Potions can't be taken indiscriminately

Anyone who has read the original book of Lord of Mysteries knows that taking ingredients from across different pathways was a very dangerous thing to do. Losing one's self and becoming crazy was the lightest outcome. A little carelessness would lead to a direct loss of control.

If you compare the human body to a game, then potions are like mods, potions of the same sequence are a series of mods, as long as they are played in order, then there's no problem.

The mods of adjacent sequences are compatible mods under certain conditions, and after the basic mods (low-medium sequences) are applied, they can be switched.

As for the non-adjacent paths, they are naturally conflicting mods. If you combine them casually, the game will crash.

However, the path provided by Snow's Goldfinger directly violated this rule. To promote from each sequence he needed to take in the potions of other sequences.

The reason for this was that this Sefirot called [When a White Horse is not a Horse] had the function of putting the spiritual imprint of this sequence into the potion

It was like putting a compatibility patch on the mod.

For example, when he was an ordinary person back then, he was promoted to Sequence Nine's [Buridan's Donkey] by taking the [Secret Supplicant] potion. [1]

When he wants to be promoted to Sequence Eight's [Pavlov's Dog], in addition to taking the [Listener] potion that also belongs to the Secret Supplicant pathway, he could also drink [Unwinged Angel], [Lunatic], [Beast Tamer] Three kinds of potions of Sequence Eight to get promoted. [2]

However, the compatibility patch was just a compatibility patch, and although there were no problem with the compatibility after it was applied, but small bugs were unavoidable.

[When a White Horse is not a Horse]'s transformation of the potion just added a stronger spiritual imprint, which meant that the original spiritual imprint in the potion had not been removed, so Snow had to digest two spiritual imprints at the same time when digesting the potion.

Of course, this did not mean that Snow had to play two roles at the same time, because the acting in the pardox pathway was mandatory—

To put it simply, it was a negative state equivalent to "forced acting". Once you try to resist, you will start to lose control.

Just like the [Buridan's Donkey] he currently holds, while acting the role of the Secret Supplicant to digest the potion, he also carried a debuff called [Difficulty Choosing]. Once there were two relatively equal options, unless given a reason for a choice, he would get stuck in a stalemate because you couldn't make a choice, and if he tried to force a choice, he would start to directly lose control until he stoped his dangerous behavior or he became a monster.

Fortunately, apart from this debuff that will be weakened with the progress of the potion digesting, this behavior of taking potions across pathways will not increase the risk of additional loss of control, nor will it affect the potential for continued promotion. The only difference was the abilities he acquired after promotion.

Take his current [Buridan's Donkey] as an example. The characteristics of this Sequence Nine were that he had endurance and spirituality that was twice as high as that of ordinary people, he had a certain identification ability, and had considerable knowledge and talent in ritualistic magic.

And the potions that it needed were [Seer], [Monster], and [Secret Supplicant]. Depending on the potion, there would be a certain tendency to change. Drinking the Monster potion gave higher spirituality, and the the Secret Supplicant got more knowledge of ritualistic magic.

But for Snow now, these were actually secondary. The most important function of this Sefirot was actually the ability it possessed in higher sequences of the pathway. For example, it could block the pollution from the cosmos, a True God's gaze, and the most important power of 0-08.

From the point of spirituality consumption, the sequence to which this ability belonged should not be high, but if it was activated through the source material, it could obtain the blessing of aperson of the True God level.

It's just that powerful abilities were often accompanied by huge costs. The reason why Snow could support this ability that could even block pollution from the cosmos was entirely because of the uniqueness that had been completely integrated with him—[One-foot Pole].

The so-called "Take a pole one foot long, cut away half of it every day, and at the end of ten thousand generations there will still be some left.", this unique ability was simple and crude, it was the manifestation of the authority of the paradox pathway, and directly distorts the rules of infinite subdivision and orders of magnitude,so he almost had an infinite output of spirituality.

And as a price, only half of Snow's spirituality was rendered unusable.

If there is any deficiencies, it was that the upper limit of his spirituality was only a quarter of Snow's total spirituality.

It was with this kind of power that wasalmost a perpetual motion machine that Snow could turn on [When a White Horse is not a Horse] around the clock, in order to resist the risks brought by the knowledge in his brain from "Lord of Mysteries".

…

The headache caused by the white horse being activated gradually subsided. Snow pulled himself up, pushed the window open a gap, reached out and gently pressed the top of the little kitten's head. The spirituality in his body once again began to flow.

However, the consumption this time was not as exaggerated, it was only a little bit faster than Snow's spirituality recovery speed in the half cogitation state.

After the spirituality was extracted, Snow found a comfortable position to lie flat, while the little kitten, turning into a dark light, leapt out of the window with a whoosh ...

The Loen shorthair cat, as the name suggests, was a native breed of Loen. Because of its docile personality and excellent adaptability, it was widely loved by all walks of life. They were also loved among the commoners, and even in the age of great voyages, they were once bred as ship cats.

In such a big environment, a kitten wandering the streets was not a big concern, even if it ran much faster than its peers.

After all, in the eyes of most people, a cat was an elusive animal.

…

In a dilapidated courtyard, on the second floor of a gray-blue house, in an unlit bedroom.

A young girl with a round face, gentle and sweet was sitting in front of a dressing table, playing with a puppet that was not so delicate.

But at this moment, her spirituality suddenly stired, almost subconsciously, she turned her eyes to the silver mirror placed at the foot of the dresser, but there was nothing on the deliberately polished mirror. strange.

"You rely too much on your Beyonder abilities." A slightly shrill voice came from above her head, and the girl almost instantly touched the hidden pocket around her waist, but the next moment, she stopped the movement of her hands.

She looked up at the black kitten that had entered the room at some point, and said with a cold voice:

"Didn't I give you my contact information?"

"I don't have the heart to communicate in the way that witches do, as if you never pass on items by offering them to my Lord." The kitten especially emphasized the pronunciation of the word "witch", and the girl frowned slightly, but still said:

"I've already got the notes you asked for, what else?"

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[1. Buridan's Donkey or Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein a donkey that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water. More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass]

[2. Pavlov's Dog is a study on conditioning a dog. Pavlov showed that dogs could be conditioned to salivate at the sound of a bell if that sound was repeatedly presented at the same time that they were given food.First the dogs were presented with the food, they salivated. The food was the unconditioned stimulus and salivation was an unconditioned (innate) response. More info: https://www.simplypsychology.org/pavlov.html#:~:text=Pavlov%20showed%20that%20dogs%20could,an%20unconditioned%20(innate)%20response.]