Within Amphoreus.
Lygus subconsciously looked up, only to find nothing there.
But... "Remembrance! Who is it? An attack through Remembrance!"
As expected of Xandar's avatar, he possessed the qualities of a genius himself. In just a brief instant, he discerned the source of the attack.
After understanding the method of attack, Lygus reacted immediately, using consciousness technology to directly delete the corresponding memory segments.
He intended to use this method to evade the attack that was about to fall upon him.
However, accompanied by a cracking sound, it seemed as if something had shattered.
Then, a crisp voice rang out out of thin air within Lygus's memory.
"You can delete your own memories, but can you delete my memories of you?"
Aboard the Astral Express, Cyrene was somewhat surprised that Lygus could think of a corresponding defensive measure in such a short time.
But.
It was useless.
She directly punched and shattered the entire memory mirror, implementing a full-map strike.
The memory mirror was formed from her own memories. Since she couldn't attack through Lygus's memories, implementing the strike through her own memories was merely a bit more effort.
Hearing the familiar voice, Lygus couldn't help but freeze for a moment.
He certainly knew who the owner of this voice was.
In the thirty million cycles of reincarnation in Amphoreus, very few things had ever escaped his control; Cyrene was one of them.
"Can't dodge it?"
"Then I won't dodge! I'll just 'die' once."
Lygus sneered slightly. An attack through memory—a Memory Keeper?
As the oldest genius, he had studied all the Aeon factions in the Great Universe and had corresponding countermeasures for each.
Although this Memory Keeper's method of attack was beyond his expectations, it was still within his range of handling.
In the next moment.
The individual known as 'Lygus' was directly erased from the world of Amphoreus, as if by an eraser!
This was the attack from Remembrance, capable of erasing a person directly from the world's memory!
"..."
In a space independent of the world of Amphoreus, Lygus's consciousness quietly emerged, his face showing a look of extreme wariness.
"It was actually a wide-area attack against all of Amphoreus, directly erasing all memories of my existence within it?"
In that instant just now, the more than one hundred thousand contingencies he had arranged in Amphoreus were all erased; it was simply terrifying.
Ultimately, he only escaped danger by using a contingency left in this space isolated from Amphoreus.
Was this something a mere Memory Keeper could achieve?
Amphoreus was his home turf!
With the home-field advantage and this avatar, he even had the confidence to contend with the Lord of Silence.
Yet, facing this Memory Keeper, he actually had no power to fight back?
Recalling how those hundred thousand contingencies were revived one by one, only to be wiped away without resistance by that terrifying power of memory deletion, that palpitation of constantly wandering on the edge of death... "Perhaps, I should leave."
Even facing such terrifying danger, Lygus remained calm. "My goal is to break through the boundaries of knowledge and allow Iron Tomb to be successfully born. Destroying Nous is one way."
"Amphoreus giving birth to a miracle and resisting successfully is also a way; both signify the successful completion of the experiment."
"And now, with a variable appearing that breaks through Nous's calculations, whether the experiment in Amphoreus continues or not is no longer important to me..."
Or rather, the moment Hermes, Member #84 of the Genius Society, was born, Lygus—or rather, Xandar—already understood that the moment of Nous's absolute calculation had been breached.
And when Pure Beauty Hermes was born, the boundaries of knowledge themselves were already shattered; he had even less reason to continue lingering in Amphoreus.
Only... "The experiment is no longer something I can stop just because I want to..."
Lygus sighed: "Nous's thinking units, Remembrance's Eternal Return, and Destruction's Black Tide..."
"These three Paths are already completely entangled. The karma of this deathmatch is a complete dead knot. Unless a final victor is decided, one will face the backlash of all three Paths."
"At such a critical moment, how can I stop just because I want to?"
Amphoreus was one of the most important experiments for Lygus, which is to say, Xandar.
What it contained was naturally not as simple as being an incubation shell for the Lord Ravager Iron Tomb.
Or rather, how could a mere Lord Ravager, even one chosen by Nanook to correspond to the Path of Erudition, pose a threat to the Aeon of Erudition?
Using strength against strength, perfectly utilizing the deathmatch of the three Paths, was the essence of this experiment.
Once this experiment began, it was destined that it could never simply be stopped.
He had been pushed to the edge of the cliff!
"As expected of the existence that created Nous, to be able to achieve such a level in just a brief moment."
In the Parlor Car, after a long while, Screwllum finally remarked with admiration.
In this single round of exchange, the methods used by both the attacker and the defender left everyone present in awe.
Whether it was Cyrene's method of using memory to attack and erase an Envoy of Intellect.
Or Lygus's instant analysis of the memory attack and the brilliant response he made in that moment.
In less than a breath's time, after having over a hundred thousand contingencies erased, Lygus was actually able to escape with his life from the hands of a minor Aeon... Such methods were worthy of the First Genius; with the accumulation of time, he fully displayed his depth as a genius.
"Hmph! He won't escape!"
Cyrene snorted coldly and took a deep breath. The Path of Remembrance was boiling, and the memory mirror before her was becoming increasingly dazzling.
"You were able to escape with your life from the memory erasure of Amphoreus..."
"But can you continue to survive a memory erasure on the scale of the entire Great Universe?!"
An elbow strike to the entire universe?!
Cyrene's cold and indifferent words seemed to echo within the memory cycles of the universe.
That kind of fate, where if Heaven wants you dead, you must die, seemed about to be engraved into the memory reflections of the entire Great Universe.
It was at this very moment that everyone observing this battle inexplicably came to know exactly what kind of existence this girl, standing quietly at the source of the Path of Remembrance, truly was.
The end of the Path of Remembrance, the beloved daughter of the Crystal Emperor Fuli, seated upon the Throne of Remembrance, a Crown Princess who possessed a certain degree of interpretation over the philosophy of Remembrance!
To the countless Pathstriders of Remembrance throughout the Great Universe, she was the veritable incarnation of Fuli!
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