As everyone knew, after experiencing betrayal, people would involuntarily undergo complex psychological and emotional changes, including anger, sorrow, disgust, insecurity, and loneliness.
These changes would further exert irreversible effects on judgment and even thought.
For example, people who had often suffered betrayal would frequently become exceptionally suspicious, distrustful, cold-blooded, and ruthless for the sake of self-preservation. They liked to interpret others' thoughts from the most malicious angle, then strike first and nip danger in the bud.
In this regard, that famously wife-loving Chancellor from history was the best example.
The suspicion and distrust he displayed in his middle and later years were most likely inseparable from the betrayals he had suffered time and time again.
Of course, Raymond and Nicol Bolas were much the same.
It could be said that the word betrayal had long since seeped into their bones and completely fused with their lives.
Precisely because they were, to a great extent, of the same kind, Raymond understood the thoughts in this old dragon's mind better than outsiders did.
Indeed!
Nicol Bolas often did not care about betrayal at all. He even somewhat enjoyed it, as it brought interesting challenges and amusement to his long life.
Especially when those traitors failed, knelt on the ground begging for forgiveness and mercy, then died hopelessly amid pain and wails, it brought an ultimate sense of pleasure every time.
The wonderful feeling of controlling and dominating others' fates was simply the most addictive form of entertainment.
But the prerequisite was that the damage caused by betrayal had to be firmly contained within a certain range.
Otherwise, this arrogant and self-confident Elder Dragon Planeswalker would completely lose his mind in humiliation and rage, becoming an incomparably mad destroyer who gave no thought whatsoever to the consequences.
And that was precisely the result