As Merciless stood there, he began to look at the orbs, which were fragments that Silk had gathered for him by stealing bits of other people's inner worlds, or at least those that had the potential for one and those who already had one.
His mind teeming with the thoughts of the new fragments of dreams he had just received. He had a vague understanding of why people like Jordan's wives were so intent on using other people's dreams to fortify Jordan's inner world.
The process they described was far quicker than traditional mind cultivation. It revolved around the idea of taking from others and applying what already existed to their own mental inner world.
However, there was a significant risk—if one didn't have a proper inner world and were killed within the mental plane, they could suffer brain damage, memory loss, or, in the worst case, the outright death of the mind or erasure of the soul.
