Manuke FPS Chapter 210

Published at 8th of May 2023 04:13:29 PM

The 30m long and 3m in diameter Lambton worm was the labyrinth master of this Mine labyrinth.

How long has it been since I started fighting this guy? 30 minutes? An hour? Maybe longer…

Every time I destroyed its head, it would simply detach the damaged head and regrow a new one. All I achieved was shortening the lambton worm’s total length. I have gone through all of my special grenades and extra magazines. All I had left in the Phase Rifle was only enough for one full-charged shot. After that is used up, I’ll only have the grenade ax to use as a melee weapon.

It would’ve been nice if I could summon a supply BOX and replenish my loadout, but the lambton worm, seemingly having learned about it, never let me summon it successfully. I couldn’t afford to use my last shot carelessly. Whenever I tried to summon a support weapon at a distance, the worm would interrupt it, canceling the summon before it could be completed.

Too slow――and too late!

When VMB was a game, it was natural to hide behind a shield and summon it during the support fire from friends. However, I am the only one in this world. Up to this point, we have been replenishing during battles with monsters and demihumans, but the limits have been revealed in this important battle.

Perhaps noticing I was slowing down, the lambton worm increased its speed in approaching me, opening its maw wide. Are you going to swallow me from the front…?

The supply BOX/ summoning of support weapons could be hindered――I was made to understand the reality of that. Faster, faster! Be there the moment I asked for it! The screen displayed on the screen monitor of the TSS tactical support system scrolled faster than ever before――still too slow.

This isn’t yet the speed I wanted.

Faster-more accurately-the most basic and most important thing to win in FPS. Reacting to and shooting 1 pixel of the enemy on screen in 0.1 seconds. The experience as an FPS player who has repeated thousands and tens of thousands is appealing.

And I wish I had it right now.

It catches things outside of the consciousness of recognizing, and unconsciously performs the fine movement of pulling the trigger with the mouse. This fundamental process never changes when you fall into this world. If VRFPS called VMB is the manifestation of the game system in this world!

What I want is――

“Right now.”

The moment I muttered, an unused energy pack was held in my hand. And I realized. This body, which continues to assimilate with the VMB system, has gone one step further. I replaced the energy pack and shot a fully charged shot from the Phase Rifle into the Lambton Worm that was approaching in front of you――the impact caused it to divert to the side of me.

As the giant body of the lambton worm passed by my side, I reached out with my left hand.

A slight light twinkles in his hand. And what I had in my hand after the giant had passed was a small square detonator with a lever. Yes――it is a detonator to detonate the C4 bomb I attached to the Lambton Worm’s giant body as it passed by me. 

“This party is about to end.”

Pulling the lever, the C4s attached to the Lambton Worm’s giant explode all at once with a roaring sound. Due to the momentum of the explosives stuck side by side in one direction, the giant lambton worm was launched into the air like a jet with a booster.

“Ｇｕｏｏｏｏｏｏ ! !”

The rock shell that covered the giant body was peeled off, and the Lambton Worm’s entire body was exposed. Watching the giant worm fly in midair, I now have a good look at its entire body… Then I noticed――there was a human-like bump around the center of the worm’s body. It’s hard to perceive normally with all the black shells――but the bulge would glow dull red on occasion.

“There!”

Jonah’s skeleton face would probably look as if he was groaning right now. In his left hand, slowly raised toward the sky――was the M202A1, appearing almost instantly. The aim was the core of the Lambton Worm that glows red. I accurately aimed at the core of the giant that begins to descend――and pulled the trigger.

Deviation shooting that calculated the descending speed of the giant body and the travel speed of the 66m incendiary rocket accurately landed on the core. The movement that happened due to the momentum of the explosion was further calculated, and the second-third-fourth shots landed one after another.

The Lambton Worm crashed with a roar and billowing flame. A big tremor ran through the room along with sand and smoke, but my sound-collecting sensor heard the sound of digging soil.

Did it escape to the ground as it landed? No, the sound is approaching me.

It may have noticed the change in me. It probably intended to end this battle without letting itself be hit by long-range weapons. In that case, I’ll meet it with the biggest attack I have fitting for the finale. I know where to aim already.

Its rock armor is no longer effective.

Digging into the ground wouldn’t hide it anymore.

You can’t hide your weak point from me.

I’ll pull it out from its hideout, turn it over, destroy its core, and end this battle.

As it dug into the ground to approach me, I also started running toward the lambton worm. In the meantime, I scrolled through the monitor in my vision, stopping at the screen to purchase the support weapons.

It should be here.

A stage object car that can be operated only in PvE mode of VMB, similar to the Continental motorhome. A collector’s item that can only be purchased by those who have completed the highest difficulty missions with good results. There it is――and the CP price is… one, ten, hundred, thousand, ten thousand――one billion?!

The purchase would actually consume 80% of my current CP. Through converting non-elemental magic stones, I was able to gather almost double the amount of CP I’ve hoarded in the three years of me playing the game in my original world. Such an extremely expensive vehicle――I’ve never heard of something this expensive ever being purchased in VMB, and I never saw anyone owning this vehicle either. Was it really this expensive back then…?

I had the right to buy it, but I didn’t confirm it because I wasn’t interested in the vehicle itself and had no use for it. Without all the commercial activities I did so far, I couldn’t buy it anyway. I was surprised at the amount of CP consumed, but I did not hesitate to purchase it. I still have some left, and I have more than enough income. I confirmed the purchase and switched to the garage. 

Then I made a huge jump forward.

There’s no summoning hassle anymore. The moment I willed it, it would appear almost instantly. Many particles of light appeared around me who jumped, and their brilliance illuminated the desolate land――the next moment, a huge shadow covered the wilderness. At the same time, the Lambton Worm appeared from the ground――wearing a heavily armored shell that emphasizes defense more than ever, and screams and swells while blowing off the ground. 

“ＧｕＷｏｏ―”

However, the angry roar stopped upon it recognizing the existence larger than itself sitting in front of it.. What I purchased with such an exorbitant amount of CP was the world’s largest construction machine Bagger 293.

This construction machine, called a bucket wheel excavator, is a self-propelled machine that operates in open-pit mining and coal mining and has a huge wheel with multiple huge mining buckets attached to the end of a long arm. The topsoil is scraped while rotating the wheel, and it is carried by a belt conveyor that passes through the arm. Of course, since it is a mobile vehicle, it can also move by itself using the huge caterpillar tracks at the bottom of the car body.

This Bagger 293 is said to be the largest self-propelled machine in human history, with a total length of 225 m, a total height of 93 m, and a total weight of 1420 tons. The bucket wheel that rotates at the tip of the arm alone has a diameter of 21 m or more. With such a huge machine, the actual speed is only about 10 meter/min, but this Bagger 293 is different from the real world’s Bagger 293.

VMB balancing allows this vehicle to be operated by a single player, and its arm turning and moving speed has been adjusted to avoid frustration. 

I was already sitting in the cockpit next to the Bagger 293 arm, holding the two control sticks. In front of me, the big mouth of Lambton Worm wriggled as if confused, and its movement had stopped completely.

I’m not stupid enough to miss that opportunity.

I started up the bucket wheel and swiveled the arm to knock down the Lambton Worm from the side.

Although it is a rough maneuvering method and usage, there is no concept of partial destruction of details in VMB mobile vehicles that have durability values. There are indeed damaged graphics on tires and glass that have a destruction judgment, which may affect the behavior, but all other than that are managed by numerical values as parameters―― the durability value.

The wirings won’t tear――the frame won’t distort――and it will function at full capacity until the durability value reaches zero.

The Lambton Worm that was beaten down from the side was struck with enough force to break the wilderness, and the heavily armored shell was shattered into pieces. I increased the rotation speed of the bucket wheel, and first crushed the top of the head so that it could not escape to the ground.

As it was, the bucket wheel was used to scrape off the debris of the rock shell and the black shell underneath and squeezed the top of the head.

The screaming of Lambton Worm was drowned out by the Bagger 293’s engine noise that echoes low without stopping. The worm started to fight back――but I quickly control the arm that is “only” 30m long and slammed it down with the bucket wheel. The super-heavy blow broke through the shell, but the wheel bucket stopped spinning when it bit into the flesh.

The lambton worm is capable of detaching the damaged part and replacing its lost body part. The only way to defeat it is by destroying the core hidden underground. To do this――first, while holding down the rampaging torso, I controlled the arm to drag the entire torso to the ground.

I remembered the position of the core, but the torso that I pulled out had a mark that it didn’t want to expose. I think it felt a great deal of fear of being targeted there. The lower abdomen, which was thickly covered as if to say that this is an important place, was bulging so round that it was conspicuous.

Useless effort…

This might be the first time I operate the Bagger 293, but I am somehow able to control it so proficiently. This may also be the effect of assimilation.

The huge bucket wheel smashed the core violently without any deviation, and while rotating, scraped off the thick protection. In a few seconds, the bucket reached the nucleus and core, a large magic stone that glowed red.

At that moment, the lambton worm’s entire body vibrated as if struck by lightning, and then turned into a porous gray stone that let out black smoke――it disappeared from the throne room like sand flying in the wind.

Chapter end