You call this magic?

"Forget it. I've already promised you. It wouldn't be nice to just run away." Ethan sighed.

Not only that, it could be said that the main reason Ethan stayed had nothing to do with Levi.

If it weren't for the fact that Fulilian was still sleeping, a large number of golems had not yet been awakened, Haita was still working hard, and there was a possibility that Minus would kill all the southern countries in the future, Ethan would not be able to convince himself to stand idly by.

"In that case, let me tie this rope." Ethan put the rope away. "You'll be responsible for attracting fire from the front. Is that okay?"

"Can you bear to watch your brothers die?!"

"When did you and I become brothers?"

"At least we'll be brothers for the next day!"

"Well, Levi, it's time for you to stick up for your brothers."

"Your special code..."

While complaining to each other, the two walked towards the tallest building in the city, which was the political center of the city.

Now that the decision has been made to take action, the sooner the better. That kind of magic is released once every 24 hours, so it may take 24 hours to accumulate magic power. After all, magic that can affect the entire city must consume an astronomical amount of magic power. Even a great magician may not be able to withstand it.

Right now, Minus was most likely in a weak state due to the depletion of her magic power.

On the way, Levi took out two pieces of paper and two pens and handed one to Ethan.

"?"

"A suicide note." Levi said with a smile, "After all, we are going to die this time, so at least we can leave a memory for those who are still alive."

"A suicide note?" Ethan thought for a moment, crumpled the paper into a ball, and returned the pen to Levi. "No matter what, I will definitely go back alive. Even if I have to die, that place cannot be here."

Ethan didn't want Fleuryen to wake up and immediately hear the news of his death.

This time, he is going to go all out.

He took a firm step forward.

Volume 1: The Burial of Fulilian (I): Chapter 29: Speculation

At noon, two men sat at the door of a breakfast shop, eating food they had made themselves.

After all, there will be a big battle coming up, so we must maintain the best condition. We can’t eat too much, and we can’t be hungry either.

"I thought that a decisive battle was about to begin, but I'm actually having dinner with you, a kid. Life is unpredictable." Levi sighed.

"Cherish the present. If I wasn't going to risk my life next, I wouldn't eat anything when you are within ten meters of me." Ethan gnawed on the roasted sweet potato with an expressionless face.

Not to mention it smells pretty good.

"No, do you have such low trust in me?" Levi yelled.

"Then when you withdraw from the empire, I will give you a chance to be my acquaintance." Ethan stared at Levi with empty eyes.

Don't be fooled by his nonchalant and playful appearance. In fact, this is just a disguise. It's not that he doesn't want to show his true self in front of Ethan, but because this image is easier to bring him closer.

He might die soon, so he has to maintain this character even more. Both Ethan and himself need to relax as much as possible, otherwise they may not be able to display even one tenth of their full strength.

Levi's identity is essentially that of an imperial agent, proficient in infiltration, assassination, intelligence gathering, and secret theft. However, what Ethan cannot ignore the most is his strength as a warrior.

If it was Freelian who was in Ethan's position now, then as long as Levi wanted to take action, Freelian might have died before she could use any skills.

But of course, Fulilian couldn't let Levi get close to her so easily. Even if she did get close, she was covered in defensive magic and could cast instant magic at any time to keep her distance.

Within seven steps, the powerful warrior can instantly kill any magician, including the great magician Celia.

No one can say that he is invincible, including the demons.

Didn’t the invincible demon king still die at the hands of the four brave team members?

But even so, the warrior's biggest problem is creating an opportunity to reach a distance sufficient to instantly kill the magician.

Countless imperial soldiers wanted to kill Minus, but they were all killed by Minus at a suitable distance.

Reaching this distance is only the first step. It is necessary to ensure that the magician cannot cast a magic that can turn the situation around, which is another matter.

So, Levi thought, someone like Ethan must help.

After eating slowly, Ethan and Levi set off again.

Levi held a one-handed sword, while Ethan took out his large hatchet.

A few minutes ago, they might have complained about each other's weapons, but at this moment, they no longer had the leisure to do so.

Because Minus had noticed their arrival.

Following a series of dense and teeth-grinding noises, almost all the golems within the two men's sight began to move.

"Hey, hey, hey... Can this thing really be solved with a sword?" Levi said with some difficulty.

"Let's try it first. As we all know, golems are made of mud. Stone might break, and mud...it's hard to say."

"Then you say hair - grass!"

Just as Levi started to complain, a golem fell from the sky, and its fist, which was bigger than his head, smashed towards the two of them with a fierce wind.

Levi and Ethan jumped away immediately, and watched helplessly as the golem smashed a small hole in the ground, and even the cracks began to extend outward for several meters.

This seemed to be a signal. Some of the other golems drew their weapons, some attacked quickly with martial arts moves like that golem, and some even cast magic at them.

Yes, the golem is casting magic.

If all golems had the same attack pattern, they would be easier to deal with. But now it seems that almost every golem has a unique fighting style and masters different magics.

"Magicians, monks, swordsmen..." Ethan was extremely calm. Although he had no experience of being surrounded, he had been bombarded with all-round magic by Fulilian every day in the past year, and he had mastered professional dodging skills.

Hellfire magic, frost breath magic, earth-shattering magic, and even the three shots of the goddess of magic... What a joke!

When he discovered the Goddess' magic, the seriousness of the situation was already in another dimension.

Levi was not vague at all. After the initial hesitant stage, he had already started to fight back.

"Eaaaa! Eaaaa! Eaaaa!"

Although Levi's mouth was full of meaningless weird cries, his actions were decisive. The standard long sword in his hand was wielded like a divine weapon, cutting through iron like mud.

Every golem that tried to get close to him had its limbs and head chopped off by Levi, its heart pierced, and its kidneys severely damaged...

This guy attacks all the vital points of humans.

I've heard that the Empire is better at fighting humans, especially the profession of agents, who are proficient in every method to kill humans quickly.

Ethan didn't speak directly, but he discovered that after being stabbed in the kidney by Levi, these golems actually lost their voice and collapsed cleanly.

Combined with the [Three Guns of the Goddess] he had seen before, Ethan now had a temporary guess.

"Levi, don't fight!" Ethan shouted, "Just hide in the city hall! The golem won't go in there!"

"?!" Upon hearing this, Levi immediately glanced towards the gate of the city hall, and saw that there were indeed several golems gathered there, but they would rather push each other than get close to the gate.

At this time, Ethan had already flashed to Levi's side, who had just slashed with a knife, and grabbed his other hand.

Levi's arm stiffened for a moment, and then he immediately understood what Ethan meant. He followed the direction of Ethan's force and was thrown out.

He crashed into the city hall. Just as Ethan said, the golems turned around immediately, and some even cast magic at Levi, but no golem chased him in.

Levi immediately dodged the killing magic and looked out the door. He was still young after all and shouted loudly: "Brother Ethan!"

"Shout shit!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Ethan kicked a golem directly into the door, and even rubbed it hard on the carpet of the city hall before stopping.

On the back of the golem, Ethan jumped down unharmed: "Levi, how many golems did you kill just now?"

"Ah?" Levi didn't have time to greet him. After hearing this, he thought carefully for two seconds: "Seven heads."

Ethan sighed. “If I’m not mistaken, it was when you were howling and waving the knife just now.”

His eyes grew serious: "You... killed seven people."

Volume 1: The Death of Flillian (I): Chapter 30: The First Killing by the World's Strongest Magician

Levi froze: “No, how is it possible!”

Ethan did not explain to him immediately, but looked down at the golem lying motionless on the ground.

Just like before, the golem was completely motionless on the street, without any trace of magic, like a dead object.

All this was the result of Ethan kicking it into the city hall.

"It seems I'm in the same boat as you." Ethan squatted down and touched the golem's eyes. "I killed him, a warrior whose name I don't even know."

"At such a young age, why do you want to learn to speak in riddles?" Levi was a little flustered and speechless. As an agent, killing people was no longer an unacceptable problem for him, but that was after he knew that he had to kill people and had made full preparations.

Maybe in twenty years, he will become a person who has no feelings about killing, but now, he is just a young man of about twenty years old.

Far away from the two of them, all the golems outside the city hall stopped quietly in place. After the two of them entered the city hall, they seemed to have lost their vision and could not find their location at all.

"Did you carefully observe the attack methods and movements of these golems just now?" Ethan asked.

"These... seem quite different. As far as I know, there are many different types of golems."

"You're right. There are golems for combat, golems for engineering, golems for protection... but have you ever seen a golem that can use magic?"

This question stumped Levi.

If it can use magic, then it's not even called a golem, it's a fucking magician.

"'Magic is a world of imagination', this is an absolute truth known to every magician, but why can a golem, a mere man-made object, actually release magic?"

"That's a problem." As an agent of the Magic Empire, he had considerable knowledge of the relevant subject. "If we engrave a delayed-activation magic trap on the golem in advance, it should be able to achieve a similar effect."

"You're right, but have you ever seen goddess magic used as a trap?"

Levi fell silent.

As we all know, the magic of the goddess comes from the holy scriptures brought by the goddess after her advent. It is a special magic interpreted in the holy scriptures by generations of devout monks. To release it, one must study the relevant holy scriptures, have a certain degree of faith in the goddess, and then go through a long period of hard work to achieve it.

And the magic trap is nonsense.

But just now, Ethan saw a golem, which released the goddess magic [Three Shots of the Goddess] at him.

In an instant, Levi realized something, and combined with what Ethan had just said, his lips began to tremble: "You mean, there is a human soul in the golem?"

"It's almost certain. Even if it's not a soul, it definitely has human consciousness."

Ethan looked at the city hall and the stairs leading to the upper floors. If he walked all the way up the stairs to the top floor, Minus would be there if nothing unexpected happened.

"Witch, damn witch!" Levi's face was extremely ugly, and the veins in his hands were exposed as he clenched the sword. "How dare she! How dare she! How dare she play with human souls!"

Looking at Levi's distorted expression at this moment, at least now, judging from his position alone, Levi is indeed furious about this crime against humanity.

"If what I guessed is correct, the magic that makes people fall asleep might be used to select souls that can be used in golems." Ethan's tone was unexpectedly calm when he said this, but Levi didn't feel that Ethan was not angry about it.

On the contrary, Ethan's gaze at this moment was almost murderous.

No wonder Minus wanted to fight downwards, no wonder she wanted to release such magic, and in the end, almost all the people left were ordinary people. This was all to continuously enhance the quality of her army.

It is conceivable that once the army of golems composed of the souls of countless adventurers, which completely obey orders, begins the Northern Expedition, the consequences will be disastrous.

Because at this moment, Ethan and Levi were not sure whether the soul of the golem they had just killed would be recycled and put into a new golem, or... just let it die like that?

Apparently, not only Ethan, but Levi also thought of this.

The witch Minus's actions are most likely the former.

"We can't delay any longer. We must kill Minus immediately, now." Levi had already walked towards the stairs, but he found that Ethan didn't move. He couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, "Ethan, what are you waiting for?"

The tone was not very polite.

"Aren't you curious?" Ethan ignored Levi's tone and asked, "Why does the golem die immediately after entering this city hall?"

"You mean, there's some kind of barrier here? But that doesn't prohibit us from coming in."

"No, I mean... didn't you feel it?" Ethan raised his hand towards him, and Levi keenly noticed that as a warrior, Ethan's hand movements had a sense of lag.

It seems as if something is restricting the freedom of movement.

Levi was struck by lightning at this moment. He immediately raised his hand, but his movements, which had always been very agile, seemed so slow at this moment.

Although in the eyes of ordinary people, even so, his movements are still too fast for ordinary people to see clearly, but true masters know that this sense of sluggishness can easily take their lives in actual combat.

"In this place, the soul is affected, and so are the movements of the body." Ethan's face showed a hint of bitterness. "If we don't get used to this feeling immediately and resolve this quickly, we might end up like that golem: having our souls extracted and placed inside some ugly golem, becoming Minus's tool for conquering the world."

Only then did Ethan and Levi realize that they were too reckless.