Path

Biodata

Power Progression

The documented progression follows Luo Li's system-assisted awakening and development.

Nature and Principles

• Beyond ordinary abilities: A Path can involve the mind, information, and rules rather than merely enhancing bodily performance 12 16.
• Ideals underpin power: The system connects Paths to following an Aeon's footsteps and putting those ideals into practice 12.
• Emotional bonds can enable advancement: Luo Li's route depends on his relationship with Castorice. Her blessing and support also help anchor him during awakening 12 15 16.
• Path fusion is possible: Under the system's special conditions, Remembrance and Finality combine into the entirely new Path of Spacetime 34.

Known Paths

Awakening and Development

Remembrance Prerequisites

The system gives Luo Li the following requirements; they are conditions for his awakening, not established universal rules for every Pathstrider 12.

Risks and Stabilization

• Premature awakening: Attempting Remembrance before meeting its conditions can cause mental backlash or failure. The system ties the risk directly to the depth of the bond 12.
• Information overload: Luo Li's awakening floods him with personal memories and unfamiliar fragments from other times and places, nearly overwhelming his consciousness 16.
• System intervention: A stabilization protocol filters interference, organizes incoming memories, and anchors his core consciousness 16.
• Higher-tier danger: Finality's awakening is explicitly more perilous than Remembrance's. The system recommends absolute mental stability, safety, and thorough preparation 23 24.
• Foundation training: Before exploring Finality further, Luo Li is advised to consolidate Remembrance while maintaining his bond with Castorice 24.

Spacetime Fusion Conditions

• Luo Li must have awakened Remembrance and made initial contact with Finality 34.
• His bond with Castorice must be maximized. Their confession and establishment as a couple bring her affection above 100%, triggering the fusion 34.
• The resulting Path grants five S-rank abilities and is accompanied by the growth-type weapon Bloodblade Enma 34.

Abilities & Skills

Remembrance Perception

Reads emotional and memory traces associated with objects and surroundings 16.

• Passively senses strong nearby emotional memories; active surface-memory reading consumes mental energy 16.
• Reveals the worry and fear embedded in Castorice's handwritten notes 23.
• Extracts information from vampire samples and reconstructs traces of an experiment at an abandoned research institute 28 30.
• Improves access to Luo Li's past gameplay experience and recognition of enemy behavior patterns 22.
• Supports prediction of attack trajectories when combined with his original Super-Speed Reaction 40.
• Is not infallible: a hidden observer remains beyond its detection after the fight with Earl Shadowwing 46.

Remembrance Weaving

Initially permits extremely brief memory suggestions or memory blurring against weak-willed targets 16.

• The embryonic form consumes large amounts of mental energy, has weak effects, and depends on the difference between the user's and target's mental energy 16.
• Early animal experiments show its limits: a stray cat lashes back at Luo Li's mental perception, while birds generally pause briefly before flying away 21 24.
• Combined with Finality, it traps an abusive subway passenger in a terrifying mental world 33.

Remembrance Summoning

Uses mental energy and a memory-laden medium to summon an existence or projection related to Remembrance 16.

• Suitable media include emotionally significant objects and fragments bearing profound memories 16.
• The summon's form and abilities are random, influenced by the medium and the summoner's mental energy 16.
• Luo Li's first summon, the Spirit of Remembrance later called Xiao Hong, manifests through his old mug. It stores and organizes memories and can read deeper blood memories 16 22.
• Initially, the spirit lacks the energy and stable form to fight vampires and can take only small amounts of ordinary human blood from willing or unresisting targets 16.
• Luo Li can recall it into his mental space as a basic Path operation 17.

Finality Visions

Reveals possible futures derived from present chains of cause and effect 29.

• Luo Li's first vision shows Castorice in Okhema with twin daughters resembling her, with no sign of him 29.
• The vision is not a fixed destiny. Choices and effort can alter the outcome 29.
• Its initial activation is involuntary and causes substantial mental strain and emotional shock 29.

Spacetime Authority

Combines past- and future-oriented powers into control over time, space, causality, and existence 34.

Relationship to the Ability Users' Guild

• Concealed classification: Luo Li registers Remembrance as Deep Information Perception and Traceback, presenting it as a vampire-focused support ability rather than revealing a Path 28.
• C+ support certification: Accurate readings of three vampire samples earn him Guild approval, mission access, and permission to apply for research resources 28.
• Public rank is not Path rank: His later B-rank combat certification reflects the strength he chooses to demonstrate, not the full scope of Spacetime 40 43.
• Reasons for secrecy: Luo Li fears that revealing S-rank-like powers and a growth weapon after recently possessing only a C-rank ability would attract investigations, factional interest, or stronger vampires 40.

Associated Equipment

• Bloodblade Enma — A weapon awarded alongside Spacetime's awakening. It evolves by absorbing blood, deals bonus damage to non-purely-material beings, and devours soul energy to replenish Luo Li's mental reserves. Its later Blood-Drinking Revival trait heals injuries and restores expended energy; this is a weapon advancement, separate from Path advancement 34 36 46.