Swallowing the Stars: My Comprehension is Beyond the Heavens!

Chapter 56 Killing the Phantom Butterfly

Not far from the cathedral, on a tall building, a squad of martial artists was resting.

One of the young men, with dyed red hair, was looking around with binoculars for a suitable monster.

Suddenly, he saw the phantom butterflies fluttering in the cathedral and exclaimed in surprise.

"Boss, look!"

"It's a phantom butterfly!!!"

This martial arts team consists of six people.

The leader was a middle-aged man with a thick beard, tall and strong, and his weapon was a huge warhammer.

The captain and the other team members were surprised to hear the red-haired youth's words. They quickly grabbed their binoculars, looked towards the church, and asked:

"Liu Fa, are you sure you're not mistaken?"

The red-haired youth exclaimed excitedly, "I'm absolutely not mistaken! That's definitely a Phantom Butterfly! And judging by its size, it's a Phantom Butterfly that has reached the Beast General level!"

"It really is a phantom butterfly!"

As they were talking, the other team members also saw the phantom butterflies fluttering about, and they all shouted out in excitement and astonishment!

"Holy crap! We're incredibly lucky today! We actually ran into a Phantom Butterfly here!"

"This is a rare monster that could sell for over a billion!"

"Captain! Let's move out now! If we take down the Phantom Butterfly, we won't need to come to the wilderness for the rest of the year and next!"

Team leader Wu Zhuang was also very excited, but he was calmer than his teammates. He said:

"Phantom Butterflies are not easy to hunt. They are incredibly fast, and this one is a Beast General level. If it flies at full speed, even a beginner War God might not be able to catch up!"

The red-haired youth, Liu Fa, suddenly lit up and suggested, "Captain, we can snipe them!"

Wu Zhuang shook his head and said:

"You might not know this, but the Phantom Butterfly is a monster skilled in mental power. It possesses an invisible mental barrier that can withstand sniper rifle bullets. If a sniper rifle fails to kill it in one shot, the Phantom Butterfly will immediately flee!"

Liu Fa blinked, looking bewildered. "What do we do now? We can't just watch the Phantom Butterfly get away, can we?"

Just as Wu Zhuang was about to say something, Geng Liang, the sniper in the team, suddenly spoke up:

"Captain, we've spotted two martial artists less than 200 meters from the cathedral. Judging from their appearance, they seem to be heading for the Phantom Butterfly as well!"

Wu Zhuang picked up the binoculars and, following Geng Liang's directions, looked toward the two martial artists. He saw that the two martial artists were standing still, motionless, as if they had become statues.

These two were Luo Xia and Luo Feng, who had been trapped in the illusionary butterfly's illusion.

Frowning slightly, Wu Zhuang said, "These two seem to have been subjected to a mental attack by the Phantom Butterfly..."

"A phantom butterfly's mental attack?"

"As a monster skilled in mental power, the Phantom Butterfly is extremely adept at creating illusions and dreamscapes. Legend has it that even powerful mentalists struggle to distinguish the illusions it creates from reality!"

"Is it that scary? Even from over a hundred meters away, we can be affected by the Phantom Butterfly's mental attacks. How are we supposed to catch this monster?!"

Wu Zhuang frowned in thought, and said:

"Generally speaking, only attacks from a psychic have an 80% chance of success in hunting monsters like the Phantom Butterfly. Unfortunately, we don't have a psychic in our team."

Just then, Geng Liang, who had been watching Luo Xia and Luo Feng closely, suddenly said, "Captain, those two martial artists have regained consciousness!"

The teammate who had been watching the Phantom Butterfly closely shouted, "Captain! Look, the Phantom Butterfly is trying to escape!"

Upon hearing this, Wu Zhuang became extremely anxious and picked up his binoculars to look at the location of the phantom butterfly.

He wanted to see where the Phantom Butterfly would fly, so that perhaps his team could hunt it down later!

call out--

However, right before Wu Zhuang and the others' eyes, the phantom butterfly that flew away like a fleeting shadow was suddenly struck by another streak of light in mid-air.

next second.

Amid Wu Zhuang and the others' astonishment, the phantom butterfly's form froze in mid-air before plummeting down!

"What happened?!"

"Why did the Phantom Butterfly fall down?"

While the team members were filled with doubt and uncertainty, Wu Zhuang's expression became serious. As a senior warrior, he could vaguely see what had hit the Phantom Butterfly—it looked like a 9-series throwing knife!

If he wasn't mistaken, this means that the one who struck the Phantom Butterfly must have been a psychic!

The opponent's throwing knives were extremely fast and had astonishing attack power!

The Phantom Butterfly's mental barrier failed to withstand the flying knife attack and was directly pierced through its body!

This mentalist is extremely powerful!

"Captain! Those two martial artists flew towards the direction where the Phantom Butterfly fell!"

"My God! They're actually psychic cultivators!"

"Could it be that they just hit the Phantom Butterfly?!"

Seeing Luo Xia and Luo Feng flying towards the Phantom Butterfly while standing on their shields, the team members exclaimed in surprise.

These two martial artists who were attacked by the Phantom Butterfly's mental attacks were actually mental masters!

Liu Fa watched enviously as Luo Xia and Luo Feng flew towards the spot where the Phantom Butterfly had fallen. That was a rare monster worth over a billion!

He asked Captain Wu Zhuang:

"Captain, what do we do now? Are we just going to watch those two psychic masters take the Phantom Butterfly?"

Wu Zhuang glared at Liu Fa and said, "Are we not going to watch? Are we going to steal it? Those are two psychic masters! One of them could wipe out our entire team!"

The other team members frowned upon hearing this.

They were really unwilling to accept it.

That's a phantom butterfly!

However, the opponent was a mentalist, someone they couldn't possibly contend with.

If their team had a War God-level expert, they could openly rob them.

But their strongest captain is only a high-level warrior, so they wouldn't dare to mess with a mentalist!

"That's a phantom butterfly!"

Another team member said, unwilling to give up.

"So what if it's a phantom butterfly? Do we even have the chance to get it?"

Wu Zhuang glared at his teammates.

"Alright, if you don't want to die, stop your crazy ideas! Psychic masters are not people we can mess with! Especially two of them!"

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"Big brother! That phantom butterfly is incredibly fast! We almost let it escape!"

As Luo Xia put the Phantom Butterfly into his backpack, he smiled and said to Luo Feng beside him.

After they escaped the illusion, they wanted to attack the Phantom Butterfly.

However, seeing that things were not going well, the Phantom Butterfly immediately created an illusion the moment Luo Xia and Luo Feng woke up, surrounding them with the monster illusions it had created!

The monster illusions seemed to be monsters that the Phantom Butterfly had encountered, including beast generals, beast soldiers, and even lords. They were densely packed, lifelike, and even their auras were very realistic!

Fortunately, Luo Xia and Luo Feng possessed strong mental power, and they broke through the monster illusions the moment they attacked.

Immediately afterwards, they discovered that the phantom butterflies had escaped!

Its speed was incredibly fast, like a streak of light, and it flew hundreds of meters away in an instant!

Rorschach reacted immediately and used his throwing knives to attack.

He was awake this time and was not affected by the Phantom Butterfly's mental attack, so the throwing knife was unaffected.

A throwing knife attack that reaches the level of an intermediate-level War God is something the Phantom Butterfly simply cannot withstand.

The throwing knife pierced through the Phantom Butterfly's mental barrier as easily as if it were paper, then precisely pierced its body, taking its life!

Luo Feng said with lingering fear:

"I never imagined that even though we were over a hundred meters away, we would still fall into its trap and be drawn into its illusion. If we weren't all mental cultivators with sufficiently strong mental power, we probably wouldn't have been able to escape!"

"Yeah, this thing seems to be able to read our minds... Its illusions are created based on the other person's thoughts, they're incredibly realistic, it's terrifying!"

If the Phantom Butterfly hadn't had limited capacity to read thoughts and hadn't made mistakes in the information, allowing Luo Xia to realize something was wrong over the phone, Luo Xia might have truly become lost in that familiar room.

Luo Feng might also be immersed in that scorching evening.

That was a very warm memory from his childhood.

Luo Feng still remembers that his mother brought him an ice pop after returning from the market that day; it was icy cold.

He can still recall the sweetness and coolness that popsicle brought him.

As the two brothers were talking, they suddenly felt a sense of being watched. They exchanged a glance and frowned secretly.

"Brother, it seems like someone is watching us from the shadows."

"You felt it too?"

"Hmm, it seems the enemy witnessed our hunt for the Phantom Butterflies. What do we do now?"

"They haven't made a move yet, probably because they haven't decided whether to take it or not. This Phantom Butterfly is too precious; let's leave now to avoid conflict."

"it is good."

After exchanging a few words, the two brothers immediately hid in the surrounding streets and alleys. Using the buildings as cover, they quickly evacuated from the vicinity of the cathedral.

On the other side, Wu Zhuang and his group felt a sense of loss upon seeing Luo Xia and Luo Feng disappear, but also a faint sense of relief.

Fortunately, no conflict occurred.

Otherwise, if they cannot suppress their desires and fight against Rorschach and his group, some of them may die.

But who are those two mentalists?

Two such rare mentalists have appeared at once, and they're even teaming up.

That really piques my curiosity.

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