Volume 2: Funeral Song of Crows Chapter 28: Calm "Mania"
Everything happened so suddenly that the tower guard didn't even have time to react.
She saw the envoy from Thorn City suddenly reach out his hand above the Crazy Box, and then a shadow was broken, and then something was held in his hand and disappeared.
The next moment, the seals around that had seemed solid began to crack like the thin, brittle ice on the surface of a lake.
The seals quickly shattered and dissipated one after another.
The previous impregnable appearance of the seventy-seven seals was all an illusion. Faced with the power of top-level Moon Realm monsters like the Demon General, the protection they could provide was vulnerable.
Something rolled out of the Crazy Box, but she couldn't see clearly because of the bright light from the broken seal.
Before her eyes could adjust to the light, a sound like a sigh echoed throughout the sealing room.
"ah……"
Deep and distant.
Like the echo of a dying man.
The moment he heard this voice, the tower keeper felt his thoughts slow down.
She seemed to be pulled into a long nightmare. Everything seemed so far away from her. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't move her body even a little bit.
Under this feeling, she lost control of her body, her muscles twitched involuntarily, and saliva began to flow from the corners of her mouth.
“Hehehehahahaha…”
A woman's silly laughter echoed in his ears, and the voice sounded just like the soul-splitting patient he had taken care of in the French Ring City Sanatorium.
After a while, the tower keeper suddenly realized that the laughter was not coming from anywhere else, but from her own throat - she was laughing involuntarily.
Just a sigh from the demon general made her feel like she was going crazy.
It was at this time that she, as the keeper of the Star Lighthouse, finally received support from the lighthouse.
A huge amount of magic power poured out from the observatory on top of the lighthouse, swirling around her to shield her from the horrible mental damage. For a moment, she was panting as if she had just run 10,000 meters, her whole body soaked in sweat, and she was trembling to support herself so as not to fall down immediately.
Only then did she regain control of her body.
How's that envoy?
As soon as she regained consciousness, she immediately turned her gaze to the location of the crazy box at the end of the sealed room.
Even with the support of the Star Lighthouse, she could only barely resist the mental pollution of the demon general, and that person was so close, I'm afraid it might be...
As her gaze turned to the end of the sealed room, she saw a scene that she would never forget.
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After collecting the soul fragments, William couldn't help but become more alert as he looked at the crazy box that was constantly cracking.
Demon generals are the secondary extension of the Void King's domain. Compared to the seemingly endless number of other followers, each Void King has no more than two demon generals. For the Void King, every loss of a demon general is an extremely heavy loss.
To some extent, it would not be an exaggeration to even call the Demon General a fragment of the power of the Void King.
And when the real body or incarnation of the Void King is unable to appear in the world in person, the Demon General is theoretically the pinnacle of the Moon Realm monsters that can appear in the world.
Or to use a more intuitive example - because of their close connection with the realm of the Void King, only by using the judgment weapons corresponding to their master can the demons be completely eliminated, otherwise they will just be exiled from the world.
In other words, even William could only banish this demon general called "Mania" back to the Moon Realm, but could not kill him completely.
Not even a thousand years ago.
For the master of the frenzy is Valk, the jester of madness and folly.
He is the only one among the thirteen Void Kings who won the bet with Demuge, the Moon Deceiver.
Therefore, Valk did not have the corresponding judgment weapon, so none of his demon generals could kill him completely.
Back then, the Judgment Seat killed almost all the demon generals under the Void Kings, thus greatly weakening the power of the Moon Realm. However, the Judgment Seat was helpless against the demon generals under the Mad and Fool Minister.
Therefore, in preparation for this high-level battle, William went to the Treasure Hall to change into a set of countermeasure equipment to ensure that he would be safe.
The Whisperer's Clothes, the Sleeping Ring, the Seal of Rest, the Ice Heart Pendant...
If this were in the game, his mental resistance to the frenzy state would probably be almost stacked to the point of complete immunity.
Of course, there is a price to pay for doing so. There are many abnormal mental states in the game, but they can be roughly divided into two categories: frenzy and slowness. If the resistance of one side is high, the resistance of the other side will decrease.
You cannot have resistance in both directions.
In addition, the spell medium William carries is the artifact [Dead Lead] that can extremely restrain the opponent's metal spells.
Metal spells, also known as death spells.
Metal, as the final stage of the solidification and crystallization of creative matter, symbolizes the transformation of infinite possibilities into the coldest reality.
For magic, the loss of all possibilities means true death, so it is also called death spell.
Therefore, when dealing with Moon Realm monsters like "Mania" that specialize in mental pollution, it is most appropriate to use rigid metal spells to fight against them.
Manic mental attacks can cause fire spells to detonate prematurely and storm spells to go completely out of control, but they have no effect on metal spells.
This was the experience he had accumulated when he was playing the manic copy in the Baroque Kingdom Palace.
William, who was fully prepared, looked at the crazy box that kept showing cracks and was on high alert.
With a "click", the box that sealed the madness completely shattered.
A humanoid creature, more than two people tall, wearing gray-white crystalline armor and with skin as stiff as a stone statue, fell out of the metal box.
During this period, it did not take any protective action, but just let itself roll off the platform, all the way to the floor of the sealed room, and did not stop until it hit a pillar in the sealed room.
Even so, it didn't make any movement, and didn't even stand up. It just lay on the ground with its back facing up, its eyes dull.
After a few seconds, it let out a long lament, "Ah..." The sound seemed to be filled with dissatisfaction with the impermanence of the world and unwillingness to the tricks of fate.
When William heard its sigh, he felt his thoughts stagnate.
It's not a frenzy effect, it's a slow effect...
Feeling his movements becoming sluggish, William immediately realized the problem in his mind.
Isn't the other party manic? Is everyone deceived?
But there was no time to think about that now.
William immediately removed all the multiple frenzy resistance buffs he had on himself, and then continuously cast resistance spells against the slowness effect on himself.
At the same time, he kept taking off the frenzy-resistance accessories from his body and throwing them into the storage space.
Reality is not like in games, where you can switch equipment in one second by calling out the menu. William's process lasted for nearly twenty seconds. During this period, he was always on guard against possible attacks from the opponent.
If the opponent suddenly attacks at this time, he can only fight with the opponent while in a serious negative state.
But the other party didn't. It still lay on the ground with its back facing up, with a dull look on its face, motionless.
Not even a sigh was uttered again.
When William reapplied the status, it remained the same.
William walked to the side of the demon general.
The other party still did not move at this moment.
William observed carefully and found that this demon general was indeed a manic demon...
Its appearance and the style of its armor are the same as it once was, except that the color of its armor and skin has changed from bright fiery red to a dead gray.
In addition, its behavior pattern has changed from being like having an epileptic seizure to being indifferent to everything around it.
what is going on?
William poked the other man's head with the dead lead staff in his hand.
"Mania" finally reacted, and turned its face towards William with a dazed look.
Then it opened its mouth with great effort and spoke to William in a slurred voice like a mentally retarded child:
"Zaiwu...Renvalk said that you must come to Zheli. He wants to talk to you."
As soon as he finished speaking, thick black smoke suddenly came out from the broken pieces of the Crazy Box, covering the entire sealing room.
Then, a crazy laugh that seemed to make one vomit out of one's lungs came from all directions.
