ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

ife I have been doing nothing but shitty games all time.

But I can tell you this: it’s not all that uncommon for games nowadays to be a product of ‘Copy/Paste’ scenario, making their worlds and plots and lore look pretty much the same.
Those are some real shitty games.
There are exceptions from that rule, however.

Ah, but I guess that managing your schedule is not that much of a problem for people, especially in the ear of social media and all that stuff.
Now that VR has pretty much settled in the field of gaming its momentum can no longer be stopped, but at the same time it won’t also accelerate like it used to do it its first days.
Still, there are some developers out there who would wish to do just that.

I am that kind of a player who tends to stick to one particular game until I finish it all, but I know that there are people out there who can organize their time so well that they can basically play a few different games in one day, and not having that fact impede on their social life.

Usually, players like that tend to be pretty good and devoted to their games.
That is, until the alarm that they have set starts ringing, signalizing that it is high time to switch to the different game.
Then they can disappear in just a moment, usually in the middle of the quest or combat.
Not to mention that you tend to not see them around from around 5 or 6 am or sometime like that.

「Whoa there, looks like we are here already.」

「Sanraku-san, were you perhaps lost in your own thoughts this whole time?」

「Hm? Oh, you know, it happens to me from time to time.
I was just thinking if it would be at all possible to program your own biological clock in a specific way.」

While Emul seemed to be mumbling something in retort to that, it seems that we have arrived at the tower where the ‘Barnacle’ was located.
Apparently alongside the way we were attacked by swarms of sharks and frogs which grew hair all over their bodies, but the fact that I was thinking to myself all this time and hardly ever recognized them as a threat was speaking volumes about them in the first place.
I mean, the players as well as NPCs of this group were no pushovers, so there was no way that enemies like that would be of any real threat to us.

「That’s…… Honestly, I am not sure if the monster designer gave it his all with this one, or if hardly ever put any work into it.」

It was humanoid in shape…… or maybe it was barely humanoid in shape at all.
It’s neck was way too close to its left shoulder, and its right arm was bloated and enlarged to an absurd degree, amongst other things.

However, what is really noteworthy here is not its overall shape, but the surface of its body.
Do you know how barnacles look like? You know, the ones that you can often see on the bottoms of the ships or at the breakwaters? So yeah, the whole surface of this boss’s body was overgrown with barnacles, but those ones were really huge.
Way larger than you would expect.

「Ughee……」

「How the hell is this thing able to disable short range attacks when it is like that? You think those barnacles form a shield or something like that?」

「Maybe, or maybe not.
Maybe the moment you try to hit it with a blade the barnacles increase in amount…… But is that really all that important right now!?」

「I’d say yes, but still……」