"Hairy monster, stop right there!", Ethan roared, "Put down that treasure chest and let me have it!"
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The snow monster completely ignored Ethan and just hugged the treasure chest and ran like crazy.
Ethan hurriedly led his people in pursuit.
ヽ(#`Д´)ﾉ[･｀Д´･] ヽ( ｀0´)ﾉ
ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘
But the more he ran, the more something felt off to Ethan.
He realized that the places the snow monster was leading him through were all dangerous areas.
For example, the ambush spots of several bloodthirsty snow bats.
And the place the big snow monster was running toward was the location of a huge fissure.
This made Ethan even more certain of the doubt in his heart.
The big snow monster seemed to be deliberately leading him toward those places. And how would the snow monster even know that he had come looking for a platinum treasure chest?
This made no sense.
"Stop!", Ethan suddenly thought of something.
He quickly raised his hand to stop everyone following him.
Because he remembered, that group of tree spirits he had encountered at the oasis.
Back then, Ethan wanted the golden treasure chest under the tree, but those tree spirits clearly could not see the chest at all. They did not even understand what Ethan was talking about.
At that time, Ethan had basically confirmed that the monsters or natives of this world could not see treasure chests.
Since they could not see them, then how could the snow monster be holding a treasure chest and running away, even drawing Ethan into chasing it?
"Lord, what's wrong?"
"Meow?"
Everyone was confused.
Ethan stared at the snow monster ahead and said, "Something's not right. This snow monster is strange in every way."
"But Lord, don't you want that golden chest?"
"Yeah! That big guy is about to get away."
"If you think something's wrong, Lord, then let us go get it back for you!"
The resident all voiced their opinions.
But Ethan quickly caught a flaw in Hunter Five's words.
"Golden treasure chest?", Ethan hurriedly asked Hunter Five, "Hunter Five, are you sure what you saw was a golden treasure chest?"
In Ethan's eyes, what the snow monster was holding was a platinum treasure chest.
But in the eyes of the residents, what the snow monster was holding was a golden treasure chest.
This subtle difference… pointed to a problem.
'It seems that what each of us seeing is different.'
Because the residents did not know that there was a platinum treasure chest here. They only knew that their lord had come here to look for a treasure chest.
So what they saw, should still be the appearance of the golden treasure chest they had seen back at the oasis.
And because Ethan had a prompt, he knew it was a platinum treasure chest, which was why he could see the existence of the platinum chest.
Now this was interesting.
"Yeah! That long-haired freak is holding something shiny and gold, exactly the same as the golden chest we saw at the oasis!"
"Meow?"
Daji tilted her head, as if to say…
'What I see is dried fish.'
"ROAR!"
When the snow monster saw that Ethan was no longer chasing it, it simply stopped as well, turned around, and bared its fangs and claws at Ethan.
At the same time, it even made some unspeakable gestures.
凸(艹皿艹)
The snow monster looked at Ethan.
Ethan looked at the snow monster looking at him.
He raised an eyebrow, ignored it, and continued talking to the residents.
Because he wanted to confirm something.
"Actually…"
Ethan said tentatively, "What I want most right now is some thick fur coats. It's really too cold here. I hope everyone can be warm."
"Lord, we're not cold at all."
"This is so touching. Lord, you're really too good to us!"
"Lord, we will definitely help you kill that snow monster, take its fur, make fur coats, and offer them to you!"
The resident folk were so moved that they wiped away tears.
But right at this moment, Hunter Five suddenly noticed something…
"Lord, did you see that? The golden treasure chest in that snow monster's hands has turned into a white fur coat!"
"Yeah! How did it turn into a fur coat?"
"I clearly didn't see it put the golden treasure chest down just now!"
The resident folk all exclaimed in amazement.
But in Ethan's eyes, what the snow monster was holding was still a platinum treasure chest.
At this point… Ethan could finally be certain that the snow monster had the ability to transform into the desires in people's hearts.
For example, what Ethan had always wanted was a platinum treasure chest. Even though it could not change his own desire, his subordinates were different. The desires of these people were more about satisfying Ethan's desires.
So at first, they thought what the lord wanted was a golden treasure chest, and naturally, what they saw was also a golden treasure chest.
Later, Ethan said that it was cold here and that he hoped to get a fur coat.
So the desires in the hearts of the resident folk also began to change.
Ethan could not change his own desire, but changing the desires of the resident folk was quite easy.
And thus, the scene that had just happened appeared.
The residents saw different things appear in the snow monster's hands.
Because the desires of the resident folk had changed, the thing in the snow monster's hands naturally changed as well.
"Heh! Heh!"
Ethan let out a cold laugh.
Then he drew a fire arrow.
"There is nothing at all in that snow monster's hands," Ethan said coldly, "From start to finish, all you saw was nothing but your own desires."
"Ah?"
The resident folk exclaimed in shock.
They probably had not expected to encounter something so magical.
"ROAR!"
When the snow monster saw that Ethan had broken the illusion, it immediately flew into a rage and let out a sky-shaking roar. That roar was truly earth-shattering.
It even made the entire ice field tremble slightly, and countless clumps of snow rolled down from the snow peaks.
"Hiss! Hiss~"
That roar also woke up all the bloodthirsty snow bats hidden beneath the snow.
Countless bloodthirsty snow bats swooped toward Ethan and the others.
"Daji, protect the residents!"
Ethan quickly gave Daji an order.
Here, aside from him, only Daji had the fastest speed… no, agility.
So aside from Daji, Ethan could not think of anyone else he could use for the moment.
"Meow!"
But at this moment, Daji rubbed her eyes.
She seemed unable to find where those bloodthirsty snow bats were.
At this time, she could only twitch her nose, trying to rely on her sense of smell to locate the monsters.
This was not Daji's fault.
Although bloodthirsty snow bats looked very much like bats.
Their bodies were quite large, almost the size of a kite. And their entire bodies were snow-white, with only their two eyes being blood-red.
Plus, they hid within the vast white snowfields, blending completely into the background.
They were really hard to notice.
Whoosh!
Ethan shot out a fire arrow.
It hit a bloodthirsty snow bat dead on.
The next second, the bloodthirsty snow bat burst into flames from the inside out, and instantly burned itself up.
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