Chapter 614: The Sound Of Silence [Part 2]
Chapter 614: The Sound Of Silence [Part 2]
Ethan momentarily blanked out after crashing into the cold blackish water of his Domain.
He didn't know what hit him. But, whatever it was, it made him feel as if he was hit by a speeding truck.
After half a minute, he finally managed to regain his bearings and willed the water to obey his will.
But, as soon as he rose up from the water, something unbelievable caught his eye.
A black lightning tornado was about to slam into him. It was as if Wallace had predicted exactly when and where he would rise up from the sea.
Knowing that he didn't have enough time to disperse the overwhelming attack that was only dozens of meters from him, Ethan gritted his teeth and skidded backward, commanding the sea to carry him as far away as possible.
When the lightning tornado descended on the place where he used to be, a powerful explosion occurred, sending giant waves imbued with lightning bolts expanding outward.
Ethan raised his Sea God's Trident and slashed forward, cutting the wave in half, and dispersing it completely.
But, before he could even breathe a sigh of relief, he was once again hit by something invisible, making him skid repeatedly over the water like a stone thrown over a lake.
After bouncing one last time, Ethan once again fell on the water, creating a small splash.
The young man felt a stinging pain in his chest, and breathing had become a bit painful.
'I hope I just bruised my ribs,' Ethan thought as he urged his powerful regenerative abilities to start healing the affected area. 'I can't afford to get hit by whatever that attack is a third time.'
Instead of rising to the surface, Ethan went deeper into the sea and extended his senses outward.
Right now, he needed to buy time to regenerate his injury. By this point, he already figured that he couldn't afford to underestimate his adoptive father.
That series of attacks was enough to give Ethan a wake-up call, telling him that the Wizard he was fighting against was probably as strong as Professor Barret.
Wallace, who was hovering above the sea, chuckled because he could understand what Ethan was doing.
'Did I go too far?' Wallace thought. 'Well, at the very least, I made sure to control my attack so that he wouldn't get seriously injured.'
The stormy sky above him had long disappeared, and the sea under him had started to calm down.
The waves that were dozens of meters tall had decreased to only a few meters.
This was the first time that something like this had happened inside Ethan's Domain, which made the young man take this matter seriously.
'Do you guys have any idea about what kind of magic my father is using?' Ethan asked Sebastian and his Other Half, whom he was sure was watching the battle from inside his Sea of Consciousness.
But he didn't get any answer to his question, which surprised him.
Usually, Sebastian and his Other Half would be commentating in real-time, telling him things that he needed to know about his opponent.
However, the two beings who were always there to support him weren't saying anything.
No.
Ethan already had a vague feeling when all the sounds in his surroundings disappeared earlier.
Everything had become eerily silent.
Well, that wasn't entirely the case.
When he made this realization, the young man heard a sound, and that was none other than the sound of silence.
A high-pitched buzzing sound assaulted his senses, making his ears hurt.
At first, he thought that his father was attacking him with a spell even when he was deep underwater, but he tossed this idea aside because it was impossible for an attack to reach him this deep, especially since he would easily sense anything that entered the water.
Ethan endured the pain in his chest, and the pain in his ears, as he tried to formulate a strategy that would allow him to beat his father.
In the end, only one thought came into his mind, and that was to use all the Trump Cards in his possession.
When the pain in his chest had finally subsided, Ethan rose upward like a torpedo, finally ready to go all out against his father.
When he broke the surface of the sea, he found Wallace still hovering in the air with his hands behind his back, giving him the "what took you so long?" gaze.
Ethan no longer hesitated and summoned Dainsleif with a thought.
He also summoned Lightbringer and Areadbhair to hover around him so that he could finally launch his counterattack.
'Ibar!' Ethan shouted internally as he commanded Areadbhair to attack Wallace.
The spear obeyed and transformed into a blazing spear that flew toward its target.
Ethan closely followed behind Dainsleif, who had transformed into a black mist.
But before they could come near Ethan's adoptive father, something unexpected happened.
Areadbhair was suddenly blown back as if something had hit it from under its body, making it lose its momentum.
Dainsleif, on the other hand, reverted into its original form and crashed to the sea, unable to fly without being in its mist form.
Ethan, on the other hand, raised his Sea God's Trident in front of him, expecting to be hit by another invisible attack.
But, instead of an attack from the front, he felt something hit him from the back, which made him once again crash into the sea.
Using his willpower, Ethan decided that enough was enough and shouted "Celestial Aria" internally to activate his Celestial Domain.
He believed that if he were to change the battlefield, the Fairies, as well as Sebastian and his Other Half, would come to his aid.
However, nothing happened.
The Celestial Domain didn't materialize, and Ethan once again found himself crashing into the sea, which was supposed to allow him to overwhelm his opponents.
Wallace looked at the pitiful young man with a sigh before shaking his head helplessly.
'I guess it was still too early for him,' Wallace thought before raising his hand to snap his fingers.
Ethan, who was slowly sinking in the sea, heard a cracking sound reach his ears.
A few seconds later, his Domain shattered, and with it, his world plunged into darkness.