Death Poker was a long-ranged attack, and it was a consumable item. Even though Feng Bujue was using it as a melee weapon, after he hit the target, the four cards in his hand disappeared. The energy that made up the cards had been converted into actual damage, so the system determined that their physical form had been removed.
Looking at the monster again, as the thick black smoke flowed out of its wound, its body suddenly shriveled and shrunk. It was as if it had no bones, flesh, blood, and marrow other than its outer skin. Its body was filled only with the black evil fog. Now that the black fog had leaked out, it quickly turned into a human skin and collapsed to the ground.
Feng Bujue let go of the arm that he had grabbed earlier because the monster's arm was now nothing more than a wrinkled skin, so there was no need to hold it any longer. He did not put away the Death Poker immediately. Instead, he controlled another card and sent it flying at the puddle of black smoke on the ground.
However, it did not have any effect. The Death Poker merely passed through the black smoke and landed on the ground. The black smoke was invisible, so it was not damaged.
By then, Feng Bujue's teammates had recovered from their frozen state. However, since the monster before them had been killed, there was nothing left for them to do.
"Brother Feng, were you not restricted by the monster?" Invincible Champion asked.
Feng Bujue was still staring at the black smoke on the ground. He answered distractedly, "No." He paused for a second. "Were all of you immobilized by some kind of restriction earlier?"
"It's hard to explain." Meng Jingchan replied, "It was better not to do anything. The more I wanted to help, the more my body refused to listen to me."
"From the setting, that should have been a very powerful mental attack …" Ye Zhi said. Then she turned to Feng Bujue. "Perhaps it's because you have the main character's plot armor, so you were not affected?"
"I don't think so." Feng Bujue replied. "When the system introduced the plot armor, it described the effect of the plot armor being 'terminated'. It can be an instant kill when the Life Points are at 100%, or it can be a slight injury when the Life Points are at 1%. As he spoke, he walked through the door. Upon closer inspection, one could see that the black smoke on the ground was a few steps in front of Feng Bujue, slowly moving into the room. "The halo can forcibly stop my death, but it can't make me immune to all negative effects. If I don't even suffer from mental infection and damage to my Life Points, then this buff should be called Invincible Halo. "
As Feng Bujue spoke, he followed the ball of black smoke to the wall. "To put it simply, I will lose HP just like you, and I will be hit by skills, but I won't die.
The monster's first attack wasn't fatal. Be it in terms of strength or speed, it was only at the level of a common soldier. If I did not block it and chose to be hit, I would have lost Life Points. Of course, in reality, I blocked it. As for the monster's second attack, it was obviously an instant kill attack. In any case, I didn't even see it clearly, and I wasn't confident that I could dodge it with my own strength. If I was hit, I would definitely be killed. Thus, in the face of this sure-kill attack that could have blown my brain apart, the protagonist's aura came into play and caused the monster to inexplicably miss. "
The black smoke swam to the wall and slowly rose. Like liquid, it seeped into the magic circle on the wall.
"Then why weren't you affected by the monster's mental suppression? Why were you able to resist it and even kill it?" Ye Zhi asked.
"Before you ask that question …" Feng Bujue stared at the magic circle and said without turning his head, "Why don't you try to think about it yourself … Under the circumstances back then, other than the main character's plot armor, what other conditions were there that made me different from the rest of you?"
Ye Zhi thought about it for a few seconds. "Standing position? The level of Sorcery Mastery? " After she gave these two hypotheses, her expression changed, and realization dawned on her. "You grabbed the monster's arm?"
"To be exact …" Feng Bujue replied, "Continuous and direct physical contact."
"I see. As long as you touch the monster's body, you won't be affected by its mental suppression, right?" Invincible Champion asked.
"Yes and no," Feng Bujue replied.
"Kid, can you stop trying to be mysterious?" Invincible Champion grumbled with annoyance.
"Personally, I believe that … the state of immobility that you're talking about is an AOE skill that affects multiple people at the same time." Feng Bujue said. "And the reason I was immune to this skill is most likely because I was holding the monster's arm at the time." He touched the bridge of his nose out of habit. "But I don't think it was the monster that used this skill."
By then, Feng Bujue had put away Death Poker and took out Robots-Must-Die from his inventory. As he scratched the wall with the blade, he continued, "When the monster suddenly jumped out, all of you instinctively took one or more steps back … This means that all of you were still able to move at the time."
Invincible Champion then chimed in. "I was about to ask you about that … A scary monster suddenly jumped out from the darkness with a shriek. It's one thing for you to not take a step back, but you didn't even flinch. Are you still human?"
"I'm a brave man." Feng Bujue brushed him off as he continued, "When I caught the monster's first attack, with your mental fortitude and combat ability, you should have reacted already, but none of you were able to help. In other words, at the same time I caught the monster's arm, all of you were hit by the skill."
"Yes, it happened at that moment," Meng Jingchan confirmed.
"Hmm, then if we think about it from another perspective …" Feng Bujue said, "If the skill was activated by the monster itself, why didn't it use the skill directly after it appeared? Why not wait until all of the enemies before it were immobilized and then attack? "
"You mean there is something else here …" Invincible Champion said as he became nervous again. He shone the flashlight into the dark corridor on both sides.
"Actually, the answer is right in front of us." When Feng Bujue said that, he had already scratched the magic circle before him.
The whole manor and the garden outside disappeared into thin air. The group was surrounded by a charred field, and only the wall before Feng Bujue still stood alone.
The shriveled skin of the monster from before also revealed its original appearance at this moment. It appeared to be the carcass of some kind of livestock, but it was hard to tell what kind of animal it originally was because its flesh had been forcibly stretched until it had the shape of human skin. It looked like a biscuit that had been tossed into a mold.
"This magic circle first used a summoning skill," Feng Bujue said. "After the summoning skill was used, it used the control skill." He put the steel sword away. "This sequence cannot be changed. It has to summon the monster that can kill us first, and only then will it use the skill that restricts our movement." He added, "Based on my analysis … the control skill needs to be continuously cast, and it cannot be maintained for long."
"You mean to say this magic circle is a sentient monster?" Invincible Champion asked.
"I believe the so-called 'well of resentment' in this scenario should be similar in nature to this magic circle." Feng Bujue did not answer Invincible Champion's question but continued to share his speculation. Actually, his tone already confirmed that he was right. "The well of resentment has to be more powerful than this magic circle." He turned around and walked back to the main road. "Not counting the town, there are no decent buildings other than farmhouses within a few miles radius. But for a manor like this, one with a garden, to appear at a place that should be a farm, it is quite strange. "After he brushed past the group, the five looked at each other and waited for a few seconds before following him.
"When I realized that there was a wall several meters behind the door, I started to suspect that this was all an illusion." Feng Bujue said. "Even if this is a building from a ghost scenario, there is no reason for the entrance to look like that. When I saw the magic circle drawn on the wall and remembered the function of the magic circle, I understood that 'it' could only create this level of illusion because this place is basically empty. " He raised his arm and pointed behind him. "If this magic circle wasn't drawn on a broken wall, but in a real mansion …"
"Then the illusion it created might be as big as a maze …" Invincible Champion continued Feng Bujue's words, and the scary memory at the House of Usher surfaced in his mind.
"The complexity of the actual surroundings determines the complexity of the illusion." Feng Bujue said. "Using a wall as an example, this level of camouflage is already the best it can do. If there is a room, furniture, and even a basement that is separated into two floors, that would not be possible in this field."
Since the beginning, Copernicus and Galileo had not said a word. They had been watching the others' actions. Their expressions changed many times, and they kept exchanging glances.
Then, Galileo opened his mouth. Instead of a question, it was more like a bait. "Er … Brother Feng, do you think … there will be this kind of magic circle in the mountain where the main quest is?"
"Why don't you just tell me directly?" Feng Bujue said internally, but on the surface, he did not show it. "Ha … I thought you would ask me first … why haven't we heard the announcement that the side quest has been triggered, and why haven't we received any rewards from killing the monsters and destroying the magic circle?"
"Yes, why is that?" Meng Jingchan lit another cigarette.
"Let's assume that this kind of magic circle that can use various kinds of skills is our main enemy in this scenario. On the mountain where the main quest is, there are several similar magic circles. They have similar abilities, and the most powerful one is drawn at the bottom of the well of resentment. " Feng Bujue said. "Then … the magic circle that we destroyed earlier should be an 'extra', one that we won't run into if we follow the normal route."
"So?" Invincible Champion asked.
Before Feng Bujue could answer, Ye Zhi said thoughtfully, "So … destroying this magic circle is itself a kind of reward."
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