Chapter 582: A Gentle Prison Named Entertainment

Author's Preface

I want to talk about ShanFro!!

Even though I'm the author!!! Why can't I talk about it!!!

So, this is a BBS chapter, and I've forgotten how long it's been since the last one. This time, prioritizing speed, I came up with all the names myself, so sorry about that.

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【Leviathan】 Third Shell Layer Strategy Board Part 8 【Can play for a lifetime】

214 Jack the Pot:

What's crazy is that you could seriously play in the Third Shell Layer for a lifetime. PhyloGeo is way too much fun.

215 Penniless Penguin:

Score! I don't have enough Score! The Second Shell Layer's efficiency is too bad!!

216 Gamble Bee:

The methods to get to the Fourth Shell Layer aren't realistic at all, so just endure it by beating up the meat!

By the way, does anyone have the Secret Rare of the Mud Digger? I can offer the Overdress Parts Left Arm for it.

217 Sober Shirasu:

It's turning into some sort of post-apocalyptic world of gambling and entertainment...

218 Bentoven:

I can offer the Mud Digger Sec-Rare, but I'd like to negotiate if you also have the Overdress Parts Right Arm.

219 Sunday Parfait:

Go to the PhyloGeo thread, you card nerds.

220 Gamble Bee:

Sorry. Bentoven-san, can we meet in the Leviathan? Trading is banned in the Third Shell Layer, so I want to meet in the Second Layer.

221 Bentoven:

Understood. I'll be waiting in front of the teleporter.

222 Sober Shirasu:

Real talk, has anyone found a way to get to the Fourth Shell Layer?

223 Shiratama:

If you're talking about Human Roulette, nobody's cleared it yet. I have absolutely no idea how to stop that murder wheel.

224 Blade of the Poor 2:

This is the PhyloGeo Tower. Renga, who had made it up to the 48th floor, got meta'd by a Usurper Dragon Deck and has plummeted all the way back down to the 1st floor, over.

225 Millionaire A:

【Breaking News】 The Usurper Dragon Deck can steal control of Hand-Activated Spell Phenomenon cards.

226 Darumacho:

That's so nasty I actually laughed out loud.

227 Sunday Parfait:

So it's a hard counter to strong spell-spamming decks... Isn't Renga's deck a continuous evolution line centered around "Specialized Escape for Survival"? That's basically his natural enemy.

228 Ensutou Reskyu:

As expected, the current meta is all about power-focused shortest evolutions.

229 Millionaire A:

By the way, the gatekeeper on the 47th floor uses the "Stagnating Line".

230 Ensutou Reskyu:

Stop killing Strongest Species decks with a single card!!!!!!

231 Numaa-maid:

I mean, from floor 40 onwards, it's nothing but meta decks, so the fact that Renga made it to the 48th floor is amazing on its own. I couldn't see any way to win against the Sacrifice Evolution user on the 41st floor.

232 Renga:

That deck completely stops working if you use a single copy of "Ideal Environment", so even if it's just a one-off in your deck, you can win if you hold out until you draw it in your opening hand.

233 Darumacho:

Rengaaaa! Share your deck recipe with us!!

234 Penniless Penguin:

If you fell all the way back to the 1st floor, does that mean you didn't pay the floor retention fee? Why?

235 Renga:

Because I saved up 30 million Score! You think I'm gonna cough up 5 million Score just to save my progress?! I'm gonna spend my 30 million Score to buy the True Rare of "Extreme Environmental Aptitude"!!

236 Money Specter:

Everyone's just Score! Score! Score!

237 Jack the Pot:

It's like watching innocent sheep who grew up grazing on a fantasy civilization plummet into becoming the livestock of capitalism.

238 Sober Shirasu:

I really don't want to hear that from you guys.

239 Darumacho:

Judging by your names, you guys are on the capitalist side, right?

240 Balloonia:

I literally saw you the other day gripping your betting ticket and screaming at the Competitive Mech-Beast Race.

241 Million Mamba:

By the other day, you mean the Cubemen Race? That was amazing. The first-place finisher was such a huge dark horse, the crowd went absolutely wild.

242 Money Specter:

I used to wonder what was so fun about horse racing where all the racers are robots, but just adding the "interference allowed" rule made it so addicting. I never expected to get this hooked.

243 Millionaire A:

People having dead-serious conversations like, "I heard Number 8 got a brand-new Gatling gun today, so they might be a good pick..." is hilarious, to say the least.

244 Renga:

Seeing slaughter weapons getting degraded into pure entertainment really gives off that post-apocalyptic end-of-the-century vibe.

245 Miriko:

Tactical Mech-Beasts definitely have something to do with those things flying around during the Siegwurm battle, so I've been pressing Isana-chan about it, but it sucks because she keeps demanding an Amberjack Pass.

246 Blade of the Poor 2:

And that brings us back to "let us go to the next Shell Layer so we can upgrade our Amberjack Pass."

247 Sober Shirasu:

You can go to the next one if you hit the jackpot on the absolutely unstoppable Human Roulette.

248 Virgo:

It's great seeing pitiful victims slip and smash their faces right into the roulette, right? No, it's not.

249 Blade of the Poor 2:

No way, no matter how you look at it, that thing's just a convenient execution device. Playing card games is way gentler on the mental health.

250 Torque:

PhyloGeo tends to make you pretty hot-headed too, though.

251 Renga:

Honestly, I nearly lost my temper multiple times on the 45th floor.

252 Penniless Penguin:

Ah, the rumored super-fast aggro? Doesn't it set up a Strongest Species on turn 2?

253 Renga:

It's turn 1.

254 Torque:

Eh?

255 Money Specter:

It's been confirmed that if they go second, they'll drop a Strongest Species on turn 1.

256 Renga:

You actually have a better chance of winning by letting them go first, rather than banking on the probability of drawing "Diversity Violence" when you go first.

Man, it really sucks that the card pool is determined individually for each player based on their own progress.

257 Sober Shirasu:

That's probably what True Rares are for, but damn, they're expensive.

258 Darumacho:

No, if you just leave the Leviathan and encounter new monsters, your pool expands for free, right?

It's way faster than paying a huge amount of money to expand your card pool with True Rares.

259 Time Card:

Only people who haven't been ambush-ganked by the "Scar-red" can say that so casually. Standard reply.

260 Jack the Pot:

That thing is seriously terrifying. I heard a low rumbling growl, and the next thing I knew, a flamethrower blew right through the sea of trees and roasted me. I literally screamed in real life.

261 Yashirobird:

Does anyone know an efficient way to spin the Treegram Slot?

262 Penniless Penguin:

That one really sells you a dream, doesn't it? Even though the reality is just a brutal RNG game layering probability theory on top of probability theory on top of probability theory.

263 Sober Shirasu:

I heard there's a player who somehow managed to make it all the way to the desert, only to get eaten by a worm.

264 Sandwich:

I wonder if the game's design is basically telling us, "You can only properly challenge other areas once you can effortlessly traverse the sea of trees."

265 Yashirobird:

I want the Treegram Slot's Jackpot reward so bad...

266 Jack the Pot:

Did someone call me?

267 Torque:

You mean that LMG with the incredibly bad taste in design?

268 Virgo:

>>266

Not you, sit down.

269 Miriko:

Unlike the peashooters you can get in the First and Second Shell Layers, Isana-chan personally guaranteed its firepower. Just knowing it's functionally equivalent to an Amberjack Pass 5 is enough to make me forgive that tacky gold paint job.

270 Yashirobird:

Exactly.

It's not like the firearms you can buy at the vending machines are weak, but against monsters, the best they can do is make them flinch.

271 Time Card:

Well, obviously that's going to happen when your target practice dummies are those dinosaurs.

272 Colson:

Summary of the information subtly gathered from our Pit Boss, Isana-chan. Standard repost.

・There are multiple routes to get from the Third Shell Layer "Playboard" to the Fourth Shell Layer "Machine Hut".

・Within the currently known scope:

Hit the jackpot on Human Roulette (You become the ball yourself and dive into your target number on a roulette wheel spinning at blistering speeds).

Break through the 99th floor of the survival tower in the Leviathan's internal Trading Card Game, "Phylogenetic Geoglyph".

Hit the Grand Jackpot on the Treegram Slot (All five slots hitting the jackpot simultaneously).

Obtain a Perfect Million-Yen Ticket in the Competitive Mech-Beast Race (Correctly guessing the exact placements from 1st to 9th place).

Score a High Score of 9999 points on the Gravity Board (Apparently this means you have to physically fly to the next Shell Layer).

273 Shiratama:

Thanks for the repost.

Every time I look at it, I can't help but suspect they have absolutely no intention of letting us clear this.

274 Darumacho:

It just goes to show how few players have actually made it to the Third Layer.

275 Penniless Penguin:

Then, as a senior who made it to the Third Shell Layer, you should go help out your juniors suffering in the Second Shell Layer.

276 Darumacho:

No way, I don't want to fight that intellectual piece of meat again.

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Author's Afterword

Isana-chan never explicitly said that you had to absolutely obey the rules of the games.