"This ability was harder to use than I'd imagined." After leaving the captain's cabin, Sno walked across the deck beneath hostile gazes, silently grumbling to himself.
He had tried out the ability in front of Adwina earlier, but the result had not been as effective as he had expected.
Shakespeare's Ape's ability found it difficult to rewrite events that were currently happening. For example, he had tried to make Adwina put on the ring right then and there. Although the monkeys had already drafted a corresponding script, it had still failed after exhausting all available spirituality. The setup had been too short, insufficient to create enough coincidence.
It was like earning the same hundred thousand. Making it within a minute and making it within a year were entirely different in difficulty.
However, through this series of tests, Sno had also discovered details that were not reflected in the Sequence inheritance information. For instance, after a certain script was successfully completed, the monkeys' scripts would begin to converge. That could be used to determine whether his ability had activated successfully.
Using that effect, Sno tried to make Adwina form three associations: that the Paradox Path might be the hidden sixth pathway of the Five Families; that Paradox might be an identity assumed by the reviving Roselle; and that the Ten Commandments of Paradox might involve some ritual.
Based on the results of those three associations, he concluded that Adwina knew about adjacent Sequences, knew of the Five Families' existence, and had some knowledge that Roselle might revive. However, she did not know that the Kabbalah Tree of Life and the ring were connected to the number ten.
Compared with such fine manipulation, the two macro skills provided by the Sequence itself proved far more useful than expected. For example, Sno had