The world had been destroyed.
Everything around them had fallen into darkness. There were no houses, fields, sky, earth, trees... The only thing visible was not the ground beneath their feet, but a brilliant glow in the distance, like a sun falling into an endless abyss. Yet this sun could cast no light to dispel the darkness. All it could do was illuminate itself.
"Hmph. I didn't expect you to have a trick like this. You can actually create an illusion of this caliber?"
Unlike Yao Chun, whose mind had become somewhat lost in the endless darkness, Zeng Mu was more clearheaded than usual. With the aid of elemental power, he could still see the octopus monster with its glowing red eyes. But he discovered that his hearing had diminished by about half. That told him this black mist suppressed both sight and hearing. An ordinary person caught in such an environment would surely panic and lose all composure.
Being engulfed by this boundless darkness was like riding a bicycle into an unlit tunnel with no end in sight. The only visible glow seemed to be the tunnel's exit, but no one could tell how far away it was.
Deprived of sight and hearing, Yao Chun was no longer the imposing elite spy of the Holy Temple. He was little different from a child afraid of the dark.
Human nature had always been this way. No matter how much time passed, the old, the young, women, and those in their prime were all alike. Just as people drank when thirsty and ate when hungry, they sought light and feared darkness.
In an environment like this, an ordinary person's mind would certainly be affected. Anyone a little more timid or weak-willed would faint within half a minute.
Yao Chun did not