"BOOM!"
As expected, the fireball slammed straight into the frog's corpse.
Immediately after, the frog's body began to burn violently.
Watching the blazing frog corpse, Ethan could not help but sigh. This Great Fireball Technique looked kind of weak, but who would have thought the power was actually pretty decent.
Burning corpses with it, the effect was solid as hell.
'Mm, with this ability, going to work at a crematorium should probably make quite a lot of money too.'
'Damn it, why am I slipping back into corporate slave thinking again!'
Smash!
"Flash!"
However, right at this moment, Ethan suddenly saw something flicker within the ashes of the frog's corpse.
[Witch's Pinky Ring: A spatial ring used by witches to store various items (similar to a backpack, but food placed inside can achieve a thousand-year preservation effect). The witch swallowed it into her stomach at the instant she turned into a frog.]
[PS: Although the pinky ring hides the witch's treasure, once you open the ring, you will also be entangled by the witch's curse.]
Just as Ethan was about to reach out to pick it up, his hand stiffened in midair.
'This witch is really never-ending.'
The person was already reduced to ashes, and she still left behind a curse.
Before knowing exactly what the curse was, Ethan really did not dare to rashly reach out and take it.
'What exactly is happy times—'
'No, what exactly is the witch's curse?'
'At least explain it clearly!'
[...]
The prompt gave no response at all.
Now Ethan was even more annoyed. Should he take this pinky ring or not?
Putting aside the fact that the witch's pinky ring contained a large number of treasures like scrolls, just the fact that it could store meat and other foods and keep them unspoiled for ten thousand years already made it a top-tier refrigerator, okay.
If he did not take it, Ethan felt unwilling.
But if he did take it, before confirming what kind of curse the witch had placed on the ring, Ethan really did not dare to touch it.
"Meow~"
At this moment, Ethan suddenly heard a cat's cry.
The sound felt extremely familiar. Thinking of a certain possibility, his pupils shrank as he blurted out, "Daji?"
"Meowu!"
The cat's voice carried a trembling tone, the kind that represented grievance.
Immediately after, a gust of wind swept past Ethan and dove straight into his arms, rubbing and nuzzling.
"Meowu~ meowu~"
"Daji, how are you here?"
Ethan was shocked and hurriedly rubbed Daji's little head.
Only then did he finally notice that Daji had many new wounds on her body.
Not only were there several cuts on her face, even her arms and waist had been injured by something unknown, leaving several one-inch-long bloody gashes. Some of the blood had already clotted, while some was still flowing bright red.
Worst of all, one section of Daji's tail was actually missing.
"Daji, what happened to you?", Ethan was horrified. He hurriedly picked Daji up, his heart aching badly.
But Daji could not speak, and could only look at Ethan pitifully, pressing her head against his palm, asking for pats, asking for comfort.
"You did not go back yesterday, did you? You were looking for me the whole time?"
When this possibility occurred to Ethan, he was completely stunned.
He had no idea what Daji had gone through in a single night, for her entire body to be covered in wounds.
Most likely, she had fought with those existences within the mist.
But because Daji was originally a native of the Mist World, she was able to escape from the mist monsters, though she still suffered quite serious injuries.
"Meowu…"
Daji's cry was very weak. After responding softly to Ethan, she simply lay down in his arms and closed her eyes.
"Cat… cat transformation!"
Ethan watched helplessly as Daji reverted from her cat demon form back into an ordinary cat.
Even her body began to shrink.
"This… how could this happen?"
Ethan immediately panicked, because he did not know whether Daji was like this because her injuries were too severe, or... he did not dare to think about what would come next.
He hurriedly picked Daji up, wanting to place her onto the bone horse and take her back to the villa as fast as possible.
There was a pharmacy in the villa, and there were doctors too. Maybe they would have a way to cure Daji, or perhaps Daji was simply exhausted from battle.
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