Pandora of Fantasy And Reality Chapter 103

Orks

Players were advancing into the city.

Inaho was watching the sight of the players passing through the gate.

Lily and Anri were also nearby.

Anri didn’t hide her dissatisfaction.

「Why can’t we enter inside even though it was us who destroyed the gate huh? This is just strange.」

Certainly it was Ponsuke and the orcs who had done the most work.

However Inaho smiled wryly and pressed her left hand on her face.

「We would be able to complain if not because of the trouble we caused to everyone though. Besides, it’s chaotic inside.」

To put it simply, other players didn’t trust Ponsuke’s guild seeing  how they kept doing friendly fire or throwing their own members into  dangerous place.

The clearing this time went better than expected only because of the  orcs’ Berserk skill. However, it was the opinion of the majority that it  would be troublesome if friendly fire occurred inside the city.

Lily shrugged.

「It’s fine isn’t it? We had done our job so we can also expect to get  rewarded. Then, there’s no point with working any more than this.」

At best they would only level up several times even if they worked hard.

If they could only get that much result from consuming a lot of  items, it would be better to not participate from the start, Lily said.

The monsters inside the city were powerful.

They would be able to get a lot of exp from them but, Lily who wasn’t interested with level up didn’t care about it.

「Lily-san, you should be more motivated.」

「Even this is already me being motivated you know?」

Anri was watching the players entering inside the city in high spirits.

「Perhaps we can clear this world with this?」

「This is my first time doing something like capturing a city.」

「Idiot, most of the people here have no experience like that.」

The reward from successfully capturing a city was simply amazing.

The contribution of each guild in capturing the city would be  calculated by AI, so there would be no dissatisfaction between players.

There would also be fighting for rewards after that but, currently  just making a clearing succeeded would become a badge of honor in  Pandora right now.

The going on inside Pandora was gradually gaining greater influence  in the real world. Gaining honor inside Pandora would also have great  meaning outside.

「……They are irritating me somehow.」

Anri muttered that. Inaho looked toward Ponsuke.

He was currently in a berserk state and being surrounded by tamers to control him.

「Well, this isn’t bad considering that we can clear up our bad name at the start.」

They could be designated as malicious guild if they were unlucky.

Even now Ponsuke and His Happy-Go-Lucky Friends were already gathering conflicted gazes from the surrounding.

It would be troubling if any more strange rumors about their guild came out.

(But, everyone isn’t bothered about that.)

This guild was a gathering of very unique members.

Because of that it was also impossible to predict what they would do, but Inaho didn’t hate that kind of guild.

The clearing group entered inside the city, they would fight the boss, and then brought back treasures.

They just needed to wait until that finished. Ponsuke and his guild thought like that.

But, unfortunately the battle still wasn’t over.

Lily lifted up her face.

「Hey, isn’t something a bit strange?」

Anri also lifted up her face.

「It feels like the sky is whirling……right. It’s like when you pulled out the stopper of your bath.」

It was a questionable example, but the cloudy sky was certainly whirling.

Furthermore the vortex was centered on the sky above the center of the city.

Right after that, the frequency of exchange of message suddenly increased.

Defeated players appeared one after another at the outskirts of the city. Their number was extremely numerous.

「W-what is――」

The revived players held their heads in their hands.

「Shit, I thought we would definitely succeed clearing this place this time.」

「This time is hopeless huh. Guess we should collect data for the next time.」

「Aa~aa, even though I had even used my paid vacation for this.」

Inaho approached the revived players and asked them.

「What happened!?」

The players raised their hands in surrender.

「Mission failed. Our affinity with the boss is just bad. Shit, the  previous avatar would still be better than this. We need to rebuild  avatar again now.」

The new avatars’ affinity with the boss was extremely bad.

Because of that a lot of players were starting to give up in clearing the city this time.

Inaho heard an angry yell and turned around. She found it was Anri who yelled.

「Wait, why are you guys giving up that easily even though we had gone through all those troubles!」

A player who seemed to be from a clearing group looked at Anri and shrugged.

「We told you. The boss’s affinity is just too bad. Besides this kind  of failure is normal when trying to capture a city. Do you not get it  because this is your first time?」

It sounded good when he said that the repeated failures would be for the sake of the next time.

But, it also looked like they gave up trying too quickly.

For Inaho and others who participated for the first time, they could  only think that all their efforts until this point were wasted.

Listening to their talk was…….

「What……did, you say……」

The dumbfounded Lighter.

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Lighter was desperately protesting at Ponsuke.

In contrast, Ponsuke who was in a berserk state like an animal was  sitting leisurely on the ground. His figure was like a dog trying to  sleep.

「Ponsuke-kun, at this rate our efforts will all go to waste. No, it  would still be better if it’s just a waste. But from this atmosphere,  our previous effort might not get recognized and they won’t call us to  participate next time.」

That was Lighter’s conclusion from calmly observing the surrounding’s atmosphere. In respond Ponsuke also calmly replied to him.

(I think you should also be that calm regularly Lighter. Or rather,  your way of speaking that made it sound like we will get called next  time too if nothing happened is questionable. If it’s me who is in  charge then I also won’t invite our guild anymore.)

Inside, Ponsuke too didn’t want their efforts to go to waste. But  piling up this kind of failure was just how clearing battle worked.

「Our achievement will be rated highly if the clearing succeed! But  it’s pointless if the clearing failed! Anyway be fired up. You can do it  if it’s you!」

(No, it’s impossible for me if even the clearing group can’t do it.)

Realistically speaking, the problems that Ponsuke and his guild had  caused would be disregarded and they would be rated highly if the  clearing succeeded this time, but failure would make it unsure whether  Ponsuke’s guild would even get invited to join the clearing battle again  next time.

After all other guilds could just copy Ponsuke and the others to prepare their own orcs.

They would think there would be more merits in not getting Ponsuke’s guild as ally, and in reality they were right.

「I’m begging youu~! If we don’t succeed here, we won’t be able to  join the next clearing battle. It’s fine even if we charge in on our  own! At this rate we will just fail which is unacceptable!」

Not only they wouldn’t get any reward, but at this rate they would  have nothing to show from participating in a clearing battle after all  their efforts to come this far. It seemed that Lighter was also holding  discontent about that.

The middle school group was playing on Ponsuke’s back.

Mariela and Alfie were riding on his large horns.

The other orcs were also yawning. No motivation could be seen from them.

(I’m feeling really tired for some reason. It makes me don’t want to  move. Soon the berserk state will get dispelled too and we’ll return  back to fully debuffed orcs. It’s impossible to capture the city this  time I’m telling you.)

「Don’t give uppppp! I’m telling you that if it’s you then you can do it!」

Blaze who had been diligently standing guard near the gate came running at that timing.

「Ponsuke-kun! The clearing group is preparing to leave. It seems they have finished gathering data.」

It seemed the clearing group had gathered as much data as possible  and planned to finish up here so they could start preparing for the next  attempt.

If fact, they were players that had left already.

Lighter fell on his hands and knees in despair.

「……So this is it. All those rewards are flying away. The rewards for capturing a city. All those rare items.」

It looked like a tragic scene, but in the first place only a minority in Ponsuke’s guild would feel moved just from that.

In addition, the members who often got troubled by Lighter were grinning and laughing seeing him.

Blaze looked at Ponsuke.

「Nothing we do will bother the other guilds anymore at this point. If  this time’s attempt is no good anyway then I want to try entering the  city……is that alright?」

Blaze too actually must be wishing to attack inside the city.

Ponsuke slowly stood up so everyone who was playing on his body wouldn’t fall off.

(I guess. It’ll be boring if we just return back like this, so let’s have fun at the end.)

Mariela and Alfie changed ride on Ponsuke and took out their whips.

「So it’s finally our turn. Ponsuke, I’ll steer you this time.」

「Mariela you cheater! Ponsuke, I’ll show you my whipping technique this time.」

Guruguru and Sierra were clinging on Ponsuke’s hair, while Nanako had got down on the ground.

Guruguru looked at the two and said.

「You two Nee-chan are already beyond help huh. Even though you two will look cool as tamer if you simply use music instrument.」

Sierra was looking at Mariela with a conflicted expression.

「……Even though she’s usually so cool.」

Nanako held her ocarina while looking like she wanted to say  something, but she couldn’t say anything because of her reservation  toward Mariela and Alfie.

Lighter yelled.

「Why are you listening to them even though you didn’t listen to me at all!?」

Blaze replied while heading toward his friends.

「Please reflect about your usual behavior. Yosh, everyone, let’s prepare to attack.」

Blaze was excited to give the clearing battle a try because this kind of experience wouldn’t come that often.

Ponsuke too called out to the orcs.

(What about everyone else? I myself am thinking to go.)

The orcs’ representative Prey replied while yawning.

(No, we already have a fulfilling day today. We’re going to just rest  here. We’ll guard the craftsmen and the low leveled members too while  we’re here.)

Even though Alfie and Mariela were participating, the orcs weren’t going to because they were already satisfied apparently.

Ponsuke felt puzzled by that, even so he put Guruguru and Sierra down before heading to the gate.

He gathered his comrades who wanted to enter inside the city.

Lighter who was in despair until just a short while ago also headed  off to somewhere to prepare when he heard that Ponsuke would  participate.

Alfie watched him with exasperation.

「Good grief……Lighter too is a troublesome person.」

Ponsuke swallowed the words You don’t get to say that that he was about to say.

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Ponsuke and co entered inside the city.

「This is amazing.」

A giant boss was showing its appearance from the castle at the center of the city. It had the form of a demon with large wings.

As expected from a place called the World of Lust, the city had a lot of things like obscene statue.

Ponsuke was advancing through such place with Mariela and Alfie taming him.

「Isn’t it horrible that all the monsters here are troublesome?」

Chuckling from Mariela’s words was [Mira], a member of Rook’s guild.

She was a slightly mysterious female player.

「This is normal for a city assault battle. As expected they won’t  attack when we reach the castle but, perhaps it won’t be bad to defeat  these guys for exp and rare drop.」

Ponuske laughed.

(They aren’t suitable for exp farming though. Even so, as expected from a boss, it looks overwhelming……)

Ponsuke realized there was an abnormality in his avatar after he spoke for that much.

His avatar was glaring at the boss. It wouldn’t move just like he wanted even though it was under taming effect.

Rook called out to him.

「Ponsuke, what’s wrong?」

The other guild members who entered inside the city were fighting in another area around this time.

There only them in this place.

(Sorry. I can’t control my avatar suddenly――)

Alfie was panicking.

「No wait. The taming should be working properly――eh?」

Alfie looked at her status screen and her eyes widened at Ponsuke’s status.

The berserk score was going up, making even the taming skill losing effectiveness.

Ponsuke also noticed that and told Mariela and Alfie to get down from his shoulders.

(Everyone, get away from me. My avatar won’t listen to me anymore!)

Perhaps it was some kind of event, or even a bug.

Ponsuke considered various possibilities, but his avatar roared after he saw that the four people had gotten away.

His body became even bigger, and then his appearance was turning to look like demon.

Bat like wings spread out on his back. The avatar was looking irritated at the boss in front of it.

Before, this kind of situation also occurred when entering the system――the new type reactor’s system.

(Even though I’m not doing anything!)

Ponsuke yelled inside his avatar, even so his voice didn’t reach the people around him.

His avatar kicked on the ground and flew to the sky.

The ground that he kicked exploded and smoke rose.

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「Ponsuke!」

Alfie was yelling toward the sky.

Mariela was also the same.

They climbed up to the roof of a nearby building in order to chase after Ponsuke who was heading toward the boss.

Mira talked to Rook while watching that happening.

「It looks like your friend is really special.」

Rook didn’t reply.

「Is it alright that you don’t go to help?」

Rook stayed quiet for a while before he replied to Mira’s question.

「It’s dangerous to approach Ponsuke when he’s in that state. Besides……I want to see how far he can go.」

Mira shrugged and smiled.

「You really trust your friend. I’m jealous with Ponsuke-kun.」

And then Mira got a slight idea about the reason why Ponsuke suddenly ran out of control.

「Is it possible……that you knew this would happen?」

Rook didn’t answer.

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