Though the hidden hand was presupposed to react to Edward’s principle, nothing truly occurred after Edward’s loud declaration.

The air turned awkward directly.

However simply as Joe and the others assumed that he had it flawed, Edward continued, “You’re not displaying up, huh? That’s anticipated. If that’s the case…”

Grinning, he turned and began strolling, telling his get together members when he handed them, “Let’s return to the doorway and depart this place.”

The others first did a double take, however the smarter ones comparable to Jessica and Princess Leah shortly caught on to Edward’s thought and adopted him quietly.

Whereas Joe and Gou Dan discovered Edward’s phrases moderately weird simply then, they didn’t ask questions after having constructed a bond of absolute belief with him and instantly stored up with Edward.

In reality, it was a check of logic that was not fairly exhausting.

Since Edward and the others arrived on the Metal Earth Stratum with the Metal Earth Key, there shouldn’t be an entrance fairly talking. In the event that they need to depart, they solely have to teleport again to their respawn level, and wouldn’t should undergo the doorway.

Though that was frequent sense for the Gamers, the hidden hand didn’t know that!

Subsequently, when Edward and the others pretended as in the event that they have been about to go away to place his principle into the check, the air round them modified.

Unwittingly, a flock of teapots slowly encircled them, though the names over their heads have been nonetheless yellow in shade, and had not modified to the crimson that signifies them as an enemy.

Then, a humanlike determine a number of screens that resembled billboards hanging over buildings, however the individual’s face can’t be seen as a result of the sunshine of the background was too vibrant. “¥% @#&*…”

The determine then started to talk in a language Edward and the others couldn’t perceive -it gave the impression of elven however had a very totally different rhythm to it, and was mystically lovely as if it was a music sung by the kids of a sacred choir.

“May or not it’s excessive elven? We will’t talk with the language barrier…”

Joe scratched his head, realizing that they’d an issue—they might not talk with the determine regardless that Edward had managed to trick them into revealing themselves.

“No, it understands human language, though it couldn’t communicate it as a result of it lacks the power.” Princess Leah shortly picked up on what was uncommon in regards to the matter.

In spite of everything, if the determine couldn’t perceive human language, it might not have recognized what Edward and the others have been doing when he pretended that they have been about to go away, and would as an alternative select to maintain hiding.

And because it revealed itself, it was clear that the determine may perceive human language however couldn’t communicate it for some motive.

“In all probability due to discrimination.” Edward hit the nail on the top instantly. “The Elven Synchronized Mind Nation (SIN) is made on the top of the excessive elves’ energy, and being a particularly ethnocentric race, they might belittle everybody, even different supernatural species, not to mention a weak mortal race like people. Since that factor is a creation or consciousness that the excessive elves left behind earlier than their extinction, it wouldn’t stunning if it behaves in the identical stinking approach just like the excessive elves.”

And as if on cue, as soon as Edward had a dig on the excessive elves, the determine within the screens spoke once more.

This time, it was now not utilizing its singsong language, however a jerky, uncommon accent of the human tongue.

“The excessive elves… are extinct?” “Their entire race had been lifeless for over a thousand years. Don’t you even know that?” Joe replied. “I see. To assume that one thing truly occurred.” The determine sighed closely. “…And right here I believed that they’d merely deserted me.”

“And what does that should do with not letting us depart?” Gou Dan requested in confusion. “As a substitute of stopping invaders like us from departing, shouldn’t you be attacking us from the beginning?”

Jessica punched Gou Dan simply then, since his phrases have been aimed straight at a sore spot for the determine—what if the opposite aspect was provoked they usually instantly began preventing? They didn’t even know the place the true type of the determine was…

“Whereas your group should not the excessive elves who have been my masters, you maintain their scent and are subsequently company, not enemies.” The determine mentioned calmly, earlier than realizing with a begin and launched itself. “My Title is Iron Commandment. I’m the guardian and overseer of this stratum, in service of the excessive elves and their company.”

Though Edward’s group definitely had no thought why they might have the scent of the excessive elves, we must rewind time, and return to the second after they obtained the Metal Earth Key within the Darkish Sky Stratum to speak about it.

On the time, Xi Wei had promptly taken away their key, studied it and made them a counterfeit.

Whereas many would really feel that pretend wouldn’t match the true, the important thing that Xi Wei confiscated was positively higher than the pretend one he made.Properly, fine-it was truly true that the true key was a lot stronger than the weak one Xi Wei made.

That being mentioned, the issue right here was that the true key was ineffective for Edward and the others, who have been people and didn’t have any high-elf blood in them. They’d by no means activate it or use its energy to open the ‘door’ in Darkish Sky that was related to Metal Earth.

As a substitute, Xi Wei had tailored the pretend key in order that it might confirm religion as an alternative of bloodline, and any Participant of his church would have the ability to use the important thing and enter Metal Earth.

Be that as it might, whereas Xi Wei may use brute drive to interrupt the security measures that the excessive elves stored between Darkish Sky and Metal Earth, he shortly picked the easier approach after deciding that brute drive would eat his divine energy: by including the scent of excessive elves on the Gamers’ physique, fooling the security measures and permitting them to enter Metal Earth immediately.

That was why Iron Commandment, overseer of the fourth stratum recognized Edward’s group as company when they need to have been enemies. It afforded them meals and water and didn’t assault them in any respect, even defending them secretly.

Naturally, Edward and the others weren’t conscious of that reality, though they kind of had a hunch that it was because of the safety of Xi Wei, God of Video games, and naturally admired their very own patron deity much more.

Nonetheless, they might have had discuss with Iron Commandment and clear the fourth stratum with no combat.

Nonetheless, after it had survived by untold centuries in everlasting solitude, Iron Commandment had developed just a few bugs, and didn’t appear too eager about letting such uncommon company to go away…