Chapter 1158 Hypnotic Liquid
I’m sure Night Bird’s attack was a pre-planned combo. Stealth, dive acceleration, and applying scales up close were all executed in one go. This was no random attack; it was well-prepared.
After Older Brother Jayad was affected, he clearly started flailing his legs and swinging his sword wildly. He even walked backward. Elena couldn’t even get up. I don’t know what their body disorder entails.
But Night Bird wouldn’t wait. While they were still unable to control their bodies, Night Bird pounced on them directly, its claws aiming to stab them.
Facing this critical moment, Bailing Ding, who was unaffected, rushed forward, grabbed the two and tossed them aside. In a very dangerous situation, she rescued Jayad and Elena from Night Bird’s claws.
Night Bird didn’t attack Bailing Ding, who was closest to it. Instead, it flipped over and circled around Bailing Ding to pursue Jayad and Elena, who had been thrown away. It seemed to have intelligence, knowing to pick on the weaker targets first and kill those in a confused state.
“You wish!” Bailing Ding thrust her sword at Night Bird as it circled her. Her thrust speed was actually faster than Night Bird’s dive. In an instant, she was behind Night Bird. Of course, this was also because Night Bird didn’t have enough distance to accelerate after circling her.
At this moment, Night Bird actually turned its entire head backward, its red round eyes staring at Bailing Ding. Its body remained still, its head completely turned backward, as if its neck had no spine. It was just like an owl.
“Hoo!” Night Bird dared not ignore Bailing Ding’s rapier. It turned back and flapped its wings like sharp blades, slashing at Bailing Ding.
“Clang! Ding ding ding!” The wings met the estoc. Bailing Ding made several rapid thrusts, but sparks flew from its wings. However, not a single feather was pierced, and it only managed to block Night Bird’s pursuit.
I also raised my revolver and fired several shots at Night Bird. The bullets hitting its wings were all deflected. However, the bullets hitting its belly had some effect, at least causing feathers to fall. It seemed its wings were the hardest.
Taking advantage of our distraction, Jayad managed to help Elena to her feet. He cast a dispel abnormal status on himself and Elena, finally returning them to normal.
“Hoo!” Seeing that Jayad had recovered, Night Bird immediately spread its wings and flew high, escaping the range of his sword wind. This also made my gunshots difficult to hit or less powerful.
Its caution was truly troublesome, especially since Night Bird was so fast. Older Brother Jayad tried to unleash a storm slash, but Night Bird immediately dodged to a distant spot and even entered stealth mode again.
“You never told me Night Bird could go invisible,” Older Brother Jayad said with some distress. He could still see, but fighting a flying monster with such speed in conditions where he couldn’t see clearly was quite difficult.
“I, I was negligent. The book did mention that some mutated Night Birds have special individuals that can go invisible by using special scales to refract light, but those are extremely rare individuals. I didn’t expect this one would. It’s probably stronger due to the corrosion causing it to mutate.” Elena said awkwardly.
“The monsters in this area have indeed become stronger recently, so it’s no wonder it has new moves. However, if it’s scales, it’s simple.” Older Brother Jayad waved another gust of wind, this time a diffusion type, scattering all the scales around Night Bird, and it reappeared.
Night Bird didn’t back down. It puffed out its chest, flapped its wings furiously, and then let out a series of special hoots. Waves of sound seemed to condense and shoot towards us on the ground.
This was the Night Bird’s soporific call. Elena had already warned us. Older Brother Jayad had also prepared a countermeasure. He opened his mouth and began to hum a song, Hastur’s Song. He intended to counter sound with sound.
A wave of dark yellow fluctuations spread out from Older Brother Jayad as the core. Even Elena and Bailing Ding looked a bit dazed, the song of the Outer Gods was extremely eerie.
However, when the sound waves from both sides collided, Older Brother Jayad’s expression changed, and he shouted, “No! Dodge!”
The pale blue sound waves of Night Bird actually passed through Older Brother Jayad’s dark yellow sound waves. However, they were scattered when the sound waves collided, turning from condensed sound waves into something like mist.
This time, let alone Older Brother Jayad, even I was caught off guard. I was enveloped by the pale blue mist. Almost instinctively, I tried to cover my mouth and nose, but I had already inhaled a little. I immediately felt drowsy and my vision blurred.
Older Brother Jayad immediately changed the pitch of Hastur’s Song. Suddenly, I felt as if an ice needle had pierced my brain. The pain was accompanied by a cold sensation, instantly waking me up.
Night Bird was originally planning to grab one of us and fly into the sky while everyone was mentally dazed. But as soon as we woke up, we scattered.
However, we couldn’t harm it. Night Bird knew we might charge forward for close combat, so it immediately sprinkled a large area of scales. If we insisted on close combat to capture it, we would definitely suffer from body disorder again due to the scales.
“What kind of song is that? So powerful?” Elena looked at Jayad in surprise. She had almost fallen asleep just now but was awakened by Jayad’s song. She could feel the coldness in the song, like the distant abyss.
“I don’t know the name either. I learned a little bit of a refreshing song from someone at the opera house,” Jayad said casually, then added grimly, “Your intelligence is flawed. Night Bird doesn’t hypnotize with sound waves at all. That’s clearly a liquid that induces sleep, sprayed from its mouth.”
I only understood it just now. When Night Bird unleashed this move, it did make a sound, but it didn’t hypnotize through the sound. Instead, it sprayed a liquid from its mouth with strong sleep-inducing effects, and then sent it far away by hooting and flapping its wings.
It was also just now that Older Brother Jayad used sound waves to disperse the owl’s hoot carrying the hypnotic mist. We all inhaled a little, but if we had been hit head-on and inhaled a highly concentrated mouthful, we would have probably fainted instantly and been at its mercy.
I never expected that the truth behind Night Bird’s hypnosis was this. Misinformation almost killed us. But this Night Bird’s abilities are so rich, colorful, and bizarrely changeable, it is indeed a very troublesome monster.
Most importantly, I’m getting tempted. Who wouldn’t want a monster that looks cute and has various powerful abilities?
“Parul! We’ll hold it off, you quickly go grab the egg!” Elena suddenly called out to me. The original plan was for me to grab the egg.
As soon as I heard this, I had an idea. I called out to Older Brother Jayad, “Hold it off for me and don’t let it disturb me stealing the egg!”
Saying that, I turned and left. I believe Older Brother Jayad understood my hint: don’t kill it too quickly, let Night Bird keep Elena busy, and I need to do some things.
