Chapter 197: Moon Keeper (1/2)

“Phew… I’m so tired…”

Even as the Players were caught in the impact of a new class, the divine spear Sefarim which Jessica was still holding reverted to human form.

And she was shrieking horribly the moment her feet touched the ground.

“Wh—what is this?!”

The wood elves had thought that she was wounded and quickly came to take a look, only to find that there was now a leather collar around the young girl’s neck, with a vaguely visible crystal chain dangling in front of it.

Meanwhile, Sefarim was still tugging at the chain in astonishment. “When the heck… Come to think of it, the power that came into my body just now was weird! That definitely wasn’t Luna’s power!”

Edward frowned at the chain and then turned to Jessica, who didn’t seem to realize that another transparent chain was vaguely wrapped around her right wrist.

Then, he looked like he gained epiphany.

“I see…”

So that was the Soulbound mentioned in the System?

On that note, after the Greatest Treasure of the Elves III was completed, there indeed was something called the Soulbind Scroll whatnot listed in the quest rewards…

“What have you people done to Sefarim!?”

Brom Daystar had drawn his short sword and was aiming at Edward’s group.

After sharing his discovery, Edward then felt a pain about how he should handle things with the elves.

He had assumed that Sefarim was a one-time use quest time, and certainly didn’t expect that Jessica would immediately be Soulbound to her.

This was going to be a problem.

There was no way they would let Jessica be interned with the wood elves in Trinia, just as the wood elves would not so simply allow them to abduct their greatest treasure.

Joe glanced at the frowning Edward who was unsure what to say right then, and then at the everyone else’s grim faces. And for some reason, he immediately assumed that he, having the biggest chest, should be the one who to come forward and resolve this dire stalemate.

“Tsk tsk! Your greatest treasure now has our god’s form!”

‘Tsk the hell! Are you trying to pit us against the elves?!’

Edward’s face promptly darkened.

At the same time, the situation spiraled downwards no thanks to Joe’s blunder. The hostility of the elves was now hitting them face-on, and a fight was going to break out in the next split second.

“Hold on, just wait a minute…” Sefarim recovered just then and attempted to stop the fighting.

Nevertheless, the look on Brom Daystar’s face made it clear that the elves are not planning to let their greatest treasure being taken away by humans.

And after having become Players for so long, Edward and the others were never going to just do nothing and let themselves be killed. Moreover, those elves might be Drake food if they hadn’t helped just now!