I'm not just human!

Chapter 50: Secret Contracts Can Be Played Like This?

That was a place not far from them, about ten meters away from the crowd.

Within this ten-meter distance, there was only an open space, with only the cracked earth spewing steam and flames.

Whether it was the skeletons of giant jawed beasts or human-headed crocodiles, they all seemed to want to crawl slowly within their own activity range, too lazy to cross the ten-meter distance and launch an attack on the group.

It was precisely because of this vacuum zone that everyone was able to catch their breath and was not immediately surrounded by the army of skeletons.

But when everyone looked in the direction the eyeball was pointing, they found that... nothing had happened!

Indeed, the remains of those giant jawed beasts were still crawling blindly, crowding together, with the sound of bones colliding constantly ringing out.

If there's anything amiss, it's that the skeleton of a human-headed crocodile lies quietly among the skeletons of the giant jaw beasts, as if it's been squeezed and can't move.

But this situation made the group, led by Chestnut, serious.

They knew Lord Tyrene's personality; he was always the type who rarely smiled and would never joke with his subordinates, let alone at this critical moment of life and death for everyone.

But then, an astonishing scene unfolded!

Centered on the human-headed crocodile skeleton lying on the ground, the ten giant jaw beast skeletons suddenly turned their bodies with incredible agility, no longer moving as slowly as before.

Then, their enormous heads all aimed at the human-headed crocodile skeleton lying on the ground and began to shake.

Judging from their appearance, it seems like... they're holding some kind of ceremony!

"Warp-jacking! It's warp-jacking! Quick, stop their ritual!"

Lieutenant General Bedivet's voice rang out from the military telegraph machine, furious but not directed at the members of the Prominence Nebula Squad. Instead, it was an expression of indignation at the evil of these undead, as he continued:

"In five seconds at most, one of you will be teleported to the center of their ritual, at which point all the surrounding undead will swarm you!"

Upon hearing this, everyone present shuddered.

Without a doubt, this is extremely insidious, especially since it only takes a mere five seconds from start to finish!

If Cardinal Tyrean hadn't noticed something amiss early on, and if Navy Commander Bedivet hadn't spoken up to warn them, it's possible that no one would have realized what was happening from the start of the ritual until its end.

They will then suffer heavy losses.

After all, the undead had previously behaved like mindless wild beasts that wandered around aimlessly. In fact, they hadn't shown any signs before launching this ritual, just as everyone had just witnessed.

Xia Fa couldn't help but sigh inwardly. The demigods were indeed experienced. It seemed that with their remote guidance, the team's chances of survival would increase significantly.

"I'll do it!"

Ethan, who was standing at the front of the line, suddenly spoke up. This burly man with short, military-style hair suddenly stretched out his arms toward the ceremony.

At that very moment, a strange spatial fluctuation enveloped everyone. It was as if countless invisible hands were spreading through the void, ready to swarm in and grab one of them at any moment.

This is... the effect of Warp Plunder, it's about to take effect!

At that very moment, Ethan's muscular arms suddenly transformed into two purplish-black tentacles, speckled with suckers, from which white bone spurs extended.

Xia Fa's eyes flickered, and he recognized him immediately.

Secret contract of tentacles!

Although this was a secret agreement that the church strongly discouraged, for an extraordinary person like Ethan, who had served in the military and whose mental fortitude was far greater than that of ordinary people, it was actually acceptable for him to sign it.

Because such dangerous secret agreements often also represent...power!

Ethan raised his arms, and his ten-meter-long tentacles rose with them. Then, he slammed them down on the skeletons of the ten giant jaw beasts that were performing the warp-and-plunder ritual!

Just as he was about to succeed, the human-headed crocodile skeleton in the center of the ceremony suddenly raised its head and opened its massive skeletal mouth.

The skull flew out of its giant mouth with a shriek, and the spine connected to the back of the head quickly extended. Its mouth opened wide, and its teeth rapidly became sharper and more terrifying as it bit down hard on one of Ethan's tentacles!

Click!

The tentacle was immediately bitten off by the beast-like sharp teeth of the human skull. Ethan's face twitched, and he forcibly suppressed the look of pain.

Having successfully struck the skull, the man pressed his advantage and immediately lunged at Ethan's second tentacle.

The warp force permeating the void grew increasingly intense and powerful. As Ethan's tentacle was severed, a team member would immediately be warped to the center of the ritual, only to be instantly torn to shreds by the skeletal remains of the giant jawed beast that pounced upon them.

But just then, Ethan suddenly let out a low shout!

A strange scene unfolded: his other purplish-black tentacle rapidly transformed into a metallic sheen, reflecting a cold and heavy light in the firelight. With a single bite, the skull shattered even its sharp teeth!

Ethan let out another low shout, and his now-metallic tentacles slammed down.

boom!!!

This was a powerful, heavy, and brutal blow that smashed the human-headed crocodile skeleton at the center of the ceremony to pieces!

With a twist of his shoulder and a powerful sweep of his arm, Ethan snapped the skeletons of the ten giant jawed beasts, which were shaking their heads, in half at the waist, completely destroying the magic array that was about to take effect.

The next moment, Ethan's tentacles quickly retracted and transformed into human arms.

From the moment he made his move to the moment he finished, it only took him three seconds.

To Xia Fa's relief, when Ethan's other tentacle, which had been bitten off, retracted and transformed into a human arm, it was also completely unharmed.

He remembered it as one of the abilities of the Tentacle Bond: damage to the tentacles would not transfer to the human body.

But what surprised him even more was how Ethan had managed to do that.

To be precise, how did his originally fleshy tentacles become metallic?

Xia Fa remembered that when he had watched the Secret Contract Technique before, the Tentacle Secret Contract did not have this ability.

At this moment, Chestnut seemed to have been prepared, and spoke quite seriously:

"As an Eagle-level superhuman, Ethan has signed three secret contracts: the Tentacle Contract, the Gold Contract, and the Fire Contract. He just used a combination of the Tentacle Contract and the Gold Contract to metallize his tentacles, greatly enhancing their destructive power."

Xia Fa was slightly taken aback, but then he genuinely found it interesting.

Can extraordinary individuals combine their abilities after signing a secret pact?

Although his Etheric Source Pact possesses the abilities of the seven basic elemental pacts, he can gradually combine them as he grows stronger.

However, he had previously thought that this was a characteristic inherent in the Etheric Source Secret Contract itself.

"Wait a minute, if that's the case, if I could obtain the Silver Throne, a supreme-level secret contract, wouldn't that mean I could combine the Silver Throne's abilities with the Ether Source's secret contract abilities?"

Although he didn't know exactly what incredible or extremely powerful secret abilities the Silver Throne possessed, if it were combined with the abilities of the Ether Source Secret Contract... Xia Fa was already looking forward to it just by thinking about it.

Ethan, breathing heavily, turned to look at Shafa. Seemingly pleased with his successful attack, he smiled and said:

"Actually, Xia Fa, if it weren't for the unexpected turn of events, this operation of ours would have been a training exercise with an educational aspect, the purpose of which was to let you personally witness and learn the occult knowledge related to the secret combination."

As soon as he finished speaking, Tyrean's voice came again from the blood vessel-covered eyeball in the air.

"Quickly, another warp-and-plunder ritual is about to begin at three o'clock!"