"What's wrong with me?"
Thales felt as if he was floating in the sky. His mind was extremely relaxed. He asked faintly, "Where am I?"
"Listen to me," Asda's faint voice seeped out from the glowing silhouette.
"I don't know how to explain your current state. You're just a contactor. Whether it's your understanding of mystic energy or your own name of origin, you're far from becoming a Mystic …
"No, you're still not a Mystic … I can feel that you're not one of us … but you're definitely 'knocking on the Door' …
"Just like a newborn baby who can't even control his limbs being suddenly sent ten thousand meters into the sky …" The Air Mystic's voice was a little unsteady. "You're in great danger now …"
"Danger?"
Thales did not know how he spoke, but he did. "What do you mean … Knocking on the Door?"
"Asda" sounded a little anxious. "After breaking through the first threshold, a Mystic will leave his physical form and enter his original form. Taurus called the moment of transformation 'Knocking on the Door' …
"After a Mystic knocks on the Door, his consciousness will be connected to the other Mystics in the world. The intensity of the connection is like knocking on their door! In other words, the Door-Knocker is like lighting a torch in the dark. At that moment, he will be detected by all the Mystics. Those who intend to do so will be able to directly lock onto your current location … "
At this moment …
Thud …
A muffled sound similar to the one just now seemed to ring in Thales' heart.
This muffled sound was ear-piercing and sharp. The lingering sound made people restless and uneasy.
'This is?'
An ominous feeling rose in his heart.
Thud …
Another muffled sound!
This muffled sound was like the low throbbing of a heart. There was a soul-stirring shock and heaviness!
In an instant, Thales suddenly felt that there was something extra in this part of the void.
He felt a sense of panic for no reason.
He was not the only one who felt this way.
"They're here!"
Asda's voice became extremely urgent. "Go! There's no time to explain …
"Hurry up and return to your physical form!"
Thales grabbed a few strands of his vast thoughts and used them to think about the current situation.
'Right.
Whatever 'they' are, they're definitely not friendly to me. '
Thales lifted his gaze and looked at "Asda" — or rather, his silhouette, which was getting further and further away.
At this moment, two sharp and threatening gazes were directed in his direction from the dark void.
The owner of the gaze was getting closer and closer.
While he was terrified, Thales' thoughts raced like flowing water.
I should get going.
It was time … to go.
Go, go where?
"Think about who you are … Think about what you should do … Think about what happened before you knocked on the Door …" the glowing outline said anxiously, "Don't immerse yourself in your original state and lose yourself!"
Who … am I?
Was that important?
Just as Thales was thinking about this …
"Thales!"
A clear yet fearful, childish, and sobbing voice came from an unknown direction.
His consciousness suddenly shook!
In the next moment, the dark void in front of Thales was instantly cleared. Asda's silhouette disappeared right before his eyes.
The countless scenes that had stayed in his mind, whether it was the sea or the desert, humans or animals, all receded like the tide.
It was as if the curtain in a theater had suddenly collapsed, revealing the original wall.
Snowflakes, corpses, streets that looked like ruins, Dragon Clouds City's magnificent Heroic Spirit Palace that was built halfway up the mountain, and the multi-headed snake made of severed limbs and flesh flashed across his vision.
In the end, he stopped inside a tentacle made of flesh and blood.
'Where … is this?'
He thought in confusion and bewilderment.
— —
Inside the tentacle, under the horrifying backdrop of scarlet blood and severed limbs and flesh, Little Rascal knelt on the ground, sobbing in despair as she watched the boy who was hung up and impaled to death.
The Blood Mystic, Giza Streelman, stared coldly at Little Rascal, who knelt in the flesh and cried.
"You … you killed him …" Tears streamed down Little Rascal's cheeks.
She stared in agony at Thales, who was bound by the tentacle.
Giza frowned, the blood-red spots on her face slowly faded.
Little Rascal obviously thought that Thales had met with misfortune.
She sobbed and extended a hand to Thales, who was in a terrifying state.
Tears rolled down her face.
"I'm sorry …" Tears streamed down Little Rascal's cheeks as she bit her lip.
Giza stared at Little Rascal. The coldness in her eyes slowly turned into gentleness.
"Child." Pressed against the inner wall of flesh, Giza's expression changed. As if comforting a child whose candy had been snatched away, she said gently, "Don't be sad, it's not his fault …
"It's not your fault either …"
Giza closed her eyes in desolation. Two more tentacles extended from the inner wall behind her.
"It's our fault."
The tentacles curled towards Little Rascal.
* Swoosh! *
Immediately, Little Rascal's face was filled with terror and sadness. She was pulled deeper into the flesh by the countless tentacles.
She disappeared.
But in the next moment, the Blood Mystic opened her eyes abruptly and screamed.
She turned her head in disbelief and stared at Thales' 'corpse', which was tied in the air by the tentacles.
"Why …" Giza shook her head slowly, her eyes filled with disbelief and shock.
"This is impossible."
In her eyes, Thales, who had been pierced by countless tentacles, slowly opened his eyes.
'Ah.
'So …
'I'm back again.'
As if he had just woken up, Thales slowly raised his gaze. In his daze and dizziness, he looked at the person in front of him.
His thoughts were a little chaotic, and he could not quite recall what was in front of him.
'This is …
'It's …
'Huh? 'That's … a severed arm? Organs? Eyeball?
Flesh? '
Thales saw the environment he was in clearly.
'Wait a minute.'
He tried his best to divert his attention and consciousness from his hazy and chaotic thoughts. He fixed his gaze on what was in front of him.
It was a young girl covered in blood, and her naked body was stuck to countless pieces of flesh.
With a subtle and complicated expression, she was staring straight at him.
Thales shuddered all over!
At that moment, as if a curtain had been suddenly lifted, all of Thales' memories from that night surged back into his mind like a tidal wave.
Northland, King Nuven, the archduke, the duel, Asda, the Mystic, Black Sword, Ramon, Little Rascal, Giza, the hydra, the destroyed Shield District, the Blade of Purification …
And … at the last moment, he was pierced by Giza's countless spikes.
The last scene reappeared in his mind: a spike mercilessly pierced through his left eye.
'No.'
Thales shuddered!
'No!'
Fear, panic, nervousness, worry, surprise, doubt …
It was as if all the emotions he had once lost returned to Thales in an instant!
Seeing the Mystic in front of him clearly, Thales' breathing instantly quickened.
The illusory illusion just now, the isolation of all thoughts, and the indifferent attitude, seemed to be just an illusion.
It was just a dream.
"How …"
Thales panicked and realized that his limbs were still bound by the tentacles.
What terrified him even more was …
Countless sharp thorns were still stabbing into his body, piercing through his body!
One pierced through his left eye.
One pierced through his throat.
One pierced through his heart.
There were also countless spikes of the same kind that pierced through almost every inch of his body.
He was like a hedgehog suspended in the air.
Thales panted rapidly, and his heart was filled with extreme fear.
Especially … the spike on his head. It was still in his left eye socket, and it had pierced through the back of his head!
But …
'Huh?'
Thales noticed something strange.
There was no blood flowing out of his body where he had been pierced.
'It doesn't hurt?
It doesn't itch?
'What's going on?
'This is …' Thales panicked as he felt the tentacles and spikes all over his body. 'What happened to me?
Did I become a ghost after I died? '
But Giza's words had answered his doubts.
"How did you …?" Giza looked at the second prince in surprise. Her tone was filled with confusion and astonishment. "Why aren't you dead yet?"
Thales was stunned when he heard that.
'Why … not dead yet?'
He stared at Giza nervously, and then at the spikes all over his body in shock and bewilderment.
'I … I'm not dead?'
Giza's expression became more and more unpleasant, and the blood-red spots on her face trembled rapidly.
"Then let's do it again!"
"Wait …" Thales was shocked, and his heart beat violently!
But the Mystic ignored him.
In the next moment, the tentacle that pierced Thales' left eye, along with the spikes at its tip, suddenly retracted, and with a vicious turn, it pierced through the top of his head!
Feeling the movement of the tentacle, Thales shuddered violently.
'I …'
But Thales still did not move.
'Wait.
'It doesn't hurt …
'Or not?'
Thales was shocked, and then slowly breathed a sigh of relief. 'I'm … fine?'
It was as if he was not the one who was pierced.
"Impossible!" The blood-red spots on Giza's body began to 'grow' violently. She narrowed her eyes, and revealed a fierce expression that had never been seen before. "Your entire body was pierced, but why are you completely fine?
Can't you even feel pain? "
Thales was about to answer with 'how would I know' …
Giza's expression suddenly changed.
She felt something.
With an unpleasant expression, Giza raised her finger slightly.
Immediately, all the spiked tentacles that pierced through Thales' body moved at the same time!
Thales felt his skin crawl as he watched all the tentacles on his body move continuously.
'This!
God! '
* Sizzle … * The familiar sound of flesh and blood sizzling came from these murderous weapons.
Countless tentacles pierced, slashed, and cut his upper body from all directions, starting from his chest. Starting from his head, they pulled horizontally, slashed vertically, and pierced through his brain …
It was as if someone was holding countless knives and continuously whipping, piercing, and cutting Thales from the front, the back, the left, and the right!
But Thales did not move. He only stared blankly at Giza, his gaze occasionally wandering back and forth from the tentacles.
It was as if he was not the one being cut.
The cutting and piercing continued for a total of ten seconds.
Then, Giza stopped in a daze, and all the tentacles and spikes gradually slowed down as well.
"How can this be …" The Mystic shook her head in shock. "Attacks are ineffective against you?"
Thales panted anxiously, completely at a loss for words.
At this moment, his heart was also filled with panic and bewilderment.
* Sizzle … *
Countless tentacles and spikes retracted from Thales' body.
But as if they had left his shadow, there were no wounds or blood left on Thales' body.
Even his clothes were intact.
It was as if the Thales before him was just an illusory shadow filled with colors.
Thales was completely shocked.
'Am I … immune to physical attacks?
'But … my hands and feet are still tied tightly, aren't they?'
Out of the situation, he opened his mouth wide and did not know how to react.
But vaguely, he seemed to have experienced a similar feeling in the void just now …
For example, Thales had a hunch that no matter how terrifying Giza's spikes were, when she instigated the tentacles and spikes to attack him …
The Mystic seemed to have stabbed in the wrong direction.
Suddenly, Giza's expression changed drastically. She seemed to have remembered something. Then, she gritted her teeth and raised her head abruptly.
With an angry expression, she said,
"Zarkel!
"Zagor Todd!"
Come out! You despicable Obscurant! " The Mystic turned her head and looked around vigilantly and resentfully. There was deep anger in her words. "Is it you, damn old ghost?
Is it your ability that's playing tricks? "
Her voice reverberated in the flesh.
A few seconds passed.
Aside from the sound of flesh rubbing against flesh, no other sound responded to her.
Giza was slightly startled.
She quickly reacted.
The Mystic turned her head and looked at Thales with a strange and subtle expression.
"No, it's not Zarkel …"
Giza muttered, her eyes filled with disbelief and surprise. "It's you …
"You?"
Giza stretched out a tentacle and passed through Thales' body without any hindrance.
The tentacle retracted. The place where Thales was pierced was unscathed, as if it had only passed through an illusion.
Giza refused to believe it. She stretched out another tentacle and stabbed at Thales' bound right hand with the spikes at its tip.
The result was the same as before. His right hand, which should have been bound by the tentacle, was easily pierced by the spikes and pulled out.
He was unscathed.
This time, even Thales was speechless.
Giza frowned deeply and stuttered, "This … this is your ability?"
'Did I' lose control 'due to mystic energy interference?
'Impossible.
'If I lose control …
'How can I do this?'
Thales was also panting in a daze. He looked at his limbs, which were still tied up, and then at his body.
'My ability?
'What kind of ability is this …'
Giza raised her eyebrows and shook her head violently, as if she had seen the strangest thing in the world.
"You're just a contactor. How can you use mystic energy?"
But then she frowned hard and remembered something. Her expression changed drastically.
"Just now … you knocked on the Door?"
Thales was still staring at his body, thinking hard.
'Did I become a Mystic?
But … why did I not feel anything at all?
Except …
Except that Giza could not hurt me? '
"How can this be?" Giza gritted her teeth. Her voice was low and filled with hatred. "You're just a beginner contactor. You're not even a Mystic!
"I just lost control. How can I 'knock on the Door'?"
Thales frowned.
He remembered what Asda said about 'losing control' being uncontrollable.
'Could it be …
'Am I really special?'
Giza stared at Thales with a terrifying gaze.
"You really … knocked on the Door?"
At that moment, Thales swore that he saw despair, sadness, grief, and pain in the eyes of this unreasonable crazy woman.
And guilt.
"No." Giza shut her eyes tightly and said in a sorrowful tone, "You still … became a Mystic?"
Thales looked at her in confusion. 'What's wrong with this crazy woman?'
"No …" Giza gritted her teeth. Tears streamed down her face as she screamed hysterically, "No!"
"You're not a Mystic yet. You're still a contactor. What happened just now was an accident …" She opened her eyes abruptly. Her expression was fierce and determined. "There must be a way. There must be a way to kill you. Let's start with mystic energy interference …"
In the next moment, the flesh and blood inside the giant tentacle began to change shape again.
One by one, the little black monsters Thales had seen before broke out of the wall of flesh and blood.
Thales was shocked.
He took a deep breath. His brain worked quickly. 'Don't think about things I can't figure out.
The most important thing is … to solve the problem at hand.
Get rid of this crazy woman! '
But the moment the second prince raised his head …
* Hiss … *
A newborn little black monster kicked its hind legs and pounced into Thales' almost illusory body.
* Puff! *
Then, it exploded into flesh and blood inside his body.
If Asda was here, he would have recognized that this was the move Giza used to prevent him from turning back into a human after dispersing him.
At that moment, Thales felt his whole body tremble.
It was like a ripple on the surface of water.
Then, a shard from the exploded spike slashed his left arm.
* Rip! *
Pain shot through him.
This time, Thales discovered in great terror that his left arm had been cut open and was bleeding!
His' illusory 'body … seemed to have lost its effectiveness.
"See, I knew it." Giza saw this scene and smiled excitedly. "Mystic energy interference is still effective …"
* Hiss … * As Giza moved, more and more black monsters pounced into Thales' body.
Then, they exploded.
Severed limbs flew out of Thales' body in an explosion.
"Ah!" Thales cried out in pain.
The side of his calf was pricked by an exploded spike.
Blood flowed.
Starting from the surface of his body, Thales' special ability seemed to be gradually losing its effectiveness.
Thales stared in horror at the countless monsters pouncing on him.
Pain came one after another from the surface of his body.
More and more …
More and more pain.
It was mixed with Giza's laughter and the monsters' hissing.
* Hiss … *
Thales closed his eyes in pain, feeling the monsters pass through his illusory body surface and explode inside him.
Then, they left wounds on the surface of his body.
He had a feeling that it would not be long before the ability he relied on for survival would completely lose its effectiveness.
When that time came …
* Hiss … *
'No.
No! '
Another monster exploded on his lower abdomen. When a sharp pincer flew out of his body, it pierced the left side of his abdomen.
'Pain!'
* Hiss … *
Amid the pain and the monsters' explosions and hissing, Thales desperately tried to recall.
'Hurry …
'Hurry!
'Anything …
'Anything that can save me …'
* Hiss … *
* Splat! *
Black Sword's words flashed in his mind.
'"I used Tremor to slide away her tentacles …"'
Thales shuddered violently.
He remembered the high-frequency vibration that Giza used to shake him off.
More and more small monsters pounced on him.
In the next moment, a black monster swept past his cheek, but it did not go through. Instead, it left a bloody mark.
His' illusory 'had officially lost its effectiveness.
The Blood Mystic snorted softly.
Thales did not have time to be shocked and terrified.
He did not care. He just gritted his teeth.
Following the instructions Black Sword taught him, he summoned another power in his body.
'Help me, Sin of Hell's River.'
'It's a matter of life and death.'
'Help me!'
As his resolute will rose, the Sin of Hell's River spread to his limbs as if it had a life of its own.
'I need …
'To be able to get rid of these tentacles …
'Power!
As long as I can … slip away from them! '
In the next moment …
* Hum … *
There was a low hum. Only Thales could hear it.
Thales' limbs trembled violently at a speed that was almost invisible to the naked eye!
The second prince sucked in a sharp breath. He felt as if his entire body was about to be shattered by the tremors of the Sin of Hell's River.
'This feeling …'
Giza's eyelids suddenly widened!
In the next second, the four tentacles that bound Thales swayed, and he was immediately freed from midair.
A monster flew over his head and sliced off a strand of his hair.
* Thud! *
Thales fell on the ground, which was also made of flesh and blood, and panted heavily.
The Sin of Hell's River faded from his limbs.
Thales gritted his teeth and tried to stand up.
But he only felt his muscles go numb. Then, he fell backwards again.
* Thud! *
Thales touched the flesh under his feet. There was a sticky bloody ear inside, and he was shocked.
But in the next moment, a great soreness came from his limbs!
He trembled violently. He was sweating profusely, and his limbs were weak.
'So tired …
'So sore …
'So painful …'
All his muscles began to ache, and he almost lost all his strength.
He finally got rid of the restraints, but he did not even have the strength to take a single step!
But more little monsters were already pouncing on him!
Thales widened his eyes. He only felt extremely vexed.
It seemed that the 'extreme tremors' just now had exceeded the limits of what his body could bear …
'So …
'No.' Thales felt his aching limbs and stared at the monsters in front of him in despair.
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