In World of Disorder where strength reigns supreme, power is always accompanied by pure force.
Therefore, even the two highly experienced Grand Knights were somewhat shocked when they saw hundreds of enemies, far weaker than themselves, daring to charge at them.
What's going on with these people?
Don't they feel any fear at all?
They thought the enemy's formation would break apart with a single charge, but they didn't expect that the enemy had no formation at all.
Rather, it would be more accurate to say that the two of them had become the so-called "cores of the formation," currently under attack from all sides.
The Grand Knight Commander swung his hand back and smashed an enemy to pieces, but three more immediately pounced on him from other directions.
The three men were like Climbing plants that take root, reaching into everything they could grab, even sticking another foot into the stirrup.
At this moment, the Grand Knight Commander was experiencing unprecedented despair. He finally understood what it meant to have a lot of strength but be unable to use it.
He instinctively looked at another Grand Knight Commander, trying to ask for help with his eyes.
However, he only saw that another person was now engulfed by dismembered limbs, and the enemies were attacking him from among the fragments of body parts, quickly surrounding him completely...
In the distance, Duma watched the players' valiant fighting performance and let out a hearty laugh:
"Hahahaha, the Son of God is right, they truly are the most elite soldiers in the world!"
Duolin to the side, couldn't help but swallow hard.
"They... have really gotten a lot stronger..."
Duolin vaguely remembered the first time he saw this group of Soul Returner.
At that time, although these guys also had a crazy fighting spirit, they were completely lacking in combat strength.
At the time, those guys only appeared to be in better health; in reality, whether they could even defeat the Vine Sheep was still an unknown.
However, only half a year has passed, and he has only reached the Low Tier -mid level for a short time, while the best among these guys are already almost on par with him.
It should be noted that they rose from a completely powerless, low-ranking position; back then, they were so weak that they needed to be taught how to Directed Alienation.
In other words, this group of Soul Returner completed in just six months what would have taken them more than ten years to do.
No wonder the Son of God Child entrusted me with the suppression restraints that were still being tested. It seems the Son of God still wants to cultivate me as a key member and considers me a direct descendant.
Despite having some expectations for these Saint souls summoned from ancient times, Duolin still felt it was far too exaggerated.
After all, it's only been six months. What if it were a year? Ten years? Twenty years?
What would this world be like if it were filled with Middle Tier combatants? The Second Holy See might actually be able to unify the entire world...
Thinking of this, Duolin couldn't help but feel a little more expectant.
In fact, Duolin himself was unaware that, contrary to his own thoughts, while he felt that the Soul Returner were leveling up too quickly, a highly discussed topic in the player community was why the game's leveling was so slow.
In the current real world, the pace of most games is roughly: one month for newbies, three months for experienced players, and six months for veterans.
Many players accustomed to the pace of other games will find this setting somewhat unsatisfying. Although the training in the World of Disorder provides real-time feedback to the body, many of them still feel it's a bit slow.
However, not all players think this way; some players who are more immersed in the game feel that the leveling speed is reasonable.
After all, the ratio of game time to real time is one to one, and the World of Disorder is clearly a game that will operate for a long time.
If everyone reaches the level of world-destroying power within just six months, then this immersive game, known for its realism and immersive experience, might not be able to continue operating.
Ed, who enjoys spying on others, was naturally aware of the players' discussions about this, but there was nothing he could do about it. No matter how much the World of Disorder resembled a game, it was still a real world.
Often, it's not that Ed can't do something, but that the players can't.
When players are resurrected, Ed can provide them with Incarnation with attribute bonuses. If conditions permit, he can even create bodies with physical strength only slightly lower than his own.
But this is not very useful, because the prerequisite for controlling the body is that the player's soul must be in harmony with the body.
In other words, the essence of players leveling up is to strengthen their souls, thereby enabling them to drive a more powerful body in World of Disorder.
As for the effects of a powerful soul in reality, Ed doesn't yet know much about them.
The real-world consequences of the Blue Dragon's fall have been largely resolved, and relevant information has been shared with him via a tree hole for reference.
The facts were roughly as he understood them; the death of the Blue Dragon was essentially a brief opening of a rift between the two worlds.
Then the rift closed, and the two worlds were separated once again.
In Ed's view, as long as no other High Tier being dies in the short term, the process of connecting the two worlds should not be so rapid.
At this point, he actually had a guess as to why the two Short-Eared Elf only sealed the vampires instead of killing them.
Combining Seraphina's and Duma's statements, each High Tier being is equivalent to a pillar of this world.
If all the pillars collapse, the sky will collapse as well, the Demonic Tide will erupt, and the world will be completely doomed.
From this perspective, even with the greatest hatred, the vampire grand dukes must live, but their existence would bring disaster to the world.
So, faced with two evils, the two Short-Eared Elf ultimately chose the path of sealing, turning the Grand Dukes into so-called "human jinchūriki".
Having sorted out his thoughts, Ed understood the two elves' actions. After all, in the eyes of these natives of the other world, allowing monsters like vampires to be sealed alive was already a great act of mercy.
But Ed saw it as a waste.
Longevity, manipulation of family members, near-immortality...
The vampire's attributes made this terrifying creature shine even brighter in his eyes.
Isn't this just a natural-born beast of burden...?
On the outskirts of Laurel Town, watching the two Grand Knights being tortured to the point of near death by the players, Duma suddenly asked Duolin:
"There shouldn't be any problems here, how about your end?"
Duolin tapped his temples with his fingers, listened carefully for a moment, and then said:
" Motley said the Wild Hunt has had enough rest."