"How could this happen? Why was Roland here?"
"No, that's wrong. This is my mental world... some abnormal power is interfering with my thoughts!"
"An illusion. This is an illusion!"
"It's all an illusion!"
Gallo blinked, instinctively closed his eyes, then opened them again.
He was trying to convince himself that he had simply opened them the wrong way.
Perhaps refreshing his vision would make this mind-distorting illusion disappear.
But the outcome was beyond doubt. Illuminated by the "sun" formed from all his concentrated mental power, his perception had already reached Legendary levels, allowing him to see through the truth of this room at once.
His soul finally pierced the virtual illusion and saw the real scene outside.
When the entirety of "Gallo's World" unfolded in his mind, Gallo's heart sank, and a terrible premonition immediately arose.
This place, filled with instruments and equipment, with obvious Magic Array structures and enhancements from the fruits of Arcana, was clearly a... laboratory?
Through a mental scan akin to divine awareness, he looked back from a third-person perspective and discovered, to his horror, that he had somehow become a mouse-sized Flesh Puppet, bound to a pillar only a few fingers wide.
His entire body was rigid and immobile. Only his eyes could blink, making him look utterly ridiculous and pitiful.
The sun in the sky was a brilliant orb of light formed from mental power. That sunlight-like Soul Flame was originally the divine fire that should have been under his control.
But at this moment, Gallo felt himself gradually losing his connection to it.
His mental power was weakening, and the nodes that formed the entire network were vanishing one after another.
Even the workings of his thoughts seemed hindered by an invisible force, becoming unbearably sluggish.
He struggled to move his eyes