Benjamin narrowed his eyes, staring at the Plane Barrier glowing with white light.
He soon realized that those faint black marks were actually tiny runes.
Countless minuscule runes raced across the barrier's surface, each moving in a specific pattern and influencing the others. The entire Plane Barrier resembled a precision machine made of countless gears, with each rune serving as a gear whose motion helped sustain the barrier.
Benjamin instinctively looked at the others, then froze.
Runes had appeared on their bodies as well.
Every rune pulsed at a specific frequency, resonating with their cores.
Those cores were, of course, their Rings of Truth.
What... what was going on?!
Benjamin was somewhat alarmed, but he soon realized that this seemed to be happening only to him.
He reached this conclusion because these runes allowed him to clearly perceive the emotions emanating from each wizard. None of the surrounding wizards showed any similar surprise; most radiated wariness, caution, or scrutiny.
Wait, why could I understand what these runes meant?
Benjamin frowned. And this feeling... it was so familiar. Following that sense of familiarity, he instinctively lowered his gaze to himself.
With the help of these runes, Benjamin quickly found the cause: the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil.
For some unknown reason, after he approached this Plane Barrier, the True-Delusion Breaking Pupil had briefly risen to its highest level, granting him this unusual vision.
What he now saw as runes were actually the underlying structures governing how things worked.
This was truly... astonishing!
Recalling how the Mystic Gang Mortal Dust Barrier had suddenly exhausted its resistance capacity earlier, Benjamin's eyes flickered as a possibility occurred to him.
Once he understood the changes in himself, however, he excitedly turned his attention elsewhere, trying to gather more information. He had no idea when this state would