A memoir?
I seemed to understand what was behind the bizarre wording in the task introduction and summary.
And the "shadows of the past" in the kill count—the characters who appeared in the task were essentially like people entering a memory of the past?
That also went some way toward explaining why I'd been in that state when I entered.
As an uninvited character, the Warehouse had probably gone native and inserted me in the least effortful way possible.
And judging by the description, the item Lui relied on was clearly extraordinary.
Memory was unreliable because it wasn't reality.
Even if everything you saw was depicted truthfully, the causal relationships between events were no longer so rigid. They could even be reversed.
That meant consensus truly became a resource in the predicaments created by the "memoir," guiding everyone toward the story's ending.
What you believed was reality.
Of course, if that were all there was to it, it would be hard to say how it was fundamentally different from a dream with unusual rules.
What truly made it special was that, in the end, it could really solidify into reality, creating something from nothing.
At a certain point, all the investigation would cause the Divine Human Face to truly appear on the royal heir, and the reminiscence would come to an end.
And the real-world Lui would truly acquire that face.
It was hard to say exactly what form it would take. A mask? Or would it simply grow on him like mine?
But in any case, while he successfully bypassed the limitations of reality, everyone else—including Old Master Li—would remain in the memoir, providing the foundation for that face to exist.
Besides that, the task summary's special emphasis on "regardless of what you think, regardless of the foundation