Chapter 111: All out!

"Helios! Die for me!"

Looking at the giant ice spear headed towards him, Helios in question didn’t dodge; rather, a smile appeared on his face.

"Interesting! My dear shelter citizens, step back for now. It seems we have an unexpected guest."

"In that case, I might as well go greet him."

Kicking his feet, he used flames spurting out from his soles acting as thrusters shooting up into the air; at the same time, his right arm completely wrapped itself in flames.

BOOM!

With a single movement, he destroyed the ice spear several times larger than him; at the same time, under the push of his flames, he had finally reached the level of Ethan in the air.

Looking at the masked person in front of him, Helios was not at all angry; instead, hovering in the sky, he looked at Ethan as if looking at an old friend.

"Hello there, strange powerhouse. Considering you’re here, you must have taken care of my Five Fingers?"

"Well, that’s fine. They are a bunch of trash I selected to watch over my place while I was away. None of that matters now."

"But you, though, why are you angry? Could it be your woman is among the people I slept with?"

"No, that’s not it. For each woman, I always made sure to kill their lovers to prevent any revenge. Same with the Awakeners I ate; I always killed their friends and family, so it couldn’t be that."

Calmly talking about extremely gruesome things such as eating people, Helios seemed to have no ounce of care for Ethan at all.

Rather, he even lay down in the air, emitting flames from his back to keep him afloat.

"I see, that should be it!"

"Did you come for my treasure and your comrade ended up dying to one of the fingers?"

"Hahah!"

"That’s it, isn’t it! That’s what happens when you trespass in someone’s territory, though, so why are you angry at me!"

"Come, tell me, who was he to you? Was he a friend? A family member?"

"Tell your old buddy Helios?"

Looking at Ethan, Helios began to salivate.

Although he didn’t know who this was, for him to defeat his Five Fingers, he had to be a decently strong E-rank.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t wait to eat him, and what better way to have a meal than to play with your food first?

At this time, seeing Helios in front of him, Ethan finally spoke.

"I see. All the more reason to kill you now." Saying words that Helios did not understand, Ethan began to concentrate his mana.

"Helios, you know, I always wondered why you were so strong so fast, why someone like you who ate people for a living seemed to be blessed by the world."

"However, now it makes sense. You’re not an Awakener, are you?"

"Not only that, but you have a system?" "What kind of system is it, though? Is it the system that makes you eat people? Or the system that makes you burn people alive?"

Walking forward calmly, compressing the mana under his feet with each step, Ethan’s words left Helios stunned.

However, he wasn’t done.

"Come on, tell your old buddy what kind of system it is." Repeating the same words he had told him just now, Ethan prepared to strike.

In fact, from the moment Helios appeared in front of him, his Awakener system had alerted him:

[Detecting the presence of otherworldly being ’System’]

[Requesting directed elimination]

[Rewards include: Apocalypse Codex fragment, Self-Fusion opportunity]

Seeing the familiar rewards, Ethan was more sure that today was Helios’s last day alive.

No matter what, be it for the rewards or for Viktor or even his past-life revenge, he was going to end the person in front of him.

And Helios, hearing his secret be exposed, no longer smiled.

"I see. No need for talking, then."

"I don’t know how you found out about my system, but since you have, forget about recruiting me. You’re dying here today!"

Saying this, he acted!

Clapping his hands together, a giant flame tornado emerged from his wrists.

"Die for me, you ant!" In an instant, the temperature of the entire shelter rose by several levels.

This was the true strength of a D-class Awakener.

...........

D-class Awakener, different from E and F-ranks, the D-class was a watershed for Awakeners.

Different from E-ranks who could still be defeated by gathering a large number of F-ranks, at D-rank, no matter the number of F-ranks and E-ranks, there was no possibility of winning.

At D-rank, not only could you use the mana in your core, but you could also use the mana in the surrounding environment to amplify your attacks.

As such, a tiny flame at D-rank can turn into a flame storm.

And Helios, with the help of his system, was exactly at this level.

"Is that the best you’ve got? In that case, this battle is going to end now."

Summoning his mana jian, Ethan didn’t make any flashy moves; rather, he went for one of his strongest attacks.

Boundary-Cleaving Sword!

BOOM!

As he slashed forward, the sword light composed of mana broke through the fire tornado, dispersing it at the same time.

However, it didn’t just stop there.

Going through the tornado, it continued to move forward until it passed beside Helios’s cheek, grazing it in the process and making it spill some blood.

"Helios! I advise you to go all out; otherwise, as I said before, this battle will end now!"

Activating his mana sight, Ethan saw it: the strange energy he had seen in Lucian’s body was present in Helios’s body.

The strange energy his Max-Level Comprehension could not understand.

"Damn it! How dare you cut this god’s face!"

"Damn it, damn it!" Wiping the blood from his cheek, Helios was extremely angry.

"How dare you cut God’s face!"

Bang!

Wrapping his body in armor made of flames, two flame wings appeared on his back, enhancing his mid-air mobility.

"Did you say you want me to go all out? I hope you don’t regret it!"

BOOM!

Saying this, he zoomed towards Ethan