The 'treacherous children' had very strong mental fortitude, and normal attacks would literally just bounce off. So Hao Ren had not bothered using mental attacks to break the prisoner's will. In place, Hao Ren chose to put the prisoner through a unending cycle of nightmares, hoping to chip away the latter's resistance through it. Using Zom's unique ability, he had managed to build such a syste, but as of now, he was only able to scrap the surface of the prisoner's conciousness.
The new illusion was an endless space, the prisoner was curious for a moment as he was thrown into the empty void. He realised that this illusion was different from before, there was nothing here, no excruciating pain, no utopian dreamland, it was simply an empty space with the occasional starlight. The prisoner pondered for a moment before realising that someone stood behind him.
