"I was clearly scratching the [Mask], how could I also..."
"See a ghost?!!"
The tall elder was overwhelmed with shock and terror, as a terrifying suspicion burst into his mind.
The survival instinct honed over decades of living on the edge erupted at this moment. He fiercely bit down, and half of his scarlet tongue, mixed with shredded meat, spewed from his mouth.
"Sss——!"
The searing pain of his tongue exploding, mixed with the rusty taste of fresh blood, filled his mouth like a red-hot iron spike stabbing into his brain, forcibly tearing open a sliver of clarity in the mire of spiritual erosion.
In the less than a tenth of a second at the brink of life and death, the tall elder's eyes bulged furiously as he forcibly twisted his neck.
He managed to move just an inch away!
A deathly gleam flashed past his neck, and a straight line of blood appeared on his skin instantly.
"Slash---!!!"
