Chapter 395

"Fujiwara, what was the name your big wheel landed on at the start?"

"Lord of the Mysteries."

Fujiwara's immediate answer made his hand, which had just been about to pull back, pause for a moment; he stared in astonishment at the grinning Fujiwara.

"That's really…"

He struggled to keep his expression in check. Besides him, someone else had actually drawn Lord of the Mysteries — that was genuinely a bit surprising.

"Is it a Beyonder potion?"

"Mm."

"Which Sequence?"

"Mmm~ I think it's called the Spectator potion."

This potion made Amamiya Ren glance at Fujiwara once more.

"Still, it really does suit you perfectly, Fujiwara."

If it were anyone else, the Spectator potion wouldn't suit them at all, but if it were Fujiwara, then it really did have a strange sort of fit.

The Beyonder potion Sequence was certainly a very fine power, but the key point was that the side effects of the potion Sequence were also quite significant.

Fujiwara wasn't like him — at the start he had obtained the Unruly, making himself special and almost never needing to worry about so-called side effects, but Fujiwara didn't have that kind of condition.

Even so, Amamiya Ren still went ahead and gave Fujiwara an introduction to the Beyonder abilities of the Spectator potion.

"Fujiwara, let me first introduce you to this potion you drew, called the Spectator."

"Drinking the Spectator potion will grant you Beyonder abilities. It will bestow upon you extraordinary mental and observational powers — just by observing, you can see people's behavior, and thereby judge their true intentions and thoughts."

"Isn't that just mind-reading?"

Fujiwara Chika felt for the first time that an extraordinary power was this close to her, and the granted ability was super strong — if it were Mama, getting this ability would definitely make her very happy.

"It's not quite at the level of mind-reading. It's just making judgments about things based on what you observe; the Beyonder ability of the potion could be said to push this capability to its extreme."

"However, after you advance along the potion Sequence, you'll head down the path of seeing through people's hearts, and at Sequence 8 the potion you draw should be the Mind Reader, further strengthening the observational power you gained from the Spectator Sequence,"

"and you can also observe domains like auras."

"By then, you might really be able to mind-read a lot of people."

"Mm, this kind of ability probably wouldn't be blocked even by Sigong, or even Ran."

Magic-nullification only works to a certain extent against psychic abilities, but when it comes to observational power, there's really nothing to be done about it.

After all, mind-reading is just mind-reading carried out through observation of the external, internal, and mystical domains — in the end, it's still a reflection of one's own observational power, not the unreasonable forced mind-reading of something like the Diary of My True Self."

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Observational power is something magic-nullification can't block.

Of course, Amamiya Ren also placed special emphasis on one point.

"Of course, it's only observational power. Apart from observational power, there's nothing else worth mentioning."

"Neither the Spectator nor the Mind Reader provides any boost to your own combat ability — this point is very important."

Fujiwara Chika gave a small nod; she understood perfectly what Amamiya was trying to say.

Although the Spectator didn't have an overwhelmingly powerful ability like Kaguya's, she felt the Spectator's ability really suited her very well.

Compared to a direct power like Kaguya's, she still felt she was better suited to becoming a Spectator — strengthening the mind and observational power was better.

"Amamiya, I think the Spectator potion suits me pretty well."

In a certain sense, Amamiya Ren actually also felt the Spectator potion really did suit Fujiwara quite well.

"If you think there's no problem, then I need to explain to you the issues of the potion system."

"Mm."

"Although the potion system looks very good, it also carries corresponding risks. The moment you use a potion, it's decided that you'll face the risk of losing control at any moment."

"Losing control?"

That word sounded pretty dangerous, and Fujiwara Chika's expression grew serious.

"Mm… Amamiya, I don't really understand the issues involved — I just want to ask, can this kind of situation be controlled?"

"It can, actually."

Controlling loss of control wasn't actually all that difficult.

The so-called loss of control was simply running into certain trouble during one's own advancement, or seeing information that exceeded the capacity of one's brain.

It seemed most Lords of the Mysteries failed during advancement because they heard the ravings of high-Sequence beings, causing the advancement to fail, or because they heard excessive information during advancement and suffered knowledge-based contamination.

Injuries sustained in high-Sequence combat could also trigger loss of control over oneself, but for Fujiwara that was far too early.

The rest would be curses, I suppose.

Still, for Amamiya Ren, who possessed the Source Castle and the River of Eternal Darkness, these situations really didn't pose much pressure.

"When you drink the potion, you can chant my name and convert it into faith in me, and I can extend my protection over you."

PS: New book on the shelves, begging for data.