The Path of Expansion on the Mental Level

"It was actually real—!"

The Manus within the memory widened his eyes. Feeling this body merge incomparably smoothly into the Soul System, he willed a physical body into existence and "walked" out of the memory.

The two Manuses looked at each other and fell silent under the same will.

At that moment, Manus could even be said to have been a little frightened.

Once he realized that matter, spirit, and energy had always been one and the same rather than things that could be converted into one another, and then suddenly connected that realization to memories...

He did not know whether Soul Magic had always possessed this potential and he simply had not noticed it on the Skill Tree, or whether it had mutated under the influence of this world's enhancements to mental will.

Manus suddenly sensed that his Mental World and his Soul System could be extended even further.

Those faint sources of perception were like exclaves of his Mental World, anchored to the Soul System that supplied the sensations, while their locations were...

Manus did not extend his perception toward them, but he could guess what they probably were. If nothing unexpected had happened, they were other people's memories of him.

The "Manus" in Manus's own memories could normally bear Manus's will, so naturally the Manus in other people's memories was also qualified to do so.

"Fortunately, it's only qualified..."

Manus let out a breath of relief.

Whether it was matter, spirit, or energy, a will needed a vessel to bear it. The Manus in other people's memories was merely an empty image, without any substance capable of carrying Manus's will.

Manus could activate those images to bear himself, but he first needed to exert influence from afar and use those images to shape something substantial. Otherwise, unless