Chapter 1201 And the Funeral Procession Marches On Part 1

Here’s a question for the entire class: What happens if I shoot a Super-Expulsion Projectile directly above myself with the overall output of one hundred percent?

Alright, and the answer is……: The thing that I managed to shoot sky high is going to come crushing down in such a cartoonish comical fashion that you won’t be able to help yourself but to laugh at the mere sight of it!

But that is nothing more but a story of the past now! The numbness of the legs that was trembling more than the newborn fawn is also completely gone now! I am all ready for some more action!

「Alright, it’s high time for the final round! If you want to turn me into experience points, go right ahead! Do your worst! But you’d better make sure that you will be able to blast me into nothingness with one shot! Otherwise you will be the one who is going to be obliterated instead! No pain no gain, as they say!!」

It seems to me that the outside-only Invincible Mode was only one of the forms of this monster, but fortunately for me even the real Raid Monsters like Colored Dragons had to switch into the next phase of their battle algorithms once they were unfortunate enough to suffer a direct hit from this particular Exceed Charge. Because no matter how you look at it, this thing packs a whole lot of a nasty punch, and that means a whole ass-load of damage.

However, I don’t think I have earned enough damage to achieve the condition of defeating this thing with only one hundred percent output. So it might no longer be invincible, but I suppose it would shift into something of a Super-Performance Super Armor. No, but isn’t that weirdly fucked up that you can only attack and damage this thing with attacks of such destructive scale? Isn’t that way too unfair? …… Hmm, but if we were in possession of some of those Leviathan-class high power guns, would we be able to damage this thing consistently? I wonder?

Huh? And what’s this? Oh wow, for some reason a whole army of players started to flood the entire area. But since all of them are the players who are able to come into Thirdrema with their own power, surely they must understand the difference in both levels and strength that this monster is clearly exhibiting (I highly doubt that this Magic Swordfighter was able to do that, but I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt in here, just for the heck of it). I mean, not everyone come in here from the Bakumatsu Online, but if they did, assessing the power of their opponents at first glance would have been like second nature to them.

In other words, even though there was a literal flood of players that arrived at this location right now, I highly doubted that there would be anyone amongst them who would have the guts (or would be insane enough) to try and assault the Slaughter Demon, thinking that they would be able to win against it. Especially since this thing exhibited all the traits of that kind of opponent you would encounter as the part of an end-game content, and whose level was most probably somewhere around two hundred or even above that mark.

However, by seemingly abandoning its (estimated) final form, the knight form that the Slaughter Demon acquired by virtue of devouring Allslot, it has completely turned into an atypical giant mountain of flesh. And it was a grotesque as you would suspect it to be. The whole-body of the Slaughter Demon assumed the image of the mass of tentacles and “claws” that had been wrapped around the main skeleton, and integrated with its arms. Right now it looked like a certain biological weapon from a certain other game franchise…… Truly a terrifying appearance, one that would cause the majority of the players to turn their back away and run as fast as they possibly could.

However, it also seemed that maintaining this form was as exhausting for the monster as it was frightening for anyone else. That is, the majority of players that are gathered in here right now are feeling that it might actually be a one-time scare that would certainly lose its impact upon witnessing it for the second time and so forth.

「Move it! Move it, God Damn It! Don’t complain to anyone if you happen to die because of your own stupidity or clumsiness!! And don’t you dare to get hit by this thing, or else things are really going to take a turn from bad to worse!」

Do not die, it is something that is easier said than done when you start thinking about it. Especially if the only thing that stands between you and certain death is a one shot, because your Recovery Items all turned into one huge gacha when it comes to their effects actually kicking into effect. But that’s the price that one must pay for being able to use that Exceed Charge, being left with only less than ten percent of your HP. And there was also a fact that some of the melee fighters got blasted away as well, but that was a sacrifice that I was willing to make.

But damn, what’s the deal with that shitty recovery RNG? Right now I managed to lose eight recovery items in a row without anything showing up for it! …… I should really start to ask the RNG Gods for a refund for all of those recovery items that went to waste that way!

……………

「Hey! Come on! What happened to all of that HP that you were so proud of!? If I manage to survive through this, then all of those big numbers would have been for nothing, don’t you think!? So you’d better do something about it while you still can!」

While I continue to play the ever so cursed recovery item gacha, I was occasionally taking potshots at the Slaughter Demon with my new trusty sniper rifle in hopes of depleting its remaining HP little by little. And with each new HP recovery potion drank I was growing more and more irritated. I mean come the hell on! Fourteen consecutive losses!? Are you fucking kidding me!?

「Umm! Excuse me, but where can I possibly get a gun like that!?」

「What, this thing? Do you happen to know that Leviathan place that recently emerged in the New World? You can get one of those bad boys for yourself if you go there and traverse the dungeon until you arrive at a certain layer! But if you want it to be its strongest version possible, you’d best bet is to traverse the whole dungeon all the way to its fifth layer!」

As I have learned sometime later from both Rust and Yashiro Bird, the firearms that can be purchased at Leviathan fourth Layer are not allowed to be used overboard unless the fourth Layer Boss was defeated. Amber Jack Pass seems to be a license, and I can already imagine the faces that various players are going to make upon finding out about it the hard way. It’s a shame I won’t be there to see it every single time, though.