The bloody scene was frightening to watch. Anya was really frightened now. She was worried that Cesare would kill her like this but there was nothing she could do about it. The girl was trembling helplessly but she couldn't even lift her arms. Exhausted.
She tried hard to continue calling Cesare's name to bring him back to consciousness, but her voice was covered up by the roar of the monster not far away.
The monster suddenly raised its head, blood flowed out from the corners of its mouth, and shouted angrily at the sky regardless of everything.
"Claudius...!!!" His voice was full of anger, while he roared and tore more mycelium and flesh from his body.
Soon you could see the pale bones exposed in the air, and it continued to roar, as if it could see something that Anya couldn't see.
"You stubborn old liar! I won't be fooled by you again!!!"
The golden light in the monster's eyes gradually dimmed, and the voice became much clearer than before. You could even vaguely hear the familiar tone from Cesare.
But before Anya could figure out whether it was a good thing or not, the crazy monster ran towards the girl again and attacked.
The hyphae on its body have been reduced a lot due to constant self-torture, and it has gradually taken on a human form, but its movements have become very uncoordinated.
Each limb seemed to be executing its own order, and each joint was twisting in different directions, charging towards Anya like a blind lion.
Its speed was still very fast. In just a blink of an eye, it reached in front of Anya with its right paw, sharp as a knife, eager to dig out Anya's eyes.
But at the critical moment, the monster's own left paw suddenly pressed the wrist of the right paw, as if the two arms were controlled by two different souls, refuting each other.
The left arm also suddenly exerted force at this time, and a crisp sound of bone breaking was heard in an instant.
The right claw that wanted to hurt Anya drooped weakly, the joints bent at impossible angles, and the entire arm bones were broken in an instant.
However, when Cesare dragged his uncontrollable body back to the open space, mycelium surged onto the broken arm again to repair the break, making the arm active again.
The girl was as helpless as a bird with injured wings. She could only watch helplessly as Cesare struggled back and forth between trying to harm himself and self-mutilation.
He kept shouting Claudius's name, and every time he roared with a vicious tone.
But looking around, there are no outsiders at all. Is the circus leader really still alive? Anya couldn't figure it out, let alone what was happening in the world in Cesare's eyes.
The hyphae on the monster's body became less and less under the ruthless self-mutilation, and it gradually began to take on a human form from its previous beastly appearance.
The torn hyphae tried to crawl towards Cesare's body again, but were then cruelly torn off, including the skin and flesh.
"I... don't need... you liar! I need help!" Cesare bit his arm with his fangs and pulled hard in the direction of his shoulder. A layer of bloody hyphae was roughly peeled off from his arm.
The skin and flesh were bitten into the mouth and chewed angrily into a pulp, then spit out next to it.
It stared ferociously into the air, its ears raised as if it was listening to someone speaking, and then sternly retorted.
"Don't act like you know me very well! My sister is not here at all... How long are you going to keep lying to me like this!?"
Cesare turned around in the clearing he destroyed, as if something invisible to Anya was surrounding him, and Cesare was also staring at that thing, communicating with it and at the same time Against it.
"I killed you once Claudius!"
Cesare roared at his hallucination, and then continued to torture his skin with pulling and biting, until the cloak that he wore before and was now wrapped in mycelium was completely removed by him in a bloody way. dug it out.
Biting his ten fingers, he wiped off the flesh and blood made of mycelium, and exposed the ten silver rings to shine in the moonlight again.
"I can also..." Cesare choked as he spoke, not knowing who he was speaking to.
More hyphae spread from the depths of the body surface, and Cesare could only lower his voice temporarily and focus on tearing at his own skin.
The amplitude is getting bigger and bigger, and it is becoming more and more cruel to his body. The hyphae wrapped around him even make a "hissing" sound, as if screaming in panic.
Some hyphae twisted into vines and spread out from Cesare's body, binding Cesare's hands in an attempt to stop him from hurting himself.
But in just a few moments, the vines were torn off and withered.
Gradually, the speed at which he peeled off the hyphae from his body far exceeded the speed at which the hyphae reproduced. However, in the process, his body almost turned into a "skeleton" with all the organs exposed. .
But at the same time, Cesare's consciousness became clearer and clearer.
The remaining hyphae in the body tried desperately to repair the incomplete wounds caused by Cesare's self-abuse, but could no longer do their best to suppress Cesare's will to constantly struggle.
Only at this moment, the hyphae caused by the infection are not so much controlling Cesare as they are desperately busy saving him.
In other words, they are desperately trying to save themselves in order to avoid the death of their host.
Even so, Cesare still gritted his teeth ferociously and refused to give up. He was fighting against the hyphae and even against the phantoms in his mind. He turned the pain into more anger and spoke to the air. He continued to roar out what he just said.
"I can kill you again! Claudius! You villain deserves to die. Now shut up!"
Naturally, Anya could not imagine what kind of pain Cesare was suffering at this time, and she completely understood what an impossible thing he was accomplishing.
She tried her best but didn’t know how to help Cesare at this time. Anya was very scared, afraid that Cesare would not be able to persist, but at the same time she did not want to see Cesare covered by those mycelium again and lost himself...
The girl could not see the thing floating in the air, nor could she see that the evil devil was appearing repeatedly in all directions, chattering endlessly in Cesare's mind.
He sometimes appeared in front of Cesare, and sometimes appeared behind him out of thin air. The only thing that remained unchanged was his squinting eyes and the deformed harelip looming under the scarf.
Captain Claudius's voice echoed in Cesare's mind, and the suffocation of breathing was far greater than the torture caused by self-mutilation.
"Why are you doing this, young master? I told you, I'm here to help you."
The man wearing a turban and grinning screamed and grinned in Cesare's hallucination. No matter how hard Cesare tried, he could not hurt him at all. He was just a shadow, a shadow that Cesare could not touch.
But Cesare seemed to have found a way to deal with him, even if it didn't sound or execute very well.
The worst case scenario is that as long as he dies...these hyphae will naturally die without their host, and along with these extremely annoying hallucinations, none of them will be left behind, they will all be buried together.
"You'd better help yourself!" Cesare was determined to fight all illusions to the death.
