Just as Edward and the others were about to bury Joe's body, they all received a system notification at the same time.
[Ding! Chain Quest activated — Frogman Guardian 1]
[Quest Description: The Society of the Secret Eye has tested out the frogmen's strength and planned a surprise attack on the frogmen village. Please help the frogmen fend off the enemy's attack!]
[Quest Reward: EXP, Game Coins (proportional to the number of enemies killed), Random Premium Equipment Exchange Voucher, and anything else you can find in the frogmen village.]
[Remark: Quest Unlocked — Frogman Guardian 2]
Edward's expression froze. "Oh no!"
"What's wrong?" Eggface didn't understand.
"According to the System's usual style of notifying us of a quest like this, it's most likely that they're already here."
Edward looked around, trying to find where the frogmen had hidden their weapons.
At that moment, Vela walked out of the conch house with a solemn expression.
"You guys received the quest too?" She confirmed with Edward and the others.
They all nodded in unison.
"Did you tell the Frogmen about this?" Edward asked back.
"I mentioned it vaguely, but they didn't seem to care." Vela felt a headache coming on.
Although the frogmen's weapons didn't seem to be very strong in combat, including the conch spear that Joe had used to commit suicide, they were all White equipment, the kind that no refugee player would want even if they gave it to them. But a prepared battle was completely different from an unprepared one.
If they were prepared, they might be able to hold out for an hour or two, but if they were attacked unprepared, they would be lucky if they could even hold out for half an hour.
"What do we do now?" Eggface asked worriedly.
"Anyway, let's get our weapons back." Edward thought for a moment, then turned to Eleena who had been eating her candy silently. "Revive Joe. In a battle of this scale, a warrior who can hold the enemy's aggro is indispensable."
Eleena nodded and held the lollipop in her mouth. Her hand, which had become soft since she became a Saintess-in-training, drew a golden magic circle in the air.
The magic circle then shattered like glass, turning into countless specks of light that fused into Joe's body.
Joe twitched a few times, then woke up all of a sudden.
"What's wrong? Have you completed the mission? " The first thing Joe did when he woke up was to open his quest list and check the 'Cooperate with the Frogmen' quest that he received from Angora. He found that the words' Quest Completed 'had already appeared on it.
After he happily chose to submit the mission, he realized that everyone's expression seemed to be a little strange.
"So what exactly happened?" he asked cautiously.
The others looked at each other for a moment before their gazes fell on Eggface, who was the closest to Charle.
Eggface furrowed his brows, but he still told Charle everything that had happened.
Charle, who had been overjoyed at the completion of the mission, became sadder and sadder as she listened.
"In other words," he confirmed with the other players with a bitter face, "not only did I miss the side quest, but I also have to risk my life to help you resist the monster attack?"
"After all, you're the only player among us who has advanced, and your body is also the toughest." Edward patted him on the shoulder and said, "When the quest is over, I'll give you half of the game coins. Consider it your commission."
"Don't worry, those people from the Society of the Secret Eye can't even beat the frogmen, they're definitely weak," Gou Dan comforted. …
Charle wanted to say something else, but Eleena suddenly spoke up. "That frog is coming out."
Everyone froze, and the quickest to react was Vela, who immediately elbowed Charle in the chest, causing him to fall back onto the ground, half of his face submerged in seawater.
No one knew what the frogmen's elder, Croakatoa, was saying to himself, but after some time, it just so happened to walk out of the conch room.
Croakatoa was surprised to see the players squatting by the door.
"Why are you all gathered here?"
Its gaze then fell on Charle, its frogface confused. "I think I saw him move just now, could it be fake …"
"You're imagining things!" Vela took out a spiked conch from somewhere and poked it into Charle's kidney. "See, you can fake death like that!"
The other players looked at the red damage number that appeared above Charle's head, and subconsciously distanced themselves from Vela.
"I … I see," Croakatoa stuttered a little at Vela's cold-blooded killer look. "Indeed, after we die, our corpses will occasionally twitch …"
"Compared to that," Vela pulled out the conch (which caused another red number to appear above Charle's head) and tossed it aside. "Where are our weapons?"
"Why do you all look so nervous about your weapons? We sticky-skinned wouldn't covet the items of you dry-skinned people! "Croakatoa didn't seem too happy.
"We're just afraid that our enemies will suddenly appear, and we're prepared for any eventualities. That's the motto of us adventurers." Edward spouted.
"I see …" Croakatoa was still a little doubtful, but its expression was more condescending. "Hmph, I don't know why the elder agreed to work with you, but I'll say this first: I, Croakatoa, don't trust you! As a warrior of the sticky-skinned, I'd rather drown in the sea than accept your help! "
After saying that, it swaggered forward.
The players looked at each other in confusion.
"What are you waiting for? Don't you want your weapons anymore?" After a few steps, it turned to Edward and the others.
And so, Edward and the others came to a sudden realization and followed it, ready to retrieve their weapons.
No matter what, they couldn't go without weapons if they were going to fight the Society of the Secret Eye.
Only Gou Dan felt that something was wrong after a few steps, and realized that they had forgotten about Charle, so he turned back and tried to think of a way to bring Charle with him.
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