Chapter 54: Siege on the Rotten Bones Church I (2/2)

Even though the rules weren’t spelled out, and there weren’t any specific roles each player took, they would always be able to compile useful information on their enemies from their deaths, and work together to summarize a way to defeat the enemy.

“For the time being, this is our plan so good luck everyone! Let’s defeat the boss, level up, and get some equipment!” Edward who acted as the commander raised his staff and started.

“Let’s go—!!” The players shouted in reply, raising all sorts of weapons and equipment in a cheer.

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The high-tier Rotten Bone believers felt frustrated.

As the main force of the Rotten Bones Church, it was a given that they had fought against enemies from other churches. It would not be a stretch to say that they were experienced warriors.

But it was the first time they felt this frustrated.

The enemies weren’t strong at all, and their numbers were only slightly more than their own, but it seemed to be impossible to kill them all. Every time they defeated a group of enemies, new ones would come in their place almost immediately… Even the enemies that came in their place were exactly the same people!

If they hadn’t confirmed that the enemies were living beings using their Rotten Bones Energy, they would have believed that the enemies were golems…

If it were only that the enemies were unending, they wouldn’t feel that particularly frustrated, after all they had bodies like revenants after being blessed with the Rotten Bones Energy, giving them endless stamina.

But after they died the first few times, they seemed to have found out the way that they moved and attacked and started to move and dodge them easily and so it was hard to cause enough damage to them, letting the enemy cause damage to them instead.

The thing that made them the most worried was the fact that these seemingly weak enemies had a strong sense of intuition.

After obtaining Rotten Bones Energy, the high-tier believers started to look like skeletons with skin on them—even if they got hurt they would not bleed so it was hard to tell which was which from external appearance.

So in past battles, they would always switch among themselves when fighting with enemies, exchanging the one that was the most hurt with the one that was in the best condition to give their enemies the impression that the believers of their church were hard to kill, and the member that was hurt could retreat and heal quickly using their Rotten Bones Energy. It was a tactic that was often employed because it worked like a charm.

But for some reason, this strategy did not work on these strange humans at all. Even if they sneakily changed places in battle, the enemy would notice immediately and shout “The enemy is escaping, go aggro them!” and block the path of the wounded high-tier believer.

Not only that, there were enemies that wore a garish red and gold full body armor and were sturdy and hard to damage, and these enemies would stick up their middle finger and shout profanities at them.

And every time this happened, the believers would feel that the enemy was so detestable that they wanted to rip their intestines out and strangle them to silence them…

And so due to the influence of these thoughts, their movements became slow and sluggish and they weren’t able to flee quickly enough, causing them to be surrounded and killed.

“What are you…”

The final high-tier believer asked weakly as he fell, his empty sockets gazing at the enemy.

“Us? We’re just players who are on a quest.”

The young man smiled, and ignored the dying believer as he shouted at his allies, “Alright, those who have to recover back to Princess Leah, and stock up on buffs, don’t skimp on your AP! We’re going to fight the boss!”