Terror Infinity Side B

Chapter 23 - 2, BTOOOM Intermission

When I heard this, I could only say that I was amazed, and everyone else was as taken back as well. Saki had deduced all of this with so little information. Not even Aqua our veteran Player had thought of all of this.

I am unsure if we can make magic weapons or tools like Magic Attack scrolls, but Sci-fi weapons are just advancements of our real world technology, despite the insanity of some, but in the end they are within the realm of possibility of mankind one day creating them.

This kind of ability... You can only describe her as non-human and I am glad that she is on our side. If she was an enemy and you gave her access to this room then she would become the wors opponent to face.

Saki: So these twenty people should include all kinds of talents. I have been pondering how God chooses people for the missions. Other than being disappointed at the real world, God can actually also choose people with talents at every field. Yet there are people from young to old, people with real talents to housewives. God actually doesn’t know who’s more suitable for missions. That’s why it selected people of all kinds and then let them go through natural selection. Perhaps this is the intention behind having newbies every time. So in order to let those people survive, the first human creation must not go to waste. A special agent bodyguard that’s twice as strong as a normal person, I don’t have to tell you how useful he can be in Sci-fi missions right? This is the first thing I wanted to say. If I die in the next mission, then when newbies join in the future, if they are craftsmen or worked in other non laborious careers, you can tell them the correct usage of the first human creation. And not creating woman for sex, but to survive.

Misaki was about to lose his temper again after being told over and over that he made his girlfriend Mokoto for just sex, but I intervened.

Shin: Perhaps you are right, but I don’t agree that creating a woman you could love will be useless in for surviving these missions. Mental support tends to be more useful than physical support. And God never stated the usage of the first human creation. In other words, this choice has infinite possibilities, no one can say with certainty that their hypothesis are correct, but I will tell the future newbie what you have found out so that they can survive their next trial.

Saki: Long as those who survive the next mission does so. By the way... Why haven't you used your free human creation for a woman for sex.

Misaki: They are not for sex!

Shin: Calm down Misaki. Anyways, as for me it wasn't for any great reason like not looking at women as things... I just couldn't decide on which anime heroine to create first.

Saki:

Hikari:

Aqua:

Shin: What? I'm getting closer to a decision.

Aqua: Shin, just shut up.

Shin: ...

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Kampa: What’s the second thing that you found wrong?

Saki actually smiled to everyone’s surprise. She took out seven printed documents then handed them out to us all to look at.

Saki: These are the things you can exchange from God that I categorized. There are four categories. I wrote down the descriptions and functions of some practical items from low levels to high levels. Of course, some functions are just my guesses. This is the second thing, organize the exchange system. So we can know what we can exchange and better prepare for upcoming situations. This is also another speculation that I have. Perhaps we don’t need to appear in missions with high death rates. God’s probably wants us to experience dangerous situations and force us to evolve in danger. It’s only because manga, anime and novels with a high death count are the most dangerous, that’s why we will be experiencing a lot of them.

Shin: You mean like in BTOOOM! God has the power to change the settings around, so we could end up in a manga that didn't have a high death rate, but realistically should have.

Saki: Bleach or Naruto would be good examples. The fighting is very fierce and some people did die, but I was always under the impression that the authors were far too afraid to kill off their characters for whatever reason ( They were popular so magazines didn't want them dying or the author would hesitate to do so ).

Shin: Ah, I know what you mean. In bleach so many characters should have died in in the Aizen/soul society war and in Naruto only villains were allowed to die ( Except like Neji and the Third Hokage ).

Saki: That is right. God might make a story that in real life to suit younger viewers, change a single detail and throw us into a modified plot. Also, we should prepare for not just supernatural and magic stories, but sci-fi ones as well. Btooom didn't really go that far with just BIMs, but a real sci-fi story could wipe us out if we lack heavy firearms.

Hikari: Like what?

Shuai: Ghost in Shell, Cowboy Bebop, Psycho Pass, Blue Gender, Edge of Tomorrow, World Trigger ( Trigger ON! ), Zetman, Rockman, Mass Effect, Mahouka koukou no rettousei ( Love the light novel, but it lacked shounen elements and the MC was too OP in a world were effort meant very little and enemies never thought outside the box/Lacked a Kiritsugu Emiya view on how to face magicians. Could call it sci-fi since magic is just another science in that universe, but is a stretch ), Casshern Sins, Gantz, God Eater, Halo and some of the Final Fantasy Games ( A fantasy based on reality ).

Shin: I geuss we can count the Eva and Gunfam series out as they are too out there with mechas and all.

Saki: I hope so. Even if there is a new type enhancement here, those stories would require a whole different set of skills to survive. Of course God probably won’t put us in a truly hopeless situation. But to prevent this from happening, I suggest that we equip ourselves with three weapons. Close combat weapon, rapid fire weapon, and heavy firearm.

We were then made to look at Saki's handout.

Saki: For close combat weapons, I suggest magical weapons. To be honest, I don’t like to watch supernatural horror manga, anime, novels and I especially not into video games or movies. Bcause they have no scientific basis, I won't waste my brain cells on things that can’t be explained. But the problem now is we are very likely going to face such magical and paranormal enemies on our missions. And in order to survive through them, I suggest a magical close combat weapon, that can both deal with normal life forms and also supernatural beings. Shin, you did very well on this point with the Na Ring. It lacks a effect on normal opponents and wasn't much use in Btooom, but your ring included support ability of a dimensional bag from games and can attack supernatural opponents as well. Given your physical fitness, this is almost a perfect choice, so you should continue down the close combat martial arts route that have been. You also have a type of Kagune that is useful in CQC and mid range combat. You should have a lot of points, so you should get a powerful Sci-fi weapon this time around or a magic weapon useful against any kind of opponent.

Shin: Thanks for the advice. I have been feeling my limitations in the last mission. I'll look into it.

Saki: Good. Now, rapid fire weapons are and should be used against enemies in masses, like zombies and your basic minion type monsters, goblins and skeletons that you see in games. For heavy firearms, I suggest Kampa get the M41A Pulse Rifle that has both the advantages of rapid fire and destructive power. The M41A Pulse Rifle is a pulse-action, air-cooled, selective fire assault rifle chambered for10×24mm Caseless ammunition, and has an attached grenade launcher, and if you are skilled enough to not get caught up in the blast you will become a force to be reckon with. This weapon is secretly in testing stage in the real world, but no one has come close to a finished model to my knowledge, yet God already has the finished product, but I wouldn't suggest getting anything too expensive since you also need to increase your stats. No matter what the great weapon you have there is no point if you get killed easily, so increase your Muscle Density and Reaction Speed if you can.

Kampa: Alright.

Saki: Ok then. Now, as for everyone else, I don’t suggest you buy any heavy firearms. Because your ability in handling weapons are horrible with the exception of Aqua with military training and Hikari who has talent with shooting. Aqua has her Auto 9 Robo Cop gun with infinite Ammo, so she is fine, but for Hikari, I wouldn't suggest that you become a gunner.

Hikari: Why is that?

Saki: You may have talent, but I believe that you would serve better in a support role with your abilities as a hacker with your skills with computers. If you really need to shoot for self defense I would suggest just borrowing Aqua's gun when she will be fighting at close range. As for the rest of you you’re better off spending the points on special bullets for the rapid fire weapons. Like the new type of depleted uranium ammunition. Basically that’s it for choosing weapons.

Shuai: How will those of us not suited for close combat fight supernatural enemies? Your suggestions only cover for Shin, Aqua and maybe Misaki.

Saki: Ah, I almost forgot, so let me add one last thing. Those normal and Sci-fi weapons can also damage supernatural beings. You just have to use magical bullets, but those will cost more than normal bullets as I have heard from Aqua. In fact, I've heard that she already figured out a way around that, right?

Aqua: Correct. My human creation not only cooks and cleans, but knows how to make low grade magic bullets. Of course I didn't know how to make them, so he couldn't do it right away either, but I had him learn to make them during the ten day breaks that we have and when I am on a mission.

Saki: Then I should apologies then. I said that you only use your human for menial task, but you-

Aqua: Don't apologies. It was only after my third mission did I come up with the idea and I forgot to have him learn anything else.

Saki: ... ( Saki was definitely thinking airhead just now ).

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All of us were definitely praising Saki right now in our heads. The way Saki approach everything was real professional. Aqua, Hikari, Misaki and I never thought about these things before. It was as if she had trained for this her whole life.

Saki's ideas increased their chance of survival by a lot. Even though she didn’t like some of her methods, but she was really a genius. Then Kampa took a look at the document and addressed a concern of his.

Kampa: But unlimited ammunition version of these guns are all expensive. We don’t have that many points to exchange them. And the unlimited ammunition version of that M41A Pulse Rifle that I should get needs a rank D reward and 1000 points. I can afford it, but...

Saki: When did I say anything about unlimited ammunition weapons? Remember the first thing I said? Other than bodyguards, you can also exchange tools and materials from God. Gunpowder is very inexpensive, 1 point can get you one ton of high quality gunpowder. Bronze and other metals are also very inexpensive. I can exchange the materials to assemble a workshop and manufacture bullets in mass. Even though we won’t have unlimited ammunition, but as long as it isn’t the worst possible situation, we should have enough bullets to deal with it. Those magical weapons are expensive, even though we can’t create these items, we can at least exchange some bullets with magical properties to deal with possible situations. This is the second thing I want to say, our standard equipment. With this we won't all need magic weapons if we expand on Aqua's magic bullet manufacturing operation.

We all exchanged a look to each other and I could see the delight in our eyes. As long as they can live, even if it was just hope, that was enough to make them feel delighted. The higher the chance of my own and everyone's survival meant that I was getting closer and closer to becoming an OP protagonist. I already have two girls conquered... For the most part.

Shin: Then continue Saki. You're really amazing and if it wasn’t for you we wouldn’t be able to come up with these ideas, so continue to give us surprises. What’s the third thing?

Saki: What I found, I found the option to go back to the real world... Even though it’s only temporary and you have to pay a high price. But this is a way to confirm whether we entered this world with just our conscious or whole bodies. Also, we can confirm whether we can bring these things out to the real world, and bring our enhanced bodies back… Yes, I found the option to go back to the real world!

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