Abner's fight ended faster than any of the others. The moment the former Blood Archduke, Al von Nois, saw Yaluolan appear, he chose to flee. He did not dare fight the woman he called Night Song.
But even though this Yaluolan was only a double created through Mystical Reenactment of the Monkey King's Hair, and ranked among the weakest Angels, Al von Nois, currently at only Sequence 3, paid an unimaginable price to escape her.
Yaluolan tore off both wings he had long kept in a state displaying mythical characteristics.
Though an incomplete Mythical Creature Form could easily cause a Demigod to lose control, Demons could make one part of their bodies display mythical characteristics indefinitely, gaining unique and strange effects from it.
Al von Nois's wings even retained the Authority he had wielded as an Angel: control over other people's bodily fluids.
So although the Abyss and Visionary Pathways can both control the mind, they're fundamentally different... The latter acts directly on the Spirit Body and alters the soul.
The former seems to control the mind by manipulating bodily fluids—the medium that carries nerve signals... The person should remain conscious throughout, merely unable to control their own actions... Is that what it means for the heart to be imprisoned?
Yes, that seemed to be what happened to the White Saintess Katarina when Owen controlled her...
Of course, that's only at first. Under prolonged control, the mind would eventually succumb, producing much the same result as the Visionary Pathway.
And though both the Abyss and The Hanged Man Pathways imprison the heart, they do it differently. The Hanged Man first imprisons himself, then uses a curse to make others share his experience and imprison their own hearts.
The Abyss uses an outside trick to forcibly imprison someone else...
*So one's