Seeing with Your Eyes (Bonus Chapter for 10,000 Reward)

Fear Toxin was a chemical agent Scarecrow Crane had created using everything he had learned in his life. Drawing on his expertise in psychology, he had continuously studied the fears lurking deep within people’s hearts.

With his immense talent, he had finally created this toxin that could amplify fear. This strange gas was impossible to guard against and seeped everywhere, making Scarecrow a truly dangerous presence.

However, after Batman modified it, Fear Toxin had clearly gained a wider range of uses. Not only had it become the key to defeating General Zod and the Kryptonian army before, but it had also become one of Zhang Ye’s hidden trump cards.

Its effects might not have been the best, but as a concealed weapon, as long as it was used at the right time, it could achieve remarkable results every time.

Just like now. With all the villagers under Baron Mordo’s magical control, Fear Toxin’s effects could be unleashed to their fullest.

While Baron Mordo’s spell controlled their minds, Fear Toxin would awaken the deepest fears within them. No magic could stop that outcome.

At the same time, this emotion born from within would cast a new veil over the magically controlled minds.

That veil was called—fear.

It was like injecting a virus into a programmed computer. These puppets, who had been controlled by Baron Mordo’s spells and acted according to preset instructions, instantly crashed under the effects of Fear Toxin.

The mental magic lost control in an instant, and the villagers lost consciousness as well.

The bad news was that under the influence of the magic and the gas, these innocent people would sink into nightmares. During that time, they would be trapped in an endless cycle of nightmares.

But there was good news too. At least they no longer had to watch, from a first-person perspective and in trembling terror, as something else controlled their bodies.

And when they awoke from their nightmares, they would regain control of their bodies.

Zhang Ye swept his gaze around. Only after seeing that everyone had been affected by Fear Toxin did he nod silently. The facts proved that in a town filled with countless horrors and strange mysteries, using fear to defeat fear was an excellent method.

And now, Zhang Ye finally knew where the original comic inspiration for the first season of the American show WandaVision had come from.

Just as Scarlet Witch Wanda had kidnapped an entire town after studying the Darkhold, Baron Mordo of the wasteland was clearly the instigator behind this scene.

Moreover, whether their actions had been voluntary or forced, Agatha had coincidentally been involved in both. Judging from the outcome, the old witch was truly unlucky beyond measure.

Turning his gaze back to Agatha, Zhang Ye extended his palm again. This time, he planned to use more brute force alongside Fear Toxin to awaken the poor old woman.

As Baron Mordo’s source of magical power and the tool helping him weave the entire veil, Agatha was crucial. As long as she could break free from Baron Mordo’s control, their odds of killing him would rise dramatically.

But Baron Mordo was no fool. The reason he had placed such a massive weakness out in the open was not because his intelligence had declined. On the contrary, it was an open scheme he had deliberately arranged.

In his setup, those civilians were merely expendable consumables. The most important presence in the entire town was Agatha, exposed in plain sight.

If the intruders had enough ability to awaken Agatha’s mind, Baron Mordo would have more than enough time to close the gates and sink his castle into a dimension beneath reality, avoiding the invaders’ assault.

And if the intruders could not break his mental magic, then letting them in did not matter. No matter who they were, if they could not break his mental magic, they would be unable to shatter the defensive magic Agatha had woven for him.

On that basis alone, Baron Mordo would have been invincible. But clearly, he had not expected there to be beings in this world capable of forcibly breaking through the dimensions of reality.

Violent telepathy stirred monstrous waves in Agatha’s mental world. The sounds of surging tides roared past her ears, while her sightless, clouded eyes slowly regained their clarity.

"Welcome back, Agatha." Zhang Ye nodded slightly in greeting.

After a moment of panic, Agatha quickly came to her senses. She silently let out a breath and said, "I owe you one, sir."

"You don’t need to owe me—you can repay me now. I need your help fighting Baron Mordo, and I think that’s what you want to do most right now too, isn’t it?" Zhang Ye said flatly.

Agatha’s expression did not change much at his words. She merely shook her head. "I’m afraid that will be difficult. I’m no match for him, especially after he gained control of the Darkhold’s power. He is now an unbeatable existence."

"Are you sure?" Zhang Ye paused before continuing. "I know the magic in the Darkhold is powerful, but it shouldn’t be enough to make you this afraid, should it?"

"You don’t understand. The Darkhold isn’t merely a means of recording magic. It isn’t called the progenitor of Black Magic without reason. It is constantly creating darker, deeper Black Magic, and anyone will be devoured by that power."

Agatha shakily rose to her feet, then frowned as she looked toward the direction of Mordo’s castle.

"Everyone who reads the Darkhold gets a different result. It always gives its reader the most suitable Black Magic. If it doesn’t have any, then it fills the blank pages with forbidden knowledge again and creates a new Black Magic."

Zhang Ye listened silently to Agatha’s explanation. The Darkhold gave him a strong sense of déjà vu. In a sense, could this be understood as another version of making good people better and bad people worse?

Both amplified the darkness and negative emotions within one’s heart. Magic and spells themselves had no distinction between good and evil, so what difference was there between them and the Super Soldier Serum? Magic was simply more mysterious and unpredictable.

"This isn’t what you should be worried about. I’ll deal with Baron Mordo, and you need to help me find him." Zhang Ye waved a hand and stated his request.

After a moment of silence, Agatha let out a faint sigh.

"You shouldn’t have saved me. At least, not now. Mordo already knows what happened here. He has hidden in the cracks of reality, and we can’t find his trace. It’s like looking for a needle in the ocean."

"What if we could see him?" Zhang Ye suddenly asked.

"See him? That’s impossible."

Agatha felt that Zhang Ye was being a little too fanciful.

"You’re a wizard too. You should know what it means to hide within the cracks of reality. Mordo could be inside the shadow of any speck of dust right now. How could we possibly see him?"

"With our eyes."

Zhang Ye merely smiled slightly. With a wave of his hand, a green veil slowly drew apart, opening the door to a magical space that belonged solely to him.

At the same time, an enormous, incomparably bizarre eyeball appeared before Agatha.

(Thanks to Xiao Ye Zi Mie for the 10,000 reward, and also thanks to brothers like Immortal Youth and Reader 2017 for their rewards.)

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