Arcane Lord

Almost four years ago, Shado witnessed an immortality ceremony at the Mysterious Temple in Sevington, the protagonist being Archmage Sandro of Moraine Tower.

The other party used to be the enlightenment teacher of Randall, the contemporary controller of Moraine Tower. Randall and even the princess who had not yet ascended to the gods were also present during the ceremony. Shado was very impressed by the ceremony.

Not only because of the presence of many Grand Arcanists, but also because he witnessed Sandro's death and resurrection during the ritual.

At that time, he was curious about how the ritual of immortality still needs to die once, but now of course he knows that it is because the ritual requires a perfectly stripped soul.

In his hometown, a sage once said that "there is a great terror between life and death, born in the heart, manifested in the body", saying that it is difficult for mortals to face death, even in the magical world, knowing that they can be resurrected, they will face death directly. 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 throughout the process.

This is not a realm that can be achieved through mental magic such as mechanical mind. Emotions are poisons, 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, the whole person became indifferent and rational. It should be said that it was the best result. If nothing else, he could maintain this state for a long time.

If there is fear in the soul when the soul is stripped, the ritual will be overwhelmed with fear that cannot be erased.

In a sense, this kind of immortality ritual is similar to the concept of "consciousness uploading network" in science fiction on Earth. Once consciousness is uploaded or once the immortality ceremony is completed, the personality will be completely characterized.

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

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

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

But anyway, longevity itself is enough to be envied by ordinary people.

That kind of longevity ritual that strips off the soul and saves it separately, although it may avoid the self-continuity problem that exists in the "consciousness uploading network", but the solidification of personality is not what Xia Duo wants.

He hopes that he can grow, change, and even decline. That is a real person, so he has never considered that kind of longevity ceremony.

It was only because he was attacked by the illusion master of Zamdas that he thought that the immortality ritual might be useful for him to solve the current hidden danger.

The part of the spell elements that Yin Orem brought involved—how to solidify the soul without affecting the normal activities of consciousness.

If there is no consciousness, even a person can't do it, just like a stone.

As for the extremely cold gem, it is used for dull consciousness in the immortality ceremony. It is not the dull kind of rigidity, but the kind of dullness similar to watching horror movies slow down to dispel fear. It can make consciousness sensitive to various emotions. Enough time to react and make adjustments, from this point of view, it is not an exaggeration to increase awareness.

These two things are what Xia Duo needs most urgently at present, especially the former, even if he can't completely remove the hidden dangers in his consciousness, it can play a very good role in alleviating.

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In the laboratory, Xia Duo took protective measures and started half-plane synchronization.

The extremely cold gem cannot be directly touched with the body. When Yin Orem brought it over, it was kept in an independent half-plane, and that half-plane had already been assimilated by the extreme cold of the gem, and the two complemented each other.

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

The immortality ceremony and Shado are only using the natural properties of the gem itself, and no other means are needed.

With the simultaneous opening of the planes, Xia Duo still shivered, and a thin layer of hoarfrost was quickly covered in the laboratory. In this state, he really felt much better.

Even the interval between regularly going to the consciousness level to break up Mojave's condensed consciousness has become a lot longer. This is just the beginning. Xia Duo is looking forward to the next further results.

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At the level of consciousness, Xia Duo once again dispelled Mojave's cohesive consciousness, and then immediately returned to reality to concentrate on perceiving his soul. This time, with the assistance of the arctic gem, he felt a lot more relaxed.

Maybe you don't need to focus on the gem, you can just use the arctic gem, but he won't ignore the next preset process because of this curiosity.

Entering the perspective of the soul, the red silk thread that was secretly entangled around the body surface has weakened a lot at the moment, even if Xia Duo consciously pushes it away, it will be surrounded again after a while.

After carefully inspecting the twelve thread ends extending from the surface of the soul, it was confirmed that the essence of the soul was the same. Xia Duo no longer hesitated to perceive the external magic net, and began to cast spells—

Soul solidified!

Different from the general [imprisonment technique], which is stagnant from the outside to the inside, the [Soul Solidification] element provided by the Seven Pagodas starts from the inside of the soul to solidify itself. It keeps consciousness awake.

In general confinement techniques, either the body and soul are imprisoned together with consciousness, or it is just imprisoning the body and cannot touch the soul at all, let alone consciousness.

It is no wonder that he came to ask for it in the identity of Yin Orem, UU reading www.uukanshu. Com has to pay a huge price to obtain it, which is not only the foundation and key of a certain kind 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 elf world. Maybe Zamdas is better at it, but the cost of obtaining a cure from there will obviously exceed Shado's bottom line, and he does not. Don't worry about those psionic guys.

Do it yourself, and the teachings of the great teachers are equally applicable today.

As the spell gradually took effect, Xia Duo clearly felt a void in his heart. This feeling was difficult to describe in words. It was like loss and hesitation, as if the whole life had lost its meaning.

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

He can do the former himself, but he is not sure whether he can handle those thoughts and emotions before they are fed back to the soul, and this is the preciousness of the extremely cold gem.