Bizarre Realm-Chapter 444 - 51: Chaneum! The Illusion of Candlefort (Part 3)

These statues are not animated, or rather they can be animated at any time. In each enclosed independent storage space, many imprisoned creatures can be seen, some are mutants, some are strange creatures, and some remnants have the aura of an Evil Object, but they have all been completely petrified.

The group also didn’t know how long they had been walking.

In the darkness, this storage room’s space is larger than imagined, as if it is another world.

Quaintor’s berserk state had already ended, and he followed behind the team with a slightly tense expression, grasping his weapon tightly with a hand full of bulging veins. Suddenly, he seemed to feel something, lowering his gaze to his palm, only to see a tinge of gray-white tone on his fingers. Then, that rock-like luster swiftly spread across his body. He opened his mouth to speak, but no sound emerged from his throat. The others seemed to have completely forgotten him, and within a few breaths, he became a vividly lifelike stone statue frozen in place.

Shawn felt like he had forgotten something very important.

After entering this underground storage space, the mysterious knowledge in his brain became very lazy, languidly curling up in the gray matter area, unwilling to move unless ordered by Shawn.

The Butcher’s expression was also a bit strange, as he just continued walking forward on his own, striding with big steps without turning back to look at them even once.

As a powerful Spiritualist, the Insectoid Empress seemed to sense danger. She firmly followed by Shawn’s side, even grabbing the corner of Shawn’s clothing with one hand. Ugly Monkey was nowhere to be found; after slipping into the Shadow, even Shawn couldn’t lock onto his approximate location with Spiritual Vision, as if he had been assimilated by the Shadow.

"Did I forget something?"

Something’s wrong.

Shawn suddenly stopped in his tracks. He glanced at the Insectoid Empress beside him, then turned to look behind him, where it was pitch black and empty.

——Mechanical Mind!

All emotions vanished from Shawn’s face, as if he was a cold humanoid machine. He fully entered a state of Spiritual Vision, calmly strengthening himself with a Mind Fortress, his emotionless eyes staring into the darkness, searching for possible traces of enemies.

Suddenly, a beautiful armless sculpture appeared in the darkness. At first glance, it was tens of meters away; upon the second look, it had come within more than ten meters, and by the third glance, it was already right in front of him.

——Armless Venus [Evil Object] [Illusory Creation]?!

Shawn instantly sensed a trace of danger.

Without hesitation, he touched the Insectoid Empress beside him, and the next second, she reacted, her whole seductive figure disappearing, merging with Shawn into a tall figure whose body was covered with insectile chitin, sprouting a pair of antennae on his forehead. Like a ghostly image, he darted past, possessing incredible explosiveness granted by Extraordinary Agility. The Hormone Burst activated, regulating his internal systems, and the bionic form made his legs resemble those of an Insect Race life form. With a muffled bang, the spot where Shawn stood collapsed, creating a pit out of thin air.

——David Statue [Evil Object] [Illusory Creation]?!

A tall figure roughly five meters high emerged. It was a young, strong nude man, with a well-built physique, a determined expression, and full, muscular limbs exuding a sense of life force. The stone it hurled was like a heavy cannon; had Shawn not dodged quickly, he could have been shattered to pieces. 𝒇𝒓𝙚𝒆𝔀𝓮𝓫𝒏𝓸𝙫𝓮𝓵.𝓬𝙤𝙢

The mysterious knowledge in Shawn’s brain was forcibly activated, and his inspiration burst forth, seeing numerous indistinct phantom images in the darkness. They seemed ready to animate at any time, to enter the real world at any moment.

Quaintor!

At that moment, Shawn remembered something. He realized he had forgotten something important just now.

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detected Law fluctuation in the [Forgetting] Domain!"

"Alert! Alert!"

"Detected Law fluctuation in the [Sculpture] Domain!"

"Detected numerous animated sculptures."

"Detected Petrification Domain aura."

"Highest alert state!"

"Detected Lifeforce Domain Law distortion!... Flesh is transforming into a stone state!..."

The mysterious knowledge in his brain was fully awakened at this moment, shrieking with a series of alerts.

Countless knowledge turned into silver runes, protecting the brain.

Shawn lightly raised one finger, seeing a smudge of gray-white color at his fingertip, as if he had cast the Stone Skin Technique, this gray-white tone gradually spreading across his body while flesh and blood twisted into rock.

Crack!

Shawn directly broke off his own finger, a segment wholly turned into marble fell to the ground, and with the incessant writhing of flesh and blood, the Spiritual Burst of the Protean manifested, regenerating a new finger segment.

This bizarre petrification effect seemed impossible to dispel with regular spells; once turned to stone, the affected body part couldn’t move or perform spell casting signs.

"Illusory Creation!"

"Twisted Reality!"

Shawn’s expression was incomparably solemn, muttering: "It’s already close to transforming into an Ancient Evil!"

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