Chapter 1140 Getting Sick From the Swirling and Whirling of the White Waves Part 2

「But for a sword being used for something as flashy as Iai-Jutsu techniques…… Isn’t this weapon too powerful? That’s the impression I am getting here, at the very least……」

「What’s wrong? Dude, if you have something to say, than say it!」

「…… Just now, you…… you managed to defeat those monsters with a single strike, right? How is that even possible? And how else do you want me to call this, if not Excessively Overpowered?」

「It may be the doing of the Lucky Punch skill, or maybe I was just lucky with Critical Hits in general. Doesn’t really matter. For now, let’s go forward, come on! On the double here!」

「Ah, no, wait just a second! Hey! Don’t tell me that this was all just a fluke! Or that the Iai skills are that overpowered! That’s obviously not it in here! There must be something more to that! Hey!!!」

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So basically, all of the monsters that seem to appear across this particular layer are nothing more but a chunks of meat meant for consumption, but put in a rather violent and monstrous-looking packages that walk around and try to kill you. But on the other hand, if you were to combine certain items that you can buy in this layer with some of those meat monsters…… I guess it can be safely said that the players are able to create a really powerful and really grotesque means of transportation. But hey, you know what they say, right? As long as it gets the job done, and all that?

「Wait! I said wait for me, you absolute assholeeeeeeeee!!!!!!」

「Ohh, don’t mind me, do your best! Or maybe I should say do your worst? Like, seriously, you really need to make more use of those legs of yours. Without that you are not going to get very far when it comes to combat.」

「NNNNNNNNNUUUUUUUUUOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!」

The name of the monster I’m straddling right now is Horse Hommage Thoroughbred Custom, and as the name implies, it’s one of the few moving meats in this shell layer that mainly consists of meat monsters.

The monsters that we are currently riding on are called Horse Homage “Thoroughbred Custom”, and if you equip an item on them called Reins of Behavioral Interference “Control Reins” you will be able to turn a mere monster into quite an effective mount. That is, as long as you possess the necessary points to purchase that item at the safe zone in the first place. Now, you can technically do without mounts like that, but it won’t be that much of a surprise if I say here that using them makes traversing this layer a whole lot faster and much easier than it was supposed to be. …… So well, in the end, mobility is once more the key factor, it would seem. But on the other hand, it’s one thing to get a monster under your control, but you also need to steer it right and make it to do what you want it to do in the first place.

「Heeeey!!! When this is going to end!? Hasn’t it been long enough already!?I am getting sick and tired of waiting and doing this over and over again!!!」

「Kuh…… Man, shut the fuck up, why don’t you……? Quit your bitching! It’s not all that hard to invest a few points into Agility, now isn’t it? So you can only blame yourself for this!」

Seeing that Survival was about to go out of Stamina in a moment or two, I hurried towards him to help his sorry ass before something bad would happen to him. It cannot be helped here, especially since one of the horse-like monsters looked about ready to charge right at him seeing that he came to a stop.

「Haah, God fucking damn it, I really guess that it cannot be helped here…… Hey, Survival, you asshole! You can use this mount right here! So stop embarrassing yourself like that! But just so you know, its name is Nitro Raw Meat. You’d do well to remember that.」

「Yeah, I can see that your naming sense is as shitty as ever, huh!? So? What are you going to do from now?」

No, if you ask me something like that completely out of the blue……

「As for me, it will be faster if I am going to run on my own.」

「Ah? What this? I just got some sort of a title? “Rider”? I mean, it makes sense, but……」

Yeah, you go with that. But as long as I have the titles that I have managed to obtain on my own, I am still going to be the fastest player in the entire world…… Yeah, the fastest player. Because the fastest being in the world is still the Little Girl Sensei, without a shred of a doubt. But the fastest player? I am still going to take that and be grateful for it.

「Going on foot? Are you being serious right now?」

「Don’t you worry about it. You can look down on me for saying that if you happen to overtake me. Which I highly doubt that you will be able to do, but I’ll give you a benefit of the doubt.」

「Oh yeah? Well, those are some fighting words! Come on, let’s do this! Nitro Raw Meat!」

Under the reins of Survival, Nitro Raw Meat starts to gain speed and runs ahead, but it remains unclear if it was its own initiative or Survival’s innate riding skills that made that happen. While seeing off Survivor running through the meadow in a blink of an eye…… I equip the usual accessories.

Normally the over-the-top speed of Levin Trigger / Disaster Hand should be enough here to overtake those guys. There is no real need for me to add anything to the mix…… But still, I wanted to experiment some more. So I was starting to add things to the already existing combination.

With the support of some additional skills, my body gained even more speed and rushed forward…… In the end, the use of Disaster Hand was not even needed here, as I am sure I would have been able to attain that same speed with my skills alone. But I wonder…… Ah, to hell with it! Activating the Gale Boosters that I recently received! Let’s see how they work in this environment!

「And now…… Let’s just throw in some “Running” as a finishing touch!」

In other words, let’s ice skate where my back is being pushed back, and add left rotation to offset the right rotation before I lose my balance! In other words, it might sound stupid, but if it works, then it ain’t stupid!

「Yo, Survival! I can see that nothing has changed since that time at the deserted island!」

No matter if you are a man or a woman, no matter if it’s about speed or something else!

「I am! Always ahead of you! I am! Always taking the initiative!」

「Using such speed to cover long distances is just foul play!」

「It’s fair! Oh, it’s fair, alright! You just have to win in the Amber GACHA!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!」

I can see some meat being in the way! Now let’s try to combine the force of rotation together with the “Hayakaze”! WHOOOAH! Five enemies killed with one strike! Come on! Come on! Come! What’s wrong! If you don’t change it in some way, I am going to destroy all the meat in here and there won’t be anything left for anyone else!

~ About five minutes later ~

「…… I-If we continue to shake and turn like that more and more, I’m afraid that my semicircular canals are not going to withstand it…… I can already feel like I’m about to throw up……」

「But wouldn’t that mean that your real life body was about to vomit as well? And I cannot have you emergency quit on me now. …… We should be at our destination in about five minutes. Try to hold on for that much longer, will you?」

「I… I don’t think I can hold it in for five more minutes like that…… I’m gonna vomit here…… Gheeeh! Damn you, Nitro Burned Meat!!!」

「Y-You stupid asshole……」

You’d better be careful not to turn too much with this thing, or else you might actually come to regret it…… Ugeh!!!