Chapter 182: Road to Fruition Part 1
「Actually, doing just that…… This might be more difficult to accomplish than we might think.」
「Natsu-san is right. When it cos to two Heroes fighting one another, this will basically beco a competition of who gets the NPC Villains first.」
What Katsu presented to Silvia Goldberg right now was a choice. And that choice just happened to incorporate one of the biggest gimmicks of the entire ga.
First matter of choices is: “is Katsu going to aim for securing the Chaos Cube or try to defeat etias?”
At first glance it looks as though he is aiming for the cube, but it might just be a trap. An elaborate ruse that aims to lower Silvia’s guard and make her susceptible for a surprise strike that she wouldn’t normally anticipate.
And the next dilemma is more or less like that: what should Katsu do in order to erge victorious from this hunt for the NPC Villains? And the most terrifying thing here is that this dilemma is connected to the two choices ntioned above.
If Katsu was indeed aiming to a Chaos Cube win, he would have to defeat the NPC Villains…… That ans Silvia would need to stop him from doing that, so that he would not be able to earn gauge.
If so, then what should she do in order to prevent Katsu from doing that?
But if Katsu’s aim was defeating etias all along, she should focus on offense and don’t think too hard about it.
In other words, nothing was set in stone yet, so both sides would need to play it safe if they didn’t wanted to regret it.
But should etias also accumulate his gauge in order to prevent Katsu from doing whatever the hell he wanted?
All in all, Silvia Goldberg was in for quite a dilemma here. It wasn’t sothing she could decide carelessly, on a whim. Otherwise she would end up regretting it.
etias is excelling at montary acceleration, but when it cos to a long-term chases and runs, Silver Jumper is a much better character here, since he can change his altitude freely and fly across the sky to so extent. In so cases that mobility of his would even serve to dodge the enemy’s Ultimate Moves with a high probability of success.
「Your strategies are as an and evil as ever, Comrade No Na.」
「No, no, I don’t want to hear that from soone who had a say in the initial drafting of this strategy, dear Sargent No Face.」
It’s a really cheap, but also quite effective battle strategy: instead of trying to co up with so fancy way of action, you just overwhelm your opponent with way too many ways of acting.
It’s that kind of strategy that can even succeed against advanced AIs, but it’s only effective when your surroundings and situation change rapidly. If the gaplay is stagnant, it’s not going to be of any use.
Silvia Goldberg still thinks that she can hunt Katsu down or beat him up, but she’s not even aware that there is already a potent poison circulating in her system, eating her away from the inside. Soon enough she shall beco a victim to her own thoughts.
But then she also rembers that there was soone like that who used a tactic similar to that way back in the first round of the match.
Hahaha, of course it would be a trap.
It may be rude to Natsu gumi, but as far as Silvia Goldberg was concerned, she was not a genuine gar.
That is also why Silvia Goldberg had troubles with recalling Natsu gumi’s exact battle style: because she was so forgettable to her. It was nearly as difficult as trying to recall exactly what you had for dinner a week ago.
From the get go, Pencilgton and I focused on making it look as though Katsu wasn’t going to aim for getting the Chaos Cube, just so that Silvia Goldberg wouldn’t try to think of ways of preventing him from doing just that.
Yes, Misdirection. Misdirection was the way to go here. As per Pencilgton’s words: since the mbers of Star Rain are all proficient in so form of martial arts, irregular behaviors and pattern changes are their greatest enemies. I don’t really get it, but whatever you say.
「And that is why the ti is just about right.」
「Silvia-chan, sorry in advance if your brain ends up overheating from too much thinking……」
Human brain allows even complete idiots to solve complex problems if given enough ti to ponder the matter through. And Silvia’s brain was quite exceptional at handling problems.
Now then, Katsu. From here on out you’re in the endga.
When her HP bar dropped to about fifty percent, Silvia Goldberg abandoned thinking.
Is the goal of Silver Jumper to simply get the Chaos Cube? Or maybe to beat her in a fight?
Should she deal with the NPC Villains that were approaching her or should she just leave them alone?
Should she stop Silver Jumper from getting the gauge or should she prioritize collecting her own?
(I don’t know what to do, but for now I must focus on beating Kei.)
Ahh, that’s right. That’s the conclusion Silvia Goldberg’s mind was rushing towards. She was being so overwheld by the incoming information that she just happened to omit one very simple fact.
Silver Jumper is Uomi Kei. And Uomi Kei is that kind of gar that excels at reading his opponents and devising strategies according to what he managed to learn about his opponent.
There is no right answer amongst the ones presented to her by Kei. This was not a race where the competitors were competing on equal terms. It was more like a set-up where one racer got a head-start as a result of a rock-paper-scissors match…… and that rock-paper-scissors was set-up as well. Every ti Silvia would decide to do sothing, Kei would counter it accordingly and they would be back to the square one.
She started thinking about the previous Villains she fought. The vivid images of Yggdryer, Clock Fire and Cursed Prison started to pop in front of her eyes, clouding her judgent and occupying her thoughts. The Villains weren’t just stalling from ti. They were doing sothing more. They were attacking the whole of Star Rain from the very beginning. And they did that in a way that no one would even anticipate, in a way that no one could really counter.
Their thoughts.
That attack managed to dull Silvia Goldberg’s fangs and make her oblivious to what was going on. That she was no longer playing a normal fighting ga. That she was dragged into sothing that was fairly uncommon in the world of gaming.
A ga where one person was struggling against many opponents at once!
「Sorry to break it to you…… But this round is mine!」
etias attacks Silver Jumper in a straight line. However, inside of her mind she was still considering this match to be her versus Kei, she didn’t even considered that he could have the support of soone else.
It stems from the fact that as a Pro Gar Silvia Goldberg was proficient mainly in fighting gas. Because of that, unlike Kei, she didn’t experience many different types of gas and his current actions seed to be nothing but incomprehensible to her.
In a different genre of gas, that strategy is called ‘Monster Player Kill”. It’s a technique that pushes all monster aggro towards your opponent and as a result you don’t have to kill your opponent yourself, since monsters will eventually do that for you. And the fact that you know about it or not is totally unrelated here.
「Uguh……!?」
「A bit slow on the uptake, huh, etias!?」
etias’s body was hit with a tackle that was so ultra-heavy unlike any other attack Silvia happened to take today. It was so powerful and so unexpected that she didn’t even have ti to react to it and was blown away as a result.
「Pretty ironic, don’t you think?」
Kei must be thinking the exact sa thing. And others as well, even though they can no longer actively participate.
「This is Global Ga Competition. And since everyone is watching us right now…… Let illuminate you to what this ga is all about.」
In this ga world everyone can be either a Hero or a Villain. But that also ans,
People can understand the hardships that one type experiences because of the other’s actions.
「Hooray! Kei took one round!」
「About ti. It was fun to watch both of them struggle, but it’s nice to finally have a result.」
「I don’t know exactly what they were saying because of the system voice, but from the way their lips were moving I think it was sothing like “Ooooooohhhhhhh!!!”」
「Dude, is there anything in this world that you can’t do?」
「A thing or two for sure.」
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