GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2457: Manipulating Minds.


With the best qualifications in the world, once they get the rank 9 divine flesh that they need to advance, they will be able to advance and become an angel of undying when they assimilate it.

What made them most excited is that once they become an angel of dying, they will be able to become the god of undying since they already have the authority of the pathway and can even use it.

The fact that they can use the ultimate divine ability of the pathway without becoming the god of the pathway is proof that they have subdued the authority of the pathway and will be able to fuse with it to become the god of the pathway without any problem.

Once this happens, they will be one step closer to getting in contact with the origin and becoming an Absolute. So the milestone of becoming an angel is no ordinary advancement of power for them.

In order to achieve this, they decided to speed up the execution of their plans. They wanted to become an angel of slavery quickly so that it would be easier for them to kill an angel of undying.

But the first thing that they did was to wipe out the memory of everything that the fate weaver had seen about them from her mind.

They did this to wipe out any trace of their information and keep their special nature a secret. After all, the best way to keep something a secret is to limit the number of people who know it as much as possible.

After they wiped out her memories, they wanted to return to enslave the two demigods. They shifted to the divine form of the pathway of telepathy and entered the mindscape.

They thought about their destination and reached its border in the Mindscape. But just as they were about to exit the Mindscape, they sensed danger. So they stopped.

They stopped within the Mindscape and used the Predict divine ability to try and pinpoint the source of the danger. They didn't get a clear picture except for the fact that there was immense danger waiting for them in the physical dimension.

So they said, "Forget about it. We don't need to risk it anyway."

They decided that the benefit that they would gain wasn't worth this much danger, so they decided to turn back.

Meanwhile, in the physical world, the two demigods have drawn quite the attention. Because Legion had removed the effect of the Invisibility Shield divine ability, the two demigods recovered from their strange state.

Once they realized that they were being attacked or influenced somehow, they informed the noble demigod in their family, who then informed their emperor of the situation.

Their emperor was the same angel of nobility who they offended when they killed the last demigod noble. He was together with three other demigods. So Legion would have been in big trouble if they had appeared in their midst.

Legion avoided this danger and went to speed up the advancement of the pathway of telepathy. They did this by creating as many virtual copies as possible to brainwash people.

In order to complete their advancement requirement as quickly as possible, they even joined in the task and personally manipulated the minds of people.

The advancement requirement for rank 8 of the pathway of telepathy required them to make people believe that they were other people.

Then the manipulated people must act like the people they think they are. The more people believe their performance, the faster the advancement requirement will be met.

The process of manipulating people's memories is easy thanks to the Mind Domination divine ability. But manipulating people's minds skillfully is another matter, and it is a difficult thing to do.

With the Mind Domination divine ability, deleting, changing, and blocking memories is as easy as breathing and moving one's arm. But if care is not taken, the mind of the target might break.

Legion learned this lesson the hard way. Many people sacrificed their lives in order to teach them that lesson and help them gain experience.

The difficulty that they encountered can be summarized as two. The solution for these two problems is at least two too. This is a weird situation but is perfectly reasonable in the matters of the mind.

The first obstacle that must be overcome is to prevent the target from noticing the intrusion on their minds and that their memories are being tampered with during the process of manipulating their memories.

The second obstacle to overcome is to prevent the target from realizing that their memories have been tampered with after the process is done.

The first obstacle required stealth, while the second obstacle required skillful editing of memories that wouldn't leave any traces in order to overcome.

If any of these obstacles are not overcome, the target's mind is likely to break down as they begin to question their identity. Whether their minds break down or not, they will definitely not count towards fulfilling the advancement requirements because they don't believe that they are who Legion wants them to be.

These two requirements are very difficult to fulfill, especially the second one. Sometimes the target will realize that they are very skillful with a blade even though they have no memories of using it.

The second obstacle is very difficult to overcome because it is nearly impossible to remove all the memories of someone's previous life without breaking their mind.

In the situation of the baker with expertise in wielding blades without memories of ever using a blade, the solution is to create new false memories that show them using blades but with their new identity so that there won't be an identity crisis.

They know this solution, and they know that it counts as skillful manipulation of memories, but it is very difficult to implement perfectly because there are too many aspects of someone's life to keep track of and create new memories for.

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