At that moment, the edges of this "sea" were no longer distinct. Countless shifting mirror images began to overlap, distort, and even devour one another. A kind of "self-doubt" and "definitional confusion" rooted in the very foundations of existence spread through its collective consciousness like a plague.
Lin Ye's consciousness hovered outside the Mirror Sea like the most precise of probes. Rather than entering directly, he used the power of "Contemplation" to construct a temporary "experimental sandbox" in a higher dimension-a closed higher-dimensional model into which he projected some of the target area's mental-image parameters, activity data for the entropy silence darkside, and all the network's defense protocols.
"Sandbox construction complete. Mapping accuracy: 87.3%. Safe trial runs are available," the Order's Dawn coordinator reported. Even if operations within this sandbox failed, their impact on the real Many-Faced Illusion Clan would be minimized, while providing data for the actual intervention.
"Begin phase one: localized activity suppression experiment," Lin Ye ordered.
Radiant Stilllight guided a highly concentrated force containing the combined concepts of "Order Anchoring" and "Existence Blessing." Following the predetermined algorithm, it struck precisely at several "abnormal entropy silence darkside activity nodes" marked within the sandbox model. On the mental-image level, these nodes manifested as several "murky vortices" that continuously devoured color and information.
The suppressive force was like a beam of light cast into a deep pool. At first, the targeted vortices expanded noticeably more slowly and even contracted slightly. The sandbox data showed that the blurring of the Many-Faced Illusion Clan's mental images within the model had slowed in tandem.
"It worked!" A trace of excitement came through Harmonic Leaping Note's music.
But the success was short-lived. About three seconds later, rather than being "healed," the suppressed nodes underwent a bizarre "transfer" and "spread"! More, smaller murky ripples spontaneously