ShangriLa Frontier ~ Shitty Games Hunter Challenges Godly Game ~

he game!

Still, fighting for so long was starting to take its toll on me.
But I still managed to fight in such a way to collect as much information as possible.
Now, that information would allow me to create a sort of battle strategy for the next encounters.

First of all, contrary to its smaller brethren, it seems to be somewhat less durable.
Its overall appearance was fascinating, but when compared to the normal scorpions its armor was full of cracks and crevices.
If I succeeded in sticking my blades through those, it should be possible for me to damage it.

The only thing I should be really worried about is the long-range venom spewing attack.
The single shots were quite easy to avoid, and the others were manageable too, as long as I remember to maintain a reasonable distance from this beast.

The laser deals a devastating amount of damage, but if I continue to run away from it it should be possible to avoid it completely, not to mention that during this attack which lasted for about five seconds it was impossible for the scorpion to attack me in any other way.

But it should be noted that even though there were opportunities for me to avoid those attacks, allowing myself to be hit by them even once would spell a game over for me instantly.

I don’t even want to think what’s about to happen if that venom touches me.

Its self-restoration is also quite a drag, but it seems that “Moon” is the key to it.

Speaking of which, wasn’t the power of the moon also used by Wezaemon to create an alternate reality where Setsuna’s grave was located? So maybe the way in which the golden scorpion regenerates itself with the power of the moon works in the same way as the solar panels that absorb the energy of the sun?

I wonder if it will be interrupted if the clouds hide the moon behind them? It would be nice, otherwise it will be increasingly more difficult to deal with.

The problem was now how to deal with those hammer-like claws.
The solution was pretty obvious, but difficult to carry out…… run away and return.

「The rest is just a matter of avoiding that ridiculously high attack damage…… But, hunting like that was never my forte.」

If I could somehow destroy some of its parts it would somewhat limit its attack options.
Not that I cannot try some other means of dodging and evading, but if I could act on the simplest of scenarios, that is what I would like to do.

「Six MP left……」

This means that if worst comes to worst, I could seek shelter inside “INVENTORY” six more times.

Six emergency evasions.
But if I could help it, I don’t want to use them at all.

One reason was that I still wasn’t sure if transferring to “INVENTORY” would be treated as fleeing from battle or not.
Actually, I know nothing about what’s happening outside “INVENTORY” while I am inside it.

Therefore, even if I was forced to use “INVENTORY”, I wanted to stay inside it as short as possible.
But I won’t lie, a brief respite would sure be nice.

However, since this battle was dragging on for so long, my MP recovery potions and recovery items were running dangerously low.
So there was that as well.

「Come on, Golden Scorpion, can’t you take down only one person? Is it that much of a problem to you?」

I then swing one of my Swamp Daggers at the Scorpion in an attempt to provoke it.
As expected, it bounced off of one of its claws that look more like an oversized shield than the actual claw.