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

“When I come back to life, I’ll get in touch with other players who are revived, deduce the path of the colossus’s advance and assemble a second perimeter to stop it. I’ll then announce the location on the forums, so you don’t have to worry. Just run.”

“But…”

Eleena was about to protest, but Edward would not hear of it. Instead, he had his black dragon put her somewhere far from the battle, before summoning it back to him and began to provoke both the undead elf and the tortoise colossus.

As a Skyfire Herald who could freely control flames, Joe was much more versatile than Gou Dan and Joe—by continuously changing the form of his flames, he managed to bog down the undead elf for a long time. It was only over a dozen minutes when his blue bar was drained dry that the undead elf saw its chance and froze one of Edward’s hands. Unable to drink a Pepsi to recharge and missing his chance to run, he ended up being vaporized by a blast from the Pyrocrystal Cannon on the back of the tortoise colossus.

And it wasn’t just Edward.

By that point in the battle, many first-rate Players were already killed in battle. If the Players’ spirit themselves were not far beyond the other fighting forces of this erain fact, if they were any other army, they would probably have already fled, scattering into the wind.

Hence, Eleena had every intention to follow Edward’s instruction to retreat for the time being, and head to the second perimeter which they would prepare.

That was when she noticed that many Players were still there, beneath the feet of the tortoise colossus to fight back as hard as they could while protecting any citizens who had yet to escape.

Most of them had yet to change class or were newbies who changed class very recently. But even if they were fully aware that their attacks wouldn’t affect the colossus at all, they were fighting to buy the slightest chance to save the peasants.

All of them were still trying their best.

Eleena was speechless.

Was it right for her to abandon the believers of Church of Games, just because she held the title of Saintess and therefore flee in the name of self-preservation?

She couldn’t help hesitating.

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Simba was at his limit.He had used every last bottle of potion and most of his skills were in cooldown. But even if the other players fighting by his side were throwing every last skill at the colossus, its looming feet that were coming down towards them never slowed down.

This was it.

Sure, he and the other players could come back to life, but the citizens who had believed in them and followed their instructions as they tried to evacuate was not getting away.

Simba felt an indescribable misery at that very thought. He felt like he had let them down.

The mountainous tortoise bore down, and everyone’s vision turned dark at once.

But the expected impact never came. Simba couldn’t help opening his eyes, and found that the leg was stopped by a barrier of light-even if fractures were cracking all over it, the barrier had stopped the brute force of the tortoise!

Then, Simba followed the source of light to find a silver-hair twintails girl who was clearly younger than himself, but beneath the illumination of the holy radiance and as her silver hair dance, she was every bit as awe-inspiring as the Valkyries of legends. “I am Eleena Meredith, Saintess of the Church of Games! Followers of the God of Games, if you have even a bit of fight left in you, raise your weapons and charge with me!”

“O Master of Games, grant us new life!”