Chapter 3109: Virtual Personality Avatar, Mental Image World Trap

Constructing a Virtual Personality within one's own consciousness is a masterpiece of Psionic Mages, but it is also one of their weaknesses.

True Mind Masters do not need to use such methods for disguise or protection; they can completely control their own minds without revealing the slightest flaw.

However, a Virtual Personality has uses beyond protection or disguise; otherwise, how could it be called a masterpiece of Psionic Mages? Another more widely used purpose is the creation of avatars!

Unlike the Saint Form Avatar Xia Duo is currently using, which requires the investment of his own consciousness to control, an avatar created by a Psionic Mage based on a Virtual Personality can exist independently and operate on its own without the Psionic Mage needing to invest their own consciousness.

Of course, the foundation of such an avatar's existence remains under the control of the Psionic Mage.

Except for being unable to perform Spellcasting, it can almost be treated as a brand-new person.

According to Xia Duo's understanding, almost every Psionic Mage in Zhamu Dasi has several such avatars, one of which is kept in the Mental Image World of the Twelve Divine Artifacts almost all the time and does not go out easily.

This way, once the main body dies, the avatar can serve as a continuation of the main body, inheriting the Echo of thoughts from the main body, and if a New Artifact is born in the future, there is still a chance to start over.

Only when there are spare avatars will they be placed outside the Mental Image World—that is, in Reality—to do some miscellaneous tasks.

The reason it is called a weakness is not that the avatar is not tough (cannot perform Spellcasting), but that Psionic Mages who cannot fully control their own minds often cannot construct a pure Virtual Personality avatar, which inevitably becomes mixed with their own intentions.

In other words, as long as one breaks through this Virtual Personality, which is actually easier to break through, one can almost certainly obtain some information about the opponent's main body.

Xia Duo's brain actually counts as a kind of Virtual Personality; although its essence is a Consciousness Copy of Xia Duo, it has stripped away all privacy related to the main body, retaining only the necessary information used to maintain its existence, which also includes the Arcane Knowledge mastered by Xia Duo.

If the brain could become an independent existence that is essentially attached to him but does not require additional maintenance and can operate on its own, then many difficulties understood in the past would no longer be difficulties.

It is a pity that this kind of Virtual Personality avatar can currently only be used by Psionic Mages; involving Psionic, Xia Duo cannot even attempt it.

And now, if he can capture this attacker, perhaps he can crack the secret of the Virtual Personality avatar by studying the opponent; if he can allow Arcane Mages to also possess such things, even if they cannot perform Spellcasting, it would be of great significance.

In essence, it creates new Wisdom, and Wisdom is undoubtedly very valuable.

Moreover, even if they cannot perform Spellcasting, they can use Magic Items that do not require attunement or Spellcasting operations, such as the civilian magic equipment in Daxia Territory, which adopts an Activator scheme and does not require the user to have a foundation in Spellcasting.

Once this kind of avatar is successfully researched, it will inevitably bring brand-new development to Arcane Magic.

However, even Psionic Mages cannot create too many Virtual Personality avatars; Arcane Mages are based in Reality, and even if they could create such avatars, I am afraid there would not be many.

After all, the essence of an avatar is still attached to the main body, or rather, the main body invests a portion of its essence, and then creates an avatar on top of that.

The essence that the main body can separate is limited, so the number of avatars maintained simultaneously must also be limited.

If the main body does not need to invest essence, then the main body's control over the avatar can only rely on external factors, and the avatar will become a truly independent existence, which in reality is no different from a subject.

Xia Duo can imagine many application scenarios for Virtual Personality, even including the one the attacker is currently using—using a Virtual Personality to filter and resist Psionic attacks from the outside.

In fact, if the opponent were able to use the Mental Image World, the Psionic attack Xia Duo is currently launching through the conversion of consciousness information from the Computing Power Pool would nine times out of ten not stir up any ripples.

It is just that he does not know why the opponent is unwilling to use the Mental Image World for protection; even if they are not a Mind Master, they still possess a Mental Image World.

Through the deep experience of Mohawi's memories, Xia Duo still knows that the Psionic Mage's collection of perceptions of the outside world is actually the so-called Mental Image World, but one must reach the level of a Mind Master to truly control it.

Or rather, only by controlling the Mental Image World can one be considered a Mind Master.

The mind is a development path parallel to Psionic; some Psionic Mages treat them as the same thing, but in reality, there are differences.

Only those who can control their own inner mind are Mind Masters, and Mind Masters are often Mind Masters, but Psionic Mages may not necessarily be able to control their own inner mind to become Mind Masters.

Even if they cannot control the Mental Image World, ordinary Psionic Mages can still utilize it, especially when the attacker knows that the Northland is full of Arcane Mages; by channeling all attacks—whether from Reality or the mind—into the Mental Image World, they can minimize damage to the greatest extent.

Because the Mental Image World has a set of rules different from Reality and is built on the Psionic Mage's own cognition, for the Psionic Mage, it is almost an absolute home field.

Just like when a Psionic Mage is in Reality, while they are indeed strange, they cannot steadily defeat an Arcane Mage, because their attacks on the Arcane Mage must also land in Reality, which gives the Arcane Mage a fulcrum for detection and counterattack.

The reason Xia Duo hopes the opponent uses the Mental Image World is actually that he wants to replicate the past battle with Mohawi and manipulate the opponent through the Mental Image World constructed by both parties.

The Mental Image World is indeed worthy of being called the absolute protection of a Psionic Mage, but once this layer of protection is breached, the Psionic Mage is not far from death.

Through the deep experience of Mohawi's memories, Xia Duo has figured out a method to utilize the enemy's Mental Image World; the Spell 【World Editor】 he created in the past to protect the Mental Image World is truly effective and even possesses passive attack capabilities that he did not notice in the past.

If a Psionic Mage directly uses the Mental Image World to attack, it will create a new world based on the cognition of both parties; this is a move of mutual destruction, but Xia Duo's 【World Editor】 has prepared a virtual world at the consciousness level in advance.

This way, what the Psionic Mage is actually attacking is this virtual world, not Xia Duo's consciousness, and what the Mental Image World merges with is also this virtual world, not Xia Duo's cognition.

But through the deep experience of Mohawi's memories, Xia Duo has gained more experience in using and responding to the Mental Image World; the virtual world he creates now has rules that have been specially designed.

It is just waiting for the Psionic Mage to come and connect, and then fall into the trap!

The only thing lacking is the active ability, which is also the greatest weakness of Arcane Mages against Psionic Mages—Psionic is unknowable.

The Mental Image World is, of course, also imperceptible to Arcane Mages; they can only respond passively and cannot take the initiative to attack.

It is a pity that this attacker is still somewhat cautious; under the wave-like, continuous attacks launched by Xia Duo with the help of the Computing Power Pool, although this guy is already struggling, he still persists.

It seems there are some unrealistic expectations.