Chapter 1082 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 579: The Hexagonal Invasion Part 1

「Everyone! Spread around! See you again at the enemy flagship!!」

When the commander gave that particular signal to everyone taking part in the operation, a bunch of small spaceships specializing in space combat were dispatched from the transport ship all at once. Of course, there were also ships driven by the NPCs in here, but the bread and butter of the operation was supposed to be the five transport ships driven by us human players.

「Look, it’s the fifty thousand yen ship.」

「For money like that you could easily pay for a month’s worth of food. And they chose to buy an in-game ship with that.」

If you were to ask me, it is inferior to the strongest weapon that currently boasts the highest firepower in Galaxy Traveler, but in terms of damage, it is the ultimate weapon that competes for the top spot in the rankings. Simply put, its ability is to pierce the physical defenses of its opponents.

However, it seems that measures had been taken over there in case someone would try to target that weapon. Of course they had. The disk that came out in front to protect the flagship of the Grand Fleet of Futatsuoka…… No, the light is emitted from the space battleship shaped like a disk. Since it is a game through and through, it may not be faithful to the actual Big Crunch, but even so, the field developed for the all-powerful laser that “Compresses the object that touched the ray and disappears from the field” is something for which you do not want to experience what a direct hit feels like. So even the ones who are using it need to protect itself from its destructive power.

「No way!? Not even a single scratch!?」

「No, that’s not it. Maybe there was another fleet before us that tried to take them on. And maybe that energy field was forced to use a part of its energy to defend against them.」

「Hey, Gazelle! This might be the chance that we have been waiting for! Let’s try to get closer and see if we can do anything here!」

No, I wouldn’t do that if I were you. No matter how you look at it, that’s just a downright stupid idea. I am certain of this other fleet…… Yeah, that pearl-colored flagship in the distance surely looks busted and incapacitated to me. On the other hand, there was some other ship visible in the distance, which would mean that they at the very least possess some means of defending themselves. And to top it all off, yet another ship was coming into view right in front of us! What the hell is this, a free-for-all or something……!?

At this rate it will be difficult to keep up with what is going on here……!

「Everyone! Fasten your seatbelts! On the double! Also, make sure that you keep your mouths shut, unless you want to bite off your tongues or shatter your teeth! This here is the beginning of a hellish rhythmic game!!」

The villainous defense weapon of the Germanoid Third Reich, which once secretly traveled from Earth to space and became a major force! What happens if you pack raw eggs in a metal box and microwave them? That is the Germanic forbidden weapon, the hypercharged electron diffusion pulse…… commonly known as the “Germanic Range”! I did not know that it was possible for the players to be able to use that as well……!

Now, before any German person starts to get seriously offended here, I can justify myself in such a way that it’s a “mucous human germanoid”, so Germany doesn’t matter either way! Because it’s fiction, it has nothing to do with real life! None whatsoever!

「Hyeeeh!? What the hell!? They are filling our entire field of vision!!! What the hell, what the hell, what the hell, what the hell!!!」

「I guess that they want to control this area purely by virtue of possessing multiple battleships……!!」

「Hey, Gazelle!? Aren’t we going to be in a really dip shit at this rate!? Do something!」

「Stop talking out of your ass! Before you actually start talking shit on transport ships, I’ll let you know that they have a whole lot of countermeasure equipment installed on them!

Eat this! Front defensive shields! When it comes to their durability, it is pretty much garbage, but on the other hand, they are a pulse type! This makes them stand out, for contrary to their rarity, they can withstand quite a bit of punishment. They are surely not paper-thin armor that gets torn to shreds after only one shot!

PEW!! The shield pops off with a pleasant sound that seemed to sound like a blaster shot from a certain movie franchise, but actually multiplied quite a bit of times. And with that the first volley came to an end…… However, fortress-ships like that tend to have a millefeuille-like structure and, having a whole lot of weapons capable of inflicting death onto its enemies. We can be sure of one thing here…… There would be the second wave coming. And a third one after that. And possibly many, many more.

PEW! PEW, PEW! PEW, PEW, PEW, PEW!!!

「Guys, I really think that this whole situation is not all that good for my heart……」

「Oh? Do my ears deceive me? Is the Passenger Wolf going to puke? Does he even have a puking bag with himself?」

「No, I am going to manage. Somehow. More importantly, can the Pilot Gazelle please look forward where he is piloting us!?」

If the transport ship that I was piloting at the current moment happened to eat a volley like that directly to the face, would that mean that we would all go out in flames and in a huge explosion? As if a power bomb was detonated inside of it? Hahaha, that would be an amazing sight to behold, for sure! I mean, with a single action like that, a huge number of people would have been forced to return to Earth in an instant.

「Please pay attention! Attention, please! I have two pieces of news to deliver to you! The good news, the bad news, and the bad news part two! Which one would like to hear about in the first place?」

「If you look at the front, you can see everything quite clearly! So what’s it going to be, Gazelle!? Can you do this? Or can you not? It seems to me that earlier you were quite confident about choosing this specific type of a spaceship to command……」

「Whew, that’s actually a kind of a relief. Because just now I have happened to finish the tutorial, that’ s why I chose this thing.」

「Well, that’s actually good to…… Wait, what did you say just now!?」

「Alright, let’s do this thing! You know what comes next after the rhythm game? Yes, that’s right! Next on the menu is the bullet hell!」

The good news is that the Germanic Range is over for now. And the bad news is that you have to accept the barrage of more than a dozen battleships without those trusty energy shields that we had on us a moment ago.

「Alright, guys! Be sure to assist me with some fire control should we need it……!!!」

「So, you are expecting us to get hit just like that!?」

「Take a good look around us, you doofus! Attention!! With so many enemies going after us, there is just no way that we are going to emerge from this without a scratch!」

The progress of technology is a wonderful thing indeed. It is wonderful that you can perform a drift with a ship like that thanks to abusing the physics engine. And it is all possible thanks to the player’s innate skill! Now then, it would be ideal if I were to be able to do a barrel roll without hitting any of the space debris! And even if I were to do it, I swear that it was not on purpose!

「What the hell is this? A series of TamaHyuns or what……?」

「Hmm, I don’t think that’s it.」

「Python, are you trying to dig your own grave here or what?」

「Is that supposed to be some sort of philosophical question? Like, the imaginary golden balls?」

「Are we talking about testicles that do exist and do not exist at the same time? Depending on someone actually observing them?」

「Balls…… Seriously now?」

「It’s about the future! The future!」

「Oi! Stop it, you moron! Don’t make the Pilot, or in that case me, laugh! We are all going to be in some deep shit if you make me lose my focus here!」

Even though I’m pretending to be a cool character, that was some really quality gag out there, fox! Nicely done! Yeah, and with that, my hands are pretty much out of order for now!

But I can do this. I’ve heard in advance that transport can’t do much in terms of turning, but I think that’s actually an over-exaggeration. Even if you can cancel the motion by sudden braking, drifting, or an outburst of the propulsion device, those ships offer you a whole lot of freedom.

「Gazelle! The other side has begun to change formation!!」

「Yeah, I can see that! And judging by the number of responses, we are not out of the woods yet……!?」

The Supreme A Large Fleet begins with the flagship “Love Horizon”. The second ship is “Nagida Suiheisen”, the third ship is “Great Wall”, the fourth ship is “Parallel Line”, the fifth ship is “Houston”, and the sixth ship. In addition to the sixth Terraton-Class battleship “Phantom Boyne,” it is the largest single-owned individual ship accompanied by four other Gigaton-Class battleships. Ignore the fact that the name of the battleships is getting weirder and weirder, and that each new name is actually a mouthful to pronounce. The important thing is that there are twelve Terraton-class battleships over there.

Currently, it seems that they are aiming to annihilate us by hitting the Terraton Class ship, which specializes in interstellar battle exclusively, against the Terraton-Class. At the current moment our odds are about five to eleven. Logically, being outnumbered like that it would be wise to just withdraw before the enemy manages to overwhelm us with their numbers alone…… But we can actually go head to head with them thanks to our specification and strategy. The barrages formed by those ships consume a whole lot of ammo with each shot fired, and because ships would directly interfere with one another if they tried to approach us, they had trouble utilizing their full battle potential.