Death Wizard Diary.

Chapter 364 Illusions and Vague Cognition

"Mark, keep going. Is this really the elf's territory?" Thor asked in a deep voice.

Mark, unaware that something was wrong, nodded anxiously, "Yes."

The rows of human figures behind him hadn't disappeared yet, and stood quietly behind Mark.

They surrounded him.

Thor neither rubbed his eyes nor closed them again.

He raised his hand and pointed to the person next to Mark, "Xiao Zao."

Black tentacles immediately flew out and swept around Mark's body.

Like a pebble thrown into water, ripples spread through the air around Mark, and the human figures with their heads bowed gradually disappeared in the ripples.

Mark wanted to defend himself the moment he saw Xiaozao, but he held back when he saw Sol's solemn expression.

After Xiaozhao whipped the air twice, Mark looked around and asked, "What did you see?"

"There were many figures around you just now, but they disappeared in a flash," Solton said, somewhat uncertainly. "They were probably just illusions from this forest, like a mirage."

"Is it a hallucination?" Morton turned to Agu, who wasn't good at this.

Agu couldn't give a precise answer, "It seems so. But my mental state is very stable, so it doesn't seem like I'm being affected by hallucinations."

An followed up, "That's right, I'm very sensitive to changes in spiritual entities. When those figures appeared just now, I didn't notice anything unusual."

While the others pondered what the scene they were witnessing meant, Mark simply sighed.

"Since arriving at the Forest of Four Seasons, we have encountered many phenomena that cannot be explained by our current knowledge. Now I'm used to them all. As long as they don't threaten my life, I don't care about other people or ghosts."

Saul nodded and followed Mark.

"That's right, the anomaly here is definitely beyond our ability to solve. Let's find Kongsha first."

The group walked for two hours in the deep forest, during which they encountered several strange phenomena.

However, they did not encounter the elves that Mark had mentioned would come to hunt them down, so the desperate run did not happen again.

When Thor felt tired again, the scene before him was no longer just trees, vines, and grass.

The forest's growth seemed to have been paused. Thor crossed a row of towering ancient trees and suddenly came upon a wide expanse of lush green grass.

The sunlight can finally shine on it without restraint, and the breeze no longer has to worry about being blocked by the dense foliage.

Rows of simple white wooden houses stand on the grass.

These houses were built and scattered haphazardly, like tents hastily set up for a spring outing.

As Mark stepped onto the grass, Saul finally saw the third person in the valley.

He had met this person not long ago.

Monroe.

Monroe was standing sideways, and Thor could only see half of his face.

He stared into the distance, his mouth slightly open, seemingly lost in thought.

"Monroe!" Mark called out immediately upon seeing this.

Monroe shuddered and turned his head sharply.

Thor, who was about to take a step forward, suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Monroe is missing an eye.

If Thor remembered correctly, it was the one that had eaten right in front of him.

When Monroe saw Saul, his last remaining eye lit up. He ignored Mark who was walking past and ran all the way to Saul.

"You've finally arrived! Kongsha said that if you come, you can definitely help us escape! I was afraid you wouldn't need the cryptocrystalline material!" Monroe said excitedly, his empty eye sockets twitching.

He reached out to grab Thor, but was blocked by several consciousnesses using their bodies.

"What's wrong?" Monroe asked, puzzled. "Who are they?"

"What happened to your eyes?" Saul asked him.

Monroe raised her hand to touch her empty eye sockets, poking her fingertips in a little bit before quickly pulling them out.

"It broke when the spirit attacked me; I happened to be eating at the time..."

Seeing that Saul and Monroe had not clashed, Mark walked confidently into the depths of the scattered houses, calling out a few names as he went.

The one who called out the most was Kong Sha.

Saul was still a little worried about Monroe, and since Mark wasn't around, he took the opportunity to ask Mark the same questions he had asked him before.

Monroe gave the same answer, with little difference in details.

After hearing Monroe's description, Thor also told Monroe about the knowledge clone he had seen in the Wizard's Tower.

"...He suddenly ate his own eye."

Monroe wasn't very surprised. "I've lost my eyes, so his are useless now."

Then he licked his lips and said, "It's pretty good. I haven't had meat in a long time."

He was even more surprised by another thing Saul mentioned: "Has half a year already passed outside?"

"Don't you feel anything?" Thor thought wizards should be quite sensitive to time.

Monroe gave a wry smile: "The day and night cycle in the Forest of Four Seasons is irregular. Sometimes the sun won't set for three or four days, and sometimes the night won't end for three or four days. Not only the day and night, but the seasons here are also different from those outside."

Mark had turned back by then, looking worried and muttering, "Where did they go? It's so dangerous here. Aren't we told not to leave without permission?"

Saul glanced at Mark out of the corner of his eye, but his attention was mostly on Monroe.

"...The seasons here are divided according to region. The place farthest from the center of the valley is spring, the dense forest you encountered when you came here is summer, and further ahead is autumn."

Hearing this, Ann couldn't help but chime in, "Isn't the very center of Elf Valley in winter? Does it snow there all the time?"

To everyone's surprise, Monroe gave Ann a strange look. "What winter? What snow? There are four seasons, and the last season is obviously the death season!"

An Yi paused, wondering if the one-eyed apprentice in front of him was teasing him.

Thor raised his hand, turned his head and asked Mark, who had already walked behind Monroe and was standing there blankly, seemingly lost in thought.

"Mark, don't you even know what winter is?"

Mark, standing behind Monroe, was momentarily stunned, as if only then realizing that he was about to bump into Monroe's back, and quickly took a step back.

He rubbed his temples and muttered, "I know, the snow season, winter, the terminology varies from place to place, but it's... a very cold period when a kind of white crystalline substance falls."

Mark's explanation only made Saul realize that he was also seriously ill.

"Are both of them a little confused about winter?" Thor thought to himself, then made a gesture to signal the four consciousnesses not to interrupt.

He wants to observe these people through future interactions to see what other aspects of their understanding have been blurred.

The blurred area is likely the key to leaving the Elf Valley.

Although Thor's purpose in coming here was not to save people, he needed to find something in the Forest of Seasons that was very important to him and could save his future life.

Unfortunately, this diary entry contains no clues.

Next, everyone must search for a way out of the valley while simultaneously searching for that important item.

"So, Monroe, is the very center of the valley the Death Season? What does it look like?"

Monroe didn't seem to grasp the situation after Mark's explanation. He said matter-of-factly, "What happened outside? You don't even know that? The Dead Season is a season where nothing exists, a season where time seems to stand still! And it's also the season when we're most vulnerable to attacks from elves."

Mark lowered his hand; the bridge of his nose was red from pinching it.

"The palace I just mentioned is located at the juncture of autumn and the dead season. The boundaries of the seasons here can fluctuate by several hundred meters. When autumn expands, there is more food, but the corresponding danger also increases."

Monroe nodded repeatedly. "My eye was attacked while I was eating a mushroom. The mushroom attacked me!"

He looked indignant. "Then I just forced myself to eat that mushroom!"

(End of this chapter)