722. Delivery to Your Door (Part 2)

Unlike the fog, which created scenes according to memory, Ultimate Taste Mushrooms and Despair Mushrooms both used Emotional Guidance to manifest a real illusion through highly concentrated magic. However, just like Dylan's illusion of deep father-daughter love could not affect Piggy and the others, the illusions created by Despair Mushrooms likewise required emotional Resonance to take effect.

Fear and despair counted as the emotions most likely to produce Resonance, and the stronger the Resonance, the more it would attract attacks from Illusion Monsters.

This was also why Linden had knocked all the slaves unconscious before moving them away.

Before those Blood Drawers and soldiers mired in chaos and fear were killed, the unconscious slaves were relatively safe.

These were all precious lessons the D-Rank researchers of the Mushroom Garden had left Linden.

Unfortunately, monsters made purely of magic truly posed little threat to real experts. Add to that the limited duration of the illusion, and basically anyone with Diamond Rank strength was enough to protect themselves inside a black-mist illusion created by someone else.

The huge Puji walking along the seabed near The Port had not yet gone far. Its enormous, clumsy body meant it did not move very quickly; if he wanted to, the Demon King could catch up to it very soon.

However, remembering the warning Tanaka had repeated, the Demon King ultimately did not enter the sea.

After handing the man under Mind Lock over to the somewhat organized soldiers in the military camp to guard, the Demon King teleported again to other cities in Eleanor's territory that had teleportation Magic Arrays.

As soon as he arrived, the Demon King once again felt the dense, extreme emotions in the air—this city, too, was shrouded in black mist.

The difference was that the monster in this illusion was