Chapter 331

Black sorted out his thoughts a little and explained his situation.

As a member of the elite combat unit, his next mission was assigned to a second-line plane battlefield.

As everyone knows, all planes that require these elites are not easy to handle.

Correspondingly, because it is "support," some basic intelligence about these planes will also flow out.

"According to the intelligence I received, the plane I am going to this time... is very strange. It seems to be a world where the boundary between illusion and reality is extremely blurred." Black's brows frowned slightly.

"The information sent back by the first batch of wizards who entered is vague, but the core points to one thing—there, if you are not careful, you will indulge in illusion and it will be difficult to distinguish between true and false."

"Fortunately, the preliminary judgment is that they did not suffer heavy casualties, but were more like trapped. So, our batch is considered to be going to support and solve the trouble."

He raised his head, his gaze focusing on Jie Ming through the light screen: "Therefore, I hope you can help me make a wizard tool, the core function of which is to resist hallucinations or thought interference. I don't know much about alchemy products, but I heard that you have a way in making special wizard tools."

After listening to Black's narrative, Jie Ming touched his chin unconsciously.

However, Jie Ming was not thinking about the weapon problem; he mainly thought of another aspect.

Black's request illuminated a blind spot in his own defense system.

He quickly calculated in his heart.

He has many means, from Black Giants to rune wizard tools, from Xuan Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier to internal cave heaven, which seem to be comprehensive, but in terms of resisting high-intensity hallucinations and thought interference, there are indeed shortcomings.

The Xuan Xuan Gang Hong Chen Barrier can prevent curses and anti-prophecy, but it is not effective against the power of directly distorting the mind.

Although the adaptive resistance of the body-refining method is strong, it is ultimately passive and takes time to take effect.

"Can't always count on the body-refining method to carry it through..." Jie Ming thought to himself.

Black's request just gave him a practical opportunity to test what kind of protective equipment his technology could manufacture.

After figuring this out, Jie Ming nodded and responded in a calm tone: "I understand the situation. Making a wizard tool that resists hallucinations and thought interference is no problem."

He changed the subject and put forward his own conditions: "In terms of price, I can give you a discount. However, I have one requirement—you need to provide me with the specific effect parameters of this wizard tool in that plane war, including activation status, energy consumption, protection threshold, interference types and intensity encountered, etc., all data that can be recorded, in full after the war."

Black pondered slightly.

Exposing the specific effect parameters of the wizard tool means leaking part of his combat intelligence.

But thinking about it from another angle, in order to obtain these precious first-hand data, Jie Ming will inevitably be more dedicated when making it, and the quality of the wizard tool is likely to be more guaranteed.

This is more beneficial than harmful for him who is about to step into an unknown dangerous plane.

"Okay." Black just thought for a moment and agreed, "I will try my best in data recording."

Because this was Jie Ming's first time making this kind of specific-function wizard tool, and Black's request itself was relatively broad, it was difficult to determine the deposit amount or the specific delivery time.

Black thought for a while and gave a clear time node: "I have about a year of preparation time. As long as the wizard tool can be completed within a year, it will be fine."

"One year is enough." Jie Ming nodded and accepted the commission, "Then, after I complete the preliminary design and estimate the cost and specific plan, I will contact you to determine the details."

"Okay, please." Black said, and the two sides ended the communication.

The light screen went dark.

After the communication ended, Black sat in his laboratory, but his heart was not completely settled.

The reason why he suddenly contacted this genius of the same session who had almost no intersection was actually due to the suggestion of his mentor—Oswaldo.

Originally, Black intended to find another alchemist he was more familiar with and also more specialized in the field of mental protection.

But before making a decision, his mentor Oswaldo accidentally learned of his plan and mentioned it casually: "Perhaps, you can go and ask that kid Jie Ming?"

Although Black didn't understand why in his heart—Jie Ming didn't show special expertise in the field of mental protection during the academy—out of trust in his mentor's vision, he still tried to contact Jie Ming.

In the communication just now, Jie Ming was able to break through his unconsciously emitted "sense of existence dilution" and recognize him directly, which shocked him and gave him a new assessment of Jie Ming's true strength.

But in the subsequent exchanges, he could clearly feel that Jie Ming didn't seem to be very familiar with making this kind of wizard tool, at least not like he had a mature plan.

This contradictory feeling made Black feel a little bottomless in his heart.

"After all, I'm going to that kind of place... It's always right to have one more preparation." He thought to himself.

After hesitating for a while, Black opened the communication list again, and his fingers slid over several familiar names.

"Should I... find someone else to help refine a similar wizard tool as insurance..."

He thought so and began to pick the next possible partner.

Hanging up the communication with Black, Jie Ming didn't start immediately, but habitually performed deduction first.

He returned to the experimental bench, his fingertips sliding lightly on the smooth countertop unconsciously, and two related knowledge in his mind began to integrate rapidly.

For protection against hallucinations and thought interference, whether it is the "mental protection study" of the wizard system or the "soul suppression" and "truth-breaking" methods recorded in the Great Dao Book Pavilion, the core principles can be roughly summarized into three categories:

The first is the blessing type, like putting a sturdy armor on one's own mind.

By continuously releasing "mental barrier," "clearing heart mantra," and other states, improve the user's own mental resistance and passively resist external intrusion.

The advantage is that it can be prepared in advance, and the effect of dealing with conventional interference is stable.

The disadvantage is that the duration is limited, and there is an upper limit to the protection intensity. Once an attack exceeding the threshold is encountered, the protection may shatter instantly.

The second is the awakening type, which is equivalent to setting up an emergency alarm system.

When the user's mind falls and falls into hallucinations, forcibly wake them up through strong soul stimulation—such as "soul-fixing clear sound," "pain feedback array," etc.

The advantage is that it is highly targeted and has a reversal effect on the interference that has already taken effect.

The disadvantage is that there is a reaction delay, and the intensity of awakening depends on the interference intensity and the power of the device itself. If the hallucination is too deep, the awakening may fail.

Finally, the isolation type is to build an absolutely safe "mental secret room."

Directly build a barrier outside the user's consciousness to fundamentally isolate internal and external information exchange, so that hallucinations and thought interference cannot reach the core.

The advantage is that it is done once and for all. As long as the barrier is not broken, it is almost immune to all influences of the same type.

The disadvantage is that the energy consumption is huge, maintaining the barrier requires continuous consumption of massive energy, long-term operation is a severe test for the stability of materials and runes or arrays, and it may affect the user's normal perception of the outside world.

Of course, after the development of long years, whether it is wizard magic tools or protective heart magic treasures in the cultivation world, very few are of a single type, and most are composite designs.

But limited by the number of runes and energy flux that materials can carry, in the same level of equipment, there will inevitably be a focus on a certain function.

If you pursue all three functions to be powerful, you must use higher-level materials, leading to soaring costs.

The final finished product may appear mediocre at the same level, and all aspects are not prominent enough.

Jie Ming combined the intelligence provided by Black to analyze:

"If the entire plane has problems, then it is almost certain that the moment you step into that plane, hallucination attacks may surge like a tide. There is an extremely high risk of 'first-sight kill'."

"At the same time, the user also has to face a plane war that may last for more than ten years or even decades. This means that the wizard tool needs to have super long-term combat capability. And the intensity of interference is completely unknown, it may be gentle, or it may suddenly increase in certain areas."

Based on these judgments, he quickly ruled out the blessing type.

The duration of blessing-type wizardry is a hard injury, requiring frequent activation or maintenance, and the reliability is insufficient in unknown long-term missions.

More dangerously, if its fixed protection intensity cannot resist the plane's own erosion, the user may be recruited without any awareness, which is more terrible than no protection.

Then, the awakening type was also shelved by him.

Although more active than the blessing type, its premise of taking effect is that the user has already been recruited, and there is a dangerous "window period."

In a dangerous foreign plane, even a one-second cognitive deviation may be fatal.

Moreover, if the intensity of awakening is not enough to break through the powerful interference at the plane level, this wizard tool is equal to a decoration.

"So, the safest plan is to solve the problem from the root—let the user's consciousness core not be able to touch the hallucination power of the outside world at all."

The train of thought became clear, and the isolation type became the best choice.

Create a pure mental space, protect Black's consciousness, let the outside world be strange, and I will remain motionless.

This can maximize the risk of sinking into the plane upon entry and provide stable long-term protection.

However, the well-known disadvantages of the isolation type also emerged.

Non-activated state can still run on standby for a long time, but once in the activated state, there will be amazing energy consumption and operational wear and tear.

If facing the worst case, that is, the entire plane will have strong thought interference and illusion force fields, the maintenance time of the isolation type may even be shorter than that of the blessing type.

At the same time, long-term high-load operation is an extreme test for the durability of the wizard tool's core materials and the stability of the rune structure.

This means that building such a wizard tool will never be cheap.

Thinking of this, Jie Ming not only didn't feel tricky, but his eyes lit up slightly.

"From the perspective of a commodity, it seems more appropriate for the wear and tear to be large..."

After all, besides collecting data, it is also to make money, so the more the user spends, the more he earns!

Since Black needs the highest level of safety guarantee, paying an expensive fee is also part of the equivalent exchange.

"Very good, let's do it." Jie Ming's mouth hooked a smile, no longer hesitating.

Do it as you say.

He stood up immediately, the lights in the laboratory adjusted, and multiple auxiliary calculation and design light screens lit up at the same time.

(End of chapter)