Psychokinetic Eyeball Pulling

Chapter 118: Battle of the Mind

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Astrid wasn’t given a moment to think as she throttled her psychic mana to its maximum. Her shoulders trembled as she funnelled mana into her mind.

With the thought of Psych Domain, the matter blasted outward, then, their psychic mana met with each other.

If Astrid’s mana could be described as chaotic, and aggressive, then whatever monster was challenging her was on the calmer side–calculated, even.

It didn’t matter to her. She gnashed her teeth as Mental Redirection took effect, but strangely, the monster was only targeting a few people from her party.

The psychic mana was directed towards Astrid, Bellona, Leena, Calum, and Brett–but entirely ignored everyone else.

The monster, or whatever it was, managed to bypass Astrid’s barrier and attached itself to their minds. Instantly, Mental Redirection took effect as the thread of psychic mana was destroyed. Once, twice, thrice… all five times it worked, then it reached Leena.

Leena’s eyes turned unfocused, then her body vanished from existence. She wasn’t able to form an ounce of resistance as it dominated her mind. Astrid had failed as an intense heat boiled her insides.

Astrid, instead of detaching from the thread–followed it until her mind sucked into whatever was the cause of the forced teleportation. She entered the Mind Domain of the monster.

Instead of a blank world like Astrid’s was at the beginning of every Mind Domain, she was right back in the jungle. It was as if she hadn’t moved a single step, but she instinctively knew that she was no longer in the real world.

At the edge of her Psych Domain’s vision, a tendril shot towards her.

Astrid connected to the matter within her body and instantly felt the increase in power from the passive buffs of her skills within an illusion. She dug her feet into the ground and blasted to the side.

Stop.

Astrid slammed her palm against the nearby tree to halt her movement, but more tendrils moved against her like metal whips.

Duck.

Astrid bent her knees as the tendril made of metallic jungle vines whipped the tree. Contacting it, a section of the tree was entirely erased at the strength of the hit.

Astrid was about to move again, when the floor vanished. She was almost sent free-falling through the air but she caught herself with Levitation.

Not given a moment's rest, a vine cracked against her Mind Barrier and sent her hurtling through the air as the surrounding scenery changed within milliseconds.

Her back struck a concrete wall, the momentum couldn’t stop her as she continued through another. A dull throbbing pain emitted from her void eye as she halted her body in mid-air.

Taking in her surroundings, she was in a city with floating rubble. The architecture was almost alien, at least to her it was. Water had sprouted from seemingly nowhere, as if there was a crack in space where the water was falling from. The buildings were fragmented and left floating centimeters away from each other. It was like they were only being held together by a mystical thread.

Astrid only had a second before a piece of psychically enhanced rubble fired at her like a cannonball.

[Crashing] the air, Astrid’s eyes widened as the broken piece of wall remained intact.

With a crack, it smashed against her barrier. Cracks instantly formed, only for the shield to shatter moments later. The piece of rubble throttled against her arm, the skin was flattened, then the sound of hardened rubble against metal rang out.

Astrid spun and without hesitation moved to the side as another swooshed past her. Raising her barrier, she began dodging the enhanced rubble.

Her training right from the beginning instinctively took effect. She had long learned to dodge projectiles with her eyes closed with the help of Leena. With her extra Intelligence and powers, it was a lot easier to dodge–despite them moving far faster than Leena's throwing.

Astrid attempted to move her arm, but the muscles seemed to be too badly damaged. It swung limply in the air, as her hastily made barrier shattered once more.

The rubble was like a homing missile as it struck her loose arm again. Astrid seethed at the pain as blood dripped down to the floor.

She didn’t know how to get out.

Even with scouring far and wide with her Psych Domain Skill, there was no enemy in sight. As if… it wasn’t even in the location at all.

For the first time, Astrid panicked.

The incoming rubble was fast. Too fast. To the point she couldn’t think straight.

There was only one thing to do. She needed to conjure up an attack that was capable of destroying the rubble. To destroy everything.

With her strongest attack in mind, she switched her vision to dark matter. Astrid’s world turned to nothing but darkened purple and pitch black specs.

She also discovered something new as she dodged another incoming missile. An enlarged spot of dark matter–or energy, was congregated in a single spot.

Astrid didn’t understand what it was, but it felt like something was… watching her. Maybe it was from her psychic mana, or just a suspicion of being watched, but she didn’t like it. Even more than that, it gave her a target to unleash her anger upon.

With her strongest attack in mind, she formed the matter around the amalgamation of psychic matter.

The heaviness of the dark matter weighed on her mind, especially since she had to split her attention to dodging. It was more difficult than she thought, but she grit her teeth and got on with it. There was no other choice.

To survive–she had to win.

However, the moment she was about to [Crash] it, the awe inspiring black hole of destruction fizzled out into nothing.

It was like the other psychic had cancelled her attack somehow. And it seemed she had angered it.

The buildings surrounding her exploded into the air. The water and flowers were torn asunder as they transformed into weapons that targeted her life. Blades of water were created, the flowers changed into long vines and thorns; so sharp that they practically glistened under the light.

The building walls now separated, shot towards her.

Astrid ducked, then exploded into the air with Levitation. She controlled the matter within her body as she swooped, dodged, and tumbled through the air.

Everything within the world threatened to tear her apart, or fill her body with holes. Yet, that cluster of psychic energy didn’t leave. It was like it was suspended there, unable to move.

As Astrid flew through the air and dodged everything, her mind was working overtime to think of something. Anything. A new attack to destroy that space.

Just as she was turning a corner, her enemy managed to mask a boulder as it shot through her barrier and blasted into her chest. She was sent smashing through the buildings, until she caught herself and immediately dodged to the side as the building groaned to life.

Eyes appeared within the windows. Astrid snarled.

She connected to them, and with a mighty pull, they were torn from the sockets that her enemy had created.

Your obsession has reached 79/100

I’ve got it. Astrid spat out a mouthful of blood and swallowed a high grade potion.

If not for her defences, she would have been dead from the first impact. However, even with her defences, matter altered body, and rapidly forming Mind Barriers–Astrid couldn’t handle the attacks for much longer.

A plan formed in her mind as she controlled the dark matter and amassed it within her palm. Her mind flashed back to the attack she created within the Voidbent dungeon. She had created the matter like a drill, but she couldn’t do that here. Instead, she formed it within her palm.

The dark matter spiralled, but instead of a drill–it was a sphere.

Sometimes she would lose control of it for a second as miniature spikes emerged from the smoothed circle, only for it to return to its original form with increased focus.

Her mana container was emptying at a tremendous pace, but she kept the mana funnelling into her hand no matter what. The air distorted into a purple haze around her hand as the spiralling sphere reached a monumental speed.

The psychic entity seemed to realise the power within her hand as it doubled its efforts. The land was destroyed, rebuilt, then thrown at Astrid without remorse.

Astrid wiped the blood that dripped from her nose as she refused to move. She wasn’t sure why, but her lips upturned as the entire world crashed into her body.

Her vision turned dark, then purple. She hadn’t been crushed, instead, the sphere in her palm grew. She slammed it forward as the debris, and everything else was simply erased to dust.

She increased her movement and hurled herself to the cluster of psychic energy.

But, the monster wouldn’t let her.

More debris was fired at her, she dodged most of it, but she was too close, and they were too fast.

She noticed that she couldn’t dodge the last one before she shot her new Skill forward. She grit her teeth as her mana was shattered. Astrid braced herself. She formed another Mind Barrier instantly, but it only managed to slow the projectile slightly.

With a crack, the rock smashed into her arm Spittle and blood ejected from her mouth as it sent her careening through the air. Time seemed to slow as she languidly aimed her palm toward the cluster of energy.

Just as she was about to let the spiralling ball of death go, her mother appeared in front of the energy. Her smile, her smooth brunette hair, and the movement of her dress was all so lifelike.

It was as if she was here, right in front of her. She knew that smile anywhere. It was a smile filled with warmth.. And love.

Yet it only filled Astrid with a primal rage. She screamed so hard that her lungs threatened to explode as she released the ball of destruction.

The spiralling sphere was ejected forward at a blinding pace. It was far faster than the eye could even comprehend as Astrid lost sight of it in a mere millisecond.

The only thing she managed to see was the remnant smile of her mother as her body was obliterated into fragments of illusions.

The smile urged her forward. Something was telling her that it wasn’t over.

Astrid mustered the rest of her strength and blasted forward. Just as the sphere obliterated the space, she witnessed the sight on the other side.

Daniel and the others were standing around her body in worry. Blood dripped from her arms, and face.

But the space was closing. Slow, but it was speeding up the closer she neared it. The psychic mana in her surroundings was desperate, all the attacks ended as it focused on solely patching up the tear in space.

I will make it.

You can do it Astrid!

Y̶̠̲̔̏̀o̶̩̓̃̑u̷̮͌ ̷̣͕̪̪̓͐̓̋ẅ̷̜̳͓́̈́i̴̧̬̲͂̚ͅl̴̡̙̿l̶͈̟̽͂̄̈́ ̴̫͆m̸̙̥͈̬͌á̵̯͔̬k̸̞͂̊e̸͔̩̦̜̓̃̽ ̵̟̱̣̝̈́ī̵̠̗̖t̴̛͉͌̈͆,̵̪̈́̾̈́̒ ̷̰̪̆̽Ạ̷̐̐̒s̸̤̲̦̃̔t̵̖̅͗ŕ̷̙̫͙̜i̷͈̲͚̺̊͋̚ḍ̵̓͜.̴̭̹͝ ̷̙̤͔̅̈́̌̏G̶̣̠̐o̷̰̒ ̷̣̀̆A̵̛͎͈͎͕͆͋s̵̡̺͆ͅţ̵̧̝̮̀̽r̸̩͚͊̑̏̕i̷̻̘͓̠̽́ḓ̶̞̰̝̽̌͝!̶̳̫̒̊͐͘

Astrid screamed as the space was closing faster than she expected. The wide chasm was now only the size of a football.

She reached her hand forward. The matter in her body surged as she reached the apex of what she was capable of. Her muscles broke down, but she urged them to hold on.

Astrid’s eyes turned crazy as she watched her real body scream just like she was doing now.

With the exit now merely the size of an apple, she could feel her heart in her throat, she was almost there.