Chapter 360: Taunt (1/2)

The second venture into the Dark Sky was rather successful for Edward’s party. Although they did run into several monsters on the way, they worked together to swiftly get rid of them without alerting other monsters nearby and get encircled like last time.

Moreover, they were slowly making their way toward the missing Mufasa.

[Edward: The System’s reaction is stronger here. Mufasa has to be nearby.)

[Leah: You say that, but it’s all darkness and nothing could be seen. It spoils the mood even more because we can’t use lights here.]

[Doug Ag: And it’s very quiet around us, with no monster sounds… I have a bad feeling about this.]

[Marni: Damn it, I died again! There are so many monsters down in Dark Sky!)

(Marni: Sorry, wrong post.] [Edward: …]

[Leah: I’m suddenly in a very good mood!]

(Doug Ag: I’m suddenly feeling very confident for some reason too!]

[Edward: Do your best, everyone. We are very close to clearing this floor!]

(Leah, Doug Ag: Yeah-!] [Marni: …]

(Marni: Although I know about the rumors circulating amongst the Players, don’t you think it’s hurtful to say that in my face? Is our friendship fake!?]

[Edward: If we clear this stratum, I could embed one rune in one of your items.]

(Marni: Really? Then should I come to the Dark Sky to die again? By the way, I don’t want the Ace Rune. Some Player who embedded it got team wiped for some reason.)

(Edward: …]

Hello? Are you not being a little too materialistic there?

Although Marni appeared keen on continuing the conversation to get more information about Dark Sky, Edward and the others were still in the process of exploration. With the lightless environment making their work a lot harder, Edward and the others responded to Marni’s other questions rather slowly.

And being not one to keep bothering others, Marni soon left the post and built another new party.

Soon, however, Joe whose task was to stay on high alert as the party’s vanguard and as such did not join the chat came online.

(Joe: I have good news and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?]

Edward did a double take.

When did an oaf like you learn this trick?

[Doug Ag: Good news first. We’ll be happy then, and then we’ll get shocked by the bad news later.]

(Joe: Good news it is. Well, I think we found Mufasa.]

(Edward: Where?]

(Joe: Nearby, just ahead. And now the bad news: I can see some flashes from here…]

At first, Edward had been distracted by Joe’s information, and soon become nervous as some faint specks of light showed up.

That was probably the flashes Joe had seen.

And one powerful monster that shone brightly was coming their way!

Edward also quickly realized that it might be the same monster that Mufasa startled before.

Does that mean the creature had been chasing Mufasa until now?

Come to think of it, they definitely had not talked to Mufasa for some time.

[Edward: Mufasa, you there?]