Whoosh!
Right at this moment.
Ethan suddenly sensed something shiny flying straight toward his cheek.
He quickly leaned backward, dodging the attack.
Bang!
The sound of glass hitting the ground rang out by their ears.
Ethan looked toward the mist ahead. It was clearly the time of sunrise, yet the Ruins Land was already shrouded in thick fog.
And within that dense fog, aside from some glittering objects that occasionally flashed with tiny points of light, he couldn't see the opponent at all.
["It's over! It's over!"]
The scarecrow tucked under Ethan's arm panicked at this moment and said, ["It's the wilderness witch's rag doll! It's the most magically powerful servant under the witch, and its control techniques are absolutely unbeatable!"]
"Rag doll?", Ethan's hand trembled, and he almost threw the scarecrow off the horse.
Because the moment the scarecrow mentioned a rag doll, he immediately thought of that horror movie called Child's Play. Damn thing had six movies. Pure childhood trauma, okay.
Ever since watching that movie, he had never been able to look at humanoid dolls the same way again.
He always felt that kind of thing was insanely terrifying.
He might have confidence dealing with all sorts of bizarre monsters, but dealing with a rag doll, Ethan silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva.
["Yes, a humanoid rag doll,"] The scarecrow naturally had no idea what Ethan was thinking. It just trembled as it explained everything it knew, ["This rag doll is said to have been held by the witch since childhood. And ever since the witch began training black magic, the rag doll would also absorb the magic radiating from her body, gradually forming its own personality."]
"So the doll's personality wasn't a human sealed inside an object, but," Ethan took a deep breath and said, "something that was truly born from nothing?"
"Hehehehe!"
All of a sudden.
Ethan heard an eerie laugh ring out beside his ear.
When he looked around again, he realized that at some unknown point, the fog in the Ruins Land had already spread all around him, to the extent that he couldn't even see five meters ahead.
["The doll is here! The doll is here!"]
Hearing that eerie sound, the scarecrow was so frightened that even the voice in Ethan's head began to tremble, ["Lord, run! You can't deal with this monster!"]
"I'd love to run, but do I look like I can get away?"
Ethan hurriedly pulled out a dragon bow from his backpack, then took out a kerosene lamp and jammed it straight into the scarecrow's head. That way, at least there would be light.
It looked a bit brutal, but the scarecrow wasn't afraid of being damaged anyway.
["Lord, it's one thing if you rub the kerosene lamp on me, but you shoved it straight into my mouth. Isn't that a bit too much?"]
"You don't use your mouth anyway. It doesn't matter!"
["But if you shove it in like that, my mouth will break! Yamete!"]
"It's fine. Worst case, I'll just make you a new scarecrow when we get back," Ethan laughed, "I guarantee it'll be sturdier and bigger than this one. The witch definitely won't dislike it."
"...", The scarecrow didn't want to talk and spat at Ethan.
Of course… only in its imagination.
Whoosh!
Another shiny object flew over.
There was also a hidden weapon flying from the front. It was only after it hit the ground and shattered that Ethan realized it was just a shard of mirror.
But even if it was a mirror shard, Ethan didn't dare to take it lightly.
He quickly pulled out the dragon bow, casually nocked a fire arrow, and shot straight at the incoming shard.
BOOM!
The mirror shard instantly exploded in midair and scattered all over the ground.
Those shards even reflected the flames from the fire arrow, sparkling brilliantly in the air, like a firework about to fall. Spectacular.
✨* ｡✧.･｡* ✨
["Be careful!"]
But at this moment, the scarecrow suddenly shouted.
Then it leapt in a strange way and forcefully put its own back in front of Ethan.
The next second, through the gaps in the scarecrow's body, Ethan saw a red streak of fire shooting straight toward him.
Fortunately, the scarecrow was blocking him, so that red light struck the scarecrow instead.
Immediately after, the red light began burning on the scarecrow's body.
That red light was actually a spark of fire.
The fire seed quickly ignited the straw on the scarecrow's body. Startled, Ethan hurriedly pulled out a water flask and poured it over the scarecrow, finally extinguishing the flames that had just started.
["Lord, you must be very careful!"]
The scarecrow didn't feel pain, so it didn't have much reaction to having a hole burned into its body. It just hurriedly said, ["Mirrors reflect light. You must not use anything that emits light to deal with it! Otherwise, those light rays will become the doll's weapons and be reflected back at you!"]
"That's insane!"
Ethan was shocked.
Who would've thought that this rag doll was already hard enough to track down, and yet it had so many tricks up its sleeve.
'Truly worthy of being the wilderness witch's number one killer.'
["Yes, and its methods are probably not limited to just this,"] The scarecrow said with lingering fear, ["I've never seen the doll reveal its true abilities, but all the servants in the witch's house are terrified of it, so it must be very strong. Very strong!"]
"Hehehe!"
From within the mist, that eerie laughter rang out once more.
Ethan quickly put away the fire arrows and prepared to take out some other arrows to deal with it, only to realize that aside from ordinary arrows, he didn't have any others.
But he did have a [Split Arrow Crafting Blueprint +1].
"Learn!"
[Split Arrow: This is a type of arrow that can split its arrowhead infinitely. Unlike explosive arrows, which rely on explosions, the ability of split arrows is infinite replication! Crafting requirements: Bamboo 984/1, Enchanted Ore 267/1, Spirit Stones 6649/10]
[PS: This arrow consumes quite a lot of magic, so each arrow requires ten spirit stones as its driving force.]
"Damn it! With this level of consumption, why call it a split arrow? Just rename it Rich Man Arrow!"
"Not only does one arrow need ten spirit stones, it even needs an enchanted ore!"
Ethan felt immense pressure.
He couldn't afford this.
But for the fight in front of him, there was nothing to hesitate about. He'd just make a hundred of them first.
After all, right now he was a rich guy who charged high interest.
"Hehehe!"
As Ethan crafted the arrows, the eerie female voice in the mist sounded once again.
Then, inside Ethan's mind, he heard another voice that didn't belong to the scarecrow, "Impressive, hehe! I thought you wouldn't even survive one move. I didn't expect you to still be fine after the second!"
"But…"
"I won't give you another chance!"
"Because you are the culprit who killed my master. I will absolutely not let you go!"
"I honestly have no idea who your master is," Ethan played dead.
"Hehehe!"
The rag doll let out another cold laugh, "I've already used soul-searching on the cat demon. The one who killed my master…"
"IS YOU!"
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