Chapter 1827: Obtaining Memories, Saint Form Avatar

Although he had prepared himself beforehand for the impact and even contamination of a massive amount of memories, in actual practice, Xia Duo was still shocked by the sheer volume of Xilin's memories.

They were almost endless, and instead of coming in batches, they flooded into his consciousness all at once, while his own consciousness was like a small boat sailing on a sea of raging waves.

If not for the vast difference in their life forms and the fact that Xilin's past experiences and thinking were relatively simple, Xia Duo would have almost thought he was about to be assimilated by Xilin!

"Too terrifying; in the future, one must be cautious, and then even more cautious, when dealing with such ancient, wise life forms!"

Xia Duo felt a lingering fear; this time was indeed a bit risky, but compared to the final result, it was still worth it, and he had at least roughly figured out the limit of his ability to substitute himself into the memories of another wise life form.

It is roughly around one thousand years; Xilin's case is a special one, and if it were an Elf who had lived for over two thousand years, even if one could luckily retain their self-consciousness this time, they would inevitably be deeply affected by it.

After the lingering fear came the examination of the harvest.

Xia Duo could not help but feel jubilant, but his current body form did not allow him to make such movements or even expressions; it was truly hard to imagine how a tree would hop around.

In the memories Xilin could perceive, he was initially planted by a high Mage of Aryvandaar, and during that period, he experienced the collapse of Aryvandaar until Sharwen was established, only then gaining the name "Xilin."

Of course, before the establishment of Sharwen, Xilin had already awakened self-consciousness, but at that time he had never communicated with other wise creatures and had no concept of time; just how early it was, even Xia Duo, who had obtained all of Xilin's memories, could not judge.

In fact, if not for major historical events that also occurred on the Main Plane, such as the establishment of Sharwen and the planning of the city-state of Evereska, serving as reference nodes, he would not even be able to judge Xilin's approximate age.

However, although Xilin had near-infinite memories, not many of them were actually useful to Xia Duo; the vast majority were things like "the sunlight is so comfortable today," "it's windy, it's raining," or "a little thing has landed on me."

Basically, before possessing the name "Xilin," Xilin's memories could be almost completely ignored.

In Xia Duo's view, it was only after coming into contact with the Sharwen Elves and possessing the name "Xilin" that Xilin could be considered a normal wise creature; although the lower limit of this "normal" was a bit low, it was indeed already considered normal.

In Xilin's memories, Xia Duo saw some of the processes of the Sharwen Elves initially establishing the Mythallar, among which was Xilin's help.

Yes, although Xilin did not understand what Magic was before coming into contact with the Sharwen Elves, after that, he quickly accepted and mastered Elven Magic.

This also coincided with Xia Duo's previous guess; perhaps the initial origin of Elven Magic was these naturally awakened Treants, and now, learning Magic from the Elves in return was simply not difficult at all.

Xia Duo did not know about other Treants, but he could be certain of one thing: Xilin was simply a born high Mage; any Spell could be quickly mastered once it reached his hands, but Xilin had no initiative to study Magic, and everything he did was driven by external forces.

If the Sharwen Elves had not wanted to build a Mythallar, he would never have thought of coming into contact with Elven Magic, let alone participating in the construction of the Mythallar.

But this made things convenient for Xia Duo.

After initially excluding the influence of Xilin's memories, he immediately began to organize the memories related to the Mythallar, and in this process, he also discovered an exclusive Projection Spell in Xilin's memories.

It was created by an Elven Mage for Xilin, intended to allow Xilin to have a mobile avatar to walk around and see things, but in reality, Xilin had only used it once since possessing this Spell.

The only time was to attend the celebration ceremony of the Sharwen Tree Council regarding the completion of the Mythallar, and since then, for nearly two thousand years, he had never used it!

He was simply a homebody to the extreme!

This also made things convenient for Xia Duo; originally, he had prepared to create an avatar to go out using the Projection Spell he had mastered, but if there was a native Spell, then naturally the native Spell was better.

Even if discovered by the Elves, it would just be an Elder feeling restless and wanting to move about.

But if possible, Xia Duo still hoped not to alarm the Elves; after all, his current main body was difficult to move, and he lacked the first essential element for a Spellcaster to save their own life, so it was better to keep a low profile.

……

Two days later.

In front of an ancient tree that resembled an oak but was taller and more lush, a point of spiritual light flashed and then rapidly expanded, first turning into a light-formed Elf, and after the light converged, it turned into the appearance of an inconspicuous Gold Elf.

This was the Elven body Xia Duo created using the Projection Spell from Xilin's memories; calling it a body, its essence should actually be the Saint Form of an Elven high Mage.

Elven Mages cannot maintain the Saint Form for a long time, but Xilin can; in other words, Xilin's combat power might not be stronger than an Elven high Mage, but his endurance is definitely countless times stronger.

Moreover, this avatar state also had benefits for Xia Duo; he did not know if it was the specialty of Xilin's avatar or the specialty of the high Mage's Saint Form.

In short, he now felt that the surrounding Magic Net was like his own Private Magic Web expanded by Arcane Fire, as easy to command as his own arm!

Since he had already mastered the Advanced Permission Level of the Mythallar, Xia Duo was not worried about the commotion caused by Spellcasting being detected by the Elves; at this moment, he tried it casually, and it really felt like he was cheating.

As long as he wanted, any Spell could be easily grasped, and even some Spells he had never mastered seemed as if he had practiced them ten million times, becoming incomparably proficient.

It could be said that unless Xia Duo deliberately made a mistake, there was almost no possibility of failure when casting Spells in this state!

Xia Duo had never experienced what it felt like for a high Mage to cast Spells before, even in the 【Projection Plane: Cormanthor Birth】.

That time, he had not yet reached the limit of the Magic Net on the Main Plane, and he could not progress on the Projection Plane, otherwise he could truly have become a high Mage on that plane.

After all, with the 【Sword of Ruling】 in hand and high Mage followers providing personal guidance, he estimated that even sending a pig over would have worked.

And now, having personally experienced the Saint state of a high Mage, Xia Duo no longer held prejudices against Elven Magic as he had in the past; really, once you have experienced it, it is hard to go back.

That feeling of resonance with heaven and earth—even his own Private Magic Web was not that satisfying!

Xia Duo believed that as long as they had experienced the Saint state of a high Mage beforehand, if there were an opportunity to become a high Mage, those Great Arcanists of Netheril would definitely choose to transform without hesitation.

Of course, the most critical point is—high Mages can also create Arcane Fire!