Wayne was an overwhelmingly powerful enemy, almost impossible for Anton to defeat. However, he represented the Church of Darkness, so Anton couldn’t afford to step back. He detonated his mana and projected the Astral Plane with his thoughts, conjuring his most powerful vitality field.0

Infinite darkness expanded with the momentum of a tsunami, the heavy pressure falling on the material world and stirring space to the point of distortion. Its influence could be felt in the mental world, too. The spectators’ hearts raced, and cold sweat drenched their clothes. Even breathing became difficult.0

Anton raised both hands. Darkness stretched from his feet and lunged at Wayne like lightning. The layers of dark spaces it contained were filled to the brim with chaotic information and an energy of desolation and decay, rather than pure darkness.0

Wayne took a step forward, pale light flickering under his foot.0

The moment he became a legendary mage, he acquired his own vitality field, able to pull in the Astral Plane and project an illusory world that was exclusive to him in the Chosen Land. Unlike the other legendary mages, his world was a complete limbo with too many different Laws, unable to become a stable, lifelike world.0

He had no choice but to go for the second-best option: disguise the paleness of his world into a...0