Arcane Lord

In this way, Shado quickly flipped through the books and volumes related to magic and Netheril in the collection room, and then turned to other aspects, pretending to be looking for information seriously or greedily collecting intelligence.

A few hours later, he rubbed his slightly raised eyebrows and left the collection room with some reluctance. After that, he did not look for Olin again, but left the library and even the level where the Starry Temple was located.

However, he did not return to the Nether Embassy, ​​but went directly to the Linnaneus district of Tevimansa, which was the big tree named Linnaneus, and it was also the hiding place of the Moon Shadow Family tracked by the Divine Envoy Rich.

It was also the core sphere of influence of King Yeerlan Crown Advisor and Prophet Daphne in Tevimansa.

As he walked, Shado sorted out the information he had just seen in the collection room in his mind. The bloodline ability to trace memory could not make him truly remember everything he saw, but only recall the scenes of the past.

Recalling and tracing in a way similar to re-experiencing can restore all the details, but the shortcomings are also very obvious, that is, the results cannot be obtained directly.

It is also necessary to go through a set of experience processes. Of course, in this process, Xia Duo also developed a retrieval method that adapts to such a process to increase the retrieval speed.

But this method does not change the essence of "retrieval = re-experience", it just skips most useless information through certain tricks.

This process is a bit similar to searching for keywords in a computer, but the computer itself will not display all the results according to specific keywords. It also requires a retrieval process or relevant settings in advance.

What Xia Duo is now calling intelligence sorting is actually such a process. He first locks the relevant scenes in his memory in the collection room through the specific consciousness information related to the Yueying family in his subconscious.

Then accurately trace back the relevant scenes, which is the trick. When tracing back to the specific time node, it is still necessary to progress at a fast or slow condition like watching a movie to obtain the "focus" effect on the target information.

In fact, it is to transfer this part of information that was originally just scanned and stored in the subconscious mind to the conscious mind, and form a short-term memory with a more profound impression.

It allows Xia Duo to have an impression of those information without retrospective memory, and then process the information later, that is, the process of thinking, and form a more profound long-term memory.

Some of them will become subconscious information again, but the next time he encounters a related situation, he will quickly remember the processed information.

For example, after hearing the name of a member of the Moon Shadow family, he can immediately think of the intelligence information related to this name.

If there is no such process of retrieving, analyzing and processing the information in the past memory, then when Xia Duo encounters related situations in the future, at most he will have some so-called "intuition".

If the subconscious mind does not pay enough attention to this information, even intuition cannot be generated, and even if it is generated, it may not be noticed by the conscious mind.

After all, any intelligent creature will actually have a lot of intuition at any time, but a few intuitions can be so strong that people cannot ignore them, and most of them are ignored.

Especially for Xia Duo, who can analyze the subconscious, if he always pays attention to the specific details of the subconscious operation, he will not have any time to care about the outside world.

The simplest breathing is an intuition. If you have to ask about breathing, what else does not need to be asked?

In fact, although Xia Duo has been able to integrate part of the subconscious, he is more in this way to obtain the retrieval speed of his own consciousness, and the operation of the subconscious and the surface consciousness remains in the original state.

Otherwise, does he have to control every breath by himself? Even all the nerve and muscle activities related to breathing have to be controlled by himself?

This is indeed what Xia Duo can do, but it is not necessary. The clear division of labor between the subconscious and the surface consciousness is very effective. More importantly, through the stratification of consciousness, it provides additional mental protection for intelligent creatures.

Xia Duo has seen a special creature in the etheric plane whose consciousness is strong enough to produce psychic powers, which is the main source of the spiritual material of Netheril in the past-twisted phantom.

This creature certainly has a strong consciousness, and most of the twisted phantoms can produce psychic powers. For spellcasters without targeted mental protection measures, they are simply natural enemies.

But such a special consciousness also brings a problem, that is, the mind itself is almost defenseless, and mental interrogation is not 100% useful for intelligent creatures like humans with subconscious and conscious systems.

After training or some people who are born with such talents, it is entirely possible for the conscious and subconscious to make completely opposite judgments on the same thing.

In simple terms, it is the ability to lie, because most mental spells cannot finely analyze the subconscious, and at most they can detect the conscious, so they can "lie".

But for creatures like twisted phantoms that do not distinguish between subconscious and conscious, as long as the mind is linked, it is enough for the linking party to obtain all the information.

And as intelligent creatures, twisted phantoms have a bigger flaw. Because their way of communicating with the outside world is through mental links, they can't even lie verbally when facing outsiders.

Shado does not advocate lies, but lies are the mediator of complex social relations, which makes people not have to make a choice between one or the other, and is also the last guarantee of individual privacy.

If you don't even have the ability to lie, it's too sad for an intelligent creature.

In fact, the twisted phantom is indeed a race where the strong control the consciousness of the weak. Almost every twisted phantom wants to get rid of the link with the superior.

In addition to the individual will being forced, the biggest disadvantage of this link is that the superior can force the subordinate to dedicate himself and then transform the superior into a king.

This is actually the choice that every twisted phantom in the upper position of the mind link will make. Even if it is already a king, the dedication of the subordinate can still make it rise.

Of course, in order to maintain the deterrence to other kings of the same race, the twisted phantom king will also choose to retain subordinates instead of merging and swallowing them all.

The reason why the twisted phantoms attack humans is that on the one hand, their kings want to get promoted from the minds of other creatures, and on the other hand, those twisted phantoms want to do so themselves.

They don't actually want to kill humans, but hope to leave the etheric plane by hosting human minds.

Because the mind link cannot cross planes, as long as they can go to the material plane, even if they are just passing by, after returning to the etheric plane, as long as they do not meet the previous superior, the broken mind link will not be automatically restored.

If they can gain independence, those twisted phantoms usually choose to stay away from their own kind, and even stay away from all intelligent species, because they understand that all intelligent creatures are potential targets of attack by their own kings.