Chapter 257: Angel of Radiant Wings (6)
Chapter 257: Angel of Radiant Wings (6)
Memory manipulation. It sounded simple, but in practice, it was an immensely complicated process. Just because one's necromantic power was strong, or their mastery of necromancy profound, didn’t make memory manipulation any easier.With his hand pressed against the crown of the unconscious Alius’s head, Karnak spoke. "Technically, anyone can manipulate memories, you know?"
Even a solid blow to the back of the head with a club could serve as memory manipulation of sorts.
"The problem is, it comes with huge side effects and a high failure rate." The key was to alter the desired memories with precision, as much and as finely as needed. "First, I’ll erase the part where he started having suspicions."
A faint current of magic flowed along the needle, touching upon the center of Alius’s memories. Alius’s body trembled slightly. With this, he would now lose a portion of his memories from a specific point in time.
Specifically, from the moment he was struck by Future Leven’s onslaught alongside Lapicel. To Alius, it would now feel as though he had passed out at that point and remembered nothing afterward.
"That part is easy." The real challenge lay ahead. "I have to edit his memories of the aftermath."
Had Alius raised his suspicions at the scene of the battle with Future Leven, things would have been much simpler. Karnak could’ve just wiped his memory clean and woken him up with a simple explanation: "You got stabbed and knocked out. That’s all."
But Alius had spent quite a while brooding over it on his own before finally coming to confront Karnak. So if Karnak merely erased the memory of witnessing the Angel of Radiant Wings, what would happen?
Alius would be left with the memory of puzzling over Karnak, even though, to his knowledge, he had never seen the Angel of Radiant Wings at all. A contradiction would arise in his mind. He would remember having doubts, remember agonizing over them, yet have no recollection of what had caused those doubts in the first place.
Who had he been suspicious of? What had he been worrying about? The memory would make no sense.
"That kind of thing drives people insane." This was the true difficulty of memory manipulation.