Chapter 308 Peeping
Facing the black shadow that suddenly appeared between Golsa and himself, Sol's nerves immediately tightened, and he almost released a Spirit Armor spell. But thinking that the Tower Master might be checking his mental state, he quickly relaxed his mind.
"The diary didn't give any warning."
Sol was a little nervous.
The diary had become his locator, and the connection between them had deepened. He didn't know if Golsa, using special means to observe his mental state, would notice the existence of the diary.
But facing the approaching black shadow, Sol could only choose to continue trusting the diary's ability.
The black shadow was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, it was already standing directly in front of Sol.
Its figure was slender, yet as thin as paper.
For a moment, Sol even thought it was Lady Yulaf, whom Golsa had absorbed into his body. When Lady Yulaf appeared as a shadow, she also had such a thin, paper-like silhouette.
But he quickly rejected his idea.
The feeling this black shadow gave was completely different from Lady Yulaf.
It wasn't irritable, nor angry, just standing there quietly. As it leaned forward, looking down at Sol, its outline vaguely overlapped with Golsa's figure.
But it wasn't Golsa.
Because the Tower Master himself was still sitting in the corner opposite Sol!
The black shadow stared at Sol—although Sol couldn't see its eyes—and continued to lean forward.
Its movements were slow, but as it gradually approached Sol, the world before Sol's eyes began to distort.
Sol stared intently at the black shadow, but as time passed, Sol's gaze gradually focused on the black shadow's face.
The black shadow became clearer and clearer in Sol's eyes, and the surrounding scenery gradually blurred.
In his peripheral vision, the room in front of him was stretched out by an invisible force, and Golsa, who was originally only two meters away from him, was now ten meters away.
"Is this room… this big? Or is my vision being distorted by witchcraft?" Sol vaguely thought.
He faintly felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't remember what it was. The increasingly close black shadow in front of him attracted almost all of his attention.
Now he didn't have the energy to think about why the wall beside him had become curved, or when the Tower Master in front of him had become so far away that he couldn't see his figure clearly. He just wanted to look at the black shadow in front of him, looking at it carefully, hoping to distinguish the other party's features in a blur of darkness.
Yes, Sol felt that he was about to see clearly, as long as the other party got a little closer, a little closer…
"Whirr…"
Suddenly, the sound of turning pages awakened Sol from his engrossed state of decryption. He suddenly shuddered and finally noticed that the diary in his mental body was turning.
The diary was only turning the white pages, not stopping to display any text.
It wasn't a warning.
"This isn't a crisis warning, but the diary is helping me stabilize my consciousness!" Sol, who had regained his senses, immediately realized that the diary was now fulfilling its duty as a locator.
And Sol, who had regained his senses, also discovered that his mental body was now in an extremely lax state. Even though his consciousness had returned to normal, his mental body still hadn't tensed up.
Now his mental body was like a mansion whose owner had left but forgot to lock the door. As long as someone noticed it, they could walk in generously, then explore all the rooms, and then take away some valuable things!
"This must be the Tower Master's ability. It seems to be able to anesthetize my consciousness," Sol thought, feeling a little anxious, but his reaction seemed to be half a beat slow.
The black shadow was still slowly approaching, and the world before his eyes was still stretching infinitely, the end of the room being hundreds of meters away from him.
"The closer this black shadow gets to me, the longer the world in my eyes is stretched. And this degree of distortion is increasing exponentially. If it continues to approach, the room in my eyes will probably become hundreds or thousands of meters long."
"If it touches me, will the world I'm in… turn into an infinitely long branch line?"
"I can't let it touch me!"
Sol could hear his heart pounding like thunder, and the sense of crisis had never been so clear.
This wasn't a death crisis, but a cognitive collapse.
Although Sol knew what would happen after the black shadow touched him, it definitely wouldn't be a good thing! Even if he didn't die, he would probably go crazy!
But the diary still didn't react.
This was the first time Sol's own intuition had cried out for help, but the diary hadn't reacted at all.
Seeing that the black shadow was only one or two centimeters away from him, Sol's sluggish brain finally remembered to run away.
Even though this room was actually very small, he still had to struggle one last time, even if he could only struggle a few centimeters!
"Retreat, retreat, retreat!"
Sol desperately told himself to get away, just like a person trapped in a nightmare, desperately telling himself to wake up.
Under his constant efforts, his neck finally moved.
It tilted back slightly, allowing Sol's head to move away from the black shadow… one centimeter.
But it was this one centimeter retreat that suddenly stopped the black shadow's movement.
Then, like a spring stretched to its limit, the black shadow suddenly straightened its back.
At the moment the black shadow leaned back and stood straight, the world before Sol's eyes suddenly contracted and instantly returned to its original state.
The moment his vision returned, the black shadow disappeared.
Wizard Tower Master Golsa was sitting quietly in the corner two meters away.
As if nothing had just happened.
"Your locator is very good, but what surprises me even more is that your will is still as tenacious as it was that first night we met."
Sol breathed slightly, but this was already the result of his efforts to control himself.
He silently put his hands behind his back and pulled at the shirt that was sticking to his body with sweat.
It had been a long time since he had sweated like this.
"Tow… Tower Master, just now, just now what was that?" Sol's voice was still a little trembling.
"Observing your mental body to see if there were any abnormalities you mentioned." He rested his arm on his knee, "But just now your locator blocked my sight, so I couldn't see through your mental body, so I didn't find any abnormalities."
Did the diary prevent Golsa's prying?
Sol was a little surprised.
Either the diary protected him too well, or the imprint of the Soul-Stealing Flower was planted very deeply, and to find the imprint, he had to turn his mental body over and over to find it.
But this might also allow others to see through Sol's hidden secrets.
So the diary, even for the sake of self-concealment, had to step in and prevent the prying.
"But in this way, wouldn't the Tower Master be unable to confirm the Land Ark's conspiracy?" Sol's eyes darkened, "I can't directly tell him that I was planted with the imprint of the Soul-Stealing Flower."
Sol shouldn't even have heard the name Soul-Stealing Flower.
He could only nod and thank the Tower Master, "Thank you, Tower Master, I must have been too sensitive."
"No, I believe in your perception."
Unexpectedly, Golsa, who hadn't found anything, affirmed Sol's intuition, "The fact that I didn't find it this time shows that the other party's methods are not low."
Sol heard a chuckle, "What is the Land Ark best at? It's just their reliance on the Soul-Stealing Flower."
Success!
Sol pretended to be surprised and raised his head, "Soul-Stealing Flower? This name sounds like it's targeting the soul."
Golsa on the opposite side slowly stood up.
His standing posture was also very strange. He didn't use his hands to support himself, nor did he retract his ankles. He just stood up directly, as if a balloon doll was filled with air.
Sol vaguely saw him twisting his neck.
"That's indeed the case, but more accurately, the Soul-Stealing Flower is targeting consciousness."
Not finished writing, next update will be in the evening.
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