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ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 497: Double Cross Lonely Girl Digital Head Part 1

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「…… Alright, I guess my engines have warmed up more than enough here.」

Smashing my fist into my palm in the gesture of imminent excitement, I started to climb one of the buildings in order to have a look over the area that spread below me.

Since during a Triangle Trinity the players are unable to have a look around the minimap and confirm their location that way, in order to counteract that disadvantage the map for each round is substantially smaller and has a fixed shape of a triangle. So the first course of action is to check out all of the three corners and see if you will be able to spot the other two teams somewhere out there.

「Can’t see any UFOs, can’t spot any Towers of Fangs, and no Mechanitians to speak of at the current moment……」

Triangle Trinity is a Three Versus Three Versus Three kind of event, so it means that besides the team driven by Amelia Sullivan there is also one more team that you have to be aware of at all times.

They may be just randomly selected enemies from the game’s original roster that are steered by the AI, but that does not mean that they are to be underestimated and that they were to be any less annoying than the real players.

“Inverzer” is a type of an Aerial Villain who descends from the sky out of the blue and catches his opponents off—guard, sometimes even taking random NPC together with him.

“Lepdinos” was originally a lizard that crawled on the ground but evolved at an alarming rate, now being a human-sized lizard possessing the power to scatter dinosaurs throughout the city and command them at will, causing them to rampage all over the place.

And then we have the “Mechanitian”. He is a unit that specializes in setting up camps on the go and equipping them with various sorts of electronics, which can be then turned into mechanical soldiers and army. And that is certainly a force one needs to reckon with.

Inverzer kidnaps the precious NPCs, which is going to make it even harder to earn the gauges in the second half of the match. With Lepdinos it will be literally impossible to figure out where the enemy grunts are coming from. And the army of mechanical soldiers needs no other reason to want to get rid of it. All those things are enough of a reason for the players to target that group and get rid of it in the first place.

And unlike the other player’s team, if you want to stop the NPC’s squad the only way to do that is to defeat the specified “Target Enemy”.

Now, the player who happens to defeat the “Target Enemy” is going to be given a whole lot of buffs and other privileges for the duration of the fight, but as long as the other enemy team is still there you need to plan carefully and adjust your strategy so that buffs won’t go to waste or fall into the enemy’s hands…… Are you perhaps starting to see what makes Triangle Trinity so interesting in the first place?

「And there is a huge possibility that Mechanitian is going to be the Target Enemy……」

Tsk, and now I can see the lenses of the cameras being directed my way.

Amelia Sullivan’s Number One pick is a Hero who has a connection to the TV, and can plug itself into all sorts of electronic devices and systems…… which also includes those stupid surveillance cameras. So as long as there are cameras following my every move, I am going to be at a serious disadvantage here.

So for now let’s just get off the building and keep ourselves to the ground, possibly going through tiny gaps in between buildings and back streets. This should give me more than enough time to think of a solution to my current predicament.

「Ah, now I remember.」

The machines that the Mechanitian can produce can be quite diverse in both power and utility. For example: we have “War Maiden –Valkyrie–“, “Colonel –Kernel–“ and “General –Commander–“. And as a matter of course, each unit possesses a different unique ability that makes it all the more annoying to deal with.

「When it comes to the battle priority, shouldn’t the obvious first choice be Colonel here? No, I mean, he’s dangerous, but as long as Valkyrie is in the game, she possesses enough power to corner the player if they are not paying attention all the time……」

Their power balance is pretty nasty, because if you are trying to defeat them on your own you might not stand that much of a chance, especially if you happen onto a whole squad of them. However, if you were to face them with two or more people, things would have gone down to the level of manageability. Not easy, but manageable. That being said, good work, balanced team! More ideas like that in the future, please! …… Now then, if it was Silver Mask here, I would have established a cooperation pact with her without much trouble, but I don’t really think that such a thing is going to be possible with Amelia Sullivan. Which is a goddamn shame.

「Yeah, and whatever am I even supposed to do with all this……?」

The character that I am currently playing is named Dust. He wears a long trench coat and has a mask on his face, one that only has holes in it for the eyes and nose. And that’s about it.

If we were to look at the classification from the source material point of view, then Dust would be a bona fide Villain, but seeing how many Villains there are already in this match…… maybe he would actually end up being called a Hero? Who knows?

The character profile of “Dust”.

If I remember his character bio, from a pop-culture standpoint he should be an individual that we would call a “Dark Hero”. He was the first character added into the game after the Update went live, and because of that his character mechanics are also rather specific and unique.

Instead of the usual one gauge, this character has two of them. One of them is Heroic Meter and one Villanic. Also, you cannot use some of his actions if both gauges are not at least fifty percent filled, but usually you would have to have both of them filled at one hundred percent.

What’s more, the gauges are also connected to the number of bullets that Dust is carrying and how fast he can reload them. So his potential is really high, but at the same time he requires a tremendous amount of technique in order to be played correctly.

「For the time being…… Oh yeah, that’s right.」

This would be a nice place to casually pop my head out, don’t you think?

Besides, it’s not that I’m really trying to hide or anything like that. I mean, sooner or later I am bound to encounter Amelia Sullivan, and if I keep on running away from her it would only end in my loss. So confrontation is the only way possible.

「Wish there was a bank somewhere around here. They always have those buttons that alarm the police in them, right?」

It’s not that I want to waste my bullets on purpose, but what must be done must be done. So I kick the door to the nearest bank open and pull out my guns, ready to start blasting away at any moment now.

「Hold up, fuckers! Now, if any one of you has a mobile phone on them, contact the police at once, or else……!!!」