Manipulator

The Manipulator is a demigod-level threshold, and its body matches: its strength is such that a steel bar shatters with a single blow, dragon scales hold against the strike, and the bearer runs faster than a steam locomotive.

But its true strength lies elsewhere. The heart-and-mind body of the Manipulator passes through the Sea of Collective Subconsciousness and reaches another person's island of mind: there it directly alters the other's subconscious, reads thoughts, and silently guides the victim to do whatever it wishes. The suggestion sinks so deep that the person later carries it out consistently and precisely, taking it for their own decision.

The remaining abilities of the stage turn it into a weapon of mass destruction against minds:

Soul Plague — the seeds of illness planted on the target's island of mind quietly infect the surrounding Sea of Collective Subconsciousness, and in the vicinity an unnoticed environment of "contagious soul illnesses" takes shape; madness spreads along the threads of the spiritual body as well, and an angel's blessing does not save from it — it only weakens and delays it;

Mind Storm — the Manipulator turns its own thoughts into a storm and covers the surrounding area with it: creatures around hear thousands of voices carrying corrupting knowledge and far more easily slip into a loss of control, while their soul barrier is destroyed;

Fabricated Personas — up to thirteen at first, each with its own heart-and-mind body; with them it both defends itself against influences in the sphere of the mind and unnoticed intrudes upon another's island;

Dragon's Breath of the Mind — an area breath that strikes straight at the heart-and-mind body and the soul body; a development of the earlier spiritual puncture and a direct consequence of the fact that the mythical form of the path is the dragon of the mind.

The awe of the previous stage is reborn into Deprivation of Mind: every living thing within radius inevitably suffers one disorder or another, while around the Manipulator rises a fierce ghostly wind bearing an invisible multicolored intent.

Psychological Invisibility grows to the point where most demigods are hidden from it, unless it has come directly into their field of vision; thus, for example, Khvin Rambis hid from Klein Moretti.

Separately, the canon notes: a battle between two Beyonders of this path of the same level is almost fruitless. One sneaks onto the island of consciousness and tries to hypnotize deeply, another guards the door to their heart-and-mind body, a third spreads the soul plague through the Sea of Collective Subconsciousness, a fourth heals themselves with Pacification — and so on endlessly.

The advancement ritual requires a crowd: no fewer than ten thousand people.