"Every true powerhouse, every great figure who can enter the Senate—they all found their Path in the Nightmare World."
A fanatical light flashed in Rodrick's eyes, and his voice carried an irrepressible excitement.
It wasn't reverence, nor was it fear. It was a Wizard's instinctual craving for knowledge.
Murphy watched him quietly, not a ripple of emotion stirring in his pitch-black eyes.
But he saw it clearly.
Rodrick needed this.
Suppressed by the Intimidating Heart Dao Pattern, all his negative emotions—his anger, contempt, and resentment—were bottled up deep inside him with no way to be released.
But now, in speaking of the Nightmare World's significance, he had finally found an emotional release.
The desire for knowledge, the yearning for a higher realm, the obsession with the Laws.
These emotions didn't need to be suppressed.
And so they surged forth from deep within him like a bursting dam, washing away the negative emotions that had been caged inside.
