Project V17/Powers/Shardless/Mental and Psychic Powers/Menticide (I'm Sorry For Being Born In This World)

Menticide (I'm Sorry For Being Born In This World)

Cost: 6 SP

The mental framework of your mind has been altered. This enables your mind to gain systematic identification, analysis, and utilization of information essential for efficient and effective killing. Considered an upgraded operating system of the mind, Menticide allows you to tap into a wealth of knowledge specifically tailored to end the lives of others.

With Menticide, you possess an unparalleled sixth sense, an intuitive perception that grants you the ability to decipher the most advantageous methods of terminating a target in any given situation. This heightened awareness transcends mere physical observation, delving into the realm of psychological and strategic analysis. You possess an instinctive understanding of an individual's vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and patterns of behavior, enabling you to exploit them to their utmost advantage.

Furthermore, your proficiency in the art of killing knows no bounds. With Menticide, you possess the supernatural ability to turn any object, no matter how mundane, into a lethal weapon. From everyday items to the most unconventional implements, your mind instinctively comprehends the potential lethality of even the most innocuous objects. This supernatural prowess allows you to adapt to any situation, transforming the environment around you into a deadly arsenal, limited only by your imagination.

Death of 108 Cuts

Your proclivity for murder has allowed you to weaponize your 108 skills, allowing you to sacrifice a potential asset to deny it to an enemy. Whenever you harm someone you've copied a skill of, they take equivalent damage to the copied skill(s).

If you copied the swordsmanship of a foe and dealt a minor cut to them, their skill in swordplay would imperceptibly atrophy. If you were to copy someone's telekinesis and break their arm, that ability would lose strength by a significant margin. And if you were to kill someone, anything you copied from them would be gone forever, even if they were to revive later.

Naturally, as the sole holder of Menticide, nobody else can cause this sort of damage to the connected skill unless you direct their attack, and you may freely decide whether or not to deal this type of damage with each attack.

This is not without weakness, however. As you damage their Skill, the one you've copied weakens in turn, eventually becoming inaccessible to you upon full destruction. Furthermore, if the foe is not fully killed, their skill may "heal" later on, regenerating at the same sort of rate their body and mind would normally recover from damage.

This does mean that with sufficient injury, an individual without a way to avoid complications may see their skill forever damaged. Nothing stops them from learning the skill again, if such a thing is possible, but they would have to start again at a weaker point, and unlearn the damage you dealt to their foundations.