Chapter 1680: The Culmination of Consciousness, Erasing Memories

From this, Xia Duo speculated that the Enlightenment Scroll might merely be a copy of a portion of the spellcaster's memories and some simple thought patterns.

It could barely form intelligence, yet it could not form a self.

If Xia Duo had just changed his mind, believing that the Enlightenment Scroll had already transcended the scope of Psionic Magic and was a product of pure Netheril Magic.

Then now, his thoughts would have to shift once more.

He believed that the Enlightenment Scroll involved the essence of consciousness, and its related technology must be the culmination of mental spells!

"I don't know which genius or geniuses researched this, but anyone with even slightly sinister intentions is simply a devil playing with consciousness!"

While in a state of perceiving consciousness, Xia Duo's consciousness was agile at this moment, and a segment of memory imagery suddenly focused, appearing "before" him.

That was the Pioneer Scepter that the Princess had equipped for every new Pioneer, a scepter capable of immunizing against most mental spell attacks.

Without a doubt, if one did not have a full understanding of mental spells and consciousness, how could one possibly create this thing!

There was also the book "Greta's Mental Protection" that Xia Duo had obtained from Greta; even at that time, he could see the other party's profound attainments in the field of mental spells.

If this Enlightenment Scroll was truly researched by the Seven Towers as Iolum said, then Xia Duo felt that Giles Tower must have played an important role in it.

Perhaps they were the ones who led it, who knows!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo decided to invade that layer of consciousness projection without much hesitation; he wanted to see exactly what the Enlightenment Scroll had copied!

Although Tower Spirits and Artifact Spirits were very private things, there was no guarantee that the Seven Towers didn't have spells to invade Tower Spirits.

Xia Duo was willing to actively speak of many secrets, even including the fact that he was a transmigrator; in reality, this wasn't much of a secret, and transmigrators in the Main Plane were not uncommon, it was just that none were from Earth like him.

Of course, it was possible there were already fellow countrymen from Earth, only they hadn't exposed themselves.

But speaking of it voluntarily was one thing, while having one's consciousness peered into was entirely another; Xia Duo absolutely did not want his consciousness to be peered into by others—this was simply more disgusting than being raped!

Because that layer of consciousness projection was of the same origin as his consciousness, and perhaps also due to the connection of the Enlightenment spell, Xia Duo easily allowed his perception to infiltrate it.

In an instant, he felt as if he saw his own memories.

No, more accurately, this was his memory, only it was a copied duplicate!

This portion of memory was almost detailed down to the smallest matter, covering everything he had seen and heard since he transmigrated, and above the memory, there were even some subconscious thought patterns.

If there were a bit more of his conscious mind, it might truly constitute a "defective version of the Xia Duo personality"!

Such a result was undoubtedly unacceptable to Xia Duo; if this Communication Artifact Spirit were obtained or peered into by others, he would almost become a transparent person before them.

Except for the memories before transmigration which were still preserved, the memories after transmigration were almost about to be seen through by others.

No matter what, Xia Duo could not accept such a result!

Thinking of this, Xia Duo began to erase the information in the consciousness projection without hesitation; among them, memories were the easiest to erase, requiring only that he withdraw his self-consciousness.

It was just that it could only be erased, not added to, at least not until Xia Duo cracked the Enlightenment Scroll.

But the absence of these memories would cause an impact on subconscious thought patterns; thought patterns were essentially the way of processing memories or sensory information, or one could say the way of information interaction.

Countless pieces of information intertwined to form thought patterns.

Even if just a tiny bit was missing, it would cause an impact on the thought patterns, though the impact could be large or small.

If a key node were missing and the thought pattern could not be self-consistent, turning artificial intelligence into artificial idiocy, that would not be good.

Xia Duo's understanding of consciousness was more focused on the whole; he did not have much research on partial addition, deletion, or modification and the subsequent results, and one could even say he had none at all.

After all, before today, the only thing he could come into contact with was his own consciousness; how could he mess around with such operations involving the foundation of the self?

At most, he could organize memory information and confirm the process of personality growth; he couldn't do anything more than that.

But now that he had the consciousness projection, which caused no harm to the main body, Xia Duo had to try it no matter what; if he were lucky enough to find some patterns, that would be even better.

If he failed, it would just be a matter of trying a few more times.

Thinking of this, Xia Duo decisively began to boldly erase the memories in the consciousness projection that he did not want others to know, such as the memory of him killing Lao Nier back then.

Actually, strictly speaking, someone had guessed it might be him at the time, but because he rose to power quickly, there were no follow-ups.

To this day, even if this matter were made public, it would be nothing, and its impact on him would be minimal, but after all, it was his first experience of killing someone, and Xia Duo still didn't want too many people to know.

Then there were some memories of being alone; the ancient saying from his hometown, "caution when alone," meant that a person's behavior when alone could often represent their true nature, and Xia Duo had now basically achieved the unity of knowledge and action.

Logically speaking, he should not fear these memories being known by others, but now, he had already become a drummer, designer, and guide of the new era, and the historical inertia of the old era was extremely powerful.

Before possessing enough say, he sometimes had to hide his true intentions; at the very least, he couldn't tell that group of Great Arcanists right now that he wanted to create a world where everyone was equal.

But these things were reflected when he was alone.

Must be erased!

Additionally, there was some magic information involving secrets, such as his protective spells, some key spells and theories he obtained in the Projection Plane, and so on.

He would not delete some summary-type things, but when it came to specific details, he would definitely have to delete them thoroughly!

Finally, there was some private information, such as memories of him eating, bathing, and sleeping; there was no need to elaborate, as it was clear these could not be placed in the Tower Spirit Ziliaoku.

"Let's delete this much for now!"

Xia Duo felt he could continue to delete, such as a lot of unnecessary sensory information; the Tower Spirit didn't need to know so much at all, just as no one with nothing better to do would ask the Tower Spirit what an apple felt like to touch.

Delete the sensitive information first; further streamlining and optimization could be left for slow research in the future. Xia Duo could almost foresee that this would definitely be a super project with a difficult process and huge time consumption.

His consciousness continued to float upward, connecting to sensory information, and Xia Duo completely returned to reality; at this moment, the first thing he had to do was check his "Communication Artifact Spirit" to see if he had broken it.

—Send a message to Kente, telling him to come to my place; I have a task to give him.