Talented Martial Hero
Chapter 446 The Resurface Of The Black-robed Man (Part One)

Hearing Ethan's words, Darren gave out a cold smile. He was thinking about the possibility that Ethan's soul was still here even if his body and bones were disheveled, torn, and shattered. Darren was pleased to know that his opponent had never stood a chance against him from the start—he must have improved these past few weeks.

All this time, as a result of numerous battles that he had, Darren knew how to attack his opponent's soul. However, it usually would not work, especially when he was up to face an opponent who also had powerful souls. After all, there was still much room for improvement for his Spirit Power. Ethan's soul was indeed quite strong, but he was dying at the moment. With his dying body, his soul was about to collapse, another blow from Darren would inevitably end his life. The warrior couldn't withstand Darren's soul attack in the first place.

Hiss!

A Spirit Power Arrow that was invisible to naked eyes pierced into the spirit of Ethan. The skill was so potent that, along its path, swirls of combined smoke and dust towered through the air.

"Ahhhhh!" Right after the impact, Ethan was immobilized and could not do anything but to scream out of pain. He limped and lolled in agony and couldn't cry out much louder. The torture was way too excruciating for him.

When it came to battles, the attack on one's soul was more intense and damaging than any form of physical assault on one's body. It certainly would cause much more pain, hundred-fold stronger. Darren knew all these, for he had experienced the same thing earlier.

While Darren was looking down at him, he could see that Ethan was in great pain and on the verge of dying. On the one hand, as he laid there bearing all the torment, Ethan sincerely wished that he had been dead so that there wouldn't be a need for him to suffer such pain of this scale. However, he could not even lift a finger to end his own life.

"Are you going to talk or not? Do not test my patience. I am starting to reach the end of my rope,” much more infuriated this time, Darren shouted while unleashing another soul attack on Ethan in an attempt to squeeze the information out of the suffering warrior.

Receiving another attack from Darren, Ethan was apparently in even more pain as all of his muscles began to twitch involuntarily, and his tendon began to retract that his whole body started to curl up. "Please...please stop. I will tell you everything that you want to know. Just stop attacking me." Mustering all the remaining strength that he had, Ethan managed to squeeze these words out of his mouth.

Not in his wildest imagination, he thought that Darren would actually use such torture technique on him. Thus, with his last line of mental defense being torn down, he caved in.

Hearing that Ethan had yielded, Darren retracted the soul attack. A heap of relief was let out by Ethan the moment he saw Darren withdrew, and he felt like he had just come back to life. After having a taste of pain, with such extent caused by the soul attack, his physical pain now was not even worth mentioning.

"Fine. I will not deny the fact that I lost to you. I only have one request, which is for you to kill me quickly after I give you what you want." Stuttering with his words, Ethan could barely breathe now as the torture had drained his life energy.

"Fine. I will do that for you," Darren replied coldly without any emotion attached to it.

"After I escaped from your legendary beast the other day, I was attacked by two Invisible Panthers and was injured by some black magic. Although I managed to get out of there in the end, I realized that the wounds were fatal, and there was not much time left for me in this world.

Just when I was about to give it all up out of despair, a black-robed man appeared and told me that he could heal my wounds. All my hopes were heightened at that time. However, there was one condition that was for me to follow his instructions and run his errands for him after I was healed. At that time, I was already dying. So I had no choice but to accept his offer without thinking about anything else.” Ethan narrated the incident to Darren

After catching up his breath, Ethan continued, "That black-robed man was indeed omnipotent. He healed my wounds with just a snap of his fingers, and then I was brought back to life. It was not until after that moment did I realize that I had just jumped into another abyss, a point of no return. It is because he is an evil witch, who is the messenger of the Red Inferno Sect. It was too late before I realized that I had made a deal with the devil.

Without my knowledge, he has planted something deep in my spirits and used it as a leverage to control me. He asked me to collect one thousand strong souls and told me that it had something to do with the breakthrough of a young master, which I was not quite sure whom or what it was, first and foremost. If I do not follow his order, he will torture me until I get him what he wants or maybe someday just kill me directly. There is absolutely nothing that I can do about it.”

Ethan told everything to Darren without holding anything back.

"The Red Inferno Sect!" At the mention of the word, Darren felt both overjoyed and vexed at the same time. He finally had a clue of their whereabouts, but at the same time, he was really angry with what they had done.

"Do you know where the Red Inferno Sect is based in? And how do I gain access to the sect?" asked Darren, in hopes of locating and eradicating the evil sect from this world.

"Put it in your word, and I am simply a dog of that messenger. They will definitely keep that information from me. How am I supposed to know that?" Ethan gave a bitter smile while joking about himself. Now that the cat was out of the bag, he admitted his status of being a servitude to the Red Inferno Sect.

Darren did not say anything as he knew that Ethan was most likely telling the truth. Judging from his situation at the moment, he could not possibly be able to contact the Red Inferno Sect directly.

But, Darren also did not want to let this newly-acquired piece of information go to waste. He was not happy about how things went, but after a moment of contemplation, he decided that this was still a dead end, and he needed to find new information to track down the Red Infernal Sect.

"If you really want to find the Red Inferno Sect, I think you can follow that messenger with your ability to conceal your aura." Breaking the dull moment, Ethan suddenly began to speak. His idea surprised Darren a little.

"Is that possible?" With a challenging tone, Darren frowned after giving it a thought. "Then, how do I find that black-robed messenger?”