Chapter 843

Chapter 71 – The Hell of Cognition (8)

The scarlet异光 erupted from the eyes of the raven — for an instant, the entire world seemed to fall silent.

The whispers by my ears vanished instantly, and I could no longer hear the howling wind. The floating dust in the night sky abruptly stilled, as if the tentacles hiding in the darkness had also stopped writhing. It was as if time had suddenly frozen, with all the scenes before my eyes coming to a halt.

Then, in the next second, I was seized with rage. Roar—!!!

It was like the ferocious roar of a giant beast or the wicked howl of waves in the dark.

The terrifying sound seemed to erupt from the entire world, accompanied by a sudden and intense hurricane that started to shake the fortress-like earth in my vision. In an instant, the tremors spread out in all directions.

I couldn’t hold back my teeth clenching; the dreadful roar seemed to last only for a moment before my ears were filled with a buzzing sound, as if the eardrums had been pierced by the noise.

In my field of vision, the sky above appeared even darker, and the pupil of the huge eye high up contracted violently. The emerald-green, eerie light suddenly became dazzling.

An overwhelming pressure descended swiftly with the wind, and I gritted my teeth, enduring the spiritual torment that felt like a wave attack. The veins on my forehead bulged as I stubbornly raised my head in the pitch-black night, my eyes fixed on that ghostly thing. Suddenly, I couldn’t help but burst out laughing.

Ah-ha— “It’s caught!”

Is it angry, or does it feel pain? Quack!

The big bird on my shoulder seemed to sense my emotions. It spread its nearly half-meter-long wings and let out a hoarse, ghostly cry, resisting the wind without moving, its sharp claws firmly gripping my shoulder, piercing through the burlap, its nails seemingly embedded in the flesh.

Don’t rush,

The best part is just beginning. Come on, raven.

In the next moment, the terrifying black clouds began to swirl and gather high up. Quack quack quack quack—

This change occurred in the blink of an eye.

The change was so rapid that I barely had time to see it. The image in my mind formed, and the crows were already before me, behind me, filling the dark sky.

They emitted a dense, noisy clamor, like a black cloud sweeping over the castle’s sky. Within one breath, they covered the sky, against the roaring wind, almost obscuring my entire view, rushing towards that eyeball from all directions.

In the illusion, an illusion exploded.

With the activation of ‘Illusion Demise,’ further affecting everything false created by ‘it’ based on the thoughts of those who entered the illusion, making the illusions within become tangible things here.

It sounded quite convoluted,

But think of it simply as making the ‘illusion’ created by ‘Illusion Demise’ truly exist here, then causing substantial, destructive spiritual damage to that eye, which should have been just an ‘illusion.’

Quack quack quack

I stood high in the air, looking up at the apocalyptic scene above — the black clouds formed by countless ravens almost blending into the pitch-black night, indistinguishable, making it unclear how many there were. I hadn’t set a limit in my consciousness, yet it was far more terrifying than I had imagined.

In an instant, the black clouds blocked the entire sky, even the wind was completely obstructed. From afar, it looked like countless black insects wriggling on a black curtain. Soon, the light of the eye was also obscured. Amidst the trembling earth and air, I heard a sound coming from the heart of the black storm.

The monstrous roar echoed through heaven and earth.

“Roar—!!!”

But even that roar was soon covered and swallowed. Time passed by second by second.

When I wasn’t paying attention, even those countless blood-red tentacles hidden in the darkness, squirming restlessly, had quietly disappeared.

The sky turned completely dark; I could hardly see anything, only hearing the caws of crows, the flapping of wings, the sounds of them colliding with each other, rustling, spreading far across the high skies of the castle like a rainstorm.

Spray?

Is this it? Clang—

But just as I felt puzzled, a crisp sword’s edge sound suddenly rang out from behind me!

Sword thrust!

Just as the thought flashed in my mind, I felt a chill in my chest, followed by a not-too-heavy push from behind, pushing me forward, almost causing me to lose my footing on the ice platform and fall into the darkness below.

I instinctively lowered my head and saw a silver sharp sword, its tip piercing through my chest, ‘shriek shriek shriek’, blue lightning arcs wrapping around it, scorching the front of my clothes black, and I smelled a hint of burnt odor.

Deception of consciousness.

Sensory shielding?

Apart from that clang, I didn’t hear any signs of an attack.

Can this illusion not only create living beings but also fully replicate their strength?

Suddenly, the sword blade pierced my body, yet there was no bleeding, nor any pain—I certainly wouldn’t feel pain, because she couldn’t possibly reach me.

“Don’t come over and cause trouble,” you fake Sword Ghost. Snap!

I stretched out my hand and grabbed the sword blade fiercely.

In the next second, the petite body floating in the darkness began to rapidly fade, then distort and transform. Amidst the fluttering of the cloak, it turned into a dozen black ravens, ‘flutter flutter flutter’, flapping their wings swiftly and dispersing, circling once before suddenly returning like arrows shot from a bow, fiercely pouncing on the ‘Sword Ghost’ in the air who looked bewildered!

At the same time, my ‘real’ figure reappeared over a hundred meters away, at the top of another section of the southern city wall, still shrouded in darkness and not collapsed.

“I got tricked.”

Shaking off the dust from my sleeves and shaking my head, I glanced at the ‘Sword Ghost’ falling and entangled with a dozen crows in mid-air, then ignored it, lifting my head again to focus my gaze higher into the night sky.

In the tearing apart of the black clouds formed by the ravens, the eyeball seemed helpless, as if it had no means to counter the swarm of crows, enduring the attacks passively.

A faint green glow persisted in the center of the cloud, never fading. It seemed to have stopped resisting.

It doesn’t make sense to be so weak, right? There’s something strange about this.

“Roar—!!!”

Suddenly, the huge beast’s roar echoed throughout the dark city once more.

But this time, the voice came from the white light blooming abruptly in my chest. “Big White.”

I was startled by the roar.

After recovering, I gently patted my chest to reassure myself: “It’s fine, it’s fine. I’m fine. No one can hurt me. Don’t always overreact. You haven’t fully recovered yet. Rest for a while longer, don’t come out anymore.”

“Rumble rumble rumble”

As I comforted, the white light in my chest slowly faded, and I could faintly hear a somewhat dissatisfied ‘rumble’ sound from the white dragon, as if protesting something.

That sound gradually faded away as the white light vanished completely.

Alright then.

I shrugged my shoulders boredly and looked up again. Since that’s the case, let’s play something more interesting.