Chapter 52 A Dark Side Criticism: My Colleague is a Minor?! Waiting...
While waiting for Ethan, Tenas received a message from Reina in the group chat on his communicator. His city, Yangyan City, had been attacked by monsters again. He couldn't even imagine how much manpower and money it would take to rebuild it this time. The city library had only been repaired a week ago. Would it be destroyed again so soon?
With a heavy heart, Tenas headed towards the coordinates Reina had given him, and didn't forget to send Ethan a message saying he had to leave first, and that if Ethan saw this message about a monster, he should leave quickly.
I don't know when Ethan will see the message. He will try his best to keep the monsters away from here. This is the city center, the most densely populated area, with bustling streets that seem to stretch on forever.
If he hadn't lived here for so long, he might have gotten lost. He was a little worried about Ethan; she was just a weak human, unlike him who had received the blessing of the city's will and become strong. Would she be in danger?
But Tenas couldn't take her to safety first. Even if he had the time, he couldn't save so many people. Rather than just saving a few people as a temporary measure, he would rather work with the others to defeat the source of the disaster, the destructive monster, and prevent it from harming its inhabitants.
So Turner just texted Ethan to tell him there was a monster. It seemed Ethan didn't know he was a Guardian and didn't watch the news often. It didn't matter if he was considered a cowardly and useless man; fighting the monster was the priority.
This time, the monster is a giant dog monster.
From a distance, Turner couldn't tell what breed it was up close. It looked like a mixed bag; some parts resembled a German Shepherd, others a Belgian Malinois, and its fur was even a bit like a Pomeranian's—fluffy and fuzzy. And its howl sounded like a wolf! Was it a wolf or a dog?!
But Tenas's task was not to identify its species, but to defeat it. He landed next to Reina and Nadia, and Reina looked a little impatient.
“Some people can’t come right now, like the guardians of Starfall City.” Reina watched the dog monsters in the distance happily demolishing buildings, using dozens of stories high as chew toys, biting them and pulling them up by the foundation, and then starting to chew on them.
The only thing we can do is regroup and try to defeat the dog monster together.
But the dog monster's eyes were too sharp, and its body was too agile to dodge multiple attacks. Even though Gaza had received a magic book from Ethan as a gift, its magic wasn't that profound, and it was already struggling, yet it still couldn't hit her.
Moreover, the dog monsters are so intelligent that they even seek cover to avoid attacks, causing damage to more famous buildings in Kagerou City. Tenas was getting a headache just watching.
Gasha couldn't help but miss the binding magic Ethan used to use. It was so effective. Her magic power couldn't support her consuming so much, and even when she used it on the dog monster, it couldn't bind it.
The dog monster actually retaliated, as if it couldn't stand their annoying behavior like mosquitoes. It snorted angrily and spat out a beam of light to sweep everyone away.
Because Gasha had just used magic again, she was caught off guard and swept away. To the astonishment of all her colleagues, she was transformed into a dog and fell downwards.
"Everyone—" Reina quickly moved away from where she had been flying: "Spread out! Don't get too close, or you'll be attacked together!"
Although they managed to hold on for a while following Rena's instructions, they were still hit one by one by the strange beams of light, turning into different breeds of puppies that couldn't get up from the ground for a long time.
Damn it, this weird dog monster's attack has no cooldown. It can turn everyone into dogs whenever it wants, and the number of people on the field is decreasing rapidly.
In less than two minutes, even Nadia, who was struggling to hold on, was reduced to a dog-like state, barely managing to cushion her fall and avoid being hurt too badly.
Their power was actually suppressed quite a bit, making them truly unpredictable and troublesome.
Why haven't the others arrived yet?
At first, the guardians who had turned into dogs watched the battle from the ground, helplessly praying that their other colleagues would arrive soon. As more colleagues arrived one after another, they all turned into dogs and landed beside them, wondering how to break the deadlock this time.
So hopeless, there's no hope in sight. Is this dog monster going to turn everyone into dogs? Even if they become dogs, they won't be able to defeat the dog monster. Reina has been watching the battle with a serious expression for a long time, I wonder if she has come up with a solution.
The dog monster seemed to be able to distinguish which ones it had turned into dogs. Before leaving to destroy other places, it launched several more attacks on the guardians who had turned into dogs, leaving them battered and bruised, before finally leaving satisfied.
However, they didn't go far; they were still in Yangyan City, happily running around.
Just then, Tenas, who had been quietly recovering his strength and adapting to his injuries so he could move again, saw Ethan looking flustered and with red eyes.
Ternas was startled and quickly climbed in to observe. Even after turning into a dog, his sense of smell was incredibly sharp. After sniffing around, he realized that it really was the girl he had been sponsoring.
What's she doing here? Shouldn't the restaurant be quite a distance away? Didn't she see the message? It's dangerous for her to be here at this time!
Tenas grabbed Ethan's trouser leg and pulled him in the opposite direction from the dog monster, signaling him to leave. If they didn't leave, there was no guarantee that the dog monster wouldn't come back to torment them again. Then he found Ethan.
But the other party remained calm, affectionately patting his head, and with a flick of his wrist, a bottle of purple liquid appeared in Ethan's hand.
"How could he be so badly injured?" Ethan muttered as he uncorked the potion bottle and poured it into his mouth, "He doesn't even spare a puppy."
As Tenas gazed at the all-too-familiar potion bottles—they had once witnessed a mountain of potion bottles as high as a small hill—and tasted the familiar aroma of potions kindly provided by the guardians of Starfall City at the mage base, the churning thoughts in his mind came to a standstill at that moment.
Haha, what a coincidence! Is this the bottle style that people in Starfall City like to use the most? Do you people in Starfall City all know a little bit of magic? You're quite amazing; with a flick of your hand, you conjure up potions as if you have magic powers.
What a coincidence! After drinking this potion, Tenas felt much better. What a coincidence! Do the people of Starfall City like to name their children Ethan?
What a coincidence! Turner noticed upon closer inspection that the shape of the impoverished girl he was sponsoring resembled the lower half of his gloomy colleague's face. "So, people in your city generally do look alike, don't they?" he thought. Haha…
No, Tenas couldn't deceive himself any longer. After Ethan fed each of the guardians who had turned into dogs a bottle of magic potion, the familiar cloak appeared on the person in front of them. Ethan didn't even bother to look around before flying directly towards the dog monsters.
Turnas let out a wail that sounded like despair.
The other colleagues were also stunned, and they swarmed around him, as if shocked and amazed by the true appearance of their sinister colleague—a child who looked like an underage boy.
Nadia was the first to express her doubt: "Woof woof woof?" "Tenas, didn't you say you sponsored a tragic girl named Ethan from Starfall City? Is this the student you sponsored?"
Reina watched from afar as Ethan battled the dog-like monster in mid-air. Her mastery of magic was as effortless as breathing as she gradually turned the tide of the battle, muttering to herself, "Woof woof woof?" "You mean, you sponsored our colleague? A guardian who couldn't possibly be short of money?"
Gasha tried to convince herself: "Woof woof..." "Is it possible? That they occasionally take turns... What am I talking about? Where would the Guardians find shift replacements?"
"Woof woof..." Turnas's eyes were glazed over, he was almost crying: "Woof woof woof..." "I don't know either, I saw it was too small when I passed by before, and I wanted to help... I saw Ethan standing on the street late at night..."
Now that he thought about it, Tenas suddenly remembered that his guesses about someone forcing Ethan to work as a prostitute hadn't been verified with the parties involved. It was just his speculation, and he was afraid that confronting them would hurt their feelings, so he hadn't mentioned it... So Ethan might not really be some pitiful little girl... So, is the Starfall City Guardian female or male? The information says male, but the 'Ethan' he's sponsoring is female!
"Woof woof woof?" Gasha was shocked. "You mean prostitution? Could it be that those R18 posts circulating on the Starfall City internal forum are true? The Starfall City guardians have some unknown experiences, like someone once bought him, uh, her? for one night? She wasn't an adult, was she?"
Turner was shocked: "Woof woof woof?" "What? She really does this? She told me she's 21, but her official age is 14!"
Others: “!!!”
Reina, unable to bear it any longer, and Nadia each gave the two a headbutt, utterly speechless: "Woof woof woof!" "Can you two stop making things up? Isn't it possible that the other person is impersonating someone else while carrying out another case or mission? Haven't you ever handled any missions in your own city?"
The two looked dejected, and the other guardians who remained silent were also lost in thought.
Ethan, whom I remembered as the gloomy, dark guardian of Starfall City, arrogant and unreasonable, who almost never paid attention to anyone, never answered a question, and was often nowhere to be seen, seemed to be a villain in various movies and TV shows. But it turns out that he was a thin, immature underage girl.
How could this be? How could something so outrageous happen? How could there be such a shocking contrast? It completely shattered their impression of Ethan. In an instant, she went from being a colleague who might join the evil forces at any time and needed to be watched closely to a little girl, even younger than some of their daughters. How could they have lived with such a young child for a year without discovering this other side of her?
Looking at that tiny dot in the sky, controlling the magic to completely devour the dog monster, they were still somewhat unable to recover from the shock.
The seemingly villainous colleague's drastic alteration of a minor girl—I couldn't have connected these words before, I still can't accept it! The contrast is too great, it still feels like two different people, but they're wearing their usual clothes to fight the dog monster and using magic, so there's no way to deny their identity.
Their colleague, the guardian of Starfall City, is a minor.
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Author's Note: Ethan: I'm a guy! [Crying]
Others: It's not important, let us calm down, let us sort this out. Wait a minute, how could this be? [Fear] How could you really be the guardian of Starfall City? [Cracked] The contrast is too great, I can't accept it.
Volume Two is coming soon, hehe [rubbing his hands together in anticipation]
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