Mystery: Chaos Path

Besides enhancing Roland's spirituality daily, the most important core abilities of the Mask Maker potion are "Mask of a Thousand Faces" and "Persona Mask."

The Mask of a Thousand Faces is similar to the Faceless, allowing the wearer to completely change their appearance, but it cannot significantly alter the body shape, only making adjustments within a limited range.

However, it also has advantages over the Faceless. The created masks can be worn not only by the creator but also by others. Currently, a maximum of three Masks of a Thousand Faces can exist simultaneously. To have more masks at the same time, the potion probably needs further digestion.

The ability of the Persona Mask is also very simple. It can attach any kind of emotion to the mask, whether it's common emotions like joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, or more abstract emotions like despair, hope, and courage. As long as the distance between the two parties does not exceed 10 meters, Roland can silently put the Persona Mask on others.

The person wearing the Persona Mask will be infected by the attached emotion, causing the corresponding emotion to amplify. When the emotion is amplified to a certain extent, Roland can control the other party through the mask. However, if the other party's will is strong enough, there is a certain probability of breaking free from the control. Currently, the number of Persona Masks that can exist simultaneously is also three.

In addition, the controllable range of the "Emotion Manipulation" ability has also been further expanded, allowing him to instantly detonate the emotions of hundreds of people.

Finally, there are naturally some common enhancements. Roland's speed and strength have been further improved, and his body coordination is better than before. His mental strength has also been further strengthened, allowing him to directly attack others with mental power, creating an effect similar to mental piercing.

"And the ability that the blood of the Bound God Taltzena brings to me is [Animal Curse]. After use, it can turn the target into a small animal. The higher the sequence targeted, the lower the success rate, but there will be a bonus under the moonlight." Roland couldn't help but pinch his chin as he thought of this, muttering in his heart:

"As expected, it is still affected by the Mother Tree, but it is obviously a good influence. It seems that the Outer Gods are not entirely useless, but..."

Thinking of the famous attributes of the Mother Tree and the Mother Goddess, Roland thought for a while and decided to avoid materials influenced by these two as much as possible next time.

After all, even if he wouldn't be contaminated, wouldn't it be terrible if he developed some gender-bending ability?

"The Mask of a Thousand Faces is a super-enhanced version of Thousand Faces. With this ability, I basically don't have to worry about being exposed. But is there really no problem with this name? It feels like the order is reversed, giving a sense of chaos. Uh, maybe this is also a characteristic of the pathway."

Roland complained and continued to ponder other abilities, "The Persona Mask is very powerful. Whether it's implanting positive emotions into teammates or implanting negative emotions into enemies to guide their collapse and loss of control, it's very useful."

"The most important thing is that if the Persona Mask is used in conjunction with Emotion Manipulation, it can almost instantly control others and turn them into puppets. Moreover, the consciousness of the controlled person will not be erased. If I actively give up control afterward, they can also return to normal, so it can be used even on teammates."

"Wait, in a sense, isn't this Faceless + an alternative Secret Supporter?" Roland suddenly realized, his expression becoming a little subtle.

However, he didn't care too much, after all, it's too normal for Nyarlathotep's abilities to be similar to the Gou San family's abilities.

"In any case, the Mask Maker's abilities are really strong. Even if I encounter Sequence 5 now, with the first-mover advantage, I'm afraid I can turn the other party into a puppet. Of course, if I encounter a grumpy old man who uses AOE attacks without saying a word and is taken the first-mover advantage by the other party, I may be in trouble, after all, I'm a glass cannon."

Although he complained a little, Roland was obviously very satisfied with the various abilities of the Mask Maker. The only trouble was how to act as a Mask Maker.

"The digestion difficulty of the Mask Maker potion is probably equivalent to four or five bottles of Sequence 7 potions, which is not important, I'm already used to it." Roland felt the digestion progress of the Mask Maker potion in his body. Compared with the Actor potion, the early digestion of the Mask Maker potion was not much, only a little.

This shows that Roland's previous actions were also a kind of early acting as a Mask Maker, but the profession may not be very relevant, so the digestion progress is less.

"Let me think, Mask Maker... It should be able to be broken down into two parts, the person wearing the mask and the person making the mask. My previous acting should have matched the person wearing the mask, but the digestion progress is not high, perhaps because I haven't completely put on the mask, or it may be because the focus of digestion is actually the person making the mask."

Roland thought. Compared with the "Fun-seeker" and "Actor" potions, whose focus can be seen at a glance, the "Mask Maker" is obviously more complicated.

"Acting generally needs to combine the characteristics of the pathway and the abilities of the potion. In terms of the Mask Maker's ability..." Roland had some ideas in his mind. He murmured in his heart:

"Making masks for others to wear, turning them into puppets on the stage...?"

"No, no, putting on a mask is not necessarily a bad thing, so a more accurate statement should be to help the person wearing the mask change themselves, and then guide the development of things in the way the Mask Maker hopes. Compared with the "Actor" who performs themselves, the characteristics of the Mask Maker should be more inclined to be a behind-the-scenes manipulator."

Thinking of this, Roland already had some ideas in his mind about how to digest the Mask Maker potion in the future.

"Perhaps the upcoming Tingen incident will be a good opportunity..." Roland thought of one of his original plans, couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth, and glanced at the date again.

Today is already September 5th. If the plot hasn't changed, three days later will be when Ince Zangwill attacks the Tingen Nighthawks team.

Of course, even if the plot really changes, Roland is not worried. After all, the arrival time of the Evil God's offspring cannot be delayed. Too early or too late may interfere with the success of Ince Zangwill's plan, unless this old fellow gives up the plan, otherwise, he will definitely take action in the next few days.

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No mistake, one first, one hair, one inside, one capacity, one is one look!

September 9th, Morning—

Waking up early, Klein glanced at the sky outside. Although the sky was clear and cloudless, for some reason, he inexplicably had a feeling that a storm was coming.

Three days have passed since the incident of Hurricane Admiral Qilingos. In these three days, Klein was once again involved in an incident related to a Desire Witch named Mrs. Sharon. This Desire Witch was really not simple. Not only was she powerful, but she also had the Witch statue that Roland had described, almost causing the Nighthawks who arrested her to suffer a great loss.

Fortunately, Klein had Roland's reminder in advance and reminded Captain Dunn of the relevant matters in advance. In the end, Mrs. Sharon was successfully killed without any casualties—it's a pity that although there were no casualties, Cohen Li, the Nighthawk who participated in this mission with Klein, was still seriously injured and could only go home to recuperate temporarily.