Chapter 153: One vs Three Hundred
"Your subjects chose violence," Ethan replied with patient explanation. "Your defenses targeted me first. I’m simply responding to established hostility with proportional force."
Truth. Simple mathematics.
Ten Gold-rank captains spread into tactical formation around their lord, their individual auras combining into coordinated threat display that would have intimidated most territorial opponents. Professional military experience guided their positioning.
Lord Vance’s face darkened.
"Kill him," Vance commanded with absolute authority.
Poor choice.
Ten Gold-rank captains attacked simultaneously.
Their coordinated assault represented the pinnacle of organizational military capability—diverse talents working in perfect harmony through accumulated combat experience. Fire magic, ice manipulation, earth control, and many more talents created a killing field that would have challenged small armies.
Ethan’s response demonstrated why Platinum-rank transcendence rendered conventional tactics obsolete.
Enhanced Speed activated. Reality fractured into microsecond intervals as his perception accelerated beyond what their coordination could calculate or counter.
The captains’ attacks appeared frozen in crystallized time—fire bolts hanging motionless, ice spears suspended mid-flight, earth spikes emerging from stone with geological slowness.