Chapter 52: Successful Labyrinth Subjugation

Young Master!

Ian!

Seeing the stirred-up smoke, Elise and Aetherinra felt a great sense of foreboding.

They hadn’t anticipated that this Water Demon still had a means to boost its strength at a critical moment, so they were caught off guard.

Originally, once Aetherinra recovered her mana, they could have joined forces to defeat the Water Demon.

But now, it seemed the three of them would all die on the spot.

If the Water Demon were still Third Tier, Aetherinra and Elise could have combined their strength for a fighting chance, but now that the Water Demon had reached Fourth Tier, they were no match for it.

“Damn it, it’s all because of my stubbornness. Ian…”

Aetherinra regretted it now.

She shouldn’t have escaped alone to subjugate the labyrinth.

If only she had been trapped here alone, that would have been one thing, but she had dragged Ian and Elise into this.

She knew that if she hadn’t come to subjugate the labyrinth, Ian and Elise wouldn’t have come either.

It was all her fault for harming them.

So at that moment, she felt extremely self-reproachful.

“Next, it’s your turn.”

After dealing with Ian, the Water Demon turned its gaze to Aetherinra and Elise.

It raised a hand and shot a water column.

Facing the oncoming attack.

Aetherinra and Elise only felt despair.

“Young Lady, you go first. I’ll block this attack.”

Elise activated a shield around herself and said to Aetherinra.

“No, I won’t run. If we’re going to die, we’ll die together.”

Aetherinra wouldn’t abandon Elise and escape alone.

If she did that, it would only make her already guilty heart feel even more guilty.

“Still putting on a sisterly love act here?”

“But don’t worry, none of you will escape!”

The Water Demon sneered at their actions.

“Shouldn’t it be you who can’t escape?”

At that moment, the smoke that had engulfed Ian dissipated, and Ian’s handsome figure emerged.

“Young Master, you’re okay!”

Elise’s eyes lit up.

She hadn’t expected Ian to withstand a Fourth-Tier magic attack without a scratch.

“Dark Magic—Dark Claw.”

Ian raised his hand, and a giant arm appeared from behind him, blocking the Water Demon’s attack.

“No, impossible! How could you block my attack?”

Seeing Ian unscathed, the Water Demon was greatly shocked.

That was its full-power attack after advancing to Fourth Tier.

How could it be blocked by a mere Second-Tier mage?

“Nothing is impossible.”

Ian only replied blandly to the Water Demon’s question.

“Alright, you’ve finished your ambush. Now it’s my turn to attack, right?”

As he spoke, Ian erupted with an unprecedented aura.

His originally golden pupils turned black, and his whole body took on a sacred, inviolable majesty.

Ian was currently borrowing the power of Yeyue, who was lodging within his body.

It was precisely with this power that Ian had been able to withstand the Water Demon’s attack just now without injury.

“In the name of the Dark Goddess, I bring nightfall to this land.”

“Divine Skill—Eternal Night!”

Ian raised a finger, pointed at the Water Demon, and lightly pressed down.

“Haha, I thought you were tricking me too.”

“Seems like you surviving my attack just now was pure luck!”

After Ian raised his finger, the Water Demon didn’t feel any damage and began to mock him.

At first, when Ian survived its attack, the Water Demon thought he had hidden his strength, but now it saw that he was just a simple Second-Tier mage.

“Don’t rush. Let Eternal Night fly for a bit.”

Ian wasn’t bothered by the Water Demon’s mockery.

In his eyes, the Water Demon was already dead.

“Playing tricks!”

The Water Demon charged forward, intending to kill Ian by physical means.

But before it could advance, it suddenly went dark before its eyes and couldn’t see anything.

“No good! What’s happening? I can’t see anything.”

The Water Demon collapsed weakly, holding its head and wailing.

“I told you, give Eternal Night some time.”

Ian wasn’t surprised by the Water Demon’s reaction, as if its blindness was expected.

“It’s you! You’re behind this! I’ll kill you!”

But before the Water Demon could stand up and continue forward, its limbs became unresponsive and it couldn’t exert any strength.

“And magic! I can still use magic to kill him!”

Sensing something wrong, the Water Demon hurriedly tried to mobilize its mana, but no matter how it tried, the mana in its body wouldn’t obey.

It was as if even the mana had gone blind!

“You… who are you?”

Feeling the abnormality in its body, the Water Demon said in great shock.

At that moment, Ian seemed like a devil to it.

“Me? I’m just an insignificant mage. Ian replied.”

“No, no! I don’t want to die! I can’t die!”

Feeling its life fading, the Water Demon wailed helplessly.

It had no way to counter Ian’s technique.

It didn’t even know what Ian had done.

It was a magic attack it had never seen before.

But rather than a magic attack, it was more like the power of a deity.

And so, before long, the Water Demon collapsed weakly to the ground, dead as dead could be.

This time, it could no longer revive.

Moreover, even if it revived, it would continue to be plagued by Eternal Night until its complete death.

Such was the power of the Dark Goddess, Yeyue!

“Young Master, how did the Water Demon die?”

Elise saw Ian stepping out of the smoke and originally wanted to step forward to greet him.

But by the time she arrived, all she saw was the Water Demon’s corpse.

“I don’t know. Maybe it was a side effect of ranking up?”

Ian played dumb.

He couldn’t say that he had killed the Water Demon himself.

Even if he said it, it wouldn’t be a problem, but explaining it would be too troublesome.

“Really? Hearing Ian’s words, Elise was half-doubtful.”

“Don’t you trust me? Ian continued.”

“No, of course I trust Young Master!”

“Hearing this, Elise didn’t overthink it. Let’s go. The labyrinth is about to disappear. We need to get out quickly.”

Ian said to Aetherinra and Elise behind him.

Due to the labyrinth’s special nature, if the boss monster inside was defeated, the entire labyrinth would disappear.

Along with everything inside the labyrinth.

Mm.

The two girls nodded and followed Ian out of the labyrinth.

But when they stepped outside, they found a torrential rain pouring down.

Looking at the rainstorm in the sky, Ian thought to himself.

‘Could this rainstorm be related to the labyrinth?’

‘He had heard in the game that labyrinths could change the weather around them.’

‘But this was the first time he had encountered it.’