Chapter 1166 The Whale Sings And The Door Opens Part 2

We are the six-person team, which means that we need to take our strengths and weaknesses into consideration all the time, we cannot just do as we please! But thanks to those two our strength is all over the god damned place! But that is an issue that is a problem to all MMORPGs as a collective, and not only to ShangriLa Frontier specifically.

「Well, I’m really glad here…… I was afraid that I would have to be in debt to Survival of all people, and I was about ready to ditch this game on the spot if it would come to that. Hello there! It’s nice to have you back, my beloved Chestoria!」

「No matter what the gun is, I wouldn’t use it just like that…… Oh, Yashiro Bird? Would you like to borrow some more money?」

「…… Would it be possible to pay you in installments?」

「Forget about it. At this rate you are about to go broke once more before long, huh? Then you wouldn’t be able to pay me back either way……」

I think that in the nearby future we are going to see the headlines in which Yashiro Bird will be put to prison for embezzling the company’s funds to sponsor his private fantasies, but I don’t really care …… It doesn’t matter how many gambling addicts goes bankrupt and how many criminal records are on someone. At least not inside of the game.

「How do you like that? Did you see that, “Brave Fish”…… This is what we call a checkmate!」

「FUFUFU…… WHILE IT IS TRUE THAT A RESULT LIKE THAT MAKES ME FEEL HAPPY, IT ALSO MAKES ME FEEL A LITTLE BIT IRRITATED FOR SOME REASON. ALSO, IT MAKES ME FEEL EXTREMELY LONELY. IT’S ALSO QUITE UNEXPECTED, BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEAD THAT THE “IVORY” IMPLEMENTED SUCH FUNCTIONS IN MY PROGRAMMING, BUT OH WELL…… OR MAYBE, I WONDER? WOULD SHE BE CONFLICTED ABOUT THIS? OR MAYBE OVERJOYED? IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ME TO TELL FOR SURE.」

「Alright, I am not even going to pretend that I understand what the hell are you actually talking about in here, but it would be great if we could stop reminisce about the past and focus on the present instead……? I’d appreciate it a whole bunch.」

Just like that, we have managed to conquer the forth layer of the ship alongside its gimmick, and at the current moment the shopping cart remains in close contact with the fifth layer. Not to mention that we managed to also overthrow the boss monster of the fourth layer with such a result that none of us managed to die in the process of doing so. So it was also a victory on a great scale, if I do say so myself.

But if we want to be a little bit more specific here, both Survival and I were THIS close from dying about three times each or so, and if we say that this thing fired missiles at us about ten times throughout the battle, about seven of those ten times those rockets were aimed pretty much exclusively at Mold. But even so, Mold managed to survive every single time thanks to Rust who was always there to cover for him with “Suzaku’s” mechanical body. But that being said, there was also quite a bit number of times when things got so heated up that we were all like “Yup, Mold’s as good as dead this time around!”.

Oops, I’m starting to think about pointless stuff again. That’s a really nasty habit of mine out there. And won’t you look at that that, it would appear that we are entering an event scene of some sort! Even though there are differences in shape, the “Brave Fish” that was the same height as us emerged softly out of nowhere…… She was looking down at us for a moment, and then she opened her mouth to speak up.

「I WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS OCCASION TO PERSONALLY CONGRATULATE ALL OF YOU! SANRAKU-SAMA, SURVIVAL-SAMA, SAIGA-0-SAMA, YASHIRO BIRD-SAMA, RUST-SAMA, MOLD-SAMA. THE SIX OF YOU MANAGED TO REACH AND OPEN THE GATES TO WISDOM WITH YOUR OWN POWER, AND THUS YOU HAVE GAINED THE RIGHT TO ENTER THE CENTER OF THIS HERE LEVIATHAN AND UNLEASH THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE GODS THAT IS SLEEPING WITHIN.」

A sudden burst of light illuminates the hands of the “Brave Fish” who moves while floating around the shopping cart, her voice and moves reminiscent of singing and dancing.

「WHAT ARE YOU GUYS INTEND TO DO FROM NOW ON? AS YOU MIGHT KNOW, THE POWER OF GODS IS ALMIGHTY. IT CAN BURN DOWN THE FORESTS. IT CAN WITHER RIVERS. IT CAN FILL IN NEW LAKES. IT CAN LEVEL MOUNTAINS. IT WOULD BE SO EASY TO KILL SOMEONE, OR EVEN COMMIT MASS GENOCIDE…… OR EVEN WORSE! IT WOULD BE NO EXAGGERATION TO SAY THAT YOU WOULD HOLD THE FATE OF THE ENTIRE WORLD IN YOUR HANDS!」

The light than takes shape, looking like a primitive “key”, one that you would use in the medieval times rather than something taken straight out of the Sci-Fi genre. So in a sense it was really out of place.

「MY NAME IS ISANA. I AM BUT A BRAVE FISH, A LEVIATHAN THAT BRAVES THE DANGERS OF THE WORLD, ALL THE WHILE BEING CLOSE TO HUMANS WHILE SIMULTANIOUSLY KEEPING MY DISTANCE….. I WAS NOT “BORN”. I WAS NOT “RAISED”. BUT I CAN STILL TEACH AND GUIDE YOU, SHOULD YOU ALLOW ME TO DO IT?」

TWONK! And the ground starts to shake. No, it’s not like that…… it was the outer wall of the fifth layer that started to move…… and it was not a random segment of the wall, either. It was the part of it that resembled a flood gate or a door that was previously locked……

「NOW THEN, LET US OPEN THE DOOR! WISDOM IS AT THE VERY CORE OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN. IT IS THE APEX OF THE THINGS WHICH HAS BEEN ACCUMULATED ACROSS TIME, WHEATER IT’S THE PAST OR THE PRESENT, AND WHAT WILL BE CARRIED ON INTO THE FUTURE––––––」

And then all of a sudden, there was light that started to come out of the floor……!!!

「YOU HAVE OBTAINED THE AMBER JACK PASS LEVEL FOUR.」

「YOU HAVE WON THE TITLE: “RE: UNEXPLORED”.」

「YOU HAVE OBTAINED THE TITLE: “HERO ON THE RUN”.」

「YOU HAVE OBTAINED THE TILE: “HANDS THAT REACH OUT TO THE TRUTH”.」

「YOU HAVE OBTAINED THE “NEW REGULAR MASS-PRODUCED BW BEACON” AS A REWARD FOR DEFEATING THE BOSS MONSTER IN THE FOURTH LAYER CONTROL TRIAL.」

「GRAND QUEST IS NOW READY TO PROGRESS FORWARD.」