Chapter 1320 Resonating Mirror and Howling From the Sky PART 16 Part 1

「I’ll shave your skin off and flail you alive, you asshole!!!」

There is a word in this world like “One-Off Offense”, but clearly the tie is not yet righto do just that in here. Always maintain the offensive, from the tip of the head to the tip of the toes, if you change to something else even once, you cannot win! With that much spirit to guide me forward, I further accelerate the attack on the other “Sanraku” while staying ever-so vigilant about the incoming attcks..

Slash the other “me”. Poke the other “me” with my weapon. Avoid the other “me”’s attacks. Let out a roar of frustration. Shoot the other “me” with a gun. Avoid the other “me”;s attack once again. Then avoid some more attacks. Then you hit the other “me” with all you’ve got. Then you slash. Then you hit. Then you avoid. Then you slash…… Rinse and repeat.

I need to beat my copy with all kinds of different attack methods. I need to take the initiative and move, but let it use the skills first so that I can save them up for later. The initiative continues to fly between me and the other “me” more violently than during a tennis match. The most troublesome thing is that it’s not just the initiative that flies around, of all the things.

The Environmental Guard here stops moving over there, but it’s also like hitting a guard that never breaks with all its might. It’s still better to slash or shoot, but when you’re hit or stabbed out of the blue, you’ll also get a not-so-short knockback effect. This is annoying, but it’s still good to shoot away, even under those circumstances… … If you poke the Environmental Guard and get a knockback effect going, the other side will be forced to return the attack first!

「However!」

Even if I simply accept the danger of taking the initiative here, I will have to attack at some point. The other “Sanraku” in front of me, who attacks and attacks many times without letting me catch a break, is still alive, and the onslaught to that extent is not in vain. Sooner or later it is going wear its opponent down. And that will be the moment when the battle will be over for me.

「–––––– I stretch my hands, trying to reach out. Trying to reach out. Trying to reach out. But if I can’t grasp the stars in the distant skies with my hand, then so be it! With my own hands, I shall build a tower that will reach the heavens……!!!」

The intense battle between me and the other “me” seems really small and insignificant if you look at it from a broader perspective.

There is a head-on collision between highway and skyscraper. Asphalt roads tighten and the concrete buildings crush to pieces, and reinforced concrete buildings push up and crush the columns that support the highway from down below, creating a scene that would surely look amazing in a catastrophic movie.

Destruction and regeneration were happening on such a grand scale in here right now that you would think that the world would have been turned into rubble and revived into full prosperity at least a couple dozens of times already. That being said, the collapsed building were slowly starting to disappear, so it was not a complete concrete and asphalt desolation in here. At least not yet. This is still a game, so there has to be a limit on just how much objects can be present on the map at any given time.

In the song battle between the two “Elmas” that was currently going on, the skyscrapers started to finally take back their lost territory, and were currently on their way to have territorial superiority in here. Is this thing continues just like that for a while longer, you are going to have nowhere else to escape to, Orchestra! Sakishima Elma!

In response, I immediately store the Mirror Shield back into the inventory while taking out another weapon. I operate the window, catch the attack twice before the item storage is executed, and attack with the Blue Predator sword I was holding onto with my other hand. Come on, the Enviornmental Guard! What’s coming in here next, huh!? Will it be a street sign? Or maybe a telephone booth? Or better yet, maybe a traffic light!?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! BOOOOOO!!!! BOOOOOO!!!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

「What the fuck!? Overly decorated truck!? Are you for real here!?」

No! Wait, wait, wait! Wait just a freaking second here! No matter how much ShangriLa Frontier’s world is dipped in that science fiction sauce, it should be something where the technology is derived from that of Earth, isn’t that right!? So, how do you possibly explain this!? What does that supposed to mean!? Could it be that we have advanced in time for hundreds, if not even thousands of years for some inexplicable reason!? Those are not some plain and ordinary trucks! Those are overly decorated trucks! I mean, it’s not a single one of them! There is so many of those! A flock! An entire horde of overly decorated trucks coming there and back again at high speed!

Now, if you take a closer look at those trucks, you can see that they seem to be buoyant in the way in which they move forward, hovering slightly above the road instead of having to rely on tires. Now, no matter how you try to look at it, this definitely looks like one of the scenes that Elma would dream of and put it in a song…… But seriously!? Overly decorated trucks!? Of all the things to imagine about the future!? Decorated trucks! Really!? I don’t even…… Trucks!!!

「Kuoooaaahhh!?」

I can’t stand here all on my own like that. If I get caught up in a horde of Overly Decorated Trucks like that, my body is going to break into pieces so easily that you wouldn’t even be able to believe it. And that’s something that I must avoid at all cost. So let’s jump away using some skills, to get on top of one of those trucks that were currently speeding alongside one of the lanes of the road. Of course, there were a lot more of them here, so it doesn’t really matter on top of which one I get. I jumped up to the loading platform of the truck, and I could also see the other “Sanraku” flying towards the loading platform of some other truck as well…… Hmm, I see. Does that mean that we are changing the stage? The Orchestra, the reproduction of “Sanraku”, they are just doing what they were programmed to do, but their actions reflect the fact that as the time goes on in this battle, they are slowly learning and evolving.

Fortunately enough, I don’t think that any of my weapons have been trampled over by the trucks, so it should be possible to retrieve them with the help of the “Recoverer” just fine…… but at least it’s impossible to recover the equipment that’s been left too far away. Some things are just impossible to circumvent, you know?