Chapter 375: The Confined Divinity (1/2)

“Tch! So that thing has that up its sleeve!” Watching as the battle spiraled uncontrollably from bad to worse, the usually elegant and nonchalant Edward could not help cursing in frustration.

“Don’t panic! It’s not like we can’t do anything yet!”

Beside him, Princess Leah calmed him while reminding him, “If even you start to fluster, the other Players definitely can’t work together effectively.”

Indeed, while it was true that the Players had no limits to their morale, they were loose like a clump of sand without a singular command structure.

And if they could not organize themselves, they were certainly no threat against the behemoth that was the Mecha Giant.

“Sorry, I lost my composure.”

Thanks to Leah’s words, Edward calmed slightly and began to rack his brains to come up with something that could resolve the present disadvantageous situation. From the looks of the melted ground, the mana beam of the Mecha Giant must have converted mana into heat as an attack, unlike the pure mana devastation that the Pyrocrystal Cannons unleashed.

‘Why would the Mecha Giant not attack like that before? Why did it only unleash it just now?”

‘Could it have been underestimating before, believing that using such an attack on ants like us was being extravagant?’

Just like how no one would strike a mosquito with a Presence of Mind plus Fireball combo, a wave of hand would be enough against such a thing that could not even be considered an enemy.

Still, Edward soon eliminated that possibility. ‘Wrong. This thing doesn’t have self-awareness, just as it wouldn’t belittle or underestimate foes, or it would not have fallen to our trap so easily just now… Perhaps it would only attack with the mana beam when it was rendered immobile thanks to the movement module it has.’

‘Considering how powerful the mana beam is and how the Mecha Giant doesn’t use it all that much, the beam must take a huge toll on it!’

Edward still remembered how the Players worked together to attack the tortoise colossus, only to barely scratch it after half a day. If the old man calling himself Eleena’s grandfather did not blow up Crookes that stood over the tortoise’s back, the Players might still be locked in battle against the colossus.

And yet, the Mecha Giant just now merely shot one hot beam and managed to cut down a huge chunk of the tortoise colossus’s durability. The devastation was clearly horrific, but generally speaking, energy attacks such as beam or spells would always be proportional in cost to effect.

‘The Mecha Giant would not usually use the beam because it costs a lot, and only unleashes it when it is constrained… now that makes sense!”

With that being the case, what they have to do now was clear.

“Inform the other players to ready up fire-resistance potions and have Clerics buff the tanks with fire-evasion blessings. And check if Mister Marni is revived! If he is, get him to head toward the other direction of the tortoise colossus to check if he could draw the Mecha Giant’s attack!”

Having regained calmness, Edward primly issued new orders.

Either way, any ideas to buy time was enough, and as long as his theory was right, there was a limit to how many times the Mecha Giant could use its beam. They just had to endure until the behemoth used up its ammunition, enters cooldown, and then the Players’ chance to win would increase greatly! And yet, before the tank Players could get into position, the Mecha Giant had unleashed another orange-red mana beam from underneath the pit once more, and it streaked toward the still tortoise colossus once more!

“Oh no!”

Edward’s heart sank.