"As you say."

The blond man calmly replied, "I'm just a half-ass." ”

"Yes, Axel, the old dog, wants to use Ethan as a carrier of his echo and even a mirror, so that his daughter can give birth to her future body - Avrina is a stupid woman who doesn't know anything, she really likes my eldest brother, and she doesn't know that her father killed Ellie, and she thinks she finally has a chance."

When he said this, Ian was keenly aware that Patrick's mood had great ups and downs, and if it weren't for the silver chip, he would have even been deceived by the other party.

Holding back his anger, but still indifferent on the surface, Patrick looked around at the smooth metal shards around him, staring at his own twisted and shattered reflection in the shards: "Ian, you must be able to understand that if Ethan lives, the result will be worse than death." ”

"Yes, I'm a half-ass."

"I want Ethan Gad to be free from this abominable fate, and if I have to let that old thing make Ethan an 'echo' or even a 'mirror', I'd rather kill him with my own hands.

"I hope to save the family from Axel's conspiracy, but I can't give up the family's current glory and wealth and the emperor's favor."

"If Ethan just doesn't know anything and loses the potential for advancement, then Axel is at most looking for another experimental target - as far as I know, the second prince's wife's bloodline 'Simulated Night Shadow' has a symbiotic power close to that of our clan's eclipse light refining dragon, and even stronger than our Eren family in terms of replication."

"It's just that the eligible heirs of the second prince line are only female, and they are too young to meet the conditions of Echo...... It's not as good as Ethan. ”

But even then, it's not impossible...... If Ethan doesn't know anything and doesn't expose the flaws, then Axel's target will shift to other test subjects. ”

Speaking of this, Patrick sighed self-deprecatingly, and then smiled: "Of course, it's best to fake your death, so that it won't affect the Ellen family even more." ”

"Just to be on the safe side, Ethan doesn't know anything better."

"You're lying."

Ian was convinced, "There's a lot of information being withheld. ”

But then he shook his head indifferently: "I don't care if you lie, I just want to tell you that I can see that you still have 'killing intent' towards me and Isengard." ”

"Moreover, you are so naïve, you are really just a half-ass."

Laughing, Ian raised his hand and pointed to his heart: "If there is really such a plan, then there won't be a secret hand on Isengard?" ”

"Even if this place is located deep in the ruins and is blocked by the natural psionic field, this possibility cannot be denied."

Patrick was slightly stunned.

"That's why you let him go......"

The blonde nobleman muttered to himself, he really didn't expect it.

After Weggers's baptism, Ian had already cultivated this vigilance - of course, he didn't believe that any spiritual energy could penetrate the South China Sea ruins enough to change the psionic field changes of the celestial phenomena, but this kind of thing, it is better to be cautious than not to be cautious.

At the same time, Ian raised his sword again, causing Patrick to get rid of 'Am I really no better than a fourteen-year-old?' 'That subtle emotion.

He also reached out and clenched the hilt of the sword at his waist.

"Even though I have killing intent, I always suppress it and don't make a move......"

The nobleman said intriguingly: "You really want to fight me? ”

"Nope."

And Ian said seriously: "It's you who want to fight me." ”

"Patrick, don't you think we're going to let you out alive after you attacked Master Gosai, Viscount Grant, and Ethan?"

"I'll give you back the words."

Raising his sword and pointing at the blonde man in front of him, the white-haired boy calmly announced, "Patrick." ”

"-If you can die here, it's the best choice!"

Ian's words were like sharp arrows, and he had already begun to mobilize the essentia in his body, causing the pure white hair to bring a burst of blue and light gold streamers: "If you are not a half-ass, but really think about Isengard, you know what you should do!" ”

Patrick silently gripped the Mithril sword at his waist, as if thinking.

But Ian knew that even if the other party really regarded Ethan as his own heir, it would be impossible to 'die'.

Colluding with elven pirates, liaising with natives, causing so much damage that even the Aether armed strains are used to attack - Patrick's determination is probably deeper than he thinks.

And that's exactly what Ian thinks.

"You're right."

Patrick drew his sword, and the Mithril alloy longsword was slender and sharp, and the blue-blue thunder visible to the naked eye swirled above it.

A killing intent visible to the naked eye suddenly rose in his eyes, and his tone became cold: "I really can't die like this, even if I want to die, I have to be killed by Ayres or Teacher Gosai in the open, then it makes sense." ”

"And I must at least abolish Isengard...... And kill you, clever boy, although most of those secrets are deduced by yourself, but sometimes, knowing the secrets themselves is the way to death. ”

"It's Marquis Ellen, right? He has your handle in his hand and the temptation you desire......"

The water-colored halo in Ian's eyes flickered, and in the center of his pupils, the silver iris flashed with dense inscription characters, and he chuckled, "You had no choice from the beginning, just stupid as you are, but you didn't know." ”

"yes—I'm just a stupid half-ass."

At this moment, a black flesh flower bloomed from Patrick's shoulder, revealing a brilliant blue, blue, and red core inside.

The man said to himself a little gloomily, "You can really see through people's hearts, little one. I'm a little skeptical that Ayers knows this side of you. ”

"If you know, with his character, he won't sleep peacefully."

The flower that bloomed from Patrick's shoulder withered in an instant, and then spread like flowing blood throughout his body—it looked like blood, but it was thicker and thicker than blood, covering the blonde nobleman's body in a breath and clearly outlining his body.

It was a descendant of the Ellen family's Aether Armament, Gloom.

Although not a true Aether armament, it is more powerful than ordinary armor and is in line with the combat habits of the members of the Eren family.

Although Patrick calls himself a half-ass, his talent is not low, he can clearly sense that Ian's combat power is far stronger than he imagined, and the psionic energy is definitely not the 'observational psionic energy' that the teenager shows.

If he just treats the other party as a powerful first-level plus psionic person, he is very likely to lose or even die - so he spares no effort and directly activates the aether armed sub-strain, crushing the opponent with absolute violence.

But the unexpected happened.

Ian raised his hand, and he held up the water gun in his hand.

"Launch."

Speak out the power of the waves, press the trigger, and the pressurized water column bursts out!

Zi –

The water column is flying, but this water column is not pure water that is colorless and transparent...... It's mixed with a strange touch of black!

Patrick didn't pay much attention to the current, and casually slapped it away.

The blonde aristocrat wanted to taunt me like 'you're going to use this against me?' But before he could say anything, he sensed that something was wrong.

Crackle - the electricity began to beat abnormally, and the Aetheric armed strain that had been quietly covering Patrick's body suddenly erected spikes like sea urchins, and kept wriggling, and the originally covered head also faded with the anomaly of Gloomy, revealing the other party's stunned face.

"Ethan's blood?! He even told you such a secret? ”

- Even the Marquise didn't know about it!

Raising his head in disbelief, he looked at Ian, Patrick already fully understood why the other party was so fearless, and he probably knew the shortcomings of the Gloom Flower Sub-Strain: when exposed to the same Eclipse Light Refining Dragon Blood, the sub-strain could not automatically obey the wearer like the main body.

After all, it is a specially isolated sub-strain, which was originally intended for use by outsiders, so it is defective in the identification instructions.

At this time, the aether armament flaws of the creatures with their own life are exposed!

Of course, Ian didn't need to speculate, he had already seen the Aether Armament Gloom with his own eyes, and he only needed to use the silver chip to call up the relevant information.

Before Patrick's words fell, the young man's sword light flashed.

Even a second-level sublimator could barely see in astonishment, and a light golden streamer lit up in his field of vision.

At this moment, Patrick had only one thought in his head.

- Wait, isn't Ian a water sublimator?

- Why did it suddenly become earth?!