GREED: ALL FOR WHAT?

Chapter 2314: The Dream Plane.

Besides these two main reasons, they have an innate ability that helps them quickly gain mastery of their divine abilities. So they don’t need to risk their lives for progress.

However, they could always risk the lives of their slaves. They don’t care if their slaves think they are someone else. As long as their slaves become puppets, their identity as puppets will remain set no matter how many memories they have.

They gained this confirmation after testing the option on their slaves. They bought memory fragments from legendary telepaths in the Mindscape and discovered that as long as their slaves are puppets and they support their slaves mentally, their chances of losing control instantly become drastically reduced.

As for the matter of dissociative disorder, its effect can also be minimized by using their Hypnotize divine ability. So all in all, the worst consequence is their slave losing control, which doesn’t affect them much.

The second option for gaining mastery quickly is the dream excursion option. This option involves entering the dreams of powerful people and living their life.

This option will help gain mastery of divine abilities quickly, but it comes at a risk of total personality overwrite. There is also the risk of a split personality, but the total personality overwrite is the main concern.

When godclads use memory fragments, the memories they gain have been trimmed down to only contain what they want. This is why there is only a personality split.

In the case of dream excursion, the memories gained are unfiltered and unrestricted. In the worst case, the memories from the dream will overwhelm the memories of the godclad to the extent that the godclad starts thinking that they are the person whose dream they entered.

Total personality overwrite is usually the case when the dream belongs to a dead god. Godclads who use this kind of dream will quickly gain mastery of divine ability, but they might have to give up their existence for it.

To top it off, losing control is also a possible side effect. Not even gods are safe from losing control, so this option doesn’t make one immune to it either.

There is also the risk of trauma and other debilitating memories. All in all, Legion decided to stay off of this option too.

They didn’t even bother to use the option on their slaves either. It was just too stressful an option for them to use.

They don’t have tools to enter dreams, and they don’t want to venture to the spiritual dimension in order to find areas occupied with the dream of dead gods either. Rather than do these stressful things, they would rather just buy memory fragments from the Mindscape.

The fact that they will be able to create memory fragments themselves when they become legends made them decide to use the first option. They just don’t trust other Legends, and the memory fragments are also expensive to buy.

They had just bought another set of memory fragments, but they were not happy about how they got it. They even complained about it.

Legion-8 grumbled about it, saying, “Those legendary telepaths are being too cocky. Not only do they charge so much, but it is very difficult to determine if what we bought is high quality or not.”

Legion-2 snorted and said, “Forget about being able to determine if it is high quality or not. We can’t even determine if what they gave us is fake or not. We can’t tell if they are cheating at all, yet they get to ask for so much.”

The cost of memory fragments containing memories of mastery of divine abilities are sold for each divine ability and priced according to the level of mastery and rank of the divine ability.

In general, the price of a memory fragment for mastery of divine ability is the cost of the divine flesh for the rank of divine multiplied by the level of milestone of mastery.

The levels of mastery are 1%, 10%, 20%, 50%, and 100%. Only the last four are counted, and they are counted as 2, 4, 8, and 16.

So in the case of a rank 1 divine ability whose divine flesh costs 200 gold coins, a memory fragment that is supposed to contain memories for the mastery of 50% will cost 200 × 8 gold coins.

That makes 1,600 gold coins for a memory fragment. Once the legendary telepath possesses this memory fragment, all they need to create more are mind fragments.

Memory fragments are cheap and easy to acquire. So once a telepath can make the memory fragment, they can sell it indefinitely and earn 1,600 gold coins with each sale.

Legion thinks this is being too greedy, but what they hate the most about the whole thing is that they can’t be sure about the quality of the memory fragments and the level of mastery within it before buying it.

It is only after they absorb the memory fragment that they can tell its quality. But by then it will be too late because they would have already absorbed too many traumatic and negative memories along with the memories of the mastery.

In fact, they still can’t be sure about the level of mastery contained within the memory fragment because the level of mastery gained from them is also dependent on the user. Specifically, the level of mastery gained is dependent on the digestion and assimilation rate of the memory fragments.

Digestion takes time, so the mastery is not gained instantly. What’s more, some people might reject the memories in order to resist dissociative disorder, so they won’t gain the full level of mastery contained in the memory fragments.

These issues mean that they can’t hold the legendary telepaths accountable for subpar gains even though they paid a lot of money for the memory fragments.

They also can’t be sure that the telepath hasn’t intentionally added something into the memory fragment in order to brainwash those who use it. This makes Legion disgruntled about the whole thing.