Chapter 356: Finding Party Members (1/2)

When Edward woke up, he found himself standing at the small square over the head of the Tortoise Colossus.

“Tch…”

He was not too willing to remember how he died since his death had been too horrible.

Even if Player could adjust the sensations of their bodies to a certain extent, it was just too horrific having to watch countless misshapen creatures tearing your own body apart.

“You’re out too…” Gou Dan, who had been sitting in a corner greeted him. “What happened after I died? Joe here died too quickly and saw nothing.”

“You died before I did!”

Joe couldn’t hold back a retort, clearly upset with being mocked by Joe. “Alright, stop fooling around. The Dark Sky Stratum is much scarier than I thought anyway…”

Edward couldn’t help feeling a shiver when he remembered the monsters he saw when he summoned the Blue Eyes Whitefire Dragon. “We’ve had it too easy in the Faint Crystal Stratum and the Deep Wall Stratum, and now that I think about it, there is no way it would have been simple since the event period is seven days.”

It was already frightening that they could reach the third stratum in such a short time, and who knows what Steel Earth or the Eternal Archives would have in store.

That being said, Edward wasn’t at all cowed as a devout believer of the God of Games. Moreover, Players never lacked a big heart which always allowed them to forget their pain, and an immense curiosity towards dungeons they had yet to clear.

He hence told Gou Dan and Joe about what Mufasa and he saw after they died, freaking them out.

Naturally, neither of them was actually intimidated. In fact, they became even more interested in Dark Sky thanks to Edward’s description.

Edward then spoke about the uniqueness of the monsters that killed him in hopes that they wouldn’t be making the same basic mistakes in their next entry. However, even as he felt his throat go dry from talking, the person he was waiting for still had not arrived.

“Wait. Mister Mufasa still hasn’t come out?”

After all, Mufasa was with Edward when he died, but he was showing no signs of resurrecting after coming back to life for so long. There was no notification of his death in the party channel either-in fact, his HP was quite healthy, and since buffs that appear after successful deflection or parrying keep popping up over his status bar, indicating that he was still fighting.

“As expected of him, doing what we can’t so easily…” Beside Edward, Joe couldn’t help giving his praise.

“Oh, right. Where’s Mister Marni, then? Wasn’t he out for some time?” Edward asked, bemused.

“He must have joined another group and entered the dungeon before us,” Joe replied. “He did die quite early.”

Edward found it reasonable when he thought about it. Given that no one would know whether the later dungeons were dangerous, Marni naturally wouldn’t stay here to wait for them—what if they managed to drive straight through the entire dungeon? Wouldn’t he have been waiting for nothing? Still, Edward was a little disappointed not to have Marni with them at Dark Sky. If they could feed him off to the monsters, their group might have been able to reach the next stratum…

Edward himself killed the thought the instant it surfaced.