Chapter 340: Charge With Me! (1/2)

Edward jumped, but recovered quickly to instruct Mufasa so that he escort the wood elf elders away from the battlefield.

After all, the relationship between the wood elves and the Players were still in a delicate phase—though the elven queen sided with the humans, the wood elves still disliked humans overall speaking. As such, if anything happened to their elders under such circumstances, a rift would certainly come between the wood elves and the Players even if the elven queen remained on their side.

“Tch. The question and answer session lasted for so long, but all I’ve learned is something weird…”

Edward couldn’t help muttering to himself while watching Mufasa escort the wood elf elders away.

After all, knowing what the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN) meant was not at all helpful for the current situation. In fact, the Players’ spirit might be affected if Edward simply revealed it to the others, which was why he didn’t post it in the forums as usual to keep information going both ways.

Steering his dragon, he simply went off to fetch his party and told only them what he knew—that said, with Gou Dan dying without being revived in time and Jessica staying with the elven treasure Sefarim and never having joined the current quest in the first place, Edward’s party consisted of only Joe and Eleena, who just joined the battle.’

“The undead elf’s obsession must be to complete the Synchronized Intellect Nation, and the tortoise colossus is a miniature version of that world fortress. Logically speaking, the high elves should have left some information inside… No, we just don’t have enough details to deduce what that thing is trying to achieve by controlling the tortoise colossus.”

Edward couldn’t help becoming frustrated as the tortoise colossus continued to move.

“You’re distracted,” Joe said, frowning at him. “You need to calm down, Edward.”

“What?” Edward was certainly taken abackhe never expected that the day would come for Joe, the very definition of a brute to call for calm.

“I might not know what the undead elf is planning or what the damned tortoise is going, but in the end, we only have one job.”

Joe added, flashing a confident, dazzling smile and a thumbs up, before leaping off the dragon. “And that is stopping them!”.

He spread his arms as if to embrace the ground, the cape attached to his armor spreading like a flying squirrel’s skin flap, keeping him streaking forward in a smooth curve instead of falling in a straight line!

It was only when Joe came close to the colossus’s head that he changed his pose. Drawing the greatsword Giant’s Toe that was slung over his back, his spirit familiar appeared out of thin air and turned itself into a light that latches over Giant’s Toe, buffing its damage!

Hence, Joe maintained his course of descent, bearing the acceleration of gravity to increase his momentum, thus swinging his sword fearsomely at the head of the colossus!

And then he was swallowed by the colossus.

(Player Joe has died. He is tortoise food now.]

Edward: ???

Fine. Joe was feeding, but at least he was right.

Now that things have come to this, the undead elf’s intentions no longer matterthe one thing they have to do was stop the tortoise colossus from advancing.

“Eleena.” Edward glanced at the girl who was the only other surviving member of his group. “Hmm?” The girl who had been staring daggers at the tortoise’s head turned to him, puzzled.

“I’ll do whatever I can to stop them… but there’s not much chance of success. If I die too, you should quickly retreat with the other Players and do not linger here.” Edward said solemnly. “You’re not like us. You are the Saintess of the Church of Games —it’s fine no matter how many times we die, but you have to live.”

While the rank of saintesses would differ depending on the religion-such as certain cult saintesses who ‘accommodated’ all followers by being part-time harlots. That said, they are still a symbol of most orthodox churches of the fellowship’s own purity and sovereignty.

And unlike most Players who had less of a heart, Edward who had long since become a true believer truly cherished the Church of Games, which was why it was reasonable for him to see Eleena in a different perspective.