Shangri-La Frontier - Chapter 247

so nobody noticed the fact that he finally opened his eye, gold must have been the reason he lost it.

This little girl is a clone too, obviously, since MC told us there was no unique scenario that popped up for him to click yes/no to accept the challenge. This is weird because this didn’t apply to the wolf collosos. I suck with names, so you guys have to parse things a bit yourselves. I just find this little development interesting and wanted to share some thought and see if others find it interesting too.

Anyway, this suggests two possibilities, at least: 1. She is not an exact clone and this would mean the real copy can make sub-clones that bypasses the system’s rule but the clone is not as powerful because it can’t be exact and it must not exceed the real, otherwise the creator might get supplanted. Or, and I think this is most likely the case because of the rabbit boss at the end, these collosos know that they are in a video game and are trying to figure out how to break free by taking advantage of the special status of these adventurers, particularly their power of immortality.

This is why the boss setup training scenarios for Sunraku and others to get stronger. It is not them getting strong that they are really after, but they want to study them to see how the system can be broken. And, Sunraku happens to be perfect experimental subject because he is good at breaking games. The wolf must have noticed this at the beginning when Sunraku’s behavior made zero sense with the way he just walked around without armor and choosing an obviously poor states.

However, not all the collosos are doing this. The wolf, rabbit, dragon are for sure. I think the octopus too, thus he setup Rei to be allowed to come into the rabbit kingdom. He must have given Rei a curse and that’s why that weird moment of off-screen conversation when the team was escaping from the underwater castle.

They cyborg didn’t know and I suspect this is because the rest of the collosos that hasn’t shown up are all from the tech-era while the group that is colluding to escape the system are from the ancient-era before this mysterious power engulfed them all as shown in several flash-backs already.

If I have to guess. This world of Shangrila Frontier is actually real. This is probably the same setup as the other manga, “I Killed Millions” which is reaching its concluding arc, by the way, I really wish someone would keep translating it rapido. That story is extremely interesting because I think it is about our world, just like Shangrila might be the same.

Put it this way, if you have read these manga as much as I have had. Skipping all the crazy commercial stuff like the hentais (not all of them are irrelevant by the way, some are actually foreshadowing of real world events), power rangers (not all of them either), or magical girs (not all of them either, especially Madoka, because she was the Magical Girl version of Neo in The Matrix. And her lesbian girlfirend, yes lesbian in shojo which is very regular stuff as well as gay porn, was time traveling to break them out of their curse, just like the boss of the rabbits is trying to break this situation too.

I think “I Killed Millions” is actually talking about how the wars in our world are not actually waged by us, the humans that lives in this world, but rather super-humans from another world. The immortals from another world who come here to wage wars, engage in debauchery, and maybe even have some little experiments with our reality while at it by “breaking the system.”

This applies to Western media as well. The clearest example is West World on HBO and shows like One of Us, Among Us.

I think the boss was one of the original inhabitant and obviously the kingdom of the rabbits is Japan or the Japanese people. The wolf seems to be a loner existence so we have no idea what the wolf represents. The snake can make fake copies or maybe even exact copies, probably represents the Chinese since she hates rabbits, though it seems like the real copy is working with the boss, just like the real relationship between China and Japan, btw. The octopus is the Americans because it seems to like to hand out accolades like a showoff and is still undecided at this point too. Meanwhile the dragon has many drone dragons even independent drones that think they can dethrone the king and he/she “marked” Akane. Notice that the translator made a point to distinguish between Akane’s marking versus that of Sunraku’s curse. She has no restriction on equipment use, he does and he even has debuffs which she does not. This means hers is a blessing and Sunraku’s is a real curse. I think her luck has to do with the “marking.” If that is the case, then I think the Dragon is God. I mean the monotheist God of our world. Those independent thinking drones/clones are the fake gods and the pure drones are the angels who follows the instruction of the one God.

Okay, I think I will leave the significance of the character names for the next time. I just want to bring up that Behamut was invented by “Final Fantasy.” Yes, invented, not part of “our” legends. No where in our world has such a creature existed, at least prior to 1985 when Square Soft introduced this guy as the final boss. He is the destroyer of WORLDS. Not just this one but every ones. And this is consistent with the story of “I Killed Millions” so far too which means that author also is aware of what Behamut represents. In FF4 and later, Behamut got an upgrade that instead of his regular powerful blast as the special move, he can also reverse time. This is not actually executed in the game mechanics but is through the display of the background going from full universe to a single dot as he fires off his special blast since he became a summon after FF4. This would strongly suggest that Behamut was someone who turned side. This would also suggest the Wolf is also someone who turned side because one of famous summons of the FF world is the Wolf God of the Western mythology (probably viking) Frenir, specialty was Moon Howl Slash or something like that, much like the Wolf in this story.

However, it seem like he got taken out in the new PSP update version of FF4 with Cokatrice and so no one remembers anymore I guess.

You can take this as a crazy thought of a rambling otaku on the internet, or you can take this as an interesting “theory,” or you can try to dig deeper and follow the events around carefully and see if there is any truth to any of these craziness. Once you do, you might start thinking like the boss of the rabbits.

As an aside, Behamut exists in every version up to 12 as far as I remember and maybe later. It just you can’t access it directly in some versions even through regular in-game events. You have to “cheat” by breaking the game and access in directly through the codes. I have only tried it for 5 and 8. But, this is just stuff I read back in the days on the internet when Pirate Bay and emulators were still in the control of the hobbyist. Nowadays they are all being controlled by various factions in order to start their new war game and set our world back to the Stone ages like Dr. Stone was trying to warn us. The Moon is the key to stopping these outsiders of our world, according to Dr. Stone.

As an aside, who do you think these manga artists really are? Who is Oda for example? We have no picture of him at all and even the Jump staff knows next to nothing about him. Or the woman behind Demon Slayers? Which by the way is talking about the same thing but set in the distant past, suggesting these immortals have been around, and even teaching the people of our world to be like them, just like what Mu is doing in One Piece. So, who are they? Maybe they are Behamut (Oda) and Frenir (Demon Slayer).