"How am I supposed to answer that?" Stephen spread his hands. The Anti-Life Equation was indeed a terrifying and powerful force. No lifeform that yearned for freedom would want to face such power.
But who could have expected that the core driving force of the Anti-Life Equation was life's emotions?
If the laws of this universe defined the Life Equation as positive emotions and the Anti-Life Equation as Negative Emotions, then this had entered a field Stephen knew well.
After all, if anyone understood the power condensed from emotions best, then aside from Luke, it had to be mages like them, who dealt with Emotional Energy and struggled against it every day!
Although the threat of psionic power was less dangerous than the power of Dimensional Demon Gods, if one failed to scrutinize oneself, a mage practicing such power would gradually become increasingly extreme, stubborn, and obsessive over time. And it was difficult to tell whether that stubbornness was rational or the result of influence. Once one unknowingly entered a state of Psionic Erosion, there might not be any immediate problems, but at some point in the future, something terrible that no one wished to see might happen.
The collapse of one's beliefs could make a mage fall into darkness in an instant. If they continued sinking, the final outcome would be to face the Abyss. And creatures like humans could not possibly be without a Dark Side deep within their hearts.
Thus, the threshold for Kamar-Taj's mages to practice psionic power was to first familiarize themselves with its rules, determine the proportion of their own emotions and the amount of psionic power they could contain, and finally learn spells to scrutinize their own souls. Only after mastering those spells could they formally come into contact with psionic power and