The dungeon has been parasitized

Chapter 79 Cognitive Impairment

Boom...

Under Anna's control, the fireball pressed down on the blue-haired woman, while hundreds of flaming arrows simultaneously pierced from all directions, leaving no way out.

The blue-haired woman spread her wings and hovered in mid-air. Even in the face of danger, her expression remained unwavering, making everyone feel vaguely uneasy.

Just before the attack hit her, her blue eyes suddenly flashed with an extremely bewitching light, and everyone was stunned at the same time. The conspicuous woman who was originally in mid-air disappeared!

"Georgina! Come here!"

As Cassius shouted, he opened the book, and a golden barrier emerged from it, enveloping the three people who were still in place.

While remaining vigilant against attacks from the blue-haired woman, Georgina and Spinka jumped off the rock and landed back where their teammates were.

Immediately afterwards, everyone stood back to back, gripped their weapons tightly, aimed them at the outside of the barrier, leaving no openings, and remained vigilant in all directions.

"Where did you go?"

"No, I don't know."

Anna's fireballs and fire arrows were still floating in the air, but the figure had vanished, just like before.

呲la.

Anna suddenly realized that the flaming arrows that had been floating in mid-air had suddenly lost contact.

Did they run out of magic? That can't be right. If there are other arrows still there, why did these arrows disappear?

Huh...? Why did it disappear?

Something feels off...

clang!

"Huh?!"

The sudden sound behind Anna startled her. When she turned around, she realized that Cassius's barrier had broken, but the eerie feeling still lingered in her heart.

"Anna, watch out!"

It wasn't until Cassius's barrier broke that everyone discovered the blue-haired woman's presence. Her wand, wreathed in sharp whirlwinds, shattered the barrier with a single blow and then pierced Anna.

Whoops!

A fierce and sharp whirlwind swept in, but was blocked by a black greatsword. The Slime Slayer's greatsword clashed with the woman's wand and pushed her away hard.

boom!

The woman was thrown backward, then flapped her wings in mid-air to cushion the force of her backward flight.

"Having so many people is such a hassle. Oh, it would be so much easier if we could clean them up one by one."

"We advise you to give up; you won't have a good ending doing this!"

"How can that be? This is my mission, and you guys are quite interesting."

Wait… When Anna saw her again, she remembered something: several fire arrows had disappeared before she reappeared.

In other words, she was still inside my encirclement just now; she simply became invisible, but she didn't leave.

But why...? Why didn't I notice it immediately?

It's definitely not as simple as invisibility. As an experienced member of the adventure team, Anna didn't think she would overlook something so obvious.

Anna looked up at the woman in the air, her blue hair swaying with the flapping of her wings, her blue eyes looking down at them with a hint of arrogance.

Blue hair, blue eyes... Anna suddenly thought of something.

"You have a similar ability to make your behavior undetectable and unnoticed, right?"

"Anna, you mean... cognitive impairment?"

"Um."

Jokina, who had the most contact with the blue-haired woman, also noticed something amiss. Before being attacked by the suddenly appearing woman, even though there was something unusual behind her, Jokina did not connect it to the blue-haired woman at all.

"You didn't disappear at all. You just made yourself undetectable, right? Damn it, mind-controlling witch."

As Anna finished speaking, the witch in the sky finally changed her expression from disdain to gloom, and she coldly curled her lips.

"Well done, little girl, you actually managed to find out."

"That's because you're too conspicuous."

"That reminds me... those blue-haired, blue-eyed witches, they have the ability to manipulate minds, right?"

The blue-haired witch exhaled, her face turning as cold as her hair color.

"I'm not... any kind of witch."

The blue-haired witch's voice still echoed in the air, but her figure had vanished as if she had never existed.

Everyone gripped their weapons warily, ready to defend against her next attack.

"Be careful! Her ability affects all five of us simultaneously. The others won't even notice until the attack is launched. It's extremely dangerous!"

Cognitive impairment, which is the inability to recognize what is happening in front of one's eyes, means that even if a blue-haired woman sings and dances in front of them, no one will feel anything is wrong.

Not to mention, they can't even recognize the enemy's existence now. This is probably the strongest enemy the Slime Slayer Adventure Team has ever encountered.

The attack was silent and carried with it powerful magic.

"She probably has other abilities as well. When she got close to me, her eyes were shining. Although I closed my eyes immediately, it was probably an extraordinary ability."

Qiao Jinna offered a reminder.

"In other words... don't look into her eyes."

"Ha... Now I finally understand why everyone says blue-haired witches are terrifying."

Before the blue-haired woman disappeared, Cassius had already erected a barrier once again to prevent another sneak attack.

She was about to attack Anna, the mage who was the main damage dealer, perhaps because Anna's wide-range attacks could threaten her.

Moreover, her magic actually broke through my barrier in one go... It seems her magical skills are quite remarkable.

Cassius pondered a solution. As a monk, he faced much less pressure than others when facing the current enemy. He only needed to support his teammates from the rear, and thus he was also the team's commander.

Swoosh swoosh swoosh swoosh...

Only Cassius noticed that his barrier was being attacked, but... why was it?

He tried to make connections, and a blue figure vaguely appeared in his mind, but he couldn't figure out why.

Just a moment ago they were searching for the blue-haired witch, but now they couldn't connect the attack on the barrier with the blue-haired witch at all.

What was being attacked...?

Cassius pondered deeply, and finally, his intuition compelled him to look up.

As his gaze swept across a certain point in the sky, he suddenly caught sight of a blue figure. She was flapping her wings, and countless invisible wind blades were trying to tear apart his barrier.

"There it is!"

Crash!

As Cassius pointed out his discovery to his teammates, his own barrier shattered at the same time.

Why did she attack so obviously in mid-air? I didn't even notice her until the barrier was broken. Was she afraid of being blocked by the captain again when the barrier was broken?

I have a feeling it's not that simple...

"Wait, don't—"

boom!

Before Cassius could finish speaking, the ground trembled, and the Slime Slayer, wielding a greatsword, leaped into the air and swung it at her.