Magicians never make wishes

Chapter 108 The Stone Cat's Admonition

Where does this stone cat want to take me?

Ronan was somewhat confused and turned his gaze to the man in black.

The man in black robes was quite responsible for his duties, and said with a smile, "He was lucky enough to be chosen by the mentor. When he comes back in a while, his strength will probably surpass yours."

However, he was facing the other people the whole time while explaining, and he didn't even glance at Ronan.

Ronan felt that his performance made his claims seem unbelievable.

But unfortunately, the situation was beyond his control, and he couldn't do anything effective to resist. He could only obediently follow the stone cat toward the gaping maw of the bone dragon.

Before entering the valley, Ronan looked back at the top of the stone pillar on his right.

There was still nothing there, and no spiritual power could detect any presence.

"Sir, where are we going?"

Ronan thought for a moment and decided to ask the strange stone cat.

This stone cat statue looks quite large when it's on the stone pillar, but when you actually stand in front of it, it looks smaller.

Its entire body is made of the same material as the stone pillars on both sides of the valley entrance, and its color is grayish-white, while its two cat's eyes are extremely black.

It didn't answer Ronan's question. Instead, it turned and stopped, its dark cat eyes staring at him like an abyss, and asked, "Kid, your mental strength is pretty good. Did you use some kind of alchemical potion to enhance it?"

Ronan, being stared at like that, suddenly felt an urge to tell everything.

But then, his soul, like a towering, unyielding building, instantly brought him back to his senses.

"No, sir," Ronan said sincerely. "The most expensive potion I've ever used is a basic healing potion."

The stone cat stared at him for a long time, seemingly unable to detect any sign of lying, then turned and said with a look of disgust, "Poor wretch—"

Ronan struggled to control the twitching corners of his mouth and continued, "Your Excellency, did you choose me because of my mental strength?"

"Indeed, Lord Grek has applied for priority access to the new students. His research requires a certain level of mental strength from the relevant personnel."

The stone cat waved its hand impatiently, as if it had said the same thing many times before.

Ronan wanted to ask more questions, but the stone cat interrupted him.

We've arrived.

Ronan looked up at the huge white building in front of him, slightly stunned.

The overall material texture of this building looks somewhat like—

He carefully sensed it with his mental domain and was startled to find that the entire building was constructed from the remains of unknown creatures.

"This is Lord Grek's research institute. Don't look around inside. Put away your outward spiritual energy," the stone cat warned.

It actually knew that it had expanded into the mental realm.

However, Ronan immediately realized that the other party could directly sense the intensity of his mental power, which clearly indicated that they were particularly skilled in this area.

So he immediately listened to the advice and did as instructed, withdrawing his mental domain.

Upon entering, the dimly lit hall was filled with a large number of messy specimen culture jars, as well as all sorts of strange things that were visible but indescribable.

Only a narrow and winding passage was left for people to pass through.

Ronan followed behind the stone cat, trying his best not to bump into anything, and walked with great difficulty.

After walking for a while, the person and the cat finally crossed the area and arrived at a relatively spacious room.

"Lord Grek, the new sheep have arrived."

The stone cat's report immediately gave Ronan a bad feeling.

Considering that he had been forcibly abducted here—

He immediately activated his mental domain, his magic ready to be unleashed.

however.

After he completed this series of subconscious reactions, he found himself suddenly plunged into darkness, his mental realm completely silent.

The surrounding sounds remained unchanged, indicating that the location had not changed, but rather that the individual had lost sight and mental perception.

Not only that, he also discovered that his hearing was slowly deteriorating.

Immediately afterwards, my hands and feet felt like lead, becoming increasingly heavy and I could no longer feel anything.

What happened?!

Ronan had never encountered such a situation before, and he was inevitably flustered.

He tried his best to mobilize his mental energy, but to no avail.

If this continues, he will have no choice but to escape back to the temple space.

When he tried to open the panel to use the [Descent] power, he discovered something even more chilling: the panel did not appear.

How—is that possible?!

A sudden, inexplicable sense of disorientation shot straight to the top of his head, but Ronan's mind calmed down instead.

This sense of dislocation feels familiar.

He immediately realized that things as high-level as divine power and the control panel couldn't just disappear for no reason.

More likely, he was pulled into a hallucination.

He had once experienced the same inexplicable sense of disorientation in the underground plaza passageway, where the polluter's disguise had also caused him to feel this way.

In an instant, he immediately cast the least powerful "Mental Fear".

The target of the spell was himself!

Boom!

Ronan seemed to hear the sound of ocean waves crashing against the cliff face.

The "psychological fear" not only did not cause him any substantial harm, but it also freed his consciousness from the space created by the hallucination.

Swish.

Brightness returned to my vision, and all my senses of sight, hearing, and touch returned.

Even the perception and feedback in the mental realm have returned to normal.

Ronan found himself lying on a bed that resembled an operating table.

The area was surrounded by various unidentifiable tools and medicines.

Beside him stood a male and a female staff member dressed in white magic robes.

There was a man and a woman. The man was mature and tall, around forty years old.

The woman was very young, probably the same age as Ronan.

Ronan assumed the two were staff members mainly because he saw the observation log the girl was holding.

"That's really surprising."

The middle-aged man couldn't help but clap his hands, saying, "To think of casting mental magic on oneself to create stimulation and thus bring consciousness back—"

"You are the most talented freshman I have ever seen."

The middle-aged man praised Ronan highly.

Ronan stood there stunned for a moment before he came to his senses.

It turns out that from the moment he first opened up his mental domain, he had automatically entered into Lord Grek's experiment.

Ronan hadn't expected the other person's hallucination to be so real.

Before I could even react, I was plunged into a hallucinatory space.

Fortunately, illusions cannot simulate the panel and divinity.

It was this sense of disorientation that made him realize something was wrong, and he quickly came up with a solution.

After reflecting on his own actions, Ronan concluded that the culprit that had led him to explore the realm of the spiritual was the stone statue cat.

If it hadn't said those things that were easy to misunderstand, would it have been able to react so quickly?

He looked around but didn't see the stone cat. He guessed that it must have gone back to guard the gate.

Right now, dealing with Lord Grek is more important than dealing with the stone cat.

"Lord Grek, what do you want me to do?" Ronan asked knowingly.

Grek laughed: "Participate in my research, oh, in fact, you've already participated."