Chapter 914 Part 1

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 494: Releasing What’s Forbidden Part 1

And just like that the X Day has finally come. And it just so happens that today the cold wind is gently blowing and the sun is shining down the sky without a single cloud on it.

[Soon the seasons will change and the weather is going to get truly cold for real. So better enjoy those days of warmth while they still last……]

There was also one more problem that I needed to take care of if I were going to do this. Namely: parental permission. True, I could have gone in secret and without permission, but if I were to do that, I was afraid that once I got back home I would have found out that my newest VR system was put up for sale on some Internet auction. But, you know…… It’s really hard to just go out and say to your parents: “Hey, guess what!? I’m going to be on the TV!”. So instead of announcing that to my parents I just told them a half-truth that I was going to meet with a bunch of friends that I have made online recently, because in a sense it was true.

Also, since I had some free time while on my way to the TV Station, I decided to put that time to good use and do a little research on my opponent, since it would be the wisest thing to do here. So let’s see what inputting the name “Amelia Sullivan” in the search engine is going to give us…… and what do you know? We get a whole lot of link leading to various video hosting sites.

[Ah, so, you can do something like that? Hmm, I did not realize that a movement like that was even possible here……]

With both audio and visual aids presenting how Amelia Sullivan chooses to operate and behave during her matches, it certainly gave me some much needed food for thought here. And here are some of my final thoughts after conducting all that research:

Amelia Sullivan.

A Professional Gamer who made her name known as the “Dinscar’s Bird of Prey”, and who is widely known throughout the world as United State’s Number Two Professional Gamer, which actually says a whole lot about her raw abilities. But that’s not what’s most important here for the current moment. At least not from my point of view. Because I’m interested in something completely different.

What’s important to me is her level of skill as a player, and that thing is actually sitting really high. Surprisingly high for a player who actually uses characters from the heavyweight class and are all strength but no mobility type.

When it comes to fighting games, the classification of playable characters always tend to follow a classification like that: slow, but strong. Fast, but weak. And then there are always some sort of gimmick characters or the ones being a middle ground of the two above categories. Of course, because of classification like that it is not guaranteed that all characters of those categories play in the exact same way. But it can also be said that the fast-paced characters have it easier, because even if they are weak and might mess up occasionally, they can always make up for it with their outstanding speed. However, when it comes to slow characters, they must always think ahead and plan accordingly, because in their case usually a single mistake can cost them the whole round or even the entire match.

And as far as the slow but powerful characters go, Amelia Sullivan is the type of Player who has been pushing the boundaries of what such characters can do further and further with each passing day. Then I decided to see if there are any videos of Amelia Sullivan facing Silvia Goldberg. I thought that if there indeed were such videos, they would make for good reference materials. And as luck would have it, there indeed were videos like that around. However, the picture painted in those videos was quite clear. No matter how good or even godly of a player Amelia Sullivan was, there was no way that she would be able to take down Silvia Goldberg. The difference in their skills was just too great for her to be able to breach it. Or should we say, it was quite impossible for a slow character to be able to match Silvia’s monstrous pace and mobility, even if the durability was on her side. She might have come close to snatching a round or two away from Silvia, but ultimately the matches would always end up with a three-zero for Silvia.

There is also the matter of tension. It can be said that Silvia’s tension is only growing from round to round, which affects her general performance quite a lot and forces her to play even better and even more aggressively. However, in the case of Amelia Sullivan it always stays the same, with her maintaining a level—headed attitude at all times.

Then I obviously tried to compare Amelia Sullivan to some other players I know. Needless to say, Katsu was my first choice, since he is a Professional Gamer as well. However, while I was doing just that…… It turned out that comparing the two is actually pretty much impossible here as well. After all, Katsu is that kind of a player who first establishes the rhythm at which the enemy player is going, and then he just tries to break that rhythm of theirs into pieces. Or no, if I was to describe that in greater detail, then perhaps ––––––

[Ehh, no matter how I think about it, there is no way that a complete and utter amateur will be able to do anything against a Professional Gamer like that, much less be able to win against her.]

Yes, the way that I am right now, winning against Amelia Sullivan is certainly out of the question here.

And that is exactly why I went out of my way and presented Katso with a certain “suggestion” regarding today’s event. It is something that is very risky to pull off, but once we will be able to pull it off it should pay off tremendously. That is why the last days before the event we sacrificed the time to test that strategy out and see if it will be able to give us precisely what we want here.

And now that the actual day of the event is finally here, I can feel the tension rising within me alright. But it is not at all an unpleasant feeling. Rather, it’s nice and fuzzy, just like a small child anticipating its birthday party or Christmas.

We have done everything that we possibly could here in order to prepare. We also have a hidden ace up our sleeves, so I would say that there is no point in worrying about what’s to come and just let it happen…… Now the real question is: what am I going to do in order to kill time here? Read some articles online? Or maybe watch some videos? Decisions, decisions, decisions……