Chapter 339: BEAST FORM (1/2)

”HE'S dying?” Luo Yan exclaimed unbelievingly.

”One might look at it that way,” the leader answered all mysteriously.

Luo Yan almost rolled his eyes at the vague talk. Seriously, he didn't even look like a mysterious old man with no otherworldly desires. Those should be the only ones allowed vague talk. Well, at least he looked like a hermit. That would probably do.

”Can the Leader explain it more profoundly?” he still said politely. He almost added, 'because if you don't talk quickly, that guy would probably be dead by the time we got there'.

”The light in the lamp represents the life of the person it was connected to. If they were alive and well, the light would be very bright. If they were dying, the light should be very weak. But as you can see, the light in this lamp is flickering. Which meant that there's something that's taking his life force slowly. And its ember would soon die down.”

Luo Yan nodded, understanding the leader's explanation. ”How soon is 'soon'?”

”I can't really tell you the exact answer,” the leader said, shaking his head. ”It could be an hour or even a day. I could only sense that it's 'soon'.”

Well, thank you for that not so helpful answer. But Luo Yan didn't voice that out. ”Then I guess we should leave now before everything becomes too late.”

”Wait—” the leader called when they moved to leave. Luo Yan glanced back, looking at him with a questioning gaze. ”Whatever you may discover, can you tell me the result? I will consider it as a very big favor.”

”Of course,” Luo Yan easily said. How could he refuse when there's a possibility that they might get a reward?

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After that, Luo Yan, with Eclipse on his shoulder, and Shen Ji Yun walked out of the leader's office. They climbed straight down towards the first floor and then out of the building.

”Brother Ji Yun, you said that the Tower of Edia is located on a floating island called the Garden of Eden, right? And we can't directly teleport there?”

Shen Ji Yun nodded. ”Yes, to both questions.”

If Luo Yan remembered correctly, Shen Ji Yun mentioned before that the only way to directly teleport there was to take a task that was directly related to the Tower of Edia. But that kind of task could rarely be seen in the Task Hall. And since, they're practically racing against time, not knowing when that Rhys would croak, they didn't have the time to look for tasks that were related to the Tower of Edia.

”Then how would we go there?” That was the question.

[Maybe Mashter and Captain could ride a flying beast to that Tower place.] – Eclipse suddenly suggested.

Luo Yan glanced surprisingly at the little guy on his shoulder. That was actually not such a bad idea. He probably would have thought of that if he wasn't so focus on other things. Like the fact that they might be running out of time and if they didn't move fast enough. Then their only, and maybe also their final, clue to this 'Finnea's Curse' task would die.

Seriously, what was that NPC doing getting his life force suck from him? No, the one at fault was the people involved in writing the script for this task. Why couldn't they just write something straightforward where players didn't need to do all this? But then again, if they did that, those hidden tasks wouldn't be as interesting.

[Good thinking.] – he said to Eclipse and gave him one of his favorite Mana fruits.

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The little fox quickly nabbed on the fruit. [Thank you, Mashter! You're the best!]