"You said you finished off the Demon King Spider. Do you mean the small Demon King Spiders, or the big one?", The Genie Sylas also asked with a face full of disbelief, "Don't tell me you didn't run into the Spider Mother? So you just bullied a few small ones, the kind that were just born not long ago, and then came back?"
"No, I mean the giant Demon King Spider."
"A Demon King Spider is already close to half a meter tall at birth, and after growing a bit it's over two meters tall. You don't think that's the giant Demon King Spider, do you?", Sylas still didn't believe him.
Ethan didn't bother explaining further. He directly threw out a nearly ten-meter-long Demon King Spider leg onto the ground and said, "I suppose… a newborn small Demon King Spider wouldn't grow a leg like this, right?"
"Hiss!"
Sylas sucked in a sharp breath and instantly couldn't say a word.
Nostradamus, on the other hand, carefully examined the spider leg and said, "It… it really is a giant Demon King Spider!"
After saying that, it suddenly raised its head and looked at Ethan, "How exactly did you do it? That's impossible!"
"That's an E+ level monster!"
"By the way, I've been hearing you talk about levels like this and that. How exactly are these divided?", Ethan didn't answer Nostradamus directly, but instead asked something he had been curious about for a long time.
After thinking for a moment, Nostradamus still explained, "These levels were divided by the Sage Lodran after conducting experiments."
"G-rank is the lowest level, collectively called low-level monsters. G- level creatures usually have extremely weak attack capability and sit at the bottom of the food chain, like Ice Gall and the like."
"And above G-rank, there are F-rank, E-rank, D-rank, C-rank. Once you reach B-rank or A-rank, those are extremely high-level existences, equivalent to Archmage-level beings."
"F-rank monsters are those with obvious flaws."
"For example, the Red Dragon you dealt with before. In the creature compendium, its weakness has already been marked. It contains a large amount of flammable substances inside its body, so it's easy to ignite and explode. As long as you grasp its weakness, you can kill it. That's what defines an F-rank monster."
"E-rank, on the other hand, refers to monsters without obvious weaknesses but possessing certain enhanced abilities."
"Those with stronger attack but weaker defense are classified as E-."
"Those with strong physical defense or strong magical defense are classified as E."
"And something like the Demon King Spider, which has extremely strong reproductive ability, very high magic resistance, and no obvious weaknesses, falls into E+ rank. At that level, it's not something a one-star novice mage like you can handle. At the very least, you'd need to be three-star or above."
"Even a three-star mage would at best fight it to a draw, and that depends on what element the mage specializes in."
"For example, the Demon King Spider leans toward wood and earth elements, so it's more afraid of fire-element mages."
"In that case, a three-star mage would have a higher chance of winning."
"But if the mage happens to specialize in water or metal, the difficulty of winning increases a lot."
"But if your level isn't high enough, then no matter what element you use, it won't work."
"By the way, you still haven't told me how you managed to defeat that Demon King Spider. I clearly took away your cursed doll, so you shouldn't have had any trump cards left."
"Heh! Of course I used my brain," Ethan didn't want to tell Nostradamus, in case it decided to take away his remaining life-saving items too, so he struck first and said, "By the way! Master, weren't you going a bit too far? You took away my life-saving charm without even saying anything. I almost got wiped out because of you."
"I was worried you'd rely too much on external items," Nostradamus snorted coldly, "Besides, you're my disciple. I'd never let you actually die. When something really happens to you, you'll understand… wait! So you didn't even use the life-saving charm I left you."
"You left me a life-saving charm? What is it?"
"Don't change the subject. You still haven't told me how you killed that giant Demon King Spider."
"Right! Master, take a look at this…"
Ethan directly tossed the statue head he got from the platinum treasure chest to Nostradamus.
Sure enough, the moment Nostradamus got the fragment, it immediately forgot about questioning him and stared at the piece for a long time before saying, "This thing… where did you get it?"
"Fought a monster… uh, picked it up on the road."
Ethan originally wanted to say it dropped from a monster, but worried Nostradamus would keep pressing, so he simply said he picked it up.
Upon hearing this, Nostradamus repeatedly exclaimed in amazement, "Kid, your luck is pretty good. You even managed to pick up a Lost Statue. It's just a pity that this Lost Statue is only a fragment. Otherwise, you would have gained the power of the statue."
"What kind of thing is a Lost Statue?", Ethan asked curiously.
"A Lost Statue is a kind of mysterious sculpture that fell from the sky along with the rain of spirit stones at the beginning of the first year of the catastrophe. No one knows where these statues came from, but those who have come into contact with them all know that they carry a kind of mysterious power."
"But each Lost Statue has different abilities. Some can make a person incredibly strong, while others can greatly enhance intelligence. For example, the Sage Lodran, rumor has it she only became the Sage after obtaining a Lost Statue back then."
"It's a pity yours is only a fragment. If you could obtain the complete statue, you'd be able to find out what kind of mysterious power it holds."
"I see?"
After hearing this, Ethan didn't react much. If he could gather all the pieces, then it would just be a free gain.
If he couldn't, then there wasn't really any loss anyway.
However… while everyone was studying this fragment of the Lost Statue, Ethan unexpectedly noticed a giant mud sculpture over three meters tall behind Nostradamus that looked almost identical to the Lost Statue he had brought back.
It actually looked a bit like the statues on Easter Island, a long, oval-shaped stone carving.
And at the top of the carving, there was just a roughly chiseled human face with crude features, although the Lost Statue in his hand was only a fragment, it looked almost exactly like the mud sculpture, as if they were cast from the same mold. So Ethan asked curiously, "Master, this mud sculpture of yours is?"
"This?", Nostradamus glanced back at it, "This is a replica of a Lost Statue that I designed. It's also the thing I promised to give you earlier."
"What?"
The more Ethan listened, the more confused he became.
When had he ever asked Nostradamus for a statue? And hadn't Nostradamus promised to help him raise everyone's strength?
Could it be that just making a statue could achieve mass leveling for everyone?
"For nearly a hundred years, I've studied the stars day and night, and finally figured out how Lost Statues can enable people to break through or enhance certain special abilities," Nostradamus said excitedly as it introduced its statue, "The key lies in the formation of the Lost Statue. But this formation is different from ordinary ones. It truly uses the grand formation of heaven and earth to awaken certain human potentials."
"So, Master, does that mean you can mass-produce Lost Statues now?"
Hearing this, Ethan immediately grew excited.
If Nostradamus could produce Lost Statues, then it wouldn't just be about improving abilities, it could even bring him endless profits.
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