Arcane Lord

"In addition to the baptism of artifacts, are there any normal methods that can assist spiritual awakening? Needless to say, the methods of torturing emotions in the past, let's talk about the methods based on your new theory!" Sha Duo continued to ask.

The new theory is that spiritual energy is born from perception beyond limits. If there are some auxiliary methods that he can accept, then he is willing to try it to see if he can awaken spiritual energy.

Rodas did not hide this. He told Xia Duo, "After the birth of the new theory, the methods of assisting spiritual awakening can be roughly divided into two directions. One is to amplify perception. No matter what method is used, as long as it can amplify perception, That’s it.

"The other direction is to weaken perception. Before the baptism of artifacts was developed, these two methods had similar effects. They can both assist spiritual awakening, but it mainly depends on the individual."

"Are there any specific methods? Are there any disadvantages to these two methods?" Xia Duo continued to ask.

“There are really too many specific methods that I can’t even describe.”

Rodas looked at Xia Duo and said with some helplessness: "Amplified perception is nothing more than the ultimate enhancement of the five senses that people are born with.

"If your arcane mage's detection spell provides instant feedback, it is an effective method of amplifying perception. However, the disadvantage of this is that people's ability to accept and process external information is limited. If they are not careful, it will cause the user's consciousness to collapse. .

"Similarly, weakening perception also starts from the five senses, starting from reducing the transmission efficiency of sensory information, and ending with blocking all perceptions. However, there are also many disadvantages in doing so. It will cause the collapse of people's consciousness."

Rodas then explained in detail the specific content of the collapse of consciousness. It was not the emotional collapse that many people often mentioned in colloquial speech, but a collapse of the thinking level.

A person whose consciousness has collapsed may still have a soul, but his consciousness can no longer think, let alone communicate. He is just like a living corpse!

In fact, Chateau also anticipated the drawbacks of the two assistance methods Rodas mentioned. The former is called information overload in his hometown, while the latter is called the sequelae of sensory deprivation.

Both can have extremely serious consequences.

"Since the auxiliary effects of these two methods are almost the same, why did you finally choose the direction of weakening perception?" Sha Duo continued to ask.

Just when he thought Rodas couldn't give an answer to this question, Rodas used a wonderful metaphor to explain the reason for doing so——

"You imagine that awakening spiritual energy is the result of eating to death or starving to death. Which method do you think people would prefer to awaken?"

Of course, it is through "starving to death". After all, if you can't stand it during the "hungry" process, you can stop it, but if you can't stand it during the "eating" process, it will be difficult to deal with it.

In reality, "eating" can also use various methods to induce vomiting, but once the information received by the consciousness breaks through the shackles of thinking, even if it is "vomited", the collapsed thinking consciousness will be restored by methods.

Shado thought about it for himself and accepted Rodas' statement. He also felt that it was more appropriate to weaken the perception. In addition to the reason mentioned by Rodas, it was also because it was difficult to say that there was any limit to amplifying perception.

Take vision as an example. If vision is enhanced, can we still see infinite distances? Or see the infinitely small microscopic world?

Or use artificial senses to replace the five senses that come with the human body to obtain information. Common ones include various sensors on the earth, or the detection spells in the magical world.

But artificial senses cannot reach the true limit, otherwise it would be artificially creating an omniscient existence.

In contrast, there is an obvious limit to weakening perception. The limit is to cut off all external information acquisition channels, leaving only self-perception, and even self-perception can be weakened.

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Then, Shado continued to communicate with Rodas for a while, then put away the consciousness cage and began to check the belongings of Rodas and others that had been collected previously.

In the end, he set his target on Rodas' focusing weapon. Unlike most psychic masters who chose sword-shaped focusing weapons, Rodas' focusing weapon was a palm-sized magnifying glass.

This magnifying glass also has a small handle that can be used to hold it. The end of the handle has a buckle that can be opened and closed so that it can be hung on the belt when not in use.

This is what most psychic masters will do. Keep the focusing magic weapon at hand so that it can be accessed at any time. If it is stored in the mental world, the process of taking it out will be a bit slow.

This time Rodas and others came to perform a mission. Including the two dead ones, there were a total of eight psionic masters, and they dropped eight focusing magic weapons, surpassing Iolum's previous collection in one fell swoop.

According to Rodas, focusing magic weapons actually have the effect of assisting spiritual awakening, but the cost of focusing magic weapons is high. Generally speaking, only psychic masters have the financial resources to build them.

Basically, it can be considered that the focusing magic weapon is a simplified version of the psionic artifact, but it only has a passive auxiliary effect and cannot directly create a special environment of sensory deprivation like the psionic artifact.

Shado found Rodas' focusing magic weapon. On the one hand, he wanted to see if he could use the power of the artifact to project. If so, it might be a trump card to stop Kalish.

On the other hand, he wants to try to see if he can awaken his spiritual power. If he can awaken his spiritual power, he believes that he can do better than Kalish. As long as he shows up and speaks out, it will not be difficult to expose Kalish's lies. .

At worst, he could go it alone and compete with Kalish for the initiative of the plan, which would delay it for at least a few decades. In fact, it would not take that long at all. Ten years would be enough.

Thirty years is the deadline for the complete collapse of the Dragon Madness Lock on the main plane. If he cannot gather hundreds of high-level wizards or other spellcasters with the same spellcasting ability before then, he will have to prepare to give up the main plane.

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After an in-depth exchange with Rodas, Xia Duo could not tell what kind of feeling he had about psychic power. Rodas explained all his doubts about psychic power in the past, and it was an explanation that he could not refute.

Although Rodas could not prove that his explanation was correct, it still had a great impact on Xia Duo's three views. After all, psychic power is an objective existence.

Even if Xia Duo was unwilling, psychic power would not suddenly disappear with his mind. Since it is an objective existence, no matter what he thought in his heart, he would have to face it.

Rather than being passive, it is better to be active.

This is the most direct idea of ​​Xia Duo to try to awaken psychic power now.

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However, even if we try, we still need to do the necessary preparations in advance. There are artifact baptisms and scholars watching over Zhamdas, so the safety factor is extremely high.

However, Shado believes that the conditions in the Tower of Time will not be worse than those in Zhamdas. It is just that he lacks experience in this area and needs to explore it bit by bit.