[Demon Tree Hall]
Ethan finally rushed into the Demon Tree like a rocket in the last minute before registration closed.
The attendant standing behind the bar had also turned into the red-haired young woman from the last time Ethan went to Demon Tree No. 1123.
It seemed she had changed shifts and been transferred to the Demon Tree Ethan was at.
"Welco… comcomcom…"
The red-haired young woman simply could not bring herself to say the word "person," because the thing that had flown in from outside… no matter how she looked at it, it looked like a giant bat.
But if you said it was a bat, this guy's body also looked like a cone, and it was covered with densely packed scales.
However, this strange world had many bizarre races.
The longer Little Red worked at the Demon Tree, the more she accepted this strange setting.
But… no matter how she looked at this customer, he seemed to have absolutely nothing to do with humans, right?
However, the next second…
Ding!
A Dragon Coin flew out from the non-human monster and then landed steadily in Little Red's hand. It even spoke human language, saying, "I, Ethan, am registering to participate in the Demon Tree Climbing Competition!"
"Cus… customer?"
Little Red was completely stunned.
Because this monster really was speaking human language. Every race had a different language, but the only race that spoke human language was humans.
Besides, they had all already studied The Art of Language: Techniques for Mental Communication. Little Red could still determine roughly what race the other party belonged to based on the language they spoke.
"Yes! Hurry up and register me."
At this moment, the wings behind Ethan were rapidly disintegrating, then once again turning back into the form of humanoid armor!
"Th-That… Mr. Ethan… your race also has to be registered. May I ask what race you want to register as?", Little Red was shocked by Ethan's transformation.
She racked her brains, but still could not remember any race that spoke human language and could also be taken apart and reassembled like LEGO.
Could he be from the Gundam race?
"Human race!"
Ethan had already completely transformed into humanoid armor mode.
And inside the Demon Tree, the countdown to registration closing was still sounding from time to time, which made Ethan very dissatisfied with this slow-moving red-haired young woman.
"Registration deadline countdown: 10 seconds!"
"Registration deadline countdown: 9 seconds!"
"Registration deadline countdown…"
"Are you really human?", Little Red was still somewhat hesitant.
"Whether I'm human or not, the Demon Tree will naturally judge that. You don't need to identify me!", Hearing that the registration deadline was about to end, Ethan could no longer bear it and said, "If you don't hurry up, registration is going to close!"
"Oh, oh, I'll do it right away!"
Only then did Little Red recover from her shock and hurriedly began operating something in midair.
Ethan suspected that these Demon Tree staff probably had an invisible operating system, or perhaps some kind of intelligent thing like a magic book.
"Registration deadline countdown: 1 second!"
But even when the registration deadline countdown reached one second, Ethan still had not received any notification that his registration was successful.
The red-haired girl even looked completely unaware of the situation, simply keeping her head lowered as she operated something nonstop.
It was really infuriating.
Just as Ethan was about to lose his temper, the red-haired girl suddenly raised her head and looked at Ethan apologetically.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Ethan!"
"What do you mean?"
Ethan's heart gave a thump, and he asked somewhat uneasily.
But the red-haired girl apologetically touched her fingers together and said, "It's just… after I entered your information, I don't know how, but the backend got stuck. Now I don't know whether your registration was successful."
"…"
This answer really left Ethan speechless.
He completely did not know whether he should get angry, because the red-haired girl really had done what she was supposed to do, but the system had gotten stuck…
Wasn't this just like the annual Double Eleven shopping festival, when you tried to grab a flash-sale item at the price in the first minute?
Every time you finally managed to grab it, the moment you went to pay, it would say that the backend was congested.
And then there was nothing more…
By the time it was no longer congested, the one-minute purchasing period had long since passed.
The item returned to its original price.
Fine!
It was the same as not having grabbed it at all.
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[Demon Tree No. 12]
[Registration deadline countdown: 2]
[Registration deadline countdown…]
The lords of Districts Three, Four, and Nine all showed delighted expressions.
It was about to close. That guy really hadn't come.
This match…
They were guaranteed to win.
Originally, they could have simply stayed home and waited to be summoned by the Demon Tree into the climbing competition, since they had already gone through the wormhole to Demon Tree No. 1 and registered long ago.
However, they later discovered that only inside the Demon Tree could they see who had participated and who had not.
There was a Demon Tree announcement board with real-time announcements.
Therefore, they had remained inside Demon Tree No. 12 all this time, precisely to make sure Ethan had failed to come and participate.
Finally… After the registration deadline ended.
Countless beams of light descended from the sky, one after another enveloping the bodies of the participants.
Whoosh!
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The participants disappeared from the Demon Tree Hall one after another.
Although there were few people at Demon Tree No. 10 in Ethan's backyard, there were still two or three people there, and at this moment, they too were enveloped by white light and disappeared.
Only Ethan was still standing in the Demon Tree Hall, staring wide-eyed at the red-haired young woman.