Currency, fate, memories, weapons—Chen Xuan repeated the list in his mind.
The currency market was easy enough to understand. Souls were used as hard currency, forged into coins, ingots, even jewels of varying quality—
Fate was Luo Diya's choice. Chen Xuan guessed that it was probably the essence of the soul, containing both consciousness and the ability to pass down powers.
Then what about memories? What was the difference between the two?
"Fate has direction. Memories do not." N77 heard his question. "You may possess many memories, human, but you will only have one fate."
Chen Xuan paused.
But he quickly understood. Combined with Luo Diya's experience, fate was like a vector with both magnitude and direction. When two people's fates merged, they would inevitably produce a new fate. Their relationship was somewhat like a force analysis, which was why Artifacts said fate had direction.
Memories, on the other hand, had far less influence. They could be a single scene or a flashback. Even if an entire lifetime's memories were stuffed into someone, a person with a strong sense of self could still distinguish which memories belonged to them and which came from outside.
In that case—the "Protocol Birth" on Lin Qing most likely used a "fate-forged object."
The Fate Wedge that would later appear in the hands of the agency operatives, meanwhile, seemed more like a "memory-forged object."
"What about weapons?" Chen Xuan asked curiously.
"Souls can be lethal, but they require special souls to forge."
"Human ones won't work?"
"Too shallow."
Fine—Chen Xuan understood. To experience that function, he first had to gather suitable materials.
Still, he had only asked in passing.
"I want to forge a fate, but I don't know how to describe it, or what form I should forge it into."
"Human, if you wish