Chapter 3098: Psionic Traces in the Gateway Magic Tool

Xia Duo felt some joy in his heart, but also some regret.

The joy was because although this crystal ball-shaped Psionic Artifact did not allow him to directly observe or perceive psionic energy, it had indirectly marked out the psionic energy through its own changes.

The regret, of course, was that this marking was still indirect; psionic energy remained "invisible" to him, much like someone pointing at a patch of air and telling him—look, there is a ghost there, even using a brush to outline the ghost's silhouette.

Although he could believe that person, this could not be considered him seeing it with his own eyes.

However, indirect detection is still detection; compared to the total confusion from before, the current situation was already a qualitative leap, and Xia Duo always believed one thing: as long as it can be detected, it can certainly be interfered with.

The act of detection itself is a form of interference, or rather, contact.

If this Detection Crystal Ball had failed to make contact with the target artifact's psionic energy, why would the light purple mist it manifested yield that specific space? Shouldn't it be filled? Just like other non-psionic areas.

It must be that some kind of interference occurred, causing the target artifact's psionic energy to repel the light purple mist manifested by the Detection Crystal Ball.

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Next, Xia Duo separately detected the psionic ranges of several other Psionic Artifacts with confirmed functions, all of which were larger than the space occupied by the artifacts themselves, roughly half a foot beyond the main body.

It was as if a mass of invisible energy had wrapped those Psionic Artifacts up.

There were two more Psionic Artifacts with unconfirmed functions; Xia Duo did not detect them for the time being, assuming they should not be much different from the Psionic Artifacts with confirmed functions.

The essence of both was a material carrier for psionic energy.

And while detecting the usage process of the Psionic Artifacts, Xia Duo discovered that he was not actually unable to influence psionic energy; in fact, the process of using them was influencing and interfering, but his discovery did not stop there.

Even when these Psionic Artifacts were not in use, as long as they were within a certain distance of him, the psionic range marked within the psionic indication mist of the Detection Crystal Ball would change!

This meant that even if one were not a psionic Mage, it was possible to influence psionic energy—even the psionic energy of others!

It was just that this influence was very weak; taking Xia Duo as an example, his non-activation commands could at most cause the marked psionic range of these artifacts to fluctuate slightly.

But if it were an activation command, a relatively large change would occur, and it would even produce a change in the Magic Net due to the generation of reality-based significance, thereby producing a Magic Aura that could be clearly seen under Magic Vision.

If one could continuously strengthen a person's belief, perhaps it could truly reach the level of directly interfering with psionic energy.

This is different from a Spellcaster manipulating the Magic Net with their will; a Spellcaster's will can be said to be a truly existing thing, an attribute of the Soul.

Manipulating the Magic Net with will is essentially no different from a person using their hands to hold something. Whether it is hands or objects, whether it is the Magic Net or will, all are objectively existing.

But belief has a concept that detaches from reality; it is merely a thought, and before putting it into actual action, it does not have a shred of reality-based significance, yet it is from such thoughts that psionic energy is born.

Consequently, the possibility of directly intervening in reality arises, which is equivalent to endowing a thought that originally had no reality-based significance with the most authentic reality-based significance.

If a psionic Mage possesses such an ability, then theoretically, others should also possess such an ability.

How can one bridge the illusory and the real?

Xia Duo thought of "Psionic Energy," a special energy that might not be real, yet could produce an incomparably real impact on reality; could it be that psionic energy is a product of Psionic Energy after some kind of processing?

"If only there were some Psionic Energy samples!"

Although his exploration of psionic energy was only just beginning, and he could not even directly detect the existence of psionic energy, if he could have more materials, perhaps it could produce the effect of drawing inferences about other cases.

For example, Psionic Energy.

However, psionic Mages might not necessarily understand the significance of Psionic Energy.

In Mohawi's memory, he had always regarded Psionic Energy as a kind of fuel; burning Psionic Energy could increase one's own psionic upper limit, and it could also be used to recover psionic energy.

As for how to burn it, there were no specific images in Mohawi's memory, but from the process of his thoughts running, one could glimpse some clues; it was not the kind of burning that ordinary people think of.

Rather, it was that after psionic energy and Psionic Energy came into contact, an effect similar to burning or evaporation would occur; Psionic Energy would rapidly decrease, while psionic energy would rapidly increase.

The Psionic Energy surging environment necessary for creating an Artifact actually refers to an environment where psionic energy can be infinitely recovered; only such an environment can support the manufacture of an Artifact.

Whether it is truly infinite, both Mohawi and Xia Duo could actually make a judgment very easily; of course, it could not be truly infinite, but it reached an extremely high limit.

Otherwise, it would not have taken several thousand years to produce only twelve Artifacts.

And from this perspective, one can also see how unreliable Kalishi's idea of creating a New Artifact was; whether collecting it from the Northland or snatching it from what Zhamu Dasi had already collected, neither was a small matter that could be easily accomplished.

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Xia Duo had no way to obtain Psionic Energy samples for the time being, and there were none in Calimshan either; he himself knew how to collect Psionic Energy, but he did not have a psionic Mage he could safely command.

If handed over to someone untrustworthy, what was originally just collecting Psionic Energy might actually turn into a sacrifice; the former is a long-term job, while the latter can obtain a large amount of Psionic Energy at once.

Xia Duo did not trust Kalishi, so of course, it was impossible to let the other party collect Psionic Energy with the help of the Computing Power Pool.

As for collecting it himself, that was even more impossible; not to mention whether he could control psionic energy to collect Psionic Energy, even if he could, given his current level of half-baked understanding of psionic energy, it might be even more dangerous than handing it over to other psionic Mages to do.

After repeated consideration, Xia Duo decided to temporarily shelve the exploration of Psionic Energy; the most urgent need at the moment was the improvement of psionic detection.

For those Magic Artifacts that were scrapped early due to abnormal wear, if it was truly caused by psionic energy, and if the psionic traces stained on them were very numerous, then that would be one thing; if it was only a negligible amount, then with the Detection Crystal Ball that Xia Duo had created now, I am afraid it still would not be able to get the job done.

This involves a characteristic of psionic energy, which is that when different psionic energies come into contact with each other, they will instinctively erase the other's existence, or change the other's nature.

For the corresponding reality, one can refer to the mutual influence in cognition between Mohawi when he had just awakened psionic energy and the Psionic Scholar who presided over the ceremony.

Of course, the powerful are influenced less by the weak.

The corresponding psionic interaction situation is that powerful psionic energy can easily assimilate weak psionic energy.

Simply put, if there are indeed psionic traces on the Gateway Magic Tool, then one must use a Psionic Detector with lower power, otherwise the act of detection itself is very likely helping to clean up the traces.

This is somewhat similar to the popular explanation of the uncertainty of microscopic particles on Earth, because the particles used for detection are not much different in scale relative to the target particles, and the act of detection itself will change the state of the target particles, so it cannot be measured accurately.