As drake walked in the corridor, suddenly he heard a faint grunt which came from the room at the end of the corridor. Hearing that drake's heart immediately tightened.
"There are still people here ?" drake frowned as he thought.
"Is it the servants? Hmm... it should be. Since there are no elders inside the mansion. Anyway, there is nothing to fear since I am already an invisible man." drake resolved himself as he slowly approached the room.
As he walked closer the muffled noises that he kept hearing increased in frequency. Gradually a slight uneasiness started to build up in his heart even though he knew that nobody would be able to see him at the moment.
Once he reached the front of the door he slowly raised his white-gloved hand and placed it on the bronze door handle cum knocker which is sculpted in the shape of an angry Qilin's head. Taking a deep breath he gently pushed the door, just enough for him to take a peak.
As drake leaned in forward and looked through the narrow gap his vigilant eyes gradually turned wide and a chill ran up his spine.
"What!!! " drake screamed inwardly as he pulled the door wide open unintentionally while in shock.
Standing right behind the door inside the large luxurious room is none other than the sect masters of the mystic sword sect. The drop-dead gorgeous beauty exuded a terrifying sharpness as she stood there. Her sharp sword-like eyebrows, her piercing gaze, her cold smile, which made others feel as if they were standing on sharp frozen icicles... Everything, It's as if everything about her could only be associated with the word sharpness.
"Oh! So it's an insect in the qi condensation stage." the sect master mocked in a cold tone as she looked straight at drake.
Hearing that drake's pupils dilated as he became extremely shocked.
"The hell! She can see me ?" he panicked as he looked for the time limit indicator for the Invisibility mode, which is displayed as an hourglass in the top left corner of his vision, slightly below the defensive power indicator.
Noticing that the bottom of the hourglass is only filled by twenty percent his thick white eyebrows furrowed together in bewilderment.
"Maybe you will tell us what this is all about and who sent you? Or are you also going to be as stubborn as this one here ?" the sect master said coldly as she took a step to the side.
Once the sect master stepped to the side, the two figures who were behind her came into Drake's vision. Immediately all color drained out of his face and he staggered back in shock.
The two figures are none other than the wild women and the Iron palm sect's Yuan wenyan. Currently, Yuan wenyan had his right hand wrapped around the shoulders of the wild woman a.k.a burly Huang.
Drake who knew the terrifying skills of burly Huang couldn't help but become baffled as he looked at how he is still acting like a delicate and vulnerable woman who is trapped in the hands of a lecher.
"Why is he continuing with his acting instead of escaping ?" drake thought as he became puzzled.
"Oh... So you think she can still escape, don't you? Tell you what, You don't need to worry about that. She is as good as any mortal right now with this Ying Yang dragon bracelet restricting her abilities." yuan wenyan said with a sneer as he pointed at her hand.
What is on her hand is not exactly a bracelet but two miniature live dragons one red and one green which intertwined each other forming something which looked like a bracelet on her wrist.
The two miniature dragonets had their sharp whiskers pinned into a vein on the brother Huang's writ. From time to time a small amount of green-colored life essence would trickle through her veins and enter the bodies of those miniature dragons through their whiskers.
"See that... This artifact is the bane of body cultivators. Both these Ying and Yang dragonets even absorb the energy that is manifested in the wearer's body whenever she tries to launch an attack. And this is apart from the life energy that is constantly extracted from the wearer which eventually leaves him or her as a dried-up skeleton." Yuan wenyan explained unhurriedly as he looked at drake.
"So would you tell us now, how you fooled the elders and why ?" the sect master asked with an expressionless face as she looked at drake.
"I... We were..." drake stuttered as he found it difficult to find an excuse that could get them out of this situation.
"Oh... So you are not going to tell" the sect master said with a chilling voice as she began to release her terrifying cultivation base. Immediately with her as the center cracks began to spread like a spider web on the smooth and shiny floor. The glass lamps and painting frames hanging on the walls of the large room began to burst forth at once due to the high-pitched fluctuations from the howling torrential waves of qi essence which are being emitted by the sect master. Even the heavy furniture present in the room began to produce creaking noises as they got dragged around slowly.
Meanwhile, as drake tried his best to resist this tremendous suppression force, veins began to bulge out on his reddened face and even his legs began to wobble as he found it difficult to even stand.
Burly Huang's condition however is even tragic as he already dropped to the floor and began to shiver as blood started to gush out from his nose and mouth.
"NO!!!.... don't do this... please..." seeing brother Huang's condition drake's heart clenched in sadness as tears rolled out from his red eyes.
"Just tell us what you are here for? I promise you that things would turn much better." Yuan wenyan said with a smile as he stood with his hands folded before his chest.
"SYSTEM!!! SYSTEM!!! Do something, I beg you do something now!" drake started to scream inwardly as he desperately begged for the system's help.
"Ding* Activating the system's 'Grid vision'"
Suddenly drake heard the system's mechanical voice and immediately after the sight in front of him got split into two. On the left side of his vision, the same large personal chamber which he is in right now is being displayed, except that it's completely empty other than him.
On the other hand on the right side of the screen, the woman wearing the leopard fur clothing is facing the grand elder who is wielding his sword with her bare hands. And the people all around them had their mouths agape as they looked at the fighting. Especially the sect master, her fists were clenched so tight that her knuckles turned white.
Drake's mind went blank for a few seconds as he looked at both the scenes which are displayed before him.
"System close the 'Grid vision'" drake immediately instructed the system the moment he came out of his daze.
"Ding! Closing 'Grid vision'" the system voice rang once again as drake's vision got restored to his surroundings.
As drake looked around with narrowed eyes, What entered his vision are the blurred-out figures of sect master, yuan wenyan, and burly Huang standing before him.
"What powerful illusion spell!" drake thought as he took a deep breath realizing that the precarious situation he is facing right now is nothing but an illusion and a powerful and ultra-realistic illusion at that.
The moment he completely confirmed that this is only an illusion even the blurry figures in his vision also dispersed like smoke as he found himself alone in the large bedroom.
There are different kinds of illusion spells and formations which are popular in this world. These spells are activated when they glance at a particular illusion artifact, but in reality, they wouldn't even notice it. That's because the illusion triggers the moment you look at the artifact and you would only notice their presence after you break the illusion.
They mainly affect the victim's state of mind. They stimulate the worries in the victim's mind and project an illusion where they would be in an utterly disadvantageous situation. Even the extent of their logical thinking would be hampered. So even if they found something which is not quite right they wouldn't be able to identify what exactly is going wrong.
Just like how drake was unable to put his attention on the loophole when the sect master and the others were able to see him when he is clearly still in the invisible mode. But the moment they were able to accurately identify something and believe it firmly the illusion would start to break. Which is actually very difficult to do. Luckily in the case of drake the system's 'Grid mode' has shown the actual situation in live, thus successfully bringing him out of the illusion.
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