Black Emperor Pathway/Abilities

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*Original names changed to follow the nomenclature of the **Black Emperor**. Similarly to the Demoness Pathway, the sequences were originally called:*

## Sequence 9: Lawyer

New Abilities
* They are skilled at finding and taking advantage of loopholes within rules and laws, as well as the weakness of enemies, using "Law & Order" to strike at their opponent.
* **Brainwash**: Lawyers are masters of eloquence and reasoning. They can influence judgment, thoughts, and conclusions through their words, actions, and established processes, distorting or guiding their target's thinking to a certain degree, through methods like making one feel very close to them, or willing to trust them.

## Sequence 8: Barbarian

New Abilities
* **Brute**: Problems that cannot be solved by the law will be solved by force. This is also one of the rules.
* **Physical Enhancement**: They will receive physical enhancements, strength, and a constitution that breaks the rules.
* **Mental Resistance**: The Beyonders at this sequence have a high resistance to psychological influences.

## Sequence 7: Briber

New Abilities
* **Bribe**: This is their main ability, by giving their target an actual or symbolic **Bribe**, they can achieve various effects.
	+ **Bribe—Weaken**: Within a certain period of time, the target will receive a debuff, significantly weakening their *attack*, *defense*, and *control* over the **Briber**.
	+ **Bribe—Charm**: The target will generate an intense feeling of good will or have a good perception of the **Briber**, this makes the target have an extremely hard time oppositional intentions towards the **Briber**.
		- Sometimes the target may be completely unwilling to fight the **Briber**, and if the conditions are right, there is a very small chance that the target will turn their back attack their allies on the spot.
	+ **Bribe—Arrogance**: The target will become proud and arrogant, lowering their intelligence, as well as causing them to have a higher chance of making mistakes or wrong judgement of their situation.
	+ **Bribe—Connect**: This establishes a relationship between the **Briber** and the target, or in other words, it creates a **Connection** between them.

## Sequence 6: Baron of Corruption

Originally called **Corruption**.

New Abilities
* **Distortion**: By **Distorting** the target’s words, actions, and intent, they could formulate a certain order that provided themselves with an advantage, so as to achieve the goal of restraining and influencing their opponent.
	+ Actions and intent can be **Distorted**.
		- Klein used Creeping Hunger and **Distorted** the goal and actions of “separate and intercept”, changing it to “separate and take action alone”, making Kircheis and his companions separate.
		- Nast Solomon **Distorted** Klein's intent to proceed forward, making it impossible for the latter to stop
	+ Projectiles like bullets and fireballs can have their trajectories and targets **Distorted**, altering their direction.
	+ Certain concepts can be **Distorted**.
		- The concept of “closing the door and sealing the room” can be **Distorted** to “seal this place, isolate the outside from the inside”, changing an ordinary room to a **Sealed**  one.
* **Corrosion**: They can make people within *10 meters* become dark and greedy, making them to make irrational choices.
* They can acutely detect a target’s weaknesses.

## Sequence 5: Mentor of Disorder

Originally called **Disorder**.

New Abilities
* **Disorder**: They can make the target or a specific location **Disordered**, such that they will easily make mistakes with their attacks, making them difficult to land. They can also use **Disorder** to get rid of the control abilities of the enemy.
	+ **Confusion**: They can make an enemy confused, causing them to do things in the wrong order.
	+ They can disorder to move a vast distance in a few paces.
* **Majesty**: They can display a sense of great majesty, causing others to want to lower their bodies and obey them.

## Sequence 4: Earl of the Fallen

Originally called **Fallen (Depravity)**.

There are rules to everything, and everything follows certain rules. As **Lawyer** Demigods, they are good at finding whatever loopholes there are to exploit them for themselves. They can use **Exploit**, **Magnify** and **Distortion** to achieve certain things that only Beyonders of the Justiciar Pathway can accomplish.

New Abilities
* **Bestowment**: They can **Bestow** negative effects unto their targets. These effects include turning them sluggish, making them anxious, losing the will to fight, turning them eager and rash, or making them avaricious, and only focused on money.
* **Exploit**: They can **Exploit** laws, extending certain states for longer periods of time or ending it ahead of time. It will make the rules more beneficial to themselves.
	+ For example, after jumping into midair, the state of being away from the ground can be extended, achieving the effect of floating.
	+ Qonas Kilgor **Exploited** his jumping process, achieving the effect of flight.
* **Magnify**: **Magnify** can boost the effects or influence of their actions. It can make an ordinary attack become an execution and it can turn a hug from a distance away into a restriction.
	+ This ability can be used in tandem with **Bribe**, making seemingly ordinary objects thrown by them exceptionally dangerous.
		- A simple rose being thrown can be **Magnified** to an extent that it causes a violent quake when impacting the ground while at the same time imparting the effects of **Bribe—Weaken**.
	+ The injuries they deal to their opponents can be directly **Magnified**, making their targets die on the spot.
	+ Qonas Kilgor was able to grab Klein Moretti from a distance of nearly a hundred meters away to just inches before him.
	+ Qonas Kilgor ”Magnified” the strong winds that helped Klein Moretti fly turning them into a hurricane.
	+ Qonas Kilgor “Magnified” the Rever's Shout of Despair's side effects to a state where even a high-sequence beyonder wouldn't be able to tolerate them.
* They can create a fighting environment that’s favorable for them. For example : they can change, boost, and use certain rules to make whoever tailing them expose themselves without being able to hide.

Strengthened Abilities
* **Disorder**: **Disorder**  will influence the structure of objects, the standards of measurement, and the accuracy of attacks. It will make a seemingly massive building collapse, causing what seems like a huge distance to be shortened to that of a few paces, as well as allowing attacks that are aimed at them to miss their mark.
	+ Qonas Kilgor unleashed **Disorder** to grasp the patterns of the **Concealed**  world that enveloped Maygur Manor, using the feedback to determine the exit.
* **Bribe**: Their abilities of **Bribing** get stronger as demigods, it can also be used in tandem with **Magnify**.
* **Distortion**: The ability to **Distort**  things undergoes qualitative change.
	+ They can **Distort** the **Marionette Interchange** power of a  such that they could only swap between *2 **Marionettes***.
	+ They can directly create a **Seal** in thin air, effectively creating an invisible wall, with just an act of "closing a door".

## Sequence 2: Duke of Entropy

Originally called **Entropy**.

Authorities
* **Entropy (Exploit)**: "They" can exploit and induce the lack of order or predictability; gradual decline order into disorder. "They" will gradually allow easier distortion of logic, energy and physics.

Strengthened Abilities
* **Exploit:** This ability is enhanced to the point that it enables them to jump onto the Moon.

## Sequence 1: Prince of Abolition

Originally called **Abolition**.

Authorities
* **Abolition (Distortion)**: "They" can **Distort** the surrounding area and isolate the place from the real world, preventing many things from affecting the distorted world within the 'boundary'.

## Sequence 0: Black Emperor

* **Resurrection**: Even if "He" was annihilated, "He" would still be able to awaken and return from one of the mausoleums.
	+ There are three stages in the process of "His" **Resurrection**:
		1. The Uniqueness leaves the person possessing it, turning into an abstract concept.
		2. When the subjects of the **Black Emperor** hear "His" mighty voice again.
		3. When fused with the Uniqueness, the **Black Emperor** would reappear in the Astral World. The three Sequence 1 Beyonder characteristics would automatically be returned into the Emperor’s hands. This is an order that other true Deities are unable to distort or prevent.
* **Last Rebirth**: Even if the Deity were successfully killed and all nine mausoleums destroyed, as long as a certain amount of the order set up by that Deity remained, it was still possible for "Him" to mysteriously revive. It appeared to be a loophole against the natural order of death.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 237
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 323
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Mysteries Setting Collection (1) by Cuttlefish
4. ↑ *Circle of Inevitability*, Chapter 183
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 599
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 829
7. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 684
8. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 559
9. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1083
10. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 630
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1025
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1027
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1028
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1026
15. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 1148
16. ↑ *Lord of Mysteries*, Chapter 743