Chapter 373: Anti-Mecha Strategy (2/2)

“There’s no stopping junior getting froze off even if I turned off my sense!” Gou Dan yelled, feeling as if he was a balloon having air pumped inside him. “Let us up there!”

“Sorry, full house.” Edward refused regrettably.

“Wasn’t it able to carry more people before!?”

“Skill got nerfed after version update,” Edward replied seriously once again. “Who do you think you’re fooling!?” Frustrated, Gou Dan’s whole body was shaking from the chill. “You are getting back at us because we left you to die with Mister Marni back on Steel Earth!”

“Time is short. Red Eyes Black Dragonaccelerate!” Edward pretended that he did not catch that and sped up.

“¥@#¥ %%&*” This time, Gou Dan couldn’t even speak. He could only hope that his junior could work normally when they return to Crookes.

Still, it didn’t really matter even if it got frozen off. They were Players, and all they have to do was ruthlessly cut it off and down a bottle of cola, and it just might grow back…

“Quit it with the nonsense. It feels like I’m becoming stupider.” Princess Leah, who was sitting behind Jessica on the dragon’s back sighed heavily, feeling helpless that the boys would still have the mood to fool around despite the sheer difficulty of their current quest. “What should we be doing now, actually? Are we supposed to wait until it reached the tortoise colossus, while we buff the tortoise with shields, damage immunity and keep healing it to last the three hours?”

“No. The tortoise colossus is a neutral unit so we can’t heal it… and that thing seems to be a huge magitek mechanism, so healing it might be a problem.”

Edward promptly rejected the Warrior Princess’s suggestion. “The Mecha Giant would react to our attacks, which is why attacking it to prompt its retaliation is the only way to slow it down. That said, its damage is so high and all of its attacks are AoE. Numbers won’t work, but sending in one person at a time works.”

“Sending people to take turns dying and buy time…” Princess Leah became thoughtful. “But that wouldn’t buy much time.”While a suicide squad is certainly an idea when they were out of ideas, Leah was just a little uncomfortable about it.

Moreover, now that the event had progressed thus far, the Players’ stores of revival items such as Resurrection Ankh were almost used

up.

They have to minimize deaths now.

“Dying is just a front,” Edward replied, turning on the Player forums to upload an edited map. “That thing only walks in straight lines, so its movement could be predicted! Since our attacks won’t stop its advance, we just have to switch landscapes!”

“You mean…” Leah stared at Edward in surprise.

“That’s right! We will have the Players who can’t change the landscape to play the role of expendables and slow the giant down, while other players would dig a pitfall along the route of its advance! It most likely won’t hold it since it could break the hole with just a few punches and create a path forward, but we can attack where its feet would land when it climbs, and knock it back inside the hole!”

“As long as we take care not to be caught in its blows, we could send it dropping into the hole again and again.” Edward then concluded in great spirits. “It’s not impossible for us to buy the God of Games three hours!”