Pride Online

Chapter 337: Choose a Side Part II

“Just like what I heard.”

Nuchjaree spoke up casually, just for Warunya who was sitting next to her to hear it.

“What?” She asked.

“When I was searching for the four gods’ information for May,” Nuchjaree said. “I heard that the leader of Pandora was unbearable. He was one of those sluggish people who spent all day slacking off. So, the chief of staff had to handle everything, while he was out there doing nothing useful.”

“Yeah?”

Warunya replied with doubt. She glanced at the small man who sat across from Wisana and saw that he was quite a lot shorter than Thai men’s average height. He could be even smaller than her.

“Is he a kid?” Warunya asked, trying to make sense of this.

“No. He’s even older than us.” Nuchjaree said. “And he might look small and slow, but people say that he’s the strongest one among the gods, you know. I searched for some old news about him and saw one about this guy fighting with Thada, and that incident got the combat stadium all destroyed, without a piece of it left, too.”

After listening to that, Warunya forced up a wry smile.

“He is scary, then.”

“Of course, he’s one of the four gods anyway. And it’s not just him.” Nuchjaree continued. “The one named Sven is scary as well. He looks perceiving like that, but he’s the dangerous one with his brilliant brain as his deadly weapon. His tricks in battle are the most intimidating. He’s an expert in wiping up the entire enemies’ army, too. Speaking of it. His fighting style is very similar to our May.”

Hearing that, Warunya glanced at Sven who was sitting at the head of the table again. And after seeing his characteristics, she knew right away that this man was totally not a trustworthy friend. He seemed to be one of those with an overly complicated brain and with an ego that was low to the earth.

It took quite a while before everything was back to normal. Emwika decided to sit straight back after staring at Sven for one minute straight. Meanwhile, the man with red eyes turned his face away as he made a snorting sound out of his throat.

Thada then let out a sigh of relief, while Wisana was clicking his tongue out of disappointment.

“I thought I’d get to see someone fighting.” He turned to whisper to Maysa.

His girlfriend gave him a fierce look in her eyes like she was implying, “This is not the time for that.” and the one who got scolded just gave her a chuckle in response.

“So, let’s continue, shall we?”

Thada said with a usual face like he was already used to this well.

"And the last thing about the crystals is that they can be used to “blend” it inside a player as well. And if the player gets killed to be game over for them after blending the crystal in, the crystal in this case will be counted as destroyed, just like those items that are transformed from the crystals.”

After his words, Maysa was the one who raised her hand.

“Please, Miss Maysa from the Nemesis guild.” Thada invited her to speak.

“So, it means that, after we blend a holy crystal inside a player, that player will earn the stats that the crystal has passively as well, correct? For example, the HP, the armor points, or something like that.”

Hearing her question, Thada smiled widely, before nodding in reply.

“That’s correct, Miss Maysa.”

After Thada’s answer, everyone in the room started making a sensation out of excitement instantly.

This was quite interesting that after blending the crystal in a player, the player would get the abilities of the crystal as well. And from what they briefly saw, it had 200 million HP and immense points of armor.

And for the four gods who were still listening like Marcus, Valentine, and Sven, they knitted their eyebrows.

The game staff really thought it through.

If a crystal were blended in each god, ... that was all to make the war’s period extend for a long, long time.

Because from the start, the four gods were already so strong that the words ‘Game Over’ were just like a dream for them. But if one of them had the crystal’s stats as well, then they would totally become unstoppable.

“What about HP regeneration? If a player with a crystal blended inside them gets hurt and their HP decreases?” Maysa asked right to the point that everyone nodded in agreement.

“The player’s HP can only be restored by healing skills or HP potions when their HP is below their own HP. For example, if the player originally has 5 hundred thousand HP, but their HP after adding the crystal’s HP in is still more than 5 hundred thousand, then the player won’t be able to restore their HP at all until their left HP is lower than their own HP bar.”

So, that was to prevent the inflation of HP...

That was a good problem-solving, but blending a holy crystal in a player was still too overpower anyway.

Maysa thought, brows knitting together.

“That sounds like there’s no flaw with that at all. Mister Thada. It seems too good, actually. Because if one of the four gods blends this crystal into them, won’t it be a bit too cruel for the other side? Maybe, the player who has the crystal would just hide in a safe place and never come out in the battle until the war gets annoyingly long.”

That was once again when the chief of staff from the Nemesis got a point. Many people in the room agreed with her and started yelling in protest. At the same time, Sven and Emwika glanced at Maysa as the same idea popped up in their mind, saying, ...this woman was intelligent.

“About that, you don’t have to be worried, Miss Maysa,” Thada answered calmly in the middle of many players yelling over him, making those noises fade down.

“In that case, we will announce the name of the player who has the crystal blended in them to prevent them from hiding away like you’re concerned, Miss Maysa. Also, you can use the special item to find the crystals of the other army as well. It works with both cases of the players with blended crystals hiding in the safe place, and the case that players just take the crystal to hide in somewhere. You might cross the problem of not finding the other’s crystal out, now.”

Thada smiled, before continuing.

“Another thing, blending the crystal in a player doesn’t have only benefit for them, because it will change the element of that player into light element, which has a weakness to take 4 times stronger damage from the attacks from dark element. It also makes that player unable to receive any support skills from their allies. And when their HP can’t be regenerated until it decreases to below their original HP, the player will be targeted by enemies from every direction surely.”

Everyone got quiet instantly after Thada said that.