"There's just a little more than a day left. What should we do now?" Princess Leah was having a headache.
In fact, it was not just her. Almost every first-rate Player who had successfully reached the fourth stratum was caught in a rather painful predicament.
— That's right. They were stuck.
After Edward's party slayed Iron Commandment, the Boss of the fourth stratum, the teapots' movements had reverted to neutral creatures (since Xi Wei had taken over control of Steel Earth). In fact, they would still serve the Players when they entered certain buildings, which in turn made the fourth stratum a place for the Players to rest.
But that was also why the Players had lost the clue to reach the fifth stratum.
At first, there were Players who wandered around Steel Earth because they believed that the clue must be hidden somewhere in the city, but now that things had come to this, they were about to despair.
In the cross-shaped building — or rather, at the heart of the fourth stratum, Edward's party and the other top Players were staring at each other in a heavy metal fairy-tale style room.
They were intending to discuss if there were any clues or information related to the Eternal Tome of the fifth stratum.
But it was a pity that none of them had any intention of speaking, and none of them probably knew what to do next.
"We shouldn't have gotten rid of Iron Commandment so easily back then …"
Edward sighed helplessly, feeling a little regretful.
Although Iron Commandment did not necessarily know about the Eternal Scriptures and had clearly fallen into a serious bug-like state during the final battle and was unable to communicate, humans would always have the mentality of wishful thinking. They would have the thought that if they had chosen the path that they did not choose, they might have been able to f * ck it.
"It's useless to say that now. Besides, everyone agreed to kill Iron Commandment," Blackie said with a smile. Princess Leah quickly stepped forward to smooth things over when she saw that the mood was turning gloomy. "Compared to that, let's work hard and think if there were any clues we missed on the way from the Faint Crystal Stratum to Steel Earth."
While the Players never claimed that everyone was equal, the System basically pulled everyone to the same level, with the exception of a few.
And Princess Leah was one of them. She usually did not show it, but her hidden position among the Players was quite high, and there was no one better than her to smooth things over.
"That's right." Edward slapped his own face hard to keep his spirits up. "The God of Games would never set such an unsolvable puzzle. The answer must be hidden right in front of us!"
As he spoke, everyone stared at the lake that reflected the entirety of Steel Earth and pondered hard.
Meanwhile, Xi Wei, who was witnessing it through the Divine Eye, didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
If he really had a clue about the Eternal Scripture, he wouldn't mind revealing it to these players. After all, they were his believers and his workers.
The problem, however, was that Xi Wei himself was not sure about the Eternal Tome.
Indeed, even after Xi Wei gained control over the first four layers of the Elven Synchronized Intellect Nation (SIN) and studied most of it, he still wasn't sure about the Eternal Scripture.
After all, the first four stratum had control records mentioning the Eternal tome. There was no other than that. than that Eternal Tome.
At the same time, Xi Wei was certain that the Eternal Tome existed.
After all, as mentioned just now, Xi Wei had successfully analyzed most of the Elven SIN after gaining control over the Faint Crystal Stratum, Deep Wall Stratum, Dark Sky Stratum, and Steel Earth. However, there was still a small portion — or perhaps the most crucial part of the technology that was hidden — that information must have been recorded in the Eternal Tome.
Moreover, after gaining control over the first four stratums, Xi Wei also noticed the inconsistencies in the Elven SIN. It was as if the entire Elven SIN was a peerlessly intricate machine that happened to be missing a few crucial gears and bearings that could not function normally.
Even so, Xi Wei could not find where the missing parts were hidden no matter how he looked.
Now that things had come to this, Xi Wei could only pin his hopes on the Players, hoping that they could discover the flaw the high elves left behind and find the Eternal Tome.
For that, it did not matter if he had to spend a little divine power to help them in the upcoming walkthrough.
"Hmm?"
And yet, just as Xi Wei focused most of his attention on the Players in Steel Earth, he diverted a small part of his attention to notice something unusual.
"The ground is shaking? No … that's … "
After nonchalantly assigning a quest to a third-rate Player who had given up on the event and happened to be within range of the anomaly, Xi Wei's vision followed the Player's movements and found the source of the quake.
It was a colossal steel giant!
In terms of size alone, the tortoise colossus that could carry half a hill and the entire city of Crookes on its back was already huge. But when the giant stood up, it was at least a third taller than the tortoise colossus!
Moreover, it was holding what appeared to be a greatsword, but judging from the various magical patterns and runes over it, it was clearly a frightening weapon that was some sort of gigantic magitek.
"Tsk. That thing is moving so quickly. At this rate, it would reach Crookes in three or four hours at most." Xi Wei frowned, feeling that this was an unlucky year.
If he could not activate the Elven SIN — in other words, the tortoise colossus itself — the giant would probably cut off the tortoise's head in a single blow!
Should he evacuate every Player from the Elven SIN and give them a new quest to fend off the enemy?
Xi Wei was caught in a dilemma at that very moment.
And yet, that was when Edward, who had been looking at his own reflection looked up unwittingly, his expression turning into one of delight.
"I got it! A sun! It's a sun! " He exclaimed excitedly. "This stratum is clearly Steel Earth, but there's a sun hanging in the skies! There's definitely something unusual about that thing! "
"A sun …" The others perked up as well and looked up at the skies.
Being the first Player to think of that, Edward had already summoned his Blackfire Dragon and took to the skies …
"A sun?" In his divine kingdom, Xi Wei was taken aback. He had adjusted the angle of his Divine Eye several times, but he could not see the sun the Players were talking about. "Where's the sun?"
Moments later, he realized with a start.
Could it be that the High Elves had purposely developed some kind of barrier or magical coating to prevent the gods from peeking at the core of their weapon?!
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