At first, Ethan didn't think anything was wrong.
Until... a huge three-masted sailing ship appeared right in front of Ethan.
Only then was Ethan shocked by the sight before him, "Holy shit! Wasn't everyone unable to open their spatial rings? Why does this group of black mages have a ship?"
"Uh...", Nightmare Eye blinked its eyelids, which were made of demonic armor, and said, "I don't know either. But if you really want to find out, you can give me a high-grade spirit stone, and I'll help you analyze it."
"Damn! If I'd known you were this expensive, I would've brought the radio in with me," Ethan rolled his eyes.
Although he was making money pretty quickly now, he was just stingy and didn't want to waste so much money just to have you analyze something for me.
"Don't be silly. To ensure fairness, all predictive items are prohibited from being brought into the Demon Tree."
Nightmare Eye said smugly, "If it weren't for you, the Demon Tree would've directly judged me to be part of your body. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't have been able to get in either."
"Besides, me devouring spirit stones benefits you too. Can you really call something you feed yourself expensive?"
"How does it benefit me?", Ethan asked in confusion.
"You and I are practically one now. After that damn furnace forged me, I felt like I was just a tiny bit away from evolving," Nightmare Eye continued, "Maybe if you replenish my energy, I'll level up! I'm you, and you're me. If I level up, doesn't that mean you level up too?"
"You'd better not lie to me!", Ethan took out a high-grade spirit stone, then asked in confusion, "But how exactly do you expect me to eat this thing?"
"Swallow it whole!"
Nightmare Eye answered without hesitation.
Ethan was completely dumbfounded. He looked at the spirit stone in his hand, which was as hard as a diamond, and asked again, "Swallow it whole?"
"What? Is there a problem?", Nightmare Eye complained, "Do you think you're still a human being right now? No, that's not a polite way to put it. I should ask it this way: Do you think you still look like a human being right now? No, that's not right either..."
"Enough! Enough! If you don't know how to talk, then just shut up!"
Ethan lowered his head and looked at himself, now transformed into a giant slingshot. He felt that Nightmare Eye might not be entirely wrong.
He wasn't exactly a person anymore, was he?
Maybe he could digest these things directly after all?
If it didn't work, he could figure something out later.
"Gulp!"
Ethan swallowed the high-grade spirit stone.
The next moment, he felt an enormous amount of energy released from the spirit stone, which then flowed toward his head.
Meanwhile, Nightmare Eye looked utterly delighted, as if it were savoring something delicious.
[Ding! Nightmare Eye has upgraded to Appraisal Eye!]
"Damn, it really did level up!"
Ethan was quite shocked.
Nightmare Eye was even more pleased with itself now. "Well? Didn't I tell you it would work?"
BOOM!
However, before the two of them could finish celebrating, another huge silver projectile came hurtling toward the top-tier raft, Nightmare Eye immediately shouted, "Ethan, four o'clock direction, fifty percent force! Bounce it back!"
"Got it!"
Hearing this, Ethan guessed that Nightmare Eye's analysis ability had taken effect.
He immediately adjusted the direction of the slingshot according to Nightmare Eye's instructions. Sure enough, he caught the projectile fired from the black mages' ship in one go. Then he adjusted the slingshot's tension and sent it flying right back.
Whoosh... BOOM!
The silver projectile was launched straight back and slammed into the black mages' ship.
The impact shook the entire three-masted ship, making it rock violently.
"YES!"
Ethan was overjoyed. He had finally managed to counterattack for once.
Only after analyzing the situation did Nightmare Eye explain to Ethan, "Wizard Chess! One of the black mages on board is an expert at Wizard Chess, and Wizard Chess is also its weapon. There's a ship inside the Wizard Chess set."
"Damn, that's possible too?"
Ethan was speechless.
Nightmare Eye swept its gaze over the small chessboard hanging from Ethan's chest and said, "Actually, you have a chessboard too. Maybe you can take them on."
"Huh? My chessboard is still here?"
Only after Nightmare Eye reminded him did Ethan realize that the chessboard he'd won from the Chess Sage was still hanging around his neck, completely intact. It hadn't been melted down by the Fusion Tempering Furnace.
Looks like this chessboard really does have some tricks up its sleeve.
"This chessboard is an object from beyond the heavens. How could it be so easily melted down?", Nightmare Eye gave Ethan a disdainful look, "Though I don't know whether the Chess Sage's soul will be able to manifest here."
"It doesn't matter whether he can or not. Anyway, his chess skills aren't as good as mine."
After shamelessly boasting a little, Ethan tossed the chessboard hanging around his neck out.
The chessboard instantly transformed into an enormous realm of grid-like squares above the Red Sea.
And then... Ethan stepped into this chessboard realm and sneered, "So, you're black mages, huh? Then today, let me use our Eastern chess to test what kind of abilities your so-called Western Wizard Chess really has."
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