Chapter 336: The Thing Hidden Beneath Crookes (2/2)

And the monster that had chomped the Tunnel Eye Serpent in two was the tortoises’s head!

“Woah. So that’s the true face of the high elven ruins!?”

Edward observed the monster of unmatched size while riding the Red Eyes Black Dragon he summoned, finding his perception of size crumbling On the Player forums, Eleena had already revealed what she knew, which meant that every Player was now aware that the ‘high elven ruins’—their objective for coming to Crookes was in the ground beneath it.

That being said, they did not expect the ground beneath to flip over and one ginormous mountain tortoise. What even is this setting?

Even the typically quick-witted Edward was left dumbfounded.

“Edward, where is Gou Dan?” Joe asked from beneath Edward’s dragon.

He had tried his best to fight the tremors as the tortoise got up, but still ended up tripping more than a few times.

“I think he went off to hit the tortoise’s head…” Edward scowled as he glanced at where Gou Dan was heading.

His specialty being agility, Gou Dan had scaled a good portion of the tortoise’s neckbut the behemoth appeared to feel an itch in its neck just then and shook it a little, throwing Gou Dan off itself and leaving him to vanish into the rolling clouds of dust in its wake.

And when he saw Gou Dan’s name turn gray in the party display, Edward knew that he was definitely dead…

But just as Edward was about to inherit his will and fly over to the tortoise’s head to start some trouble or at least wash its head with some black dragon flames, he noticed that the undead elf was standing atop it, watching everything else with a blank gaze.

Could that thing be controlling the tortoise? Edward thought then.

Then, even as he steered his dragon towards it, he was forced to retreat as the undead unleashed a cone of ice before he could get closer.

Edward has exceedingly high elemental immunity a Player who had surpassed the threshold of level 40, thereby making his way into the grand domain of level 50. Even so, the resistance buff that his items and class possess wasn’t effective against the undead elf’s frost magic!And was that really ice?

Edward then understood in his disbelief: The undead elf was more than a little troublesome than he had expected.

Hence, he collected himself and his underestimation against it, and began to observe it carefully.

With that, its stats naturally showed up over its head.

(Undead high elf, The Last Crypter, level 48]

“Its level is lower than mine… elite, or maybe a Boss template? Or could it be class advantage?”

Edward hence began to hover above the tortoise’s head like a fly, attempting to find an opening for an ambush.

Weirdly, however, the elf didn’t bother itself with Edward the fly. It instead kept standing over the tortoise’s head, watching the skies as it persistently muttered something…