Arcanum: Chaos Path

Chapter 332 Granting Extraordinary Abilities to Others
Although Rolin was very curious, he did not rush to establish another rule to explore. Instead, he first explored the rule of "turning into a cat if you don't sleep" in Building No. 1 with the people of Silver City.

After all, you have to eat one bite at a time.

After some exploration, Rowling was surrounded by many cats of different colors and breeds, but they all had one thing in common: they were all slightly larger than ordinary cats, basically close to large cats like Maine Coons.

Rowling's exploration of the rules naturally yielded sufficient results.

"The strength of regional rules varies depending on the number of believers. The initial strength can only bind ordinary people, while the highest strength can affect angels. Of course, to reach this level, the number of people who believe in the existence of these rules would be astonishing..."

Rowling sat amidst a group of cats, one hand supporting his chin, taking notes in his mind while his other hand held a cat's paw.

Incidentally, this cat has ruby-like eyes and is currently biting Rolin's wrist viciously, but unfortunately, it hasn't been able to break through his defenses no matter how hard it tries.

That's right, this cat is a certain Red Angel. After using the people of Silver City to explore all aspects of the rules, Rolin had a flash of inspiration and decided to explore the upper limit of the rules, or rather, he wanted to explore how many people's belief was needed to reach the upper limit of the rules.

So Rowling first contacted the leaders of organizations such as the Spirit Cult and the Aurora Society, and used them to further reinforce the rule of "turning into a cat if you don't sleep". When the number of people who believed in this rule reached 2, Medici, who was persuaded by Rowling to enter Building One, turned into a cat without warning.

"Medic is currently only Sequence 2, and the requirements are already this high. You can imagine that the requirements for those at higher sequences will be even more terrifying. However, the binding force of these rules is also stronger than I imagined..."

Rowling muttered to himself, his gaze falling on Medici the cat, who was in a rage. He suddenly smiled, then unexpectedly lifted the cat up in a classic Lion King pose.

Medici the cat was stunned for a moment, probably not expecting Rowling to do this. Then he struggled violently, but his struggles were as weak as a real kitten's.

"It has really turned into a cat. Except for its intelligence, even its abilities have been sealed. As long as it is not attacked from the outside world, it can only turn back when the time comes."

Rowling put Medici the cat down again, ignoring the cat's attacks and continuing to pinch its paws, while saying with a touch of emotion, "The cute little rules have suddenly become terrifying."

At first, Rowling thought it was just a harmless little skill. It wasn't until the first cat appeared that he realized that the Silver City people who turned into cats had their intelligence restored, but everything else was sealed away, just like they had really turned into little kittens.

After conducting experiments, Rowling confirmed that, except when attacked from the outside, the cat would revert to its original state earlier, and at other times it could only wait for the time to end.

It can be said that, setting aside its cute appearance, this is actually a very terrifying sealing rule.

"However, the power of 20,000 people can only seal one Sequence 2. It was ineffective when Azik came over because the remaining power in the area was insufficient to work on Him."

Rolin continued to jot down key points in his mental notebook, "So it's difficult to use regional rules to restrain beings of the angel level. But it's okay, let alone angels, there are only so many high-sequence beings in this world, we can make a list, and we can just beat up anyone who doesn't follow the rules." It's hard to regulate the entire world's population; the total number of high-sequence individuals is probably less than 200, so there's no problem with regulating them.

Or, to put it another way, the reason why others have difficulty supervising high-sequence individuals is because they lack sufficient combat power, while they themselves have the least shortage of combat power.

"If the rules are applied to ordinary people and those in the lower to middle ranks of extraordinary individuals, their binding force is generally not a concern. However, if binding force alone is insufficient, a system of punishment and reward is also crucial." Thinking this, Luo Lin suddenly smiled and said:
"If it's possible to turn a person into a cat, then can rules be used to make people lucky, strong, and healthy? Could rules even temporarily grant others extraordinary abilities..."

Rowling had a strong desire to investigate this.

Rowling is very good at exploiting bugs, and because of this, he actually has a lot of ingenious ideas. While thinking about whether he can rely on the power of the "Storybook" to establish appropriate rules to constrain the world, he is also thinking about whether the power of the "Storybook" can bring some interesting changes to the world - such as the popularization of extraordinary abilities to some extent.

Extraordinary abilities in the mysterious world are difficult to popularize. This is not only because extraordinary characteristics are limited, but also because the abilities in this world are extremely dangerous. It can be said that every extraordinary person in this world is dancing on a tightrope, and there is always the possibility of falling into the abyss.

Therefore, before this, Luo Lin at most thought about whether he could discover extraordinary technology, but never thought about truly popularizing extraordinary abilities.

But now that he has the magical ability of the "Storybook," Rowling undoubtedly has a strange idea: can he use the power of the Storybook to achieve a pseudo-popularization of extraordinary abilities, that is, allow ordinary people to have extraordinary abilities in a short period of time?

Of course, considering the second restriction on the use of abilities, this may not be successful, but it is still worth trying, isn't it?
Rowling is looking forward to it.

……

Without a doubt, Rowling was a decisive and action-oriented person. Once he became curious about something, he would take action almost immediately and start conducting various experiments.

After a variety of experiments, Rowling finally confirmed some things: "It is feasible to grant others extraordinary abilities that exist in the mysterious world itself through the Book of Stories, but there are huge flaws."

“Abilities gained through regional rules can only be effective within the region, and abilities granted to a specific group can only last for a very short time. The upper limit for both methods is only Sequence 8, and the requirements for them to take effect are very high. Rather than saying that they truly possess extraordinary abilities, it would be more accurate to say that they are merely borrowing the rules.”

"The failure to grant power to other systems is perhaps because it's creating something from nothing?" Roland stroked his chin, somewhat disappointed but not entirely surprised, and continued to jot down the key points in his mental notebook:

"Although it has huge flaws, it must be said that it is actually very useful. At least once law enforcement agencies are established in the future, it can greatly make up for the shortage of extraordinary personnel at the grassroots level."

(End of this chapter)