ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

─── The Great Red Devourer.

A mysterious being that is as red as the burning fire, and as crimson as the freshest of blood. A Red Locust plague that eats away any kind of life that happens to cross its path and does not know the meaning of the word “Retreat”. And even if some part of it will perish, it will only continue to advance, not stopping for even a moment.

As far as I know, there are no group of Players who would actually managed to defeat it on their own, so as far as I’m concerned my first clear of it is the only one to date that took place. But even if you told me to go and defeat that thing right now, I am not sure if I would have been able to do it.

Because this battle is something that could not be done on my own. It’s really annoying, but at the time of clearing it for the first time there was also Deepslaughter and Tottori backing me up, not to mention the mini army of the People of the Forest…… and it was precisely because of all of those guys that I was able to snag that win for myself there.

Which was exactly why I was brought to this eastern side of the New Continent, where the undeveloped large area of Sea of Trees was located, not yet tarnished by the touch and development of humankind and its inventions.

Some of the Players out there might be good little boys and girls who sleep late at night, but some Players log in specifically at this time of the day in order to play all night long without being supervised by anyone. Therefore, to actually see this place being all peaceful and tranquil was already a sort of miracle in and out of itself.

Getting there took me about twenty minutes. That included getting from Rabbitz to the frontline base, and then running all the way from the frontline base towards my destination through the Sea of Trees area. Right now I was in the northern part of the forest…… and I can see that even though the part of the area already started to return to how it once used to be, there was still an area that wore the scars of that battle. Once upon a time, almost all of the challengers came really close to getting annihilated by the Raid Boss, but now…… There it was, standing there and waiting for what was to come.

「Hey there.]

Its six eyes lock onto me in an instant. A shade of red that is darker and darker than the red that runs all over its huge body…… That is, the encounter between Dracarus Dinocerberus’s “Scarlet” version and myself was about to begin, right in the moment when our eyes silently met one another.

「It’s been a long time, Brother…… But let’s finish our little dispute, shall we?]

And by that, I seriously mean what I said just now. I am not going to abuse the fact that the Players can respawn infinitely and give the battle one more try. If I end up losing this battle right here and right now, I swear that I am never going to challenge you again. But making a proclamation like that here, there is simply no way in hell that I am going to lose this!

In the beginning, even I did not expect that I could make bonds of fraternity with someone like “Scarlet”. The terrifying dinosaur with three heads slowly turned its heads towards me, glaring at me with its six eyes, opening its three mouths and letting out a blood-curdling roar with all of its three mouths…… and just trying to count how many razor-sharp teeth there was in each of those mouth was making me slightly lose my fighting spirit. But you can be sure that there was a lot of them there. A WHOLE lot.

I have come here with a clear intention right from the start: to bring this guy down to its knees and to kill it. And the “Scarlet” greeted me with a clear intention to kill me without mercy as well…… Like, what the hell is this? Isn’t this basically an ideal type of a Player Versus Monster kind of scenario? After all, Player Versus Monster is supposed to be just like this! The Raid battle feeling that this situation gives off is really surprising! But I get a feeling that this is going to go way better than that accursed battle against that god damned snake!

「But you are going down here! Prepare to die!]

Come on, flames! Gather up! This here is not a battle between a human and a snake, but a human and a dinosaur! The ultimate battle for the reign over the entire food chain! Think of it as an event boss battle that is necessary for strengthening Aradval Rebuild! And above all else, think of it like practice against Nightprowler Luukan!

「But aren’t the Extraordinary Monsters way too time consuming! You’re not even Unique, God Damn it! You are just Rare!]

Yes, I do not even know if this thing is an Extraordinary Monster to begin with. It is not a Unique Monster for sure, but a Raid Monster? Most probably. But if this thing is really just a mere Rare Monster, than isn’t it kind of weird for it to be so over-the-top powerful? It is certainly weird if you were to ask me…… I have heard the rumors that somewhere out there in the world, there is a monster that is so powerful that it was dubbed the “Original Extraordinary Monster”. And guess who won the award of being the most probable candidate for that title? Yes, you guessed it…… This here Dracarus Dinocerberus. But is it really something like that?

「Tsk…… I see that you are as sturdy as ever, you asshole……!!]

But even so, since this monster is based on Tyrannosaurus Rex, its attack patters also consists of the moves that you would expect a dinosaur to have. The only real distinction here being the fact that it possesses three heads, so this means that the range on its instant-kill jaw attacks is way wider than you would expect from a normal dinosaur to have. Need to watch out for that.

And judging after a few first strikes, it seems that the amount of firepower that I possess is nowhere near enough to actually hurt this shit in the slightest. Even though I was managing to evade its attacks and land a Critical Hit after Critical Hit in retaliation. I was at that time that its body bent and twisted in an unnatural manner…… Incoming! A tail swipe attack!

「Huh!?]

Even for an oversized skipping rope, this thing is way too thick! A large-mass tail that looks like a bunch of rubber wrapped around a reinforced steel bar and affixed to an iron plate passes me by just below my head, to which I folds my legs to the limit and jump as if I was trying to sit upright in the air with all of my might.