Chapter 310: Plan (2/2)
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Sefarim felt an unusual sense of déjà vu when she learned that the young girl who was constantly sucking on her lollipops and had not much presence to speak of was an important Saintess.
Still, out of trust toward her contractor, she revealed the plan she had in mind to Edward’s group-without Joe, since the muscle king hadn’t returned after dropping to the consulate beneath Aojo.
“Now I shall explain things a bit,” Sefarim said then. “Abominations possess divine attributes, but their bodies can’t contain it like the gods do, and the best they could do is create a core inside themselves to embed the attributes…”
She then paused for a moment before continuing, “Of course, the antique elves of the Moon Pavillon also believe that the form of Abominations is built in imitation of divinity itself… but that’s not important. The point is that destroying the Abomination’s core would hurt it very much, and killing it directly would be possible if the damage was really serious!”
“In other words, we should be destroying the core directly?” Edward asked, frowning. “Well said, but we can’t even penetrate its armor right now…”
Edward did not need to finish his sentence for the others to know what he meant.If they couldn’t even penetrate the armor, they definitely weren’t going to pierce the unknown black substance beneath it to strike the core buried deep within Aojo’s body.
“Even if we could pierce its armor, there’s no guarantee that we could hit its core.” Gou Dan, who was best at sniping interrupted beside Edward. “The core doesn’t sound big at all, so surely we can’t assume that it’s right beneath its skin and hit anywhere we like, can we?”
“Saints and Saintesses have the ability to sense divine attributes,” Sefarim explained. “It wouldn’t work against the gods since that would be a blasphemy, but that taboo wouldn’t apply to Abominations. That is why as long as the Saintess is with us, she will be able to tell where the core is.”
Edward turned towards Eleena, who nodded when she sensed his gaze, indicating that she could indeed feel the location of the enemy’s weakpoint.
Sefarim then smiled smugly. “As for piercing it to directly destroy its core… Have all of you forgotten who I am?”.
Certainly, Edward and the others were speechless after witnessing Sefarim’s capacity for destruction first hand, although it would still be a pity to lose all that EXP.
And with Joe’s attack foiled, it would be much difficult to attempt closing in on Aojo now.
“That said, I do have a plan for that…” Edward told the others confidently after considering the problem for a moment.