Chapter 1259 Spell Suggestion, Ruins of Empire

However, Shado does not need to sort out all the memories of this month, especially "McCard", at once.

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

It won’t be too late to sort things out slowly when we get to a truly safe place.

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The time in consciousness cannot be estimated by normal time, and Xia Duo does not know how long it has passed. He feels as if he has had a long, long dream.

After waking up from the dream, he roughly calculated from the remaining time of the protective spell in the room that about 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 "McCard".

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

And it is not as easy as imagined to classify "McCard's" memory as "untrustworthy" and temporarily restrain it.

It is not something that can be controlled by just swiping the mouse, but everything that is observed and perceived now must be judged based on the judgment standards of all things by the backup personality in the past.

In other words, one must artificially not think about "McCard's" memory and way of thinking.

But the memory has long existed in the consciousness, so you can't say that you don't want it. In fact, everything Sha Duo observes and perceives now is based on "McCard's" body.

It's really hard to ignore deliberately.

Shado's own exploration of the field of consciousness alone is not enough to perform such complex and sophisticated operations on consciousness, but he also has psychic spells.

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

This is what Sha Duo did at the moment. He cast a suggestion spell on himself, which allowed him to deliberately ignore all new memories after entering the projection plane.

Although this spell is easily affected by some irritating events and becomes ineffective, it is not unreasonable to use it in the short term.

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After completing the temporary rescue of his own consciousness, Xia Duo temporarily recovered all his spell-casting abilities. Only then did he have the time to check the state of the body and the environment it was in.

The right leg of the body extends up to the shoulder. It seems to have withered. The dry skin clings to the bones, and the flesh and blood inside seems to be missing.

Even without casting any detection spells, Xia Duo could guess that this must have been eroded 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 turn into a mummy.

I don't know if it was because of this that he was not disturbed for more than ten hours. The three high-level mage companions who had fled back to this temporary shelter seemed to have completely disappeared.

"Do they think McArdle is dead?"

As soon as Xia Duo had this idea, a string of memories emerged from his consciousness. He squeezed his eyebrows hard, trying not to recall memories that did not belong to him.

Although he was affected by psychic spells and temporarily ignored all memories after entering the projection plane, Sha Duo still had a certain understanding of his current state.

He has always had a goal in his mind, which is to find a deserted and safe place as soon as possible, and then check his memory.

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

Then he cast a temporarily created spell - [Control Self]!

This transformation spell of up to level 5 allows him to move freely even if he loses half of his body perception.

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

After that, he cast a detection spell, and a hidden perception field was created and projected out. Sha Duo soon knew the environment he was in——

This is a simple underground shelter with an unknown depth. Together with the "ward" where he is now, there are three rooms, two of which are empty, and the other is a warehouse with some dry food stored in it.

"Am I the only one?" Xia Duo wondered.

But even so, such a refuge that he had no memory of was not a safe place, not to mention that Xia Duo still had a mysterious intuition in his heart that wanted him to leave immediately.

He was determined to trace the source of his intuition, but at the next moment, the numbness of his body being eroded by negative energy made him ignore this, but anyway, he had decided to leave.

…

High in the sky in an unknown area.

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 field of vision unscrupulously——

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

"That's the Arcane Empire?!"

Such speculation quickly arose in Xia Duo's mind, and he was deeply shocked by such speculation. When he left [Arcane Empire] before, it was because the magic network suddenly collapsed and chaotic magic swept through the city, and he was unable to resist. Just left.

He had already anticipated the fate of the Arcane Empire after leaving, but looking down at the earth from a high altitude, the ruins of civilization that occupied a considerable part of his field of vision still really shocked him.

As far as he knew, the Arcane Empire had a population of nearly ten million at the time. Looking at the situation now, one percent of them would be lucky to survive.

In other words, that war destroyed nearly ten million living people almost at once!

Shado was not sure whether this was done by the Cormanzo family or by several elven kingdoms working together, but no matter which case it was, it was enough to prove that there was no essential difference between elves and humans.

There is an element of friendliness, but there is also no lack of ruthlessness.

Just thinking that such a tragedy could happen in Netheril on the main plane made Shado feel shuddering.

This feeling is even stronger, especially after knowing that the Mystery Lock has been built in Severton.

Fortunately, the main plane and the projection plane are still different. At least he has never heard of things like Mysel Energy Core and Floating City in the Arcane Empire.

On the main plane, Iolum's invention of the Mysel Energy Core was the "prophetic message" in Shado's memory, and Iolum's various performances seemed to verify this.

But as long as Miser Nenghe doesn't show up for a day, Sha Duo will never be able to let go of this sense of crisis.

"This elf really doesn't deserve to be a human being!"