Lord of Arcane

Chapter 1259 Spell hints at the ruins of the empire
However, Xia Duo doesn't need to sort out all the memories of this month, especially including "Mecade" at once.

With the existence of a backup personality, he only needs to trace his memory back to the moment he entered the projection plane, establish a brand new backup personality, and then temporarily classify all subsequent memories as "unreliable".

It won't be too late to tidy up when we arrive at a truly safe place.

……

The time in consciousness cannot be estimated by normal time, and Xia Duo didn't know how long it had passed. He felt as if he had a long, long dream.

After waking up from the dream, based on the remaining time of the protective spell in the room, he roughly estimated that fifteen or six hours had passed since he was immersed in consciousness.

Now that the personality backup has been established, all that remains is to restrain the memory of "Mecad".

People are not computers. The so-called personality backup is more of a state of self-cognition. There is not really a database that can store the so-called "personality data".

And it is not as easy as imagined to classify the memory of "McCard" into the category of "unreliable" and temporarily restrain it.

It’s not about controlling everything with just a swipe of the mouse, but judging everything that is observed and perceived by the past backup personality’s judgment standard for everything.

In other words, it is necessary to artificially ignore the memory and way of thinking of "McCard".

But the memory has long existed in the consciousness, how can it be said that if you don't want it, you don't want it. In fact, everything that Xia Duo observes and perceives now is based on the body of "Mecad".

It's really hard to deliberately ignore.

Only Xia Duo's own exploration of the field of consciousness is not enough to make such complex and fine consciousness operations, but he still has psychic spells.

It is similar to the correction of children's sitting posture. Those with strong self-control ability can correct it by themselves, and those with weak self-control ability can also use the aid of orthotics.

That's what Xia Duo did at the moment. He cast a suggestion spell on himself, which made him deliberately ignore all the new memories after entering the projection plane.

Although this spell is easily affected by some stimulating events and will cause it to fail, it is not uncommon to use it in the short term.

……

After completing the temporary rescue of his own consciousness, Xia Duo also temporarily recovered his full spellcasting ability. Only then did he have the heart to check the state of this body and the environment it was in.

The right leg of the body extends all the way up to the shoulder, as if withered, the dry skin clings to the bone, and the flesh and blood inside seems to be gone.

Even if he didn't cast any detection spells, Xia Duo could guess that it must have been corroded by extremely strong negative energy, and more importantly——

Those withered areas are slowly spreading to the still intact areas. If no treatment is done, it won't take long for this body to become a mummified corpse.

I don't know if it's because of this that he hasn't been disturbed for more than ten hours. The three high-level mage companions who fled back to this temporary refuge together seem to have completely disappeared.

"Did they think Mecadard was dead?"

As soon as Xia Duo had this idea, a series of memories flooded into his consciousness. He squeezed his brows hard, trying not to recall those memories that did not belong to him.

Although under the influence of psychic spells, temporarily ignoring all the memories after entering the projection plane, Xia Duo still has a certain understanding of his current state.

He has always had a goal in mind, which is to find a safe place where no one is around as soon as possible, and then check his own memory.

In order to achieve this goal, Xia Duo did not stay in this refuge for too long, but simply summoned some positive energy to linger on the parts that were eroded by negative energy.

Then he cast a temporarily created spell - [Control Self]!
This transformation spell up to level 5 can allow him to move freely even though he has lost half of his body perception.

Similar to the enhanced version of [Mage Hand] or [Levitation], [Flying].

Afterwards, he cast the detection spell, and a hidden perception field was created and projected out. Xia Duo quickly knew the environment he was in——

This is a crude underground shelter whose exact depth is not yet known. Together with the "ward" he is currently in, there are three rooms, two of which are empty, and the other is a warehouse with some dry food stored in it.

"Only me?" Xia Duo thought.

But even so, such a sanctuary that I have no memory of is not a safe place, not to mention, Xia Duo still has a mysterious intuition in his heart, wanting him to leave immediately.

He intends to trace the source of his intuition, but the next moment, the numbness of his body being eroded by negative energy makes him ignore it, but anyway, he has decided to leave.

……

High in the sky in unknown regions.

Xia Duo, who had just been randomly teleported here, quickly stabilized his body and began to slowly fall towards the ground. During the descent, the dilapidated scene in the northwest of the ground broke into his vision unscrupulously——

It was a large-scale magic net riot area. Countless chaotic magic almost destroyed everything on the surface, leaving only ruins of buildings and farmland like wasteland.

"That's the Arcane Empire?!"

Such a guess quickly rose in Xia Duo's heart, and he was deeply shocked by such a guess. When he left [Arcane Empire] before, it was because the magic net suddenly collapsed and chaotic magic swept the city. He was powerless to resist just left.

He also had expected the fate of the Arcane Empire after leaving, but now overlooking the earth from a high altitude, the civilization ruins that occupied a considerable part of his vision still really shocked him.

As far as he knew, the Arcane Empire had a population of nearly ten million at that time, and looking at the situation now, it would be considered extremely lucky to be able to survive even one percent.

In other words, that war almost wiped out nearly tens of millions of living people at once!

Xia Duo was not sure whether it was done by the Comanthor family or by several elf kingdoms, but no matter what the situation was, it was enough to prove that elves and humans were not fundamentally different.

There are elements of friendliness, but there is no shortage of cruelty.

As long as he thought that such a tragedy might also happen in Netheril, the main plane, Xia Duo would feel shuddering.

Especially in the case of knowing that Severton has built a myth, this feeling is even stronger.

Fortunately, the main plane and the projected plane are still different, at least he has never heard of such things as Mithr energy core and floating city in the Arcane Empire.

On the main plane, Iolum's invention of the Miser energy core is the "prophetic information" in Xia Duo's memory, and Iolum's various performances seem to verify this point.

But as long as the Miser Energy Core does not appear for a day, Xia Duo will still be unable to let go of this sense of crisis.

"This elf is really not a son of man!"

(End of this chapter)