How does Japanese reading actually work?

As the title suggests, I stumbled upon this picture where 「人を殺す魔法」can be read as both 「ゾルトーラク」(Zoltraak) and its normal reading. I’ve seen this done with names (e.g., 「星​​​​​​​​​​​​空​​​​​​​」as Nasa, or「愛あ久く愛あ海」as Aquamarine).

When I first saw the name examples, I thought that they associated similarities between those two readings to create names, but apparently, it works for the entire phrase? Can we make up any kind of reading we want, or does it have to follow one very loose rule?

by Thanh_Binh2609

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