Lost Child (3)

Everything finally clicked in his mind. It's unlikely he did everything right now, So he deduce that Ethan must have set this trap beforehand.

He was absolutely right. He recover some more memory after his recent rank-up. In his memory, He found this building which was going through complication due to which construction was on hold. He made it his lair and set traps in case of emergency. He lived in this place for almost a month.

Adhesive were already present here in mass. Ethan just put them in use after some adjustments.

Ethan was feeling satisfied with himself as he look down on abductor. Suddenly, Abductor smirked and Ethan face turn ugly.

He was using water to soften the glue. He forget about it!!

Ethan withdraws few mana bombs from his storage. Abductor saw that and raises his voice.

"I don't think you have high-ranked mana bomb."

"No."

Ethan gave a simple reply and throw mana bombs toward ceiling.

Boom.

Mana Bomb explodes and ceiling fell on pit. He raises his hand and covers himself with a water dome.

Memorize.

Ethan memorizes all the detail about abductor and start forming a plan in his mind.

Dust spread as ceiling fell with loud sound of rubbles. Ethan ran away without wasting any time.

After some time, a man covered in dust finally comes out from the pit. His expression was hideous, disturbing his handsome face. He was excluding a thick murderous intent that covers the area around him.

"I..WILL...KILL....YOU!!"

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In Tenth Floor,

Abductor has check all floor below but found nothing. He was getting impatient. He already informs his people, they will be coming here in some minutes. If he didn't catch them, He will be scorned by everyone for failure.

Tlick.

A Metallic sound rang out and smirk form on his lips while he suppressed his murderous intent.

'Where you will run now?!'

Of course, He thought about possibility that it's a trap so he prepare a spell and keep D-Rank mana bombs in his pocket and few E-Ranks in his hand.

He went deeper into hall and darkness start covering everything. It will hard to look around but vision will not be so problems with his D-Rank strength.

He went toward the room where he heard that sound. He opens the make-shift door and went inside. He didn't close the door just in case of traps.

His cautiousness was all time peak as he knows he is dealing with a smartass cornered rat.

He went further inside, Darkness covers everything and it's become a hard to see further than 1m. He narrows his eyes and move further.

Suddenly, someone with brown hair charged toward him from darkness. He raise his hand and a dome formed around him. Brown haired man crash with water dome and broke down like a mirror.

His eyes widen when he remove the dome. He found the shards of mirror spread on the ground.

"Phew, It was just a reflection."

He relax but suddenly a thought cross his mind as he turn his head around. He caught glimpse of an outline figure because of dim light in front of the door.

squee.

He didn't completely turn around as he heard a rope releasing sound. He looks above and found ceiling falling but it was actually a carpet... or more precisely a large piece of an adhesive carpet. It covers everything around him completely while adhesive limits his movements.

"You Damn Bastard! If you are man, then fight like one!"

"I see no reason here to prove my manliness to you."

Ethan replied and Abductor was on verge of going mad! Just how many times he has to humiliate himself to capture him?

He calms himself down and soften the glue around him with water. His hand finally freed after few seconds.

He knows that Ethan ran away and he is trying waste his time but he doesn't care his people will also surround this place in few minutes.

'I will take my time to torture this piece of shit!'

"Hmm?"

His hand moves and touch something like stone. He narrows his gaze and look for it when suddenly his eyes widen in horror.

"Mana Bomb!!"

Mana bombs were sticking to carpet!!!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Explosion rang inside, suppressing his scream while adhesive carpet starts swelling like a balloon. Bombs in his hands explode.

BOOM!

An ear deafening sound rang after final and strongest explosion occurs when D-Rank Bombs inside his pocket comes in contact with outside explosion, blowing up the carpet like a balloon.

Ethan peeks from outside to look inside. Flames were lighting up the wrecked room inside and a charred corpse can be seen due to small embers of flames.

Ethan releases a breath of relief as he rested his back and slid on the wall while child was tightly hugging him like before. He have planned everything perfectly. If he have withdraws his bomb into his storage from his pocket then he may have survive but since he didn't, Things work out in Ethan's favor.

Even if it didn't, Ethan was confident about killing him after explosion. He would be heavily injured and being a mage he didn't think he would have some ways to defend himself.

Ethan looks at the child and called him but child wasn't listening anything. It seems explosion has deafened his ears temporarily.

Ethan forcefully separates himself from the lost child and went toward charred corpse and stabs its head with his sword for precaution.