Elias was surrounded by hundreds of blood-red screens that had started glitching, just like the time he was going through his evolution. But this time, all of them displayed only a single message.
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Warning! Mental Defences are being dismantled!
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The cracks in the mirror started to grow until the entire surface was covered. Soon, the mirror shattered into thousands of pieces, and Elias was able to step out. But the process of dismantling didn't stop with the mirror.
The cracks that had started on the mirror had begun spreading outward, encompassing the realm where his consciousness resided. The entire realm of consciousness was breaking apart.
Elias watched the cracks in his reality, and soon those cracks reached his own consciousness as well, as he watched his own skin start to develop cracks.
The extraction of the mental realm was affecting his own mind, trying to dismantle it now that all protections were gone.