Chapter 123-122- Soul Brain

Late at night, the lonely stars cast their light like a veil over the three-story official residence. On the second floor of the house, in a study, Lind frowned and paced back and forth, looking like an anxious salaryman under the pressure of KPI.

His identity here is an ordinary wealthy businessman who runs several drinking water factories. As a necromancer, using summoned creatures to fight instead of fighting in person is a principle that every necromancer should abide by.

After a while, the communication terminal placed on the sandalwood table suddenly started up, and an illusory figure condensed into shape out of thin air.

The other party was dressed in pure and flawless white sacrificial robes, but his head and body were made up of surging black fog, like the embodiment of darkness.

"Saint...Saint!" Lind immediately knelt down, his voice trembling.

That’s right, this is his direct superior, the “Soul Fire Saint”, one of the three Saints of the Holy Spirit Sect, a walking strategic weapon, and one of the mages with the highest individual combat power in the Origin Civilization.

According to rumors, if he wanted to, he could instantly deprive a town of hundreds of thousands of souls of their souls and throw them into the endless hell, where they would never be reborn.

Looking at Lind kneeling on the ground, the Soul Fire Saint's dark misty face could not reveal any emotion. Only a neutral voice could be heard: "The experimental subjects who escaped from the Black Tower, have you found where they are?"

"I... I'm incompetent, and I haven't made any progress yet..." Lin De broke out in a cold sweat. As the chief priest of the Samsara Society and a general of the Ghost Hand Society, he hadn't felt this frightened in a long time. "Please, Master Saint, give me a little more time..."

"His Holiness the Pope has reached an agreement with President John. If you can't find them in half a month at most, the New Eden government forces will arrive," Soul Fire Saint said calmly. "By then, we might not even get either of the two test subjects."

"New Eden?" Lind was stunned for a moment, then immediately understood something.

Since the two important experimental subjects leaked by the Black Tower escaped into the Rusted Bone Free State, and the Rusted Bone is completely the territory of the Holy Spirit Sect, even the eight major companies find it difficult to get involved, so once they enter here, if the Black Tower wants to get the two experimental subjects back, it will have to ask the Holy Spirit Sect to do it for them.

This is also the reason why Lind, as a general, received the commission from the Black Tower.

However, because these two experimental subjects were too important, the government of the New Eden United States was also eager to take action, and even had the idea of ​​launching a war on terror. Under the pretext of "rescuing the nameless national hero", they sent troops into the Fos River to find the two experimental subjects before the Black Tower and the Holy Spirit Sect.

By then, regardless of whether Black Tower Pharmaceuticals could obtain one of the two, the Holy Spirit Sect would most likely have worked in vain, and President John would directly take advantage of the situation.

"I... I will definitely find them within half a month!" Linde took a deep breath. "But I may need to use some... large-scale measures. I hope the Church will approve my use of the 'Soul Brain'..."

Necromancers weren't good at one-on-one or direct combat, but they had plenty of methods for mass destruction, especially soul manipulation. He'd previously worried about the potential impact, so he didn't dare to use his full power, which had delayed the results. Now that the deadline was approaching, he naturally couldn't care less.

"approve."

"Thank you, Master Shengsi..."

After a moment, the projected image turned into starlight and dispersed, and the study fell into silence.

Linde took a deep breath and quietly took out a small white skull from his clothes.

This is a special vessel that seals the "Soul Brain". The "Soul Brain" itself has no material entity. It is a special magic device that integrates all the understanding of the Holy Spirit Sect's undead magic. It can be simply understood as a "magic terminal made of souls."

It has countless benefits.

For example, it does not need to be worn specifically, it can directly reside in the spirit body and become the second-level spirit body on the spirit body.

It can also deploy AI and various software, and use the convenience of the spirit to take over the body. Even if the body has not been cyber-modified, it can still achieve effects such as physical hosting.

The best part is that it can amplify mental strength, whether it is spiritual defense or spell manipulation, it has advantages that ordinary terminals cannot match.

But why is something like this not well-known to the outside world?

The reason is very simple, it has two fatal flaws.

The first drawback is that its raw materials are scarce, requiring a vast number of soul runes. However, humans possess the strongest spiritual bodies, possessing thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of times more soul runes than other creatures. Even so, countless human souls are still required to refine a single soul brain, making it an evil object that cannot be mass-produced.

The second flaw is that there is currently no technology that can perfectly separate the spirit body from the memory body, which means that there are bound to be a large number of memory fragments remaining in the refined soul brain.

During use, these memory fragments will gradually penetrate the holder's spirit until they reach the innermost memory, and finally affect the holder's personality, thinking, self-awareness... until they become a cyberpsychopath and a personality patchwork monster.

Therefore, even a reincarnation high priest like Lind is forbidden to use the soul brain at will. Only when there is a need will he apply to the superior Soul Fire Saint.

"I should be able to use it for at least 20 minutes without being affected..." Calculating the strength of his own spirit and the penetration rate of memory fragments, Lind made an estimate and pressed a button under the white skull.

"Please enter the security code." A mechanical voice came from the little white skull.

"&*(￥%..." Lind uttered a safeword, all composed of Rusty Bone dialect, and then saw that the top of the small white skull opened from both sides, revealing a small space of about one cubic centimeter inside. A small ball of phosphorus was burning quietly inside, like a drop of green tear.

Looking at this extremely precious thing, Lind carefully raised his hand and touched the green phosphorescent fire with his fingertips. But then, a white tentacle appeared silently from his side, and with a light roll, it rolled the skull-shaped storage box and the soul brain inside to the side.

Lin De was stunned and turned his head blankly. He saw a black mass suddenly twisting in the shadow of the study. The next second, the figure of a silver-haired girl appeared.

She held the small box in her hand, looked at the green flame inside, and asked curiously, "Is this the Soul Brain?"

“You… give it back to me…” Lind began to tremble, his voice filled with unspeakable rage. He then shouted loudly, “Give it back to me now!!”

boom!

A chilling green fire erupted in the study, spreading outward. Yvette dodged the study and entered the hallway, unwilling to withstand such a difficult-to-defend soul attack.

Immediately, she touched the soul brain in the box with her finger, and then she felt a chill rushing into her mind, and at the same time, a slightly dull AI female voice appeared.

"System self-checking...Self-check completed...Unauthorized host detected, please enter the startup password."

Of course, Yvette didn't know what the startup password was, but the Soul Brain system architecture was the same as that of a normal magic terminal, which could almost be said to be a brute force transplant, so she only needed to use a little rune hacking to bypass these security passwords.

But right now she still had to deal with the "general", so Yvette put the matter aside for the time being and turned to look at Lind who rushed out of the study.

At this moment, driven by anger and certain fears and worries, Lind, the necromancer, had completely lost his mind.

He did not choose to distance himself and summon his own skeleton army. Instead, he summoned bone armor on his body surface and a white bone blade appeared in his hand. Like an undead knight under the command of the god of death, he slashed straight at Yvette.

Yvette naturally would not refuse this kind of close combat invitation between mages. The red runes on her body lit up, and she raised her hands forward, and actually used the action of bare hands to clamp the bone blade that was stabbing towards her heart.

Lind was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt something was wrong, but it was too late. Yvette raised her foot and kicked him in the abdomen, kicking him away. Then she picked up her bone blade, rushed in front of him, and stabbed Lind's heart fiercely.

The light of the magic barrier shattered layer by layer, and with screams, Lind was cut in the abdomen, blood gushing out. He gritted his teeth, used the force of the wind to retreat, rolled down the stairs in embarrassment, and then began to summon the skeletons that had been lurking under the soil of the garden outside the house, one after another.

"Kill her for me!" He growled to himself, like a cornered beast, and in fact he did.

Becoming the Priest of the Reincarnation, he had sacrificed a portion of his soul to the Soul Fire Saint, making escape impossible. However, having lost the Holy Spirit Sect's core secrets, the punishment he faced would be a fate worse than death. His only option was to fight the silver-haired girl to the bitter end and reclaim the Soul Brain.

Under the dark night sky, countless bony hands pierced from the grass and stretched toward the sky, transforming into an overwhelming tide of skeletons. Like crazed beasts, they charged toward the official residence, their movements agile and their postures strange. If one looked beyond their appearance and only observed their aura, they bore a striking resemblance to aberrations.

Yvette ignored them and kept chasing Lind, first rushing out of the house, then to the garden and golf course outside the official residence.

At this time, the surroundings were finally an open area. Yvette was suspended in the air, and the skeletons quickly approached her in a stacking manner and covered Lind's escape.

Seeing this, Yvette had no choice but to summon rune rings above her head, and in the end there were as many as 12 of them.

This scene almost scared Lin De to death.

Multiple rune rings represent the simultaneous casting of multiple spells, which is closely related to the mage's mental strength, magic power, understanding of runes, and the structure of the spell itself, and is a reflection of comprehensive strength.

Even Lind, a Level 5 mage, the Grand Priest of Samsara, a supreme expert second only to the Holy Master, could only cast five spells simultaneously! Among his colleagues, the most powerful could cast six spells simultaneously, while the weakest could only cast three. And these were all Level 5 mages, world-class superpowers.

Why can she release 12 rings at once?

Is this just some fancy special effect?

(End of this chapter)