Chapter 268: Running Away When Youre the Quest? (1/2)

“I see! I understand now!”

Joe had a look of epiphany after he swung his Giant Toe to crush one of the bloodborne creatures and saw it revert to blood form.

Beside him, Edward resisted the impulse of yelling ‘What do you understand, ape!?’, and instead asked, “What is it? What did you notice?”

“Our quest objective is only to defeat the Nightstalker, but it didn’t mention that we must defeat it by our own hand. In other words, we could let the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior defeat him!” Joe exclaimed in delight as if he had discovered a new continent. “And since these blood monsters are going to stop him from attacking the Nightstalker, we have to get rid of them. After that, we’ll just let the Boss punch each other up!”

III

At first, Edward had thought that Joe would have at least broadened his perspective after becoming a Player for so long, even though Edward was in command of most group raids. It would at least have been normal if Joe wasn’t able to see what was going wrong, and yet he came up with such a nutcracking conclusion of the situation—there’s no need to tell us, we already know that!

Meanwhile, the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior was still fighting against the Revived Nightstalker who still had yet to fully awaken.

Indeed, ‘fighting’ was not quite the right term because the Revived Nightstalker was not conscious, and fought only by the reflexive movement of its wings.

Even though the strongly erosive blood wings were a nemesis to all life and couldn’t even be touched, that was actually no problem for the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior whose body was now as hot as the surface of the sun. The erosive blood would evaporate under the extreme even before it could reach the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior’s skin!

Moreover, the Players were holding back most of the bloodborne creatures, whereas the physically vulnerable blood wings couldn’t stop the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior’s blows at all-which meant right now, the Revived Nightstalker was being punched single-sidedly.

In fact, his whole body was being ground into mincemeat by the steel fists of the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior, and was just inches away from dying.

But in spite of the one-sided state of affairs, all the Players could still clearly see that the Revived Nightstalker’s HP Bar had only dropped by a third even though it had been punched so many times by the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior with his six thousand Celsius fists!

And when they recalled the high acclaim given to the Nightstalker in the System notifications, the Players’ foreboding sense only grew strong.

Even though the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior had been buffed by some unknown power to the point that its level was now equal to the Revived Nightstalker’s, his elite template didn’t change since his living form wasn’t really refined. As such, the gap between him and the Revived Nightstalker who has the overlord template remained ever distinct.

Meanwhile, Edward was calmly analyzing the situation.

He had considered grouping the Players and help diverting some to help attack the Nightstalker so that they could shave off its HP quicker, but reconsidered and decided not to do so.

The Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior couldn’t see his enemy’ HP and naturally didn’t know what was really going on with the Revived Nightstalker. Still, from the looks of his slowing punches and the dulling of his rage, the Tiger Warrior must have vented most of his hate and assumed that the Revived Nightstalker was about to die.

With his stubborn attitude, the Roaring Blaze Tiger Warrior might not listen to the warnings of the Players either—and that was why they must stay vigilant and try their best to prevent the Tiger Warrior from being instakilled by the Revived Nightstalker.

And just as expected, the anomaly came instantly when the Revived Nightstalker’s HP dropped to two-thirds!