"Smoke Screen Assimilation (Standard Ability): The Smoke Screen Scholar never cared about those who disrespected smoke aesthetics. It would only assimilate them. The Smoke Screen Scholar consumes Style Points to create a sustainable Smoke Screen Cage. Those trapped within the cage gradually come to acknowledge the aesthetics of smoke. (View further details)"
It actually changed aesthetic perceptions?
No, Angel carefully reread the description and realized it did not change aesthetic perceptions, but forcibly made others acknowledge the aesthetics of "smoke." It was more like addition.
For example, someone might originally like wasteland aesthetics but dislike smoke aesthetics. Yet after undergoing Smoke Screen Assimilation, they would come to like both wasteland aesthetics and smoke aesthetics.
It was not A becoming B, but A+B.
Though it did not directly twist cognition, it was still extremely powerful.
After all, things like one's "cognitive outlook" were closely tied to personal values, life background, and life experience. They required vast amounts of time spent experiencing and learning before they could gradually take shape.
Yet now, the Smoke Screen Scholar could directly use a Smoke Screen Cage to forcibly add a form of cognition. Even if it was merely an aesthetic perception, it was still terrifying. It truly deserved its title as an exceedingly rare Smoke Screen Scholar.
However.
In Angel's view, adding an aesthetic perception to someone did not seem particularly meaningful for Laplace, did it?
At most, it counted as a control ability for trapping enemies?
But recalling the conversation between Laplace and Gleipnir in the team chat, Angel felt that he had definitely not yet fully understood this ability.
There had to be some hidden information.
With that thought, Angel tapped "View further details."
``` "Effect 1: Only one Smoke Screen Cage created through the Smoke Screen Assimilation ability may exist