On the rooftop, a Fairy Weakening Arrow coated with Sruder’s scale powder pierced Langsen’s chest. Although the injury wasn’t deep, it penetrated the flesh straight to the bone, but he had lost all sensation.
After further growth, Sruder’s control over the powder became more adept and intuitive. For strong effects, there were paralysis, petrification, and even Immortal Demon Fire, but against these students, Sleep Powder was sufficient.
After pulling out the arrow, Li Ang casually performed a Healing Technique, then extended his palm towards Langsen.
"Although you’ve been reversed as well, clearly the ’pusher’ really wants you dead. I saved you, so it’s only fair I take a look at your memories, right?"
Besides his own right hand, a Bloody Hand also hovered at one side, both hands simultaneously performing Spiritual Manipulation.
The first layer: removing the continuous overlay of reversed power from the Reversed World.
The second layer: the moment the reversed power is unveiled, retrieving his experiences through Spiritual Driving.
Without needing his own consciousness, Li Ang, being a Spiritual Forger, could drive his other spiritual aspects to have him speak, even in his oblivious state.
"Name, origin, family relations?"
Li Ang questioned one by one, clarifying Langsen’s situation.
Before being reversed, he was a child from a single-parent family. Raised solely by his mother, he held great respect for her and harbored a significant amount of guilt.
After the reversal, he turned into an unattainable mother-loving child, suppressing and projecting his inner longing onto Andasu, whom he believed to possess motherly qualities.
Based on Langsen and Andasu’s situations, Li Ang gained further understanding of the Reversed World.
Li Ang could essentially confirm that the reversal had its intricacies; it didn’t simply reverse a certain aspect of individuals in Thousand Tower City without purpose, but rather chose the one that could most lead to their destruction.
Langsen’s case corroborated this point, aligning with Meimei’s previous mention of the disaster progression on another world line.
Langsen’s intentions and memories, both before and after the reversal, were seen by Li Ang. Indeed, he had a self-destructive impulse resulting from Andasu’s lack of response.
His memories were also altered, likely the handiwork of that shadowy figure. Since reversals could be applied here, modifying memories wasn’t a problem either.
From Langsen’s perspective, he didn’t see the shadow, nor did he feel out of place being transported; he was entirely driven by emotions, even hearing someone whispering in his ear.
"That kind of girl, she would be the beginning and end of your life. What’s the point of life without her, don’t you agree?"
This sentence thoroughly tugged at Langsen’s heart, steering him towards extremity.
Even before that, these suddenly appearing, seemingly heart-reflecting voices had occurred many times.
The pusher constantly guided the fate of the reversed ones towards its desired direction. Li Ang pondered.
Langsen’s case was straightforward; his life burdened with his mother’s grace, he came to Thousand Tower City to study because of it. Thus, the post-reversal projection was overwhelmingly powerful; with just a push, he would go to extremes.
The Reversed World seemed to be interconnected step by step.
Previously learned from Meimei, recently there had indeed been deaths at the school. In Nebis, a death or two wasn’t odd, even in the civilized Thousand Tower City, where numerous people die annually from magic accidents, so no panic had erupted yet.
If the mastermind behind the scenes wanted the reversal domain to lead to the destruction of the entire Thousand Tower City, this pace of killing was somewhat slow.
Being able to move city-level Magic Power, it would be more efficient to directly destroy the city with brute force. If it didn’t do so, it too must be subjected to some constraints, hence using reversal as a method.
After the reversal, people like Langsen could easily be killed, yet the school’s surface remained calm.
Li Ang gradually concluded: it wasn’t that it couldn’t do it, but since those easier-to-kill people were destined to die sooner or later, it needed them to play a bigger role.
That was to weave a net according to its wishes, first eliminating those hard-to-kill through simple reversal, then finally capturing them all in one sweep.
Because of Andasu’s situation, Li Ang immediately understood this point.
The problematic girls of the Star Flower Travel Corps each had Special Abilities, nearly resilient like unkillable cockroaches. But by breaking their spirits, it could be easier to destroy them.
Their reversals likely were based on this premise.
Take Andasu, for example, her reversal was of her original courage to defy destiny. Losing just this point, retaining other advantages wasn’t an issue because these could become instruments to kill her instead.
She was a mechanical genius, but in Thousand Tower City, this was considered outlandish. Without self-confidence, going with the flow, her inner desires would become a tormenting weapon.
How to destroy a genius? When she abandons becoming who she originally intended or ought to become, constantly regretting in her later life, realizing she can no longer turn back, watching her talent drain away, her life gradually slipping, with a simple push, she could crumble.
Of course, this is rather stream of consciousness. The Reversed World shouldn’t offer such a long time scale, so it requires more pushes.
Even if Andasu rejects Langsen’s advances, there are always others who would force her in other ways.
Where would this lead in the end? Li Ang didn’t even need to think to know.
When her secretly hidden mechanical creations and Mechanical Engineer identity become public, the Prince in the girls’ eyes, the Goddess in the boys’ eyes would start to distort, and malice would subtly invade, until it becomes a tidal wave, unstoppable.

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