Arcane Lord

Xia Duo does not deny the existence of miracles, but he believes more in the miracle of man conquering nature.

However, in his consistent understanding, the earth's universe has always been a material universe, and there should be no civilizational will or planetary will.

Therefore, suspicion is just suspicion. Even if it is true, Xia Duo has his own will and will not succumb to the instinct of blood.

…

On this day, Xia Duo and Niya were doing the adaptation exercise of "rejecting and welcoming". News suddenly came from Severton, and Iolum personally informed:

"Come back after a few more days of rest. The project can be finished."

When Xia Duo received this news, he was still a little unbelievable. Is the elves' monitoring magic just a fake? Has it been resolved in just a few days?

"Teacher, is there any problem with the elven magic?" Sha Duo asked quickly.

"Of course it can't be so smooth, but I just thought of a trick. It's okay to use in emergencies, but it's not worth promoting."

"What is the method? Going to a secondary plane? Or something else?"

Sha Duo had also considered how to deal with the elves' monitoring magic before, but apart from avoiding it, there was actually no better way.

According to his calculations, even if a simple and easy countermeasure is found in the future, the cost will not be much small, so it can be said that Comanso's proposal is a conspiracy.

However, during the subpoena, Iolum did not reveal the specific method of tricking him. He just asked the Shado Territory to return to Sevington as soon as they were done.

Xia Duo did not continue to ask about this, but brought up another matter: "By the way, teacher, I sent a message asking about the [Mechanical Mind] spell before, did you receive it?"

"I got it. I will send someone to send a learning scroll to the Tower of Time later. Please pay attention to receive it. Also, don't forget to come to Severton after handling the territory affairs."

"Oh, I see."

Xia Duo finally responded, but he still felt a little weak in his heart. His current state was not suitable for contact with other people.

He believed that Iolum would not have any special thoughts about his bloodline, but using the majesty itself would also cause inconvenience to others. If it interfered with the completion of the project, that was not what Sha Duo wanted to see.

In fact, whether he or she is at the end of the project does not have much impact. The final stage is more about testing the stability of the device and optimizing some details in the production, installation, debugging, and use processes.

As for Xia Duo himself, of course he really wants to participate in the final stage, but the premise is that the external impact of bloodline can be reduced to a minimum. If not, it may be more appropriate not to participate.

"Come on, Nia, let's keep practicing!"

"Wait a minute, I just received an urgent letter from the Alfa Federation, marked confidential, and the recipient is you. Is it the [Mechanical Mind] you mentioned before?"

"That's right. You can send the letter over and you'll know after you read it!"

"Um."

Niya immediately did as she was told, and a thin booklet exuding a strong magical aura was sent from the communication room. The cover was ordinary, without any text or patterns, and it seemed to be made of exactly the same material as the inner pages.

If it weren't for the magical aura radiating from it, it might be regarded as a new stack of unused paper.

Xia Duo did the process of lifting the protection and encryption very easily. After a while, the thin book lost most of its magical aura, and at the same time it turned into a pile of scattered papers, with text and graphics appearing on it. .

There are three study scrolls among them, not the one Iolum just mentioned. The rest are some scrawled handwritten notes. Judging from the traces on them, it seems that they were not written at the same time.

Seeing these notes, Sha Duo was quite moved. He just asked casually, and Iolum even had the notes ready.

"Niya, I'll take one copy of the learning scroll, and I'll leave the rest to you."

"Well, thank you, Shado."

"How can we thank each other!"

Next, Shaduo and Niya continued to adapt to the exercises, and of course now there was another project, which was to learn [Mechanical Mind].

For Niya, [Mechanical Mind] is a pure mental spell, but for Shado, it is not just a spell, but also a subconscious training method.

It is difficult for ordinary people to reach the subconscious realm by their own strength, but Xia Duo can!

The [Mechanical Mind] provided by Iolum essentially reverses the subconscious mind and the conscious mind, allowing the subconscious mind to take over and put the caster in a state of near-absolute sanity.

But at the same time, the conscious mind has not completely "melted" into the huge subconscious ocean. It can still have a certain degree of independence and provide a leading role in the general direction of subconscious judgment.

This is almost the same as the integration of latent and expressive consciousness that Sha Duo had previously envisioned, but Sha Duo's idea was more advanced and more complete.

The [Mechanical Mind] uses magic to make a trick. The reason why it is called mechanical is that the subconscious behavior has a relatively fixed pattern, and the caster's own consciousness cannot control everything.

If unfortunately the enemy knows about it and takes advantage of it, it may be better to deal with it than not using [Mechanical Mind].

But for Xia Duo at this stage, the complete integration of latent and expressive consciousness is far away, so it is okay to use this "substitution" first.

What's more, compared to ordinary spell casters who can only use spells mechanically, he can control more, and after the spell ends, he can still imitate it to a certain extent.

In other words, as long as he follows [Mechanical Mind] and learns it, Shado can eventually obtain weakened absolute sanity and immunity to the passive effects of psychic spells.

Of course, what's more important is that the process of learning and imitating [Mechanical Mind] is actually a training that integrates subconscious and explicit consciousness.

Even, it is not completely impossible to summarize a set of training methods suitable for ordinary people.

…

the next day.

Although the casting process was not very smooth, Xia Duo finally completed the first complete casting of [Mechanical Mind].

When the spell was completed, Xia Duo felt that all his emotions and desires had disappeared without a trace, but if he looked carefully, he could still find some clues.

Not disappearing, but suppressed.

The representation process of consciousness is dominated by the huge subconscious mind, and the expressive consciousness that originally contains the self and is full of emotions is hidden in the ocean of subconsciousness.

Xia Duo feels that he can still decide the actions of his body, but there are some actions that he clearly feels "resistance", such as some unnecessary actions, or actions that will hurt himself.

If you do it forcefully, you can indeed do it, but it will greatly reduce the duration of the [Mechanical Mind] state.

In addition, if there is no continuous instruction, the body will remain motionless, which seems very inhumane in terms of control.