Chapter 178: Fragment of Rune
It’s already been one week... I still can’t believe that fifteen-year-old brat learns things this quickly...
Ash always removed his mask whenever he entered the World Tree’s core, so she had gotten used to seeing his face. And it was not hard to know his real age when he was in her domain.
That alone showed that Ash had decided to place at least a certain level of trust in her, something not easy for someone like him.
She had been teaching him continuously—filling his mind with theories related to the soul, the methods of extracting memories, and especially, the complex workings of the human brain.
She even went so far as to explain the entire structure of a human body, from the intricate network of veins and meridians to the positioning of acupoints, the alignment of muscles, the density of bones, and the way internal energy flowed through each part.
At some point, Ash began to feel like he was sitting through an advanced biology lesson rather than preparing to rip cursed memories from his soul. Even though he did not fully understand how this would help with memory extraction, he still listened to every word carefully and memorized everything without complaint.
One topic, however, made him pause and shift his focus. It was about the natural limit of the brain. The World Tree had clearly said that it didn’t matter if someone was a Transcendent, a God, or even a Demi-God. The brain still had a ceiling. A point of saturation where it could no longer hold information, no matter how powerful or evolved the being might be.
She explained that the brain, by design, tends to forget most of what it sees or hears over time. Even with monstrous mental strength, a day would come—whether after a thousand years or millions—when the mind would collapse under the weight of its own knowledge, and the same immortality that once seemed like a gift would start to feel like a curse.
The World Tree mentioned that she stored most of her information inside her core, and it was one of the reasons her form continued expanding.
She hadn’t reached her limit yet, and even she didn’t know what would happen when she did.
In Ash’s case, the situation was slightly different. His conscious mind was still relatively untouched, almost like a blank slate. Most of the overwhelming memories he had were stored within his soul.