ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

Now, let me tell you a thing or two about Terraton-Class battleships. Although they are all collectively called “battleships”, not all of them are mean for battle purposes exclusively. Some of them can be used as power plants, some of them can be used as food production facilities, and some of them have been customized to such a degree that they were more like luxurious cruise ships meant to increase the favorability factor of the NPCs. But all in all, the most common definition of a Terraton-Class spaceship in this game is “a giant spaceship possessing enormous combat abilities”.

Now, as a matter of fact, since I have witnesses a super-giant, cutting-edge, mega-interstellar space dreadnought spaceship making an appearance in a certain other game, I have to admit that what we see here generally feels a little bit…… underwhelming, to say the least. But…… No, that’s not it. There is hardly any reason to compare those two to one another. The fact still remains that this here is the Terraton-Class battle ship, and that’s final.

Now then, when it comes to those super-dreadnought-class battleships, the way in which the corridors and roads are laid out inside of them is not something that is predetermined for every single unit. It all depends on the individual build and the “type” of the battleship that we are talking about.

For example, the third ship of the fleet that hired our services right now, the “Great Wall”. This ship is categorized as a “Weapon Type” battleship, and in battle it does exactly that: it provides a powerful barrages and concentrated fire of many weapons. Also, instead of being used as an actual ship, it is capable of housing and firing the Big Crunch Guns, the most powerful of weapons known in this entire game. That’s just the kind of a Terraton-Class battleship this thing is. That is also because of its type, the number of NPCs that can board this ship is fairly small when compared to other types. This type also possesses many other restrictions, such us the inability to install small fighter ships used for offensive and defensive purposes. However, as it happens to possess a tremendous amount of destructive power, it really does not have any need for small guns or ships like that.

Well then, in that case, what exact class is this “Hexagonal Palace” that our current opponent, Deerhorn-san happens to possess? I mean, since we are currently on board of this thing and we are trying to capture it, such information should be pivotal to the success of this entire operation, right?

The short answer here could be: just the type that it looks to be. And the more elaborate answer would be: the “Connect-Class”. As the name might suggest, it is the kind of ship that connects many other and smaller Gigaton-Class parts together into a single entity. Rather than utilizing small amount of high-end parts with a specialized purpose of a Terraton-Class ship, it uses the parts of Gigaton-Class ships to reach the levels of performance that no other Terraton-Class ship could have ever hope to accomplish on its own. Incidentally, the minimum amount of Gigaton-Class ships that need to be connected for a ship to become “Connect-Class” is five, and the maximum amount is thirty. Naturally, this here Hexagonal Palace constitutes of thirty Gigaton-Class ships, so it is the largest possible Terraton-Class ship of this type.

「Because of its very nature, this peculiar Terraton-Class ship possesses multiple “types” to itself, depending on the individual amount and type of the smaller Gigaton-Class units that make its whole. It may be helluva expensive of a thing to put together, but once you do this your job as a fleet owner becomes that much easier, since you do not have to concern yourself about acquiring other Terraton-Class battleships for a long while. This also reduces the amount of the crew members you need and……」

「So……? To make long story short……?」

「You see that part that is right in the center? For convenience’s sake we call this part the “body”. We have found out that it makes orientation that much easier. Now, the only way in which you can get inside of the body is to use the teleportation gates that are scattered across the other components of the “Palace”. Sadly, there is no other way.」

「Well, we managed to get ourselves a map of this place, so it should be a little bit easier, at the very least. But man, getting our hands on that thing surely took a whole lot of time, right?」

「So? What does the map data tells us exactly?」

「If we want to reach the center piece of this Heagonal Palace as soon as humanly possible, we should remain in this vessel and try to move two blocks ahead. There should be a teleportation gate there that we can safely use.」

「Good! I like the sound of that! But if we are approaching a place like that, doesn’t that give you a Boss battle vibes? Because that’s how it feels for me. Now, I can’t help it but to feel excited!」

It was currently the second day of the “war” in which we were taking a part of, and it was easy to say that after dispatching that mini army of muscle drones we managed to gain so much needed confidence here, and we were actually itching to take the initiative and push forward…… This means more or less that we were going to put this here Hexagonal Palace out of commission. This may seem to be rushed idea that we did not think through to the end, but that’s the current situation.

However, that previous battle gave us a much needed confidence boost and made it clear that there was an additional way of doing things here. After all, things tend to go much easier and much quicker when you realize that the good old and reliable option of “brute-forcing your way through enemies and obstacles” is a pretty valid strategy. …… And I can say that strategies like that tended to work before for me, so there was a high probability that it would also work out in here as well.

「So? What are we going to do if there will be a boss battle there? Is someone going to take one for the team and self-destruct?」

「No, that’s a strategy that is far from desirable in this situation. If you were a single unit here, we might have gone with that, but this time around we will try a little bit of a different approach. We will split your group in two, and each sub group will have its own operation to carry out.」

Whoa, are we actually discussing the strategy for this thing? Who would have thought? Color me surprised.

And just like that, the Mercenary, our current employer and the person who seemed to be the one who was the most involved in this entire conversation, has begun to explain to us the details of the strategy we were going to adapt here in just a moment. And you could hear it in his voice: he was determined to see this thing pull through no matter what.