Chapter 2087: Inheritance Concluded, Arrival at Konnifila

For the first person to receive the inheritance, Xia Duo chose Dien; as a member of the Five-Member Committee, Dien himself also needed to set an example.

After having Dien lie down on that strangely shaped, crescent-moon-like recliner, Xia Duo personally placed a Crystal Focus Headband on Dien's head, then reminded him:

"Don't be nervous, relax. A large amount of Knowledge will soon flood into your mind. What you need to do is not desperately try to memorize it, but to keep your state of mind peaceful, just watching it flow slowly through your heart like flowing water. Do you understand?"

"Mm, I understand! Don't worry!"

Dien did not yet realize the severity of the problem at this moment, but Xia Duo, who had personally experienced the Inheritance Ritual, still reminded him again, and this was also a reminder to the others in the Inheritance Chamber:

"Do not, under any circumstances, try to memorize or understand that information! Just watch it appear and then disappear. This concerns not only the final effect of the Inheritance Ritual but also the recovery of your consciousness after the ritual."

In fact, Xia Duo had already given these warnings once before, but he knew all too well what that feeling of watching information flow by while having to force oneself not to understand it was like.

When he tried the Inheritance Ritual in the Projection Plane of Wuweilun, he himself had not been able to resist trying to memorize and understand it; the result, naturally, was that the inheritance effect was very poor. The more one tried to memorize and understand, the less remained in the end.

It looks very counterintuitive, but in reality, when one tries to understand and memorize, it is equivalent to reading various books or listening to various explanations in Reality; whether one can remember or understand it depends entirely on oneself.

If one could gain Knowledge and experience just like that, then what would be the point of the Inheritance Ritual?

Furthermore, there is the recovery of consciousness after the ritual. After all, it involves forcibly stuffing information that does not originally belong to one's own consciousness into it. Because it does not involve sensory information, it is relatively pure and "clean" information, but it will still cause a certain degree of mental confusion, or even cognitive dislocation.

That is why various auxiliary measures are needed. If it were really like what is portrayed in some science fiction movies on Earth, where one could immediately accept and understand input Knowledge and Skills just by wearing a helmet, then the Elves would have long since ruled the whole world.

The Inheritance Ritual can only solve memory-related problems to a certain extent. Someone like Xia Duo, who can trace past memories at any time or possesses the ability to never forget what he sees, has absolutely no use for this thing!

Of course, what the Inheritance Ritual can pass on is not just literal Knowledge and experience; it can also pass on the Spellcasting experience of others, which is the essence. But unfortunately, that kind of inheritance is too rare; at least Xia Duo is not yet able to create it.

But no matter how many shortcomings it has, the Inheritance Ritual can be considered a powerful tool that can greatly accelerate a Mage's growth!

……

Soon, Dien's Inheritance Ritual began.

Dien, who had been lying on the recliner very relaxed, suddenly tensed his whole body, and his eyes widened. Seeing this, Xia Duo immediately cast a Spell to soothe his mind and whispered a reminder:

"Relax, just pretend you are looking at the scenery!"

It is unclear whether it was Xia Duo's mind-soothing Spell that took effect, or if Dien saw the true process of the inheritance and gradually adapted to it, but after the initial tension, he finally relaxed his body.

Only his two hands, resting on the sides of his thighs, were tightly clenched into fists, as if he were fighting against the inner desire to understand the stream of inheritance information.

A simple description is hard to capture the feeling of foreign information intruding while one must forcibly ignore it, but if one were to describe it as an inadvertent stinging pain, it would be very similar.

Even if a person is dull, if they are suddenly pricked by a needle, they will cry out in pain, and if that needle never leaves, it is difficult for anyone to ignore that stinging sensation.

This is actually a true portrayal of the Inheritance Ritual; although it is not pain, the essence is not much different.

From this, Xia Duo also thought of the "Sitting and Forgetting" realm mentioned by the sages of his hometown; if one could achieve that, perhaps one could accept the Inheritance Ritual at will.

……

As time passed bit by bit, Dien's tightly clenched fists gradually loosened, and his eyes had already closed. By the time the ritual ended, snoring sounds were actually echoing in the room.

Seeing this situation, Xia Duo could not help but smile knowingly, but he immediately realized that although the current environment of the Tower of Time seemed much more relaxed than in the past, the rest time was not necessarily as much as it used to be.

Or rather, in such a small society with a simple structure, internal competition had already appeared!

After waking Dien up, Xia Duo said to everyone in a joking tone: "If you can fall asleep during the Inheritance Ritual, it means the final inheritance effect should be quite good!"

Although he said that, Dien was still a bit embarrassed; he immediately got up from the crescent-moon recliner and ducked into the crowd.

Only he had forgotten that he was still wearing the only Focus Headband Xia Duo had prepared. After being called back by Xia Duo, Dien became even more embarrassed.

……

"Next, Dewan!"

Dewan was also a member of the Progress Society's Five-Member Committee. Hearing Xia Duo call him, he immediately stood out from the crowd, took the initiative to take the Focus Headband from Xia Duo's hand and put it on his head, and then lay down on the recliner himself.

Xia Duo was very satisfied with Dewan's initiative. As usual, he gave a reminder to relax and then started the ritual. With Dien's demonstration earlier, Dewan quickly entered the state.

When the Inheritance Ritual was about to end, he also fell asleep, but he did not snore loudly like Dien. After being woken up, he quickly got up from the recliner, took off the headband, handed it to Xia Duo, and returned to the crowd.

Although he was only the second one, Dewan had already shown the Progress Society members' style of doing things with vigor and speed, and this also infected the subsequent candidates for the inheritance.

Just like that, one by one, in the atmosphere of the Inspiration Movement, all the candidates for the inheritance in the Inheritance Chamber received the Inheritance Ritual.

Averaging ten-plus minutes each, the inheritance for more than a dozen people ended, and the slowly flying Floating City had already arrived above Konnifila City.

"Now you can go back and properly recall and understand that inheritance information. Tomorrow morning at six o'clock, everyone gather at the Floating City's Academy District. I have found a friend to tutor you; you can just call him Mage Boli. I do not wish for anyone to be late for his class!"

The so-called Mage Boli was naturally Saville. Boli was the name of Niya's grandfather—that is, the son Saville loved most deeply.

In fact, the Formal Members of the Progress Society did not need Xia Duo's reminder at all, but many of the first batch to receive the inheritance were Intermediate Mages from the old system of the Tower of Time, who already had a shallow understanding of the new system, and even harbored resistance.

If they thought that by receiving the Inheritance Ritual, they could stably become Advanced Rank Mages and then look down on Saville's tutoring, that would be a huge waste of this rare inheritance opportunity!

After finishing what needed to be explained, Xia Duo returned to the Floating City, preparing to go down to negotiate entry matters with the Keman side.