Ren was right about one thing. Ethan was indeed taken advantage of and almost lost his life there.
It is also for this reason that he is now much more careful about his own safety. He negotiates with people either through his laptop or mobile phone, and in short, he does not show up easily.
That time with Clintasa, when he was snatching the remains of the Bear God, he fought against the Elf King and injured him. He knew that the other party was no match for him, so he dared to show up safely.
If you think about it this way, if he hadn't fought with that armored monster and was tortured, he might have appeared carelessly in front of Ren, and what would happen...
In short, the causal coincidence is very subtle.
Ethan didn't tell him how embarrassed he was at that time, he just mentioned it all in one stroke.
"I fought with him for a while, although I gradually fell into a disadvantage..."
In fact, he was chased and beaten unilaterally.
"At that time, the opponent's physical condition seemed to be deteriorating during the battle, so I waited for an opportunity to try to regain control of the situation."
In fact, when he tried to fight back, he was almost beaten to death.
"In the end, we couldn't do anything to each other, and the armored monster had no choice but to stop."
In fact, he had already been grabbed by the armored monster on the shoulder at that time, but the opponent was in poor condition and failed to break through Ethan's protective magic at this best opportunity, and he escaped.
The result was almost the same. After that, the armored monster's physical condition no longer supported him from grabbing Ethan like this anymore. His whole body was broken into pieces. It was broken before, but now it's powder. You can tell just by looking at the armor.
Not even a fragment larger than a thumbnail can be seen.
"He suddenly spoke and asked me to pass a message to the armored weirdo. Only then did I realize that he was not the armored weirdo I had seen before. No wonder he suddenly attacked me."
Ethan felt a little emotional when he spoke, as if he felt that he and the armored monster could communicate.
Ren: No, if it was the previous one, you should have died faster.
Ethan continued: "I thought these were his parting words, but I didn't expect other changes to happen at this time."
besides?
"Suddenly, a blue transparent tentacle as thick as a human waist appeared out of thin air behind the armored weirdo. It entangled the armored weirdo and dragged him back. His whole body seemed to have sunk into the water, being dragged deeper and deeper, and then
Right in front of me, the man and the tentacles were gone. Do you know what those were?"
"God?" Although he had never seen the scene, Renn could only guess in this direction.
"Yes, I feel the breath of the gods. In addition, there seems to be a magical power in the sea water, the power of time."
Ren was startled for a moment, and then he understood, no wonder Ethan said that the armored weirdo was not from this time.
He has basically determined that it is his "photo", but he still doesn't know what experiences this "photo" has had, why it became like that, and why it is related to a god with only one tentacle revealed.
An ocean filled with the power of time? From which era did he resurrect, and where was he dragged by the tentacles?
A lot of questions, but obviously no answers, and Ethan doesn't have the answers.
Back to the present, let’s talk about Ethan.
"Then why are you telling me so many things about armored monsters? I don't think you are just bored and want to tell someone a story?"
Ren listened to himself talk so much, which proved that he was interested in this matter, and Ethan felt confident again.
negotiation!
We can definitely negotiate now!
"I have some guesses about this armored weirdo, and I think he can become the basis for our cooperation."
Lane was not interested in cooperation, but he was okay with speculation and was willing to listen: "What is your guess?"
"I think there's more than one armored weirdo, and he's not from our time."
Renn: These two sentences of yours seem to be correct separately, but taken together, it seems that your idea may be a little wrong?
"You've said the same thing before."
Ethan said confidently: "No, you misunderstood. I said more than one, not two."
"ha?"
"When I met the first armored monster, I didn't notice it yet, but during the fight with this shattered armored monster, I had a feeling that his aura was different from ordinary people. He seemed to be somewhere between mortals.
It's already a bit like a creature of another level compared to the gods, but it's just that it's not completely separated from mortals yet."
Ren thought for a moment and realized that what Ethan was talking about was probably the Allenville Armor, which might also have some factors that made Mantis qualify as a "manufactured product" mixed into it.
"But what does this have to do with your speculation?"
"What I'm going to say next is my most astonishing conjecture. I think the armored monster is a man-made 'super soldier' type of existence."
Renn:......
"There may not be too many of them, but they are also quite a lot. It's just that the era when the armored monsters originally existed was not our present, but a point in time in the future or the past. The people at that time created them to fight against
Gods. But obviously, at their level, they are not completely separated from mortals, and there is still a gap between them and the real gods, so the battle did not go smoothly, and many armored monsters died."
You are really good at making stuff up...
Ethan is still making up, but of course, he may not think so himself: "During the battle with the gods behind the tentacles, one of the armored monsters may have come to us now by accident, the one we know well.
And the broken one came just before death. He may have learned about the remains of the bear god, so he went there with instinctive hatred, and then met me. So he thought that another armored weirdo had wanted to kill me.
After that, he launched an attack on me, but unfortunately I was dragged back to the battlefield by that god."
Ren's current expression is just one word: Huh?
He sounded a little confused: "But what does this have to do with the cooperation you told me about?"
Ethan is very confident now: "Mr. Lane, I don't think there is any need to be so tense between us..."
"I've heard this before."
"Nothing after that. I know you are a person with a strong sense of justice and think people like me are heinous. But you have also seen gods, right? You have so much power of gods in your body. You should know,
Mortals are so weak and powerless in front of them. Therefore, our goals can be the same!
Don't you feel moved to give all mortals the possibility to become gods and no longer ants? This is the ultimate justice! The armored monster is the best opportunity right now. As long as you and I cooperate, we can find out how to create this kind of 'super soldier'
method, or if we learn something from it, we may succeed!”
I fully understand that what Ethan said is just a wild guess. Sidra has already told herself what the "strongest race" is, so Renn naturally has no interest in this kind of cooperation.
But there was another thing that interested him more.
"This cooperation is still free, but I can promise you another thing, but there is a condition."
Hearing that there was still room for discussion, Ethan asked: "What's the matter?"
"I can promise that as long as the armored monster appears in front of me, for example in a few days, I will be willing to have a blazing road with him to end your "scientific research heart", Professor, how about it?"
It’s different from what you wanted, but it seems okay?
"Then what are your conditions?"
"Tell me what the weirdo with the broken armor wanted you to convey?"
"What do you want to know about this? That sentence is for the armored geek."
"You told me so much, but you didn't tell me the content of the message. Why do I think you didn't tell me on purpose? There is very crucial information hidden in it? It may be related to the origin of the armored weirdo."
Fortunately, it was through a mobile phone and the other party couldn't see Ren's expression.
"That sentence doesn't make any sense to me. Maybe it's something that only weirdos in armor can understand. Well, it's okay to tell you, but when the weirdo in broken armor told me, he specifically asked me to do it while
While talking about an action, I will send you a rough diagram through my mobile phone."
Ren looked at the phone screen, and soon a simple pattern appeared on it: convex(｀⌒′メ)convex