Chapter 366: Who Said That Fakes Cant Surpass The Genuine? (1/2)

Although the hidden hand was supposed to react to Edward’s theory, nothing actually happened after Edward’s loud declaration.

The air turned awkward at once.

But just as Joe and the others assumed that he had it wrong, Edward continued, “You’re not showing up, huh? That’s expected. If that’s the case…”

Grinning, he turned and started walking, telling his party members when he passed them, “Let’s return to the entrance and leave this place.”

The others first did a double take, but the smarter ones such as Jessica and Princess Leah quickly caught on to Edward’s idea and followed him quietly.

While Joe and Gou Dan found Edward’s words rather bizarre just then, they did not ask questions after having built a bond of absolute trust with him and immediately kept up with Edward.

In truth, it was a test of logic that was not quite hard.

Since Edward and the others arrived at the Steel Earth Stratum with the Steel Earth Key, there should not be an entrance reasonably speaking. If they want to leave, they only need to teleport back to their respawn point, and would not have to go through the entrance.

Although that was common sense for the Players, the hidden hand did not know that!

Therefore, when Edward and the others pretended as if they were about to leave to put his theory into the test, the air around them changed.

Unwittingly, a flock of teapots slowly encircled them, although the names over their heads were still yellow in color, and had not changed to the red that indicates them as an enemy.

Then, a humanlike figure several screens that resembled billboards hanging over buildings, but the person’s face can’t be seen because the light of the background was too bright. “¥% @#&*…”

The figure then began to speak in a language Edward and the others could not understand -it sounded like elven but had a completely different rhythm to it, and was mystically beautiful as if it was a song sung by the children of a sacred choir.

“Could it be high elven? We can’t communicate with the language barrier…”

Joe scratched his head, realizing that they had a problem—they could not communicate with the figure even though Edward had managed to trick them into revealing themselves.

“No, it understands human language, although it could not speak it because it lacks the ability.” Princess Leah quickly picked up on what was unusual about the matter.

After all, if the figure could not understand human language, it would not have known what Edward and the others were doing when he pretended that they were about to leave, and would instead choose to keep hiding.

And since it revealed itself, it was clear that the figure could understand human language but could not speak it for some reason.