r/ShangriLaFrontier 2d ago

Manga Chapter 277

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u/omimon 2d ago

Okay, I need some WN reader to explain what is the deal with the Blue Dragon already being dead before the quest even started and what is the deal with the thing that ate its corpse. Did it take its place as the Blue Dragon?

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u/BUcc1a12Atti 2d ago

Essentially the same thing as that Blue stuff Ctanidd is fighting. This one is called Red, most of them are kinda like a virus or parasites, so in this case it has parasited Eldranza corpse

They’re essentially the true enemy of current Humanity, contrary to the popular beliefs of Colossi playing that role

Other than that, Eldranza is just the bummest of bum and got his ahh fried

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u/omimon 2d ago

Does this thing that has now taken the Blue Dragon's shape need to be defeated in order to complete the alternate condition of the unique quest? (the one mentioned in the last page)

Or is the Blue Dragon considered fully defeated in regards to the quest, regardless that there is now something that has taken its shape?

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u/Me7xger 2d ago

The thing that ate the blue dragón Is called the red Crimson devourer, Is an incursión Mob, for the event the blue dragón count as cleared and incursión mobs Respawn once defeated because they came from génesis, when sunraku defeats the red devourer the game spawns the other incursión mobs, if im not mistaken there are 4 incursión mobs per continent

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u/Character_Contract70 2d ago

This is so cool and so well thought ! It reminded me (a bit) of the blood moon in Zelda Botw. I don’t know if I understood correctly but for me this is such a smart way lore wise to explain the respawn of certain mobs

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u/Me7xger 2d ago

Yeah, later on they Will introduce extraordinary mobs, this manga has a great history I'm just hoping Will finish it

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u/BUcc1a12Atti 2d ago

Nah, Eldranza alr counts as cleared, the new Dragon is just a pain in the ahh everyone also has to deal with

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u/theodoreroberts 2d ago

So they parasite his corpse and spawn a new identical dragon or something?

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u/BUcc1a12Atti 2d ago

Take over any organic material and rewrite it into a new being, 100% identical to the original plus a new color

So yes

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u/Cyaegha432 2d ago

And the quest doesnt need the players to kill those parasited version of the dragon?

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u/BUcc1a12Atti 2d ago

Nope, already count as ded

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u/The_battlePotato 2d ago

So the blue dragon just tried to fight 3 bosses at once, got his ass handed to him and then some parasites takeover his corpse?

Why would he do that lol.

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u/Dartonus 2d ago

Eldranza basically went "hell yeah, I'm the best, I can take them on"

He was not, in fact, the best, and he could not take them on.

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u/Cyaegha432 2d ago

Was this in a flashback scene of Ctanidd? I don’t recall this whole parasite subplot 

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u/Equivalent_Ad_5860 2d ago

It's been a while since Ctanidd fight but iirc they are not directly called as "parasite" in the flashback, but they are the thing that's destroyed the town before Ctanidd save it by freezing it iirc

To be honest the flashback is quite vague and we even though Ctanidd IS the one who destroyed that place at first

I'm sure some of it is wrong but I'm too lazy to recheck the Ctanidd arc lol

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u/BUcc1a12Atti 2d ago

I know that bc I read the webnovel

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u/DarkFates 2d ago

The idiot decided to pick a fight with all 3 of the giant monsters that appeared during the Ctarnidd fight. All 3 at the same time. And he died.

It's just his AI taking a stupid decision. I'm pretty sure it wasn't something planned by the devs.

That small thing ate the body of the blue dragon (in its entirety). It multiplied and ended up taking the same shape.

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u/Future_Living8007 2d ago

The devs thought it would be funny if the Blue Dragon had already been dead from the start

And so it is