Chapter 170: Weslin Plays Squash (1/2)

“An evil eye’s talents lay in their psychic magic, however these magicks are bounds by severe limitations—”

Right in the middle of Manasha’s explanation, the evil eye suddenly released the feelers wrapped around its body and,with its giant eye glowing a sinister red, fired off a psychic attack at the medusas in a bid to control her. Caught off guard, she abruptly halted her explanation due to the sudden interference.

Strangely enough, she managed to instantly shake off the psychic spell as if she was immune to it. Prior to this, she had assumed that the evil eye was harmless after getting burnt by her toxin. Truly, it was a huge mistake on her part.

Having lost control of its psychic spell, the resulting backlash immediately fired back at the evil eye’s mind. Brains spasming from the rending pain, it desperately tried to alleviate its suffering by continually rolling around on the floor.

“You actually tried to control me, looks like you truly wish to die!” Her lips curved into a disdainful smile and a second later, her hefty tail lashed at the unfortunate meatball and sent it flying like a soccer ball. A few meters away, the meaty soccer ball collided into the Prison walls and then, bounced off harmlessly with its amazing elasticity…

‘Come to think of it, why wasn’t she affected by the evil eye’s mind control?’ While there hadn’t been any clear indication of what level it was at, it had to have been a four-star given the way it managed to control Weslin and several dozens of lizardmen.

“Let’s take care of the undead first, as for that evil eye…it doesn’t have the ability to cause trouble for the time being, I’ll just have Majosha look after it.”

“Alright.”

Now that the evil eye had lost its ability to fight, its control over the lizardmen and Weslin had been broken. The moment she woke up, she found, to her surprise, that she was in the middle of a skeleton horde. Around her, the lizardmen who had been placed under control were all in a bad shape with some even dying during their feeding frenzy. Of her remaining subordinates, only ten or so were still in fighting shape.

“What…what am I doing here?” She said, eyes slightly glazed over in confusion. Thankfully, even in the midst of her muddled state, her battle instincts weren’t lost. Tossing aside the half eaten rat in her hands, she spun around in a deadly dance of tail and razor sharp claws. In just a few seconds, the skeletons around her were reduced to nothing but a pile of scattered bones.

“Those of you who are still lucid, follow me closely, we’re charging out of here.”

Thanks to her formidable strength, Weslin made it through their feeding frenzy completely unscathed. Her four-star strength was currently working at full throttle as she furiously zipped around the battlefield and saved her wounded brethren. “Bring those that can be saved with you and follow my lead!”

Without wasting a single second, she violently charged into the dense skeleton pack and forcefully cleaved a clear path for her breathren. Behind her, the ten or so lizardmen, all laden with a injured comrade, obediently stuck close to her and ran for their lives.

Faced with a life or death situation, Weslin’s mind was more focused than it had ever been and that caused her combat strength to skyrocket in response. No matter who it was, two-star or three-star skeleton, she swept through them, claws reaping a life with every swipe.

“Vice clan leader, we’ll clear a path for you!”

Up till now, the lizardmen who were fortunate to be spared from the evil eye’s mind control were forced to mount a desperate defense to the death. Seeing Weslin lead the survivors back in a furious charge, their spirits were immediately lit on fire as they started charging into the skeletons in order to welcome their leader back.

Thanks to that, Weslin’s break through went a lot smoother and they ended up escaping without a casualty!

Now that she was back, the battle had basically entered its closing phase. Just as Manasha explained, the highest level of undead the defensive array could summon was three-star with no possibility of anything higher. Without any elite forces of their own, our job naturally became a lot easier.

With the four-stars acting as their spearhead, my melee forces mounted a full-scale assault on the remaining skeletons.

Watching from the backlines, I diligently fired off my fire spells into skeleton army, clearing a giant patch of undead in an instant with my fireballs and cutting them off with a roaring flame wall. While they clearly weren’t comparable to Numila’s fire attacks which were boosted by Flametail, they still managed to take a decent chunk out of the enemy.

From the moment the three-star skeletons joined the battle, Violet Snow began attacking as well. With a stomp of her tiny paws, she fired off wave after after of ice spells with ever growing ease. In fact, these ice balls and ice shards weren’t just the usual ice spells from my memory, they had grown noticeably stronger and were even able to freeze a three-star skeleton with ease.

Right at the very end however, she fired an ice area of effect spell that summoned a giant icicle from the ceiling and sent it crashing down on the skeleton army, wiping out the last ten three-star skeletons. ‘This power…there’s no way that could come from a three-star!’

“I’ve…evolved?” Staring at her tiny paws, Violet Snow had a look on her face that was just as shocked as I was.

Thus, the battle came to an unexpectedly flamboyant end. On the whole, we didn’t suffer much losses and instead gained over 100 000 soul flames, though the majority of that came from zero to one-star undead…also we gained a four-star evil eye captive!

‘Speaking of which, I still have a butt load of questions that need answers so I need that meatball to spit out all he knows.’

After ordering them not to approach the Door of the Dead, I had my guardsmen sweep up the battlefield while I approached the evil eye who was still wrapped up in its feelers. I lightly kicked the motionless meatball but it didn’t seem to want to respond at all.

‘Is it playing dead?’

However, just as that thought crossed my mind, the feelers unwound themselves rapidly, revealing the giant eye hidden beneath in an instant. Immediately, I was struck by an intangible psychic power as it turned its emotionless red eye onto me.

‘Was this the psychic mind control of a evil eye?’ It felt like a high powered drill had rammed into my head and was in the midst of drilling into my psyche in order to usurp control of my body. Thankfully, my psychic power wasn’t weak either. After all, even after reincarnating I still possessed the APM of a 40 year old single man…I mean, the psychic reservoir of a sage; the boundless, limitless, infinite reservoir of a sage.