Chapter 116: The concept of the mind network! LAN model!

In front of the alchemy table.

Xiao En picked up a long sword made of purgatory steel and placed it on the table, then smeared the blade with alchemical potion, and then used the invisible hand to control the alchemical tool, leaving a series of inconspicuous rune marks on the blade. After completing all this, he calmly cut a little bit of the supernatural relic that was trembling slightly beside him, and injected the supernatural essence into the rune marks of the weapon after refining it.

——Take the initiative to defeat the enemy (1st level spell)!

——Enchant【Precision】!
A faint spiritual light flashed on the sharp blade, and the extraordinary essence began to merge into the weapon, transforming into a unique blessing that could automatically help the user slightly correct the hit rate.

——Sharpness (3rd level spell)!

——Enchant [Sharp] [Piercing]!
The invisible light on the blade began to shine, and with the blessing of magic, the weapon became extremely sharp. The rune marks that gradually disappeared no longer glowed, leaving only a strange inscription. Xiao En stamped it with a secret mark, swung the sword and casually split the iron ingot beside him, as if he was cutting tofu. He nodded with satisfaction and put it in the box next to him.

It is impossible to work part-time, and it is impossible to work part-time in this life.

I can only be my own boss and do a small enchanting business to barely make a living.

Such a twice-enchanted artifact-level weapon can bring Xiao En a profit of about 30 soul stones, which is about gold coins when converted into gold. Xiao En can make three artifacts a day in addition to research, which means he can earn gold coins a day.

Currently, Sean owns 50% of the shares in Inferno Corner. He invested in the Succubus-Veronica's shop of oddities with his technology and regularly provides some of the more popular items.

He will not become arrogant just because the succubus calls him master. Demon followers need sufficient benefits to be won over and consolidated.

"Today's thousand gold coins have been completed."

Xiao En stretched his muscles, controlled his invisible hands to rub his shoulders and back, then took out his magic notebook and began to record.

"I have acquired expertise in the crafting of oddities."

"Traditional artifacts are no longer difficult for me. It's time to try making high-level artifacts, or even transforming extraordinary relics into sealed objects."

Sean knocked on the table, and the clay golem came over with heavy steps and took away the strange objects in the box.

At present, the succubus's Purgatory Fire Horns are in sufficient supply, and the creative ability of orthodox spellcasters is very strong. As long as there are enough materials, Xiao En can make more than ten low- and medium-level enchanted items a day. This batch of goods should be able to be sold until next month. There has been no major events in Abyss City recently, and the sales of arms are not very high.

Now it has been nearly two months since Xiao En's last promotion.

He has currently updated the Infernal Roar hand cannon to the third generation, but unfortunately there has been no breakthrough in materials science. Continuous firing will cause the barrel to explode. Currently there are only two solutions. One is to continue studying the technology of Aosteel, and the other is to use refined gold directly.

If he used refined gold directly, it would be too much of a burden for Xiao En.

His research work now seemed to have reached a bottleneck, and the injection of invisible servants into his mind was not going smoothly. He had to ask Ms. Hecate for help, but the teacher had not responded to him yet.

Jingle Bell.

There was a strange, slight sound.

A faint mist appeared in front of Xiao En's eyes, followed by a torn gap in space. A ghostly hand stretched out and handed a scroll to him.

The spirit messenger of Lady Hecate.

Ever since the teacher began his retreat, their means of communication could only be relayed by messengers, but Sean could leave a message by reciting the honorable name of Ms. Hecate.

The deity (demigod) you called is always on the server.

This is how Sean is treated now.

“This way of communication is a bit like the way gods and core believers communicate.”

“Is the teacher building a faith network?”

Sean can leave a message for the teacher through a prayer ceremony, and she will see the reply when she is free. It is basically difficult to contact Ms. Hecate at other times.

This is a file written in secret language.

——"Servants of the Spirit World".

Xiao En used reading magic to start translating. The content roughly said that the servants in the spirit world were all something called "soul shells". After a mortal's soul died and entered the spirit world, after all the spirituality and memories were wiped out, the soul was left with only an empty shell.

Invisible servants without minds belong to this category. Those who possess a certain degree of intelligence and have advanced to a higher level are the spiritual messengers commonly used by powerful spellcasters.

The scroll records everything about the 'Soul Shell' in detail, and also comes with the secret knowledge of contracting the spirit world messenger.

"Is there no reincarnation?"

"The dead soul first becomes a wandering spirit, and finally all spirituality is wiped out, merging together and becoming a soul shell piled up at the bottom of the spirit world."

"No wonder the invisible servants can be summoned as many as they want!"

Xiao En found that his initial thinking was wrong. The invisible servant was not without mind, but its mind had completely disappeared.

He failed to inject knowledge and failed to activate the mind fragment.

The reason is simple. Without the original driving force, it is like a car without engine oil. No matter how much you load the operating system, it will be useless.

——Invisible servant.

Xiao En began to summon again, and at the same time he took out a gray-white soul stone. After completing the summoning, he crushed the soul stone in his hand, used magic power to control the soul power flowing in it, and began to inject it into the body of the invisible servant in front of him.

really!

The invisible servant changed instantly. The hollow soul shell began to absorb the floating soul power. After filling its own body, its shape moved closer to humans and finally turned into a vague human outline.

"effective!"

“The next step is to inject knowledge and wisdom.”

Xiao En further strengthened the ability of the invisible servant and injected a trace of mind into it through his telepathic ability. Immediately, its shape became more solid, and clear hands and feet emerged, but there was no face. It was just a pale faceless man.

"Can it talk?" Sean tried to communicate with it.

No.

The invisible servant cannot speak, but can communicate with the mind, and will only give a simple answer: "Master, what can I do for you?"

The mind is still not enough.

It is equivalent to a robot with very low intelligence.

But it is obvious that its working ability has been greatly enhanced, and it can already operate all tools like an ordinary person. It seems to have inherited a little bit of Sean's skills.

"The mind has been upgraded. But it requires soul stones."

Xiao En fell into deep thought, muttering: "If the mental ability of one invisible servant is not enough, will the mental ability of a group of invisible servants be improved?"

"Those who are transcendent in the spiritual path can build a network of spiritual links."

"Is there any way to bring them together?"

“Like a server?”

Xiao En picked up the magic notebook and began to record his thoughts, while conducting more research attempts.

"I remember there are many swarming creatures in this world."

"When they are acting individually, their intelligence level is very low, maybe only about 3 points, but once they gather together, their intelligence level will rise sharply, even exceeding that of most ordinary people."

"The mental computing power of an invisible servant is limited, and it cannot perform complex operations."

"But if they are combined together to form a server, the mental computing power will be greatly improved."

"seem."

"I once saw a concept called 'pan-consciousness aggregate' in my teacher's library. It is the consciousness of many creatures gathered together and eventually became a very large and powerful special existence."

"So is it possible to have invisible servants?"

"They are all empty soul shells. Different minds are injected into each soul shell. When they are finally combined, can they form a complete mind?"

“Worth a try!”

——Mind link (1st level psychic power)!

Sean tried to establish a mental link with the invisible servants in front of him, and then injected mind fragments. He then connected these invisible servants one by one. Finally, through the network of mental links, a regional network covering a diameter of 300 meters was formed.

This limit is exactly the limit of the mental communication that Sean possesses.

“The regional network has been built.”

"The next step is to transform the minds of all invisible servants into the concept of swarm creatures!"

The following experiments did not go smoothly.

Because Sean discovered that the invisible servants lacked sufficient intelligence, he could indeed control many invisible servants at the same time through the mind area network, but the problem was that his main body could not move freely.

The working ability of the invisible servants has been greatly enhanced, reaching a level far beyond that of ordinary people.

But Xiao En controlled them, using the description of his previous life, as if he was playing StarCraft, controlling more than ten lines of troops at the same time and performing local micro-manipulations. Even though his brain had been upgraded and evolved, he still felt a little overwhelmed.

"no!"

"In this case, my own mental computing power is actually a little insufficient!"

After all, Xiao En has only reached the threshold of a high-level transcendent. Although his brain has been strengthened and his operating efficiency has been greatly improved, the loss outweighs the gain if he keeps controlling multiple lines of troops and can't do anything himself.

"Can I create a mind system that can command and control so many invisible servants on my behalf?"

"Or, I can improve my brain's computing power so that I can focus on multiple tasks."

"This seems to be the conceptual ability of Godhead. It's a bit difficult."

"Or, can I further improve the mental level of the invisible servants and let them move on their own?" Sean found that the research work was really not easy.

Fortunately, he had the experience of his previous life on Earth to draw on, so he had many ideas for solving the problem.

"The first way."

"I tried to split my own mind and created a spiritual crystal servant. It is a mental construct that can control invisible servants on my behalf."

"The second method."

"I don't have any ideas at the moment, unless I get Seal No. 1."

"The third way."

"It seems that it will consume a lot of soul crystals. I strengthened the invisible servant just to save money, so I must keep the cost down."

Let’s start with the first method.

Sean tried to create a spiritual crystal servant with a higher mental level. This thing can be regarded as a mental clone of himself, that is, a fragment of personality. It has no self-awareness, but has Sean's mental thinking mode.

A psicrystal is a fragment of a psionic being's personality.

It exists as a physical entity and appears to be alive. The appearance of a psicrystal servant is a crystal construct the size of a human palm.

Because the Spirit Crystal Servant is the continuation of the master's personality, in a sense the Spirit Crystal Servant is also a part of himself.

Therefore, psionic spells can be cast over long distances using psionic servants as carriers.

The abilities of a psicrystal servant are based on the abilities of its master, and it functions a bit like a wizard's familiar, but the psionicist uses a fragment of his or her own personality as a familiar.

"I need a high-quality crystal."

Xiao En began to search his storage room and found that his financial resources were still too limited.

The Spirit Crystal Servant is a construct life form. Sean must tear apart personal fragments of himself and inject them into it before it can be fully activated. It looks like a suspended glowing crystal, and its appearance is a little bit similar to Seal No. 0.

Mind link.

Astral structure.

Xiao En began to transform the crystal in front of him step by step, converting it into a crystal cluster that emitted a faint glow. The whole process lasted about 8 hours. When it was completed, it looked like an exquisite crystal handicraft.

"The last step is to inject my personality fragments. What should I inject?"

Xiao En murmured, "The uses of the Spirit Crystal Servant are very wide-ranging, and must be carefully considered."

There is an academic term for a psychic's personality fragments.

For example, 'Artisan' will bless craftsmanship, 'Bully' will strengthen intimidation in combat, 'Quiet' will increase stealth, 'Sage' will strengthen knowledge, and so on.

Each Psicrystal has a unique personality pattern.

"It feels a bit like copying a part of myself and uploading it into the mind of the psicrystal servant."

"Ah."

"You can refer to it when studying psychic ascension. You can also refer to it when studying mechanical ascension, which is about infusing souls into constructs."

A spirit crystal servant inherits the worldview and thinking patterns of his master.

Sometimes it's a bit exaggerated, like animated knowledge, but the psicrystal servant is controllable and can erase its existence at any time.

What Xiao En needs now are skilled craftsmen and wise men to inherit his knowledge and craftsmanship.

hum!
In a shining aura, the crystal cluster in front of him floated up and gained the ability to fly, transforming into one of Sean's constructed servants.

He now had a very strange and subtle feeling of being his own servant.

A true slave will not even let go of fragments of his own personality!

"Next."

"It's to test whether the Spirit Crystal Servant can replace me in managing the invisible servants and control them through it."

Inside the alchemy laboratory.

The spiritual crystal servant's telepathic communication sounded: "Master. The servants have already started working."

In front of the long alchemy table, more than a dozen invisible servants began to work.

In the mental area network built by Sean, the spiritual crystal servants, as fragments of Sean's personality, manage these invisible servants on his behalf, so that he himself is freed.

"But you need to be able to maintain a mind connection all the time."

"Can I make a signaler?"

"Through some magical object, the effect of the mind link will be solidified, so that I can be completely free."

Xiao En felt the restlessness of knowledge.

He seemed to have made some kind of breakthrough inadvertently, the laws of knowledge were further strengthened, and at the same time some extraordinary essence was being transformed.

——Building a spiritual network!
The extraordinary nature of the telepathic path seemed to be evolving, and Sean felt that his telepathy was spreading like a 'magic net'.

"and many more!"

"Do I count as creating a new spell today?"

Xiao En suddenly looked up in surprise.

At present, he has made some breakthroughs in his research. If he put all these together, would it be considered a new spell?
There's something going on!
The concept of the mind network is of epoch-making significance.

Xiao En himself is the best server. The range of his mental communication is that of a natural LAN holy body. In the later stage, he can try to use powerful objects as a signalizer.

If he completes the construction of the "Mind Network", and can command and control the servants to fight in the future, will it be equivalent to a real-time strategy game?
He also has the magic eye of reconnaissance, can he open the God's perspective?

Wait a minute.

If the mind network can really be realized, its function will definitely be more than that. This is a world with supernatural powers, and it can definitely do more things.

"Can I copy my own knowledge, copy and paste it and upload it to the Internet so that other extraordinary people can download it?"

“Like the Internet in previous lives?”

"Ok?"

"I seem to have read about the history of the Strange Empire somewhere. It seems like they can upload and download knowledge?"

"My mind is a bit confused right now."

"I have to reorganize it. First of all, the mental network I want to build is similar to the Internet on Earth in my previous life. It is not the mental network of the Alien Empire."

"The Strange Empire is a mind network built with the main brain as the server. I can't do it yet."

"Then I'll have to find a solution somewhere else."

"So, if the concept of [the Internet] exists in a world with supernatural powers, what can it achieve?"

"I need to think carefully about this."

Xiao En once again entered a meditative state like asking for the way, but this time he meditated a little longer.

It was not until the next afternoon that he woke up from his hunger.

Because the succubus-Veronica is here.

She made a very special request. She hoped that Xiao En could enslave her and leave a mental mark on her.

"If I hadn't personally experienced the feeling of being dominated and enslaved, how could I embark on the path of destiny as a succubus?"

Succubus-Veronica gave her reasons.

Succubi's talents are charm and domination, and they can cast spell-like abilities to dominate monsters at will.

She stared at Xiao En in front of her with her enchanting scarlet eyes, and said softly, "Master Xiao En."

"You don't have to worry."

"If I cannot embark on the path of destiny, then it is fate that I am dominated and enslaved by you."

"If I can embark on the path of destiny, then I can also find a way to break free from the enslavement effect of mind control, because this is my destiny."

"Of course, I will still be loyal to you!"

Succubus Veronica's reasons convinced Sean. For the first time, he realized that the succubus in front of him was not only a smart person.

She is a ruthless person!

If she could really break free of the mental imprint planted by Sean, she would definitely be able to advance to the legendary level of succubus.

This is the first extraordinary person who actively asked Xiao En to plant the imprint of his thoughts.

Xiao En instantly looked at her with admiration!

Such a ruthless person is indeed qualified to embark on the road to destiny.

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(End of this chapter)