Chapter 1441 Cloudy Night Sky: A Critical Mass of Light Part 1

White snakes, all of them looked up at once, raising their heads and looking up towards one single snake.

「………You.]

Please, please, we beg of you.

They could see that their life limit was fast approaching to zero, and there was no way for them to be able to grant their Master’s wish and beat their enemies. But then, at the very least……

「…… No, stop it. Why did you come to me in particular? Just leave me the hell alone!]

The white snake lamented out loud, unable to understand the words that the smaller snakes were not quite able to properly convey. There are things that only the white snake is able to do, simply because it has a close connection to the greater snake. So who else would be a more suitable feat to convey the feeling and regrets of the smaller snakes, who have already lost their Masters?

「If that is what you want, then why me!? It is something that anyone is able to do! Just give it up already!]

She did not care about those things at all.

She did not come this far completely on her own just to forfeit her life for someone else’s sake.

And then, there was a huge crack in the life that she managed to live up until now. She could feel that she had lost all the power in her body to support herself. It felt as though her head was struck down from her neck.

「Uuuhhh, uuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhh……!!!!!!!!!!!!]

─── Please, please we beg of you!

We don’t want you to help you with our lives. We don’t want you to fight our enemies for us, in battles that do not concern you.

Please, we just want to be connected……

We want you to receive those thoughts of the small snakes before they die, abandoned and forgotten.

If someone at least receives those thoughts and regrets, even if we die, we can do so while being at peace……

The limit of our lives is fast approaching. The light is about to shine from outside the thin and bright window.

No, I don’t want to! No, no, no, no, no, no, no……!!! I’m scared, I’m scared, I’m scared……!!! I don’t even know if I am myself!!! Don’t look at me! Don’t look……!!!]

No one would try to raise their head. Then, at that time, when only the time was about to pass ───

* * *

Hit it. No, don’t hit it. You die first, if anything else.

Even if I try to express this battlefield in hundreds of thousands of words, those words above are the only description I find appropriate.

「DDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

The weight of Memento Mori is currently reduced by a huge margin, so much that I can handle it with one hand easily, and it is still able to inflict big damage that can be said to seriously injure any opponent, or in this case the leftmost head of the “Scarlet”. But still, the best effect is when I actually hold it in both hands.

However, even though my dear Brother, my precious little sibling, lost half if its leftmost face, it still had two more heads to attack me with. And to remind you all, basically one attack from those heads is more than enough to kill me.

「Haah! Haah!]

The tricks of living a good life is to not overly force yourself throughout it. When I hit a blow, I was already in the position to evade if needed, so I was able to escape from all the three-headed attack and ready the Memento Mori for another attack.

I knew it, I knew it all along, but…… this one or two hours now is much harder than those few hours before processing the Monster Train. Is it because I can’t properly heal myself? Or is it because I can die in a single blow here? That’s it. But that’s not the biggest reason why I was feeling disheartened.

What is the most terrifying aspect of Drakarus Dinocerberus, otherwise known as “Scarlet”? The vast majority of Players will say that it is the number of heads and the Napalm attack, but that is only looking at this monster through human biology. If we actually consider its battle potential…… Yes, those hardened in battle will always be able to return the same kind of answer.

「It’s the strengthening of the Defense Power that is inversely proportional to the remaining HP it has……!!!]

As its name suggests, its whole body is covered in scarlet wounds in place of wounds from which blood should be seeping out. They are red, all red, and shining as if they were approaching death. As if they were just on the verge of death itself, they are the things that make its scales and muscles tough, as if they were truly shining in the dim light of the incoming morning.

If I were to actually explain this in better terms, think of it like possessing one hundred HP. You then lose ninety HP, but because of that action your overall defenses are going to be increased tenfold, making that last remaining ten HP seem as strong as the initial one hundred.

Or if you were the Holy Spear with the strongest Defense Ignoring mechanism in the entirety of ShangriLa Frontier, and the strongest class in the entire ShangriLa Frontier, who just loves tuning her followers into human suicide bombers, all of that power and abilities would still not be nearly enough for you to be able to penetrate the scales of this thing.

But such a spear surely would be of use here. But since it is not, I might even consider giving Pencilgton a call and …… No way in hell. Forget it. There is no such thing in HELL that is going to make me give hear a call and summon her here.

「I’ll admit, Brother, it’s been quite fun…… But……]

Yes, that’s right. In a sense, it’s been really fun of a run that we have had here.

Yes, that’s right…… This battle made me remember the times of the Survival Cancer. When it comes to that Deserted Island, the only entertainment there was to hunt and kill others, so human life was nothing of value there, it was just a fodder or a mere toy to play around with. And when it comes to killing, it is way more enjoyable to hunt for increasingly stronger prey, cornering them only to finally be able to bring them down in a grizzly manner. There was no greater sense of accomplishment there.

It is the real pleasure of a game like this one to optimize your strategy with “Kill or be killed” problem in mind, and be able to reach a level where you can easily defeat opponents like Crystal Scorpions or the insects of the Sigmonia Battlefront Valley. But anyways, the appeal of overcoming a tremendous challenge for the very first time is simply unforgettable! Both endorphin and adrenaline coming out, making you give the task at hand more than two hundred percent of your usual efforts. Hahaha, what am I even saying right now?