Wow...
That has to be a high-level gear.
Say... that emblem...
...isn't that the emblem of some hardcore clan?
What's a guy like that doing in this town for beginners?
I heard Hizutome-kun uses the same in-game name on all of his games,
so I thought I'd be able to find him.
And it's unthinkable that a new player won't come to this town.
Did we pass each other by?
I throw away my defense and put on my bird mask headgear
I'm a hustler My point only goes to my luck stats
Parry parry now this is my style
playing broken games all night... who's that knight?
Broken game is sickness
toxic scattered, now I'm a patient
My heart is beating almost twice as fast
The chaos wither get it bite that bug
Terrible gimmick
new game a.k.a suicide??
I don't give a damn
(Do it, Do it) No, not yet NO it's not enough
(Do it, Do it) NO it's not enough
I still can go
Everyone looks dirty to me
Everything looks broken to me
we can go, we can go
to that mountain top, not afraid to drop
this world is going to be mine... duh
(A Different Kind of Player)
(Ravenous Python) (Area Boss Rec. Level 10 Rec. Party Size 3)
Entertain me...
...SLF!
Let's start by checking its movement.
(Tap Step Bonus to evasion)
In the end, it's just a boss for beginners.
It's movement is easy to read and it does not have...
...any instant-kill attacks!
I can defeat this thing without taking any damage!
Or more like, I'll die if I do get hit!
What?!
Although it has low durability left, it broke in just one hit?!
Right when I was starting to get attached to it!
Sturdy skin, huh...
Then...
...I'd like to try out something.
I'll flay you alive!
Screw Pier...
The heck's this?!
Turd?!
Huh?
Well...
I underestimated it a little too much.
Heh, you think you already won?
Look here, I've beaten tons of trash games that were way more unfair than this.
I ain't backing down just because you threw some turds at me!
I receive 1 damage every ten seconds.
That means I only have around four minutes left to fight.
I need to land multiple critical hits on this thing to kill it or I won't make it!
Critical hits in this game aren't based on random chances.
They appear when you land an ideal strike
or hit one of your opponent's weak points.
But this thing has thick scales that prevents that.
Which mean its only weak point is its head!
But of course, it's hard to hit.
Then I'll just have to MAKE some!
Screw Pierce!
All right!
Now I'll keep attacking its wound!
The wound changes the nature of the flesh and opens it up to critical hit!
All left's to attack until I run out stamina!
Dammit! I don't know how much HP this thing has left!
Will I make it in time?!
I knew it...
Beating Failia Chronicle got me a bit too cocky.
"In the end, this is just an easy game for the mainstream."
"I can beat it easily without recovery item!"
Yeah, right...
I got full of myself.
But...!
Flash Counter!
(Unequipped)
Don't think you can swallow me that easily!
I'll make you pay for throwing turd all over me!
Screw Pierce!
Hm?
Woohoo! I did it, damn it!
Did ya see that, you stinky snake!
(Dropped Item Python Scale)
(Dropped Item Python White Hair)
These drops looks like they're worth quite a lot.
Huh?
Oh crap! I didn't have much time!
Was that all the drops? Did I miss anything?
I need to distribute the points from leveling up.
Oh no, the time!
Ugh, all the points go to stamina and agility!
Once I'm in the town, I need to buy some antidote!
Wait, I don't even know where the shop's at! I won't make it on time!
Then I'd better update my respawn point instead!
That means I'd better go to the inn.
Wait, I also don't know where that is! Dammit!
So Mia, you want to tame a dog monster, right?
Yeah.
I can't keep pets in my apartment,
but I can tame monsters in this game, right?
So I hope you can show me the ropes, Yamamoto-kun.
After three grueling months...
I finally got my crush to play SLF!
I've made it so that as an old hand, I get to lecture her as a beginner!
I've got to make the most of this!
Um, Yamamoto-kun?
S-Sorry, it's nothing.
Also, Mia.
In video game, instead of real names,
it's customary to call each other by their in-game name.
Oh, I see.
Then, "Reiji"-kun, right?
Woohoo! I successfully made her call me by my first name!
Thank you, SLF!
What?
M-Monster?!
Wait, wait! He's got a player name!
That's a player, not a monster!
Eh? I mustn't attack him?
If you PK someone, you'll get a skull icon next to your name!
Well, I don't want that.
But why's that person running at such a high speed?
Ah, he must've taken some poison.
Hey!
You, the guy with the name's Sunraku!
Head straight! The building with white roof is the inn!
Your respawn point won't get updated until you get on the bed, so be careful!
Thanks!
There were quite a lot of people like him back when
the game launched and there's still no info around.
Players who sprint for the town after that snake poisoned them.
Wow...
Judging from his look, I bet he sold his armor for more speed at the start.
You really sound like a veteran. That's pretty cool, Reiji-kun.
Eh? Hahaha, you think so?
Thank you, blue bird guy.
Are you staying today?
This inn provides a safe rest for all of our adventurers.
For example...
I don't need those crap! Hurry and give me a bed!
Very well. Allow me to examine our free rooms...
Hurry! HURRY UP!
I only have 1 HP left!
- Room 2001 is ready for now. - Thank you!
Respawn point has been updated.
Yes! I made it in ti...
(Penalty for Death All stats lowered for limited time)
Phew, that was real close.
I did die, though.
Good thing the penalty for death wasn't to lose items.
I should thank that player who taught me about the inn if I meet him again.
But man, SLF is really a god-tier game.
It's great!
(Outpost for Marsh Journeys Secondale)
Well then.
Secondale is my first town in SLF.
I should first start by getting a new map, some healing items, and equipments.
I need a better main weapon than my Mercenary Twinblades.
If I'm gonna play this game, I wanna get serious!
All to become the top player!
Pfft, what's with him? A half-nude bird man?
Is that a player?
Clearly a joke build.
Eww.
Okay, I'll get some clothes first.
I'll just take the cheapest one for now.
Thank you for your purchase.
Rather than for defense,
I just don't want players to look at me like a freak.
Now for the head...
I'll just stick with what I got.
Huh? A Goblin Hand Axe? Nobody wanna buy this piece of junk.
Well, I expect as much.
Show the lineup you got, then.
Here you go.
Hmm...
None of them stands out.
My Vorpal Choppers are far better.
Well, Vorpal Chopper's a pretty rare find, after all.
Oh, it is, huh?
If you want a better weapon, we will have to craft it.
Oh? Can you do that?
If you have the material.
The marshland on the path from Secondale to the third town, Thirdrema...
The Diremarsh Waste.
There's a spot in here where you can mine minerals.
So he'll craft weapons for me if I bring him some iron ore from here, eh?
One, two...!
(Stone Just a regular stone)
Another stone?! This ain't giving me iron ore at all!
He said I need five or six to craft a good weapon...
But I only got two after swinging a pickaxe for thirty minutes!
And the mud makes it hard to move around.
And this pickaxe I bought to mine this stuff...
It's way too heavy!
(Mud Frog It has habit to cover its body in mud for protection)
What? Don't get in my way, I'm busy.
Okay... I get it.
I was prepared to just leave you be because you're not attacking me...
But if you wanna become "material" that bad,
lemme help you!
How's that, you stupid frog?!
I'll finish you off now!
The Splitblade gear I'm wearing
was made from Mud Frog Skin and it's got slashing resistance.
Which means chances are this frog has resistance to slashes too.
Therefore, the only effective attack is bludgeon!
As such!
Now's time to use this Goblin Hand Axe that's so dull it counts as a bludgeon!
So slow!
I can't run in this damn muck?!
Mud drastically lower players' mobility
and forces them into "Walking" state.
It seems you can't get up from your back easily with that body.
(Dropped Item Mud Frog Skin)
Killing a frog like this won't even improve my mood.
Back to mining for ores...
It sucks, but...
I'm seeing more new players around now.
I bet there will be more of them because of summer break.
Once that happens, it's only a matter of time before the mad scramble for material begin.
To avoid that, I better collect as much as I can now!
O-Oh, you sure have gathered quite a lot in just three hours.
With this many materials, you can make something good, right?
Hang on. I'll get you a list.
Whoa, whoa.
You also got Marshcoffin Fossil?!
Oh, yeah. I did get that odd one.
Then I can craft you this.
Ooh, looks good.
Then I'll go with this one. Two of them.
You got it! I'll make it immediately!
(Weapon Street) (Item Street)
Here ya go. The Marsh Daggers.
Whoa! These blades are god-tier!
Cutting durability reduction by half for a time after a critical hit!
It match my style perfectly!
Come again if you have gathered more material.
It's our job to raise your weapons, too.
Raise?
Those who can use forging magic like me can not only make weapons,
but strengthen them too.
Ooh?
A blacksmith's weapons are kind of like his children.
So instead of calling it "strengthen," I call it "raise."
I see.
I have to say, NPCs here move and talk so well.
They respond accordingly to my words and context.
What kind of AI runs them?
Oh, it's getting dark.
You better not leave the town with that equipment.
Why?
Why? Because a lot of nocturnal monsters are dangerous, that's why.
Oh, so that's how it's set up?
Got it. I'll watch out.
Great. See you again.
That said...
My penalty for death just finally expired.
And I've got some nice info.
All right!
Let's test out my new twinblades and level up
with those "dangerous night monster," then!
Strange...
I've searched all over the beginners' area.
Highest Strength.
Enchant Hellflame.
Apocalypse!
All I can think is that he defeated this snake
without going to a town or dying once and headed for Secondale.
But would a new player do such a thing?
Knowing him... Maybe he did...
(Redcap Goblin)
Not bad!
For now... Let's go through what I've learned so far.
First, monsters definitely change between day and night.
Just like the weapon store guy said,
a lot of nocturnal monsters are vicious and dangerous.
Thanks to that, I get to level up a lot and I learn new skills.
But...
This guy's clearly off the charts!
They must've messed up his balancing!
His movement and speed are way beyond the goblins I fought in the forest!
He's loaded with HP,
but he's also mixing feint in his attacks like it's totally normal!
And worst of all...
Whoa, whoa, whoa!
Calling for allies are supposed to be a weak monsters-only's thing!
Just one is enough of a pain, but this many...
Even if I ran, I dunno if I'd survive...
Run?
Whoa, whoa. What am I saying?
This is exactly the kinda thing I enjoy, isn't it?!
Hah! Is this all you've got?!
Entertain me more!
I underestimated this game.
I've been having fun enough.
A god-tier game isn't so bad.
You could even say I've gotten addicted.
But... this game...
...SLF is a different beast.
On this day... At this moment...
I made contact with the REAL Shangri-La Frontier.
Encountered Unique Monster, Lycagon the Nightslayer.
Unique... Monster?
(World Story Shangri-La Frontier Unique Monster Subjugation Count 0)
(World Story Shangri-La Frontier Progression Rate 0%)
I scream in envy so much it hurts
I cry that this is where it ends
It's going to change, I'll change it
I don't want to think it's impossible anymore
The goal I set up is now the starting line for me to run again
Hit me with that despiar, it excites me
Telling me give it a go
I should be able to go as far as I want, yet I mistake this to be my limit
Is getting an easy win sometimes necessary?
It exhilarate me, telling me to give it a go
I have a dream, so even my complaints is not a joke
I scream in envy so much it hurts
I cry that this is where it ends
It's going to change, I'll change it,
I don't want to think it's impossible anymore
I don't mind breaking if I can move on
I hate giving up even more
I'm going to make it come true, make it a reality, I'm always serious
Make it so I'm only a little away from obtaining it
Let me ace this even if it burns me
SLF Theater!
(#3 Bird Frog Ensemble)
Mini! (#3 Bird Frog Ensemble)
Ribbit.
SLF Theater!
(#4 The Conspicuous Big White Thing)
Mini! (#4 The Conspicuous Big White Thing)
I'll wait Hizutome-kun here.
Oh, a statue?
Oh, what's that?
Keep you waiting!
Sorry for the wait!
E-Eh?
They're using me as a meeting spot?