Two forces tugged against each other inside Xu Ye.
His vision gradually blurred. A moment later, he seemed to have been dragged into another space, an illusion created by the two forces.
The illusion was inside his own body.
It was a dim world steeped in distortion. Even the lightning in the sky seemed to have become crooked, twisting snakes.
"Fortunate hero, you have reached the place where the treasure lies, but you seem to have taken the wrong passage. With only two choices, you still chose wrong. Perhaps this is fate's decision."
A vast, majestic voice came from... below Xu Ye.
Below?
Xu Ye lowered his head and saw a short green monster.
He wore ragged brown shorts. His arms were thin, but his palms were broad and thick, and his large feet had only three toes. His head was particularly strange, uneven and lumpy, like an irregular stone.
As for his face...
It was too hideous to look at.
Xu Ye felt that even Wang Han using Ugliness would not look as awful as Little Greenhide.
Athos sensed something was wrong through Intuition. He looked up and met Xu Ye's eyes, then his expression grew slightly blank and stiff.
One above, one below, the two stared at each other.
"Ahem." Athos coughed twice. He could not manifest his Azure Sky Dragon form here. It's aura had suppressed it, forcing him back into his form from before his Ascension Sequence.
"Unfortunate hero, there is no need to look at me like that. The aura here is strange. Heavenly Dao Distortion and the illusion have both become warped, affecting my form as well."
Though he stood there with a small, short body, the aura he radiated was like a towering mountain. At that moment, even Xu Ye set aside his