Single Wish: Rise Of The Omniscient Paragon

Chapter 361  360: Let's Leave

"I'll deal with him now. Then we can leave this place."
When Divine heard Corey's words, he could not help but have a curious expression.
He knew that Corey was definitely not a normal human, tier 2, or even living being. What he had seen some minutes ago had definitely shattered his beliefs and views on certain things.
He knew that Corey had his secrets, however, he was beginning to wonder if Corey's secrets were greater than his secrets.
'I wonder if he even fought with all of his strength against the Assassins.' Divine thought as he watched Corey approach the taxi driver.
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Meanwhile, as Corey approached the taxi driver, his mind was currently on a thought he just had.
'I hope the Assassin group does not have a way of knowing if the mind of one of the members has been tampered with.'
A slight frown appeared on Corey's face as he pondered on this issue for a few seconds, then he shrugged with an indifferent expression.
'If they do, then we'll just deal with it when the time comes.'
Corey's plan on using the taxi driver to find out the location of the Assassins' headquarters was actually simple and required just two skills.
Cognitum Erasure and Toxic Familiar.
Cognitum Erasure was the skill which had the highest proficiency among all his skills. Its proficiency level was at the Transcendent level and using the skill was as easy as walking for Corey.
[Cognitum Erasure: This tome contains a forbidden power that can erase specific memories and knowledge from individuals, altering their understanding of the world.]
This were the exact words on the plaque which held the tome of the Cognitum Erasure.
The description was correct, and if one thought about it, erasing specific memories from an individual's mind should require one to read the mind of the individual right?
Then shouldn't that mean that Cognitum Erasure was a memory erasure skill and also a mind-reading skill?
This was Corey's exact thought before he training with the skill.
However, Corey realized that he was wrong.
With his high proficiency of the skill, Corey knew how Cognitum Erasure.
To remove a certain memory from a person's mind using Cognitum Erasure, he just had to think about it while holding the person.
He could not see the person's memories, however, he would have an instinctive awareness of what the person knew, and he could choose to erase the memories he wanted.
Although it sounded simple, Corey would confidently say that it was.
Making even a slight mistake could cause more memories to be removed, or the individual might even develop mental problems or at worst, death.
However, because of Corey's transcendent skill proficiency, the chances of Corey making a mistake was little.
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Corey crouched and stared at the taxi driver with apathetic eyes. Although the driver tried to hide it, Corey perceived his gaze briefly shifting towards him for an instant.
The taxi driver had been tied up and also had his powers sealed by Divine. In other words, the driver was as harmless as a newborn child.
Corey grabbed the driver's hand with his right hand and closed his eyes.
He activated Cognitum Erasure and the moment he did, a black light appeared on his right hand.
The black light engulfed the taxi driver and Corey was briefly surprised by the fact that the taxi driver was not aware of the presence of the black light.
He didn't know why, but he knew that the taxi driver was not faking it and was truly not aware of the presence of the black light.
Although Corey was curious about this strange fact, he didn't think about it too much and instead put such thoughts into one of his stars of consciousness.
Corey focused on his main consciousness which was suddenly filled with information on what the taxi driver knew.
The specifics were not known to him, however, he knew that if he wanted, he could completely remove the taxi driver's knowledge on how to talk or even walk.
Corey focused on the information which was related to the first meeting he had with the taxi driver, and also his meeting with Divine.
He completely erased the taxi driver's memories of him ever meeting him and Divine. Although the taxi driver still had some memories about the two of them, in his memories and mind, he had never met him and Divine.
The moment Corey erased these memories from the mind of the taxi driver, the taxi driver's eyes became blank and empty.
Corey saw this and with slightly furrowed brows, he gave him a karate chop to his neck, knocking him out cold.
Thud
Seeing the unconscious taxi driver, Corey then moved to the next phase of his plan.
He spread out his left palm, and a black smoke appeared in his left palm. The black smoke churned for a few seconds, then it became liquid, and after another few seconds, it turned to a black crystal.
Crack
Crack
The crystal cracked, and a few seconds later, a black centipede with green legs came out of the black crystal.
The black centipede looked around for a few seconds, then it started crawling around Corey's palm.
When Corey saw the black centipede, he furrowed his brows.
'The time it took to summon a toxic familiar took too long. Not only that, I can feel that if the distance between the centipede and me grows too much, I'll lose my connection with the centipede.'
'Although it won't die because of this, I won't be able to sense its location or what it perceives until I get closer to it. In fact, if it dies before I get close to it, I'll lose all the information it has gathered and would only know that one of my familiars is dead.'
Corey frowned deeply.
'I need to raise the skill proficiency to a satisfactory level quickly. The basic level is too trash.'
After having this thought, Corey communicated with Chucky, the spirit of his Library of Records. He briefly explained what he wanted, and Chucky instantly got his stars of consciousness and his Perceptual Nexus Repository to work.
After doing this, Corey grabbed the neck of the taxi driver and brought him closer to him. He placed his palm close to the ear of the taxi driver, and a second later, the centipede crawled into the ear of the taxi driver and nestled itself in the taxi driver's brain.
Corey made sure the centipede was perfectly hidden, only then did he drop the unconscious taxi driver.
Although there were a lot of inconsistencies in his plan, and also a lot of things that could go wrong. Corey was not really bothered.
If anybody figured out that the taxi driver's mind had been tampered with or that there was a poisonous centipede in the taxi driver's brain, the first person they'll think of would be Divine, and not him who was a 'normal' tier 2.
Corey stood and dusted his palms. He looked at Divine who had a thoughtful expression.
"We can now leave.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om