The Pathway Of Wisdom-Chapter 68: Why hurt me? Part-2.

The monster was no idiot; it understood that it was stuck in a difficult situation at the moment, and it was pointless to continue fighting.

But the moment it tried to retreat or escape, an arrow came flying its way and blocked its path of retreat every time.

Thus, it had no other choice but to stay and fight!

"IIIITTTTT HURRRRRTTSSSS!!!!"

Noticing that it was in a difficult situation, the monster changed its voice and started screaming in the voice of a helpless woman to make Ethan and the others let their guard down.

But Ethan and the archer were both veterans; they had seen many monsters before, and they had been fighting monsters their entire lives.

They both completely ignored the monster’s deceit tactics and didn’t get tricked by its change in voice at all!

Ethan suddenly made several signs with his hand to inform the archer behind him that he was going to jump into close-range battle and he should switch to a precise support role now.

After giving the hand signs, Ethan didn’t waste time and took his stance.

He placed his sword around his waist on the right and held its handle with both arms.

His aura became concentrated as he bent his knees a bit and stared right at the monster’s location without a speck of fear on his face hidden under the helmet.

[Lunar-Fall Sword Art: Half-Moon: Double Moon Curves!]

*BOOOOM!!!*

Ethan stomped the ground and launched straight at the monster like a cannonball; he bent his waist a little and sliced upward with immense force!

The monster seemed to have predicted that Ethan was going to do that, and it moved slightly to the side, easily escaping the upward sword strike.

"Hehe... got you..."

A smirk appeared on Ethan’s face, and the sword that was raised high in the air was immediately swung downwards with even more force than the first attack!

"AHHHHHHH!!!!!!"

The sword sliced the monster’s torso almost in two pieces; the monster managed to retreat a bit at the last second.

Otherwise, Ethan could have divided it into two pieces on the spot!

The force of that sword strike was so strong that the monster flew away from the sheer impact and hit the remaining intact concrete pillars of the destroyed mill building.

*BOOOM!!!*

The old concrete pillars broke apart almost instantly, and debris flew in all directions as the monster went right through the building and fell far away on the ground with black blood leaking everywhere from its body!

"Why do you think I have double-edged sword?... It is especially good at dealing with partially self-conscious beings like you; that’s why I have it..."

Ethan swung his sword lightly and shrugged off the black corrosive blood from his sword before it could do any particular damage to the sword.

*SHIIIIIEEEEEEE!!!!!*

While Ethan stood in place, another arrow came flying, and just when it was about to hit the monster, the monster hurriedly moved to the side, causing the arrow to fall on the ground and create a one-meter-wide crater on the solid concrete floor!

Concrete and debris flew in the air, causing more pain to the open wounds of the monster by hitting it in the wounded areas!

"DOOOONNNTTTTT HURRRRRTTTT MMEEEEEEE PLEASSSSEEEEEEE!!!!"

The monster switched to a child’s voice in that moment and started pleading for its life.

If it was someone who had seen this situation for the first time, they might end up hesitating and might get distracted, but Ethan was completely unaffected!

"It’s going to do its desperate attacks now... phew~ got to be more careful from here onwards..."

Ethan knew from his long experience that partially or fully self-conscious monsters like this start using desperate methods and almost do anything when they are cornered.

Ethan has seen quite a few people die due to being careless or being taken by surprise when a monster enters its desperation state.

*BOOOM!!!*

Ethan stepped forward and didn’t give the monster the chance to breathe or recover; he charged at him instantly!

[Lunar-Fall Sword Art: Full Moon: Consecutive Curved Arcs!]

Ethan swung his sword in a horizontal manner, and his sword strike made a curve in the air as it shone beautifully under the sunlight!

But that sword strike was anything but beautiful!

With Ethan being so strong and fast, his sword strikes were faster than the speed of sound and carried force comparable to being hit by a sniper rifle!

The monster had already gotten a taste of Ethan’s powerful sword attacks, and it dared not let Ethan strike it again; thus, it shrunk its body and squatted down on the ground to avoid that horizontal swing!

*WHOOOOMMM!!!*

Just the sword swing in the empty air created a powerful air pressure that blew away the nearby debris far away!

"Hoh, you are a fast learner!"

Seeing that the monster avoided his sword attack, Ethan wasn’t too surprised; he took advantage of the momentum created from the previous swing and let his body spin a bit.

Then he redirected that momentum to a new downward strike right away!

His every move and his control over his strength were so precise that even while fighting, he seemed like he was doing an elegant dance!

But each of those elegant moves carried insanely high lethality!

Each of those sword swings was strong enough to easily chop boulders into two pieces with a single strike!

*Clang!!!!* *boom!!!*

The monster used its toughened tentacle to stop Ethan’s downward sword swing, and the moment the sword hit the tentacle, it seemed as if Ethan’s sword had hit metal, and a loud bell-like sound rang in the area!

The monster was overwhelmed by the impact of Ethan’s attacks, and the ground beneath its feet cracked as he sank down in the ground several centimeters due to the sheer force of that attack!

*SHIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!* *BOOOOM!!!!*

Taking advantage of the fact that the monster was immobilized, the archer stationed far away fired another powerful arrow that hit the monster right in the side of his abdomen!

The impact of that arrow attack was strong enough to break the monster’s balance and lower its defense for a second.

And that single second was enough for Ethan!

[Lunar-Fall Sword Art: Half-Moon: Holy Moon-Cross!]

Ethan bent one of his knees and tilted his body to one side as his sword lowered to the ground.

Then he swung it upward with immense force before redirecting that momentum once again to create a half-circle in the air and bring the sword back to the down position once again!

And then he completed the ’X’ type attack by swinging in the opposite direction the same way as the first time!

"AHHHHHHH!!!! UUUGGGGGGHHHH!!!! AHHHHHH!!!!!"

The first strike remained unsuccessful again because the monster was able to barely defend it with its tough tentacle, but the second one hit it right on the same spot where it was heavily injured!

Its already fatal injury became even more severe, and it lost its balance as it rotated 90 degrees to the left as it flew in the air from the force of that attack!

*SHIIIIEEEEEE!!!!*

The moment that monster was thrown in the air while its body was being rotated by the impact of the sword attack, another arrow came flying with immense force and hit it mid-air!

*BOOOM!!!*

This time the arrow was different!

It was a sharp arrow with a purple poisonous coating on it!

It hit the monster right in the deepest part of its wounds, and the poison covering the arrow immediately started circulating inside the body of the monster in a matter of mere seconds!

The monster’s body twitched wildly, and it crazily thrashed its limbs in all directions as if it had gone mad from the pain and poison.

It had no idea that moving your body too much while poisoned will only cause the poison to circulate much faster in the entire body!

"This archer guy is really quite strong... I have never met an archer as strong as him..."

Ethan was quite surprised by how good that person was and how amazingly he could coordinate with Ethan, even when this was the first time they had worked together.

What Ethan didn’t know was that the archer himself was quite shocked at how strong Ethan was and how his sword swing was capable of moving so fast that it was near impossible to perceive it with the naked eye!

"AHHHHH!!!! IT HURRRTTSSSSS!!! ITTTT HURRRTTTTSSSS!!!!!"

The monster kept thrashing wildly as Ethan stepped forward and moved to its side.

As Ethan raised his sword to deliver the final strike, the monster started crying and asked Ethan with a voice of child,

"Why hurt me?... I JUST WANT TO LIVE... WHY?"

Usually, Ethan wouldn’t reply, but since the archer was here today, he replied in a confident tone with a loud voice. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"You are incompatible with this world... moreover, you are able to speak in a child’s tone because you have eaten one, right?..."

"Otherwise you couldn’t have mimicked its voice... so your own voice serves as the proof of your crimes..."

"Don’t do such crimes in the next life... maybe then you will not be hurt by anyone then..."

Without wasted anymore saliva on the monster, Ethan swung the sword in a downward manner!

[Lunar-Fall Sword Art: Full Moon: Setting Moon!]

*BOOOOM!!!*

With that strike, the monster’s entire head was blown apart and cut off from its torso in just a single second!

The ground cracked, and the monster’s body sank several inches into the ground from the impact of that attack!

But Ethan did not stop there; he squatted down and placed his hand on the monster’s dead body as he channeled divine power into it!

Using divine power, he completely purified that corpse of any miasma and made sure that it was really dead and had no signs of life left.

Whatever chance of living it might have had was destroyed with diving power!

"May the god of wisdom grant forgiveness to your soul..."