BANG!
Nana was so startled by the sudden sword at her throat that she fell to the ground.
Feeling the killing intent from Ethan's sword tip, cold sweat immediately ran down her forehead.
At that moment, the words that had already reached her mouth could only be forced back down.
Because she was afraid she would really die.
"Last warning. Don't get in my way."
"U-Understood," Cold sweat kept pouring from Nana's forehead.
Only then did Ethan put away his sword and walk toward the location marked with the silver treasure chest.
It wasn't until Ethan had gone quite far away that Nini, Logan, and the others hurried over and helped Nana up.
"Nana, are we really going to work with this person? He... he looks terrifying!"
"Hmph!", Logan also snorted, "Nana, I think you just brought a wolf into the house."
"You only tried to persuade him a little, and he already wanted to kill you. And with that..."
"You still want to get the map back from him?"
"I think you're dreaming."
"That's enough," Nana pushed herself off the ground and looked at Ethan's back in the distance, "Let's go! We're following him!"
Nana also didn't want to work with this man.
But she understood clearly, she had no second path left.
Without explorers and without enough combat strength, if she wanted to leave this hellhole with her younger sister, the only way was to rely on him.
'Even though, this man looks dangerous.'
But Nana knew very well that the more someone was like this, the more they had boundaries.
As long as you followed his rules and did what he asked, he absolutely wouldn't do anything to you.
At least he was much better than those people who killed innocent people carelessly and changed moods without warning.
There was also one more important point, Nana needed to confirm whether this man really had the ability.
And the danger level of the silver treasure chest was the perfect test.
If this man really died at a D-rank danger zone, then she would have to find a way to take the map back.
If the man didn't die, then it proved he really could be relied on.
Anyway, no matter what, she had to go take a look.
"Follow him?", Logan said in shock, "Nana, after the attitude he just showed, you still don't understand? Are you really not afraid of dying?"
"It's not that I'm not afraid of dying. It's that if we don't follow him, then we'll definitely die!"
After Nana finished speaking, she didn't waste more words on Logan. She grabbed Nini and quickly followed after Ethan.
Logan hesitated where he stood for a moment, then angrily kicked away a stone on the ground and said, "Idris! We're following too!"
"Yes, Brother Yu."
Another teammate, not tall but strongly built, nodded and followed along.
As Logan walked forward, he looked at Idris behind him and said, "Idris, if I remember right, don't you have a skill that can mark bait and attract monsters to attack?"
"Yeah, Brother Yu. Haven't you seen it before?", Idris scratched his head foolishly and said, "That skill is mostly useful for drawing monsters away. It's actually not very useful in battle."
"When you use that skill, I remember the movement is very small, right?"
"Yeah! Actually, it's just a scent bait released through my skill using my blood," Idris took out a tube of light red liquid and continued explaining, "It's best to choose a living target, then pour the scent bait onto them. There's no difficulty, and there's basically no reaction either. I guess it's to stop the prey from noticing."
"That's great!", Logan was getting happy. He snatched the scent bait from Idris's hand and said, "I'm taking this first. I've got a big use for it."
"Brother Yu, what are you using that for?"
"There's no time to explain right now."
Logan didn't want to say too much to Idris.
If he talked too much, it would be easy to expose himself.
If the thing he was about to do got discovered ahead of time, the consequences would be serious.
'But for the mountain sect, and for the smooth road ahead waiting for me, I have to do it.'
———
Ethan arrived at the place marked on the map where the treasure chest was located, which was also the D-rank danger zone Nana had mentioned.
But when Ethan arrived there, he discovered that this area actually looked even more ordinary than the other places around it.
Not only were there no strange flowers or plants, there wasn't even a single abnormal-looking plant in sight.
It looked like nothing more than a completely ordinary patch of grass and ordinary plants.
'Isn't there a old saying? The more plain and unremarkable a place looks, the more unknown danger is hidden there?'
"Whew!"
Ethan blew a whistle.
To avoid exposing his identity, he had told White Eagle to wait outside the botanical garden with the three birdmen and not come in.
But now he needed someone to scout ahead, so the first one Ethan thought of was the scarecrow.
After all, it was something that couldn't die.
Having it scout the way ahead couldn't be more suitable.
So Ethan blew a whistle and told the birdmen to bring the scarecrow over.
Bang!
Very quickly, the scarecrow dropped down from the sky.
Ethan quickly caught the scarecrow that had fallen from above, afraid it would break itself from the impact.
Don't misunderstand. It was the thing below that would break.
'No, that's not right!'
'It should be said the bamboo pole underneath will break.'
["Lord!"]
Held in Ethan's arms in a princess carry, the scarecrow said excitedly, ["I knew you loved me! That's why you can't bear to let me get hurt even a little."]
"Get lost!"
Ethan directly threw the scarecrow onto the ground.
Only then did the scarecrow strangely stand upright, then bounce around as it said, ["Tch! No fun at all!"]
"Tch! Who wants to play with you?", Ethan rolled his eyes at the scarecrow and said, "Go scout the path ahead for me and see what's there."
["Why should I?"]
"Because I won't bring you out to play anymore in the future."
["Fine, I'll go!"]
The scarecrow bounced forward miserably.
Just as the scarecrow was hopping toward the silver treasure chest, Nana and the others also caught up.