Chapter 368: Preparation and the Second Venture (1/2)

Once the Iron Commandment adjusted its tactics, the Players soon found that aside from the teapot automatons, several new automatons that were basically mobile cylindrical cages resembling an octopus showed up.

When he first saw them, Edward thought that his group was being insulted—how could anything moving so slowly and carefreely capture the Players?

Still, Iron Commandment soon proved that it could through action!

And there was nothing especially mysterious or profound about it either: the cages and the teapots were simply relying on numbers.

Once caught by the cage automatons, the captive would be continuously tormented by some nonlethal magical beam. The split second of pain would prevent the captive from praying, casting spells or sacred arts, hence achieving the objective of restraining them.

And Edward’s group learned that firsthand thanks to Joe being caught when he let down his guard.

Moreover, Princess Leah noticed the gimmick of this floor as they fought

“The teapots that can’t fight or move would melt into silver liquid that the floorboards absorb, which then create new ones endlessly!”

To most people in this world, such a function that retrieves ally corpses and relentlessly create new units was definitely endlessly troublesome.

But that was not the case for the Players

“We can’t stun them all at once. We have to focus our damage and kill them one by one!” Leah then yelled.

And that was certainly true: by logic, the teapots that could not fight or move being recycled by the floor meant that the ones which the Players completely destroyed would be retrieved as well, keeping the enemies coming without end.

But only the Players were different in that respect. The monsters they killed would be directly offered as sacrifices to Xi Wei, the God of Games!

And that is true even if they are in the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN)!

Therefore, stunning flocks of teapots like Edward wouldn’t have much effect, and would instead allow the teapots to be melted down for material recycling. In comparison, using powerful single-target skills to take out their enemies one by one so that their corpse vanished immediately was the right choice.

Be that as it may, the battle had become attritional, and it was after fighting a long time that Edward realized that his side’s defeat was inevitable. Fighting on was therefore meaningless since they could not turn the tables with their current strength.

“Retreat!” Edward ordered determinedly at that.

“Give up. There is no escape…”

But even before Iron Commandment finished, the Players’ body turned into sparks and they simply vanished.

If Edward and the others could speak then, they would definitely have mocked the automaton loudly: We have town portals, silly!

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