Chapter 67: Saintess In-Training (2/2)

The players all rushed out immediately.

Perhaps it was for the sake of privacy, the frogmen built their village in a secluded corner of the tidal flats. The village faced the sea while the other side was up against steep cliffs, and on the other side of the cliffs was an endless expanse of land.

Now, what Edward and party saw was a mudflow that rushed down the cliffs at a terrifyingly fast pace!

The momentum and sheer magnitude of the mudflow was so large that most of the frogmen were petrified upon seeing it, their minds blank from shock.

“What the… Edward, you didn’t tell us that the magicians from the Society of the Secret Eye were so powerful!” Gou Dan looked at the scary mudflow, his mind drawing a blank.

“No, that’s not possible, I’ve never met a magician of that level when I was there…It was probably cast together by a group of magicians!”

Edward immediately rebutted the notion that there was such a strong magicians in the Society of the Secret Eye.

After all, back when he snuck into the Society of the Secret Eye, other than a few outstanding ones, the others weren’t strong at all.

“Shouldn’t we run first?!” Vela shouted, already breaking out in a cold sweat.

Even though they had become players that were virtually impossible to kill, and could even sacrifice their lives to create a chance for their allies against a strong enemy, their common sense and instincts still dictated that their first reaction was to flee upon being met with a natural disaster.

“We can’t run from this, it’s way faster than our speed on foot!”

Edward was dismayed by this turn of events.

If he were max leveled (Level 45) and had learned the strongest skills in their skill tree, perhaps he would be able to help, but even though he had the highest level within the players, he was only Level 28. When he was faced with an attack of this magnitude, it was still too powerless.

“Here, help me carry this for a while.”

At this point, Eleena who had been silently eating a lollipop sealed her candy packet, and stuffed it into Vela’s hands.

“Huh?” Vela looked at the silver-haired girl with a dubious expression, thinking that her way of thinking was a little odd—They were going to be buried by a mudflow, wasn’t it a bad time to care about candy?

Eleena didn’t know what Vela was thinking about, and took out her own weapon.

As a higher-leveled player of the cleric class, Eleena who was a saintess in-training should have a weapon that clerics regularly used—Hammers, shields, maces, or even a cross.

Because Eleena had only been focused on healing or casting a Spear of Victory occasionally, she had never held a weapon in her hands before. Hence, Vela guessed that the girl hadn’t found a weapon that was suited for her yet.

But in actuality, Eleena had her own weapon.

It was a hardcover book that had been attached at her hip using a silver chain that seemed like an accessory of a priest’s robe, and was locked tight with a metal lock. This book was named the ‘Game Bible’, and white metal was attached onto its corners, and was basically a rectangular mace that had eight spikes…

Even though it seemed to be able to deal a lot of damage in battle, it didn’t look like it could help with the current situation…

“Sacred Barrier!”

The girl dragged the chain and used it to swing the large book, before using the momentum to swing it into the distance.

The next moment, a large, pale blue barrier erected from where the book dropped onto the ground!

At the center of the barrier was a white cross, and in the four partitions that it separated were pictures resembling a sword, a mage’s staff, a bow and arrow, and finally the picture of a holy book. At the center of the cross was the emblem of the God of Games.

This barrier was so large that it covered the entire frogmen village and even far beyond, and it was so tall it reached the heavens. The mudflow that had been flowing down the cliff with such force struck the barrier and was cut off immediately, not even making a ripple in the barrier!

“A-Are you kidding me…” Vela was in complete shock.

She knew of the skill Sacred Barrier because it was a defensive skill that clerics could learn at Level 15, which could summon a barrier of light. The barriers that regular clerics could summon were the height of a single person and were around two meters in length, which was why the light barrier in front of her shocked her so much!

It was at this point that she remembered what Edward said earlier—”Don’t judge a book by its cover, Miss Vela. If it were just in terms of battle power, she’s probably the strongest of us all.”

She had thought it was a joke back then, but they weren’t joking in the least?!!

Vela wasn’t the only one that was shaken by the large barrier of light. Upon seeing the twin-tailed silver-haired girl block the attack that they had resigned themselves to dying to, they all knelt down on the ground and started muttering in frogmen language that the players couldn’t understand, before prostrating themselves and hitting their heads towards the ground, as if they had misunderstood the young girl as some strange existence…