Chapter 571 The Fish Caught in The Net Are Quite Smart
Seeing Evan suddenly appearing, the Lizardman's eyes seemed to shine and it kicked off the ground, charging right towards the family with its arm raised and infused with aura.
Its claws glinted in the sunlight as it swung them down towards the family, intending on slaughtering them all and forcing Evan to teleport right in front of it with an Elemental Shield active.
**BAMM!!
The Lizardman slammed into the Elemental Shield and if it wasn't for Evan using his sword to root himself into the ground, the force might have knocked him backwards and made the shield squash the family he was trying to protect.
As soon as it saw that Evan had blocked the first attack, its eyes curled into slits as it activated a skill and struck out once more, its claw breaking through the Elemental Shield effortlessly and slamming into Evan's body.
The sweeping strike slammed into Evan's side and sent him flying through the air, in the same instant that a golden bolt of lightning descended onto its body.
[GAAHHH!!!]
Screaming in pain, the Lizardman tried to coat its body with aura while jumping out of the way.
[Evan!!]
"Agh! I'm fine."
The young hero replied to Kayla's worried call as he got up from the pile of blocks that was the building he crashed into, emerging with a bright red bloodstain on his grey shirt.
Upon seeing this bloodstain, the family that Evan had protected instantly assumed that the boy had gotten injured in doing so, but in reality, Evan didn't so much as have a scratch on him.
The blood was actually the Lizardman's—Evan had stabbed it in the same instant that it attacked him but he got some of the crimson liquid splashing on him.
He stared at his shirt with a frown, one that made it look as if he was frowning because of his 'grave injury', but his thoughts could not be any further than that.
'Damn it, this is one of my new shirts!'
[Human!!]
The Lizardman's enraged voice rang out as it charged towards Evan with its arms encased in aura, jumping into the air and slamming down arms towards the young hero.
In response, Evan let go of the unforged and locked both his palms together, pointing them towards the airborne monster and activating a skill.
"Energy Blast."
Magic power condensed rapidly in front of his palms before launching forward as a huge golden-coloured beam that crashed into the Lizardman mid-air.
Simultaneously, Kayla used her Electroflame skill on It and triggered an orange-coloured explosion in mid-air, with shockwaves reaching the ground.
From within It, the Lizardman's corpse fell out and towards the ground with a loud thud, after which the hero finally put down his arms.
When he turned around and saw the family of six still looking at him after picking up his sword, he gave them a confused gaze while asking.
"Why are you still here? Run along already!"
It was only then that they snapped out of their daze and began to scamper away. They did stop right after as they were worried about his 'injury' but he only told them to get away before other monsters came over.
Once they were finally out of sight, Evan then turned towards Kayla and asked.
"They said something about an injury. Am I injured?"
[Master…do you not know how your shirt looks?]
"My shirt…? Oh!"
It was then that the boy finally understood what they had mistaken as 'his injury' and burst into laughter, shaking his head as he pulled off his shirt and changed it for a clean one of the same type.
Evan did not know this yet, but that family would then go on to later spread the news of a 'boy with a grey shirt named Evan who got hurt protecting them', something that would further boost his public favourability.
On a side note, he let them go and did not offer to escort them as he had killed every other monster within the district, so he knew they would not encounter any monsters until they reached the evacuation zone.
The boy took a moment to sense how far away his contractors, spirit and demon, were from him and let out a bit of surprise upon seeing they had covered more distance than he expected.
He pulled out the walkie-talkie from his inventory once more and activated it, waiting for the device to find a radio signal before talking into it.
"Ha…ha…is there…anyone?"
[Thuto! Where the hell are you?!]
The same voice from before rang out and Evan moved over to the Lizardman's burning corpse, letting the mic capture the sound of the flames. He then dropped his sword on the floor and coughed loudly before replying.
"Distric…16? No 17. At some…park."
[Hold on, we're coming over now!]
'We?'
Seeing that his little net had caught more than one fish, Evan grinned evilly for a moment, before coughing and replying again.
"Be…quick…."
[Thuto?! Thuto!
Damn, I think he has lost consciousness!]
[Let's be quick!]
The connection cut off not long after and Evan told Kayla to hide herself and get into position while he took a Demonic Hand Brooch and rubbed it with the blood on his shirt, tossing it on the floor right after and then moving towards the building he crashed into earlier and dropping the bloodied shirt on the floor near it.
He then partially concealed his presence with his skill, making it seem like the weak presence of a wounded person as he hid within the rubble and waited for the incoming Senior Members.
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"Thuto! Where are you, dude?"
The voice suddenly rang out after close to ten minutes of waiting, but Evan did not reply immediately, remaining silent as he had the ambient spirits scout the area for him.
They returned a minute later, telling him that there were some other people in the distance who had lowered their presences and were watching the area where the two who had come over to the park were.
By that time, the two had finally come close enough to be able to sense Evan's 'weakened' presence. They exchanged a glance with each other before slowly separating and approaching the broken building from both sides.
"Are you in there? With all this blood on the ground…you don't seem to be in a good condition.
We'd keep watch on the area so come on out so we can have Lestie here heal you."
Evan who was about to finally reply to their calls suddenly stopped in his tracks as he noticed their positions changing, as well as the magic power slowly building up in the sky.
'Well…they clearly didn't fall for it.'
[Weird…Master mimicked that person's voice well. What gave it away?]
Kayla muttered to herself as she floated beside Evan before suddenly slamming her fist in her palm and saying.
[Maybe they had some sort of emergency phrase you didn't know about?]
'As far as I know, the Seventh Division does not have anything like that…maybe they changed things up recently?'
[Could be.]
Evan shrugged his shoulders in response to Kayla's words, slowly getting up to his feet and taking a deep breath as he prepared himself for a fight.
He peeked out from a small crack and used his Farsight skill to spot a suitable position in the area, before holding up the communicator and speaking into it.
"Lestie? Who's…that?"
[That's our healer. Why are you acting like you don't know that?]
The two still seemed to be going along with Evan's little ruse despite the fact that they were using a concealment magic formation to hide the Tier 2 Spell circles slowly building up in the sky.
"That so…"
Evan watched the Senior Member he could see from his position while he spoke, preparing his skill activation as he saw the man slowly raise his hand upward.
He then swung it down immediately after, making a concentrated stream of water emerge from the shimmering magic circle in the air.
It struck the half-collapsed building Evan was in with force, shattering through its damaged roof and crashing violently onto the ground below.
Simultaneously, a brilliant streak of lightning tore through the air, crackling with electrifying energy. It descended on the same spot, colliding with an explosive burst that shattered the remnants of the building into countless fragments.
What followed was a chaotic spectacle as the combined power of the water and lightning surged outward and engulfed everything in the area with electrifying and destructive might.
If there was anyone in that building, they were sure to have been incapacitated—the two Senior Members thought.
Too bad they didn't know their target was someone capable of teleporting to almost anywhere within his field of vision.
"Did we get them?"
"I'm not sure. They activated a skill at the same moment you launched your spell so they most likely wouldn't be as damaged as we expected."
Just as the two were analysing the situation from afar, Evan suddenly appeared behind one of them with his sword pointed forward, piercing right through the back of the man's skull and boring a hole through his brain.
"Your bro's dead for sure."
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