Chapter 379 Hell of a Poison!
Meanwhile, Jack was trying his best to kick the man\'s crotch. Could the couple have fought dirtier than this…probably not! The bystanders kept wincing just seeing it! But it seemed everyone had underestimated the jailer. "Fuck you both! I\'ll bring you down, even if it\'s the last thing I do!" He took it all head-on, enduring as he kept a firm grasp on Jack\'s head. That\'s when a single droplet managed to reach Jack\'s mouth. He tried to spit it out, he tried to force himself to vomit, he tried everything but to no avail. The poison seemed to be bloody alive, the thing worming its way to his stomach. He could feel it reaching the very core of his being, felt its corruption as it settled down. "Hehehe, finally! This is what you get for calling me a third-rate torturer!" The villain triumphantly cackled as he threw Pumpkin Girl off him and let go of Jack. The latter fell to the ground as if a puppet with its strings cut. Yet, there was obviously something wrong with him, his entire body twitching! "H-He\'ll be fine, right?! It was only one drop…." A prisoner worried prisoner uttered. "Pfft, fine? What a joke! This thing even drove the mighty Kraken to madness! So what if it\'s only a drop? What do you think this single drop will do to a human!" The torturer was showing a victorious smile. He knew for a fact that the poison had a 570% mortality rate…the target and everyone else they\'d kill after turning mad! On the ground, Jack couldn\'t stop convulsing: [Affected By Nightmare Poison!] [This Poison Terrifies Even Mythical Beings!] [Emergency Measure! Login Out to Protect User\'s Soul!] [3…2…1…] But the system\'s countdown was suddenly interrupted by a croak. The voice was so rough that it seemed to come from a demon itself. "Tch, dumb system, stop trying to log me out!" "W-what?! H-how?!" The shellshocked bystanders suddenly witnessed a sight that would forever burn itself in their retinas. Even as Jack kept twitching, he slowly but surely rose. At the moment, he looked like a bloody zombie, his feet unsteady, but his eyes filled with a bloody glow that nothing could seemingly extinguish. He struggled even to take a step, and yet his broken body emitted such an unyielding aura that he seemed to possess infinite strength. What the heck was this?! It didn\'t help that the seals all over the jail suddenly imploded a second later. The magic had mistaken the poison for Jack\'s power and tried to suppress it, only to fail gloriously. Anyone else would have been wriggling on the ground mad, but he slowly steadied his steps, a wooden piece appearing in his hands out of nowhere. He suddenly started humming…. and sculpting?! He was utilizing every mental resistance passive he possessed, but the whole thing looked ludicrous to others. Why??! Just why?! Was he sane or insane?! Was he still alive or only a puppet of the Nightmare Poison?! Who knew soft humming could be so intimidating?! But they weren\'t the only ones confronted with an unbelievable scene.
[Nightmares Are Haunting You!] [Good Luck Resisting!]
The entire world had changed for him.
The very water and air around him had become heavy as if replaced by tar. The people suddenly looked like monsters, their features turning slightly demonic at times. The space kept trembling, nightmarish illusions appearing all over the place. They were all fake, but their presence felt so real that he had to resist the urge to flee instantly. His entire world had become an eternal nightmare, even the most beautiful things reduced to putrid fakes that wanted to devour and slay him. Everything had turned scary and ugly. Everything was horrendous….actually no. As he glanced at Pumpkin Girl, she still appeared as beautiful as before, at least to him. She was looking at him with so much love, worried about him. She couldn\'t feel any of her own injuries, only his safety mattering to her. This right there was a gaze worth fighting for, worth dying for, worth resiting a nightmare for. Was this thing trying to turn him mad? As if! [Resisted Nightmare Poison?!] [Are You Really Human?!] He was technically a ghoul. Had the system turned stupid? Jack shrugged, not realizing that it was his IRL humanity that the system was questioning. Instead, he turned toward the opponent. "Now, where were we?" Gulp! Pumpkin Girl coming in with the clutch save! More than a drop of the liquid would have definitely killed me! As for why something so strong was appearing right now...who bloody knows! ClasslessAscension
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