The Footprint of the God of the Land became obscured by a curtain of darkness. The all-encompassing curtain seemed to stretch endlessly in every direction, blotting out the sky and plunging the land into a bleak and desolate state devoid of any illumination.

Blind — Balzac Ludbeth’s Signature — initially robbed those affected of their sight, as its name suggested. No matter where they looked, those affected by Blind were plunged into an endless darkness, unable to see themselves or anyone else around them.

It was a Signature with absolute power in this kind of war, but it was true that the spell was absurdly simple. However, Blind did not simply rob the targets of their vision. Instead, “sight” was only the sense that Blind took away. The longer one remained inside Blind, the more obscure their other senses would become. The hearing came after sight, and the targets would become deaf. Next was the sense of smell and then touch. Even if you cut yourself with a knife, you would fail to feel the pain.

But it didn’t end there. After losing one’s sight, hearing, smell, and touch, one would lose their sense of spirit, which could be called the sixth sense. Regardless of whether they were wizards, knights, or warriors, they would no longer be able to sense mana.

Even then, after having extorted all five senses, except taste, as well as one’s sense of spirit, Blind’s effects would not lessen. Slowly, very slowly, Blind would rob its targets of their consciousness. In complete darkness, where you could feel nothing except taste, they would even end up losing a sense of self.

It was purposely set up in this way as a gradual extortion of senses because it was impossible to rob someone of all their senses all at once, even if Blind was a Signature of an Archwizard. The veil of darkness was a darkness created by Balzac’s magic, and it was similar to a type of poison. Simply being inside the curtain would intoxicate someone, and the effects of the poison would only get stronger...