"Don't worry. I will!"
Ethan wasn't provoked by the doll's words.
Instead, he gradually calmed down, even smiling as he raised the Dragon Slaying Saber in his hand and cut a circle along the outline of the puppet doll's body on the ground.
Only then did he grab the tail of the split arrow and pull the doll up together with the soil beneath it.
Just like pulling up a plant with dirt still on its roots.
["You… what are you doing?"]
The doll's eyes went wide.
No matter how it thought about it, it couldn't figure out how Ethan knew, that the moment he touched it, he would be cursed by the curse?
'This damned human, even after being provoked like this, is still unmoved, and even uprooted me entirely?'
"Me?"
Ethan held up the split arrow in his hand, the arrowhead skewering the doll and clumps of dirt like a barbecue skewer.
He sneered, jumped onto the horse, tugged the reins, and only then answered the doll, "Of course I'm sending you to die!"
"..."
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Very soon, riding the bone horse, Ethan returned once again to the giant pit where the mud monster was.
After jumping down from the bone horse, he looked toward the bottom of the pit. He saw countless long worms sticking out of the ground, as if the earth itself had grown a forest of coral worms. It was terrifying.
And every one of those worms had its mouth wide open, constantly intertwining, writhing, struggling.
No matter how you looked at it, it was extremely disgusting.
As for the scarecrow, at this moment, it was wrapped up by several giant worms. One of them even had its mouth wide open, trying to swallow it whole.
["Lord, save me!"]
["I don't want to be buried in a worm's belly, wuwuwu, it's so disgusting!"]
"Don't cry, don't cry."
Ethan hurriedly comforted it, "I'm back. I'll save you right away!"
["Lord, you're finally back!",] The scarecrow cried even harder, ["Wuwuwu…"]
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It didn't even know, how many times it had broken down crying over the past two days.
At first, it thought it had met a kind person who could take it back to the garden, away from the witch, letting it quietly stand guard for a year. Then it could live like a human.
But now, it felt like it might as well have gone back to accompany the witch.
At least it wouldn't be beaten up, wouldn't have its head twisted off, wouldn't have to kiss a voodoo doll, and definitely wouldn't be treated as food by a mud monster that insisted on swallowing it whole.
"It's fine. You'll be freed very soon."
Ethan glanced at the countless writhing worms below, calculating how to make his blood, the doll, and the mud monster all come into contact at the same time.
The difficulty was pretty high.
After all, the doll's weight and the weight of his blood were different.
According to the principle that objects of different mass fall at different speeds due to air resistance, if Ethan couldn't deliver both the blood and the doll to the mud monster at the same moment, the curse effect wouldn't activate.
So how could they arrive at the same time?
At the same time…
'If only I could bind my blood together with the doll.'
"I got it!"
Ethan's eyes suddenly lit up as he exclaimed joyfully, "I really am smart without even realizing it."
Then, Ethan quickly took a capsule compressor out of his backpack.
He cut open his finger, dripped a few drops of blood into the compressor, then pulled out a strand of green silk from a water ghost and tied the compressor together with the doll.
That way, the moment the doll touched the monster, the compressor would explode at just the right time, and all three would make contact almost simultaneously.
["Stupid human, what exactly are you trying to do?"]
The doll seemed to have guessed Ethan's plan and its face instantly changed in shock.
However… Ethan saw that the scarecrow's head had already been torn off by the mud monster. The straw on its body had been chewed into a complete mess, and the big carving beneath it was on the verge of being snapped off.
With the scarecrow already in such a miserable state, Ethan naturally didn't have the time to slowly explain things to the doll. Instead, he directly threw the doll toward the mud monster head closest to him.
Whoosh!
To draw the mud monster's attention, Ethan even deliberately whistled. Sure enough, the mud monster immediately reacted and bit toward the thing Ethan had thrown.
The doll screamed in terror, ["It's me! Monster, it's me! I'm Lady Witch's doll!"]
Unfortunately, the doll couldn't actually speak.
Its voice could only echo inside Ethan's mind. As for whether the mud monster could hear it, or even understand the doll's mental transmission, Ethan couldn't say.
But it was obvious that the mud monster in front of him was a bit brainless, or maybe it wasn't the main body.
It just stupidly opened its huge mouth and bit down toward the doll.
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["AHHH!"]
The doll let out a miserable scream.
Ethan seized the timing. The instant the doll and the mud monster's mouth made contact…
"Explode!"
He immediately triggered the compressor.
At that moment, Ethan's blood exploded over the doll and also splattered onto the mud monster.
All three came into contact almost at the same instant. So even if the doll wanted to stop the curse from activating, it was already too late.
At this moment, the curse was released directly inside the mud monster's mouth.
A stream of black smoke burst out from the mud monster's mouth, and its entire body began to harden at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
The first mud monster head that came into contact with the curse was completely dyed in black cursed energy.
But the cursed energy didn't stop after infecting the first head. Instead, it continued spreading downward into the ground.
Before long, countless blackened mud monster heads appeared before Ethan's eyes.
Then the entire mud monster turned black, hardened, and finally shattered into powder, instantly being cursed into complete annihilation.
["No!"]
The doll hadn't died yet. From within the ashes, Ethan heard something scream, ["Monster!"]
At this point, Ethan didn't rashly jump down. Instead, he carefully stared at the dismembered scarecrow below and called out, "Brother Scarecrow, are you still alive?"
["I'd rather be dead…"]
The scarecrow weakly replied.
Hearing this, Ethan was overjoyed, "You're not dead? That's great! Wait a bit, I'll grab something to fish you out."
The bottom was covered in cursed ashes, so Ethan naturally didn't dare go down.
He took out a ghost claw tool used by gold miners from his backpack and tossed it into the pit, quickly hauling up all the pieces of the torn-apart scarecrow.
Then he painstakingly pieced them back together.
Although it was pretty hard to look at, at least it was all put back together.
The scarecrow looked at Ethan with a gaze that said you're not human, ["Lord, what do you plan to do to me next?"]
"Uh…"
Ethan scratched his head, "I realized that although you can't talk, and you can't, you know, do that, your usefulness is actually pretty high."
"So could you come with me to the treasure land behind the ruins?"
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