CHAPTER 1372: CHAPTER 1372: THE ABILITY OF ANGEL TIER SUPER MEMORY (BIG CHAPTER, REQUESTING MONTHLY TICKETS)

He Ao raised his hand, sensing the intangible forces moving in this reassembled world.

It was the ’fate’ ’trapped’ in this world by the Wizards.

Although after promotion to Angel Tier, Super Memory remained as Super Memory, much like previous promotions, He Ao still gained the abilities of a Memory Inheritor.

Of course, He Ao had never encountered a normal, complete Memory Inheritor, but he guessed this ability might differ somewhat from a normal Memory Inheritor.

Simply put, He Ao gained two new abilities after promotion.

The first is the often-used ’memory modification, fate manipulation’ by the Fate Spinning Wheel.

Upon becoming an Angel, He Ao himself possessed a High Positional Grade and certain symbolic qualities.

Or perhaps, the Talent Sequences of Memory Inheritor itself inherently has a certain ’symbolism’.

These ’symbols’ are the essence of High Positional Grade.

This ’symbolism’ granted He Ao the ability similar to the Fate Spinning Wheel, ’the more you know, the deeper the connection,’ which is ’cognition equals association’.

Anyone aware of He Ao’s existence or has knowledge of He Ao’s deeds, He Ao can vaguely sense their presence.

As long as He Ao activates Super Memory and concentrates, he can to a certain extent perceive the existence of others, probe their memories, modify them.

And these modified memories, as well as those related to them, will also be modified, simultaneously altering all related fates and mysticism ties according to the modified memories.

For instance, Ruoke En, whom He Ao previously encountered, originally was a person from the Main World, but after his memory was modified by the Fate Spinning Wheel to become a ’Relic Remnant,’ his fate too transformed into that of a Relic Remnant and could establish certain mysticism connections with the relics of the three major angels.

Eventually, he discovered the relics of the three major angels and built the City of Rong Guang.

Furthermore, because the modified memories and fate are interconnectedly changed, even if the individual realizes their memory has been altered, or even partially recovers it, their fate and mysticism ties won’t reset to their original state.

He is like two people in parallel universes compared to his original self.

Of course, knowing their memories and fate have been modified may lead them to take actions beyond the estimates and control of a ’Memory Inheritor’.

Memory and fate modification doesn’t completely reshape a person’s character.

This incident deeply made He Ao aware that this power to modify memory and fate can only interfere with the development of events to a certain extent, and cannot fully dictate that events progress as he imagines.

Moreover, this ability cannot modify anyone’s memory indiscriminately.

For example, He Ao can attempt to modify an Angel’s memory, but if the Angel detects his power during the process, it is very likely they can stop the ’modification’.

If this power gets interrupted or prevented during modification, the modified memory and fate won’t take effect.

This also applies to Transcendents possessing Angel Tier items or beyond; they can easily detect invading Angel Tier forces.

This is also why the Fate Spinning Wheel didn’t directly alter He Ao’s memory.

Of course, the Fate Spinning Wheel also demonstrated a method to influence Higher Beings without directly altering them.

That is through modifying the memories and fate of those around the Higher Beings, thereby influencing their fate.

But this method carries the risk of exposure.

Once Higher Beings sense something amiss, they can feel the anomalous energy infiltrating their body.

He Ao discovered that his memory had been tampered with in this way.

Simultaneously, the number of individuals a ’Memory Inheritor’ can modify at one time is limited.

This correlates with the extent of memory modification and the strength of the one being modified; the more memories modified, the stronger the individual, the fewer individuals can be modified.

Thus, even though the Fate Spinning Wheel spread its influence across the Main World through the City of Rong Guang, it primarily modified the memories of a few Transcendents, while most ordinary people had their memories simply altered.

And the memories and fate modified by a ’Memory Inheritor’ do have ways to be reset.

For example, a ’Memory Inheritor’ could personally revert the altered memories.

If a Memory Inheritor refuses to act, some Higher Beings with fate-related powers might also have resetting methods.

He Ao just reset Li Cheng’s memory and during the process discovered some additional issues with the ability.

Initially, he thought the limit of this ability should relate to the user’s soul strength.

After use, he found it might also relate to something else, namely ’Reason’.

He Ao could sense that when employing this ability, it wholly activated the power from the Talent Sequences.

This also implies that the pollution and madness from the Talent Sequences would be fully activated, rapidly impacting his Reason.

If the ability is used extensively and continuously, he could likely descend into madness.

Of course, this should not be exclusive to him but applies to all angels.

Perhaps it explains why Angels in the dungeon world rarely act.

Because each action might require consuming part of their ’Reason’ bar.

The greatest enemy of Higher Beings is the madness within themselves.

Aside from the insanity impact, He Ao actually sensed another thing.

He lifted his head, feeling the forces moving in the newly repaired sky.

The Trapped Destiny Plate was used by Wizards to study fate, where the forces of fate are more active than outside, or easier to ’capture’.

As the current controller of the Trapped Destiny Plate, He Ao possesses fate-related Talent Sequences and the powerful fate-related Extraordinary Items like the Wheel of Stars, seemingly forming some strong connection with fate itself.

This heightened his sensitivity to the forces of fate within the Trapped Destiny Plate.

While using his ability to ’reset’ Li Cheng’s memory, he distinctly felt a certain intangible linkage on his own ’fate’.

When ’Memory Inheritors’ arbitrarily modify others’ memory and fate, it might not be without cost.

Those modified fates might all intertwine with the Memory Inheritor, becoming some ’fate’ curse.

Fate is not a force easily manipulated.

The Wizards took fate’s force to create the Trapped Destiny Plate and then were discovered.

On another note, the Fate Spinning Wheel possesses formidable power, even hiding some force beyond Angel Tier within.

Such a powerful being was nonetheless found vulnerable by the relic civilization, continually sealed and analyzed piece by piece.

After much difficulty, there was finally a chance to escape, and He Ao was found.

Then, under the absolute advantage of strength, he was killed by He Ao, who was a mere mortal.

Even the powerful force within him that surpassed the Angel, he didn’t have a chance to use.

Levi from the dungeon world relied on the guidance of fate, received mysticism revelation, and then attracted the gaze of the Mysterious Shadow.

From these, it seems that although fate can bring great benefits when activated, the outcome might not be good.

Of course, this doesn’t mean He Ao will be afraid to use this ability again in the future.

He realized early on that the Extraordinary World operates on ’Equivalent Exchange’.

Although fate is quite mystical, it should generally adhere to this law.

The ’harvest’ gained from fate will generally require a similar ’cost’.

The next step is simply to figure out the pattern of this cost payment.

Understanding the boundaries of ability is crucial for better utilization.

Like the Fate Spinning Wheel, using ability indiscriminately won’t last long.

Of course, the Fate Spinning Wheel itself might not even know its ability has such ’backlash’, since it doesn’t have items like the Trapped Destiny Plate which can even imprison the force of fate, enabling detection of subtle changes in fate.

In a sense, he died because of his own powerful ability.

Upon reaching the mythical domain, the path of transcendency becomes even more dangerous and terrifying.

After truly understanding this ability, He Ao also realized that it is indeed very strong, but it is limited by the positional grade of the Angel, essentially being an Angel-tier ability.

It might be very useful against transcendent beings below an Angel, but it still has many constraints when dealing with a genuine Angel.

If used well, it should achieve very strong effects.

Just be cautious of fate’s ’cost’.

Besides the ability to modify memory, He Ao also has another ability.

It’s called ’Detecting Ambiguity’.

This ability is very simple; it erases, to a certain extent, the target’s attention to a particular thing or item.

For example, if there’s an elephant in front of a person, He Ao can act to make him ignore the elephant.

When he walks by, he will not be aware of the elephant’s existence; in his memory, there will be no elephant.

This ability doesn’t essentially modify the target’s memory nor alter the target’s consciousness, it only makes the target subconsciously ignore some things. Strictly speaking, it’s like ’tinkering’ during the memory formation process.

Moreover, this ability can affect a Usurper God, meaning that the stronger the target, the greater the pressure on the user’s soul and body.

And it can only make a Usurper God ignore a tiny detail that they might not notice anyway.

It’s like the very faint traces of white correction fluid on white paper; such things are hard to detect without prompting, and only these can be ’ignored’.

Thus, using this ability requires a large amount of practical misleading.

As a matter of fact, when dealing with Star Shadow and Tuning Master, He Ao employed this ability.

He made both Star Shadow and Tuning Master ignore the fact that the surrounding world had changed from what it used to be, letting them overlook the Trapped Destiny Plate.

Of course, throughout this whole process, he used a lot of methods to attract attention and mislead ambiguously.

The effect of Star Shadow’s ability is not obvious since Star Shadow’s sanity is not very normal.

But with Tuning Master, it was quite noticeable; with Tuning Master’s experience, he actually could discover the inconsistency of the world at the first moment, but under this ability and He Ao’s misleading, he overlooked this issue.

Of course, this might also be related to his inherent arrogance.

Until he died, he actually never looked at He Ao properly, even if he respected He Ao because He Ao could call in good friends to support.

This ability looks like an extension mutation of the original Memory Inheritor’s ability and is quite simple, but it can leap effect, having strong practicality.

Moreover, He Ao vaguely feels that this ability might also interfere with the target’s fate, although the fate backlash faced would be much smaller.

Apart from these two new Angel-tier abilities, He Ao’s original extraordinary ability also received enhancement.

The first is ’Ease Thought’; Ease Thought still requires the consumption of three markers to alter and influence an angel’s choice, but the total number of markers He Ao has increased from five to ’nine’, meaning He Ao can modify the choice of three angels at once, without waiting for cooldown time.

And the highest transcendent who can be influenced by a single marker has been upgraded from level B to Incomplete Angel Level.

The promotion’s ability information does not specify whether a Usurper God’s thought modification is possible, but He Ao has tried placing markers on Tuning Master.

With the seriously injured Tuning Master, placing eight markers allowed him roughly to sense his thoughts.

Of course, this old and crafty individual had a blank outer layer of thoughts, absolutely imperceptible, and didn’t give He Ao the chance to use Ease Thought, so He Ao also couldn’t confirm if Ease Thought could be used on a Usurper God.

Besides the change in the number of markers, the cooldown time has also changed.

The original cooldown for modifying an angel’s choice was three months; now it requires only seven days. Modifying an Incomplete Angel is one day, and modifying choices below level B practically has no cooldown time.

Besides Ease Thought, the original Orator’s ability also received enhancement.

When He Ao delivered a speech, all those who saw the speech would find it easier to listen to it, and the more his speech hit key points, the easier they would be persuaded, even if they were his adversaries.

Simultaneously, this effect would also be valid on recorded media, though somewhat weakened it would still be effective.

That is to say, people watching He Ao’s speech videos would also find it easier to be persuaded.

Besides that, those who fully believe in He Ao and become his followers can also establish a certain strong mystic connection with He Ao.

In certain circumstances, He Ao can leverage this mystic connection to ’guide’ his followers in some way.

Overall, the Super Memory ability has been greatly enhanced.

This enhancement doesn’t only reflect in the strengthening of the ability but also manifests in the moving towards ’non-humanization’.

He Ao can feel that these abilities are no longer confined to the mortal realm but are starting to approach a direction akin to that of a Divine Being.

He has already stepped into the mythical domain.

He lowered his head, glancing at his skin which shimmered lightly with purple radiance, resembling jade.

At the same time, he also acquired his own ’Mythical Form’.