Lost Child (5)

In 12th Floor,

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

Explosion keeps occurring at the 12th Floor.

Building has 17 constructed floors in total. All F-Rank are busy searching through all upper floors while ten F-Ranks and both E-Ranks are waiting at the 11th floor.

"Aren't things are different than you expected?"

"Hmm."

Don was expecting him to assassinate F-Ranks first then he would have targets them but things are going unexpected, All F-Ranks are still alive and continuous explosion are happening at 12th Floor.

"Is he planning to kill us first and ran away? He must have practice a strong movement art or speed related skill to have such confidence."

He must have confidence in running if he chooses this plan. It can only lead to conclusion that he has some way to escape.

Thinking about everything, He just shakes his head. He will just send F-Rank with him to 12th floor and send Tika to guard other entrance to lower floors.

BOOM!

A large explosion occurs as strong as full strength of D-Rank!

Don frowned as he heard it, He can't help but doubt if that trash is still alive fight against him.

'He can't be planning to jump from this place. is he?'

Another thought cross his mind. But that will be disgustingly foolish, He has a student from LIFE academy and a ten-year-kid, both of them will squash like ketchup if they try it. It will be impossible to survive he did it!

It's impossible for him to escape to lower floors. He has made sure to check all the lowers floors while climbing.

"Go and check this floor."

He gave order to the F-Ranks while pointing upward by his chin, for now it will better to have someone else check the water.

There is 27 F-Ranks and 3 E-Ranks from which 2 E-Ranks are remaining. Most of the F-Ranks are all located to upper floor searching for target. Don also chooses this way because he doesn't want to scare his opponent with an overwhelming number.

It will be annoying if he ran away, So he choose to give him a fake sense of chance so that he will stay here and try to fight till the end.

It didn't take few minutes for all F-Rank to spread in 12th floor. There was burned wall and explosion marks everywhere like a struggled-filled fight have taken place here.

One of the F-Rank reported situation to Don.

"There is no one in this floor. There are burn marks all over the floor and walls."

"Ask Selt to use his skill."

[Footprint Tracker]

It is an E-Rank skill that let user trace the area of target tracks but it is limited by time and distance.

This is the skill that let them find Neil in the first place but Water Mage wants to take credit for himself so he led everything alone. It takes too mana because of its rank so he only use it by orders.

Salt use his skill to check the whole floor.

"His traces are everywhere in the room and floor."

Don was getting a bad feeling from this whole scenario.

"Check where they are leading to?"

Salt starts tracing all the tracks. It took time for him to use his skill and analyze all the traces.

'Sir! All of the traces are leading to an empty hall!"

"Empty??"

Don feels confused by this situation.

"Wait a minute, Did you see any water at the floor?"

"No, There is no trace of water."

His face turn ugly, Does that mean fight never took place in this floor? Then which floor?

"Sir, There is hidden way in the empty hall where his traces ends."

'Did he know about this place?'

It makes sense to lure them in a place with advantage since he know all the route but it only make him more confuse, His strength is more than enough to assassinate everyone besides them but then why hide?

"Did that trash injured him more than expected?"

He can't predict what this guy is thinking; He was just doing weird things since from the start. Leading us to upper floor and scattering us but not attacking anyone else. He wasted his mana by attacking walls and then ran away. His eyes widen as he think about it.

"Everyone to lower floor, this guy is just buying time for target to run away."

His action will be understandable if he is buying time for target to ran away. He will hold us here by using hidden paths and child will escape in the given time.

He ran toward stairs and start descending from the floors. He don't know how he slip through them but one thing is sure is he is not here.

At 10th Floor, His eyes suddenly caught of red light in other corner of halls alongside the stairs. He stops and went closer to get a look at it. A dreadful feeling covers his whole body as he finally understands all the reason of those unreasonable actions. Don was wrong before! He wasn't trying to buy time but he wants to keep everyone at upper floors!

"Alert! He is planning to demolish whole building together---"

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

Explosion rang out in 11th, 12th, 10th and 2nd floor.

BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM. BOOM.

Explosion start occurring all over the building and it start crumbling like a castle of cards.

Ethan was standing 100m away from it looking at the crumbling building above while his other hand had remote with multiple buttons. A Wave dust was release from the crumble building. Ethan pulls out the rectangular sunglasses and wears it with a smirk.