Seeing this, Ethan calmly left the Pavilion of Heavenly Secrets and made his way to a nearby inn where he decided to stay for the time being.
In the privacy of his room, he summoned Onyx Orchid into his mind. "Are you there?" Ethan asked.
"What are you doing?" Onyx Orchid's voice echoed clearly in his mind.
"Manifest," Ethan replied casually.
"Fighting?" she guessed.
"No, just hiding my identity," he answered with a faint smile in his voice.
Onyx Orchid sighed in mild annoyance. "If you really don't need to call me for something like this, why not just silently recite the mask in your mind to manifest it yourself?"
Ethan nodded internally and uttered the incantation mentally.
Almost immediately, a black liquid surged from the base of his ears, spreading across his face and forming into a mesmerizing black mask. He then changed into a black robe, carefully shrouding his presence and concealing his true self.
