Chapter 289 — After the Calamity
【Raid Unique】New Land Information Exchange — Part 182【Sky Ruler-san】
Emilia [13]: Crush Noirlind.
Kanpan VI [14]: Yikes.
Tororo Glycerin [15]: Emilia-shi is seriously scary right now.
Bu Luck Shine [16]: Nah, this can't be helped. Who knew the base would get half-destroyed?
Basashi Musashi [17]: All those base quests we've been grinding away at have basically come to nothing...
Emilia [18]: I'll beat him until he begs for his life, then cut off his head and display it as the base's symbol.
Takuan-Topped Tiramisu [19]: Emilia-shi doing restoration work with an expression blanker than a Noh mask was, well... yeah, pretty freaky. Sorry if that's rude to say with her right here.
Jupiter [20]: So, speaking for the playerbase as a whole, which clear condition are we actually aiming for with this Sky Ruler Unique?
Umeōsei [21]: Siegwurm or several dragons, huh.
Elf Gusky [22]: Came over from the elf thread! Apparently our hero Tottori, who's with the elves, has made contact with the Green Dragon Blockentreed.
AB Ten [23]: For real? As expected of Hero Tottori...
Basashi Musashi [24]: Honestly, keeping a no-death run going while traveling with the elves through this dinosaur paradise is genuinely impressive.
Umeōsei [25]: This place is such a hellhole that if you let your guard down, a Thoroughbred Tricera will blast you out of the shade...
Emilia [26]: It's been confirmed that Triceras Dinobreed materials can be used for defensive walls, so anyone with spare materials, please donate to the base's material drop-off box.
Amaru Gum [27]: Barbarian...
Andu=Romeda [28]: You insult the person who is basically the backbone of the New Land, and you might as well be picking a fight with every crafter.
Kanpan VI [29]: Honestly, among the people who weren't away at the time—in other words, the ones who were there for Noirlind's attack on the base—nobody is thinking about trying to take down Siegwurm-san.
Takuan-Topped Tiramisu [30]: Well, the collateral damage from Noirlind and Siegwurm's fight was pretty awful too.
Rock Black [31]: But he did protect the save point.
Tottori the Shimahne [32]: That was seriously way too close.
Umeōsei [33]: The Hero!
Elf Gusky [34]: Ohh, our Hero Tottori!
Tororo Glycerin [35]: So what's the Green Dragon like?
Tottori the Shimahne [36]: That thing is bad news. It absorbs magic or something from the ground, so no matter how many arrows you pump into it, it regenerates instantly.
Basashi Musashi [37]: Ah... a regeneration type, huh.
Jupiter [38]: This really does look like it's going to branch into either Siegwurm alone or multiple Color Dragons.
Emilia [39]: Was there ever more than one path from the start?
Kappenter [40]: To be honest, the majority of New Land crafters are pro-Siegwurm. Or rather, I should say the anti-Noirlind faction is mainstream.
Thunder Nut [41]: But among combat jobs, there are quite a few who want to challenge Siegwurm.
Bu Luck Shine [42]: Personally I want to take down Noirlind, but this is the first Unique that players can participate in on this broad a scale, so...
Basashi Musashi [43]: That certain person's monopolizing the Uniques a bit too much, y'know...
Beat Van [44]: Word from a certain source says that certain person wiped out Schwarz Vulf or something.
Indrew [45]: I've been saying this for a while, but the one clamping down on information is probably not that certain person, it's Arthur Pencilgon.
Rudowar [46]: I mean, we seriously just can't track down that certain person.
Basashi Musashi [47]: On the flip side, there are eyewitness accounts like "they talked to me pretty normally," so I really have no idea what to think.
Shippu Dotō [48]: At the very least, it seems the Library has made some degree of contact.
Tororo Glycerin [49]: But they won't disclose information until they've finished their own analysis over there either...
Takuan-Topped Tiramisu [50]: Hey, if you're gonna talk about that certain person, take it to the search board, not here.
Basashi Musashi [51]: Nah, it's actually pretty related.
Rudowar [52]: I mean, the fact that he's got Lycagon's curse and took down Wethermon and Ctarnidd — it wouldn't be weird for him to have info on Siegwurm.
Jupiter [53]: >>44 — Schwarz Vulf suddenly splitting in two... don't tell me...
Knox [54]: Nah, that was probably just them cutting off the lizard's tail.
Marudoku [55]: I talked to Massive Dynamite-san the other day, and apparently almost all of the main members are joining the clan on Psyger-100's side.
Beat Van [56]: Ah... (understands)
Bad Blood [57]: Madame Massive Dynamite-san is the sacred idol of the Church of Full-STR Builds.
Thunder Nut [58]: Seriously, if we had firepower on Maddai-san's level, could we punch through Noirlind's carapace?
Bad Blood [59]: Madame's main weapon is a striking weapon, so if she aimed for the head or something, I think she'd have a pretty good chance of causing a stun or flinch.
Bad Blood [60]: But with a full-STR build, it's impossible unless you can guarantee the hit. Noirlind and Siegwurm both fly just fine, so unless we can somehow pin them to the ground, there's nothing we can do.
Shippu Dotō [61]: Wouldn't SF-Zoo be able to handle that somehow?
Tororo Glycerin [62]: Those guys start taking screenshots in the middle of battle, so they're catastrophically incompatible with raids... I do kind of like the photo books they put out, though.
Rock Black [63]: Some of those angles were obviously shot right before the photographer died... Feels like there's an actual professional in there. Also, the name overlap is low-key funny.
Bad Blood [64]: Their tank squad is about as top-class as wall tanks get, aside from the commander over at Saint’s Divine Guard.
Beat Van [65]: Watching people in heavy armor so bulky they can barely walk roll all over the place looks like a gag from the outside, but their aggro management is flawless...
Marudoku [66]: I partied with the Zoo's tank squad once, and they're incredible. You don't just avoid taking hits—the aggro itself never even comes your way. Total easy mode.
Thunder Nut [67]: Getting back on topic, even if we target Noirlind, there are other targets too, and anyway, if we don't complete the New Land map, we're stuck, right?
Okotto Shinu [68]: There was that one that was already dead, right?
Rudowar [69]: That's honestly hilarious. I mean, it died before the Unique Scenario even started.
Basashi Musashi [70]: Don't tell me that certain person...
Takuan-Topped Tiramisu [71]: No way, that's impossible. That certain person still seems to be on the old continent.
Indrew [72]: But he did take down Ctarnidd, who is obviously aquatic, so that certain person has been out at sea...
Tissha [73]: Come to think of it, if it's a blue dragon, does that mean it has the water element?
Thunder Nut [74]: ............Seriously, is this another case involving that certain person?
Knox [75]: Someone go catch that certain person and ask them.
Tororo Glycerin [76]: You know what they call that certain person on the search board? A tsuchinoko. A goddamn tsuchinoko.
Rock Black [77]: Being treated as an unidentified lifeform is seriously hilarious.
Wombat [78]: Guess we'll have to count on the search team. But Deep Throater-san already came over here, right?
Emilia [79]: It's been a while... maybe I'll do some slaughtering...
Umeōsei [80]: There's a rumor that if you go around slaughtering carelessly in this game, penalty monsters appear. Isn't that dangerous?
Basashi Musashi [81]: Apparently you just die instantly before you even know what happened. People say some kind of monster is responsible, though.
Thunder Nut [82]: Bringing it back again: even if we pick the route to side with Siegwurm, since Blue is dead, we have to find the locations of the other four: Red, Green, White, and Black.
Bu Luck Shine [83]: Apparently Hero Tottori-san prioritized survival and got away from the Green Dragon as fast as he could.
Elf Gusky [84]: A wise decision.
Wombat [85]: You guys on the elf thread should just go link up with Tottori already...
Knox [86]: Even with NPCs in his party, doing the whole refugee thing while basically playing solo sounds brutal.
Okotto Shinu [87]: I mean, between the Lizardman sightings and the way Conversion works, it feels like making contact with other races is going to be mandatory.
Kanpan VI [88]: Even if we go the route of beating Siegwurm, Siegwurm himself just took off somewhere while fighting Noirlind.
Tororo Glycerin [89]: So right now, the races confirmed to exist are elves and Beastfolk, right?
Thunder Nut [90]: And the ones we only have eyewitness reports for are Lizardmen and insect people.
Super Farmer [91]: Do plant monsters count as another race?!
Knox [92]: You're the one calling them monsters yourself...
Shippu Dotō [93]: There's no way the first wave can handle this by itself. We'll have to throw sheer numbers at it, including the players coming over as reinforcements.
Deep Throater [94]: Raids like this always seem to have MVP rewards and stuff, though. You sure you can afford to dawdle? C'mon, dawdle, dawdle~
Indrew [95]: DeepSlo-san is one of the few players who has [Teleport Gate], so if you disappear while soloing, we'll be in serious trouble because we won't be able to travel between continents...
Deep Throater [96]: This is just my personal take, but... that certain person—Sunraku-kuuun—I have a feeling teleportation-type magic is involved in the way he keeps disappearing.
Deep Throater [97]: Also, I haven't disappeared, you know? I'm only away on business because the people from Schwarz Vulf... the former Schwarz Vulf asked me to come.
Knox [98]: As always, this person's whole character is that their character is all over the place.
Bad Blood [99]: Wait, Madame is already back on the old continent!? Seriously? She really is planning to beat Lycagon...
Emilia [100]: Crush Noirlind.
A defensive line of bone takes shape as dinosaur monsters are proactively beaten to a pulp.