The Erdtree's radiance was terribly dim, and fine cracks had appeared across the barrier. Nidhogg's invasion of the illusion had become inevitable.
The Greater Will had merely reshaped the illusion and sealed a timeline within it, without installing any defenses. Predicting how events would unfold posed no difficulty for the Greater Will. It had simply established a juncture at which Lu Mingfei and Nidhogg would make their choices. No one else qualified.
Lu Mingze understood that nothing could be changed now. His spirit left his dragon body and followed Nidhogg into a crack in the illusion.
Just as he passed through the fissure, he suddenly felt that he was being watched. Whispers and roars welled up in the depths of his spirit, an extreme chaos with qualities completely opposed to reason.
When he listened closely, he finally made it out. There were no whispers at all, only the sound of burning flames. Fire from some unknown source enveloped his spirit. Then an intense, indescribable pain scorched his soul from the inside out, as though every inch of his skin and soul were being torn apart.
Lu Mingze was instantly horrified. As a Supreme, even the White King's return could not have affected his spirit to this degree.
Fortunately, Nidhogg was also beset by these flames. As the emperor who had truly inherited the Supreme's authority and power, he weakened the bizarre influence simply by releasing a domain composed of pure spirit element. Yet the flames remained active, clinging like maggots burrowing into bone.
Nidhogg accelerated out of the gap between worlds, which possessed a higher-dimensional attribute. Only after fully entering the illusion did he finally shake off that bizarre thing, and Lu Mingze escaped disaster along with him.
Chapter 261: A conversation
Lu Mingfei abruptly sat up in bed,