Chapter 26

Ethan walked around for few more hours and fought around three other brown slime after his fight against the mole slime. All the slime he met after the dungeon change took form of other animals or monsters. The strongest he fought was a brown slime that took the shape of gorilla. The gorilla slime strength was no joke. It was at least at level 8. Ethan got lucky again because the gorilla slime used rock body and its movement slowed down more than 90%. Ethan spammed water ball and defeat the gorilla slime.

Ethan walked around the island to find a way to get to another island. He thought that maybe there will be a teleport point to transfer to another island or else he will need to jump to get to another island and that was impossible at his current level. The distance from island to island were huge.

"Hmm? What is that sound? Someone fighting?" Ethan heard a clanking sound of metal hitting each other. His face brighten when he thought someone else was nearby. Ethan quickly run towards the sound in hope of meeting someone else who he can formed a temporary party with. Ethan reached an area with small clearing and saw a man fighting three brown slime. The man was slim, but he was fit. He has a beautiful face and long hair. If not properly looked, he can be misunderstood as girl. In less than a minute, one by one, the brown slime was defeated. The man used his spear and show how good and proficient he was with his spear. He easily defeated the slime.

"Weakling. I thought after the dungeon change you will become stronger," said the beautiful man. "This is disappointing," said him again with a serious face.

Ethan walked towards the beautiful man and greeted him, "Hi, I am Ethan. I was walking around here to find someone else and I saw your fight just now. Do you want to temporarily form a party with me?" asked Ethan politely while smiling. He continued, "If you don't want to, that is fine. I will find someone else."

The beautiful man stared at Ethan. Ethan felt chilled throughout hid body. 'What? This guy feels dangerous, I should retreat' "Ah~ If you don't want to, I will just go. I'm sorry I disturb you," said Ethan with apologetic face and he walked backwards.

"Around Level 5," the beautiful man said while staring at Ethan.

Ethan jolted a bit when the beautiful man said that and said, "I'm sorry?" suddenly Ethan felt something hit his body. He looked at his body and his stomach was bleeding, "What happen?" Ethan quickly looked at the beautiful man.

"Weakling," said the beautiful man. His eyes was filled with disgusted while looking at Ethan. His spear was pointing at Ethan.

'He! Attack me! With his spear?' Ethan was dumbfounded and suddenly he saw the spear twitched. Ethan felt he needed to move, and he immediately move to his right while holding his injured stomach. Ethan rolled on the ground and quickly stand up again. He grabbed a restore potion in his storage and quickly drank it.

The beautiful man saw Ethan dodged his attack and a sinister smile appeared on his face. Ethan saw that and knew that he should not appeared in front of this man. He made the wrong choice.

"Kuku kuku, impressive. Really impressive. A level 5 weakling like you can dodge my attack. I think I will play around with you for a bit," said the beautiful man. He took a step and vanished. Ethan was shocked but he instinctively knew that he needed to move too. Ethan move to his right. The beautiful man appeared in front of him and his left shoulder was punctured by the beautiful man's spear.

"Kuhakkk!" Ethan was screaming in pain, but he immediately grabbed another restore potion from his storage with his left hand and before he can drink it, the beautiful man slash the restore potion but not only the restore potion, Ethan's finger also got cut from the spear. Ethan fall to the ground and the beautiful man directed his spear straight towards Ethan's heart. The beautiful man's first attack was also aimed at Ethan's heart, but Ethan managed to dodge that. Ethan used his full strength and parried the second attack using his dagger and he move from his positions and gained some distance from the beautiful man.

The beautiful man's face showed great surprise and he started laughing, "Kuku kuku. You really is something else. You evade my attack not once but twice and you are only level 5. Are you- 'The One'" the beautiful man stared at Ethan with murderous aura. Ethan started sweating a lot and he can feel his body becoming weaker. Ethan lost a lot of blood. When he dodged the second attack, he managed to drink another restore potion and stopped the bleeding, but he can't restore his lost fingers.

"That's weird, you are not on the list," said the beautiful man. The beautiful man tilted his head and his ear was exposed. Ethan's eye opened wide.

"Pointy ears! You are an Elf!" said Ethan. "Why? Elf is well known for their love of peace and they never tried to attack others other than protecting themselves."

"Don't put me on the same level as that inferior being," said the elf in anger. "I can feel water elements from you body," said the elf and he brought out an orb from his storage. "You are stronger than I thought though you are not 'The One'. I will give you an honor to be my water orb nourishment," said the Elf.

When Ethan saw the orb, he stunned. "Th-that orb," Ethan looked at the elf's cloth and saw a familiar emblem. That emblem was the same emblem that he saw on the black robe man that destroyed his village 9 years ago. Ethan's face filled with rage. "Where is that guy!!!" Ethan screamed with rage and charged towards the Elf.

He used his dagger arts: triple slash and slashed the elf. The elf easily evade it without much effort, but Ethan also used his water ball and strike the elf at his blind spot. The water ball hit, and the elf was taken aback. The water ball did not cause much damage to the elf, but it manage to lower his guard down. "Tch!" said the elf. Ethan also did not waste that much time after the first water ball and use the second and third water ball, but the elf managed to block it completely.

Then, the elf counter attack. Ethan parried the first strike, but the second strike comes too fast for him to parried and the attack land straight to his left shoulder right beside the earlier injury. Before the spear managed to stab through his shoulder, Ethan pulled his shoulder back and managed to prevent his left shoulder to be punctured like the earlier damage. Due to his rage, Ethan kept going forward and tried to kill the elf, but the elf evade most of his attack. However, the elf's attack always hit Ethan. Slowly, Ethan's body can't move like how he used to.

Ethan fell on his knees. His body was full of stab wound. Blood was flowing out of his body nonstop. His left hand was severed from his body.

"You last longer than I thought. I waste too much time playing with you. Time to say goodbye," the elf used his spear and stabbed right through Ethan's heart.

"Huk…" Ethan's voice comes out. The elf keep pushing his spear and his spear came out of Ethan's back and straight to the ground.

"I get a good harvest today," said the elf while smiling. Ethan slowly moves his right hand holding his iron dagger and pointed towards the elf's chest. "Hmm~ You are not dead yet. What? You think you can stab me now that I am near you. Fine I will give you chance to do that. Here," the elf cockily put his chest at the tip of Ethan's iron dagger, "Kekeke, stab me if you can. Come on, I give you some chance now."

With his dead eyes, Ethan smiled. "Why are you smiling? Are you happy that I give you this chance? Only a weakling feels happy with this. I guess you are the sa-" before the elf finish talking, he felt something pierce his heart. The elf looked at his chest and saw Ethan hold a red dagger and that dagger pierce his heart. It was the blaze dagger. The blaze dagger was longer than the iron dagger.

"What?" The elf felt angry. "You!!!" the elf pulled his spear out of Ethan's body and slash Ethan's neck. Ethan's head fell on the ground. A cyan light came out of Ethan's body and went inside the water orb. "Hmph! How dare an ant like you pulled that trick on me," said the elf. Although Ethan pierce the elf's heart, the elf was fine because he immediately drank high restore potion. The elf looked at his water orb, "Hmm? Why is the orb color like this?" the water orb color change from blue to cyan.