Chapter 1230 Suddenl...

Now, when it comes to the “Exceed Charge” of this here Hundred Legged Centipede Shiki Eight Zero Point Five Thousand, it is the one called the “Activation Liberation:”. How does it work? It’s simple, really: it basically increases the consumption of the Player’s MP in order to greatly enhance every single aspect of the weapon all across the board. Now, the MP consumption in this mode is so great that not even a genuine Magic Caster would be able to keep up with the MP regeneration, but what you are obtaining in return is well worth it in my opinion. You get a weapon that can be compared to sucking in rubble and trash and shooting away meteors! And while it may very well be an overstatement here when it comes to that description, it is just that: just a little bit of an overstatement.

It is something completely different from the Exceed Charge of the Scorpion Gauntlets, because those only needed moonlight to be able to charge themselves up. However, the process of charging was really long and cumbersome, and once used you could not use the same Exceed Charge anytime soon, since you had to wait until the battery is going to charge itself up once more. So even though it was really powerful, you could not spam that ability and you needed to use it when it would count the most. So mainly for boss battles or Unique Monster battles. But this thing right here? You only needed your MP, and once activated, the gratification would be instantaneous. And then you could use it right away in the next battle, as long as you would be able to have the MP needed to do that.

But even though this thing comes with a tremendous demerit like that blasted MP consumption, there are also good things to it as well. At the current moment, with my current MP reserves the time needed for this Exceed Charge to burn through my Magic Power takes from three to five seconds, which is enough for the “Poison Buff” to star spreading throughout my body and enhancing its capabilities, but not nearly long enough for it to have detrimental effects on me. So I guess that it is something that can grant me a sort of “best of both worlds” for a reasonably cheap price.

In other words, with my current MP I can afford to have a “boosted” state in battle for about five seconds or so. It may not be much and it might not be for long, but it is true that for those five seconds I am able to have physical abilities and performance unlike of which a regular Sanraku could only dream of. And that is even more than I could ever possibly hope for.

「Alright! Let’s get this show on the road, shall we!? This thing is like a puzzle game, and I am most certainly up for solving this puzzle as soon as humanly possible!」

「Oh my God, no way! Now we get to see Tsuchinoko-san wearing a head of the fish!? Now I think that I have officially seen everything absurd that this game has to offer!」

「Ahh, so that is the rumored super weapon that I have heard so much about……It certainly lives up to its expectations.」

「Are you one of those crazy nut-jobs from the Production Sector!? The ones who are obsessed with all sorts of weaponry!?」

Well, that’s certainly surprising to see someone like that in here of all places they could be. Normally I might have wanted to probe that matter a little bit, but at the current moment I am pressed for time, so I need to clean up this mess before I get to do anything else!

「Sorry to keep you waiting! Now I am going to slash you and dice you all nice and good until there is nothing more but delicious sashimi left out of you!」

Do fish even have emotions? I don’t really know about that, and frankly I couldn’t even care less if I wanted to! It’s just that it is always a good thing to try some psychological warfare against your enemies! If it works, great! If it doesn’t work, well! At least you tried! I was hoping here that they would all feel intimidated and that it is going to disrupt their formation, but sadly nothing quite like that happened. Oh well, so this means that this will be business as usual, then!

「Fughn!?」

I use this time to change the Centipede Gun into its halberd form and then I start to slash away at the incoming Swimming Mines without mercy. And just as you might have expected, at the current moment I was powerful enough to easily tear them all to shreds without effort and any kind of worry. So keep them coming! I am going to destroy them all here!!

Let’s activate some more skills, this time the ones that will allow my halberd to reach those targets that are even further away without running the risk of me getting closer to them…… Yes, just like that! One horizontal slash after another, as if I was mowing down some wheat! Yes, yes!!!

「The remaining time is now: two seconds!」

Just like that! Let’s crush them all from one end to another!! Without mercy and with extreme prejudice!

And just like that, the timer was now over. And because of that, the Hundred Legged Centipede Shiki Eight Zero Point Five Thousand was no longer able to maintain its halberd form and went back to its default state. Now then, getting adjusted to the sense of poison starting to course through my veins…… the kill score is around twenty? Hey, that’s not all that half bad, if I do say so myself.

「After all…… Weight is Power. You’d do best to never forget that.」

Who knew that such a magnificent score can be obtained if you boost your Strength with the power of the Holy Grail! Not to mention that this score can surely be elevated to the even greater heights with just a little bit of preparation and some thinking here and there!

I took out the Memento Mori from my inventory, and I started to dash forward while using the empty spaces that my preliminary work managed to create here so effectively. This really couldn’t have gone better!

「Now eat this! The fruits of my hard labor!」