Chapter 367: Fight First, Talk Later (2/2)

“Halo of Courage!” Leah cried, stabbing her flagpole into the hard metal ground below before drawing her whip sword to lash out at the teapot.

While the Bleeding effect of the whip sword did not work against automatons, the heightened damage meant she was attacking to great effect.

At the same time, Gou Dan took cover behind Jessica, breaking one teapot with each arrow, even claiming two kills with one arrow occasionally.

Jessica herself was healing and casting protection on her teammates, and although she was not dealing damage, she became a moving, human-form machine of buffs like Princess Leah, becoming a core part of her team as well.

Naturally, the one dealing the most damage in the party was Edward, who was riding his fire dragon.

As one of the most powerful skills the Player had at the current phase, the black fire dragon would easily melt the unknown metals which the teapot was made out of. It only streaked over their head to burn most of them into wax, rendering them immobile even though they clearly had half of their HP left.

Still, the Players’ overwhelming advantage did not mean that the teapot automatons were very weak.

While most mass-produced teapots were around level 20, some of the more elegant ones was over level 30.

That being said, the power Edward’s group unleashed in breaking those teapots was equal to one of the special task forces of major religions, such as the Temple of Glory.

At the same time, even though Jessica continued to heal the group, Edward and the others would keep an eye on their HP levels, drinking colas to restore themselves from time to time. Still, as their initial advantage slowly faded, their average HP gradually fell beneath the safety zone. And that because the teapots were only focusing on their limbs.

It appeared that, just as Iron Commandment had mentioned, it was intent on not killing Edward and the others, that it would break their limbs and hold them captives.

As such, it was regrettable that it did not know that it could not break the special state enforced by the Rules of the Game (such as divine powers are resistant against Rule in attacking or being attacked, and would be effective even against anti-magic weapons), keeping the Players’ limbs from being dismembered.“Why? Your limbs are unbreakable, despite your feeble appearance…” Iron Commandment was therefore left extremely confused, with Joe immediately summoning his spirit familiar to smash the screen it spoke from with a single punch. “Did you think we would tell you?!”

Even so, as if it was this entire stratum given form, Iron Commandment was showing up on the smooth mirrorlike walls of nearby buildings as well as the screens. It would persistently question how the Players were defying logic, leaving the Players both irritated and fatigued as more teapot automatons showed up.

Eventually, Gou Dan failed to stop one particular automaton’s attack out of a moment of carelessness, and was stabbed through the arm with its razor-sharp feet. His HP bar empty, he fell to the ground just like that-with Jessica’s resurrection yet to come off cooldown, the group could only watch as he turned to sparks of light and disappeared.

“Why would he die? The automatons clearly did not hit him in the vitals, and he was not bleeding profusely…”

The Iron Commandment could not help being puzzled at why Gou Dan would die.

Still, it clearly possessed outstanding intelligence. Soon, it realized that the Players would die after suffering a certain amount of damage, and that they would die despite the lack of a lethal wound.

Therefore, it immediately changed the combat style of the teapots.

“Change of strategy needed… automaton number nine-five-two-seven is dispatched for live capture of guest…”