[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader":3,"chapter-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1070":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Lord of Mysteries: Starting As A Reader",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1553597,2017,"Chapter 1070: The Abilities of a Cognizer","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1070",1070,"\u003Cp>\"Ebner, you’re finally awake!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worry on Fors and Xio’s faces completely faded, replaced by bright smiles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing their clearly weary faces, Ebner’s gaze softened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though he had already \"seen through\" everything Fors and Xio had done for him over the past few days within just a few seconds of awakening, he still pretended confusion and asked:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What happened?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, he also wanted to know how he returned here—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>after all, he couldn’t \"see through\" anything involving the Goddess during the earliest part of his slumber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re asking us what happened?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You’ve been asleep for almost four days! Do you know how worried Xio and I were?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fors scolded him as she brought over a bowl of reheated congee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"You’re hungry, right? Eat something first. Once your stomach adapts, we’ll ask the butler to prepare real food.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So meticulous... As expected of a medical student.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I’m a demigod. Even if I ate an entire cow, it wouldn’t kill me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ebner complaint silently, but still accepted Fors’s kindness and finished the congee spoonful by spoonful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xio pursed her lips and said:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I won’t ask about the details since it involves angels...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But I hope you’ll act more cautiously in the future!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"To be honest, ever since you became a demigod, you’ve been a lot more reckless than before. You don’t calculate everything ahead of time like you used to.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s because after absorbing Giuseppe’s memories, it inevitably influenced me...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And I’ve already reflected on that. This time I was extremely cautious— I called five angels and a Goddess to deal with the Catastrophe Demoness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The fainting afterward was probably an accident...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thinking this, Ebner still nodded obediently and repeated:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So what happened? How did I get back?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Fors suddenly came out of ’Alvin’s Answering Labyrinth’ and found you already unconscious...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Oh, right. According to Fors, your clothes were shattered all over the floor—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>like someone had just ravaged you!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xio said in a teasing tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fors nodded vigorously. The scene back then had indeed been shocking.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ebner’s mouth twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right... my clothes did burst when I took on the incomplete mythic form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I originally planned to conjure new clothes after advancing to Sequence 3, but I fainted immediately afterward...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which means... was I naked in front of the Goddess?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nope. Stop. Cannot think about that. That’s divine blasphemy just imagining it!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He shook his head. Even though he couldn’t \"see through\" the exact events, he could roughly guess why he fell into slumber.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So there really was an \"Unknown\" being deep within the Unknown Land...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Who is that? \"Liu Bo\"?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hard to imagine I’d have that much \"status.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After chatting a bit more with Xio and Fors, Ebner got up to have breakfast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The servants were not surprised at all to see their viscount appear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But watching Fors and Xio follow him out of the room, they couldn’t help but carry faint hints of disdain, envy, and admiration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ebner, of course, wasn’t surprised.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had already \"seen through\" the reason:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To cover up his unconscious state these past few days, Xio had been using her Hundred-Faced Silk to disguise herself as Ebner and appear publicly on his behalf.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After breakfast, Xio left for work at MI9,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Fors went to the steam train station to receive her teacher Dorian, who was arriving in Backlund.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the large bedroom was quiet again—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>only Ebner remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He lay back on the bed, placed a pillow behind him, and began examining himself:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"So the potion finished digesting right after I drank it? At least two-thirds of it...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which past version of me prepared this in advance?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm... based on all current information, the acting method of a Cognizer has three directions:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First, seeing through the structure and rules of all things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Second, seeing through the origins and future of all things—fate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third, seeing through the logic and internal relationships of all things, especially between people—philosophy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All three must be fulfilled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The first is relatively easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The advancement ritual already requires analyzing mythic forms—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and mythic forms are essentially massive bundles of interwoven knowledge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once I succeed, especially since I’ve fully analyzed all 22 paths,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>this part naturally completes itself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I have countless lifetimes of accumulated experience.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfair advantage, really.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The second is extremely difficult.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even though advancement greatly improved my predictive abilities,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I still can’t freely observe others’ ’River of Fate.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To act properly, I would need a huge amount of preparatory investigation...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But—I cheat!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Wheel of Fate uniqueness combined with the Virtual All-Seeing Eye lets me observe the fate-rivers of others far more easily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And I’ve already done similar things during the Prophet stage—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>so I’ve pre-acted some of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Still not enough.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I need to see through the origins and futures of entities at higher tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nothing fits better than my original plan—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seeing through myself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"The third—philosophy...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I’ve somewhat acted that already.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, like Klein, I was a ’keyboard warrior’ before transmigrating—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>who didn’t analyze society online?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But still not enough...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Do I have to write a full philosophical treatise?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In summary, the scope of ’Insight’ is the three expressions of ’Wisdom’:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creation, Foreknowledge, Philosophy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hm... in my previous life, Einstein (scientist), Zhuge Liang (strategist), and Plato (philosopher) were all considered men of ’wisdom,’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>each representing one direction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And the next sequence is ’Angel of Wisdom’...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So eventually it all ascends into the Authority of Wisdom?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"What would the Authority of Wisdom include?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Creation? Omniscience? Philosophical Weapons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I’ll test it with the Pure White Eye later.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"As for the next stage of digestion:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One: fully understand the arrangements of my previous selves and complete the multi-generational secret technique.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two: complete Lilith and Vera’s missions—see through the secrets involving Sefirot and Outer Gods.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Three: construct my own occult worldview.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After confirming the advancement effects and contemplating the future, Ebner began analyzing his abilities—combining newly gained occult knowledge, his own divine inscriptions, and his Cognizer insight:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"First, all abilities like Analysis, Prophecy, Backtracking, Information Extraction, Absolute Rationality...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>have fused into the core ability Insight, and fundamentally strengthened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Now, as long as I will it, I can ’see through’ a person or object’s past and future, structure and composition, strengths and flaws—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>even certain private details and interpersonal ’connections.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"This is nearly on par with Arrodes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference is:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I cannot see information from nothing. I must either observe or have a fate-level connection.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Second:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Based on Insight’s understanding of structure, the Simulation ability has gained a hint of the Authority of Creation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I could already manufacture materials within the White Tower.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now I can even create Beyonder characteristics, though only up to Sequence 4.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And when I want to use abilities from other pathways,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I no longer need to simulate—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I simply ’create’ a Sequence 4 characteristic of that path in the White Tower\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and gain the same abilities as a demigod of that sequence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"One of a Cognizer’s core combat abilities—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>transforming into other incomplete mythic forms—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>is possible because of this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"After all, if I have the characteristics of a path,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can naturally transform into its mythic form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And since I completed analysis of all 22 mythic forms during the Prophet stage,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I can now create 22 different Sequence 4 characteristics.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Unfortunately, created characteristics still cannot enter reality—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>otherwise, selling fake characteristics alone would make me the world’s richest man.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Third:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because Insight grasps structure, rules, fate, and connection,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I naturally grasp the leverage needed to shift the world or target with minimal effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I haven’t reached the level of\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>’The White Tower opens its eyes— all phenomena converge,’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but I can already solve extremely difficult problems\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>with extremely small costs.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(End of Chapter)\u003C\u002Fp>",1282,"2026-06-06T07:27:25.441Z",1,"novelbin.me","e52cda65fd7c50f729ba198e865d3a6e3d4dcd51b8ba728a28a7cbea5b07ccc4","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1071","lord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-chapter-1069",1326,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Flord-of-mysteries-starting-as-a-reader-cover.jpg"]