Illusion or Reality

As he paused, the pulling force on his body surged once more, seeming intent on tearing him apart.

That terrifying force dragged him to the brink of death, and instinctively, he nearly gave up the power he had accumulated for so long.

But afterward, he forcibly suppressed that instinctive impulse.

"Sure enough, it's powerful. Illusions and causality magic working together created a situation where I would die if I didn't cooperate." Adrian's expression was icy, showing none of his earlier fear.

By now, he had analyzed Salixi's spell.

At first, Salixi's spell appeared to be a powerful illusion. But after further contact, one would discover that it was actually a causality spell, with the illusion merely serving as a trigger to stir up the causality surrounding the target.

Under the powerful connection of causality magic, ordinary abilities had no way to dispel it. That special nature made those entangled in causality feel fear.

And at precisely that moment, the illusion that had been considered merely a trigger seized the opening. Through causality, it used that fear to impose illusory sensations of pain, death, and the like.

The feeling of remorse that arose during the process, weakening the causality, was merely Salixi's manipulation from behind the scenes. Causality was causality.

Only equivalent causality could unravel it. So-called regret was nothing more than a self-indulgent emotion. Before taking corresponding action, that emotion was utterly useless.

Even his earlier thought of giving up the power he had accumulated was actually guided and instilled by the illusion during the process.

Under such circumstances, if he had truly believed that feeling and abandoned all his power, that would have been genuine surrender. He would only have been immediately swallowed by the enemy's power, achieving nothing at all.

Having understood this clearly, Adrian resolutely refused to