Subscriber of the Gods Chapter 365 - How It Turned Out

When Ethan spoke words the dark elves couldn’t understand, they stopped talking.

“Kill him. Cut off his head and throw it back to those Yugos bastards.”

The dark elf who seemed to hold the highest position here gave the order and was about to leave.

However, Ethan moved faster than him.

‘They all seem quite skilled, but…’

In front of Ethan, they were all just small fry.

Thwack-!

Ethan lightly struck the neck of the nearest dark elf. Because he was wearing armor, it made an extremely loud noise.

Ethan then knocked down all the nearby dark elves. He didn’t even need to draw his sword.

‘Bare hands are enough. And I need to practice too.’

Currently, Ethan had secured 50,000 believers and had become stronger in a short period.

Moreover, after clearing various quests and breaking through the limits of survival probability, his physical condition was clearly different from before.

‘If I control my strength poorly, I might end up hurting myself instead.’

The defensive techniques Ethan possessed could block the opponent’s attacks, but they couldn’t prevent damage caused by Ethan’s own mishandling of strength.

‘If I directly control the defensive techniques, it would be possible to mitigate the damage. But that would be meaningless.’

Ethan needed to practice handling this physical condition right away.

Shaaaaaak-!

“S-stop that human!”

The dark elf who was about to leave the prison shouted in surprise.

Then, the guard dark elves inside the prison rushed out.

It was about the same number as the dark elves Ethan had knocked down.

“Quite a crowd gathered in this small prison.”

It seemed they were personnel prepared to prevent handing over the elf lord.

‘I’m not sure exactly what’s going on, but…’

It seemed best to sort this out and then wake up the fallen elf lord to ask for details.

Swish-!

The dark elf at the front swung his sword. Simultaneously, the magic unique to dark elves unfolded.

Because they used magic with a mechanism similar to black mages, the effect was also similar.

A pitch-black tree that sprang up from the ground bound Ethan completely.

“Void Rupture!”

Boom-!

Then, hundreds of sharp thorns sprouted on that tree.

But Ethan had already escaped before the thorns appeared.

He had no intention of using a single defensive technique against such a slow attack.

Ethan slowly adapted to his movements, which had become even faster than before.

‘I can reach this speed without even adding ultra-acceleration.’

Thwack-! Thwack-!

While dealing with the dark elves, Ethan checked various parts of his body.

“Not bad.”

The speed when holding a sword and when not holding one.

And the speed when he decided to move.

Everything was slowly seeping into Ethan.

It was light movement for Ethan, but it was truly shocking for the dark elves.

“I-I can’t see with my eyes.”

“How on earth…”

Not only were his movements invisible to the eye, but he was even controlling his strength against them.

“That’s… not his full power?”

He hadn’t even drawn his weapon. Yet they were no match for him at all.

Just where did the Yugos clan find such a strong human as an ally?

Realizing that at this rate, they would all die, the leader of the dark elves shouted urgently.

“Run away! Leave the lord and run! This is not an opponent we can face!”

However, that order was not conveyed.

All the dark elves had already fallen by Ethan’s hand.

Ethan moved lightly and approached the leader of the dark elves.

“If you were going to give such an order, you should have fought me directly while letting your subordinates escape.”

Thwack-!

Ethan knocked down the last dark elf.

“Thanks to you, I’ve warmed up properly.”

These guys were quite skilled, more than he had thought.

“It seems I still need to adapt more.”

One battle wasn’t enough to become perfectly familiar with his enhanced body. He needed to test it in various situations and in multiple ways.

After clearing all the dark elves to one side, Ethan approached the fallen elf lord.

Usually, an elf lord leading elves would be quite old.

‘When a young elf is in the position of lord, there’s usually only one reason.’

It’s when the previous elf lord dies and a young elf becomes the successor.

“So it seems they haven’t been properly acknowledged. Or perhaps hostile forces used this opportunity to start a rebellion.”

After all, they couldn’t serve someone they considered less capable than themselves as king.

“Let’s wake them up first.”

Slap-!

Ethan unhesitatingly slapped the elf lord’s cheek.

The elf lord opened her eyes with a start as soon as they were slapped.

“Ugh. I-I will never submit.”

“I’ve dealt with all the guys who kidnapped you. So get up.”

“…!”

The elf lord who opened their eyes looked at Ethan and was startled.

“A-a human! I can’t believe those Migos bastards have joined hands with humans! I will never submit! Kyaaah-!”

Then suddenly realizing that a considerable part of her clothes had been removed, she hurriedly raised her arms to cover her body.

Ethan looked at the elf lord very coldly and said,

“It wasn’t me.”

“Y-you shameless human! This is why humans can’t be trusted! Just as it’s written in the history books!”

“What exactly is written about humans in dark elf history books?”

“Monsters not to be associated with!”

“That’s somewhat correct. But don’t you think you should at least say thank you to the one who saved your life?”

Ethan said that while pointing at the fallen dark elves.

The elf lord’s expression instantly twisted.

She had thought he was a human directly brought by the Migos.

She had the sudden thought that they might have brought him as a torture expert, since humans were said to be good at torture.

But all the Migos dark elves were lying on the floor.

“Did you really s-save me?”

The elf lord quickly corrected her behavior.

“As you can see.”

“I… I misunderstood.”

The elf lord, with a quite embarrassed expression, bowed her head once more to Ethan and then roughly tore the top of a fallen elf to cover herself somewhat.

Then she politely greeted Ethan.

“Thank you for saving me. I am Arean Windreaker, the elf lord leading the Yugos clan.”

She said, touching her tiara.

“Ethan Whiskers.”

“!”

Arean looked at Ethan with a surprised expression.

“Could you be that Count Ethan Whiskers?”

“If you mean the promising Count Ethan Whiskers who became one of the Twelve Families from a local nobleman, then yes. I am that Ethan Whiskers.”

As Ethan boldly revealed himself, Arean completely removed her doubts.

“Thank you once again. I was kidnapped by the Migos elves while going to the lake to make fairy water.”

She shook her head and said.

“I never thought they would go this far. But why is Count Ethan here…? Could it be that our Yugos clan hired Count Ethan… no, that’s not possible.”

Ethan was a human but a person with tremendous fame.

Moreover, this was the far east.

It didn’t make sense to directly hire Ethan, a nobleman from the central region.

“I came here on business and ended up here.”

“So you… came here by chance, you mean?”

“Something like that. But there’s something I want to ask.”

Although he came here by chance, it was hard to see the process as purely coincidental.

Ethan had clearly seen Moonforce’s aura leaking from the cracked cliff crevice and entered.

‘This is indeed Moonforce’s temple.’

If so, aura should be felt from the objects remaining in Moonforce’s temple, but instead, Moonforce’s aura was flowing from this elf lord.

‘It’s still coming out now.’

“Do you know Lady Moonforce by any chance?”

“Lady Moonforce…? I’m not sure.”

Arean thought for a moment and then said apologetically. Then she shook her head, slapped her cheeks a couple of times, and tried to leave the prison.

“I’m sorry, but I think I need to go quickly. I don’t know how much time has passed, but if I don’t return soon, I’ll lose Isterian. Then our world tree will… end up going to the other side!”

Arean picked up a fallen dark elf’s short sword and bow and immediately headed outside.

“Please make sure to visit our Isterian. I will never forget this favor.”

“It seems they kidnapped you with a plan. Won’t it cause more problems if you return like this?”

At Ethan’s words, Arean, who was about to run out, stopped in her tracks.

“I don’t know the circumstances well, but it’ll be difficult to leave here right away. Isn’t the drug still circulating in your body?”

“…”

Arean was not in a normal state.

Migos had planned to intimidate Arean here and make her write a note handing over the lord’s position.

Arean was scheduled to be disposed of after writing that note. For that reason, quite a powerful poison was now circulating in her body.

“That won’t disappear if you just leave it alone. It seems they never intended to let you go and planned to kill you from the start.”

“Is that… really true?”

Arean closed her eyes for a moment. Then, fierce winds flowed around her body.

“Hah…”

Arean sighed after checking her body condition. It was as Ethan said. The poison circulating in her body was extremely toxic to elves.

Without taking the proper antidote, it would never be neutralized. Moreover, she couldn’t even use mana before being treated.

“Looks like you need help.”

“…I’ve already received great help.”

The elf lord gritted her teeth. For now, returning was the priority. Whether it would be helpful or not, she had to go and see.

“But if you could help once more…”

“I happen to need help with something too.”

‘An elf lord would surely know the location of the place I’m looking for.’

And there was also a need to check about Moonforce’s aura rising from her.

‘It’s also an opportunity to spread Moonforce to the dark elf city while I’m at it.’

By helping her and receiving help in return, he could handle these three things at once.

“Then let’s go!”

“Didn’t you say it was urgent?”

Ethan picked her up and put her on his shoulder.

“Don’t throw up even if you get motion sickness.”

Crackle-.

Arean’s eyes trembled as she saw lightning spreading from Ethan’s toes. She hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands.