Chapter 36: “Bizarro Sorcerer” VS “Parasite”

Chapter 36: “Bizarro Sorcerer” VS “Parasite”

When his gaze turned toward the garden, Klein’s mind had already naturally reflected the scene there:

In a dark corner hidden by clusters of flowers, grayish-white rats circled one place like they had been bewitched by demons. They squeaked wildly as they tried to squeeze past their own kind and enter the center.

In the core area lay a gray rat nearly the size of an adult Loen shorthair cat. Its eyes were obviously red, like coagulated blood.

Its tail whipped back and forth rapidly, as though it wanted to fling away the mania within its heart.

Once the normal-sized rats truly approached, it would extend its claws, pin them down, and bite them to death at its side. As a result, rat corpses had piled up around it one after another, yet even this could not stop the remaining rats from surging forward.

Seeing this, Klein abruptly had two thoughts.

First, “intuitive premonition” strengthened by the power of the gray fog truly was an excellent assistant for a Bizarro Sorcerer’s manipulation of Spirit Body Threads. In open areas, it was fine, because one could confirm at a glance which Spirit Body Threads represented the target. However, in a bustling city or in places with many buildings, a Bizarro Sorcerer without the ability to “see through” things could not distinguish from a distance which intertwined Spirit Body Threads belonged to whom. It would be difficult to precisely lock onto an enemy unless the other party’s current actions were distinctive enough and different from everyone else’s. Of course, a Bizarro Sorcerer could also ignore collateral damage and carry out indiscriminate control.

Second, the demigod of the Marauder pathway parasitizing that rat was indeed on the verge of losing control. Not only was its body several times larger than what the Magic Mirror Arrodes had previously shown, its condition was also extremely unstable, filled with an aura of tyranny and madness.

Good thing I came in time. If this were left for a few more weeks, perhaps a tragedy would occur… As this thought flashed through Klein’s mind, illusory black threads appeared before his eyes.

At this moment, the straight-line distance between him and that mutated rat was less than fifty meters. He could directly manipulate its Spirit Body Threads!

At that moment, the enormous, smooth-furred rat seemed to sense something. It abruptly stood and turned its head toward the kitchen.

A flash of light passed through its dark-red eyes, instantly causing the young man in a silk top hat and black formalwear to freeze in place.

It had “stolen” the primary thoughts he would have over the next two seconds, making his mind nearly blank. And unlike a Sequence 5 Dream Stealer, it did not need to make any corresponding movement!

Immediately after, the rat raised its right front paw, attempting to “steal” its enemy’s Beyonder powers.

At its level, for a single target, the number of Beyonder abilities it could “steal” had risen from one to three, and the duration of maintenance reached two hours. Of course, each act of “stealing” could only take one ability.

But just then, the giant rat’s thoughts strangely became sluggish. Its use of abilities seemed tightly bound by invisible threads, making it unusually slow.

Its Spirit Body Threads had been initially controlled!

The successful “stealing” of “Gehrman Sparrow’s” thoughts, causing him to stand frozen in place, was merely an illusion—an illusion created by a Bizarro Sorcerer!

Before formally manipulating its Spirit Body Threads, Klein had already swapped positions with Winner Enuni. A marionette did not possess self-awareness or thoughts of any kind, and so it could not be affected by a Beyonder power that “stole thoughts.”

How could something that did not exist be stolen?

And to numb this Marauder pathway demigod, Klein had used his qualitatively changed illusion abilities and had deliberately made the marionette Enuni, who had transformed into…