Isaac had never imagined that there could actually be Soul Snatching Wizards who hadn’t learned the Spell to steal mories.
Among all the Spells of the Soul Snatching School, extracting mories was the most aningful effect.
Or rather, the other Spells of the Soul Snatching School either needed the mory extraction Spell to coordinate and assist... or they were the preparatory steps specifically done to extract soone else’s mories.
Once in possession of this Spell, combined with the Soul Snatching School’s ability to change another person’s cognition, one could seamlessly take the place of anyone... that is, fundantally replacing that person. Logically, stealing his parents, friends, job, social status, and all personal wealth.
If it were modern tis, it would be the equivalent of quietly obtaining all of that person’s passwords; even though it is not yet the digital age, passwords still have their necessity... The most important of these is the nightmare password.
That string of passwords known only to oneself, used to determine whether one is in a nightmare... If this series of passwords is stolen without one’s detection, one could even be murdered without resistance by having that password recited to them, causing them to believe they were in a nightmare.
Besides retrieving passwords from the depths of the mind... as long as the technique of mory theft is sophisticated enough, one could be made aware of the specific contents of a Curse Binding without even realizing it.
Of course, this would be much more difficult.
If reading surface mories is like stealing from an external pocket, then accessing the "secrets" that soone doesn’t want others to know is like directly stealing from the interior pocket.
To achieve this without alerting the target becos extrely difficult.
——That is why passwords that "beco a weakness once known" can beco widespread.
Because learning this password is not actually that simple.
Unless a Soul Snatching Wizard is overwhelmingly dominant—like an experienced silver-rank Wizard against an ordinary person, or a Dream Stealer of that Transcendent’s caliber against a bronze-rank.
Just as after Kafney beca a fallen one, she was almost completely free from the omnipresent interference of the Dream Stealer, Denton.
Without this level of suppression, deep mory interrogation requires a ritual. That ans the other party would at least know "I’ve had my mory searched" once.
It’s like when a ga account is logged into from a different location for safety reasons; the password is changed afterward.
If one is particularly confident and feels very secure, to the point of stubbornly refusing to change the password... There might be no issues doing this for consecutive tis, but the mont a problem arises, it would be too late for regrets.
"Because of the great harm caused by Soul Snatching Spells, generally, only under official approval deed necessary, through a rather complex process, can one find a Trustworthy Soul Snatching Wizard to initiate the ritual and perform a ’Deep mory Reading’. "
Isaac explained in detail, "Even for spies, such brutal thods should not be used—if the craftsmanship is not good enough, using this ritual can easily burn out their brains. Generally, spies do not know too many secrets... The purpose of interrogation is actually to ’find out how much they have really divulged’.
"And if they are not executed on the spot, their greatest value... is to be used to exchange for one’s own captured spies. In such cases, excessively violent thods are not advisable—they greatly reduce the value of the spy.
"For example, a demolition Wizard who has prepared a ritual aiming to blow up a city, or kidnapped or stole soone’s child but refuses to say a word, or transported so contraband, because they know speaking up ans death they remain shut... In these cases, one can employ ’Deep mory Reading’ for interrogation.
If ’mory Reading’ is like stealing from an outside pocket, then ’Deep mory Reading’ is not about stealing from the inside pocket—it’s about ripping the clothes and person apart and then searching for the things that were probably inside the pockets."
Even the deepest-hidden secrets could be unearthed... but the information itself may turn into fragnts.
"Moreover, everyone has their own secrets—from little things about personal emotions to major policies not yet made public. So of these can be used for blackmail, while others can be sold to interested parties,"
Just as in days of old the Goddess of Cup sacrificed the "Secret Maiden" to the night.
When information beca a secret, it implied that it had value. And when only the "Soul Snatching Wizard" procured this secret, it still retained its value as a secret.
If used correctly, a secret could effortlessly yield vast wealth—or even beco "wealth" itself.
"So, why can those high-ranking Soul Snatching Wizards read the secrets in others’ minds without being detected?"
"One important reason is their more delicate control of the spell. If you are not skilled enough, the subject will feel a strong sense of being spied upon the instant you enter their mind.
"The typical signs of being mind-read by a Soul Snatching Wizard are [suddenly recalling a mory unrelated to reality] or [a thought that just surfaced in mind becos clearer and more vivid].
"The deeper your understanding of the spell, the less abrupt this ’clarification of mory’ will be. If you are sufficiently skilled, and the other party is not vigilant, they will not notice."
Isaac taught earnestly, "At the sa ti, there’s another crucial skill. That is to induce the subject to ’recollect’ the information you wish to know through various ans.
"To discover a secret, you might prompt them through speech, setting, or so other ans to think about or subconsciously recall the intelligence you seek.
Thus, it can be said... for a Soul Snatching Wizard, the weapon of speech is even more crucial than proficiency in spellcasting. The forr directly determines the extent of information they can procure or the degree to which they can manipulate the target, while the latter only decides the success rate of escape in case of ’failure’."
Knowing that Thirteen Fragrance was an "unexpectedly honest" Soul Snatching Wizard and therefore lacked ample spellcasting experience, Isaac could only strive to fill in this knowledge for him, lest any problems arise.
In that case, it wouldn’t be good for others, for Thirteen Fragrance himself, or even for Annan.
In the Tower of Black Radiance, for example, the Soul Snatching Wizards practiced with "teaching assistants."
The act of reading and altering mories is difficult to teach through textual ans. It was because they practiced under the ntor’s supervision that they could refine their craft rapidly without ’teaching assistants’ being consud too quickly... they were able to learn quickly.
—During this process, one could also complete an additional assignnt.
That was to observe these apprentice wizards’ behaviors and give them a secret and concealed "character assessnt score."
Because Soul Snatching Wizards could easily alter others’ wills, even to the point of ending disputes or inciting riots.
If this power fell into the hands of soone with ill-intentions—like the Dream Stealer Denton, there was no doubt it would cause imnse harm.
Those Wizards who indulged in manipulating minds to the point of becoming arrogant and swollen with power... they usually beca black wizards after graduation or were dealt with directly beforehand.
And the one who often cleaned house was their own ntor.
...Just like the old Gerald.
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