"Is that so?"
Xu Xiao stared in astonishment, her thoughts instinctively focusing on her Authority of "Tolerance,"
settling upon the white thorns quietly floating within her body, coiled together like a snake.
So using the power of an Authority only required consuming divinity?
Then why had she needed to pay the price of forgetting a memory in order to use the power of "Tolerance" to revive Oglin the kobold?
And after using the Authority's power, her divinity did not seem to have diminished in the slightest.
It was still as abundant as ever.
Could it be that different Authorities produced different effects, and their methods of consumption differed drastically as well?
Xu Xiao fell into deep thought.
Octopus Lady Matilda, meanwhile, had not been idle. She was still happily browsing through the woman's memories.
She had merely changed from doing so openly
to doing it silently in private.
Call her someone who went back on her word;
say she was fickle and inconsistent;
either way, it did not matter.
After all, she did not have Xu Xiao's conflicted temperament.
Matilda's guiding principle in life was to use every possible means to achieve her goals.
She had already been like this before becoming one of God's Chosen Ones, and after becoming one, she adhered to that principle even more firmly.
However, as she continued watching, Matilda's secret delight came to an abrupt halt.
Because she saw the scene where Xu Xiao had stepped in to help within the God Realm.
Reviewing memories did not merely recreate the scenes witnessed by the person involved.
All sensations received through the other senses—such as sound, smell, and touch—would also be fully experienced by the viewer.
Simply put, aside from the thoughts they had at the time, which could not be known, everything else was