Arcane Lord

Xia Duo felt a little happy, but also a little regretful.

He was happy because although this crystal ball-shaped spiritual weapon did not allow him to directly observe or perceive spiritual energy, it indirectly marked the spiritual energy through its own changes.

The regret, of course, is that this kind of labeling is still indirect, and psychic energy is still not "visible" to him. It's like someone pointing at a place in the air and saying to him - look, there is a ghost there, and even marked it with a brush. Ghost silhouette.

Even though he could trust that person, it didn't count as something he saw with his own eyes.

However, indirect detection is also detection. Compared with the previous confusion, this situation is now a qualitative leap, and Xia Duo always believes that as long as he can detect, he can definitely interfere.

The very act of detection is an intervention, or contact.

If this detection crystal ball fails to contact the spiritual energy of the target magic weapon, why should the light purple mist it appears give up that space? Shouldn't it be full? Just like other non-psionic areas.

There must have been some kind of interference that caused the spiritual energy of the target magic weapon to repel the light purple mist revealed by the detection crystal ball.

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Next, Xia Duo detected the psychic ranges of several other psionic magic weapons with certain functions. They were all larger than the space where the main body of the magic weapon was located, about half a foot outside the main body.

It was like a ball of invisible energy wrapping up those spiritual magic weapons.

There are also two psionic magic weapons with undetermined functions. Xia Duo has not detected them for the time being. It is expected that they are not much different from the psionic magic weapons with confirmed functions.

In essence, they are all material carriers of spiritual energy.

When detecting the use process of the spiritual magic weapon, Xia Duo discovered that it was not that he was unable to affect spiritual energy. In fact, the process of use was influencing and intervening, but what he discovered was more than that.

Even when these psychic magic weapons are not in use, as long as they are close to him at a certain distance, their psychic range marked in the fog of psychic indication of the detection crystal ball will change!

This means that even if you are not a psionic mage, you may still have an impact on psionic energy - even other people's psionic energy!

However, this effect is very weak. Taking Xia Duo as an example, his non-activation command can only cause slight fluctuations in the marked spiritual range of these magic weapons.

If the command is activated, major changes will occur, and even the magic network will change due to its practical significance, producing a magic aura that can be clearly seen under magic vision.

If a person's belief can be continuously enhanced, it may actually be possible to directly interfere with psychic energy.

This spellcaster uses his will to control the magic network. It is different. The caster's will can be said to be a real thing and an attribute of the soul.

Controlling the magic net with will is essentially the same as holding things with hands. Whether it is a hand or an object, whether it is a magic net or will, they all exist objectively.

But belief has a concept that is divorced from reality. It is just an idea. Before actual action is taken, it has no real meaning at all. But it is from such an idea that spiritual energy is born.

Furthermore, there is the possibility of directly intervening in reality, which is equivalent to giving the most realistic practical significance to an idea that originally had no practical significance.

If the psionic mage has this ability, then in theory everyone else should also have this ability.

What if we could connect fantasy and reality?

Sha Duo thought of "psychic energy", a special energy that may not be real, but can have an extremely real impact on reality. Is psychic energy the product of some kind of processing of psychic energy?

"It would be nice to have some samples of anima!"

Although his exploration of psychic energy has only just begun, and he cannot even directly detect the existence of psychic energy, if there are more materials, it may be able to produce a by-passing effect.

For example, Anima.

However, psionic mages may not understand the meaning of anima.

In Mojave's memory, he has always regarded anima as a kind of fuel. Burning anima can increase his upper limit of psychic energy, and can also be used to restore psychic energy.

As for how to burn, there is no specific picture in Mohave's memory, but there are some clues from the process of his thinking. It is not the kind of burning that most people think.

Instead, when spiritual energy comes into contact with mental energy, an effect similar to burning and evaporation will occur. Mental energy will rapidly decrease, while spiritual energy will rapidly increase.

The necessary mental energy surge environment for making artifacts actually refers to an environment where spiritual energy can be infinitely restored. Only such an environment can support the creation of artifacts.

Whether it is truly infinite, both Mojave and Shado can actually easily judge. Of course, it cannot be truly infinite, but it has reached an extremely high limit.

Otherwise, it would not have taken thousands of years to produce only twelve artifacts.

From this perspective, we can also see how unreliable Kalish's idea of ​​​​creating new artifacts is. Whether it is collecting it from the North or robbing Zhamdas to collect it, it is not a trivial matter that can be easily accomplished. .

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Shado had no way of obtaining anima samples for the time being, and neither did Calimshan. He himself knew how to collect anima, but he didn't have a psychic mage who could use it with confidence.

If you leave it to someone you don't trust, it may originally be just about collecting anima, but it actually becomes a sacrifice. The former is a long-term job, but the latter can obtain a large amount of anima at once.

Shado didn't trust Kalish, so it was certainly impossible for him to let him collect anima with the help of the computing power pool.

As for collecting it personally, that is even more impossible. Not to mention whether he can control psychic energy to collect psychic energy. Even if he can, with his current level of knowledge about psychic energy, it may be more dangerous than leaving it to other psychic mages. .

After repeated consideration, Xia Duo decided to put aside the exploration of psychic energy for the time being. The most urgent need now was the improvement of detecting psychic energy.

If those magical weapons that were scrapped early due to abnormal wear and tear were really caused by psychic energy, and if there were very many traces of psychic energy on them, then that would be fine. If it was just a tiny amount, then based on what Xia Duo has done now, Detecting the crystal ball may still not be successful.

This involves a characteristic of psychic energy, which is that when different psychic energies come into contact with each other, they will instinctively erase the existence of the other party, or change the nature of the other party.

For the corresponding real-life situation, you can refer to the cognitive interaction between Mojave and the psychic scholar who presided over the ceremony when he first awakened to his psychic powers.

Of course, the strong are less affected by the weak.

The corresponding situation of psychic interaction is that powerful psychic powers can easily assimilate weak psychic powers.

To put it simply, if there are really traces of psychic energy on the gateway, then a smaller power detector must be used, otherwise the detection itself may be helping to clean up the traces.

This is somewhat similar to the popular explanation for the inaccuracy of measuring microscopic particles on the earth. Because the size of the particles used for detection is not much different from the target particles, the detection behavior itself will change the state of the target particles, so the measurement is inaccurate.