Lord of Arcane

Chapter 2159 Consciousness Upload Soul Solidification
Nearly four years ago, Shadow had witnessed a ritual of immortality at the Temple of the Mysteries in Severnton, featuring Archmage Sandro of Moraine Tower.

The other party had once been the first teacher of Randall, the contemporary controller of the Morain Tower. During the ceremony, Randall and even the princess who had not yet ascended to the gods were present. Xia Duo was very impressed by that ceremony.

Not only because there were many grand arcanists present, but also because he witnessed Sandro's death and resurrection during the ceremony.

At that time, he was curious about why the longevity ceremony needed to die first, but now he certainly knew that it was because the ceremony required a perfectly stripped soul.

In his hometown, a sage once said that "there is great terror between life and death, which is born in the heart and manifests in the body", which means that it is difficult for ordinary people to face death. It takes a lot of courage.

The so-called "perfectly stripped soul" is to face death with great courage, and to maintain absolute inner peace during the process.

This is not a state that can be achieved through mental spells such as mechanical mind. Emotions are poison, and any point of contamination when the soul is stripped will affect the character after longevity.

At that time, after Archmage Sandro completed the ceremony, he became indifferent and rational. It should be said that it was the best result. If there is no accident, he can maintain this state for a long time.

If there is fear in the heart when the soul is stripped, it will be shrouded in indelible fear after the ceremony.

In a sense, this longevity ritual is similar to the concept of "consciousness uploading network" in science fiction on Earth. Once the consciousness is uploaded or the longevity ritual is completed, the personality is completely determined.

In the future, there will only be an increase in the database or the amount of memory, and there will be no other changes in xinxing. Of course, under normal circumstances, it is completely understandable if something unexpected happens.

After all, living people have accidents, so how can cyborgs or longevity transformers be spared, and from the perspective of probability theory, it is almost inevitable that longevity will encounter accidents.

Even if you can't meet them now, a long enough lifespan will allow them to meet them in the future.

But in any case, longevity itself is enough to make ordinary people envious.

The longevity ritual of stripping the soul and saving it alone may avoid the self-continuity problem of "consciousness uploading to the network", but the solidification of personality is not what Xia Duo wants.

He hoped that he could grow, change and even decline, that is a real person, that's why he never considered that kind of longevity ritual.

It was only because he was attacked by Zamdas' illusion master this time that he thought that the longevity ritual might be useful for him to solve his current hidden dangers.

The part of the spell elements brought by Iolum involved - how to solidify the soul without affecting the normal activities of consciousness.

If you don't have consciousness, you can't even be a human being, just like a stone.

As for the extremely cold gem, it is used to dull the consciousness in the longevity ritual, not the rigid kind of dullness, but the kind of dullness similar to watching a horror movie slow down to dispel fear, which can make the consciousness more sensitive to various emotions. Enough time to react and make adjustments, from this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to say that awareness is enhanced.

Both of these are what Xia Duo needs most urgently at present, especially the former, even if he cannot completely relieve the hidden danger in his consciousness, it can still play a very good role in mitigating it.

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In the laboratory, Xia Duo took protective measures and started the demiplane synchronization.

The extremely cold gem cannot be directly touched by the body. When Iolum brought it here, it was stored in an independent half-plane, and that half-plane has already been assimilated by the extreme cold of the gem. The two are in a state of complementing each other.

When you need to use it, you only need to turn on the synchronization of the planes, that is, to overlap the demiplane and the main plane at a specific position, so that the extreme cold of the gemstone can be emitted.

The Longevity Ceremony and Xia Duo now only use the natural properties of the gem itself, and do not need to use any other means.

With the simultaneous opening of the planes, Xia Duo still couldn't help shivering, and the laboratory was quickly covered with a thin layer of hoarfrost. In this state, he really felt much better.

Even the intervals between regular visits to the consciousness level to disperse Mojave's condensed consciousness have become much longer. This is just the beginning, and Xia Duo is somewhat looking forward to further results in the future.

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At the level of consciousness, Xia Duo once again broke up Mojave's concentrated consciousness, and then immediately returned to reality to concentrate on perceiving the soul. This time with the assistance of the extremely cold gem, he felt a lot easier.

Maybe there is no need to focus on gems, just use extremely cold gems, but he will not ignore the next preset process because of this curiosity.

Entering the perspective of the soul, the red silk thread that was originally wrapped secretly around the body surface has weakened a lot at this moment. Even if Xia Duo consciously pushes away some, it will take a while to surround it again.

Carefully inspecting the twelve threads extending from the body surface of the soul, and confirming that they are of the same essence as the soul, Xia Duo no longer hesitated to perceive the magic net of the outside world, and began to cast spells——

Soul curing!

Different from general [Confinement Technique], which stagnates from the outside to the inside, the [Soul Solidification] element provided by the Seven Towers is to solidify itself from the inside of the soul. It keeps consciousness awake.

In general confinement techniques, either the body, soul and consciousness are imprisoned together, or only the body is imprisoned, and the soul cannot be touched at all, let alone consciousness.

It's no wonder that Iolum came to ask for it, and he had to pay a huge price to get it. This is not only the foundation and key of a certain type of longevity spell, but also involves the mysterious realm of the soul.

This kind of research is at the forefront of Netheril and even the world of elves. Maybe Zamdas is better at it, but the cost of getting a cure from there will obviously exceed Xia Duo's bottom line, and he doesn't Don't worry about those psionic guys.

The teachings of the great teachers are also applicable today.

As the spell gradually took effect, Xia Duo obviously felt a void in his heart. This feeling is hard to describe in words, like loss, and hesitation, as if his whole life has lost its meaning.

Fortunately, he can still think normally now, and with the help of the extremely cold gem, he can recognize every thought of his own and have enough time to react.

He can do the former by himself, but he is not sure whether he can deal with those thoughts and emotions before they feed back to the soul, and this is exactly the preciousness of the extremely cold gem.

(End of this chapter)