With the deaths of the 20 gunmen, what happened next was extremely easy.
Because they were familiar with the overall layout of the Smith Mansion, neither Elena nor Ethan ran into many issues.
Adding to the fact that he was now a one-circle apprentice mage and Elena was a martial master in her own right.
Any gunmen they encountered in their way were killed before they could even react.
Crack
Striking the head of a nearby intruder, Elena wiped the blood off her left hand on the wall.
"That makes 21 for me brother!"
"Although I don’t know how you got so much stronger and good at shooting, but when it comes to fighting skills your big sis is still your big sis!"
Boom!
As she smiled with pride, Elena kicked open a nearby door, knocking the two gunmen hidden behind it unconscious at the same time.
Yes, so what if he was stronger than her, when it came to martial skills, Elena was the strongest.
"Yes yes, you’re the strongest."
"However instead of bragging so much, don’t you think we should hurry up? I hear some movements coming from the main hall."
Recalling the sound of the explosion he just heard, Ethan couldn’t help but frown.
Things were certainly getting out of hand.
Hearing this, Elena nodded, knowing her brother’s words were the truth.
’However, why hasn’t the ten thousand time increase triggered again since back then?’
’I tried giving her some pointers during her fighting just now but nothing happened.’
’Is there some limitation?’
Recalling the fights that had just happened, hidden under the worries about his grandpa’s well-being, a look of contemplation quietly surfaced beneath Ethan’s eyes.
After he had taken out those gunmen, he tried teaching Elena other things and skills to see if it would work, unfortunately, nothing happened.
It was for this reason he had purposely stayed out of the fights afterwards to try and gain more skills.
’But it’s not like everything was completely for naught, at least I somewhat have an idea of what is going on.’
His mind raced, rapidly trying to understand the reason.
’From what I can gather, it seems that for it to activate, the person being taught actually has to learn something new.’
’Perhaps because Elena far surpasses me in that, it’s impossible for me to teach her fighting skills.’
’Plus that’s not all, I feel like with the increase in depth of teaching, the quality of feedback increases.’
’Maybe if I taught Elena more carefully it wouldn’t have stopped at just grandmaster level and perhaps even reach God level.’
Lost in his thoughts, Ethan calmly followed behind Elena trying to understand his abilities as much as possible and adjust his plans for the future.
It wasn’t until about five minutes later that Elena’s voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts.
"This is the last room before the event hall, it seems like there are five guards inside."
"Do you want to take them or will I?" she asked, her fighting spirit still burning as high as ever.
However, after knowing that he planned to farm skills from her, Ethan suddenly had another plan.
"Never mind, I’ll take it from here, I also want to test a few things."
As he said these words, he slowly began to feel the mana circle around his heart.
It was time for it to play its part.
......
Mana, this was the name Ethan had given to the energy which brought about the world’s apocalypse.
Born from seemingly nowhere, not only did it promote evolution and mutation but by acting as a fulcrum it could actually leverage the laws of the world allowing for all kinds of strange abilities.
After a night of using his max-level comprehension, Ethan had long since had a somewhat basic grasp on the nature of abilities and how Awakeners use them.
’Back then when I decided to create my profession, I wanted to create all kinds of spells just like wizards and cultivators too.’
’Unfortunately, my knowledge wasn’t enough, to create spells, I’ll probably need to study the bodies of Awakeners when they use their abilities.’
’After all what kind of wizard is there without a spell?’
’Right now, if this was a novel I would probably be just a regular body-building martial artist or knight.’
’Better than regular people, but still an ant in the grand scheme of things.’
Talking to himself, although he said this, but wasn’t too disappointed rather he was looking forward to the future.
Just what kind of things would he create, what kind of future did he have in store for him?
Reborn in the past, the future was like a blank sheet and he was the painter.
What he drew was for him to decide!
’However, after reading all these wizarding and knight novels, I can’t cast spells like them.’
’But the aura they used in a lot of novels gave me an idea.’
’Gathering the mana in my chest to cover my legs, can that increase my speed and leg strength? And can that same logic apply to my fist?’
’Although the mana currently gathered is small, when it’s enough if I cover my whole body can I achieve a full-body reinforcement?’
’Can I condense it around a sword and use the energy to split things from far away?’
’Can I compress it and use it to block bullets!’
As more and more new ideas came into his mind, unknowingly a slightly perverse expression came across his face and he could already imagine what it would be like if all his thoughts were possible.
If all his speculations were true, then the potential of mana was more than anyone ever imagined.
"Alright sister, I’ll take care of these, just watch my back."
Taking a step forward into the room where the five guards were, Ethan silently began to control his mana.
Starting from around his heart, the invisible-like mana began to gather around his fist.
’Hopefully these guys don’t break too fast.’