Chapter 222: Devil on the Loose (2/2)

“Hold it!”

Though Joe had blurted those words inadvertently, Edward was promptly alert and cheerful—he turned, holding Joe by his shoulders and staring unblinkingly into his eyes. “What did you just say? Repeat that!”

“What? Don’t do that… I’m scared…” Joe, startled by his reaction, shielded his huge pectoral muscles with both hands by instinct.

Pulling a long face in contempt, Edward let him go and knocked him in the head with his staff, and a red -1 appeared over Joe’s head.

“Stop fooling around, my HP is already low.” Joe adjusted his helm which was knocked askew before turning serious. “What is it? I could apologize if I had been speaking untowardly…”

“No, I want you to repeat what you said,” Edward replied.

“‘Well, it’s still a team wipe in the end…'”

“That’s too far ahead. What you said just a moment ago would suffice.”

“‘And I think you’re overthinking it’… okay, okay.” Joe finally became serious when he saw Edward raise his staff again. “Old Marni wanted the Boss rewards for himself? Is that it?”

“That’s right! Boss rewards!” Edward exclaimed. “Why aren’t we getting any rewards even though the devil is defeated? Wouldn’t there usually at least be a golden legendary item when we defeat a target like this? We should get a purple rare even if we’re unlucky—but there’s just no item dropped even though we had won!”

“Maybe we’re just having a black day…” Joe guessed, but soon refuted that himself. “No, that’s not right. Zonyan the Black Hand isn’t with us today, so we shouldn’t be that black…”

“And the quest assigned to us by the God of Games isn’t complete. I had assumed that we would all be wiped out from the poison and the quest would be deemed a failure because of that, but that’s not the case.”

Edward got to his feet, turning to the other lackluster Players who were cutting down any zombified Players and yelled out. “The Boss hasn’t drop item rewards yet! There must be a little demon on the run! Find it, kill it, and you would get that godlike item!”

Thus, the eyes of all the Players immediately brightened, even though they had all became disinterested due to the horrific losses suffered in the quest.

True, if they could get a Legendary item—it was worth dying and losing 30% of their current EXP!

All of them immediately began to search the Boss’s domain.

That said, how much spirit could a bunch of excited Players muster to find something before they kick the bucket?

They would dig out a mole several meters beneath the earth, let alone a little devil!

“There! Found it!”

Soon enough, Edward found the little devil hiding inside a hollowed tree. “I guess I didn’t disappoint the God of Games at least. Take this, Frost—”

“Ha!”

A huge tome which was wrapped in metals in each of its eight hinges and was wrapped in chain darted out, hitting the fleeing little devil on the head and tidily instakilling it.

“Eleeeeeeenaaaaaaaaaa—!” Edward sunk to his knees, his kill stolen once again.

Taking the last bit of EXP by sheer coincidence, the radiance of leveling up appeared over Eleena’s dainty body.