The Wizard's Pursuit of Truth

Max's behavior was incredibly bizarre. The black sphere radiated ominous Extraordinary Fluctuations, and the Wizards present felt as if their very souls were being peeled away.

The whispers, in particular, carried a spiritual contamination capable of affecting their Spiritual Power and state of mind...

Had Max gone mad? He was actually attacking them.

Wizards from the Dark Land Headquarters were being assailed with Witchcraft by one of their own.

It was so inconceivable that the Wizards present failed to react in time.

They had their guard up, but that was merely a Wizard's natural-born caution.

They would never have sat here and eaten the food if they were facing enemies or unfamiliar Wizards.

Zack Antuun was the fastest to react, instantly hurling the dinner plate in his hands at Max.

This was like a lit fuse. Waves of Particle Energy began to erupt, and the radiating fluctuations of Witchcraft threw the surroundings into utter chaos.

Particle Energy Shields enveloped their bodies. The headquarters Wizards, who made their living through Wizard Tasks, were all quite capable; they cast their shields almost instantaneously.

At the same time, they used their hands to forcefully flip the long rectangular table in front of them. A torrent of plates and food crashed to the floor with a clatter.

Flame Energy Shields, Water Wave Shields, and even multi-colored Particle Energy Shields with no particular Elemental Attribute were the most eye-catching... As soon as Max had made his move, the City Lord's Mansion Wizards in the hall had cast an extremely bizarre form of Witchcraft.

Their pupils glowed with a deep, restrained black light. As they released their Biological Force Fields, imperceptible waves of Witchcraft pressed down on the Wizards in the middle of the room.

Now, every Wizard in the hall was taking action, each unleashing their Biological Force Field along with their Particle Energy Shield.

It was chaos. Utter chaos. It was nearly impossible to tell friend from foe.

With their Biological Force Fields active, even teammates could only struggle against one another as the fields of other headquarters Wizards pressed in from all sides.

There was no way to change the outcome. It was a chaotic melee. A Biological Force Field was indiscriminate; it could only protect its caster.

Caught in the struggle, the faces of the Wizards at the very center turned deathly pale. Their Biological Force Fields and overall state were rapidly diminishing; they were clearly under immense pressure and on the verge of collapse.

Both their Extraordinary Spiritual Power and the Particle Energy in their bodies were gushing out like a torrential flood.

In this situation, all they could do was hold on for dear life.

Otherwise, the immense, intangible pressure at the focal point of all these Biological Force Fields—their own positions—would instantly crush them into a bloody pulp.

The City Lord's Mansion Wizards had already formed an outer circle, pressing inward on the Wizards and further exacerbating the situation.

Since Wang Ya was at the same table as Max, he wasn't caught in the worst of it.

On the other hand, he was directly facing the whispers emanating from the black sphere. The potent spiritual contamination was so strong that it caused eerie Black Spells to materialize in the Void.

On the table before him, the flowing Black Spells tainted the silver plates and crept up the white candles, whose flames suddenly grew dark and deep.

His pupils glowed with a faint white sheen. He was seeing all of this through his Dream Sense.

Wang Ya used his Dream Power to cast the Exorcism Witchcraft, resisting the extremely potent spiritual contamination. At the same time, he used the residual Particle Energy left over from creating the Dream Seed to conjure a Fire Elemental Energy Shield.

He didn't have much Particle Energy, so the Witchcraft he could cast was extremely limited.

'Trouble!'

Beneath his Red Lotus Mask, he frowned, surprised by his opponent's methods and their sudden attack.

The source of it all was the black sphere in Max's hand. The Spells were the whispers of the numerous Soul Bodies and consciousness fragments inside it, and they were affecting the entire hall.

'But this is also why I stayed,' he thought. 'The Eye of Truth has already analyzed it; the black sphere can be of considerable help to my Dream Infinite Genome.'

'In these troubled waters, I might just have a chance to get my hands on it.'

'It's only an Illusion Body, anyway.'

With this in mind, Wang Ya transferred most of the Dream Power from his main body to his Illusion Body at the banquet, using the subtle connection of the Dream Seed.

He glanced at the headquarters Wizards behind him. They still hadn't realized their own abnormal state; their emotions had been swayed, and they had lost the ability to think rationally.

The Curse Witchcraft had already taken hold of them, likely connected to the food they had eaten.

To avoid revealing any telltale Particle Energy fluctuations, the concentration of the curse's medium in the food had been extremely faint.

Otherwise, things would never have devolved into such chaos, with their Biological Force Fields clashing and Wizards even starting to launch Witchcraft Attacks at one another.

But there were some clever ones in the crowd.

Wang Ya saw two headquarters Wizards at the very edge of the fray break away and rush for the door, obviously realizing it was no place to linger.

The headquarters would surely investigate and handle the aftermath.

Luo Dan blocked the doorway with an eerie smile on his face as two City Lord's Mansion Wizards stepped out from behind him.

The two headquarters Wizards were decisive. One cast an Elemental Witchcraft spell, conjuring a fierce gale sharp enough to shear steel. Everything in its path was reduced to debris and dust.

The other transformed his entire body into a blur of watery light, moving so fast he was nearly impossible to track with the naked eye as he shot between the two City Lord's Mansion Wizards.