Chapter 60 - The Event(10/?)

Feeling pain passing slowly, Ethan started to open his eyes

'I see, my attack managed to lend...now, I need to move...'

Trying to do so, he felt as if a huge mountain were above him, making the action of moving impossible. Realizing the situation, he was afraid he could no longer move.

'It isn't [Avian] effect...this...'

Understanding he had to ask Light, he tried to clench his fist

["Light..can you tell me what is happening to my body?"]

With some seconds of silence, She replied

[I think it was when you tried to use [Boost Magic] to boost how fast you can collect mana. Although normally having that rate increased wouldn't bring this effect, the fact was you tried to keep more mana than you could have... A normal person would have exploded but your magic applied on defence tried to make it work..somehow. The fact you tried to use [Avian] in your state was the reason why your body could no longer hold up]

Hearing her explanation, he felt sadness claim his thoughts.

["Then, if you know all of this, why didn't you warn me!?"]

Waiting for some seconds, Light answered

[I couldn't know what effects your magic would have, but that's not all, it was the body analysis I made now that showed me everything, until before you seemed to be fine..]

Sighing, he felt even worse for taking it out on Light. Trying to nod, he clenched his jaw because he felt pain expands throughout his body

'I see, now If I try to move I feel even more pain..but If I let my 'healing' magic do the deed..'

Feeling the need to explain, Light interrupted his thoughts

Shocked, he felt as if her words they were daggers that hit straight at his heart

'45 minutes..? Nobody would wait 45 minutes like that, but even if they wait, I can keep it up for just 30 minutes...'

While he was trying to think on how to make it somehow work, Light found out what happened when he performed the attack, but she decided to keep it to herself for the time being.

Struggling to find a way to escape the situation, he tried to move, this time completely ignoring the pain that permeated throughout his body. Hitting the ground decisively and with all his might, he managed to capsize. Now with his c.h.e.s.t touching the ground, he gritted his teeth

'If so little was enough to stop me, I would never have entered this arena...'

Seeing he was using both arms to stand up, Light wanted to interrupt him but, she understood she couldn't say it. Mainly because the determination that made him seemingly unstoppable was what he wanted to protect...

With strange variations in his mana, Riveria could see Ethan trying to stand up.

'Was the damage he received so high? That's probably another reason why he didn't use this technique so easily...'

Thinking about this, Lefiya was happy at first, because she saw Ethan back in battle but, seeing how desperately he was, she wasn't calm anymore

"Should we suspend the event?"

Hearing Finn's question, She looked at him another time. Inhaling a large quantity of Air, she was ready to announce his surrender but, before she could, she saw Ethan now standing still with his head staring at the ground.

Losing the moment to shout, she coughed a few times before turning her focus on Riveria with a tense smile

"Tell me, from your estimate, does he still have a chance to continue?"

This question brought a shocked expression on everyone's faces. The only one that completely ignored her question was Tiona that, with a serious expression, said

"I trust his judgment, if he wants to surrender he'll say it, but it doesn't seem to be the case.."

Holding her hands together, she stared at him while all the Loki Familia members had their focus on her.

"I want to witness his prowess... If he wants to let me see it more, I won't interfere in his plans"

Even though it was wrong from the beginning as reasoning, Lefiya nodded with a blush on her face

Shaking his head, Finn replied

"No, try to look at him, he's already in a state where he can't fight anymore, why should he continue, even though he knows he can't fight anymore? Make him suffer alone like this...just to defeat one or two more won't change the situation..thus, leaving him to fight in that state is useless"

Understanding he had a point, Loki looked as everyone was still talking amongst themselves while the ones in the Arena, looked scared by him.

'What should I do..'

While Loki was trying to decide whether declaring Ethan's surrender or not, he was trying with all his strength to move

'Why..why my body doesn't move more than this, soon they will realize that I am no longer able to fight and it will be the end for me...my healing needs another 40 minutes...'

Shaking greatly, he tried to walk but, nearly falling again to the ground, he decided to avoid moving.

'I... I don't want to lose...'

Gritting his teeth another time, he managed to move before falling to the ground.

'He reached his limit...'

'He was so arrogant with us before the fight started, now look at him. He made himself a fool in doing this event..'

Understanding the situation as well, Ganesha was really troubled

'You really surprised me, boy. But you need to understand that bringing some more with you won't change things. Even just the fact that you have faced so many people above your level without losing until now will made you famous in no time, I think your objective was achieved however...'

Ready to interrupt the event, what surprised not only him, but everyone, was that a person entered the arena but, without even time for all of them to realize what had happened, the man was already next to Ethan.

'H-How fast?!'

'I couldn't even follow his movements at all'

With his eyes widening, Finn said

"What is he doing here..."

"Freya-sama sent me here to end this event. Anyone who wants to continue will have to face me.."

Speechless, a few mages still in the arena were frightened by his presence

'W-What is he doing here...!?'

'The only level 7 of Orario.. The King, Ottar...'

Ignoring the fact that she promised not to intervene in the fight, Ais went towards Ethan with hurried steps.

"Ethan..."

After some seconds, she was already next to him while one of them from the stands said with arrogance in his voice

"Ohh, so that's all? Didn't he want to win this event? Why now even the King is helping him? Is this a conspiracy?"

Hearing these words, they were influenced by them

'he's being protected every time...'

While these thoughts wandered in the air, making it heavy and tense, Ais ignored it all, Without hesitation, she sat on the ground before placing his head on her t.h.i.g.hs. Although this action would've brought Loki to tease her from the stands, she understood it wasn't time..

'That woman..definitely has something in mind. Now that she knows how powerful this child is, she would absolutely want him to join her familia..'

Thinking about the problems she'll have to face with Freya, Loki was trying to calm down before she noticed that Lefiya wasn't anymore next to Riveria.

"Where's Lefiya?"

Sighing, Riveria turned to look at the arena

"She's going to Ethan"

Seeing her approaching him and Ais without a second of hesitation, she was really surprised but, without minding it, the man continued to create doubts in the hearts of the public but, before he could add something, Lefiya saw how they were looking at him

"That man is right, I think he's not that much in the end"

"His arrogance wasn't worthy the result, if he wanted to be arrogant then he had to prove to us what he said was the truth, yet he didn't"

Hearing some people's words, Lefiya thought about it while tears threatened to run down her cheeks...

'Why.. Ethan isn't like that but these people...they simply ignore all his efforts and look at the result...'

While Lefiya was stuck in her own thoughts, people continued to talk until someone said

"You are all a bunch of idiots"

Speechless, they turned to see at the owner of the voice

"Ah? And who do you think you are?"

Shaking his head, the man looked at Ethan with a smile. Ignoring the question, he added

"Your reasoning is really childish. Even though he was the one that acted a little too arrogant, that doesn't mean that you can mock his efforts like this. Tell me, do you think you would be able to knock down the same amount of enemies if you were alone?"

With this new point of view, people understood he was right

'It's true that he failed in this event..'

'But still, managing to defeat more than 700 people at level 3 while being a level 2 is on another level...'

Without a strong argument to reply, the man that clearly had bad intentions shut his mouth

'The event was a complete fail, but still, I have more occasions to kill him... So I guess I'll stop here..'

With these thoughts in mind, he directly approached the exit without turning around a second time....

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(I have a discord server. discord.gg/cpVr5X8 If you enter it, you can choose one of Ethan's future powers from the pool I created, but that's not all! On the server, you can see the reference on some things that will be present in the story! Right now you can freely see some things like the [Twin's Digimon] and [The Devoted Heart].)

(A/N: As always, I want to specify that he didn't faint instantly because his mana pool exploded without destroying anything else as It was protected by Ethan's Boost magic. After he used [Avian] on himself too, you can say that the fragile protection managed to resist just before it shattered, reaching the present situation...)

(A/N: [Boost Magic] it is super effective against itself)

(Alternate Titles: "Ethan, you can do it!", "When you make your mana pool explode but [Boost Magic] mitigates the pain :)", "The King is here, everything is fine now", "Why the event isn't finished yet...")