The young man looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief, the whole squad stood there silently as if offering their lives to the approaching monster. As he turned his head to look at the elder he found his face contorted and his lips mumbling at times and opening as if attempting to scream at other times, the young man suddenly had a theory.
Are they daydreaming? Is this the power of the monster? He's able to alter their perception as if in a dream akin to sleepwalking. I haven't been pulled in, but I have no time to question the reason, I can't use this opportunity to escape either this environment is too dangerous, now I know they say never wake up a sleepwalker but I'm pretty sure their lives are more important than any side effect they might suffer, I need to wake them up.
As he finished that thought he turned around and looked at the mysterious blonde woman, to him she who had been tasked with defending the back rank unarmed looked more powerful than the elder holding a first aid box. As he approached her he spoke to her, shook her body, and even pinched her but to no avail. All the while the monster kept approaching them slowly his gaze distant as if he was daydreaming.
Suddenly he had another idea, he looked at the necklace on her chest and he was reminded of its mystical properties, earlier she used it to communicate with her companions for backup when she encountered him. As he held it in his hand, he muttered a few words, almost instantly he heard a sharp ringing voice in his head followed by a loud "WAKE THE **** UP". Shortly after, the mysterious woman's eyes became clear, she began slowly regaining her mobility as she looked at the young man holding her necklace.
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The young man let go of it as he looked around noticing that the people around him were no longer immobile.
If I knew it would be this effective I would've been a little gentler, joked the young man internally.
"Take battle formation! It won't be able to do the same trick for a while" Shouted the leader
As he spoke the young man heard a clap coming from behind him and the monster was suddenly set on fire, the archers started pulling on their bowstrings as sharp metallic arrows formed. The monster was soon riddled with 2 holes in his stomach, yet the arrows were nowhere to be found. He instantly jumped the distance that separated them and arrived before the squad as he threw his 4-meter arms aggressively in an attempt to swipe them. But the giant held both of his arms and then shoulder bashed into him knocking him back, he then quickly retracted his body and threw his armed hand in an attempt to slash at the humanoid figure's throat, an attempt that was dodged by a hair's breadth. This was shortly followed by his two flanks dodging another similar attempt as if they had foreseen it and slashing his shoulders. As the monster realized his disadvantage caused by the ineffectiveness of his strongest ability he decided to turn around and jump away from the sticky situation. As he was in midair, two more holes were dug open in his back by the tips of the sharp arrows that soon disintegrated. Unfortunately, his body landed inside of a building and was no longer visible.
As the brown-bearded man and his partner got ready to follow they were stopped by a deep voice exuding authority: "Don't follow him. His fighting style implies he has some intelligence, we may get ambushed."
"Let's use this chance to escape into our previous camp" The leader ordered
They instantly started following the corpses again until they found a building with a half-collapsed roof leaning on a concrete wall.
"We're here," said the elder as he looked at the young man