For a split second, the black-and-white world around Ethan wavered, like static on a broken television screen.
The nails pinning him in place began to flicker in and out of existence.
Harold's tier 6 illusion spell, Impale Dawn, functioned by messing with Ethan's sensory input and feeding false information directly to his perception.
The spell hijacked what his eyes saw, what his body felt, and created phantom pain signals that traveled toward his brain to be processed into conscious experience.
However, ever since Ethan had awakened the Aspect of Charge, his brain had been in a constant state of micro-electrical stimulation. Low-level currents ran continuously through his neural pathways, creating a baseline of electrical activity that had become his new normal.
