Chapter 6470

But just as he prepared to rush forward, the illusion array suddenly intensified. The scene around him warped in an instant. The outline of the exit vanished, and countless familiar figures took its place.

Nathaniel, Rowan, Old Man Vale, and the dead disciples of Freevale stood before him. Their bodies were covered in blood. They reached their hands toward him, letting out low, broken cries, pouring out endless suffering and the refusal to let it end like this.

“Jared, save us…”

“Revenge… you have to take revenge…”

Jared’s soul shook hard. The faces of the dead and the weight of the debt he had not repaid surged up inside him all at once. His awareness blurred again, and his forward motion stopped before he could control it.

At that life-or-death instant, Aldric’s voice rang out from the depths of the consciousness field, cold and clear. “Jared, wake up! This is an illusion array! None of it is real! You cannot let it mislead you. Have you forgotten your mission? Have you forgotten that you still have to rebuild your body and take revenge?”