Chapter 25 Personality
Brian took out a clay pot engraved with a spiral pattern, lit a strange sandalwood stick, and inserted it into it.
Light black smoke filled the small cave, exuding an indescribable fragrance.
Like the lotus in the pond, the fragrance that comes to you when blown by the breeze is refreshing and refreshing.
After smelling this smell for a long time, you will also notice a refreshing fragrance.
This is the essence of black lotus.
A kind of sandalwood prepared from lotus flowers grown in underground dark lakes as the main ingredient, and then added with secret methods and spices to help improve concentration and concentration.
Due to the influence of leyline radiation, non-Underdark residents cannot use it regularly.
Otherwise, over time, you will receive an insane Will roll.
If the test fails, you will fall into a state of unconsciousness for about an hour.
It is said that this spice is the favorite alchemical product of the mind flayers, masters of psychic powers. They often hang out in dark elf cities to buy from wizards.
Psychic professionals meditate surrounded by this fragrance, and the recovery speed of their psionic points can also be improved to a certain extent.
Brian did not dare to waste time. He took a deep breath and used his telekinesis ability to control the already formed astral construct.
The spiritual crystal servant slowly suspended in the air began to tremble slightly in the soft light.
He concentrated and activated the psychic secret method that he had rehearsed countless times in his mind.
The spiritual power deep in the soul was mobilized and guided, gradually mixed with a small piece of personal personality consciousness, and was carefully separated by him.
In this faintly fragrant atmosphere surrounded by black lotus and sandalwood, Brian clearly felt that his consciousness began to become chaotic and blurred as he used the secret technique of psychic energy.
However, he retained a trace of clear consciousness and understood that this was a process that he had to go through to peel off the fragments of his own personality.
So he stopped trying to resist, gradually relaxed, and opened up everything about himself, his body, mind, and magical intuition.
After a hazy and illusory fog.
He saw a dusty bedroom. Green vines sprouted from a yellowed diary on the desk, covering the entire desk, and finally spread to the walls of the room, winding into an indescribable shape. twisted pattern.
The twisted vine quickly bloomed into beautiful white flowers at a speed visible to the naked eye, then set seeds, withered, weathered, and finally turned into dust all over the room.
Before Brian could recall which scene in his memory this was, the desolate scene began to twist and spin until it turned into a blurry whirlpool and disappeared without a trace.
He felt a dimly lit hall appear in his sight again.
In the spacious hall, there was no one in the audience. Only the performer sat alone in front of the piano in the center of the stage, playing an unknown tune alone.
The sound of flowing streams gradually sounded in the background of the piano, and then turned into the sound of rumbling waves. The countless chair backs under the stage began to rise and fall with the rhythm, which was very strange.
When the music reached its climax, there was a long sigh, and the piano scores were scattered on the ground, and then slowly floated off the ground. Strings of transparent notes that came out of nowhere passed through the piano scores, happily dancing in the air. Playing on the shoulders of the performers.
Sparkling light and shadow appeared on the wall of the hall, and there was only a silent figure of the performer slowly closing his eyes, as if he was unaware of everything around him.
The piano body is getting louder and louder, and the rhythm is getting faster and faster.
Finally a huge whirlpool was triggered.
The scattered sheet music and notes screamed in horror as they were sucked in, spinning and rising at extremely high speeds. The performer and the piano also left the ground together, being enveloped by the huge force, and finally flew into the distant void.
When everything calmed down, Brian opened his eyes, and his retained consciousness quickly took over his entire body.
He raised his arm and stretched out his trembling fingers with difficulty.
In an instant, a strange stream of light appeared on his slender fingertips, gently touching the smooth crystal surface of the trembling spiritual crystal servant.
The light around the exquisite ultra-small star structure began to flicker very unsteadily.
Gradually, this faint shimmer.
Little by little, from the inside to the outside, bright blue starlight is emitted, shining brightly.
Seeing that the situation was stabilizing, Brian put down his arm pointing at the construct, took a long breath, put all his body weight on the rough stone wall behind him, and waited patiently for the entire transformation process.
He leaned against the wall and began to recollect everything in the illusory fog, and finally sighed in despair.
Because his instinct was telling him that he seemed to have lost something precious, but if he was asked to say it, he couldn't tell what it was.
In short, he felt that he was missing something.
This is the most critical and dangerous step in making a spiritual crystal servant.
It needs to peel off a small fragment of its own personality and integrate it into the astral construct.
In a sense.
The psions' crystal servants are actually a part of themselves.
Simply put, it can also be called the second personality.
Because of this, it is difficult for a psychic to recover the fragments of his or her personality that are stripped away during the process of making a spiritual crystal servant.
In other words, if he strips himself of a certain personality, he is likely to lose this personality forever.
It is difficult to say clearly whether this situation is good or bad for the psion.
Because the psychic powers of the psion originate from their own long-term and strict self-examination and mental exercise, as well as the cultivation of their own spiritual abilities.
Only by getting rid of distracting thoughts, overcoming their inner demons, and recognizing their true selves can they master the method of awakening the power hidden in their bodies.
This also means that some of your own personalities, such as cowardice, timidity, anger, shyness, etc., can easily affect the practice of psychic powers.
At this time, if these character flaws that affect practice are stripped out in the process of making spiritual crystal servants, then the psychic warlock himself will be infinitely close to perfection.
Brian subconsciously looked at his attribute panel. Just as he thought, his shortcomings were overcome, and he gained an additional good ability.
[Precision Mind (General Psychic Specialty): Your mind has no flaws, and you can maintain your thinking extremely sharp even in a chaotic environment. When you enter a state of spiritual concentration, it is difficult to be interrupted by external interference, concentration +5]
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For psychics, when they cast psychic spells, they only need to stay focused to display their innate psychic abilities, extracting the inner power and turning it into their own. ability.
They do not need to use messy materials, awkward spells, or clumsy gestures like spellcasters.
Only through the use of a small number of psychic points through conscious constructs, one can create fire out of thin air, move a boulder without touching it, glimpse a moment in future time and space, or communicate with someone miles away. communicate with external organisms.
So, when a psychic practitioner enters a state of concentrated psychic energy, it means that the requirements for releasing psychic energy are met, and terrifying psychic spells can be released through the control of thoughts and the invocation of psychic energy. . In fact, whether they are psychic practitioners or spellcasters such as wizards and priests, the concentration skills that determine the success rate of their spells are indispensable.
Otherwise, if you encounter some melee professionals with loud voices, they will often roar so deafeningly that you will be able to forcibly interrupt the magic or spiritual energy being released.
This shows how important it is to master this expertise that increases concentration.
Moreover, when Brian was working as a psion, he had already mastered a specialty that matched "tight mind".
[Psychic Meditation (Universal Psychic Specialty): Even in a chaotic environment and enemy threats, you can enter a combat state of concentration and release of psionic energy faster than usual. The speed of entering a psychically focused state is increased by 30%. 】
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The "Tight Mind" specialty is the unexpected benefit Brian gained after extracting the small flaws in his own personality. This seems to mean that his mind is close to perfection.
However, this method seems to be perfect, but in the end it strips away one's own personality, leaving a little bit of incompleteness.
If he is unable to recover the small character flaw that was stripped away from him, it is very likely that the Psion profession will not be able to touch the legendary realm in his lifetime.
Because 'Know Yourself' is not only the motto of psychics, but also their path to great power.
Therefore, it is a process of peeling off fragments of one's own personality and then rediscovering them.
For psychics, it is also a spiritual practice of ‘finding oneself’.
Understanding this relationship, he made the final decision after careful consideration.
Brian's psychic powers are inherited from a world of Athas where almost every creature has the ability to master psychic powers.
Psychic energy there is extremely prosperous.
As a result, many secrets about personality fragments and spiritual crystal servants have spread.
Among them is an extreme personality duplication technique called "Secret Technique of Full Essence Manifestation".
This secret method records how to copy small fragments of one's own personality to create a high-level spiritual crystal servant.
This kind of high-level spiritual crystal servants are smarter and more independent in personality than ordinary spiritual crystal servants.
What’s even more incredible is that they can also learn psychic powers.
This means that, in addition to the spiritual field of one's own specialization.
These five high-level spiritual crystal servants can also master the prophecy, transformation, self-shaping, teleportation and enchantment systems respectively, becoming an omniscient and omnipotent psychic.
Such a powerful secret method undoubtedly has major flaws.
Because the high-level spiritual crystal servants are not only smart, but also have a very independent personality, and may even exaggerate and distort certain characteristics of the original body.
This puts the psion at risk for schizophrenia.
The source of psychic powers is spirit and will.
From a spiritual perspective, different personalities represent different free wills, which can inspire different psychic abilities.
If you are a psychic who has six levels of personality and masters six major fields, he is no different from a madman with split personality.
You can imagine it.
My body opens its eyes every day, and the scene of the six personalities randomly switching makes people shudder.
Therefore, this secret method is only suitable for those psions who specialize in one profession.
The fellow psychics who came to this world with him practiced this secret method.
However, the other party did not create five different personalities at once.
Instead, he first created two high-level spiritual crystal servants, and then relied on his strong self-control ability and terrifying rationality to spend a long time in a low-demon world with limited strength, and then he almost perfected it. Suppressed the possibility of split personality, and mastered the three major areas of the psion at the same time.
So, for Brian today, he is not eager to learn this secret method. Instead, he plans to learn some experience from the other party when he becomes stronger and try to make one. .
After figuring out his plan for the psion, he once again set his sights on the psychic crystal servant and observed the process of it activating its independent consciousness.
I don’t know how long it took
Just when Brian released the light spell for the third time, he finally saw the spiritual crystal servant converge the light all over his body, suspended in mid-air with its obsidian-like pupils. .
This made him understand that the personality of this ultra-small astral construct had been activated and it had an independent consciousness that was loyal to itself.
So he spread his palm and tried to drive it with his thoughts.
The fist-sized astral construct trembled slightly, as if it had received a message from its owner, and fell silently into his palm.
Spirit Crystal Servant
Micro-sized construct
The personal level is equal to the master, and the health value is equal to half of the master
Attributes: Strength 1, Agility 16, Constitution -, Intelligence 12 (+1), Perception 13, Charisma 10
Construct properties: Psicrystal is resistant to poisons, sleep, paralysis, shock, disease, death effects, necromancy effects, mind-affecting effects (charm, coercion, phantom hallucinations, psychic hallucinations, and morale effects) and anything that requires strong Immune to the effect on Fortitude saves (unless the effect also affects the object, or the effect is harmless).
Not affected by critical hits, nonlethal damage, ability damage, ability drain, fatigue, exhaustion, or energy drain. Damage cannot be healed, but can be repaired.
Special abilities: alertness, improved evasion, shared powers, clairvoyance, psychic link, transfer of contact powers, levitation
Alertness: When the psicrystal servant stays with its master, it will Makes its owner's senses sharper and gains the "Alertness" feat.
Proficient in reflection and dodge: Facing normal attacks and directed spell attacks, the Psychic Crystal Servant has an evasive ability that is different from ordinary people, with dodge +5 and reflection +5.
Shared abilities: The owner of the psicrystal can choose to share the buff abilities displayed on himself with the psicrystal.
Supervision: Although the Psychic Servant does not have sensory organs, it can perceive the surrounding environment through telepathy, just like creatures with normal vision and hearing. Dark spells and supernatural darkness do not affect clairvoyance.
Psychic link: The master of the spiritual crystal servant and the spiritual crystal servant have telepathy. The spiritual crystal servant is no more than two kilometers away from his master, and the two can communicate at will with their thoughts.
Transmitting contact powers: The master of the psicrystal can transfer his own contact psychic powers to the psicrystal and let it release it on his behalf.
Levitation: The Psychic Crystal Servant can float in mid-air at its normal movement speed.
Personal characteristics: psionic meditation, negative energy resistance
Psychic meditation: Psychic crystal servants can enter a state of psionic concentration as quickly as possible.
Negative Energy Resistance: Has 30% damage reduction when facing undead physical or magical attacks.
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(End of this chapter)