Chapter 244: Its Black Hand, Not Grayclaw (2/2)

[Captain Ivan: Has anyone seen Marni? He’s disappeared again.]

[I’m Doug Ag: …Hmm. I suppose just a ‘Marni’s dead’ would suffice for a reaction.]

[The Peerless Marni Never Falls: I’m not dead! I’m just surveying for specialty products from the Rabbitfolk that could be sold at Lancaster…”

[Many Thanks Bro Vulcan: I see! I guess you really are the former chief of the Grayclaw Tribe!]

[Zonyan: Black Hand, not Grayclaw!]

[Zonyan: Wait, what?!]

Setting aside the jovial banter amongst the players and Zonyan who is not formally the chief of the Black Hand tribe, the frontline Players all understood from his post that the Hyena-men were a wall they couldn’t bypass if they want to start exploring the new continent.

And from what the Long Ears tribe had been through, it was clear that Swordtail had deliberately sent them here to harass their tribe.

But to break this wall wouldn’t be difficult—the Players only need to gather enough numbers and charge in for a Zerg Rush to break their crystals to end things immediately, since each of them were a lot more powerful than the Hyena-men.

The problem was that most of the Players were tired of fighting after the strings of major battles they had gone through. Some weren’t even bothered to farm daily quest, so why bother gathering their forces once again to do a quite meaningless battle against the Hyena-men?

Moreover, most of them still had too many rewards from the last event that hadn’t converted them into actual combat strength.

Under such circumstances, the Hyena-men weren’t attracting too much of the Players’ attention.

If one had the time to split some Hyena-men heads but get nothing, why not head to Trinia and enjoy the view of long-legged elven ladies?

Besides, Xi Wei, who was the only who could get the Players to mount large-scale assault had no intention of assigning any such quests either.

He had only profited with a tiny bit of divine power in the previous event, not to mention that most of the deviant divine power that he purified with the First Flame still carried slight Fire authority.

Besides, he didn’t dare to absorb too much of it and had used most of it to bless the Players (which is why fire-type is the strongest in the current version). While his divine power not in the red, the balance between his income and expenditure remains unhealthy—forking out substantial divine power in such a time for a quest that doesn’t benefit himself much is just asking for it…

Also, things appear rather curious over here at the Western Continent. It wasn’t noticeable since there weren’t Players there before, but now that most of them had arrived, Xi Wei sensed that these lands which the nonhumans lived was stirring some weird sensation within him.

The question was that he couldn’t quite put his finger on what was weird about it, and it nagged at him like a pain in the butt (even though he doesn’t have a butt).

Considering that the air around the divine realm had gone so weird, apprehensive and oppressive that it had been some time since the Great Lion came to visit, Xi Wei decided to leave the Players to their own devices at the Western Continent. He would just watch over things at his own divine kingdom to better understanding current circumstances.