The hastily ended combat demonstration did not stop Kalish from taking Sha Duo to visit the society's residence, but Sha Duo lost some interest.
Basically, he had seen everything he wanted to see. The rest was either useless to him or belonged to the secrets of the Kalish Psychic Magic Society. Shado consciously did not want to get too involved with the other party.
Of course, let alone personal friendship.
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Returning to the reception room, Shaduo considered his words and did not speak immediately. At this time, Kalish took the initiative to break the silence and pointed out the topic:
"Consultant Xia Duo is here for more than just a visit, right? Consultant Xia Duo should be able to give me an answer to the plan mentioned last time, right?"
"Yes, that's why I came here this time."
Kalish's enthusiasm and initiative did not make Shado change his mind. He still opposed the so-called artifact project.
But before he could speak, Kalish seemed to have seen his attitude, so he changed the subject and asked a new question:
"I wonder if Consultant Xia Duo has any arcane problems that are particularly difficult to solve? I can try to solve them using the fusion of arcana and psychic energy."
"this--"
Xia Duo didn't react at first, but looking at Kalish's confident eyes, he immediately understood what the other person was thinking. I'm afraid he wanted to use this method to prove the prospect of the fusion of arcane magic and spiritual energy, and then win over him. Support for the Artifact Project.
At present, the general understanding in both the Northland and Zhamdas is that if you want to develop psychic magic, psychic artifacts are an essential condition.
Perhaps in Kalish's view, if he was attracted by the prospects of arcane and psychic fusion he showed, he might support him. However, the fundamental reason for Shado's opposition to the artifact project was that the risk was too great, not that there was no possibility of it. prospect.
Kalish didn't even see this, so he was destined not to get the results he wanted.
However, Shado did not refuse Kalish's demonstration. After all, he himself was also curious about the extent to which psychic powers and arcane magic could be fused.
So he asked the other party: "Can any problem be solved?"
"Need is a question that can be answered." Kalish also gave a restriction. This condition may seem redundant, but it is also a necessary constraint, because many questions have no clear answers.
Such restrictions made Xia Duo think of the universal magic computer that was still in draft form and claimed to be able to calculate all computable problems.
This means that the arcana and spiritual fusion developed by Kalish may have reached a complete state within a certain range.
"That's right! Is it a question that can be answered by using arcane magic to perceive spiritual energy?" Sha Duo asked this question after thinking about it.
If there is a solution to using arcane magic to perceive spiritual energy, then according to Kalish, it must be possible to find that solution, but Shado is not sure whether there is a solution to this problem.
After Kalish heard this question, he was stunned for a few seconds before telling Shado, "Because it involves psychic powers, I'm not sure if this is a question that can be answered, but I can give it a try.
"When Consultant Xia Duo tries it, he might as well think of a question in the field of pure arcane magic. No matter whether he already knows the answer or not, as long as he can verify it after I give the result."
"Okay, please give me a try first."
From Kalish's answer, Shado also heard a hint of implication. I'm afraid psychic energy is not an existence that can be perceived through pure arcane magic. However, he did not immediately change the question, but asked Kalish Continue with the presentation.
At the same time, he was also mentally selecting new questions in the field of pure arcana. He wanted to see if Kalish was really capable of answering them.
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Kalish did not choose to go to the laboratory for a demonstration. Instead, he sat in the living room without even getting up, and cast an arcane magic version of the scrying spell in front of Shado.
For the first time, Xia Duo didn't think there was anything special about it. It was the far-sighted detection that was very common in elf magic. It could project simulated visual perception to a distant place and obtain visual influence information.
For more complex ones, vision and hearing can be obtained at the same time, so as to be close to the level of real-person on-site perception.
After that, there is a more advanced one, which goes beyond the boundaries of the caster's body perception, and enables high-precision and wide-range perception of sounds, smells, elemental states, etc.
If spiritual energy can be perceived using only the most common detection spells, then all the experiments that Shado did on the Tower of Time before were in vain. He could not directly perceive inspiration using multi-modal fusion perception. It was just ordinary. How can it be possible to do this with scrying magic!
But when Kalish cast the detection spell for the second and third time, Shado noticed something was wrong. Although it was still the same detection spell, some of the casting elements had been slightly adjusted.
These adjustments are not enough to change the nature of the scrying spell itself, but they will affect the scrying results to a greater or lesser extent.
"Is this a way to gradually transform it into a detection spell that can sense spiritual energy? But why?" Xia Duo was very puzzled by this.
The arcane mage will also adjust the details of the spell to obtain a more ideal magic effect. This is spell optimization, but the optimization of any spell cannot be completed with only one spell casting like what Kalish is showing now. Optimization, this is simply incredible.
Even an arcane mage who is proficient in the principles of magic cannot do this. Perhaps some tricks can be adjusted and optimized several times in a short period of time, but when it comes to spells with complex construction, it is almost impossible to do so.
The scrying spell that Kalish used to demonstrate is certainly very common in the category of scrying spells, but it is still many times more complicated than cantrips.
Xia Duo calculated it silently in his mind and realized that the difficulty of this operation was comparable to a built-in magic computer. Xia Duo tried it with his own brain, but he couldn't calculate it in real time when casting the spell.
Intelligent Brain is not a general-purpose magic computer, but a cluster of copies of Xia Duo's consciousness. It is not as good as a computer in terms of pure computing power, but it is much stronger than an individual.
Even Xia Duo couldn't do real-time calculations when casting a spell with the help of his brain, so why should Kalish?
Just rely on psychic powers?
Shado couldn't help but feel a little shaken. What he had seen so far, if Kalish hadn't cheated, would have been enough for him to try the spiritual path.
Of course, experimenting with psychic powers does not mean supporting Kalish's artifact plan. He would rather find a way to go to Zhamdas to grab a ready-made artifact than engage in a new artifact manufacturing plan that is too risky within his own base.
Thinking of this, he suddenly realized that this might be Kalish's purpose——
Of course it would be best if you could directly create a new artifact that incorporates arcane psychic magic. If not, it would also be a good idea to grab a ready-made psychic artifact from Zhamdas.