Chapter 315: Eleenas Last Name (1/2)

Lancaster Hideout.

Edward’s group teleported at the lifestone looking gray-faced.

They were not returning after being killed by some powerful monster—they had merely used Town Portal Scrolls-a newly added item from the System shop to return to the place they were last revived.

That was also why they appeared quite ragged, which was quite different from recently revived Players who always looked revitalized.

Aside from Eleena, everyone was covered in sticky, brightly-colored goo that were even dangling along their sleeves disgustingly.

“Joe, there’s still one on your head.” Gou Dan said, hanging his head.

“Dang!” Joe shuddered as he caught the crab-sized black spider off his head that was baring its fang and flung it to the ground. The spider burst apart and splattered green blood as its short HP bar emptied in an instant, all of its remains vaporizing into thin air. At the same time, Joe dropped on his rump as if he was utterly drained. “I don’t want anything to do with those nobles anymore!”

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The truth was that Edward’s party had accepted a request by a Lancaster noble. They were to retrieve a gonfalon and a deed to his estate from his abandoned former residence, the former of which was said to be a gift from the former emperor.

Edward’s party did not think much about it since the same quest appeared in the System, with Edward the Quest Demon naturally accepting the assignment and dragging his party to work.

They ended up finding the old residence occupied by a Spider Shadow-a monster that seemed to have come out of nowhere. It was merely Level 24 and wasn’t too strong despite having an elite template, and each member of Edward’s party could in fact face it alone.

What was troubling, however, was that Spider Shadow was a Shadow-type creature. While its level was too low to develop magical abilities to camouflage in the shade, the concept of width did not apply to its body.

In other words, it could move through any opening-even if it was a hair’s breadth.

Moreover, it was especially fertile, filling the entire studio with tiny studios like the one that was crawling over Joe’s head just now.

Because of the control of Rules, the creatures of this world could never fully inherit the abilities of their parents (or monsters would rule the Prime Material Plane by now). The little spiders only partially awakened their Shadow-type bloodline and could wander through the tiny cracks of the wall like their mother. Still, even though the broodlings were around Level 1 to 8, and Players with high strength stats like Joe could send them to their maker with one punch… …But there were just too damn many of them! Not to mention that they were very leaky! Punch them to death? They would spit goo that looked like puke in your face!

And with Jessica the Holy Lancer once again away from the party, the absence of her guard and purification spells made things worse.

That said, Jessica did burn off much of her EXP when she used Sefarim, the greatest treasure of the elves once again. Her level had dropped back to around level thirty, and that was only because she regained some in the victory against Aojo the Artificial Abomination, or she might have dropped to the standard of newbie echelon at Level 20.