However, as time dragged on, the Grey Merchant continually missed encounters with "Earl Mi", and even when self-doubt began to emerge within the Grey Merchant, that presence still refrained from taking action.
Furthermore, Angel’s perception of those anomalous emotions was growing increasingly faint. Either the opponent discovered Angel was sensing it, or they seemed to be moving away from the gray merchant.
Angel personally leaned towards the latter.
Because although his gaze occasionally swept across key locations, he didn’t take any specific actions. Unless the opponent could read minds, and could penetrate Earl Mi’s facade to directly read Angel’s thoughts, otherwise they shouldn’t be able to sense Angel.
But if it’s the latter, the method by which the opponent distances themselves from the gray merchant is quite peculiar. Clearly, you can sense the anomalous emotions still attached to the gray merchant, yet they’re gradually becoming weaker. It’s as if the gray merchant’s body has an inherent spatial passage, where she initially gathered at the entrance, now is moving away from the entrance, heading deeper inside...
Such a bizarre situation vaguely reminded Angel of something.
The anomalous emotions quickly disappeared, and at that moment, a suspicion floated in Angel’s mind.
Angel pondered for a moment, watching the gray merchant still in a cognitive dissonance, his heart stirred, ready to take this opportunity to verify if the suspicion was correct.
Angel’s hesitation seemed, to outsiders, as though he was toying with the gray merchant.
The gray merchant had been trapped by the illusion from start to finish without confronting Angel directly, instead engaging in cunning strategies with the air. This scene made Dox feel quite impressed.
Clearly, he could easily defeat the opponent, even kill them, yet he chose to "humiliate" them in this manner...
"Tsk, tsk, tsk... So, I said his heart is dark, now do you believe me?" Dox said to Vay.
Vay pursed his lips: "What do you know, the lord must have deeper intentions for doing this."
Dox’s eyes widened: "You can defend him for even this?"
Vay said, "I did not. Moreover, even if the lord truly did it intentionally, so what? Didn’t you hear earlier how the people on the other side cursed the lord? Even calling him a shapeshifter?!"
The more Vay spoke, the angrier he became, the more he thought, the more indignant: "The lord previously promised to allow them into the Sunlight Sanctuary, they are truly ingrates! So, the lord humiliated him, so what?"
Vay loudly expressed it to ensure the people on the opposite side would hear.
And indeed, the group of the wicked woman heard it. However, among them, Pow Le was the only one who truly took it to heart; the others, including the wicked woman, did not pay much attention.
Because although it appeared that Earl Mi was toying with the gray merchant, ultimately there were no further actions.
Moreover, who can really say whether Earl Mi’s illusion technique would require a buffering time after release or simply mean that after casting, he can no longer use other abilities?
After all, this is the ability that can affect a Blood Origin Wizard, isn’t some side effect quite normal?
That’s why the wicked woman and her group really didn’t think too much.
However, when Earl Mi was "playing" enough and started to make moves, inching closer to the gray merchant, they began to feel nervous.
They hadn’t cared earlier because the gray merchant wasn’t hurt. But now that Earl Mi started moving, they felt uncertain.
No one knew whether Earl Mi’s attitude towards the gray merchant was forgiveness or killing.
The wicked woman’s group didn’t dare to blink, they stared intently at the confrontation on the arena, afraid of missing any detail. But soon, their expression started to become peculiar.
Earl Mi did not deliver a death blow to the gray merchant, but his actions confused the wicked woman and others.
Above Earl Mi’s head, the Blue Lantern Flower gently swayed, and dismembered hands composed of crystals or gems appeared in front of Earl Mi.
In just a few seconds, nearly twenty hands of various colors but identically shaped were produced.
The wicked woman’s group may not be familiar with the appearance of these dismembered hands, but the Black Earl’s group was quite familiar. These were clearly modeled after Dangross’s hands, even the eyes and mouth in the palms were identical!
Once these dismembered hands were produced, they carried the breath of the earth, approaching the gray merchant from different directions.
To prevent the gray merchant from discovering their presence, Earl Mi used "mirror symmetry" to constantly feint attacks, distracting the gray merchant’s attention.
Even so, some of the hands were affected and consequently broke completely.
However, even in destruction, the hands fulfilled their last bit of duty. They altered their presence, transforming into debris, making the gray merchant believe they struck Earl Mi, thus weakening doubt over cognitive dissonance.
By the time some hands approached the gray merchant, less than half of the hands remained.
These hands, in comparison to the gray merchant who had fully activated his bloodline and transformed into the original form of a ground dragon, were as tiny as ants. Yet, precisely because of their small size, the gray merchant didn’t notice them initially.
The dismembered hands crawled up the gray merchant’s tail, constantly moving over the skin covered with crystal scales.
This is what outsiders observed, the happenings on the current arena.
With those hands having extremely weak energy, it was definitely impossible to deliver a fatal blow to the gray merchant. However, these hands roaming over the gray merchant’s body created a picture that was quite... indescribable.
Luckily, the gray merchant had activated his bloodline, appearing entirely non-human. Otherwise, these hands roaming over the gray merchant’s body would seem akin to caressing, even more unbearable.
"I was wrong." At this moment, Dox suddenly exclaimed: "I thought his previous toying demeanor was humiliating to the opponent enough, I didn’t expect he had an even harsher move."
"If this was a witch, after leaving the stage, it certainly would be unceasingly relentless."
Dox’s voice was heard by everyone except the two in the arena.
Regardless of whether Dox was slandering or had truly seen through the truth, his words made the wicked woman’s gaze suddenly become gloomy.
As males present had nothing to relate with, yet as a witch, the wicked woman connected instantly with Dox’s words. His words evoked an immediate sense of empathy.
Earlier she hadn’t felt Angel’s actions were so improper nor thought it was humiliating for the gray merchant, but at this moment, the wicked woman’s view was altered. Her vicious gaze locked onto Angel, no matter how she looked, she felt this gemstone giant was surrounded by a lewd aura.
Angel naturally felt the wicked woman’s gaze.
He also noticed the wicked woman’s emotions had suddenly changed from neutral to malicious.
Angel didn’t know what happened in between, though he didn’t have the leisure to investigate the emotional shift of the wicked woman now.
For he felt another anomalous emotion!
Moreover, this time the anomalous emotion wasn’t emanating from the gray merchant, but from... the Void!