Arcane Lord

Of course, for Xia Duo, this kind of thing is all based on his own conviction. No one would be so stupid and would publicize it everywhere after doing bad things.

As for self-verification, Xia Duo doesn't have the energy to do it for the time being. In addition, this matter involves demons and abyss, so he needs to be cautious. As the saying goes "care leads to chaos", there may be a mastermind behind the scenes waiting for him to reveal his flaws!

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After leaving Iolum, Shado immediately contacted Jenna, Cliff, Byron and others. In addition to informing him that he had returned, he also expressed his apology for his sudden disappearance two days ago.

Of course, there is also Horn. When Scoum made it clear that he was dissatisfied with him, Horn still stood by his side. Although there were many interest factors involved, isn't that just how human relationships work!

In reality, there are no purely rational people who only calculate gains and losses. Chateau is also willing to maintain a relatively good and stable personal relationship with Horn, or at least maintain such a persona.

After handling some trivial matters in Severton, Shado did not delay and took the teleportation circle of the Austrian Law Federation back to the Tower of Time.

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Tower of Time, Teleportation Room.

As soon as Xia Duo's vision recovered, he saw a light blue figure crashing towards him. Instead of avoiding it, he opened his arms and took Niya into his arms as she flew over.

Niya leaned on Sha Duo's shoulder and forced herself to express her worries calmly, "I thought something happened to you. If you don't come back, I will go to Severton to find you."

"It was indeed an accident this time, but fortunately there was no danger."

Sha Duo caressed Niya's back, and his tone was not so calm, "Do you remember the Daxia homeland in the outer plane that I told you before? They are the ones who summoned me this time."

"What happened?" It seemed that Sha Duo had successfully changed the subject, and Niya's voice became much calmer.

"There were some enemies who tracked them down there, and they were having a hard time dealing with them, so they thought of me."

Xia Duo did not mention that the enemy was a demon. If he mentioned demons, he would inevitably have to explain the demon's aura and even the abyss, which made Niya too worried. If Niya asked, he would not say anything.

"Did you go over and deal with those enemies this time?" Niya continued to ask.

"Of course it's solved. Aaron and the others are just ordinary people. Although they are a little special, they have never mastered powerful magical abilities. For them, powerful enemies are as difficult for me as moving my fingers."

In front of his wife, Shado couldn't help but exaggerate his abilities, but Niya immediately found the flaw in Shado's words:

"If the enemy is not difficult to deal with, why two days?"

"The passage of time in the outer plane is completely different from that in the main plane. It may be fast or slow. This time I experienced an effect similar to the projection plane. My own perception of time was not even half a day. It took me two days to know when I came back. It’s over.”

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The topic became more and more intense, and Niya gradually relaxed. The two hugged each other for a while in the teleportation room, and then went to Linshui Village for lunch together.

After lunch, Niya went to the blue crystal plane alone to build a floating city, while Shado came to the top floor of the Tower of Time, which originally belonged to Niya, but now belongs to him most of the time.

During the previous trip to Sevington, aside from the accident involving the summoning from the outer plane, Shado had already obtained the [Spiritual Closure Blade] from Iolum that could separate the core of spiritual matter.

And tomorrow is the Grand Arcanist Joint Meeting that has been postponed for three days. This time when he comes back, in addition to appeasing Niya, he is of course focused on the Intelligent Brain Project.

In the laboratory.

Xia Duo took out all the ectoplasm cores, a total of 24, of which 16 were complete. Although some were large and some were small, it could be seen at a glance that they were not of the same magnitude as the remaining 8.

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The remaining eight were obtained by cutting the complete spiritual core when Iolum and he tried the [Spiritual Closure Blade].

Three of them are larger, basically half of the complete core, and the remaining five are one level smaller.

Looking at the 24 multi-faceted crystal balls neatly arranged on the experimental table, Xia Duo picked up the smallest one, which was about half the size of a little finger.

Whether it is a tower spirit or the spirit of other artifacts, it is essentially a partial consciousness copy of the caster's consciousness, and can basically be regarded as the caster himself.

People have obvious strengths and weaknesses. They are good at abstract thinking, but it is difficult to quickly perform a large number of the same or different fixed tasks.

The intelligent brain envisioned by Chateau is a multi-core, multi-level network structure——

The higher you go to the upper level, the more complete the copy of consciousness in the device spirit is, and the higher the intelligence is; the further you go to the lower level, the more streamlined it will be, until it loses intelligence and becomes a "meta-program" or "meta-algorithm" that only has a certain mode of thinking.

Therefore, in order to obtain more "meta-program" carriers, Xia Duo needs to divide the spiritual core into as small a size as possible!

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With one knife and two knives, Xia Duo cut directly in the center. The spiritual core that was originally only half of the little finger immediately became three smaller ones.

At this time, unlike in Iolum's study, which was more about verifying the feasibility of the [Spiritual Closure Blade], he is now still exploring the state before and after cutting the ectoplasm core.

After just a few cuts, Xia Duo discovered a pattern, that is -

The smaller the spiritual core, the fewer the facets; before and after cutting, the total number of facets also becomes smaller. There seems to be some unknown loss, and the smaller the cut, the faster the loss of facets.

If you keep cutting in the center, it is easy to cut to the limit.

After Xia Duo's last stab, the ectoplasmic core on the experimental table, which was only slightly larger than a grain of rice, erupted with intense spiritual brilliance. Instead of condensing into two smaller ectoplasm cores, it disappeared directly.

It's like evaporating.

"A regular tetrahedron?"

Xia Duo was thoughtful, and then continued to cut the previous upper level (larger) spiritual core. With one cut, it neither disappeared nor divided into two.

Instead, only a regular dodecahedron is left which is slightly larger than the core of the regular tetrahedron!

No way, no way!

Sha Duo suddenly felt a little ridiculous, and then he cut the knife again without hesitation. As a result, the core of the dodecahedral spiritual substance was directly cut away.

From this, Xia Duo came to the conclusion that the basic form of the core of spiritual matter is a regular polyhedron, and the types of regular polyhedrons are limited, that is to say -

There are only five basic forms of ectoplasm core!

They are the regular tetrahedron, the regular hexahedron, the regular octahedron, the regular dodecahedron and the regular icosahedron.

Sha Duo realized that spirituality should be a concrete and realistic existence, and that psychic magic might also have some objective meaning in its roots.

Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain why the basic form of the spiritual core behaves so regularly.

Although Sha Duo has not yet cut into the basic form of the core of spiritual matter other than the regular tetrahedron and the regular dodecahedron, he has a strong hunch that the truth must be what he guessed!