[Disciples]... or rather, [Apostles], were born as synonyms for calamity.
As long as they existed, they were disasters.
The reason the Shan Hai Realm had become what it was today was closely tied to a Reserve Disciple. As Pure Conceptual Incarnations born from contracts with the [Door], they had more than enough reason to be proud.
Just as "William" had said before, do not lump the things they imagined together with an existence like him. As a messenger who spread the [Tide], he possessed an absolute inherent dominance over those Anomalies.
Those rampaging "non-human entities" outside had already been affected by the Tide, which was why they had submitted to the summons of an [Apostle]... even if it was only a [Reserve Apostle].
Proud as [Apostles] were, they actually disdained invading others' consciousness, just as humans would not take an interest in food hidden away by an ant. They had little interest in something so beneath them.
But when an ant possessed human intelligence and could use human tools, humans would naturally pay it far more attention... especially when there was an unseen pull emanating from it, as if deliberately guiding them.
...But after delving deep into the other party's consciousness, it suddenly realized that it seemed to have done something unbelievably foolish.
Occupying another's consciousness was quite easy for it. With its enormous mass, once it invaded, it could completely occupy the other party's mental space and thoroughly take control of all their secrets from the Soul Level.
...But... what was this place?
Looking up at the scene before it, the formless thing that had dispersed its physical form rarely showed a trace of confusion.
Void, empty, brilliant... the other party's Sea of Consciousness was like an endless Vast Starry Sky, so immense it was almost unimaginable.
There was