She snapped her gaze toward Shen Yi, her eyes filled with disbelief and fierce opposition.
"Shen Yi! Do you know what you're saying?"
"In Beyond the World, allowing this Black Fog to erode someone, even if it is only residue, is practically the same as siding with the Black Fog!"
"This is the consensus and bottom line of all Authority Holders!"
Alvin was also slightly shaken. The streams of data light across his body flickered wildly, carrying waves of solemnity and confusion.
Even Wen Ke'er herself widened her eyes, unable to believe Shen Yi would say such a thing.
As though he could not feel the sudden tension and opposition rising around him, Shen Yi continued calmly, as if he were analyzing an objective phenomenon.
"Her current condition is, in essence, an imbalance."
He looked at Wen Ke'er.
"On Blue Star, the rule environment is relatively mild and stable. Your own power and those dormant, mutated remnants of Black Fog exist in a delicate balance."
"They lie dormant and remain inactive. They may even have been assimilated and suppressed by your own power. That is why neither you nor I noticed anything unusual."
"But once you arrived in Beyond the World, the environment changed."
Shen Yi's gaze seemed to pierce through the walls of the repair pod, looking out into the chaotic void where dead and silent rules were active.
"The rule environment of Beyond the World, especially with Rule Fragments being abnormally active right now, exerts powerful suppression and rejection upon an elf like you, who has suddenly entered Beyond the World."
"At the same time, this environment acts like an enormous amplifier and catalyst, activating the dormant remnants within you that possess Black Fog characteristics."
"They have begun to become active, attempting to resonate with the outside environment.