Chapter 190: I Heard You Have High Physical Defense? (2/2)

But before he could put up a show, the Secret Eye Society members all moved in synchrony to fire off some black ray.

Their barrage blasted away half of Gou Dan’s HP, startling him and forcing him to flee.

‘Tch, they’re actually using spells!? Are those swords at your hips just decorations! Come slash me, and I wouldn’t be a bear if I so much as frowned!’

On the other hand, the Secret Eye Society members also gave up on staying on their path for some reason and chased after Gou Dan instead.

He had a hunch then that the reason would be something like ‘You know too much!’

Be that as it may, the more he was hit by those rays, the more Gou Dan felt his pace slowed.

As he turned on his stat page, he suddenly found a ‘Withering’ status on his stats bar. While there wasn’t any specific information of its effect, it was clearly slowly eating away at every single stat Gou Dan has.

“Death Ray? Were they cultists?”

After all, Death Ray was a signature skill of cultists, including the High Priest of Rotten Bones.

Still, the effects of that skill do vary between the evil gods they believe in: the Death ray which the High Priest of Rotten Bones release caused direct damage and softens a Player’s bones, causing them to become brittle in battle…

“Holy Water… or was it Wanglaoji[1]? Nah, I used mine when we were fighting that Eight-eyed Spider…”

With Jessica and Eleena who could cast Purification and Exorcism Ring nowhere near, Gou Dan realized that things were not really going well for him.

That was when he suddenly realized that someone had @ed him on the forum.

In a bind, Gou Dan ignored all else and opened the forums, braving the risk of crashing into a tree because he was too busy looking at the system page.

He then found out that it was Edward.

The others appeared to have solved things on their end—or were solved, but either way Edward had the free time to send him a bucketload of text.

Gou Dan scanned through it with the speed he developed through writing war reports, skimming through ten lines at once to understand the story in the last chapter and the present situation.

“I see, so that girl is the Divine Spear Sefarim, and it’s the Secret Eye Society who stole the elves’ greatest treasure…” Gou Dan had wanted to tell Edward what he learned on this end, but the enemies were hot on his heels and he was a hundred percent going to be blown up if he distracted himself any further than reading the System page.

Moreover, he believed that he has another solution to resolve the present crisis.

“Weren’t you chasing after me? Come then!”

Gou Dan whipped out a bottle of potion labeled ‘Jizhi Syrup[2]’ and handily applied it to his own body. The item was actually known as a Lure Brew amongst the Players that would rapidly attract every monster in a dungeon—and Gou Dan was planning to use it to cause confusion amongst the cultists and slow them down.

Then, he casted Leopardmorph, deciding on a direction before rapidly dragging along a horde of monsters towards Edward and the others.

“What’s that name again? I don’t know when it suddenly became a trend in the forums, but it’s got a ring to it during moments like this…”

Gou Dan then roared like a tiger, his voice echoing throughout the forests and echoing over the skies.

“Leeeeeeerooooooy…. Jeeeeeeenkiiiiiiiiiiiiiiins!”

[1] Wong Lo Kat (Chinese: 王老吉) or Wanglaoji in Mandarin pinyin, is a Chinese herbal tea.

[2] A brand of cough syrup.