Chapter 344: Event Unlocked (1/2)

When Eleena reached the tortoise’s long neck, it seemed to have recovered from the explosion before and was slowly rearing its head.

There was certainly no telling what happened to the old man who had infiltrated the Faint Crystal stratum.

Although the colossus was somewhat bothered by Eleena running over its nape, she relied on her fine balance to cross its neck between stumbles and arrive on its head.

The tortoise colossus’s head-or indeed its braincase was quite vast, but a careful look would be enough to make out a small platform sticking out.

Considering that the high elves wouldn’t construct a useless platform on the miniature of their Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN), it was likely that it was a control panel.

Noticing that, Eleena’s heart danced with hope.

“Totem, keyhole… Got one. Is this it?” She exclaimed, finding the totem that Mufasa had mentioned after a brief search.

There were five rhombic openings on the totem itself, which definitely looked like special keyholes.

But Eleena soon found that it doesn’t work.

Her key just doesn’t match any of the holes, and couldn’t be inserted no matter how she tried.

“Maybe not this one?”

She began looking for other places to see if there were any spots that resemble keyholes, but that was also the moment a chill prompted her to shiver.

She didn’t even need to look to guess where the chill was coming from.

Down the colossus’s nape, the undead elf was slowly making its way here. A closer look would reveal that a small notch of its HP above its head was gone, which corresponds to a smooth cut over its left hand at the wrist which was missing an entire palm. Even though the tortoise colossus was still shaking its neck, the elf would frost and defrost its feet into the ground with every step, keeping its movement unusually steady.

The creature had reached her so quickly-to think that even Mufasa, the best Player couldn’t hold it back for too long.

Gritting her teeth, Eleena kept searching for any spot that the key could be inserted even as her little mind spun furiously in hopes of finding another solution.

It was only a pity that she couldn’t make a breakthrough even as the undead elf was within casting range at the platform.

She would be mostly frozen even if she raised her barrier.

That was when the elf opened its jaw and mouthed several words awkwardly.

“How… regrettable…”

“You can talk?!” Eleena did a double take.

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Ever since the undead elf had shown its face, it had only acted like a zombie that relied entirely on instincts, which was why Eleena didn’t expect it to talk like an intelligent creature.

“That one… was quite formidable…” The undead elf appeared to be in awe even as Eleena blanked out slightly, before realizing that it was talking about Mufasa. “Even if I freeze off… one hand… one leg… did everything to take my palm…”

Despite the space between its words, Eleena could understand how hard Mufasa had fought. Even if he had lost his limbs, he determinedly unleashed one last blow before his death to claim the palm of the undead elf.

“Wanted to fuse with him… in salutation… but his corpse… gone… regrettable.”

A nameless flame of wrath ignited within Eleena at the words of the undead elf.

“Salutation! Stop kidding around you’re just defiling a body!”

Though Players don’t really die, the young girl who had personally witnessed every last corpse in her village being thrown into a single pile was enraged at the thought of such defilement.