ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

even Zombie Wyverns would be afraid of the Night Prowler?」

As we were taking a stroll through the bottom of the valley, we saw various types of enemies running away from us in terror.

「I thought It might have been a good idea, but going to the bottom of the valley gives us literally nothing.」

「Is that what ya are worried about? Sorry, but if ya want to commit suicide by running into a horde of monsters, do so without me!」

「There was something like a crystal scorpion at the top of the valley.
I’m pretty sure I saw something just like that out there.
If we manage to find one and defeat it, we might get a whole lot of precious crystal gems for ourselves! And it shouldn’t even take that long for us to gather them……」

Incidentally, that crystal scorpion’s level should be around level one hundred.
Hahaha, wouldn’t it be like trying to bring down a brick wall with my bare fists? That thought alone was a way bigger horror than the backstory of this whole area.

Well, from the meta viewpoint I could understand something like that.
A monster like that was a means of preventing the players from going over the valley rather than through it.
And once you become strong enough to beat that scorpion it will become a great source of loot and will unlock a shortcut through the area.
Like that, the time you’d need for going from Fourthsier to the optional location “Eitolato” would become significantly lower.

「Umu, umu…… I know that we probably aren’t ready to take that thing on, but a part of me still wants to give it a go, just for the heck of it.」

After a while, we heard a sound of hooves and heavy breathing growing closer and closer.
It seems that some monster was currently approaching us without showing any signs of running away.
No, or was it that it simply failed to notice us?

「Dullahan, huh? …… Nice, as if I hadn’t had enough of fighting horses and their riders recently.」

The rider as well as the mount were headless, but I got a feeling that during his lifetime this knight must have been rather famous.
His armor was almost entirely decayed, and the mount was giving off a dignified aura.

「T, think we could go for a preemptive strike……?」

「Wait just a moment! Stay! Stay, I said! Maybe it is an NPC and we can actually reason with the guy without having to fight it?」

「You moron! Dullahans have no mouths! How the hell you expect him to communicate with us, huh!?」

「Ubyaah! It drew it! It drew its sword!」

「Hahaha! Now that’s more like it! Go! Go! Go! It’s time to hunt us some Dullahans! But watch out for yourselves or you might end up dead!」

I jumped before the Dullahan that was charging straight at us, Empire Bee’s Swords in hand.
They were properly repaired and enhanced, so let’s test out those new skills, shall we!?

「For starters, let’s see how this works: “IGNITION”!」

This skill has limitations placed on it.
It can be used only once at the very beginning of the battle, and once activated, it gives you a boost to your movement speed.
The effect was supposed to last for one minute but the “engine” needed to heat up for thirty seconds before going into effect, so the actual duration of the skill was those thirty remaining seconds.

Although the effects were hard to see during the initial thirty seconds, the movement speed was still rising, but still, the Dullahan was able to dodge to the side and avoid a certain collision with me and the impact it would bring.