ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 342 Part 1
ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 342: Gods! Dragon! Erythrocyte! Part 1
The Red Dragon –– Great Devourer.
It is an organism that devours other organic life forms and by doing so actively replaces their cells with that of its own. That way, everything that the Great Red Devourer manages to consume becomes a part of it, making it stronger.
As an individual organism, it is not nearly as powerful or deadly as its “Blue” or “White” brethren. Those organisms managed to almost wipe all life off the face of this planet during the Era of the Gods, and even though they were eventually contained, the aftermath of their devouring rampage could still be seen in parts of the world even in this day and age. However, just because the “Red” was not nearly as strong as “White” or “Blue”, it was still a very dangerous monster that could not be underestimated.
Pray on others. Devour them. And then replace their cells with your own and grow stronger as a result. However, this process is not really where the essence of the Great Devourer lies.
There is in fact yet another Great Red Devourer in this world, peacefully slumbering underneath a certain extinct volcano…… It is an existence similar to the “Broccoli X”, but at the same time something completely different. It could be argued that its existence is one of the cornerstones of this world, but that would only be half-true. For even that organism is nothing but a mimicry.
That being said, the link with the “______” is something that is common to the raid monsters of the new continent. At the same time, this link to the “______” that all the raid monsters of this continent have is their strongest weapon, their ultimate trump card.
「EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!」
There is a scream echoing throughout the area.
That scream is the reproduction of despair that a certain pitiful dragon felt right before it died. That’s right. It was the reproduction of the scream of Eldranza, a pitiful dragon that went mad with despair right before it died, when it was jumped by three other monsters and its body got shattered to pieces. That same Eldranza that was now the host for the Great Red Devourer.
That scream was the record of the last actions that the dying body undertook. The record of the last sounds made by the dying vocal cords, now being reproduced in an emotionless, inorganic way. But there was something else here. The small fries that stayed here, linking with the red “fake” and aiding it in battle. Right about now they were wriggling, tearing, coming apart, connecting and mixing with the main body, making it stronger.
This thing right here was just like a pupa. Pupa –– a stage in evolution right after the larvae, but right before the adult organism. A passing stage. At the current moment, the Great Red Devourer was using everything it had managed to devour in order grow its host in size and strength, a last desperate effort at assuring its survival here. The monster increased its size, there were way more parts to it now than before, and there was a clear aura of hostility coming from it right about now. It could be safe to assume that this was the way in which Eldranza used to be when it was still alive. And that was not an information that was good for us in any sense.
「YIIIIIIIIIIII……!!!!!! GAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!」
Yet another scream echoed throughout the battlefield.
From that scream alone, everything was painfully clear. The Great Red Devourer was done playing around. Instead of deploying elaborate tactics in order to get rid of its enemies in style, it retracted everything back into itself, all for the sake of increasing its size and power, and using that overwhelming power in order to mercilessly crush its enemies.
Replacement…… that is not the only factor that constitutes the core essence of the Great Red Devourer.
What constitutes of the Great Red Devourer’s core is indeed replacement, transportation…… but also reduction.
But even if we state those three things, that would only constitutes for about half of this core essence.
「Oi, what the hell…… That’s some seriously bad news, this thing!」
「A pile…… A huge-ass pile of flesh…… From top to bottom, without exception…… Oi, oi, just look at that, Sanraku-kun! How about we try doing something right now! Before things get any worse!? Or before this ting burrows itself into the ground or something else like that!」
「Stop, don’t even bother…… It would have been impossible, either way.」
Right about now, the very core of the Great Red Devourer, its essence, was laid bare right in front of our eyes. It was huge, it was bloody and…… It was at that moment that I have come to realize something. That I have already seen something like this before. And what’s more, it was not too long ago that I have actually come into contact with it.
It was something of a spherical shape. A sphere that looked like a huge and bloody chunk of red and pulsating meat. What’s more, that sphere was not staying immobile. It was slowly rotating, eventually changing its shape into that of a cone, only to come back to the spherical shape with enough rotation. The tip of the cone was facing the ground instead of pointing towards the sky, and the way in which it was rotating and its increasing speed was making this thing look just like a drill from the real world.
「Piston motion plus spiraling motion…… I must say, those are some pretty advanced techniques and moves right there. I’m pretty sure that you would not be able to simply reproduce them with the limitations that the human body has. That being said…… Think this thing pitches or catches? Or don’t tell me…… It can do both!?」
「Alright, Aradval. We have work to do. Do the deed!」
「Not the nape! Anything but the nape, please!」
I am sure that the Great Red Devourer there was unable to actually understand the contents of the silly conversation that just took place between Deepslaughter and I. Or at least I was hoping that it was unable to understand us. Otherwise this would have been way more embarrassing than it actually needed to be. However, I could not get myself rid of this feeling that the timing at which the meat drill reached the ground and started to dig through it was nothing short of its attempt at being a straight man to our lame comedy routine here.
「THE POWER OF THE GREAT RED DEVOURER CIRCULATES, UNSTOPPABLE ––––––」
「THE RED MEMORIES SWIRL WITHOUT END ––––––」
「PRIMAL REVOLVE!!!」
It was all as if the blood cloth returned to its original tide-like shape, entrusting itself entirely to the vessel that could catch up and store all of the excess blood with ease.
The two Pioneers were unable to see this or know what was going on, but at the bottom of the Earth, the Red-colored drill managed to reach its “roots” and come into contact with them.
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