Chapter 1322 Resonating Mirror and Howling From the Sky PART 17 Part 1

「I’m going to break you, you bastard!!!」

Two halberds collide with one another, and after a brief moment of clashing, the impact of their contact blows my body away slightly. However, it was not a fatal knockback, and although I was forced to take a few steps back, I did not fall from the top of a large number of Decorative Trucks speeding forward.

「I knew it, after all…… I can still put up quite a bit of a fight……!」

The Golden Crystal Battle Dress “Exile Cross” receives the moonlight and charges magical power, even though we are still technically indoors. What’s more, the night should be just about over outside, but…… even so, the golden armor is still receiving the boon of the moonlight, continuing to accumulate magical power without interruption.

That means that the environment in here must be fixed at “night” setting, and no matter what time it is outside this setting is not going to change…… Does that mean that it is inferior in output? But even if it was so, then so what? This just means that I get more opportunities to corner the other “me” even more! That’s it, thirty seconds mark! By the way, the other “me”? Have you managed to achieve your quota? Hmm?

「…………! …………!!!!!!」

「Hoo? Did you perhaps decided to abandon your humanity altogether……? I have personally never experienced what will happen if you do so, so please show me in all the juicy details! For research purposes, of course!」

The other “Sanraku” thrusts its halberd to the ground as if it was just a piece of a styrofoam. Hmm, interesting. I wonder if I would end up throwing my own weapon aside if that were to happen to me as well? I should run some tests on that somewhere in the future, for sure.

「Goooaaaaaaaawww ………!!!」

In that single moment, the front legs and arms of the other “me” started to twist and change, and its find legs and arms started to crack in strange directions, twisting together and becoming like those of a wild beast or a nightmarish monster. Previously it looked like a humanoid monster with its human sanity still intact, but at the current moment it was crawling on all fours, all beast-like and with nothing even remotely human remaining inside of it.

So, this is basically no longer a Player Versus Player kind of experience. This this battle has officially devolved into a Player Versus Monster, huh? But as I was pondering that matter, the first one to move onto the offensive was actually the other “Sanraku”.

The red beast charges straight at me with the light of a skill being activated surrounding its body, but in its current state it won’t be able to kill me simply as a result of a reckless charge. Due to the nature of the beast’s upper and lower jaws forming so as to cover its head from all sources of incoming damage, it should not have the need or ability to open its jaw to consume its prey in the first place. But the beast that attacks me right now is a humanoid creature with man-like mandibles, so I wouldn’t be all that surprised if it was able to open up that jaw as well. I would be honestly pretty surprised if it was not able to do that.

「Come and get it! If you dare, that is!」

While it was busy transforming, the two of us got separated by two moving Decorative Trucks, but the moment I saw that the hind legs of the beast had bent in a strange way and the claws of other “Sanraku” were ready to strike, I braced for impact as it lounged forward while cutting the distance that was separating us in an instant.

What to do now? Defend? No, even with my armor on, I would still die miserably. So what to do, then? Should I just avoid it altogether? No, that’s not it, either. If I jump poorly here, I might actually fall off of the moving truck, so it’s too risky. So then, whatever it is that I should do here? I need to just take it and respond in kind, that’s what!

I dig the one end of the Centipede Halberd in the ground and then point the other end right at my enemy. And at the moment when the beast and the tip of the halberd collide with one another…… I pull it up and throw it backwards! This is a Spear-Type polearm that uses the same basic principle and momentum as the ones that my opponent is using currently! So the result should be more than super effective here!

「But that’s not all! There is still more!」

With the other “Sanraku” basically devolving into a beast-like state right now, I was able to start thinking and assemble a flowchart inside of my head with the actions I should take right about now. This chart is not yet complete, but I would say that it is finished in more or less eighty percent or so. While I am trying to salvage every possible move and pattern regarding the use of Blood Crown from the vast sea of my memories, I quickly open one of my hands and start another window operation. I take a slight look at the item column there…… This is! Who would have thought that it was still here! Goblin Stone Axe! This is the best possible news here!

Those “Library” guys are truly one heck of sneaky devils……! I had them prepare a bunch of items in advance like a hand-throwing bomb, but I would never actually think that they would bring something like that in here! And it surely must have been a pain to get that!

Therefore, the only way I can use an item like this right now is to throw it like any other projectile! Because using a weapon like that won’t induce a pattern where the other “me” is going to use the same thing I am using! Sure, it would be more advantageous to not use it like that in the first place, but using a weapon in some unorthodox way surely beats not using it at all!

「Fun factor is directly proportional to the time spent having fun, you know!?」

Even if it’s the kind of fun to play for time, it will never be dull or boring! Love inefficiency! Praise it! The only fun memories are those of you spending your time playing around, so make every moment of it count! Uwah, I don’t even know what I’m thinking about! Any more! So I start to run forward with funny thoughts serving as my fuel!

It is a stone axe that can be thrown with all of your strength, but of course such a thing should not be as damaging, since it’s a pretty basic of a weapon. Well, if I’m half-naked, it might be a waste, but I assume that both myself and the other “me” are going to receive about one point of damage from this thing, especially in the Ove-Transmission state.