The change was very sudden, but Law's thoughts remained as steady as a mountain.
Being within the White Smoke Font, Law didn't believe these memory orbs could affect or harm him.
'Ancient script...'
Law looked at the flying text. It was somewhat similar to pictographs.
As he pondered, the text penetrated his consciousness.
Suddenly, images integrated with the textual information became extremely clear within the depths of Law's mind.
Information about the Mender, and even about ancient humans, gradually entered Law's mind.
The information contained in a single memory orb was not much. By the time the transmission ended, the information Law had received was only related to another Mender.
'A Mender who controls script...'
Law received all the information from a white memory orb without issue, roughly understanding the system of the Menders and the original intention of the ancient humans in creating them.
[Existence And Nothingness.]
[May all things be as solid as stone.]
This was one of the original intentions of the ancient humans in creating the Menders, along with the idea of recording and passing on knowledge.
They created Menders one by one, classified them into categories, and divided the work.
They took what they saw and heard on their life's journey, using Nen as a framework, and transformed it all into text or illustrations, recording them in books.
For them, they had merely left their memories and thoughts within the books, thereby ensuring the eternal immortality of the soul, and that all things would become as solid as stone.
Unfortunately, judging by the results, they had failed.
But in terms of right and wrong, their starting point was correct.
Law silently interpreted the information brought by the white orbs, delving deeper into understanding that Mender who controlled text.
Each Mender represented a different domain. If there was a commonality, it might be sealing and creation.
The Mender Law had killed controlled life, death, and the soul. It could plunder the souls of living beings, seal them within the book, and then use Nen to simulate the soul, manifesting an identical living being.
This materialization did not involve using the soul itself, nor could it be entirely called duplication. A more accurate description would be simulation.
Therefore, no matter how vast the Mender's Manifested Aura was, its simulation had limits and had to obey the principle of equivalent exchange.
As for the Mender who controlled text, described in the white orbs, that was a different system.
It was responsible for script.
From Law's perspective, in common terms, it was the deep and extensive Divine Script. From the standpoint of the silver-haired woman and Chucu, it was called Array Spell.
There was no difference in essence between Divine Script and Array Spell. If forced to differentiate, Array Spell was the parent of Divine Script.
It was hard to imagine how powerful a Mender capable of using Divine Script would be.
Consider that not long ago, the silver-haired woman had given Law a thorough lesson in using Divine Script. Who knew to what extent a Mender controlling the Domain of Divine Script could utilize it?
Just imagining the Mender of Script opening his book and machine-gun firing countless Divine Scripts imbued with restraint properties was more than just hair-raising.
Law carefully memorized the image of the Script Mender, thinking that if he ever encountered one in the future, he would run far, far away.
He would rather face the Mender who controlled life, death, and the soul again than confront that Script Mender he had never met.
'Second one.'
Law temporarily set aside thoughts of the Script Mender. This time, he opened a black orb.
Instantly, his consciousness and physical sensations trembled slightly. The scene before his eyes underwent an earth-shattering change.
When he came to, he was no longer in the White Smoke Font space, but high in the sky, more precisely, on a piece of rock suspended in the sky.
'White orbs are text and images... black orbs are memory experiences?'
Having absorbed so many vengeful spirits, Law was already familiar with the experience of observing memories as a bystander.
When he first started interpreting the white orbs, Law was disappointed that they weren't the memory-experience type. But after finishing the white orb, he actually preferred the method of having text and images directly implanted into his mind, as it was more direct.
Law began to observe his surroundings.
The rock beneath his feet was about the size of a school field. The ground was uneven. Near the center, a stone object resembling a table and chair was placed. Apart from that, there was nothing else.
Law walked to the edge of the rock and looked down. He could only see black and white sky and clouds. At the end of his sight, everything was a blurry white, like a mosaic.
'Hmm?'
Suddenly, a human about two meters tall appeared out of nowhere in Law's field of vision. He wore a white robe and a hood that covered his hair, eyes, and nose, leaving only his mouth, painted with purple juice, exposed.
That human was walking towards the floating rock. With each step he took, a stone ladder, transformed from Nen, appeared at his landing point. When he took the next step up, the stone ladder turned back into Nen and returned to his body.
Thus, using his effortlessly controlled materialization ability, that human walked towards the floating rock at a moderate and steady pace.
Law observed the ability the human used, his expression somewhat grave, vaguely guessing the person's origin… an ancient human.
Materializing a solid ladder, effortlessly and casually.
If it were a Nen User from the Six Continents, who would waste memory materializing a completely useless ladder?
Moreover, even materializing an ordinary ladder was quite a project.
This ancient human before him could have just stepped upward on Nen Masses, but he insisted on showing off.
What did this mean?
It meant that doing this was as easy as drinking water for this ancient human.
Continuing to observe as a bystander, Law watched this ancient human ascend the rock and sit on the chair at the center.
He placed his hands calmly on the stone table. After a moment, he raised his hands, clapped them lightly, then slowly opened them. In the center of his palms appeared a ring-shaped strange object, shaped somewhat like a Voltorb from Pokémon.
A first impression might be some kind of musical instrument?
Law couldn't help but take a few steps forward, standing right beside the ancient human.
He saw the ancient human put the strange object to his mouth and blow.
Although Law couldn't hear the sound, he could see the sound-wave-shaped Nen transmitted from the instrument, spreading outwards in all directions, then falling to the ground like raindrops.
In an instant, flowers, grass, trees, butterflies, and birds appeared out of thin air.
Watching this scene, Law was speechless.
The ancient human nodded slightly, put away the instrument, then materialized a book and gently placed it on the stone table.
Law watched silently, waves of emotion rising in his heart.
He understood the principles, but what exactly was different between ancient humans and modern humans?
Using the same Nen, how could ancient humans materialize their imagination into physical objects so easily?