Lost Child (6)

Several second earlier...

Ethan comes out from the building while holding the child. His face was pale due to deficiency of mana and strength. He withdraws a mana potion and injects the syringe in his neck with one hand while holding Neil with other one. Neil has fallen asleep after all the up-down. It's work for Ethan, since it will be annoying otherwise.

He knows that he doesn't stand a chance against them in anyway, be it strength, wits or experience. If he wants to live he knows he needs to avoid any fight or confrontation.

Since, it was impossible for him to fight them in anyway so why should he bother doing it.

From the starting, He was not planning anything that may need to fight him against them. All of those random attack and explosion were just a distraction he create to make sure all of them stays at upper floor so that no one will be spared from explosion or building fall. What is the best way other than to tell them that 'I am there'?

All smart people has same problem, they think too much. Ethan guess that the one who was leading them was trying to found a connection between his moves but since he assume that Ethan is E+ Rank, He will never figure out his plan even if his IQ miraculously reaches above 1000.

Ethan knows that regardless of what he uses in front of them, He will die here. So, He went with best way to win a game.

Why bother thinking about how to counter your opponent strategies or attacks when you can just flip the game board?

He gives up on fighting and distracts them with fake information. Ethan didn't know that they already figure out that message was fake. Both of them were planning things with wrong assumption of each other. This is the also the reason that Ethan plans works. All he wants was to keep them in upper floors and Don did thinking that he is above.

From the storage of that magician, Ethan found 5 C-Rank, 31 D-Rank Mana Bombs and some potion and stuff. C-Rank bombs are really expensive because of their explosive power.

Mages or Warriors normally carries mana bombs of their level only. It was surprise to find but not for too long as he was a Water Mage who lack proper offense but excel at defense.

Ethan put all those bombs at the weak spots of building, the reason why construction stopped was due to fund embezzlement, material paucity and many more charges. This building has weak and unstable foundation but people insist on constructing it. He once remember looking for blueprints of these building marked with weak points since he was planning to install his base here but he only found few of them.

Ethan didn't found all of them but few of them were more than enough to save him in this situation. He just need to use memorize to remember the details of 2nd, 10th, 11th and 12th floor.

As for travelling between floors and escaping from building, this is his Lair! His Domain! If he didn't have a well prepared escape route beforehand all around the floor then he might as well say he never visit this place. All of this was possible thanks to his skill, Memorize.

If not for his skill, He would have thrown away any thoughts of fighting since he would have died fighting that Water Mage before anything else. He was able to recover his memories to some extent making use of territory advantage and also let him remember small details like Mana Bombs in pocket, blueprints etc.

The remote in his hand is a HFBD, High Frequency Bomb Detector. Its main purpose is mana bomb detection in certain area. It is mainly use to search bomb but if regulate the frequency to some extent then you will be able to detonate mana bombs around you but people don't use it this way necessarily for obvious reason.

This was a final nail in coffin. Ethan explode all bombs including the one he set as traps which include around 100 of them which lead to current situation.

After Explosion...

Ethan removes his sunglasses after wave of dust pass through him scattering dust all around him. He put his sunglasses back to storage and think about his future moves.

'I don't think I have killed anyone with high rank. They have all time to deploy a defensive spell to protect them unlike last time. It doesn't matter before they fix themselves---Haaa??'

Ethan vision suddenly tilted on left side as a blue light passed besides him. He falls sidewise before he can even register what happened. He was tightly hugging Neil while there is a numb feeling around his right leg. A warm feeling is covering his waist and start climbing further along his body. A red liquid crawls in his vision. Ethan fluttering eyes widen as figure out. This warm feeling is....HIS BLOOD!

"You dodge it? I was planning to cleave you into two in one strike but...No Wonder, you took care of all of them. It was good thing I was waiting outside to make sure target get captured or else even I might also suffer there because of you...Hmm?"

He looked at the mana fluctuation around Ethan as he tried to pick himself up and his eyes widen in surprise.

"You..You are a G Rank?!!"

He start laughing as he found this situation quiet funny.

If he didn't see it with his eyes, He would have never believe that a G-Rank would have cause this much destruction alone.