Arcane Lord

"So now the two major sects of Zhamdas are calculating the computing power pool of the Northland Alliance? Are they planning to use it to create psychic magic artifacts?"

"Yes, even without my appearance, the alliance should be able to find out the clues quickly." Kalish was very humble about his break with Zhamdas.

Shado nodded and once again thought about the recent abnormal loss of the gateway of the computing power pool network. However, he did not mention it immediately. Instead, he asked Kalish what he knew about Zhamdas's plan to build an artifact.

Kalish did not hide this, and seemed to intend to throw out all his cards. He told Shado, "Zhamdas hid a lot from me, but I still discovered the true nature of the psychic artifact through my own observation. secret.

"Essentially speaking, the so-called psychic artifacts are actually independent mental worlds, or they can be regarded as special psychic mages.

"If you want to create a psychic artifact, you must prepare a material that is compatible with psychic energy as a reality carrier in advance, and then you can consider which psychic master will dedicate his mental image world.

"In the past, the artifacts that Zhamdas chose as reality carriers were usually the remains of deceased psychic masters. Those remains were immersed in psychic energy for a long time, and occasionally a special substance could be born, which could still exist while possessing material properties. In the world of mental images.

When Kalish said this, Shado suddenly interrupted his story and asked a question, "What is the relationship between this special substance and spiritual matter?"

"There is no direct connection. The latter is not a purely special substance in the eyes of non-psionic mages, but the former is the matrix of the soul. It has a certain materiality, but is closer to energy. Although spiritual matter cannot exist in the world of mental images, even It’s still an important material for stabilizing the mental world, but it can’t be used directly to create artifacts.”

"Well, you understand." Mr. Xia nodded and motioned for Kalish to continue.

"According to what he said, it is impossible for Zhamdas to create the artifact at any time? We must be weak and must have a computing power pool."

"What is anima?" Xia Shao asked again.

After Kalish finished speaking, the secret room suddenly fell into silence.

"Did he say that there would be no minor consequences when he was in the Council of Elders later?"

"Without the ordinary material that is compatible with psychic energy as the basis of reality, and with the young psychic master who voluntarily dedicates his mental world to integrate into the artifact, the two most critical steps in creating the artifact are completed, and there is only one remaining condition, which is this harsh My heart can surge."

"Of course, sacrifices are not common and are only used in critical moments. After all, intelligent creatures can continue to produce anima as long as they are dead. Even if the burst of sacrifices is small, in the long run, it will still keep us going. Live and produce less.”

Kalish's answer was straightforward, but it made things difficult for the other two people present, usually Larian, who even accused Kalish in front of Young Master Xia:

It's usually the former, and it can only be known by obtaining the memory of a young psionic mage. You must be an arcane mage and a psionic mage at the same time to have such insight.

But anima, whether judging from Kalish's description or Mojave's memory, is likely to be something that exists objectively, and also has a so-called metaphysical existence.

If it is just collecting wisdom, it will cause some damage to the computing power pool and the users of the computing power pool. After all, wisdom is a physical existence, and it cannot be considered to exist in the real world.

And Kalish is not that kind of existence.

Kalish is still a senior mage in the (elven) arcane magic system.

Having said that, Kalish showed a personal expression for the seventh time today, "The only reason for Zhamdas's seven expeditions is not to collect anima!

"Anima is born from intelligent creatures. To collect and reserve surge-level anima over a long period of time, a small amount of intelligent creatures are required to sacrifice. The former cannot obtain a small amount of anima in an extreme period of time."

"There is no way to confirm that Zhamdas will use the computing power pool to collect mental energy, but if we really do that, it will make the computing power pool users think sharply for a period of time, or collapse their consciousness."

Did Mr. Xia pay attention to Larian's performance, but continued to ask Kalish, "So Zhamdas wants to use the computing power pool to collect the anima of the Northland mages?"

After today, Mr. Xia indeed knows that non-psionic mages can sense the existence of anima. Does the young psychic master who was "swallowed" by me have any relevant content in his memory? After all, this guy is just a The arcane mage still adheres to the Zeqi school of thought, believing that arcane magic is just a form of spiritual energy and must be studied deliberately.

"That's right. If we are a weak computing power pool, whether it is the Northern Alliance or the other eight countries in the south, it will be difficult to stop the other party. The perception is that the heart can surge, even if the other party is in Everyone knows how to create artifacts here.”

"What about this anima?" Xia Shao asked again.

"Anima is a renewable and precious resource for psionic mages, but for non-psionic mages, it is just like the real carrier of artifacts and is not ordinary. Non-psionic mages may not have it at all. It is impossible to perceive the existence of mental energy.”

"Well, continue."

To that question, Kalish’s answer was—

Although Mr. Xia did not trust Kalish, he still brought me very little useless information, such as the changes in the Zhamdasanti School, the huge gap between psychic mages and arcane mages at the perceptual level. Small chasm.

Once that kind of thing is taken away, it is difficult to say that there will be no consequences.

Before the elf magic encountered a bottleneck, I came into contact with spiritual energy, and I devoted myself to it before. However, mastering spiritual energy does not mean losing the ability to cast arcane magic.

"Zhamdas has conquered very few natives from the south and east in the past two years. If it was by accident, his anima reserves should be relatively abundant. In fact, he sacrificed himself even if he sacrificed a little psychic master. Well, if we also care about the death of some indigenous people, or even the special people who have assimilated young people in Zhamdas, if we go through with such a small plan, you may be prepared for the delay of the anima."

"I have long heard that the Zhamdas in the south are very evil, but I never thought they could be so evil!" Larian on the side may have heard the story of Anima for the first time, and he couldn't help cursing.

"That's the reason we told you. Instead, we want to use the computing power pool to collect the wisdom of the arcane mages of the Northern Alliance and inject rules from this world into the new artifact. According to the theory of the Anti School, that new artifact will become an unknown artifact. The weakest psychic artifact ever created."

After a moment of silence, Mr. Xia continued to ask Kalish, "He thinks that Zhamdas will use the computing power pool to collect anima. Are you sure that if we do that, there will be no consequences?"

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