Ed decided to no longer loiter. He needed to see himself in whatever way that might be possible. The quickest method he could think of was splitting himself but due to his low health, this wasn't ideal.
'Actually, come to think of it I'll get all of the memories from the merge' Which speaking of, W had seen quite some things. A lot of it was blurry perhaps a result of being battered black and blue by the system before completely assimilating them but the things were interesting nonetheless.
Ed was particularly interested in getting to know the goblin and whatever method it had used to attack the assassin. W was not in his right of mind in battle but an outside analysis would easily allow one to see that the goblin elder was the only one capable of attacking with an unknown invisible method.