"Grand Fireball!"
Ethan casually waved the wand in his hand.
A massive fireball instantly shot toward Nolan and slammed into his palm, directly blasting a charred wound into his Iron Sand Palm.
Bang!
Nolan crashed to the ground and froze in shock.
He had never expected Ethan to actually be... a mage.
"You... how is this possible...", Nolan sat on the ground, completely unable to accept his defeat, "How... how could I lose!"
"No way," Even Ethan was stunned, "That's all the strength you've got, and you still talked about killing me?"
"Ethan, if you've got the guts, let me go too! I'll fight you!", Sweety shouted loudly.
But Ethan merely glanced at the woman and said, "I don't have the guts. Now, happy?"
"..."
Everyone instantly fell silent.
And when Nolan saw Sweety actually trying to help him, embarrassment and fury mixed together. He swung his injured hand aside and said, "I don't need anyone helping me! I can do this!!"
"Oh? Then I'm looking forward to what you do next."
After figuring out Nolan's strength, Ethan immediately relaxed.
He had practically used a butcher knife to kill a chicken.
'And this guy is only this strong?'
This level of strength honestly felt like a waste of his expressions.
"You're looking down on me!"
After saying that, Nolan slammed his other burning-hot palm against the ground.
Instantly, countless clouds of dust flew into the air.
And then... Nolan disappeared.
"Uh... what's going on?"
Ethan's expression immediately changed in shock. He had not expected Nolan to actually have some tricks up his sleeve, 'Did I underestimate him?'
While carefully scanning the surroundings, he slowly retreated to the side.
An invisible opponent like this...
Crunch~ Crunch~
However, before Ethan could even finish worrying, he saw the snow on the farmland start bulging upward.
It looked like a mole digging tunnels underground, forcefully pushing dirt and snow up onto the surface, making it extremely obvious.
Not only that, the noise was loud too.
'Could this be... their so-called Earth Escape Technique?'
["Ethan!"] the scarecrow quickly warned him through telepathy, ["He's using the Earth Escape Art!"]
"I can tell."
Ethan did not know whether to laugh or cry.
'Come on. It is obvious, alright?'
'How the hell is this earth escape?'
'This is basically a damn excavator digging tunnels.'
"Hardening!"
Ethan casually cast Hardening onto the ground.
Instantly, the entire ground seemed to freeze solid. Not only did the snow harden into ice, even the farmland soil turned into something like concrete.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Nolan was apparently trapped underground and unable to get out, so he immediately started pounding the tunnel walls with his fists, producing muffled thudding sounds from below the ground.
Ethan smiled as he walked over, then pulled out the Godslayer Sword and stabbed it straight into the hardened ground.
"AAAAH!"
A scream rang out from underground.
Nolan was probably done for. Even Sweety, who was trapped nearby, screamed out too.
"NOLAN!"
Bang!
However, just as Ethan was about to pull the Godslayer Sword back out, a faint sound of dirt breaking suddenly came from behind him.
It sounded like something had suddenly burst out of the ground.
Ethan quickly turned his head, only to discover, Nolan had somehow appeared behind him. He was leaping high into the air, his palm glowing red as he prepared to strike Ethan down.
At that moment, Ethan finally realized... he had probably been tricked.
Then, from the corner of his eye, he caught a flash of smugness in Sweety's expression.
'Looks like... I really fell for it.'
These two had worked together perfectly. Especially Sweety, she had deliberately helped create the image that Nolan was just a dumb brute, while Nolan himself pretended to be a straightforward meathead who only wanted a fair fight.
Then they used some kind of creature capable of earth escape to deliberately create noise and draw Ethan's attention.
And then... once Ethan relaxed because he thought he had already won, Nolan burst out from underground for a sneak attack.
'Impressive.'
At this point, Ethan honestly wanted to applaud this scheming couple.
'These two are seriously good.'
'In such a short amount of time, they already set up their fake personas and the sneak attack plan perfectly.'
'One scheme after another, layered endlessly.'
"Ethan, today I came to avenge my younger brother!", Nolan shouted as he struck at Ethan, "Do you remember Solan, who got erased for violating your so-called Lord Contract? That was my brother!"
"Oh."
Faced with Nolan's furious roar, Ethan was not scared in the slightest. He merely responded with a cold "oh."
And then, Nolan's body suddenly froze in midair. Disbelief instantly filled his eyes, and then his body abruptly split apart down the middle.
Like a pig sent through a sawmill, he was sliced cleanly into two halves.
Bang!
Bang!
The next moment, two heavy thuds sounded across the snowy ground.
Nolan's two halves crashed straight into the snow, his eyes still filled with overwhelming disbelief.
Unfortunately, he could no longer ask any questions.
"AHHH!", Sweety screamed, "Nolan! Nolan!"
"Stop yelling already," Ethan rubbed his ears and said, "Even though I don't know what trick you used to help Nolan avoid my attack earlier, this time he's dead for real. Completely dead."
"What exactly did you do?", Sweety's eyes were filled with disbelief and pain, "Why... I didn't even see you draw your sword! I didn't see you use your wand either! Then why... why..."
"And why would I tell you why?"
Ethan tilted his head as he looked at the woman.
At that moment, Sweety's eyes were filled with restraint as she said, "What do you want? I'll trade you for it! But I have to know how Nolan died!"
"Straightforward. I like that," Ethan walked over to Sweety and said, "Then what if I want you? Will you give yourself too?"
"I...", Sweety glared viciously at Ethan, "Fine! I will!"
"Now I'm curious. Nolan's already dead, so why are you still this obsessed with it?", Ethan smiled, "Don't tell me he really was your lover?"
"Yes!", With Nolan dead, Sweety stopped pretending and admitted it directly, "The one I really liked was this idiot! But I couldn't marry him, because Senior Brother would kill him. I didn't want to drag him into this!"
"But I never thought I'd still end up hurting him in the end!"
"If I had known, I should've stopped him from helping me complete this mission from the start."
"As for why I absolutely have to know how Nolan died, it's because I promised Nolan's sister that I would definitely bring him back whole. But now..."
"I don't even know if I'll be able to bring his body back anymore, so I have to know what killed him."
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