Chapter 259 Distributed Thinking Psionics
"This potion..." Locke's face changed, "I have only heard of the hive consciousness potion before. It is a magical medicine among wizards in the plant magic sub-direction of the life school. It is the most coveted thing." It has even become extinct. It is an extremely precious first-level potion. "
"But I didn't expect that the effect of this potion is so unique."
After taking the hive consciousness potion, Locke began to break out in cold sweat, and every powerful magical energy invaded his cells, strengthening his magic power, and even partially modifying his spirituality.
There are illusory tentacles of thinking nerves appearing in the back end of Locke's brain. These tentacles of thinking nerves are like the dreadlocks on the back of Locke's forehead, flying constantly.
Of course, these thinking nerve tentacles do not really exist, they are just Locke's [spiritual manifestation], and they will disappear if the psychic energy is removed.
As the hive consciousness potion transformed part of the spirituality within Locke's soul essence, the details of the illusory thinking nerve tentacles that appeared on the back of his head became increasingly realistic.
At the same time, Locke had a vision in front of his eyes.
In the center of a bottomless dark world, there is an icy black sun. There are countless swarms around the icy black sun.
These swarm creatures in the underground world seem to have countless consciousnesses communicating with each other, and special psychic signals are flowing among these swarms.
When they need to find food, they will release special psychic fluctuations to allow the group to generate more underground swarms looking for food; when they need to encounter enemies, they will release special psychic fluctuations that represent crisis, allowing the entire group to increase the proportion of swarm warriors.
The entire ethnic group does not have a single individual consciousness, or an existence that can be called intelligent.
But as a consciousness, the entire group possesses superb wisdom. Each individual is a separate neuron of this group.
And what connects each individual is this special spiritual energy.
This is a distributed intelligence evolution method that is different from independent intelligent individuals.
The seemingly unintelligent individual has turned into the smallest unit of the brain of the group. A group is a collective consciousness.
As the scene in the illusion moved, Locke seemed to be transformed into an underground queen bee, and he had a spiritual connection with countless underground bee swarms.
In reality, Locke, sitting on the chair in the simple laboratory, has many psychic thinking neural tentacles appearing at the back end of his brain.
These psychic thinking nerve tentacles plunged into all the magic plants carried by Locke - the Black Chain Sword Bamboo, the three newly completed Mandela Vine of Omen, the Big Green Owl Banana, the Crystal Palm Fire Lotus, the Iron Wire Goosegrass seeds, the Clivia and the Rot Arum King, as well as the Thunderbolt Purple Sweet Potato Vine that parasitized on the Rot Arum King.
In an instant, Locke had a deeper and closer connection with these magical plants. These magical plants not only formed a mana grafting relationship with him and were controlled by his own plant magic spell model, they also entered a distributed thinking and spiritual energy system with himself as the core.
In other words, he and these magic plants formed a small ecological network with the wizard as an individual.
As the main body of this ecology and this small ecological network, I have a closer connection with these magic plants. I can feel the simple emotions emanating from them and can more easily distribute the magic power of these magic plants.
I can also use this psychic network to understand the current status of my magic plants to help me think about how to better cultivate the magic plants.
This is a great bonus to your skills in the field of breeding.
Locke sat on the chair in the laboratory and thought: "No wonder this potion is the dream potion of botanical wizards." The real main effect of this potion is to help me build my own distributed psychic network. 』
Distributed psychic energy networks are widely visible in the natural environment. They are commonly found in various types of insect groups, flowers, plants and trees in forests, moss and lichen systems, etc...』 』
By taking the hive consciousness potion, wizards can enhance part of their spirituality, allowing themselves to gain access to insects and plants. After hundreds of millions of years of evolution, they have acquired one of the distributed thinking intelligences - the psychic information network.
『This can improve the botanical wizard's understanding of plant magic and enhance its comprehensive power, which will be of great benefit to my future. 』
“For now, it has at least enhanced the direct combat capabilities of all my magic plants by 30%. Because I can better allocate my mana and the energy of the Talmud tree in my heart through the psychic network during the battle, giving me the magic plant that has a mana grafting relationship. 』
ifies the same degree of great enhancement for the wizards in the School of Life who specialize in insect magic. 』
It’s a huge bargain for me to be able to take this magic potion. What an unexpected surprise. 』
『The main material of this potion seems to be the brain of the queen bee of a bee swarm in the underground world. I just don’t know which area of the underground world with a cold black sun is. 』
“The wizarding world is so big, and now I have only seen the tip of the iceberg, and I am far from seeing the true face of this world. 』
Locke also realized that because the spiritual essence deep in his brain and soul produced energy called [psionic energy], his magic pressure and mana were also enhanced after taking the hive consciousness potion.
Locke then realized. It turns out that enhancing one's personal magic power is just an ancillary effect of the hive consciousness potion. Its real function is to help wizards obtain the crystallization of hundreds of millions of years of evolution of hives - the distributed thinking psychic network.
Loke pressed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and a number 780 suddenly popped up on the crystal ball.
Locke’s brows jumped. "It actually increased my mana by 30 points. It's a pity that the principle of this potion to enhance my mana is to automatically increase my mana while generating a psychic network for me, so I won't be able to gain much more mana after taking the second bottle of colony consciousness potion."
The remaining 20 mana points are of extremely high quality.
It is estimated that every time you improve by one point, you will need to put in a lot of effort or use a huge amount of magic resources.
After all, after mana reaches 800, it will enter the inefficient improvement stage. If you rely entirely on yourself to improve like the wizards in the past, it will be a waste of time.
Hence, the closer your mana is to 800, the difficulty and resources will increase every time you increase it by 1 point, but the benefits will not be large.
This is probably the reason why modern wizards pursue the use of promotion potions to become official wizards.
In order to skip directly, the garbage upgrade time from mana 800 to mana 1000 is required.
Locke suddenly realized that the three ancient biological bloodlines in his body seemed to be reacting to the distributed psychic energy network produced by him. This spiritual energy network in the animal and plant ecology seemed to be somehow connected with the ancient biological bloodlines.
Loke thought for a moment, and before this special linkage reaction was about to disappear and the potion was about to be completely digested, he suddenly used the archaeological spell [Summon the Tomb Spirit] on himself!
The main material of the hive consciousness potion is the queen of an unknown bee swarm in the underground world, so it is possible that there is a negative energy particle field that can be captured by itself.
Every time you read the very profound secret knowledge hidden in the past, you can further improve your archaeological skills.
And this is related to the issue he has been studying for a long time - the bloodline of ancient creatures, so Locke did not miss the opportunity and directly used to summon the tomb spirit.
If ordinary wizards of the Botanical School would not be able to discover this secret, or even if they also have the blood of ancient creatures in their bodies, and they happen to have the opportunity to take the hive consciousness potion, they do not have archaeological skills. Even if they make a discovery, they will have to give up in the end. 』
Locke thought: "I have this condition because of the intersection of three disciplines."
In the simple laboratory, Locke's eyes were filled with joy. "I captured it. As expected, there is also a negative energy particle field inside this potion that I can capture using archaeological magic!"
"This is..."