"By the Soul Forger!"
He growled.
"I'm a Gray Dwarf! Since when have I ever cared about some bullshit regulations? This damn place even tries to control my thoughts!"
Listening to his companions' descriptions, Roland's heart sank into an icy abyss.
The situation was worse than he had anticipated.
The time loop—or rather, Silver Radiance City itself, which maintained the loop—was subjecting them to a slow and systematic "cognitive assimilation."
This assimilation wasn't a simple memory wipe or Spiritual Control, but a deeper, more insidious form of erosion.
It wasn't just resetting time; it seemed to be trying to slowly and silently "weave" any "non-compliant" outsiders into its predetermined, eternally unchanging narrative.
Bronson, as the only ordinary person on the team, was perhaps the first to be affected by this "assimilation" pressure.
