brute force?

And the answer to that question is: “Yashiro Bird, I’m not going to forgive you for this, you motherfucker!”

「Whoa there! Isn’t that armor way too hard, or is it only my imagination here……!?」

「Barret Launcher also seems to be little to no good damage-wise!」

So I guess that even if we were to possess the maximum firepower available in this demo, it would still do us little to no good. Which means more or less that we must think of a way to defeat this thing in a way that is non-conventional. But what would that method be? Because in a situation like that, it could be literally everything, even filling a water gun with chili water and injecting it into this guy’s nose!

「Alright, Rei-san! Time for some quick brainstorming sessions! For starters, the front of this guy…… No, that place is a no-go! Its armor is way too thick, and we lack the firepower needed to properly penetrate it! This is most probably a type of enemy that must be defeated with the use of a gimmick of some sorts!」

「Eh, umm, maybe if we somehow make the armored parts come off, we will be able to weaken it at the time as strengthening ourselves……」

Hmm, I see, I get it? So basically, we have that option, and there is also one more option, which narrows it down to two.

「Say, Rei-san? If you were to choose, which do you think it’s better? Dancing on top of your enemies’ graves? Or crawling your way through a literal minefield?」

Welp, that was one heck of an awkward question. I might have given it some more thought and worded it differently. I felt a little bit embarrassed here, but thanks to the goggles Rei-san was not able to see it all that clearly. Besides, this is just a game here, so it should be fine, right? Besides, Rei-san is a ShangriLa Frontier’s veteran player, so I am sure that she is going to understand ––––––

「Ah………… Fufufu, Rakuro-kun, are you fine with drawing that card for me first?」

「That line just now was extremely cool, just to let you know.」

「Heeuuh, f-f-for you to say that now of all time, Rakuro-kun…… That’s cheating!」

Do you think so? Personally, I don’t think that my words were that special or that out-of-the-ordinary.

We managed to catch a ride on one more armored car, and with its help we managed to arrive on top of the aircraft carrier with little to no hesitation. Once there, we could see that we were being surrounded by the remnants of more aircraft carriers as well as the jet fighters that were flying in every possible direction.

「Well, so far this goes exactly like I thought it would go……」

CLUNK! The heavy sounds emanate from all of the loudspeakers. Then, just for a moment out there, all of my field of vision is dyed red. Well, that’s what you get for trying to jump down from a speeding armored car and trying to make a landing on the ground. Of course you are going to make a few rolls and receive damage because of it. However, since this is a game, there is no sense of pain and we are not stopped in our tracks, meaning that we can press the assault and continue the battle as if nothing has happened.

「We have made it this far, so it’s only natural that we won’t be throwing out lives away here……!!」

There is only one more enemy left in front of us!

Up until recently I was under the impression that both Rei and I were looking towards the very same thing, but…… we have seen that the judgment of the stage was different on the top and the ground of this map.

And it is no secret that the blocks on which we were riding and the ones that were going all around us have some perspective and distance techno-magic applied to them, so it’s not really that we can go as far away as we please. Our area of action is actually limited.

There are tapes and lines all over the place reading: “Caution! Object block here!”, placed so that the world immersion would not be broken too easily for the ones enjoying the demo, but that actually limits our area of action even more.

「It’s strange that ever since the start of the fight this thing hasn’t shown us its back, don’t you think? Rei-san, doesn’t that seem suspicious to you?」

「Yes, there must be a reason for that.」

「…… Umm, Rei-san? You are not even looking its way, you know?」

「Ah! I-I’m sorry!」

Well, it’s good to see that Rei-san’s spirit is up. And her strange behaviors have already become a part of our routine as far as our interactions go.

For the time being, we must be careful about where we take our steps. We don’t want anything to get in our way while we are fighting. And the net order of things is to actually rush towards the giant scrap monster and try to get behind its back, to see why it does not want us there so much.

「Fufufufu…… I guess that without that armor to cover you from head to toe, your weak spots are as good as exposed, huh!?」」

There is an accident called Bird Strike. Simply put, it is a type of accident that involves a bird getting caught into one of the airplane’s propellers, causing the entire machine to break down and fall to the ground. And as far as I know, jet planes possess really complex engines with a whole lot of delicate parts inside of them. And as we can see, the back of this giant monster is literally ridden with a whole bunch of such propeller-like things, which can mean only one thing…… IT’S GO TIME!!!

「Alright! It’s time for some good old pincer attack crossfire!!」

「………………」

Ah, you are probably wondering where that polite tone of my voice went off to, huh……? Oh well, for now, we have more important things to worry about! Fire! Fire, fire, fire!! FIRE!!!

Let’s just fire continuously without stopping, aiming for the boss’s weak points! If we manage to take this thing down here, it will mean that the demo is as well as finished! Therefore we no longer need to worry ourselves about matters such as saving bullets or watching our own health bars! No matter if we need to fire two shots or two hundred shots, we are going to emerge victorious here!

「Making this a two-players thing was your greatest mistake in the first place……!!」

If there are two players on the field, there is always some sort of leeway to be had, and you don’t have to be focused to the max all the time. It’s just a matter of one of us needing to take some more scrap monsters out, but aside from that it is actually pretty disappointing that this game is so well-made up to this point in time…… But without the small fries around, there is no way for us to further strengthen our weapons or produce special bullets for our guns. So actually making sure to save as much ammo before the boss battle even begins was a correct course of action in the end.