Mystery: Chaos Path

Humming a song, Roland skillfully found the utensils needed for preparing potions, and then took out an iron box from the cabinet. Inside the box were the auxiliary materials needed for preparing the Actor potion. Apart from pure water, they were basically ordinary spiritual materials, such as black sunflower pollen, dragon tooth grass powder, and so on.

Roland slowly added these auxiliary materials to the beaker one by one, and then took out Medici's blood gemstone. After putting it into the beaker, it seemed to cause some kind of chemical reaction. Instantly, flames rose from the liquid in the beaker.

Roland watched the changes in the beaker, but he was not flustered. With a flip of his hand, the fragment of Niar's power, the main material of the Actor potion, appeared in his hand.

Roland threw the characteristic into it, and the flame quickly disappeared. Only the surface of the liquid in the beaker condensed into crystal clear ice crystals at this moment.

And under the ice crystals, the red flame did not completely extinguish, but burned in the liquid, like the immortal flowers Roland had seen before. The blood-colored flame, like a rose, also burned in the ice crystals, appearing beautiful and dreamy.

“To be honest, this potion is getting more and more beautiful, but it looks less and less like something you can drink. Won’t this gulp burn me?” Roland looked strangely at this flame version of the immortal flower, thought for a while, and still picked up the beaker and took a "glug" gulp, drinking the Actor potion.

The initial feeling was ice, followed by heat. Roland felt as if he was switching back and forth between ice and fire. After that, all the temperature changes disappeared, and Roland's consciousness seemed to fall into a bottomless abyss, surrounded only by darkness and chaos.

This was a madness that could make ordinary people lost, but in this bottomless darkness, Roland suddenly saw a red flame. The moment he saw the flame, Roland's somewhat scattered thoughts instantly became clear.

He skillfully began to gather his thoughts, break free from the darkness and chaos, and then opened his eyes.

“So that’s how it is. So the auxiliary materials really have the effect of reducing the probability of losing control…” Roland pinched his chin, revealing a thoughtful expression.

If it wasn't obvious when taking the Sequence Nine Jester potion, now that he had reached the Sequence 8 Actor potion, Roland immediately felt the significance of the auxiliary materials related to the higher sequences in the potion formula.

It was like the only black spot on a white paper. Because it was different from Niar's power, it constituted a distortion and madness completely different from Niar's power itself, and this madness happened to become the anchor that guided people, so that people would not be swallowed by the darkness and chaos contained in Niar itself.

Simply put, it was using poison to fight poison, using chaos to fight chaos, and using madness to fight madness.

“However, the two madnesses happen to cancel each other out to some extent, achieving a balance. According to this trend, when I advance to a higher sequence, won’t I directly let the original will fight against Niar’s madness?”

Roland made a judgment in his heart, and complained strangely. Then he happily began to sense his newly acquired abilities.

The Actor potion first further strengthened his spirituality, and secondly, it was the core ability "Thousand Faces" brought by the Actor potion.

This ability was a bit similar to the Faceless, but not as strong. It allowed Roland to slightly change his facial features, with an adjustment range of about 10%. It wasn't too big, but for Roland, who was already a makeup expert, a 10% adjustment combined with makeup, Roland was completely confident that he could completely transform himself into another person.

Moreover, although "Thousand Faces" had limited changes in facial features, it allowed people to freely change their hair color and pupil color, saving Roland the trouble of not being able to find colored contact lenses in this era.

In addition, the Actor potion also gave Roland the ability to create illusions. Although the coverage of the illusion was not large, it looked absolutely real enough.

Secondly, the core ability of the Jester, "Emotion Manipulation", was also strengthened. From being able to only control the emotions of individuals in a short period of time, to being able to directly perform group emotional manipulation, the manipulation limit was currently about 10 people, and the number could probably increase as the potion was digested.

“Finally, my observation, spirit, and learning ability have also been further enhanced. I can capture other people’s vague thoughts like a Mind Reader, and my speed and strength are much stronger than before. I’m afraid I’m not weaker than those Sequence 8s who fight head-on.”

“And the ability that Medici’s gemstone brings to me is fire manipulation. Even because of Medici’s own particularity, I can more easily control multiple flames at the same time, which undoubtedly effectively makes up for the Actor’s own lack of attack power.” Roland made a final summary, and even he couldn't help but smack his lips:

“Hiss, the [Actor] sequence is too strong. I feel that even if I don’t borrow the power of others, I’m not afraid of facing Sequence 7 head-on. With early preparations, I can even touch Sequence 6, but the digestion difficulty is not small, basically equivalent to digesting four or five bottles of normal Sequence 8 potions.”

“But…” Roland felt the digestion progress of his Actor potion, and his expression suddenly became subtle, “I seem to have digested about one-fifth already. Why? Is it because I’ve been fooling people with vests during this time?”

The "Actor" sequence, as the name suggests, its core should be to play a role and perform, and this point undoubtedly coincides with Roland's actions during this time.

As a professional Jester, Roland has always been very careful to play various vest roles, strictly following their personality settings in front of outsiders, and using these vests to "deceive" a group of bigwigs including Pallez and Azik. Thinking about it this way, it doesn't seem strange that the potion has been digested in advance.

“So the acting direction of an actor is to play a role like an actor, uh, it sounds like a matryoshka doll…” Roland couldn't help but complain.

“But I’m afraid it’s not just that. Actors always have to perform on stage, so if you want to completely digest the Actor potion, you probably need to perform some performances while wearing a persona? And it’s best if these performances have an audience to watch.” Roland pinched his chin and thought about it, and had some ideas for the next performance.

No one is wrong, one first, one first, one inside, one appearance, one in, one see!

He thought of Qilingos, and then thought of Ince Zangwill, and had several plans for the subsequent performance as an actor.

“But it’s not urgent to digest the Actor potion. I’ll take a look at the situation of the next sequence first. Well, Sequence 7 Mask Maker, the auxiliary material requirements are high-sequence related items from the Abyss or Alien pathways?” Roland raised his eyebrows, thought of the situation of the Rose School in the original book, and then thought of Sharon, Maric, and others, with a bit more thought in his eyes.