I! Fell! for! an Illusion!?

Mm...

Calling it an attack seemed like a bit of an exaggeration.

For a moment, when Lan Qingyou first sensed it, she might have felt that way.

But after thinking it over, she realized it wasn't really an attack.

It was simply a visual shock.

Put simply, seeing the other thing had left her mentally unable to handle it.

It wasn't that the tentacles were especially ugly.

Nor was it for any other strange reason.

Just seeing a shadow had made her feel this way. All she could say was that the thing was truly powerful.

And its mental abilities were powerful, too.

Honestly...

Whether it was the Gross Cells from Heaven's Fall...

Or the Bone Pincer Worm she'd encountered before...

Or the monsters she'd met even earlier...

Why had she kept running into monsters with mental abilities lately?

Although, based on her own experience, none of them had been particularly formidable.

Of course.

This assessment that they "weren't particularly formidable" only applied to her.

To other people, these creatures' mental attacks were still quite powerful.

But even so, Lan Qingyou thought... they were pretty annoying.

There was no denying that the Witch Race's evolutionary path leaned more toward the mental side.

But nobody wanted to run into creatures like these every day.

It was like eating a favorite dish or listening to a favorite song.

Eat it every day, listen to it every day...

Sooner or later, you'd want a change.

Still, there wasn't much Lan Qingyou could do about the situation.

If anything, she could only accept it passively.

There was no question of picking and choosing.

Pat... pat...

Bits of rubble and dirt kept falling down.

Although her magic robe was enchanted and wouldn't get dirty from any of this, Lan Qingyou still took an umbrella from