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After no longer actively using the Eyes of Mystery Prying, Leyton felt that the blood-red eyes staring at him through the vines had also disappeared, and the oppressive feeling in his heart suddenly eased.
"The Eyes of Mystery Prying is indeed very powerful when actively used, but it is also very dangerous. It's like the saying, 'When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.'" Leyton evaluated the Eyes of Mystery Prying in his heart.
The problem is that the Eyes of Mystery Prying cannot be turned off. Although it is not as powerful as when actively used, the subconscious gaze and scrutiny after seeing certain things can easily trigger the active Eyes of Mystery Prying uncontrollably.
"No wonder the Mystery Pryer pathway is so easy to lose control. It's not entirely the fault of the Hidden Sage. This pathway is inherently prone to seeing dirty things," Leyton reduced the oppressive feeling brought by the surrounding environment by complaining inwardly.
As the group moved forward, Leyton felt the surrounding air begin to become humid, mixed with the pollen of surrounding plants, giving it a sticky feeling that was very uncomfortable.
Fog had appeared around them at some point, making it difficult to see anything even a little further away.
The successive changes caused Leyton's nerves to tighten. Especially the vague sense of being watched became stronger and stronger.
"Have you guys noticed that your physical strength is being consumed faster?" Kane's voice asked with some uncertainty.
"I haven't noticed that." Leyton shook his head. He wasn't very sensitive to the consumption of physical strength.
Mr. Kosith also shook his head, indicating that he wasn't sure either.
"A little. I thought it was just my illusion. My body has undergone alchemical modification and is not quite the same as ordinary people," Uther agreed with Kane's statement.
"Is it because of the pollen in the air?" Leyton subconsciously thought of the somewhat sticky air.
"Possibly, but it's impossible to be certain," Kane couldn't give a definite answer.
"The thing here is consciously consuming my physical strength, and there are also hallucinogenic toxins, and this pervasive fog. It seems that the other party wants to slowly wear us down?" Leyton analyzed based on the current situation.
"Very likely," Mr. Kosith said.
"Dispel!" A Jotun word was uttered from Mr. Kosith's mouth, and an invisible wind rapidly spread outwards from Mr. Ikes as the center.
Leyton felt that the air had become much fresher, and the surrounding fog had been dispelled a lot, but it quickly began to spread again.
"The area covered by this region is too large, exceeding the effective range of the Dispel spell," Mr. Kosith quickly concluded.
"Use fire?" Kane hesitated and asked.
"The humidity in the air here is too high. Fire may not work, and even if it does, how would we run out?" Mr. Kosith rejected Kane's suggestion.
"Should we try cutting these vines to see what happens?" Leyton suggested.
When he realized that these vines were all part of a single entity, Leyton wanted to cut some of them to see what would happen.
Mr. Kosith pondered for a moment before looking at Uther: "Okay, try it?"
Uther nodded: "Try it!"
Seeing that most people agreed with this idea, Kane took the scythe from his back, walked to a vine hanging down from above and rooted in the ground, and swung the scythe forcefully.
"Sizzle!" The vine was cut in one stroke, and scarlet liquid flowed out, like blood.
As this vine was cut, all the surrounding vines vibrated, as if each vine felt the pain of being cut.
"Everyone, get closer, be careful!" Mr. Kosith's words were interrupted.
Several vines suddenly turned dark black, and then suddenly stabbed down towards the positions of Kane and Leyton.
While retreating, Kane waved the scythe in his hand, cutting off all the dark black vines rushing towards him. The severed vines flowed out black thick water, scattered on Kane's body, and immediately a sizzling sound rang out.
At the moment when the dark black vines rushed towards him, Leyton bent down and rolled twice on the ground, avoiding the position where he had been standing. But the dark black vines behind him, like living things, turned and chased towards Leyton.
Several vines burst out of the ground behind Leyton, and tangled with the vines rushing towards Leyton.
Leyton breathed a sigh of relief and immediately got up and moved closer to Mr. Kosith.
"You..." A deep, melodious voice, as if from an ancient forest, sounded, as if penetrating the soul, constantly echoing in the minds of Leyton and others.
Leyton felt that his thinking seemed to become sluggish, as if he had fallen into a wonderful slumber, unwilling to wake up no matter what, and even his body became stiff.
Leyton also realized that there was a problem with the voice just now, but he couldn't react at all, and could only pin his hopes on his teammates.
"No, I must find a way to get rid of this state. I don't know when my teammates will be able to react, but the guy hiding in the dark will not miss the opportunity." Leyton tried to run his sluggish thoughts, trying to think of a way.
"What to do? What to do? No, I need to calm down! I need to calm down!" Leyton felt that his thoughts were a mess. He knew he needed to think calmly, but he couldn't calm down no matter what.
"Is there anything that can suppress this call? Pray to the gods? But who can I pray to? That's right, myself, I have a Sage characteristic on myself." Leyton grasped a flash of inspiration in his mind.
He immediately began to try to meditate. A ring built of countless gears and pipes, with a huge pupil-less eye in the middle, and several tentacle-like chains shaking around it. On the gears, on the huge pupil-less eye, golden sand grains flowed in the rising smoke and sparks.
As the meditation took shape, Leyton felt that his sluggish thinking finally returned to normal, and the stiffness in his body disappeared, as if everything just now was just a nightmare.
A probing gaze with a strong malice came from all directions, as if fiercely watching Leyton. Following this gaze was a miserable howl, as if suffering great torture.
Leyton felt that the other party was peering at the Sequence 2 characteristic through him.
Leyton ended his meditation and followed the connection from the moment the other party peep him to find the other party's location.
"Didn't your mother teach you not to look at what you shouldn't see?" Listening to the constant ups and downs of wailing in his ear, Leyton couldn't help but complain.
Then he took out a Dispel charm from his coat pocket and whispered a Jotun word, "Dispel."
An invisible wind quickly spread around, dispelling the substances with negative effects around.
The Dispel charm failed to dispel the state of Mr. Kosith and the others, and they remained stiff in their previous postures, but Leyton could tell from their eyes that their thinking had become much clearer.
Seeing that Mr. Kosith and the others could not get rid of their negative state for a while, Leyton had to give up the idea of continuing to try, and there was no better way. Although there were bullets with purification effects, he couldn't just give everyone one.
Leyton walked to Kane, who was standing stiffly aside: "Lend it to me, I'll return it later."
Without caring whether Kane refused or agreed, he directly took the scythe from his hand. The moment he got the scythe, Leyton felt a force surge from the scythe, along with the skills to use the scythe. At this moment, Leyton seemed to transform into a scythe master.
But at the same time, Leyton also felt that the blood in his body was flowing at an abnormal speed.
"At most three minutes, I must put down this scythe, and there may be other side effects," Leyton silently concluded in his heart.
Holding the scythe, Leyton took out an Imprisonment charm from his pocket with his empty left hand and squeezed it in his hand. Then he walked towards the direction of the mutant creature hiding in the dark.
Taking advantage of the other party's negative state because of peering at the angel-level item, Leyton planned to try to solve the other party.
As Leyton went deeper, the vines here were more brightly red than the previous cyan, and even some vines had bright red leaves, and the shapes of these leaves were like bats hanging upside down on the vines.
There were also some vines that merged with the surrounding trees, and these trees also underwent exaggerated deformations, as if they were about to rise from the ground.
Suppressing the faint unease in his heart, Leyton continued to explore forward. Passing through the deformed trees that seemed to be guards, the fog behind became thinner, and Leyton could clearly see the scene deeper inside.
A huge deer... no... a huge tree, no that's not right either.
Leyton felt that the other party was like a bug in this world. No matter whether his thinking wanted to judge the other party as a deer or a tree, he would involuntarily deny his own judgment. As a result, Leyton's idea of "the other party is" could not take shape in his mind.
But Leyton could clearly see what the other party looked like. It was a huge deer with roots growing from the soles of its feet, firmly fixed on the ground. The antlers grew windingly like ancient trees, with vines connecting all directions wrapped around them.
But in the next moment, the image of the other party in Leyton's eyes turned into a huge tree, growing into the shape of a deer, with red and green leaves interlaced, like the spots on the deer's body. There were countless vines wrapped around the tree and spreading in all directions.
But no matter which image, this deer or tree was moaning in pain, trying to twitch its body in struggle but was firmly fixed in place by the roots and unable to move, it could only sway its upper body (sway its branches).
"Ooo~ Ooo~~" The painful wailing sounded from all directions, it seemed that not only the scene he saw, every plant and tree here was a part of the other party's body.
This wailing sound had a kind of bewitching power. The moment Leyton heard this sound, countless sorrows and pains surged in his heart, and he even wanted to end his life.
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