Chapter 200

Chapter 200 \nTranslator: Kurehashi Aiko\n

Editor: ryunakama

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 200: Reaching the Heavens Part 6 Part 1

 

 

A contract. A two sided transfer of merits to both parties involved. For paying the agreed price, you can obtain something that you were previously lacking.

 

People of the underwater city Lulilas made a contract with Kutanid. So they had to give something to it. And what could they possibly obtain in return? That’s the question.

 

「If we want to get some answers for ourselves, our best bet is to look for them ourselves. No other choice but to explore the castle.」

 

「This, this is……」

 

I guess this is it, we can only do that, since we currently have no other option.

 

「A written report. Someone’s diary or notes. Notes and report logs from an experiment. We look for anything that may resemble things like that.」

 

A medium like that is a nice tone setter. It helps to keep the suspense building up, and it adds flavor to any horror-like setting. Nothing better than finding disturbing, blood-soaked notes. No matter the contents of said notes.

 

In this kind of setting the usual suspect would be a monster breaking out of a secret underground laboratory, or a military virus getting released outside by accident or on purpose. But no matter what happened here, we must get to know what it was if we want to have a chance at this fight.

 

And what do you know? As luck would have it, our Team A managed to discover something. It was a diary alright, but we have found it not in the throne room as you would expect, but in the chamber that looked somewhat like an office or a study. At the same time Rust and her Team B ventured into the top floor of the castle.

 

「Now then…… Let’s give this thing a read, shall we?」

 

 

 

 

“I wonder? How long it’s been since the arrival of the ‘Blue’ that brought with it the end of the ocean? At first it was only the cities in the West. Then the cities in the South had been all but swallowed up by it. Those who tried to fled from it on the ships ended up resting at the bottom of the ocean. Eventually, even this island was devoured by ‘Blue’ and ended up eroding completely.”

 

“And it was such a horrifying sight that it was more than enough to cast not only the common people into despair, but the entirety of the royal family as well.”

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What the hell is this!? Stop throwing new settings at us already! ‘Blue? The hell is this whole ‘Blue’ thing all about!?

 

….. No, no, no. Calm down, me. At least there are two crucial things that we have learned at this point. This place was indeed an island, and something managed to invade it, although it was not Kutanid.

 

“The streets are now completely overrun with ‘Blue’, and everyone and everything it touches becomes the part of the ‘Blue’ as well.”

 

“Fortunately or unfortunately, we managed to evacuate most of the ministers and innocent civilians inside of the castle walls, giving all of them a temporal safe heaven. Not closing the castle gate on anyone in need of help is the least we can do in this time of despair.”

 

「For now, I get the impression that the one who wrote that diary must have been a really good person…… Let’s see what comes after that.」

 

“I am terrified of this stalemate that’s been going for so long now, but I cannot voice my worries and concerns to anyone, especially not the ministers.”

 

“With our regular attempts at driving the ‘Blue’ out of the city, we are constantly losing small number of soldiers. It is a loss, but at the very least with less soldiers we are able to provide accommodation for more citizens. At this point in time, the castle walls were able to take in all of the remaining people from around the city.”

 

“Originally the number of citizens was way bigger than what we are down to now, but there is nothing that we can do to fend the ‘Blue’ off, and it is that exact powerlessness that I cannot absolutely forgive myself for. As it also turned out, no one from the immediate surroundings of the His Majesty knows how to address this current threat that is looming over us.”

 

At first I thought that this ‘Blue’ thing might be some kind of foreign invader, but the more I read the more that seems not to be the case here.

 

The person who wrote this…… I don’t know who it was, maybe some regular citizen or maybe one of the smartest people around here, but there were using the word ‘Blue’ in a singular form here rather than plural.

 

Thinking about it for a moment, does that mean the ‘Blue’ is one huge singular entity? Or maybe it’s just a concept of something? …… Could this really refer to Kutanid?

 

“It’s really frustrating that we cannot do anything but to wait in here while the ‘Blue’ constantly besieges us. The fact that some of the ministers who fled the city by ships took most of our food supplies with them is not helping us, either.”

 

“Seeing as our current food and water reserves are not nearly enough to sustain hundreds of people every single day, I cannot help it but to think that our fate is to slowly wither away and die here.”

 

「This pattern will always lead to infighting and the surviving community basically tearing each other apart from the inside as time goes on.」

 

「That being said, there is no evidence that supports the assumption that there was any fighting inside of the castle’s walls.」

 

To sum up: once the invasion started, people have fled to the castle for safety, but there was no fighting amongst themselves. Rather, the most likely cause of their deaths was the fact that they died of starvation and dehydration, since a bunch of retarded ministers fled the city by ships, taking food and water with them for the ride. At least that’s my understanding.\n 

“A terrible storm happened today. The kind of storm that would normally take everything in its path and return it to the sea whence it came from. “

 

“However, it is impossible to simply wash away the ‘Blue’, not now since it has taken roots so deep into the foundations of our city…… At the very least, that’s what I thought.”

 

Hm? What’s with that flow? It’s as if……

 

Translator: Kurehashi Aiko

Editor: ryunakama

ShangriLa Frontier Chapter 200: Reaching the Heavens Part 6 Part 2

 

 

“It appeared together with the stormy weather, swallowing up the ‘Blue’ that first emerged from the sea. I don’t know how to describe that creature well, the one who managed to get rid of the scourge that would swallow up buildings, people, livestock and the space itself. The creature that got rid of ‘Blue’…… The best way I can describe it would be the eight-headed dragon.”

 

「Maybe this whole eight-headed dragon actually represents Kutanid, huh?」

 

「But Kutanid is actually an octopus, right?」

 

「If an octopus wiggles its tentacles hard enough, it just might seem like a dragon for those who are distressed or scared.」

 

「I see! It all makes sense now!」

 

No, no it does not. I mean, technically octopi does not have ‘heads’ per se, but you could still call it a head if you really wanted to.

 

But as far as the diary’s text was concerned, was Kutanid perhaps something like the savior of this city? It surely gave that kind of vibe.

 

“For us who were in dire need of salvation, it felt like the divine intervention of Gods themselves. Even if it would become even greater scourge than the ‘Blue’.”

 

“We were so overjoyed that ‘Blue’ was no more that we have failed to realize that the power of our savior was much worse and way more sinister in comparison.”

 

“Finally, the ‘Blue’ was silenced, God has won. With the city no longer in danger, and people safe to leave, we ordered for the gates to be opened up after the longest of time.”\nVisit wuxiaworld.eu for extra chapters.

 

“Then we have knelt before our new God. Not because we were ordered to, but because we wanted to.”

 

「S-Sequel! Give me the sequel! I’m curious what in it, too!」

 

「Not that it interests me in the slightest, it’s just for the information gathering…… But I  see that our dear Rei can’t wait to see what will happen next. Just look how eager she looks to turn the page.」

 

「Ah, ahahaha……」

 

“The God answered our prayers in his divine grace. And then the God spoke. My name is Kutanid, the one who resides over the Abyss. While not God himself, I wield divine powers.”

 

“In return for saving us, God wanted us to give up our land in return.

 

「I swear to God, if that’s all there is to it, I’m gonna start laughing.」

 

「Well, that would certainly be a little……」

 

The line here was really thin. I mean, I get it. Kutanid is really powerful. But that it exactly why he did not have to do things in such a roundabout way. Instead of toying with people and making them suffer, he could have spared them the pain and fear and offer help and demand compensation immediately.

 

“The God wants this land…… This here Lulilas, but not its inhabitants. And in the wake of our infant-like ignorance, we the people asked God: will you drive us out of our land?”

 

“However, God did not become angry with us, and answered: ‘Blue’ has permeated this land to its very core, so it is no longer suitable for humans to live in it. He said that ‘Crazy Blue Horde’ will eventually appear again here. Therefore this very island needs to be returned to the bottom of the sea, whence it came from. If its destruction that you want, then I will let you continue to live your lives as you used to.”

 

…… I wonder if Kutanid is the good guy in this story? And that whole ‘Blue’ thing was really starting to rub me off in the really wrong way.

 

“It is highly unlikely that anyone is ever going to read this diary, but nevertheless I am going to leave it here in this castle. It is the proof that there once existed the country of Lulilas, and that I was once its ruler.”

 

“The time we depart is near. We shall board the remaining ships and leave this land forever. As our thanks to God for salvation, this castle is going to become his cradle. The throne is embedded with new monument, an oath that passes the rite to rule the land. That was my last duty as a ruler.”

 

This is it. That’s probably the event flag that we were looking for. A keystone placed on the throne by the ruler of this city…… It probably has something to do with the fact that this whole place got inverted.

 

\nNo matter how much you think about it you would never think that the whole city has something to do with the boss gimmick. Or rather, the item that would otherwise only be the symbol of the right to rule this land. That symbol should serve as the key to unraveling Kutanid’s true form.

 

「The question now is this: what do we do about that symbol?」

 

「Do we just break it like that?」

 

「No, let’s not do that for now. For all that we know, there might be some other way to deal with it.」

 

The rest of the diary…… Fuck, it ends there? I know, I know, it would be TOO good to have the whole story written here, but can’t you just give us a little bit more?

 

「At the very least we know where to go for now. Let us join with the Rust’s group near the throne room and see what they managed to find.」

 

 

 

 

「Nothing here. How about over there? Any luck?」

 

「For the time being? No luck here as well.」

 

Before we actually knew it, we have spent so much time searching for clues to defeat Kutanid that the hour was already around 3:00 a.m. We were all prepard for grueling battle and possible exploration, but it was an undeniable fact that we were all fatigued.

 

「Maybe we should all take a break really soon, but for now, let us exchange information. Team A managed to find some sort of a diary in the room that looked like office or a study. It mentioned that this city used to be an island and mentions some sort of jewel in the throne room…… And that’s about it.」

 

 

 

「Team B actually encountered a monster at the top of the castle, and it dropped this when we killed it.」

 

While saying that, Rust pointed towards a piece of headgear that was resting on top of her head. It was a small, but intricately made crown. It also had some really conspicuous-looking empty spaces right in the middle of it, almost suggesting that there was something missing in there.

 

「I don’t…… Actually think that it is irrelevant, but for now let’s take a short break. I saw that some of the rooms in here had beds in it, so let’s take that opportunity to log out and take an hour for a break.」

 

We still had time to search the throne room before actually starting our decisive battle against Kutanid.