ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

「Oh God! Our one and only God! Please, look! Please, bear witness! This right here! This is the proof of our faith! Our faith in our God! It’s the strongest! And our faith in our God is unmaaaaaaaaatched!!!!!! GYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!」

One of the NPC enemies, the very first boss-tier enemy is someone called “Rozel-Ministel, the King of Thorns”. It was someone who was supposedly playing our friend in the end, but now stood blocking our way forward and was fully intending on killing us. As for the boss’s looks, it no longer even resembled a human. It looked like a giant bipedal longhorn beetle, and that beetle was also on fire for some God-knows-what reason. It seems that fighting is inevitable here, so I guess that this thing needs to go down for us to proceed.

As for the color of the boss’s flames, it was clearly an extraordinary mixture of black and blue, and the appearance of my loyal followers who were set on fire by this thing and started to burn to death was clearly one hell of a sight to behold.

「…… Huh? What the?」

「Rejoice, Brothers! And mourn my passing, Brothers! Respect the ways in which our God conquers the land and delivers us to salvation, Bothers!」

「「「OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!」」」

「YAAAAAAGGGYYYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! HELP ME!!!!!! I’M BURNING!!!!!! HEEEEEELP MEEEEEE!!!!!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH…… AAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!」

「…… No, seriously. Like, what in the actual fuck is going on here!?」

Actually, the scenes that were currently unfolding right before my eyes made me remember some very nasty memories about a certain Nutcracker (currently going by the name Deepslaughter) and the things and schemes she was able to pull off and the gruesome consequences of said actions that were always soon to follow. But that was Spell Creation Online, and this is something else entirely. But the scale of the carnage was almost exactly the same.

By the way, the things that Nutcracker used to do were called Whispering Bombs. It was a vicious terrorist act that caused great damage to both the body and the mental state of the enemy by a player who sneaks into the enemy camp whispering the mind damaging things (such as self-destruct magic chants) from behind directly into the ear of the target. This is also the infamous Death Metal Lynch that was created in response to that very technique…… Well, it’s all black and black, my history with that person. And it is a story that the future generations would do very well without knowing.

「Umm…… Sanraku… -kun?」

「I’m sorry, I’m so sorry, Rei-san…… I invited you to this kind of a messed up game……」

「N-No, not at all! Please, don’t feel bad about it, Sanraku-kun! Umm, really now, it’s alright! Yes, everything is fine! There is absolutely nothing wrong with it!」

Even when faced with such a horror she is still trying to keep that positivity on going…… But something like that makes this thing all the more painful! I don’t want to corrupt this girl’s pure and unsullied heart!

It was only later that we learned that no matter what kind of corps you make, that “swordfighter-friendly Brother who returns the grace you have showed him” will always be the first one to die no matter what. So it’s a staple in games like that: an NPC that falls to the big bad demon so that your character would steel their resolve and got ready to blaze the trail forward.

The Sanraku army, which has become a cult-like force to be reckoned with, rushed to the next layer while trampling on the Brothers who have become ashes and dust that accumulates on the ground together with the giant longhorn beetle’s corpse.

It would be quite unusual for a normal army to wear a bunch of beer mugs that are huge enough to cover their faces completely, but in the case of a hateful cult-like organization, what they believe in and what they are wearing are two completely separate matters that do not necessary contradict one another.

By the way, in my Sanraku army, I believe that I am the guru and others are the barrels of the guns that deliver justice and divine retribution in my name…… What, you don’t get it? Actually, I don’t really get it all that much, either. I’m not really all that keen on this whole guru business.

Anyways, just like that the tutorial was cleared, and the cause of the discussion in the neighborhood could begin in earnest…… In other words, some of the problems of this game started to became apparent.

In short, this game is definitely the type that forces you to take losses. It’s also extremely evil and cruel, almost cartoonishly so. I don’t know how to say it, but I think the sexual roots on the production side are rotten to the very core.

However, the concept here is that “people who like it are really going to like it”. In short, what they are doing here is basically a dark fantasy setting.

Although I honestly had no idea about any of that, I’m sorry to have called Rei-san so that she could take part in this. But she doesn’t seem to be all that upset about it in the first place when she saw those shocking scenes where someone who was so nice to her burned alive. No, I can’t let my guard down. If you feel relieved just by looking like that, this is the quickest way to become mentally corrupted or broken to pieces. So I should still remain extra careful here, just to be on the safe side.

「Alright then! We believe in God without question! Those who believe will be saved! The image of God will be passed to the bottom of the empty barrel and then shot to cleanse the world from the filthy and unworthy!!!」

At the bottom of the empty mug is nothing else but bitter nothingness to be found and a thirst for the next cup. By the way, from the second layer, you can join with other players, just like we anticipated, but…… The meeting place is the bar designated by Rei-san who had cleared the first layer earlier. Well, she said to watch out for a sign in the shape of a tiger’s face…… Ahh, that should be it.

「Hey, Rei-san! Are you here or…… WHAT THE HELL!?」

「Ahh, umm, this is…… P-Personal space…… Personal space is really important, you know……?」

「Oh, Rei-sama~. Please don’t say such cold-hearted things~. It breaks our hearts~……」

「That’s right, Rei-sama. Being treated like that really breaks our hearts in half~.」

「Ahh~, Rei-sama~…… What a wonderfully considerate person you are~……」