Law of Pain¶
An emotion-type law whose core rule is "pain": it locks onto any being that can feel pain and converts endured pain into power.12030 Its chief wielder is Viola, who has broadened it to every negative emotion and even every emotion,12239 and whose own death likely deepened her understanding of it enough to reach the seventh level.38 Clark has studied it deeply, and a Chaos Secret Cult wizard holds a separate flesh-and-energy branch.1622
What is known¶
- Niche rule of rare origin: Little direct combat boost, weak against steel-willed foes, outrageous against beings that have never felt pain.15
- Pain as coordinate: Once a target feels pain, the wielder's mental energy stays locked on it at any distance.1
- Feedback loop: A target's pain feeds understanding back to the wielder; stronger rule, more pain, stronger rule.1
- Solidifiable as a complete rule onto objects such as a main cannon.3
- Pain transfer and storage: Pain suffered returns unchanged to its inflicter, or is stored and given to anyone later.9
- Passive sense: Reads pain and emotional fluctuations without casting; perceives where pain exists over a wide range.1024
- Counter to newborn consciousness: Disrupts or collapses a coalescing will; a gentler side channels, buffers and soothes a bound consciousness.1213
- Prison of Pain ritual: Cuts communication, screens spatial fluctuations, hides the area and converts the pain of everything inside into the caster's power.15
- Bypasses all defense: Pain acts directly on nerve endings and is not an attack, so armor, shields and law resistance mean nothing.1827 Viola's bite beats the pain resistance of Jie Ming's Body Forging Method even at the Great Ascension Realm.38
- Law Solidification Domain: A gray-white ring of pain runes whose wail-like resonance chills the air; it can navigate a plane and embed into barriers.1923
- Lethal to Reflection Dimension creatures, since pain is mental activity on their layer, though it gives no protection against dimensional attacks.2021
- Fuel from any negative emotion: The wielder's own pain, jealousy or despair raises her until she wins; her own happiness weakens it.2229 It draws power from fear, despair and trauma.38
- Field: Suited to emotion, perception, pain and resonance, not matter and energy; weak against a plane origin head-on but formidable in sustained combat.2631
- Cannot be simulated by a fixed array.33
- Late expressions: Pins fleeing eighth-level aliens, drops parasitic worms from their hosts, forces rigidity in a plane-sized parasite, slows angels.34353637
Wielders¶
| Wielder | Since | Expression |
|---|---|---|
| Viola | Ch2131 | Core rule and primary cultivation; strand bought through Clark; the living plane's feedback completed its core; title "Pain"; branch of mental torment;258161732 widened to every emotion at the sixth level;39 likely carried her to the seventh level after her death.38 |
| Clark | Ch3257 | Grasps it at a glance; shows Viola three directions of advancement; has studied it deeply.71422 |
| Chaos Secret Cult wizard | Ch48716 | Converts pain into flesh and energy damage; uses pain as a binder to fuse energy systems.16 |
Interactions¶
- Living plane: Resonates with its despairing soul fluctuations.3
- Yin baleful qi: Its pain is purer and fiercer than anything the rule can apply.4
- Emotion-type laws: Viola's guess at its family, later confirmed.1430
- Law of Withering: Loses to it, since every withering hit fuels it.30
- Octopus-men: Suppressed unusually hard because they transmit emotion through tendril nerves.28
- Reflection Dimension: One of the few laws, held by seventh-level specialists, that can locate its creatures.21
Open questions¶
- Whether Viola's early signs of commanding emotions beyond pain are the same broadening later confirmed.622
- Whether her contagious pain that contaminates creatures' behavior is a distinct application.11
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Chapter 282: Expansion and Deepening of Laws ↩
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Chapter 338: The Visit ↩
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Chapter 367: A Summons ↩
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Chapter 370: An Appointment ↩
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Chapter 441: Extermination Preparations ↩
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Chapter 446: Soul ↩
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Chapter 485: Ambush and Mutation ↩
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Chapter 619: Visit ↩
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Chapter 691: Invasion! ↩
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Chapter 750: The Unexpected Ones ↩
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Chapter 752: The Multiracial Alliance ↩
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Chapter 754: The Play Is Like Life ↩
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Chapter 756: The Tide of Battle ↩
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Chapter 757: Ending It ↩
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Chapter 771: A Lesson, and a Gain ↩
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Chapter 872: Rescue ↩
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Chapter 876: Trump Card ↩
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Chapter 885: The Dragonblood Mushroom-Man Legion ↩
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Chapter 935: Predators ↩
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Chapter 940: Parasite Beasts ↩
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