Chapter 35: Coincidence

Although Xiao Fen was knocked back just by the other’s gaze, he wasn’t panicked. With a thought, his body regained balance. He did a backflip in the air and landed smoothly without falling.

That red human-shaped dot seemed not to have expected Xiao Fen to withstand such an impact. It even made a low “eh” sound.

This very sound also penetrated the distant distance and exploded suddenly beside Xiao Fen.

In an instant, Xiao Fen felt a fierce hurricane coming from beside him, making his clothes flap loudly. His whole body seemed to retreat involuntarily.

But that was just a sensation. Xiao Fen could see that there was no change around him. As for the sound of his clothes, it could be considered a hallucination.

Seeing this, Xiao Fen’s heart moved suddenly. Connecting it with his previous anxiety about the Natives killed by the Web, Xiao Fen instantly understood where the true side effect of Mental Enhancement came from.

After Mental Enhancement, the body’s perception became more sensitive, but the mind also became more sensitive.

Overly intense mental conflicts could make a person fall into depression and easily be affected by the outside world. Even simple mental pressure could cause hallucinations.

Therefore, the visual impact just now was likely also Xiao Fen’s own hallucination.

Due to the huge difference in Mental values with the other party, under the other’s mental pressure, Xiao Fen immediately felt that the other’s gaze had great impact and controlled his body to make the subsequent reactions.

This was exactly why his body didn’t have subsequent pain.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen felt a bit relieved.

Previously, in the upgrade chart example, he had also seen that increasing Constitution would correspondingly increase Endurance in the passive attributes, while increasing Mental would reduce Endurance. Now, thinking back, tolerance was probably similar to resistance.

Since this kind of thing could be solved, it wasn’t a major problem. As for Xiao Fen’s fear of the opponent, it was reduced a lot because of this new discovery.

It wasn’t that the other party was too power ful, but that the other party could cause sufficient mental pressure.

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen looked at the projection screen again. On the screen, that Human red dot stood at the edge of the Web, not advancing further, seemingly afraid of the Web.

However, based on the performance of that Human red dot fighting those Garm just now, Xiao Fen didn’t believe the other party would truly fear these Webs.

As vaguely felt just now, Lux’s transformed Web, even with the support of the World Tree fragment, probably wouldn’t be taken seriously by those Legendary Awakened.

In other words, Jack the Ripper had never, and would never be, blocked by Lux’s Web.

The reason he didn’t truly enter this block and kept driving Stitched Monsters forward probably had other concerns.

The best explanation was that in another part of this block, there was similarly a Legendary-level Awakened eyeing the World Tree fragment greedily.

Under the mutual surveillance and prevention of this Awakened and Jack the Ripper, neither side took a step further.

To put it further, those Stitched Monsters and Garm might not have been there to charge the Web. They could be seen as a precaution against the Web’s further expansion. Only this reason could explain the disappearance of the battle between the two sides after 12:00 PM every day.

Imagine, when the Web was forced to retract due to lack of Energy, why didn’t the Stitched Monsters penetrate in, but stopped acting at the same time? Those Stitched Monsters had been granted temporary life and wouldn’t experience energy shortages.

This point could also be confirmed by those small teams of Stitched Monsters wandering and patrolling at the edge of the Web.

At that time, Xiao Fen had been suspicious of these small teams just patrolling and not charging into the Web from other sides. Now, these suspicions were finally answered.

So, the midnight battle just now revealed a new result for Xiao Fen.

Killing 100 Stitched Monsters wasn’t to help the Web defend, but to suddenly kill such a large number of Stitched Monsters, thereby alerting Jack the Ripper, who would think the balance here was disrupted and come actively.

On the other hand, as the battle between the Stitched Monsters and the Web formally unfolded, that hidden Legendary Awakened would also realize something was wrong and come to this block to observe the anomaly.

Two Legendary-level Awakened might sense each other’s existence without direct contact. A small change could lead to mutual misunderstanding between the two, even starting direct combat.

Xiao Fen suddenly felt terrified. If this inference was correct, it could only mean that everything was under the World Tree’s sight, and everything was also directed by the World Tree.

Even Lux’s self-destruction probably had an inseparable connection with the World Tree.

Just then, on the east side of the projection screen, a red dot appeared at some unknown time.

This red dot was right at the edge of the Web, not advancing, but positioned very well, exactly outside the Web’s attack range, yet able to observe the changes in the Web and the block.

“Here they come.”

Xiao Fen’s heart moved, and his hand tightened again. He somewhat understood what the previous task hint meant.

“More reliance on Lux means letting the Web expand further while attacking both Legendary Awakened.”

“This kind of attack would definitely cause the two Awakened to misunderstand, thinking the Web was influenced by the other party and was no longer neutral and balanced.”

“Then, in the next step, a battle might occur between these two Awakened, and the battlefield would be this block.”

“The reason Lux wanted to control the entire block again wasn’t to prevent the two Legendary Awakened from fighting, but to create a more closed battlefield for the Awakened, ensuring that the battle between the Awakened wouldn’t be seen by Mortal World humans.”

Thinking of this, Xiao Fen lightly tapped his head.

If the two Legendary Awakened fought each other, his safety could be temporarily guaranteed. However, one side among the Awakened would always win. After that, when the victor turned its target to this small building, who would guarantee Xiao Fen’s safety?

Just then, on the south side of the Web, Xiao Fen saw two more Human red dots moving toward this block.

It was Li Ruran and Sayena. It looked like they had taken a big detour, and now they were joining the fun too.

If it were someone else, they might have panicked by now, dispersing the Web recklessly to ignite the battle between the two Legendary Awakened, then turning to deal with Li Ruran and the others, not caring about what happened later.

However, Xiao Fen wasn’t someone else. He was himself. At this moment, he was actually more calm.