Chapter 1436 Cloudy Night Sky: The Central Red Illuminating the Sky Part 2

This is my chance right here! The time gap is less than three seconds! I need to make sure that I launch a counterattack within that frame! But slashing damage is less effective here…… Then how about a good old battering ram tactics!?

「Those fists won’t lose even to razor blades!]

Since my main go-to fisting weapon has been lost…… No, it is precisely because of the fact that it was lost to me that I can give this Regalex Cestus a chance to shine once more! Now shine as bright as the sun! Even though it’s the middle of night!

The ability of the Regalex Cestus is to actually reduce the damage that your fists receive as a result of an attack, which means more or less that I can now clearly aim towards places where I would be unable to aim with other weapons!

「A wild force that blows up all at once! Eat this and let it crush you! Decaying Punch!!!]

The aim of my blow is obviously right towards the monster’s mouth, specifically the mouth of the leftmost head. Its fangs are all lined up nicely there, just perfect to punch them all out at once!

Now, here’s a quick question: what is going to happen if you aim a hammer at your own teeth and you start striking them with it with all of your might? And you can do that thing for sure in this game, because ShangriLa Frontier is that kind of a quality game that would allow you to pull off a stunt like that?

The answer is short and simple: you are in for a world of “Super Pain”.

「GYOOOOOOAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!]

A blow that hits the fangs of the left head conveys a certain response that I was expecting to hear. Of course, its teeth were not crushed all at once, but it would still be much more damaging hit than me trying to aim for its scales or muscles directly.

I don’t know if this guy’s identity is exactly one or three, depending on the number of heads, but at least the leftmost head seemed to have felt that attack just now, and the remaining two heads opened their two mouths wide in order to press on the attack and get rid of the bug that tried to make fun of them with an attack like that just now…… Hah!

「It time to break those precious materials to pieces!]

Just then, a lump of dark mucus spat out from the back of the “Scarlet’s” throat, it’s hard to say if it was spit or a vomit or something else entirely, and I sure as hell wasn’t going to try and get anywhere near it in order to try and identify it.

The left head that burns with anger struck its jaws my way, trying to swallow me whole in one go! At the moment of making a noise and moving to attack, the mass o dark mucus ignited by friction and impact caused a combustion phenomenon that could be mistaken for an actual explosion. The reason why this three-headed Tyrannosaurus is the strongest predator around these parts of the woods is the napalm-like breath that burns even raw trees to cinders in a matter of seconds!

「Hot, hot, so hot……!]

I think it might have burnt me a little bit. The trouble with napalm is that the mucus doesn’t extinguish together with the flame once it burns out. Even a Pioneer Player who can withstand statuses like Poison and Curse to some extent will die if they are burnt for long enough time. And because it is not a damage over time type of damage, it is dangerous to have an “abnormal status” like that put on you. Yes, napalm is indeed a horrifying thing.

「Hmm…… No need to worry, some “Water” ought to do the trick here……]

Healing Potions are liquids first before they are Healing Items! Oral ingestion is the best method of recovery, but it recovers your HP moderately even if it is struck directly on the wound, did you know that? As for the HP Recovery GACHA…… Yeah, a bust. Go figure. But at least the fire is extinguished! It’s just water, you say? No, not even close!

「With this I can even go for about one hundred rounds, but…… Yeah, I really do hope tha we can wrap this thing up before morning comes around.]

By the way, my longest login record is twenty hours non-stop. And after that time, I was caught in the VR Health Hazard judgment due to running out of caffeine.

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Sheets that are way softer than the sheets made out of fallen leaves. And a bed that is way softer than the natural bed made out of the hardened soil.

I do not need to concern myself with being attacked by monsters completely out of the blue. I also do not need to maintain a constant slight anxiety even in the middle of my sleep. After all, the problem whether or not I am going to awake in the morning is completely eliminated here.

Just like during those distant days, I am all alone. But still, even though it might feel the same as back then, right about now I feel even lonelier than I felt back then. And that is all because I have lost my precious half-body friend.

「……………]

I can’t even hear the knocking onto the door anymore. Right about now I felt that this loneliness was colder than anything else in this world and it was completely covering my entire body…… Even though I should have felt really warm at the current moment.

KNOCK, KNOCK. KNOCK, KNOCK.

「……………]

There was a distinct knocking sound to be heard now. Was it coming still from behind the door, or……?

No, that’s not it.

KNOCK, KNOCK. KNOCK, KNOCK.

「Huh……? What the……?]

The sound was coming from the direction of the window, one in which the frosted glass was fitted.