As the number of giants in the Second Holy See continued to increase, the vast majority of players chose to join the glorious Orange Cult, becoming members of the Half-Treant Aggregate.
After all, this was the only way for them, as Low Tier individuals, to even have a chance against the High Tier Cuiske.
This is always the case in massively multiplayer online adventure games; any world boss requires a large number of players to cooperate in attacking it, something many players already know from the very beginning.
In less than a minute, the number of giants had increased to four, and a fifth was slowly rising from the water, looking as eerie as a clone awakening in some science fiction movie.
In terms of size, the Middle Tier Second Holy See Giants are about a head shorter than Cuiske's Willow Man, and in terms of combat power, they are far inferior.
However, their strong vitality still caused Cuiske a great deal of trouble.
The two initial Half-Treant Aggregate that joined the battle had all their hearts pierced, and the pilot of Number One, [ Zhongde ], was now like a player with 999ms latency, completely useless.
All he could do was let the other players manually revive and rebuild their bodies, while he seized an opportunity to grab the wicker man's leg, trying to slow down his attack.
Although the half-tree man was only left with his upper body, carrying such a burden still annoyed Cuiske somewhat.
However, in [ Zhongde's] eyes, Cuiske has hardly changed at all since the start of the battle, which means that although the players are having a lot of fun, the opponent has not actually lost any health.
There wasn't much he could do; he could only hope that other players or NPCs like Ed could come up with a way to break resilience like Xilǐ'er did in a previous battle.
Back then, it was Middle Tier Xilǐ'er Middle Tier or Low Tier enemies. Now the enemies are High Tier, but where are the High Tier " Xilǐ'er " now?
There must be a way, right?
Thinking this through, [ Zhongde ] decided to linger on Cuiske's leg a little longer...
Something's not right.
Ed, who had allowed the players to stall Cuiske, looked at the giant battlefield that resembled something out of a myth and was momentarily lost in confusion.
The sheer number of Blood Corpse wasn't a major problem; Cuiske couldn't do anything for the time being, Margaret remained at the cave ceiling, pretending to be an acid turret.
So where is Adelaide's resurrection method located?
Ed didn't know, so he always had a bad feeling.
It wasn't some kind of telepathic connection that belongs to the strong, but simply a slight panic when realizing that things were beyond one's control.
Have I overlooked something?
Adelaide has been sealed here for so long, even having his two dukes released from the seal before him. Didn't he leave himself any insurance?
Although starting the resurrection from the Low Tier is a characteristic of the Blood Corpse Seal, Ed always felt that Adelaide, that old bastard, would definitely have a trick up her sleeve.
He looked around, trying to follow Adelaide's line of thought and find the trap the other party had set.
Ed now knows that the exact location of Adelaide's seal is beneath a stone pillar in the center of the Rotting Corpse Dark Lake.
That stone pillar must have formed after Adelaide was sealed, since the two Short-Eared Elf shouldn't have been able to bury the Blood Corpse in the ground.
So, if you were Adelaide, how would you try to save yourself after being sealed in such a place?
Ed's single eye scanned up, down, left, and right, trying to find something that didn't make sense.
Believe it or not, there are indeed some illogical points, namely the relationship between Cuiske and Margaret.
Their current task is to cover Adelaide's normal recovery, so Cuiske built a high wall and Margaret poured acid on the cave ceiling.
But what's going on now?
Cuiske's side was already getting bogged down in the battle, but Margaret remained hanging upside down from the cave ceiling, showing no intention of helping, as if she were addicted to a tower defense game...
The Low Tier vampire counts were already quite intelligent, let alone the two High Tier dukes.
After ruling out the possibility that Cuiske and Margaret were two different people, the only conclusion Ed could draw was that the current situation was exactly what was necessary for Adelaide's resurrection.
In other words, while Cuiske may be mired in trouble and Margaret may be indulging in her playful nature, this is all part of the Adelaide revival plan.
But what does this have to do with resurrection?
Ed looked at Margaret, who was hanging upside down from the cave ceiling, watching her defiantly shoot venom and spider webs at the Twin Kings in the distance...
Why is she hanging upside down from the cave ceiling?
Ed had a thought, and the map of Klaf City that the players had drawn over the past month appeared before him.
It was not a simple two-dimensional map, but a complete and complex three-dimensional map.
Naturally formed caves, mine tunnels where some minerals were once mined, grottoes gnawed out by mutated worms, the sunken Klaf City...
This vast underground city is composed of diverse terrains and various rules.
Here, the Rotting Corpse Dark Lake is naturally located at the very bottom of Klaf City.
With just a glance at the map, Ed realized the oversight he had made.
In most games, the different levels of a dungeon do not affect each other. For example, monsters on the first level will not move to the second level, and traps on the third level will not affect the fourth level.
However, the World of Disorder is not a game in essence, and the rules that seem to need to be followed may not necessarily work here.
Ed puts Adelaide in the shoes of a guy who's been trapped underground for decades, someone who, as long as he hasn't gone mad, is bound to be thinking about something.
But what is there underground to observe or contemplate?
Only the surrounding terrain.
Adelaide must have been first driven underground by two Short-Eared Elf, and then watched as the stalagmites and stalactites above the sealed ground gradually turned into a stone pillar over several decades.
Therefore, he knew what lay above the Rotting Corpse Dark Lake, without needing to consult a map like Ed.
But what lies directly above the Rotting Corpse Dark Lake?
It is the riverbed left by the long-dried-up river in the center of Klaf City, the bloody path that Silvis's expeditionary force fought its way through.
Now, that dried-up riverbed is being filled with some kind of substance.
It was the blood left behind by the expedition team as they killed the Blood Corpse of the Antos Lineage along the way.
Like finally completing the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle, Ed felt a sudden explosion in his mind, and everything became clear.
But some people didn't realize this, such as the Twin Kings in the distance who were blessing their lances.
Gazing at the lance, which was vibrating uncontrollably at a high frequency due to its Psionic Energy, Ed almost instinctively reached out towards the Twin Kings and shouted:
"Stop!"
However, it was all too late. The lance, blessed by both the Immortal King and the King of Domination, which seemed capable of piercing through everything, had already flown from Xilǐ'er's hand, roaring as it charged toward Margaret, who was displaying a provocative expression on the cave ceiling.