"Hehehehe!"
Inside the smoke, strange laughter began echoing everywhere.
Ethan didn't even need to ask to know that it had to be the cursed doll laughing.
If it were some other kind of attack, whether magic or physical or whatever, he might still have some way to fight back.
But this kind of attack that you can't see and can't touch was just too hard to deal with.
"So boring!"
"Hehehehe!"
"Will you play with me?"
The voice came from all directions.
For a moment, Ethan had no idea where the monster actually was.
He had already nocked a splitting arrow, ready to fire at any time. But with smoke everywhere, he couldn't find its position at all.
Forget shooting. He couldn't even aim right now.
"It's over, it's over!"
Mr. White trembled as he pulled out an ancient parchment scroll from his pocket, "This time, I really took a huge loss."
"Wuwuwu! A teleportation scroll worth over a million dragon coins, wasted here. What a pity!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Mr. White prepared to unfold the parchment.
But before he could open it, the scroll in his hand vanished in the blink of an eye.
"I… my teleportation scroll?"
Mr. White stared at his now empty palm and froze on the spot.
And his so called teleportation scroll had naturally appeared in Ethan's hand. Since Ethan was wearing the invisibility cloak, Mr. White couldn't see him at all.
Ethan looked at the scroll in his hand.
[Teleportation Scroll That Ignores Barriers: The moment it is torn open, you can appear at any place you imagine in your mind. It is known as an unlimited door.]
[PS: Making this teleportation scroll requires a spatial beast core. But because spatial beasts are not only rare in number but also extremely difficult to hunt, this scroll is very precious. You can say that once one is used, there is one less in existence.]
"Mr. White, you were the one who said this little coffin could be taken out. That's why I took it out," Ethan said calmly from the side, "Now that you see you can't handle it, you're going to leave this mess to me and pat your butt and walk away? Isn't that a bit too much?"
"Eth… Lord…"
Only then did Mr. White realize that the one who had taken the scroll from his hand was Ethan.
Just as Mr. White was about to get angry, he heard that strange laughter coming again from midair. He quickly said, "Th-then… then… we'll leave together! Leave together, alright?"
"If I leave, what about my people?", Ethan raised an eyebrow.
He had finally built his territory up to what it was now.
If he just gave it up like that, it would be the same as giving up his position as Lord and starting all over again.
Unless it was absolutely necessary, he would never do that.
"Lord, as long as the green hills remain, you won't have to worry about firewood!"
Mr. White said, "If you don't want to leave, I won't force you!"
"Just treat the teleportation scroll as me losing a hundred bone horses to you, plus the money for that eavesdropping bug, and compensation for my bad decision!"
"I'll head out first. We'll meet again someday!"
As he spoke, Mr. White took out another [Teleportation Scroll That Ignores Barriers] from his chest and was just about to tear it open—
"Hehehe… AHHHH!"
The cursed doll's scream suddenly cut off.
It was like something had stabbed it. It was laughing one second, and the next second it just stopped.
"What's going on?"
Mr. White stopped tearing the scroll and stared blankly at the smoke that was slowly dispersing.
But Ethan already knew what was happening, because, the scarecrow had sent him a message.
["Lord, I caught a little guy. What should I do with it?"]
"Hahaha, well done!"
Ethan was overjoyed.
He hadn't expected that this so called curse crisis would actually be countered by the scarecrow, a being that feared neither curse nor life nor death, neither human nor object. It had pinned it to the ground with one strike.
As expected of a single spear that can travel the world.
'If I don't like you, I'll stab you dead.'
"L-Lord, what's going on?"
Mr. White was still hesitating over whether to tear the [Teleportation Scroll That Ignores Barriers] in his hand.
After all, this one was worth a million dragon coins. Even for him, he'd have to act like a shady merchant for a long time to earn that back. And besides, this thing wasn't easy to get in the first place.
Unless it was truly a life or death moment, who would be willing to waste it.
"What's going on is that the cursed doll has been restrained. I just saved you a million. How are you going to thank me?"
As Ethan spoke, he grinned and tucked away the scroll he had "gotten for free."
Even though he already had one, good stuff was never too much.
"Thank you?"
Once Mr. White heard that the crisis was over, his temper flared up, "How about you return the teleportation scroll you just snatched from me, and then I'll properly thank you?"
"How can that count as your thanks? Didn't we already agree that it was compensation you gave me?"
"Lord, aren't you a bit too crooked!"
"You're the eunuch! Your whole family are eunuchs!"
Ethan shot back.
Mr. White stood there confused, not even knowing which sentence had triggered Ethan.
But he also knew that getting back a scroll worth a million from Ethan, who was at the same level. No, a higher level shady merchant than him, was pure wishful thinking.
If he were the one who got the scroll, he definitely wouldn't spit it back out either.
"Sigh! What a loss! What a loss!"
Mr. White let out a long sigh.
Just earlier today, he had been feeling proud about making an extra five hundred thousand from the Wild Witch. Who would've thought that before the money even warmed his hands, someone else would harvest it away.
He wasn't even a leek, so how did he get cut so easily?
"Cough! Cough! Cough!"
Although the cursed doll had been taken down by the scarecrow, the poisonous gas it released from the coffin still lingered, choking the air and making Ethan cough repeatedly.
Ethan rolled his eyes and shouted, "White Eagle!"
"Coo! Coo!"
In front of Ethan, White Eagle didn't dare screech. If it did, it would get beaten.
So it could only coo like a pigeon twice to respond.
"Absorb all the smoke for me!"
Ever since Ethan learned that White Eagle had vacuum cleaner abilities, he naturally had to make good use of it.
Hearing that, White Eagle could only let out a wronged little "coo."
(lll゜▽゜)
After that…
"Hiss!"
It opened its beak and, in one breath, sucked all the poisonous gas in the dining hall into its mouth.
With White Eagle working at full power like a vacuum cleaner, the smoke that filled the dining hall was quickly completely absorbed.
Soon, the dining hall became bright and clear again.
Only then, did Mr. White finally see, right in the middle of the dining hall, a swaying scarecrow wearing a patched hat, dressed in a somewhat ugly patched suit, with quite a bit of straw poking out from inside the suit.
But the scarecrow's pair of eyes were very lively, looking just like a real person.
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