Chapter 142

Chapter 142

Everything in sight was red.

Zeon’s mental image was filled with something red.

Eun Su-jin grabbed the red substance with her hand.

Like water, the red substance slipped down between her fingers.

“Is this sa......nd?”

It was exquisitely fine sand.

Like sand stained by the glow of a sunset, blood-red sand filled Zeon’s mental image.

“What on earth?”

Eun Su-young, who had infiltrated Zeon’s mental image after Eun Su-jin, blinked.

They had invaded countless people’s brains and peered into their mental images, but this was the first time they had ever seen a sight like this.

“Why is there sand in his mental image?”

“Is this really a human mental image?”

“What is this? This human is......”

“I knew he was weird, but this is too much.”

Such a barren, desolate sight.

They had never once imagined that someone with this sort of mental image could exist.

“How would a person have to live to end up with a mental image like this?”

“I don’t know. I really don’t know.”

“I don’t know if mental manipulation will even work on someone like this.”

“We still have to try.”

“We have to.”

The twin sisters placed their hands against the sand.

They were trying to manipulate Zeon’s mind through his mental image as the medium.

The instant the two of them infused mana into the sand, it happened.

Sssshhh!

Suddenly, the sand around them began to heave.

“What?”

“That startled me!”

The two were shocked and stepped back.

The sand kept heaving.

At first, it had only been a movement in a tiny portion of it. But the motion spread through Zeon’s entire mental image in an instant.

“What is this?”

At that moment, something rose from the heaving sand.

It was a human made of sand.

One, two, three......

The sand humans multiplied endlessly.

Before long, Zeon’s entire mental image was filled with sand humans.

Sand humans beyond counting.

Overwhelmed by that tremendous spectacle, the twins froze.

“Ahh!”

“There are so many sand humans.”

Their bodies began to tremble of their own accord.

At that moment, the sand human standing at the front opened its mouth.

“To think you can invade another person’s mind and manipulate it. That’s an interesting ability. It’s not interesting at all for the person on the receiving end, though.”

“That voice. Zeon?”

“How did you get into your own mental image? Don’t tell me you’re a telepathy user too?”

The twins asked in shock.

The sand human shrugged.

“What’s so special about entering my own mental image? Invading someone else’s mental image as you please, like you two did, is much more impressive.”

“What are you? How is there nothing but sand in your mental image? Are you really human? Aren’t you a monster?”

“And what about you two?”

“What about us?”

“I’m asking if you’re human, when you’re trying to toy with someone else’s mind however you like.”

“That’s different.”

“How is it different? To me, you two look more like monsters.”

“Ugh! We’re not monsters.”

“Normal humans don’t try to manipulate other people’s minds whenever they please.”

“What the hell do you know? Don’t talk bullshit when you don’t know anything.”

Eun Su-jin and Eun Su-young shouted, sounding as if they had been deeply wronged.

Zeon simply watched them for a moment.

He found it absurd that the twins, who had invaded another person’s mind at will, were acting as if they were the victims.

“This isn’t going to work. Both of you, get out of my head.”

The Sand Soldiers surrounded Eun Su-jin and Eun Su-young and crushed down on them.

“Ugh!”

“Let go of us!”

The twin sisters struggled, but it was no use.

This was Zeon’s mental image.

Zeon was its master.

Naturally, he could do anything by his own will.

“No!”

“Get looooost!”

With one last cry, the twin sisters were expelled from Zeon’s mental image.

“Hah!”

Their eyes opened at the same time.

They had returned not to Zeon’s mental image, but to reality.

The twin sisters’ entire bodies were soaked with sweat, and every capillary in their eyes had burst, leaving them bloodshot red.

Zeon also emerged from his mental image and returned to reality.

As if his head hurt, Zeon rubbed his temple with one hand and muttered,

“Ugh! My head.”

“You threw us out?”

“We won’t forgive you!”

The twin sisters’ hair stood on end and rippled like seaweed.

“Talk about the guilty party playing the victim. Did the old man you travel with never teach you manners?”

“Don’t insult Gramps.”

“We’ll kill you.”

At that instant, every object nearby rose into the air.

Bricks, steel rods, and all manner of strange things floated up and circled around the twin sisters.

Zeon frowned slightly.

“Telekinesis?”

“That’s right! We can move objects however we like with thought alone.”

“We’re going to tear you apart and kill you.”

When telepathy reached its peak, it allowed one to move objects freely with thought alone.

That was telekinesis.

The twin sisters’ level of telekinesis exceeded that of most Grade A Awakened. That was why Elder Go had sent them to stop Zeon.

He had judged that while subduing Zeon would be difficult, stalling him would not be particularly hard.

“Yaaah!”

With the twin sisters’ battle cry, the objects floating in the air flew toward Zeon.

WHOOOSH—!

The objects shot forward at speeds beyond the speed of sound.

When speed reached that level, even an ordinary brick became a lethal weapon.

An increase in speed meant the maximization of destructive power.

CRASH, CRASH, CRASH—!

Everything nearby exploded and shattered.

The area became a pandemonium in an instant. Yet Zeon, the twin sisters’ actual target, did not suffer a single wound.

That was because the instant the twin sisters sent the objects flying with telekinesis, he had already moved far away.

“Coward!”

“Don’t dodge!”

The twin sisters shouted and launched objects at Zeon, who was some distance away.

This time, Zeon was not confident he could dodge perfectly, so he unleashed Fire Rain.

“Hah!”

Countless fireballs poured down like rain.

Fire Rain intercepted every object flying toward him at terrifying speed.

BANG, BANG, BANG!

The sight of bricks, steel rods, and other objects bursting apart in midair was magnificent. But the twin sisters had no leisure to admire the scene.

“Ugh! What is this?”

“Die! I said die!”

They screamed and hurled whatever they could at him. But not a single object managed to injure Zeon.

Infuriated, the two eventually gave up on launching objects and used telekinesis on Zeon himself.

Zeon suddenly felt a formless power constricting his entire body.

It felt as if a rock weighing hundreds of tons were pressing down on him from head to toe.

The twin sisters were trying to tear Zeon’s limbs off with telekinesis.

It was impossible to block their attack using only Skills from the Ultra-Heat Gauntlet.

“I can’t help it, then.”

Zeon let out a soft sigh.

It was a power he would have had to reveal someday anyway, but even he had not expected to show it in this manner. Still, once Zeon decided to use it, he did not hesitate.

SHAAAH!

When Zeon gestured, the sand piled on the ground condensed and shot out like streams of water.

It was Sand Blaster, one of Zeon’s main Skills.

The Sand Blaster shot out like streams of water and struck the twin sisters directly.

THUD, THUD, THUD!

“Aaagh!”

“It hurts!”

The twin sisters, hit by the unexpected attack, screamed.

Fortunately, the instant Sand Blaster struck them directly, a Barrier Skill activated, preventing fatal injuries. But they could not avoid the pain.

Necklaces set with blue jewels swayed at their throats.

They were items enchanted with a Skill that activated Barrier up to three times a day.

Thanks to them, the twins were able to save their lives.

Eun Su-jin’s eyes wavered.

“You attacked with sand? You can use telekinesis too?”

“No! Telekinesis can’t control this many grains of sand.”

“Then you exerted influence over sand itself? Don’t tell me you’re a Sandmancer?”

“That’s fucking unfair.”

Though they were young, the two of them were experienced Grade A Awakened.

In an instant, they realized the true nature of the ability Zeon had used.

“That’s right! He’s a Sandmancer.”

“Waaah!”

“Fuck!”

As if driving the point home, Zeon raised his hand. Then Sand Blaster unfolded once more.

WHOOOSH—!

More than ten streams of Sand Blaster flew in at terrifying speed.

At that instant, the twin sisters grabbed each other’s hands and retreated backward.

They had lifted their bodies with telekinesis.

Thanks to that, Sand Blaster only drilled holes into the innocent ground.

“That’s scary.”

“It’s scary!”

Fear rose on the twin sisters’ faces.

The power of Sand Blaster that Zeon had shown was not particularly impressive. There were plenty of Awakened who used Skills with that level of power.

The problem was the fact that Zeon certainly did not possess only Skills of this level.

Only now did they understand Zeon’s mental image.

An endlessly spreading sea of sand.

That was Zeon’s potential.

If Zeon could use even a portion of it, the chances of defeating him were almost nonexistent.

Sand overflowed around the slums, after all.

The very fact that they did not know what Skills Zeon might unleash with the sand made them feel terrified.

At that moment, Zeon unleashed Sand Blaster again.

This time, there were more than thirty streams.

HISSSSS!

Sand Blaster flew in even faster than before.

The twin sisters used telekinesis to pull nearby objects together and create a wall.

BOOM, BOOM—!

With an explosive roar, the wall the twin sisters had worked so hard to make blew apart.

It was truly tremendous power.

The twin sisters’ eyebrows trembled.

“This won’t work.”

“Let’s run.”

“That hurts my pride.”

“Life comes before pride.”

“You’re right.”

“Tch! Gramps is going to scold us.”

“It can’t be helped.”

With their bodies still floating, they flew away.

Zeon silently watched them vanish into the distance.

If he set his mind to it, he could chase them at any time, but now was not the time.

BOOOOM—!

An explosion erupted from the White Bear Caravan’s fortress.

It was a blast strong enough for him to feel the vibration through the soles of his feet.

The situation was clearly becoming more urgent.

‘Damian!’

Since Zeon had already revealed his ability, he held nothing back.

WHOOOSH!

The sand throughout the area gathered like a pillar and lifted Zeon high into the sky.

From atop the sand pillar, Zeon looked toward the White Bear Caravan.

The White Bear Caravan’s fortress had now collapsed by more than half.

The battle had grown even fiercer than before.

The number of Awakened fighting there had also increased significantly.

It was clear that not only the Scavenger and Dongdaemun Awakened, but Awakened from other districts had also joined the attack.

TRUUUUMPET!

He saw the massive Mammoth collapse with a mournful cry.

The greatest contributor to the White Bear Caravan’s existence had lost its life.

The situation was turning absolutely against the White Bear Caravan.

Zeon rode the sand-laden wind and flew upward.