Chapter 150: Forest of Desire #2

While Alex's hidden city slowly developed and bringing more people to transmigrated there, meanwhile, back to the Titan dungeon floor of the Forest of Desire, Alex and the Twin continued with their dungeon exploration.

The more Alex explored the Forest of Desire, the more he realized why the adventurers called these jungle terrains like floors with that menacing name.

Somewhere on the 35th floor of the Titan dungeon, the three of them enter the area which was covered with a heavy mist.

….

..

.

---------- Alex POV-----------

..

….

[This disgusting Fog again… Anni, did Anna began to hallucinating again?]

Seeing the heavy fog in front of my eyes, I began to check Anna and Anni's status condition, finding Anna who began to walk in some direction absentmindedly as if she was being bewitched by something.

[Ughmm, it seems she started hallucinating again…

It couldn't be helped, she didn't have the Lord Class Monster skill like master and me after all…]

Anni replied with a worried face.

She hurriedly grabbed Anna who trying to separate from the group.

Yes.

During my exploration on this floor, I began to understand that this dense dark forest was more ominous than I expected.

Not only the Nymphs, who were very lethal on luring any male adventurers to their death, the terrain of this forest also very tricky.

In this dark lush forest, hidden within it was a lot of traps as well as a mysterious environment like the fog in our surrounding right now.

Just so you guys know, it's not the first time I saw this mysterious fog that will affect us with a very strong hallucination.

However, since I have immunity toward the negative state condition from my Lord Class Monster skill, I can easily ignore this fog.

But, it's not the case with Anna and Anni.

Despite having a high raw status and rare combat job, they still can't escape from the hallucination effect of this troublesome fog.

At the time when I realize this, I decided to paste the Lord Class Monster skill that I copied from the Boss on the 20th floor to one of them.

Considering that I can get more of this skill in this dungeon, I unhesitatingly paste this skill to Anni, albeit it will make Anna slightly jealous of this.

Anyway, it's not like I will refrain myself to give her this skill, it's just I had to choose one of them temporarily, and so I convince Anna to with a promise to give her the same thing just like her twin sister.

Hence, it leads to the situation in our group right now.

Looking at Anna who already lost her mind and began drooling foolishly, I know the hallucination that appeared inside her head must be linked to the thing she most desired in her life.

That's why people began to call this terrain the forest of desire.

Anyway, looking at the struggling Anni who trying to restrain Anna's movement, it would be better if we escaped from this fog hurriedly.

Even though I already enhanced her with the Lord Class Monster skill, Anna raw was not weak after all.

[Anni, let's moved and escaped from this fog!]

Hearing my command, Anni put more strength into her hand and dragged Anna, as she began following behind me to escape from this mysterious fog.

Along the way, there's a couple of monkeys like monsters trying to block our way and hindered us to leave this fog area.

==============================================

{Wendygo}

Lv 50

HP : B

MP : C

ATK : B

MATK : C

DEF : C

Skill : Forest Hunter VI[Rare] Monkey Limbs IV[Uncommon] Crazed[Uncommon] Charm [Common] Dungeon Monster[???]

==============================================

Crazed[Uncommon] : Losing the ability to think. Increase the aggressiveness toward any living being who was different from his kind. INT -1000 AGI +500

Immune to any attack that affects one mind.

==============================================

Looking at this monkey status, I somehow get the feeling that this Wendygo monster was specially designed by the dungeon to fight the intruder in this environment.

[Can I leave them to you?]

Seemingly talking to no one, I suddenly said this and looking at the shadow below myself.

All of a sudden, a bipedal Alaskan husky dog-like monster suddenly appeared from my shadow.

Without saying anything, it started rushing to the group of Wendygo that trying to block us, to intercept them.

Craaasskk!!

With a terrifying speed and high agility, it started ripping off the Wendygo body into shred!

Leaving behind the Wendygo shredded body who slowly disappeared and leaving behind dungeon's drops for us, the bipedal dog monster rushing forward and continue defeating the upcoming other Wendygo who trying to block us.

If you observed this Dog carefully, you guys will gradually realize that it was the High Kobold Monster that used to attack the Arkhaim town on the Monster Horde event.

But, its dark shining fur is really different when the ordinary High Kobold monster at that time.

Moreover, in its eye, you can see a hint of wisdom and intelligence clearly.

Yes! This High Kobold is one of my undead!

If you guys wonder why did I never using my undead to fight before? It's because there's this somewhat kind of restriction on making them fight on my behalf.

I didn't know if this some kind of the System bug or maybe it's something that only happened on taboo magic, but when I make an undead to fight on my behalf, I can't get any exp from the dead monster they killed.

I believe it must be the System that creating this restriction to constrain any people who abused the death(a Taboo), prevented them from growing stronger faster.

…

After knowing my explanation, maybe you guys started wondering, why did I use the High Kobold undead then? Is it because of the emergencies of the situation?

You guys not completely wrong if you guessing it like that.

The thing is, I found a way to nulling the Exp restriction of my undead.

Albeit, it's only for a certain undead.

There's a special circumstance that let me gained exp even If I make the High Kobold undead fighting on my behalf.

Parallel thought[Unique] skill!

==============================================

Parallel Thought[Unique] : you can divide your thought to create a pseudo will, enhancing your thought ability to double.(You can put your pseudo will into your controllable unit [image illusion, puppet, Gholem, undead, etc] to automatically control it)

==============================================

The high kobold that intercepted the upcoming monster isn't ordinary undead!

It is an Undead that possessed with my pseudo will!

What is a pseudo will? Is this thing worked the same just like an artificial soul?

No!

Pseudo will is working differently from an Artificial Soul.

Despite they look like the same thing, but the origin of their entities is very different.

Artificial soul, just like its name it was an artificially created soul that worked more like an A.I rather than a true living being.

However, it's different with the Pseudo Will.

This will or copied thought to be precise, was created from my own soul.

It's kind of like double personalities.

Basically, this pseudo will is another me.

He thinks and acts like me, as it was separated originally from my own soul.

Thus, just like what was written in the skill description, if I didn't place my pseudo will to another body entity, my thinking ability will be doubled.

Just imagine it, having two people thinking in one brain!

Yes, maybe it will depend on how the skill holder handled this anomaly of double thought inside their head.

But having another thought that assists you in brainstorming simultaneously will really help you to think faster.

Anyway, since this thing reminded me of my chunni days, I decided to place it on one of my undead temporarily.

Leaving this thing aside, the thing about my "Pseudo Will" possessing the undead will make this certain undead special.

Just like how this "Pseudo Will" was myself, the thing it's killed with his possessed body entities will be counted as my own kill!

Thus, the exp that he got will be transferred to mine! Unlike the ordinary undead.

With the help of the High Kobold undead, I and the busy Anni who restrained her sister's body desperately, safely leaving the fog area.

[Groaaann* S-sister? Did I lost it again?]

Just as we step out from the fog area, Anna gradually came back to her sense and started groaning, before asking her recent condition to her twin sister who still held her body.

Hearing her sobered up sister's question, Anni just nodded her head silently as an answer.

Actually, this is not the first time Anna asked this when she just back to her sense from the hallucination, so she already became numb to this.

[Sigh… Alex, I wonder if you can share me the "thing" to make me immune to that annoying fog just like my sister]

Anna who realized that she lost in the Hallucination fog again, started to subconsciously unveil her jealousy from not getting the skill like her twin sister.

[Anna, it's not like I didn't understand your feeling right now… but I really don't have it with me for now.

Let's proceed toward the 40th floor and taking down the boss, at that time I will give the thing that you want]

I replied at her weakly.

Seeing her disappointed face, I knew that she felt incredibly unfair when she knowing that we were not affected by the hallucination effect of the fog.

However, since I really didn't have the Lord Class Monster skill on my skill storage at the moment, I can't say another thing to her, except to convince her to patiently waiting for me to get another Lord Class Monster skill for her.

[Still… this Forest of Desire surely is disgusting.

Maybe we can handle the troublesome terrain here since we have the abnormal Alex with us..

But, I wonder how the other will deal with these troublesome jungle floors?]

After getting herself back to a normal mood, Anna suddenly said this thing.

Experiencing the traps, troublesome environment, as well as the tricky monster, she couldn't help herself to start thinking about how the other doing facing such situations.

[I believe they will survive just fine.

Not only that, maybe this jungle will be a good experience for them and make them grow stronger on the term of survival.

.....

Let's move on, it will be better if we climb to the higher floor sooner.

This floor is not that suitable to stay in the long run, after all... Somehow, we really lack of rest these couple of days…]

I replied and gave them my thought.

Thus, we continue our exploration and trying to find the Dungeon Crystal to climb into the higher floor.