The Goddess Of War

Chapter 162 - Raid On the Fiji Islands (9)

Anna clicked her tongue. He closed his eyes for a moment to suppress the anger that suddenly appeared in his heart as he did not see the reflection of his face on the surface of the wine in the glass.

Anna knew what was going on with her. This happened to him thousands of years ago when he was going through the lessons of the visions in his mind to get through the hallucinations that have been happening to him for hundreds of years.

'Damn, how dare they make me experience this thing I hate the most.'

Anna put the glass in her hand back on the table without drinking the contents at all.

"There should be something strange" Anna muttered. "Usually my head hurts when I'm in a place that's not directly connected to Earth."

Anna looked at the creature before her who had just emptied the contents of her glass and returned to speaking politely and respectfully to Anna.

Anna ignores him because she knows he is hallucinating under the influence of the opponent's magic.

However, the creature continued to talk to her even though Anna did not repress him at all.

Anna has managed to break the hallucination magic, so that the creature before her now does not respond to Anna's movements and just continues to speak.

Anna stood up from her chair. The first thing to break the magic was done.

Anna only needs to realize that she is hallucinating, then she will be detached from this illusionary world. That was what he had been slow to realize while still on an alien planet.

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Anna used her time to walk around the room, while the creature continued to speak at an empty spot before her.

All Anna has to do now is find a way to get out of the illusionary world that is holding her back.

"So they made me feel like I was in a wheat field so I would lose my guard. Build a market and a castle. Lunch banquet.." Anna shook her head while bowing and kneeling the temple with one hand, embarrassed by the carelessness she was doing.

"But how did they hypnotize me?"

Anna went outside the banquet hall and continued to leave until she exited the castle on foot without hurry.

At the end of her studies, Anna was told how to ward off an illusion and needed the help of others to do it. That's why Anna chose to take a walk first to look around the situation.

Along the way, he tried to walk by crashing his body at the servants who passed him, but the bodies of the servants penetrated him.

Anna finally came to the front of the tightly shut gate. He walked on without regard to the gate that was still closed and the silent guards stared at the gate. Anna continued to walk through the gate and out of the castle.

'It is so great, the level of making this illusionary world, it is even perfect compared to the dream world. I definitely wouldn't know if I'd never experienced it before.'

A short time later, Anna arrived back at the wheat field where she had first arrived.

Anna intended to find the gate that led her to that place, but found nothing there. He only hoped to find it so as not to need outside help to make him re-awaken from the influence of magic.

"How can I get out of this illusory world without help?"

While thinking of a way to return to the real world, Anna travels around the illusionary world. The world is so well made that it looks so real like it really exists.

Only, the world was like a hologram that instantly pierced through the body when he touched it.

Anna finally stopped somewhere and tried to open the gate to her artificial world, but it turned out to be impossible, as she had expected. Anna just wanted to try it.

After a day of circling the world, Anna was desperate to try to teleport in order to return to the Dungeon. He was ready to take the risk if he had to run out of Mana energy when traveling between galaxies like before, but apparently he could not teleport.

'Well, of course you can't. How could I teleport to a Dungeon that was on Earth when I was already there?'

Nevertheless, Anna tried to imagine another place.

He imagined the place where Gus Stevin and Davina were, to the location in the underground laboratory. Hopefully he will be able to move from the cave to these places and realized forcibly without the help of others. But all these things he could not do.

As Anna had waited for a long time but it seemed that her comrades had not managed to find her body inside the cave, Anna finally began to feel frustrated.

"Have they defeated the twenty creatures? But that's impossible, right?"

However, not long after, he suddenly felt a pain in his head. The pain that came suddenly, made his vision shaded and the whole scene around him blurred.

Anna finally grinned happily at the situation.

"Ah... You guys are so reliable."

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In the Dungeon, Miyuki who was still standing opposite Anna, finally decided to fight again after she observed the condition of Anna, who was still looking at her expressionlessly.

He finally guessed what happened to his partner and devised a plan to get Anna back to her original state.

《"Gina, Bimo, please protect me."》

"You're going to fight him again?" gina asked worriedly.

《"We have no choice. You see his eyes? Empty look. He's like he's hypnotized."》

《"In addition to his blank stare, he also fought without using any magic energy at all. Looks like Anna can't use magic while under the influence of hypnosis."》

"But..., how does one seem to get hypnotized?" ask Kevin who feels it makes no sense to happen to Anna.

As they were still talking, the blond woman who could hear the conversation shouted an order.

Anna again attacked Miyu's avatar as soon as she got the order.

Wush...

Kevin's long-range fire magic swipe immediately shot towards Anna, as he saw Anna start moving to attack Miyu's avatar.

Kevin performs a long-range attack so that Anna cannot directly approach Miyu's avatar.

Bimo also instantly uses protective magic to protect all his comrades, including Gus Stevin and Davina who are far from where he is.

After the protector was active, Bimo increased his aggro skill to the maximum extent, so that Anna focused on attacking him.

However, Bimo's second attempt failed. Anna is completely unaffected by her skills and Anna is still trying to penetrate Kevin's long-range attacks and the Bimo protective magic surrounding Miyu's avatar.

While Gina, she continued to give buffs to keep the Mana energy of all her comrades from draining out.

Anna continues to try to dodge Kevin's long-range attacks while occasionally approaching Miyu's avatar just to destroy the transparent magic wall that Bimo created.

Nngggg... Janngg... Wanggg.... Nnggg...

After 3 to 4 beats against the protective wall, Anna jumps back to escape the fire-sphere and fire-ball magic Kevin sent her.

《"I'll attack him when there's a chance. Please keep doing it like this."》Miyuki Pinta.

"You're going to attack him to hurt him?" ask Gina.

《"I'll do it if I can."》Miyuki who then smiled.

"W-what? Miyu, we can't hurt her."

《"You think my avatar is capable of that? I know how strong his body is despite not being protected by magic energy. Calm down, I just want to let go of his hypnotic influence."》

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Meanwhile over the cliff.

Blonde women who have sharp hearing, can listen to their conversation very well. While muttering long-range commands to Anna, she sometimes noticed the movements of the four Hunters one by one.

He was worried if until the hypnosis his followers did to Anna was released.

He knew, if until the magic was released to make Anna aware and attack him, it was something that would probably be fatal to him.

However, after he recalled how difficult the magic was to break, he was able to feel a slight relief.

He was worried just because he was afraid to remember how it would feel if he had to fight against a creature that has the power of Ann Arnix.

The blond woman was again convinced that her hypnosis would not be easy to get rid of.

There are two strong elements that make the influence of hypnosis is also strong.

The first was due to the influence of the demon blood. Anna was already exposed to the demon blood coming from the waterfall, as she passed through the waterfall at the time of entering into the cave.

Second, the magic spell cast by the dark red-skinned demon was not only to animate the statue, but also to cast hypnotic magic on the creature it was aiming at.

As the demon recited the spell, he pointed it at Anna who had been contaminated with demonic blood.

The demon blood had a very strong attachment to the already contaminated creatures. Therefore, even though Anna had cleaned her body, she would still be affected with just a speck of demonic blood dust left on her body.

And third, the mantra user must be killed to eliminate the influence of hypnosis.

Which makes the blonde woman also more convinced if the hypnotic magic of her followers can not be broken, because the magic must be broken in 3 ways simultaneously.

First, one must awaken the hypnotized object with a surprise.

Second, the magic-exposed object must be able to escape the illusionary world by its own efforts when someone helps it to awaken.

Finally, the hypnotizing creature must be killed at the same time as the first two things are done.

They may be able to do the first two things. However, the blond woman was convinced that the four Hunters did not know the last thing.

No one knew who had cast the spell on Anna other than her, the spell reader, and Anna herself.

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