"If you want to leave, then leave!"
Ethan let out a sigh. He didn't want to keep getting tangled up with someone like the Genie Sylas, who would just stand by and do nothing to help.
If someone isn't genuinely willing to help you, then keeping them here is pointless. Forget helping, it's already good enough if they don't drag you down. Even if it's a Archmage, but…
'But what!'
"Really?"
Sylas was overjoyed, "You said it yourself! If I heal these few people, you have to let me go. No going back on your word."
"Hurry up and heal them!"
Ethan roared!
Bird One was practically on the brink of death, and both the healer lady and Wood Eight had already been eaten away by the plague up to their necks.
'And you're still bargaining with me about this? Bargain my ass!'
"God of Light… blah blah… grant me the power of light!"
After chanting a long spell, a bright white glow lit up in Sylas's hand, like a tiny sun, so dazzling that people couldn't even open their eyes.
The moment all the residents hurriedly shut their eyes, Ethan pulled out a pair of primitive sunglasses he got from Mr. White and put them on.
Then… He saw Sylas split the white light into two. One fell onto Bird One, and the other landed on Wood Eight and the healer.
And then, the black plague on Bird One's body, upon encountering the white light, was just like night meeting the rising sun.
It rapidly receded.
The plague covering Bird One had almost reached the top of her body, but now it shrank back at a speed visible to the naked eye, retreating all the way down to her claws and the tips of her wings… and then it suddenly stopped.
Not just Bird One, even the black plague on Wood Eight and the healer initially receded quickly, but the healer's plague stopped after retreating to her arms.
It seemed like that thick, ink-like substance couldn't be compressed any further.
This was already its most concentrated state.
As for Wood Eight… he had it even worse. His infection had started as spots, and now his body was covered in small black dots, like someone had splattered ink all over him.
Those tiny black dots were also shrinking with effort, but once they reached a certain point, they stopped as well.
"Th-this… what's going on?"
Sylas looked completely stunned, 'How could my Holy Light spell fail?'
'It isn't my first time dealing with plague…'
But this was the first time he'd failed.
"Why didn't it completely disappear?", Ethan said with a dissatisfied look behind his sunglasses, "Didn't you say you could cure it?"
"Logically speaking, I should be able to…"
Sylas looked at the three of them in confusion, then muttered, "Could it be the concentration of holy light isn't enough? I'll try increasing the intensity."
"God of Light…"
As Sylas chanted an even longer spell, the light in his hand grew brighter and brighter.
Only when the glowing sphere in his hand became twice as big as before did he stop. This time, he didn't bother splitting it in two. Instead, he directly smashed the light sphere onto Bird One.
But at the very instant the sphere struck, Ethan saw something bizarre.
Because… the moment the sphere landed on Bird One, it actually splashed that thick, ink-like plague upward.
That's right. It splashed, like an ice cube dropping into cola.
The black plague, like liquid, surged rapidly toward the one casting the spell.
Seeing this, Ethan quickly stepped back.
But by the time he wanted to warn Sylas, it was already too late.
Although Sylas didn't have a physical body, the golden teapot that housed his soul, or his spirit form, was a real object. So Ethan watched as the teapot gradually turned from gold to black.
That eerie scene made him freeze on the spot.
'This plague… is truly terrifying!'
It seemed that no matter what it encountered, whether human or object, it would infect it instantly.
After a long moment, Sylas noticed Ethan staring at him in shock, and looked down at himself in confusion. Then his eyes widened in horror, "H-how did this happen?"
"I clearly never came into contact with the plague. Why did it spread to me?"
Ethan watched as Sylas's gray mist gradually turned into black mist, his mouth hanging open in shock.
After muttering to himself for a while, Sylas suddenly seemed to figure something out, his eyes widening, "I get it! I get it!!"
"This plague can spread through energy, it transmits through energy!"
"We're finished. Everyone's finished."
"This world is really going to end!"
As Sylas started rambling like he'd lost his mind, saying things no one could understand, Ethan could only watch helplessly as the plague corroded him bit by bit, even shrinking him little by little, until he finally withdrew back into the now-black teapot.
"Archmage Sylas?"
"Sylas?"
Unfortunately, no matter how Ethan called out to him, the teapot gave no response.
At that moment, Ethan was completely dumbfounded.
But he didn't dare touch the teapot either. Even a Archmage had fallen victim just now. What chance did he, just an ordinary unscrupulous merchant, have?
"You all return to your dorms first," Ethan waved his hand, dismissing all the residents. Then he turned to the healer and Wood Eight, "You two, hang on here for a bit. I'll go find my master and be right back."
"Yes, Lord!"
The healer and Wood Eight responded at the same time.
Ethan glanced over them and saw that although the plague on their bodies hadn't been completely removed, at least its spread had slowed down.
As for Bird One… with all the delay, the time limit of her bird transformation had run out, and she was starting to revert back into human form.
Her winged arms rapidly degenerated, gradually turning back into human arms. The feathers on her body began to disappear, and her claws quickly transformed back into human feet, though the plague on them remained.
Whoosh!
Ethan took off his self-heating fur coat and decisively covered Bird One with it.
He might be a bit shameless, but he wasn't without principles.
He had always been a straightforward, openly scummy merchant.
As for peeking at women, he had no interest in that.
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