Just as Ethan was about to enjoy the beauty before him…
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The door suddenly began to knock.
Attendant Five instantly jumped out of Ethan's arms like a startled little bird, then hurriedly straightened her clothes and stood to the side with a flushed face and lowered head.
Ethan, meanwhile, asked outside with an unhappy look on his face, "Who is it! If there's something, say it. If there's nothing, get lost!"
"How are you talking to your master, you brat!", Nostradamus's voice came from outside the door, "Didn't you say you were going to participate in the Demon Tree Climbing Competition? It's about to start, so I came over to tell you a few things you need to pay attention to!"
"The Demon Tree Climbing Competition is about to start?"
Ethan's pupils shrank. He hurriedly looked at Attendant Five and asked, "Attendant Five, how long have I been in the villa in total?"
"Stayed…"
Attendant Five rubbed her lower lip with her finger and thought for a while before saying, "About twenty-eight hours and three minutes."
"Damn! It's already been that long?"
Ethan was also startled badly. He immediately covered his entire face with the demonized armor again, then pulled the door open and said, "Master! How long until the Demon Tree Climbing Competition starts?"
"It starts in two minutes!"
Nostradamus looked at Ethan with some confusion and said, "What is this thing on you? Armor? Why does this armor give off a dark and evil aura everywhere? What did you do, brat?"
"Master, I don't have time to explain to you right now. I'll go register for the Demon Tree first."
"What?", Nostradamus was shocked, "You haven't registered yet? Even if you run over there now, you won't make it in time!"
"It's fine. I'll just fly there!"
As Ethan spoke, he ran a few steps toward the open space. The next second, the armor on his body began to disintegrate starting from his feet, and the black scales that disappeared rapidly formed a pair of wings behind Ethan… two pairs of wings.
Three pairs of wings!
When Ethan's entire body had disintegrated until only his head remained…
Six wings had also appeared behind him, which was what was commonly called six wings.
And in order to make flying smoother.
Ethan simply changed his own head into a shape that was pointed at both ends. Slightly above the front, an eye appeared, which was naturally the position of the Demon Eye.
"This… this… this…"
Nostradamus was completely stunned when he saw Ethan's transformation.
It pointed at the monster Ethan had transformed into and said in shock, "What the fuck is this thing!"
BOOM!
There was only one and a half minutes left now.
Ethan had no time to slowly explain things to Nostradamus. He directly flapped his wings, and a violent wind rose from the ground, sending Ethan straight into the sky.
This left only Nostradamus on the ground, blinking its eyes, with indescribable envy and confusion in its gaze.
Then… Nostradamus actually tried to turn the stones on its body into two enormous wings.
But when its stone wings flapped, not only did they fail to lift its body into the air, the stones on the wings even kept falling off, dropping chunks of stone all over the ground. This made Nostradamus very dejected.
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[Demon Tree, Number 12]
This Demon Tree happened to be located within the territory of the Lord of Region Four, Orin.
At this time, the lords of the other two territories allied with Orin of Region Four had also arrived one after another. They were Duma of Region Nine and Blake of Region Three.
Orin of Region Four kept refreshing the announcement board inside the Demon Tree, looking at the list of human race participants, while asking, "Lord Duma, are you certain that Lord Ethan of Region Seven absolutely can't make it here?"
"Rest assured!"
Duma of Region Nine sneered, "I already used Nightmare's skill to make the clan leader of the Dream Giants forget about the matter of it lending me a pile of money, and then I used the money I borrowed from it to hire it!"
"You have no idea how happy that Dream Giant clan leader was when it saw that pile of money back then!"
"But it never expected that the money was originally its own, hahaha…"
"Who asked you about that?", Orin of Region Four could tell that the Lord of Region Nine was showing off, so he hurriedly interrupted him, "I'm asking whether you're certain Ethan can't make it here?"
"That's for sure!", Duma of Region Nine sneered repeatedly, "The clan leader of the Dream Giants promised me that it would lead the entire clan into Ethan's dream and annihilate his soul! Even if we take ten thousand steps back and say that Ethan luckily survives, there's no way he can make it here in time to participate in the Demon Tree Climbing Competition."
Blake of Region Three frowned, "But what if he already registered, and once the time comes, he's directly pulled into the Demon Tree World? What should we do then?"
"Wouldn't that be even better!"
Duma of Region Nine sneered, "I've already asked the Dream Giants about the Demon Tree Climbing Competition. They told me that even the first ten stages of the Demon Tree Climbing Competition have a very high danger level."
"If Ethan is dragged into that world while asleep, then what difference is there from being dead?"
"That's true," Orin of Region Four nodded, "I saw that among the alliance from Region Seven, only David from Region Two participated. Luna from Region Eight didn't participate. I don't know what the reason for that is."
"She's just afraid of dying," Blake of Region Three had a mocking smile at the corner of his mouth, "After all, not everyone has abilities as powerful as ours. Entering the Demon Tree Climbing Competition in an ordinary person's body, if that isn't waiting to die, then what is?"
"Anyway, this time, as long as Ethan doesn't participate, we're guaranteed to win the Lord Hegemony Competition."
Orin of Region Four was full of confidence.
[The Demon Tree Climbing Competition will officially begin in ten seconds!]
[Registration closes in nine seconds. All participants, please take note and make preparations!]
[Registration deadline countdown: 8]
[Registration deadline countdown: 7]
[Registration deadline countdown…]
The lords of Districts Three, Four, and Nine stared at the human participants. Even after looking beyond the ten-thousandth place, they still did not see Ethan's name, and only then did they finally breathe a huge sigh of relief.
On top of that, the registration period was about to end, so they were even more certain in their hearts… Ethan absolutely could not make it.