Chapter 178: When Cutting Weeds, Pull Up the Roots. If You Strike, Go All the Way!
"D-Did he die?"
After the chain of explosions ended, a voice slowly rang out.
Everyone was hoping for it.
They wanted to know whether the man who had easily killed their captain had now died in the Kaenseki explosion.
The ones holding magic swords were especially tense. Each of them was ready to rush forward and finish him off at any moment.
However, their slightly trembling hands revealed just how unsettled they were.
Step. Step.
Yet from the smoke and dust left by the explosion, footsteps rang out.
"Your idea was good, but if you want to kill me, you'll need to show some real power first."
Ethan's relaxed voice drifted out.
Kaenseki? Sorry, but Ethan truly did not take that kind of thing seriously.
Class Skill: Magic Resistance.
It was the ability to resist magecraft. Roughly speaking, it could nullify magecraft of the same rank or lower.
The [Magic Resistance] Ethan obtained had no fixed rank. Its effect depended on the magical energy Ethan possessed.
And magical energy was the one thing Ethan lacked least.
Because of that, Ethan's Magic Resistance was extremely high.
Kaenseki contained violent magical elements. Once stimulated, it would explode, but the damage it caused was still magical energy damage.
"H-He's still alive!"
A voice rang out, and everyone instantly fell into fear.
"Sorry, but you've finished your move. Now it's my turn."
Swish.
Pshk.
"The first."
The crimson Rose pierced straight through the first person's heart and took his life.
What followed was one-sided slaughter.
Holding [Gáe Dearg — Crimson Rose of Exorcism] and [Gáe Buidhe — Yellow Rose of Mortality], Ethan began killing without restraint.
In Ethan's hands, the red and yellow spears seemed to come alive. Each strike easily took another life.
The Apollo Familia had over a hundred members, and more than half of them were here, nearly sixty people in total.
Most of them were Lv.2 adventurers. Clearly, they were the core members of the Apollo Familia.
Now, in a single night, all of them were killed by Ethan.
It was no exaggeration to say that after tonight, the Apollo Familia would suffer a serious blow. After all, almost all of its real talent had been wiped out.
"Master."
After the slaughter finally came to an end, Revis walked over with "Syr."
"You did very well, Revis."
Facing Ethan's praise, Revis lowered her head slightly and placed herself in a very humble position.
"Syr" watched this scene, no longer knowing what to say.
This woman, who had come from who knew where, was estimated to be at least Lv.5.
That made things very interesting.
Ethan had only been an adventurer for three months, yet he already had a Lv.5 follower?
"Horn-san, I'm sorry to trouble you tonight."
"Hmph. This wasn't for you. It was only because of Freya-sama's order."
That familiar feeling was still there. Horn-san remained full of hostility toward Ethan.
However, Ethan only smiled slightly.
From Horn, he could not sense even the slightest trace of "malice," so she was clearly saying this on purpose.
"Scorpio, time to work."
Swish.
A large number of black scorpions crawled out from every corner and began cleaning the battlefield.
They disposed of all the corpses and gathered every valuable item.
Among the spoils were more than twenty magic swords. Although only five were high-grade goods, they still counted as a small fortune altogether.
"M-My lord…"
Daphne and Cassandra came over. Looking at the corpses around them, the shock they received was no small matter.
Cassandra especially felt the scene before her overlap with the "dream" in her memory.
The sun's descendants lying in rivers of blood. These corpses here were only a part of it.
"Take them back and hand them to Freya-sama. Especially this one. She has the ability of 'prophetic dreams.'"
"Prophetic dreams?"
"That's right. She 'foresaw' what happened tonight long ago."
"Interesting."
Hearing Ethan's words, Horn looked at Cassandra with some surprise.
Adventurers really did come in all kinds.
She had originally thought she was special enough. She could transform into the goddess and even share the same emotions as her.
Now even "prophetic dreams" had appeared.
"Hm? What else are you planning to do?"
At this moment, Horn looked at Ethan, whose cold expression still had not faded, and a bad feeling rose in her heart.
"Nothing much. Since I've already started, I naturally need to clean things up properly."
Ethan said this very casually.
Whether this had been Hyakinthos's personal decision or Apollo's will, Ethan would not let Apollo and the Apollo Familia go.
Especially now, Ethan already possessed the strength to fight all of Orario by himself.
It was no exaggeration to say that if Ethan wanted, he had enough power to overturn all of Orario alone.
Once he had the power to flip the table, his actions naturally became harder to restrain.
"Revis."
"Yes."
The two of them vanished into the darkness, one after the other.
As for the surrounding scorpions, they also silently disappeared into the night.
Cassandra and Daphne could not help turning their eyes toward Horn.
This woman gave them a terrifying sense of pressure, so neither of them dared to act recklessly in front of her.
Cassandra especially knew that tonight was destined to become a river of blood.
The Apollo Familia's base was in the lively street between the Fifth and Sixth Districts, right beside the trade district.
It was an extremely busy area.
However, at this late-night hour, Ethan moved like a ghost and crossed everything with ease.
"You are—mmph!"
The guard watching the Familia's gate had not even finished speaking before his throat was directly slit.
The one who acted was Revis.
Since they had come to wipe the enemy out, naturally, they would leave no survivors.
And since this was Ethan's order, Revis did not hesitate in the slightest.
This period of the night was when people were most tired.
Because of that, their attack was almost like entering an empty land.
Tap, tap, tap.
Inside the luxurious estate, Apollo's taste as the God of Art was naturally not poor.
The only thing Ethan could not accept was that Apollo's sculptures and portraits were everywhere.
Just how narcissistic did he have to be?
As for Ethan's destination, it was Apollo's bedroom.
Since he had chosen to act, he had to pull the weeds up by the roots.
Either do nothing, or do it completely.
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