Secret: I can play two paths

Chapter 240 [Memory]

After a pause, the bronze-skinned man asked Star again:
"This aura...seems very familiar to me..."

"It reminds me of something that happened so long ago, so long ago that I don't even know how to describe it."

He stared at Star as if he was looking at a "junior who is better than his master", and looked as if he was trying to recall something and was thinking deeply.

So this is a respectful gaze?

But it's still very strange, why did Mr. Azik have such a "nostalgic" look after realizing this ability called "Reset to Zero"?

Star did not reply to Mr. Azik immediately. Instead, he watched Mr. Azik fall into deep thought, and doubts arose unconsciously in his heart as he observed.

Star pinched his chin and fell into deep thought.

But is Mr. Azik going to remember the time when he was the "Archon of Death" and participated in the War of the Four Gods?

I wonder if he will start his "trip to the southern continent" ahead of time? But can I really not prevent the war from happening?
Furthermore, according to the characteristics of "between reality and illusion" that can perfectly utilize all "extraordinary" things to "transform" to the greatest extent, is it necessary to hand over the uniqueness of "Death" to "Night"?

Of course, we could let Him take it—but that still wouldn’t prevent the war from happening…

No, the whole world is under the control of those "gods". It seems that no matter what, due to issues of position and philosophy, some conflicts are bound to be unavoidable...

To suppress everything with force - this would probably take him until he becomes an angel, right? That would be too long.

It seems that it is not necessary. With "Between Reality and Virtuality" as a "transformer", he can also get the "Angel" "Experience Card" in advance.

Even more than that, there are some unique clues that are clear - this gives Star the foundation to obtain power like a "god".

And in a world where the "gods" no longer walk the earth, perhaps this is one of the directions in which he is thinking about how to prevent foreseeable disasters.

After all, Star knows:
He is not “not of this world.”

Even if it was a long, long time ago, after going through so much, he already had some attachment to this place.

So-called: Established a bond?

However, I don’t know why I feel guilty about this. I always feel like I can’t face those clear green eyes…

This is of course a joke. What bad intentions could Miss Justice have?

Star shook his head and didn't say much about this:
Anyway, this is one way to get the uniqueness from Will using the Wheel of Fortune.

And without the uniqueness of the "Wheel of Fortune", there are other uniquenesses that can be utilized...

From another perspective, he does not need high-sequence combat power. Instead, he should think about how to establish his own power from the pattern of the "Seven Gods" "dividing" the northern and southern continents...

He has long passed the stage of "living on the edge of death", and it is time to think about more things.

In this world where infighting can only be confined within barriers, if you cannot act as a chess player, you will become a "fish on the chopping board."

This is also what Star thinks.

We have to gradually build an organization and spread its influence.

Try to analyze the relationship between the enemy and us as clearly as possible, attract as many allies as possible, and unite based on a comprehensive and detailed division to make the power on your side overwhelm the power on the opposite side.

After all, Sta knew that the philosopher king of his hometown had expressed something like this: only by making more true friends and forming an alliance can the subsequent struggle be effective.

Mr. Azik should also be someone we can unite with...if we can make him retain his humanity in the end...

Therefore, after thinking about it, Star decided not to interfere with Azik's recollections - after all, this was the reward for asking him to keep the peace.

Instead, they use bone whistles to keep in touch with it, know its movements, and warn of the possibility of a war.

This is enough. The most important thing is to improve our own strength.

While he was perfecting his plan, Star also heard the final conclusion that Mr. Azik reached after a long and hard recollection.

"Are you also related to the descendants of the god of death, or the god of death?"

Mr. Azik looked at Star with confusion and a little expectation.

What kind of development is this? Bai Zao had guessed this before... Star didn't hesitate and found the answer after a little thought:
"Perhaps I am connected to an item that can communicate with a higher being in the path of the 'God of Death'."

Star explained his conjecture to Azktan frankly and did not lie in this regard. It was just that the "real and the virtual" communicated with the "River of Eternal Darkness", the superior source of the "God of Death" path...

"Perhaps we both have a big secret... It's just that I'm an 'immortal' who has forgotten my past, my family and friends, and I need to find the reason why this happened to me... and you don't have this worry."

At this point, Mr. Azik looked at Star with envy, and his calm and gentle voice became quieter, with a hint of sigh.

He recalled a lot of things and knew that he had stayed in a sequence for a long time, which was called "Undead".

Immortality, is this a gift? Or perhaps a curse?

After all, the price is that you have to die once every sixty years, be resurrected once, and forget most of your past memories, which need to be slowly retrieved later, just like starting a new life.

And this also requires going through the vicissitudes of life where things and people have changed.

To be honest, Mr. Azik now regards Star as another "immortal".

I wonder if he and I have some experiences that are yet to be revealed... Azik thought to himself.

However, Star did not have such worries. As he always tended to be optimistic and accept his fate, even if he did not have the confidence, he would have to have——

This is the confidence that “between reality and illusion” brings him!

And the question of "what if this gift comes with a price" does not linger in his mind.

Just as he accepted from the beginning the possible cost of loss of control or even death caused by "tampering" with the pathway and taking medication across pathways, no matter what, he is already at this "gambling table".

Then, he "willing to accept defeat".

Isn't this also a kind of urging? It urges Star to complete the career he is determined to complete as soon as possible in this world.

Perhaps, when the time comes to pay the price for it, he will have no regrets of unfinished business.

"Maybe we really knew each other before..." After pondering for a while, Star did not deny this statement.

Then he looked at Qi Lingos's body and talked about the subsequent disposal:
"I plan to take his head to the Church of Night."

This would preserve his reputation and allow him to publicize it while also allowing him to use the channels of the Church of Evernight to obtain sufficient bounty... He would use the excuse that "this is a reward for this vest having helped the Church of Evernight in closing the Capin Villa case for him."

After all, in the subsequent investigation, none of the nobles and parliamentarians who were involved with Kapin were spared - after all, the royal family would eventually have to give a sufficient explanation to the Church of Evernight, and their political enemies also took the opportunity to add insult to injury in this incident.

As for the reason of "the excuse is reward", isn't it a bit too "self-righteous"?

After all, it could be considered a spontaneous act of believers giving to the church, but it is regarded as an alternative cooperative relationship...

That's true, but it would be more conducive to pushing the reputation of "the killer, Kamen Rider 'skull'" in a direction that is more conducive to acting, allowing it to ferment further, and it does fit the unique and independent characteristics of the "Weird Rider".

Unfortunately, Qi Lingos only thought that he was ambushing him, and did not realize that he was deliberately [opening] his box.

Otherwise, Star felt that he could gain more digestive progress on this matter.

...In addition, Star had a brief discussion with Mr. Azik on how to deal with the spoils on Qilingos:
Since Mr. Azik said that he had accumulated his own wealth in his past life and even had his own estate, he did not ask Star to make any demands on the bounty.

Instead, he asked Star to lend him "Creeping Hunger" so that he could recall his past contact with extraordinary people such as "Shepherd".

It was just during this conversation that an uninvited guest broke in - to be more precise, he was the owner of this place.

Looking at Darkholm's round face with a friendly smile on it, Star recalled his information:
The leader of a gang in the East District of Backlund, who controls many beggars and thieves.

Although he always looks kind, it is just a disguise. In reality, he is just like the fishmonger in a certain TV drama, a cruel and vicious villain.

A large portion of the beggars and thieves he controlled were teenagers - even though this was the Victorian era, it seemed that teenage pickpockets were everywhere.

In Miss Xiu's opinion, this person was someone she didn't want to see. It seemed that he had stepped on the hand of a thief who was 13 or 14 years old, just because the thief hid the spoils...

Star recalled and sent this Darkholm message to Mr. Azik using the "Channel".

Darkholm broke into the scene and saw his home was in a mess.

Instead, he felt as if he had gotten into trouble and knew that something was wrong.

After all, let’s not talk about the decorations that were destroyed by Qilingos before his death.

Seeing the intact cut on the corpse's arm, he knew that he could not afford to offend the two "murderers" in front of him who were suspected of possessing extraordinary powers.

So he didn't intend to take out his revolver, but smiled:

"Are you two gentlemen chasing criminals? Please continue."

Although Star is wearing a white hat, it doesn't completely match the rumored Ghost Rider who killed Capin.

But he had no choice but to gamble.

And be prepared to shout "Help" in the hope that the two men will let him go.

However, Star had an indifferent expression behind the "armor" and said calmly:

"You will die too."

Then he would condense an air bullet on his finger to eliminate this scum.

Just as he raised his hand, Star hesitated:
This person is just a microcosm of this East District, and even this city.

Without him, the beggars and thieves under his control would continue to be forced by other gangs - he even acted as a "protective umbrella" to some extent.

But to eradicate all evil, even if Star's last name is "Wayne", he does not have the "morality of not killing".

Or maybe there is, but that would also require them to be under the control of his "Arkham Asylum", that is, the ability of "idealism".

After all, as long as a [Will] judgment is made once, Star can use this [Idealism] ability to control others like a "Puppet Master".

In other words, this is [Awakening of the Spirit].

This is the [Spiritual Enlightenment] of the [Apostle] of Sequence 5 of the [Tampering] Path.

Such as [Empathy], [Teasing] and other spiritual extraordinary abilities.

The stakes of the competition are [will], if you win, you will gain subordinates who are full of awe and can be used by you, if you lose... it seems that there is nothing to be gained except the consumption of spiritual energy?

This kind of "enlightenment" that preserves thinking and life is a bit like "preaching" and "brainwashing"? "Brainwashing" others into respecting themselves in fear?
It seems somewhat similar. Thinking from a certain perspective, it is also instilling a false understanding and thought into others, causing them to establish a "loyalty" based on awe towards themselves.

If it is a purely spiritual extraordinary ability, it is most likely based on this principle.

However, this extraordinary ability requires the use of the "colorful" and "pure white" illusory thread seen in the previous ceremony, and it also takes a lot of time. It probably has to be used after defeating the enemy.

Even after defeating the opponent, you still have to be on guard against the opponent committing suicide in the process.

So, this is an "assimilation" type of extraordinary ability similar to "pollution"? It's just that he can't precisely control the direction of its "awakening", so he can only make the other party submit to him? And get closer to himself in cognition?
Is this the reason why "Bai Zao" was "pulled over" that day and why he "regained consciousness"?

Is this the blessing of the "Awakening of the Spirit" that was accidentally opened by "Between Reality and Illusion" at that time, or is it the extraordinary ability of the "Awakening of the Spirit" that was bestowed upon him by "Between Reality and Illusion"?

But it is a magical skill for bullying weaklings... After some consideration, Sta used the power of [Idealism] to exert the extraordinary ability of "Confusion", causing Darkholm to collapse on the spot and kneel on his knees during this period.

Then he condensed a small rectangular "block" "filled with 'pure white lines'".

"Let's call it... [Memory]."

Star named it this way in his heart, as if only this name was most appropriate for the "Cube" he created with the power of the [Apostle], an extraordinary item that could be "manipulated" at the most fundamental level of a person's mind.

Even illegal items...

However, I always feel that this "pure white thread" seems to have a deeper essence. It is not as simple as "manipulation" from the mind. Could it be that it is used to intercept a "possibility" that still exists in the illusion?
If that’s the case, then the level of this extraordinary ability is too high, and why does one have to use “willpower” to compete?
Star didn't think much about this because he had a vague hunch:
This will become clear after the sequence promotion.

Maybe he was invincible even before the true nature of his extraordinary abilities such as "idealism" was revealed?

It would be better to make good use of this extraordinary ability first...

So he took a look at his [Will] value in the "Narration":
【will:??】

Although I don't understand why I have this kind of [Will] value that even the "Reconnaissance" after the blessing of "Between Reality and Illusion" can't describe.

But it was enough, even if he couldn't use Compulsion to penetrate the target's mind and implant specific ideas or beliefs.

It's enough to deal with Beckholm.

He injected this [memory] between "illusion and reality" into Beckholm's body, and then watched his pupils dilate as he was pulled by an invisible force, as if he was shocked by the collapse of his three perspectives.

It's like a certain belief is etched into the soul in the process.

He seemed to have been "possessed" and his own personality and memories rewritten, and it seemed that only some of Beckholm's original emotions and memories were left.

He began to feel sorry for himself.

He began to hate himself.

In the end he forgives himself but never forgives himself.

Then the so-called "Beckholm" stood up straight and looked at Star with firm and respectful eyes.

He bent down, bowed, and said:

"Thank you, thank you."

There was no fear of losing control, nor any feeling of uneasiness.

Because he was illuminated by that beam of "pure white light" and saw himself.

……

It is our honor to be able to help you on your last "route"

【——Nameless People】

(End of this chapter)