It was clearly a chain formed from light, and yet it felt like a solid object.
Brom Daystar could feel the Chains of Penance wriggling over his body. Apart from getting goosebumps, he couldn't help worrying inwardly. Since when did human magic improve to such a level without anyone noticing? He couldn't free himself from the unusual magical chain even after using several spells to dispel the curse.
Or rather, was this really magic?
Capture the ringleader first in order to capture all his followers. While there was no such adage in this world, it wasn't a difficult tactic to understand. At least for Edward, such a crude and simple strategy was very effective most of the time.
That was why he had secretly discussed his plan with Eleena and the others before they made their move: Joe and himself would attract the enemy's attention while doing their best to reduce their fighting force.
On the other hand, although elves didn't have the virtue of being merciful to women and children like knights, they would subconsciously look down on human women and children, and wouldn't lay a hand on Jessica and Eleena right from the start.
By the time most of the elves' attention was drawn by Edward and the others, even if the elves noticed Jessica's healing ability and had the thought of cutting off the backline healers in a group fight, they would not send most of their main force to deal with Jessica. Instead, it was more likely that the elves would follow their usual arrogant style and let the elves' commander take care of Jessica alone or with one or two assistants.
And if the elves did that, Eleena, the Saintess-in-training who was the strongest Player and the trump card of Edward's party, would have a chance to act.
After all, the situation just now had proven that the elves didn't think that humans were their equal, just like how humans wouldn't try to understand what a pig was saying.
It was only by capturing the enemy commander that they would have the right to speak as equals with the elves.
Of course, Edward did consider the possibility that the wood elves simply couldn't understand human language. But when he thought about it, it didn't matter if they really fought over a language barrier since things had already come to this.
After all, they would just die and lose some EXP and a free return to the city even if they failed.
As it turned out, the wood elves could understand human language.
They could even speak human language.
"Humans, let him go!"
Brom Daystar shouted at the two human girls behind him with a furious look on his second-in-command's face.
"You're so shameless to say that we'll let them go just like that!"
Joe and Edward seized the opportunity and broke through the encirclement on the other side to join Jessica and the others.
Hearing the elf's words, Joe gulped down a mouthful of cola and pulled his dangerously low HP back to a safe level. "Who do you think you are, Mister Angora?" he taunted after burping.
Angora, who was drinking tea with his father in the Silver Eagle Castle, sneezed unconsciously and sprayed tea all over the Silver Eagle Duke's face.
"You …" The elf was furious, but he didn't know how to refute Charle.
"Although Joe's words are a bit vulgar, he's right. It was you who insisted on starting the fight." Edward also said coldly, "Now that the situation is not good, you want to end the battle and have us give up our advantage. Do you think that's possible?"
"Hmph, there's no need to waste your breath on these humans. Don't worry about me. Hurry up and attack!" Bound by the Chains of Penance, Brom Daystar yelled at his second-in-command. "Don't forget your duty. Now's not the time to waste time here!"
Be that as it may, while his words were righteous and powerful, the way he was tied up by the Chains of Penance was so strange and shameful that no one could be serious no matter what he said.
Edward and Eleena looked at each other, and the latter nodded slightly, her silver hair swaying along with her movements.
As a Level 40 ultimate skill of the Saintess-in-training hidden class, the Locus of Penance naturally wasn't as simple as a backstab. In fact, it was similar to Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth. Once bound, the target could only speak the truth and couldn't lie. Moreover, once questioned, the target would have the desire to talk, and if they failed the Willpower check, they would tell Eleena everything they knew.
The chained elf's righteous words turned out to be true. Compared to his own life, he was more concerned about the duty these elves bear, and that matter was so urgent that he couldn't waste time here.
It seems that the current situation was much more troublesome and complicated than he imagined.
Edward thought about it for a moment before asking, "What's your duty? Did something happen to the elven habitat? "
Brom Daystar, who was tied up in a wondrous and shameful posture, sneered, "Don't put on such a pretentious, ugly look. You damned humans know best what you've done to the 'Greatest Treasure'!"
"The greatest treasure?" Edward asked curiously.
"That's right. The greatest treasure of us Trinia elves, the Divine Spear Sefarim!"
"Sefarim? Isn't that the legendary World Tree that could be used to climb up to the Silver Moon? "Edward asked.
"Shallow! That's a fallacy you humans spread by word of mouth. We elves have survived since the last era, and we are a race with longevity that predates the War of Gods and Demons! Sefarim isn't a myth, but a real existence, a treasure bestowed upon us by Luna, the Moon Goddess, that allowed us to avoid extinction! "
"In other words, that thing is lost now?" Edward realized with a start.
"She should have been kept in the Moon Tree. I don't know what method you humans used to lure her out of our barrier!"
"Her?"
"Sefarim is a peak existence even among divine items. What's so strange about her being self-aware?!"
The other elves gaped as their commander and the human kid exchanged questions and answers as if they were performing a comedy routine, unhesitatingly divulging the secrets of the wood elves. They couldn't help feeling indescribably out of place.
Could he be a spy sent by the humans?
Brom Daystar only realized what he had said when he noticed that the others were looking at him weirdly, and promptly roared at Edward with a grimace. "Wretched human! What did you do to me?!"
His words were imbued with deep meaning along with that wondrous position of theirs.
Still, Edward was still young and had no intention of coming out of the closet. That was why he didn't mind Daystar's words, and simply shared the information he had obtained with Gou Dan through the forums.
And from the looks of it, the elves weren't going to let things slide for the time being. That was why the village's hope of completing their quest rests on Gou Dan.
Moments later, Gou Dan's reply came belatedly.
"Oh."
Edward:???
So aren't you going to tell me what's going on?
Whether you've found the wood elves' greatest treasure or not, even if you've been slacking off outside, you should at least tell me what's going on when you get my message. That's the only way to be worthy of those seven or eight hundred words you typed!
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Chapter 189:
The Hope of the Entire Village
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