Chapter 3124: The Art of Making Wishes Come True

After touring the display room, Kalishi prepared to take Xia Duo to the Combat Experiment Area; Xia Duo was also very curious about the fighting style of Psionic Mages.

Although he had seen quite a lot in the memories of those two previous Psionic Masters, he had never seen it in reality; if he could witness it, it would count as a rare experience.

"Consultant Xia Duo, please this way!"

Following Kalishi's footsteps, Xia Duo soon arrived at the combat experiment area located on the eastern side of the underground space. This area was quite large, and its position relative to the Surface was already several tens of meters away from Kalishi's Psionic Cabin.

"Do Psionic Mages also conduct experiments frequently?"

"Of course they do. Psionic Mages are also Mages, and they also hold curiosity about the truths of this world; it is just that the methods of exploration are different from those of Arcane Mages, and experiments are also an indispensable part."

Kalishi hesitated for a moment, pushed open the door to a Laboratory, brought Xia Duo inside to look around, and introduced:

"What is being conducted here is a Material Assimilation Experiment. I come from the Anti School, and influenced by me, these disciples of mine also attach great importance to Reality. The Material Assimilation Experiment aims to explore the boundary between matter and Psionic, similar to the experiments in Arcane Magic that explore the boundary between matter and energy."

Once Kalishi said this, Xia Duo understood, but he still could not understand the process of the Psionic Mages' experiment; three Psionic Mages were casting some kind of seemingly non-existent Spell at a mass of air.

If it weren't for the occasional elemental Illusion popping up in the void, Xia Duo would have even thought that Kalishi was deliberately fooling him, but even so, he had no way to understand the essence of that experiment.

But loss of control does not mean it is impossible to recover. For the vast majority of losses of control in battle, as long as this chaotic desire to fight is vented out, one can still naturally recover.

That is different from the Psionic Loss of Control after Cognitive Collapse; that is truly impossible to recover from.

"Understood, Teacher."

If one sets aside the so-called Artifact Project, he was actually very willing to communicate with a Mage like Kalishi who spans both the Arcane and Psionic magic systems. However, the Artifact Project proposed by the other party contained too many uncontrollable factors, causing the two sides to be at odds, making it impossible to truly open their hearts and communicate; it was truly a pity.

From his perspective, he might see a Psionic Mage named Mage holding a sword-shaped Focusing Artifact and launching an attack on another Psionic Mage named Jiangyue; apart from the Magic Net having slight tremors, there was not the slightest anomaly manifested.

To put it popularly, it is—concentrating one's spirit to think toward a target, whether concrete or vague, and then in that process, Psionic is naturally generated, and under the effect of Psionic, the content of the thought is also realized.

It was also because of thinking of this that Xia Duo was unwilling to continue referring to the Psionic experiments under Kalishi. Kalishi was actually intending to take him to visit more Psionic experiments, seemingly wanting to arouse his interest in Psionic through such a method.

That was precisely a method he had used not long ago to exclude the influence of the experimenter's own thoughts on the results of Psionic experiments.

This battle, in the eyes of the two combatants, might be very intense, but in Xia Duo's eyes, the inability to perceive Psionic meant he could not have an intuitive understanding of the details of this battle; looking at it this way, it seemed very boring.

Upon hearing this, Karuong was immediately panicked. Perhaps because he was overly worried about the consequences of being banished by his mentor, he was stunned on the spot for a moment. It was not until the Mage on the side pushed him that he reacted and hurriedly apologized to his mentor and the Mage.

"I am sorry. I failed to anticipate that just one battle would cause Karuong to almost lose control. As a mentor, I am very derelict in my duty."

And the 【Focusing】 of a Psionic Mage is itself the Control of Psionic, which can produce real power.

The former had Kalishi's introduction, plus the indirect feedback of the Magic Net, so Xia Duo could roughly tell what Spell was being tested, but the latter, the Psionic Measurement Experiment, was completely beyond his cognition.

But before Xia Duo could analyze the type of Psionic Technique Karuong used for his counterattack from the Magic Net feedback, Kalishi began to scold with anger:

"It doesn't matter. Young people always have to experience more. It will be fine if you improve in the future."

Xia Duo actually did not see Karuong's loss of control, but he also did not doubt Kalishi's statement; the other party really had no need to play tricks in such a small matter.

Soon leaving that Laboratory, Kalishi next took him to visit two more laboratories, where the Spell Testing Experiment and the Psionic Measurement Experiment were being conducted respectively.

Of course, those were all just daily training, and compared to real battles, they were very different.

Perception is easy to understand. Focusing is a term in Psionic Magic, close to the concept of 【Concentration】 in Arcane Magic, but the concentration of an Arcane Mage itself cannot produce power; it still needs to shape a Spell through the interaction between the will and the Magic Net String.

However, he regretted it a little as soon as he said it, but it was not a complete regret; he was just worried about facilitating Kalishi's project. In fact, he was also quite curious about whether Psionic could actually be quantified.

This was not only Xia Duo's suggestion but also Kalishi's intention. It was not just Karuong; even the Mage was sent away together, and only then did he apologize to Xia Duo:

Without the slightest movement, the movements of the attacker, the Mage, began to go awry. It looked like he had been hit by an Illusion attack. Finally, a flash of purple light emerged from the tip of the Focusing Artifact sword, breaking the Illusion and striking directly at Jiangyue's face.

Therefore, regulating consciousness and excluding distracting thoughts is very important for a Psionic Mage; it relates to the control over Psionic.

Battle Training Ground.

Regarding this, Kalishi also had an explanation: "If one wants to fuse Psionic and Arcane, then it is necessary to conduct quantification experiments on Psionic. Measurement is the best entry point, but the experiment is currently not going smoothly. The difficulty lies in the fact that I cannot determine whether this is the effect of Psionic, or if I am truly quantifying Psionic in the experiment."

This type of training method, compared to ordinary Meditation cultivation, is one active and one static, and the focus is different, but the essence is the same: both are to improve the Psionic Mage's degree of control over their own Psionic.

And at this moment, Xia Duo finally saw the external manifestation of the Psionic Technique, which almost uncontrollably caused interference to the Magic Net around the field.

Just now, Karuong was able to regain control of himself so quickly; it must have been inseparable from the help of his mentor, Kalishi. It was just that Xia Duo did not see how Kalishi had acted, and this made him even more eager for the means to perceive Psionic directly through himself.

Even with Kalishi's introduction, he could not tell at all what those Psionic Mages were doing.

At this time, Kalishi had already called a halt to the training on the field: "Mage, Karuong, you two stop the training for a moment and demonstrate the fighting style of a Psionic Mage for Consultant Xia Duo."

"That won't be necessary today; there will always be opportunities in the future. Your emotions are not normal right now. What you should do now is not continue to fight, but hurry to the Meditation Room."

"Karuong, do you have to be so ruthless to your fellow disciples? I asked you to demonstrate the fighting style of a Psionic Mage for Consultant Xia Duo, not to have you fight the Mage to the death. If there is a next time, you can go find another mentor; I cannot teach you!"

Compared to the laboratories where there were many Psionic Mages, there were only two Psionic Mages practicing in the Battle Training Ground, which felt a bit like the Taiji pushing hands of Xia Duo's hometown.

Hearing such an answer, Xia Duo could not help but blurt out: "Since that is the case, why not let a Psionic Mage who is completely unaware of the purpose of the experiment conduct this experiment?"

Of course, he did not forget Xia Duo: "Sorry, Consultant Xia Duo, how about the Mage and I demonstrate it once more."

"Psionic! Psionic!" Xia Duo sighed in his heart.

The two Psionic Mages were very obedient and immediately separated, each going to the side of the Training Ground to retrieve their combat equipment, and then, at Kalishi's command, the battle began.

Moreover, in the memories of those two previous Psionic Masters, a Psionic Mage losing control of Psionic in battle was not a rare situation but was quite common. If a Psionic Mage had never lost control a few times, it would be somewhat abnormal.

Xia Duo knew that the essence of this training was actually quite similar to Taiji. In the memories of those two Psionic Masters, such training scenes were not rare; Psionic Mages trained their perception and focusing ability during battle through such methods.

It was just like one ordinary person holding a sword attacking another ordinary person, and the counterattack of the attacked Karuong, although it looked a bit strange, was also very subtle.

The two Psionic Mages on the Training Ground seemed to be in physical contact and slowly resisting each other, but in reality, they were wrestling with each other using Psionic, strengthening their own perception and gathering ability of Psionic in the process of resisting and wrestling.