I think you can't even imagine the happiness of a warlock.

With the end of the first action round, everyone present took a short break, while Chen Zhou quickly gained inspiration during the game and thought of a spell called "Shaping Mental Image Barrier".

This spell creates an immersive mindscape in the astral plane—a temporary construct shaped by the mind, like a dream that is embodied in someone.

The biggest difference between mental image wards and dreams is the reason for their creation. The former is active while the latter is passive. Because of this, the caster can exert great subjective initiative in the immersive mental image enchantments he creates.

For example, transform it into anything you want.

Theoretically, a mindscape can have any shape or appearance—and can have any feasible properties—as diverse as the planes.

It's almost like creating a vivid world, except that this spell and the effects it creates are illusions.

Chen Zhou realized that the "Shaping Mental Image Barrier" could well satisfy the reality that he could not use ice to make a sand table to restore it, and could even make it operate on its own to a certain extent.

The only problem is that how to invite others to enter the mental image barrier you set up is a big problem.

At this moment, he thought of what he had experienced in the theater yesterday. The method of the hell fiend undoubtedly had merit.

It does not bring people into an immersive mental image barrier, but superimposes the mental image barrier on the surrounding world like the inherent barrier of an animation.

This requires two spells to achieve, one is a 7-level "Advanced Mental Image Formation Barrier", the other is a spell with an unknown name, unknown principle, unknown number of links, and the effect is to superimpose the mental image barrier on the surrounding world.

In addition, Chen Zhou also needs a spell that can connect reality with the mental image barrier so that the chess pieces in the sandbox can act according to reality.

Thinking of doing it, while the players were resting, Chen Zhou directly used the portal to cast "Wild Arcana" in the VIP room.

Powerful and ethereal illusions appear out of thin air, causing everyone to subconsciously search for the source and effect of its spells.

However, after searching for a long time, they discovered that the effect of the unknown illusion actually appeared based on the ice-made sand table.

The chess pieces created by Chen Zhou to act as NPCs in the sandbox seemed to have intelligence, and they began to take more logical actions... as if they had been given life by someone.

Even the sandbox as the background of the game began to change with the actions of NPCs.

“I just performed a hotfix to optimize the NPC’s AI and improve the freedom and randomness of the game.

“Not only that, but now we can adjust the flow of time in the game world, speeding up or slowing down the process to adapt to real-life situations.”

Having said that, Chen Zhou is just trying this time and does not intend to prolong the game too long.

"How much time have you spent studying these useless spells that can only be used for fun?" Donal became more and more speechless. He suspected that if Chen Zhou didn't waste time on such trivial matters, he would have become a legend long ago. .

Chen Zhou said sternly: "A few minutes, I just thought about it a little, mainly because it takes more time to build the game world (the layout of the immersive mental image enchantment)."

Upon hearing this, Donal's eyes almost popped out of his head.

Heinrich wiped cold sweat subconsciously. As a spell caster, he could clearly understand what an incredible thing the other party had just done.

"Ahem, don't look at me like that, I'm not just doing it for fun."

Chen Zhou hurriedly used his brains and argued seriously: "Can't you see the potential business opportunities in a sand table that can provide real-time feedback on the reality of a place?"

"As long as there are enough materials and spellcasting ability, it can be fixed through the "Magic Constancy", allowing people to observe everything happening in a certain place at all times.

"If necessary, you can even look back on the sand table to find out what happened in the past."

Whether it is for espionage or defense, for investigation or entertainment, a model of an entire city can play a far greater role than everyone present can imagine.

Even if Chen Zhou's spellcasting ability is further strengthened in the future, he will have the opportunity to have some impact on reality by affecting the city's model.

The model of a mere city is far from reaching the upper limit that the "Advanced Mental Image Shaping Barrier" can accommodate. If necessary, even the entire Essan Ziya can be scaled down and packed into it.

"I always feel that something terrible will happen if we follow this line of research." Donal subconsciously realized the seriousness of the problem.

If so, wouldn't the entire plane be controlled by a pair of invisible hands?

"My intention is not to interfere with the operation of cities or planes. It would be fine if it was limited to games. It is very difficult to interfere with reality by affecting the model.

"First of all, you must be a legendary spellcaster, and then you must have an understanding of the realm of the God of Civilization. Your spells need his divine power to act on reality, and the prerequisite is that he agrees with you to do so."

The principle of this operation is similar to the "Detecting Star People" used by the prophet Natya through the priesthood of Abadar when he was in Blossom Port, but it is more complex, larger and more dangerous.

If Chen Zhou were Abadar, he would immediately ban this outrageous operation.

Otherwise, it will happen that after a random person establishes a model of the plane at home, he will use it as a medium to cast a magic control spell with a wide range that covers the entire plane, brainwashing the existences in the world that cannot resist his spell into the shape he needs.

The devils in the Nine Hells can also use similar operations to make almost an entire plane fall to the evil camp, and easily harvest countless evil souls and join them in bloody battles.

No, if the situation really develops to this point, even if Abadar can agree, Mystra will cross the magic net on the spot and beat anyone who dares to cast this spell into a fool.

Donal believed deeply: "This kind of magic is not qualified for mortals to use. It is best not to be created from the beginning."

The black-skinned Death Toad maid on the side said softly: "Is it really okay for us to hear this kind of thing?"

"It's true that the teaching of magic is nothing. Don't worry, you will never come into contact with the legendary field in this life, and no one will try to study such shocking magic."

Slaad Death Toad immediately breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that he was almost going to be silenced.

"No, Shushu dares to conclude that as long as the elves know this operation, they will definitely be able to do such a thing."

"Well... that's how the elves are, so it's best to keep this idea of ​​teaching a secret. 』