Chapter 101: Mental Shock and Curse Technique

After reaching the destination, Zhang Ran continued exploring. About ten minutes later, a mutated beast with a very eerie and bizarre appearance appeared before him. If an ordinary person saw this mutated beast after eating, they would absolutely vomit everything they had just consumed.

Unlike other mutated beasts, this mutated beast had a very unique appearance, not resembling any particular animal, but rather like a human eyeball magnified many times over.

Yes, the main body of this mutated beast was a black-and-white striped eyeball, occupying over ninety percent of its body. Behind the eyeball were large clumps of soft, blood-red tissue, along with strands of red tentacles that supported its body and allowed it to move simply.

"Eyeball Monster! I never expected to encounter a mentally strong mutated beast here!"

Gazing at the eyeball-shaped creature in the distance, Zhang Ran showed a trace of surprise in his eyes.

Generally speaking, mutated beasts in the wild were primarily of the strength type, possessing very powerful physical qualities. However, their mental attributes were generally quite weak, typically only one-fifth to one-third of those of humans at the same level.

However, there were always exceptions. Among mutated beasts, there were also some with exceptionally strong mental attributes, known as mentally strong mutated beasts.

For instance, the werewolf shaman that Zhang Ran had slain while wiping out the werewolf tribe was a mentally strong mutated beast, possessing powerful mental attributes and the ability to cast certain spells.

Apart from the werewolf shaman, the commander in the special mutated zombies, the giant sage in the giant race, and the seductive fox in the mutated beasts—all these mutated beasts also belonged to the mentally strong category. Although their physical qualities were not powerful, they were equally very dangerous and often more lethal than strength-type mutated beasts.

Furthermore, these mentally strong mutated beasts possessed various abilities. Some mutated beasts, similar to human spell domain evolutionists, could release several powerful spells, while others had abilities such as charm, dream invasion, hallucination, curses, and so on—unpredictable powers capable of killing enemies without warning.

The Eyeball Monster that Zhang Ran encountered belonged to the latter!

They could release powerful mental shock attacks on enemies, causing them to become dizzy. For some weak enemies, they might even cause their brains to burst and die directly! Moreover, they also possessed the ability to curse, weakening the enemy's strength and making them easier to be knocked down.

"Chip, detect the attributes of the Eyeball Monster!"

Looking at the Eyeball Monster in the distance, Zhang Ran silently instructed Chip to probe and infer its attributes.

"【Target Name: Eyeball Monster】
【Target Type: Mutated Beast】
【Hunting Level: Level 4】
【Special Abilities: Mental Shock, Cursing, Terrorize, Scorching Ray】
【Strength: 3.2】
【Constitution: 3.5】
【Agility: 2.1】
【Spirit: 11.8】"

A silver light flashed before Zhang Ran, forming a data box, and the attributes of that Eyeball Monster were listed one by one.

Through Chip's observation and inference, this Eyeball Monster had very low strength, constitution, and agility attributes. Its strength and constitution were only equivalent to level 1 evolutionists among humans, and its agility was only slightly stronger than that of quasi-evolutionists.

However, its spirit attribute was extremely powerful, reaching 11.8 points. Even level 4 spell domain evolutionists in humans could not exceed this Eyeball Monster's spirit attribute; only level 5 spell domain evolutionists could surpass it in spiritual power.

At the same time that Zhang Ran discovered this Eyeball Monster, the Eyeball Monster also discovered Zhang Ran and stared tightly at him. Then, in the Eyeball Monster's white eyeball, a purple light suddenly flashed.

As this purple light brightened, a series of mysterious spiritual fluctuations erupted from the Eyeball Monster's eyeball, shooting toward Zhang Ran's body.

The propagation speed of the Eyeball Monster's mental shock was very fast, instantly hitting Zhang Ran. Instantly, Zhang Ran felt his head buzz, his thinking speed slowed down considerably, and his control over his body was no longer precise, as if someone were hammering on his head with a hammer.

"Such a terrifying attack! Although my strength can kill top-level level 4 creatures and even rival some weaker level 5 creatures, I still have weaknesses. This time, I was a bit too overconfident!"

Reflecting secretly in his heart, Zhang Ran desperately concentrated his spirit on the "Boiling Blood" ability rune in his sea of consciousness and activated it.

With Zhang Ran's mental command, in his sea of consciousness, the third blood-fire-shaped ability rune suddenly shone brightly, and streams of indescribable power surged out.

This power surged into Zhang Ran's body. His heart immediately began to race, with streams of blood madly flowing toward his heart. After mysterious transformation, they became streams of scorching boiling blood, pumped out from the heart and flowing throughout Zhang Ran's body.

Streams of boiling blood flowed along Zhang Ran's blood vessels to all directions, rapidly improving Zhang Ran's physical qualities. At the same time, a small portion of the boiling blood entered Zhang Ran's brain, enhancing his spiritual power.

After activating the "Boiling Blood," Zhang Ran's spirit attribute increased from 8.1 points to nearly 9 points. With the increase in spiritual power and the influence of the "Boiling Blood" ability, Zhang Ran's mind became somewhat clearer. Then, with his powerful will to overcome the discomfort in his brain, he gripped his heavy sword and charged toward the Eyeball Monster in the distance.

Looking at Zhang Ran charging at him, the Eyeball Monster's eyes suddenly flashed with a yellow light. A series of mysterious spells emerged from its large eye and flew out toward Zhang Ran's direction, which was the sign of its ability "Cursing" being activated.

"Cursing! Truly troublesome!"

Streams of spells flew toward Zhang Ran. Zhang Ran manipulated the heavy sword in his hand, chopping and slashing at these spells.

These spells moved at a slow speed. If Zhang Ran were in his peak condition, he could easily block them one by one. However, Zhang Ran had just been affected by the Eyeball Monster's "mental shock," so his body control was partially impaired, making his movements sluggish.

In the end, about ninety-five percent of the cursing spells were blocked by Zhang Ran, but about five percent of the cursing spells landed on Zhang Ran's body.

These cursing spells landed on Zhang Ran's skin, then instantly disappeared, drilling into Zhang Ran's body and releasing streams of gloomy and eerie energy.

Under the influence of this energy, small lumps or blisters instantly appeared on Zhang Ran's skin, looking extremely hideous.

At the same time, Zhang Ran also felt that stream of cursing energy flowing in his body. Every time it passed a location, it would pollute the nearby tissues and lower Zhang Ran's overall attributes.