Chapter 850: Is That an Idol, Is That Military Power, Or Is That... a Bug Zapper?

Author's Preface

I have an unbelievably huge mountain of tasks piling up to the point where I seriously have zero time to update, but seeing as we've apparently hit our 5th anniversary, having zero updates is just way too much, so I'll cloud my tea with a BBS chapter. It's spinning around and around, clouding things up as thin as whisked matcha.

'Roar, tea whisk! The vortex of matcha is a metaphor for the galaxy. Sado is Galaxy'. I suddenly thought about that recently while drinking matcha.

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19: Lambda Rum Sake

So, what ended up happening to that Conquista Doll meat-shield tactic guy who was raging on the board earlier?

20: Shut-Outer

Y'know, shields only block the direction you're holding 'em.

21: Mafla

Well duh, if you provoke Player Killers, you're gonna get ganged up on.

22: Punkron Daftrock

The fact that even that kind of guy can form a contract proves that, for better or worse, every player has a chance, but couldn't his contract be forcefully voided or something?

23: Paleo Parade

It wouldn't have rubbed people the wrong way if he just said he was building his Conquista Doll as a hardcore tank, but he had to go and bait people with shit like 'Conquista Dolls taking damage is just too much for me~'...

24: Gamot

But people who show allergic reactions to putting Conquista Dolls on the battlefield can be pretty obnoxious sometimes too.

Especially the guys who go 'You piece of shit!' the moment a Conquista Doll takes even a scratch, even though their fundamental concept is basically being an NPC party member.

25: Gabry Fang

It all depends on whether you view them as an idol character or a battle android.

26: Damrock Beaver

Well, there are also stories of people who contracted with Elma-types getting approached for RMT.

27: Shut-Outer

That's a foreign RMT company, right? Japanese RMT sellers probably understand that if they try RMT in ShanFro, they'll get banned by Occult Search.

Besides, transferring a Conquista Doll is impossible anyway.

28: Pemuterio

So in the end, the Elma-type's preference is a low-karma vanguard attacker that charges in aggressively, right?

29: Mafla

Basically, you can pull it off if you become a discount Tsuchinoko-san.

30: Touyatsuki

Apparently you didn't have to strip though!!

31: Lambda Rum Sake

The Elma-type's preferences were a total rage-inducing issue for Pure Mages, huh.

32: Punkron Daftrock

I mean, we have Levi/Behe, so just respec your stats, change to a Magic Swordsman or a Physical Attacker, and propose to an Elma-type.

33: Gamot

Honestly, that horde of half-naked players swarming the Elma-type that came to the frontline base to do idol activities was creepy as hell, no joke.

34: Paleo Parade

Watching all of them accidentally call her Saina-chan and immediately get rejected simultaneously made for great drinking-snack material.

35: Fan-fa-ni-do-l

Even if they share the same face, they each possess their own individual identity that should be respected. Conflating them with Saina-chan is incredibly disrespectful.

36: Sergeant Baking Soda

To begin with, compared to Saina from that video, the other Conquista Dolls' emotions are stiff, right?

Is Saina-chan the only one who's somehow special?

37: Mafla

Because the primary person of interest is an unidentified cryptid, the mysteries only keep swelling.

38: Pemuterio

Fan-san's Japanese has gotten genuinely good......

The fact that Conquista Dolls have high-firepower armaments that they won't give permission to use unless it's against a formidable foe is just too much of a romance, it makes me wanna challenge strong enemies~

39: Gabry Fang

Well, we've gotten more high-difficulty content like Raids and Exordinaries recently, yeah.

Though it's not exactly a guaranteed one-hit kill like they make it out to be.

40: Damrock Beaver

If you consider it equivalent to one or two fully-chanted attack spells, it's more than enough as a damage source.

41: Lambda Rum Sake

In the end, it's rough that the route to the Doll Front still isn't stable.

42: Nun

Even if you use the Elf city as a midpoint base, it's still slightly too far.

And it's just plain easy to get lost.

43: Gamot

Conquista Doll high-class armaments are basically broad, unwieldy, and massive firepower, so unless someone other than the Conquista Doll manages the aggro, they pretty much won't hit or even get permission to fire~

But a tactic where two or more Conquista Dolls constantly switch off aggro management and attacker roles with each other works incredibly well. And since there are two players, it's basically a 4-man co-op play.

44: Pemuterio

It's well-balanced that the players have to put their bodies on the line if they expect firepower from their Conquista Dolls.

45: Sazare Stone

Does anyone know which Conquista Doll is suited for Pure Mages? The wiki is way too heavy on my connection and I couldn't reach the relevant page.

46: Punkron Daftrock

>>36

Tsuchinoko-san apparently cleared both the Leviathan and the Behemoth, so maybe there's some kind of Conquista Doll event?

47: Zadia

Even if you say 'suited for Pure Mages', it branches out based on high or low karma, offensive vs buff/debuff vs recovery, so all I can say is do your best to load the wiki.

48: Cyclino

The Library clan reached the Conquista Doll headquarters so they posted a theory-crafting article, but it seems that if you aren't strong enough to operate solo on the New Continent to some extent, they won't even contract with you in the first place.

49: Nun

No plebs allowed. The parasite players wept.

50: Lambda Rum Sake

People regularly post recruitment for Sea of Trees conquest parties heading to the Doll Front anyway, so even if your solo performance is low, as long as you can fulfill a minimum role, it's not that hard......... but well, if you pull a bad lottery ticket, the Sea of Trees will just casually wipe your whole squad.

51: Mafla

There's a rumor going around that someone defeated Scar-red, is that true?

52: Gamot

Seems true. Nobody can find it no matter where they search, and there are no longer any traces of scorch marks being left behind, so unless it moved from the Sea of Trees to a different area, it's pretty certain someone took it down.

53: Zadia

Well, Scar-dead still seems to be alive and kicking though. Also, didn't another Exordinary spawn recently?

54: Punkron Daftrock

You talking about the ultimate bullshit boss, the Perfect Shitty Monster, the one rumored to be Usurper Dragon Lv.MAX, Three-Faced Six-Armed-kun?

55: Rondi

Three-Faced Six-Armed is legitimately bad news. It's worse than Scar-red. It's not something a single party can beat.

If there's any saving grace, it only comes down to the ground about three times a day, so the encounter rate is low in the afternoon or middle of the night. If you run into it and catch aggro, your whole squad will wipe before you can even finish writing your will.

56: Sergeant Baking Soda

Is that the wyvern-like thing with three heads and six wings I see flying around every now and then?

57: Touyatsuki

Yeah, that's it. The Exordinary of the Draculus Dinocoatl.

Written as 'Three Faces, Six Arms' but pronounced 'Asuraphim', a guy with an edgy name that tries to combine the best parts of an angel and an Asura.

Thanks to that guy, the difficulty of moving through the treetops to avoid enemies skyrocketed like crazy.

58: Damrock Beaver

If you wanna talk about Exordinaries, go to the Unprecedented Monster Discovery Board.

59: Nun

Surprise surprise, it actually isn't irrelevant to this matchmaking thread.

That trash angel-pterodactyl prioritizes shooting down anything that flies, but Conquista Dolls usually fly in when coming to the frontline base. Meaning...

60: Fan-fa-ni-do-l

Are you saying the Conquista Dolls are falling victim to it? That is a completely unforgivable reality.

60: Nun

Furthermore, since hunting an Exordinary yields skills PLUS a favorable impression with the Conquista Dolls, people are currently forming a massive subjugation squad.

61: Shut-Outer

I feel like I've seen this flow somewhere before.

62: Mafla

There was a massive joint party called the Scar-red Subjugation Squad.........

63: Lambda Rum Sake

That total wipeout via napalm bombing was a terrible tragedy, wasn't it.

64: Gamot

No, but with the current player levels, doesn't it seem kinda doable? The sky is no longer exclusively reserved for acrobatic warriors forcing themselves to fly via pure jumping power or mages barely hovering, and we have Conquista Dolls now too.

65: Nun

Six wings functioning as integrated close and long-range offense and defense, a three-headed pecking attack that functions like it has 3 actions per turn, plus they have fangs so they'll bite you, AND with the flight capability to crash through giant trees while charging.

It'd honestly be better if it just attacked the frontline base so we could fight it with sheer numbers.

66: Champagne Showerhead

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67: Sergeant Baking Soda

Wait, do Conquista Dolls take up a party slot?

68: Pemuterio

They do.

69: Lambda Rum Sake

>>66

Huh?????

70: Rondi

Whoa.

71: Touyatsuki

Maid outfit Elma-type???

72: Punkron Daftrock

Man, it really is all about Elma-types, isn't it.

73: Mafla

Wait, do Conquista Dolls do such smug curtsies?

74: Pemuterio

No, there's only one smug, intelligence Elma-type in this entire world.........!!

75: Champagne Showerhead

Tsuchinoko-san just popped up on the Old Continent to show off Maid Saina, real-time, right here, right now.

76: Gabry Fang

Huuuuuuuuuuuuh?

I thought if I camped out on the New Continent I might spot him at least once, but this guy's footwork is so light he's jumping between continents?!

77: Fan-fa-ni-do-l

I've never regretted my lack of vocabulary to express this magnificence more than I do today.

Also, someone please take me to the Old Continent.

78: Nun

Wait wait wait wait hold up, hold up.

79: Sazare Stone

Maid outfit Saina-chan is moving around in present continuous tense......? Insane.

80: Paleo Parade

Wait, I had a hunch so I logged out to check, and Tsuchinoko-san is currently streaming!!

No matter what I do I can't reach the Old Continent right now, so I'm gonna watch the stream.

81: Rondi

That's the depths of the Canyon of Ancient Souls! The fact that it's within running distance is just the absolute best, I'm gonna screenshot the hell out of raw, live Saina-chan!!

82: Pemuterio

More importantly, what the hell is Tsuchinoko-san doing streaming and showing off Saina like this? I thought that guy was the type who hated standing in the spotlight.

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Author's Afterword

Draculus Dinocoatl "Three-Faced Six-ArmedAsuraphim"

Basically King Ghid*rah and basically R*dan. In other words, a King R*dan with six wings and three heads.

A special variant of the Draculus Dinocoatl, an Exordinary Monster that was never meant to see the light of day. A normal Dinocoatl is a dinosaur-type monster closer to a wyvern with two heads and one pair of wings. However, "Asuraphim" isn't strictly a single Dinocoatl that mutated; it is speculated to be a miraculously surviving entity born from multiple Dinocoatls fused together from birth.

A so-called conjoined twin, but the three heads sometimes exhibit behavior suggesting they each possess individual wills. Or perhaps it is an entity where triplet Dinocoatls merged into a single body.

In addition to a relentless onslaught driven by extremely high coordination between the three heads—which sets it apart from the monotonous movements of the standard species—it boasts an abnormal level of durability for a pterosaur-type monster, taking almost no damage even when smashing into massive trees.

And the crowning feature is its defense, shutting out enemy attacks by covering its body with its scale-wing membranes that combine both hardness and flexibility as a shield. Conversely, it uses its flight propulsion to slam its wings directly into enemies, acting as a slashing charge attack... In summary, it is a new powerhouse aiming for the apex predator seat of the Sea of Trees, combining extremely high combat capabilities with flight capabilities.

Honestly, to spoil the trick, it's quadruplets merged into a single entity. As a fundamental trait of the Dinocoatl, its brain is located in its torso, not its head. Because this is a state where the brains of four individuals have been clumped together, it gained a massive body comparable to the Color Dragons and absurd combat power.

Each of them is in charge of one head, while the remaining brain is dedicated entirely to controlling the wings.

As for its combat power you're all wondering about, it's roughly on par with Scar-dead and Scar-red. Physical specs-wise, the Scar duo is superior, but its flight capabilities more than make up for that gap, which is absolutely insane. Its weakness is its back. The wing joints don't bend that far back, so you can knock it to the ground by getting above it and hammering it with massive firepower...... but getting on the back of a a giant beast spinning and gyrating wildly, swinging around three independently moving heads and six wings is a monumental task. Stop doing barrel rolls while charging!