Wizard: Starting With Synthesized Gems - Chapter 680

Chapter 677: Resonance of Group Consciousness! The Plasticity of Life!

Chapter 677: Group Consciousness Resonance! The Plasticity of Life!
Locke ultimately chose not to intervene. For someone with high magical pressure and high psychic power like him, it was easy to avoid being discovered by the two natives who had almost degenerated into cave dwellers.

He followed behind the two of them and watched them enter a place full of natural caves, where the remaining dune people were surviving.

According to the information Locke had read before, the population of Dune civilization at its peak was about 16 billion. After all, the original area of the entire Dune plane was more than three times its current size.

It’s just that it was too close to the solar plane before, causing many areas on the edge of the plane to be swallowed up by the solar plane.

In fact, this situation is very similar to the scene Locke had seen before in the Age of Stars. It was just a smaller version of the wizarding world at that time. The wizarding world at that time seemed to be severely damaged because of some things that happened in the [Empire Age].

However, the background and foundation of the wizarding world cannot be compared with that of the Dune plane.

Therefore, the wizarding world still has a chance to start over, but the health bar of the Dune plane is directly captured and emptied by the plane gravity of the Sun plane. Over the years, solar storms have evaporated at least two-thirds of its area.

The current Dune Plane is essentially just the core area of the original Dune Plane. The half-planes, small-scale plane worlds, and plane edge areas that were originally attached to the Dune Plane crystal wall system have all been absorbed into the Sun Plane.

The current Dune plane is the main material world of the original plane, and it is also the main material world of the core area.

Logically speaking, buried beneath this endless desert are the ruins of the Dune People’s civilization that dates back tens of thousands of years!

The two dune people that Locke met first, the dune person whose body was infected with the residual toxicity of heavy element particles after eating cold fish, had fallen to the rocky ground with his whole body swollen.

If Locke had not secretly used moonlight and administered some holy spring nectar potion to him, this mortal would have died long ago, and even his corpse would have turned into a pool of blood.

At this time, his body underwent some strange changes again. Some kind of steel bone actually grew out of his chest. This steel bone pierced his chest and its shape was distorted.

He screamed with every breath he took.

Locke frowned as he watched this scene. “The contamination from the heavy particles of the niobium element will only cause the bloodline essence to completely collapse. This physical abnormality seems to have existed since he was born.”

“That is to say, during the apocalypse, the Dune People themselves have undergone some kind of abnormal transformation.”

Locke looked at this scene and knew that the mortal would die in ten minutes. During this period of time, the doctor among these Dune primitives would not have time to treat him.

wrong.

Locke shook his head. “Where can we find a doctor? The Dune people’s civilization has collapsed, and the Dune people here are just the descendants of a once highly developed telepathic civilization.”

“Even the blood essence has changed.”

Locke pondered, “If I don’t help them directly, this mortal will die, and the entire tribe will be destroyed by the sewage.”

“Although ecological transformation must adhere to the principle of minimal intervention, sometimes things just go so far. If we don’t intervene directly and stop it immediately, the ecosystem will be destroyed in an instant.”

Locke stood right in front of them, but all the Dune people seemed not to see him. This was because the difference in magic pressure between the two sides was too great.

It is so big that it seems to exist in two dimensions.

The powerful demonic pressure turned into an insurmountable barrier, suppressing the minds of the dune people so that they could not see Locke at all.

This was just a third-class apprentice-level psychic magic that Locke, as a wizard close to the second ring, had created by using the entry-level psychic knowledge he had mastered and combining it with his distributed psychic power.

But for these dune people, it is a method that is as powerful as gods or demons.

Locke pondered: “Should I save them? But even if I save one, what’s the point? These dune people will all die because of the destruction of the environment. Do I have to save more than 200 dune people here?”

“According to this principle, shouldn’t I save all the Dune People in the world?” Locke’s eyes grew dull. “Seeing something like me die tragically and feeling grief isn’t because I’m weak, but because I feel compassion for my own kind.”

“It’s just my personal respect for life.”

“Otherwise I would be studying necromancy instead of life magic.”

“But I’m just a wizard, not a creator, nor a god. Therefore, there’s really no need for me to take action.”

At this moment, Locke wanted to directly apply the remaining power of the Holy Spring Nectar potion to the air above this tribe to purify the pollution for them collectively, and then turn around and leave, thus fulfilling the kindness in his heart.

However, at this moment, Locke noticed that these dune people were actually wasting some of their hard-earned food and pure water, and offering them on a strange-shaped rock.

At the same time, the dune people moved the dune person in pain onto the stone.

Then, these dune people used some soil from the ground to paint on their faces, wasting these remaining resources, as if they just wanted to do something ritualistic.

Ten relatively strong young men were selected from among these dune people, and then they surrounded the rock and began to dance strangely and shout strange syllables.

Locke, who had mentally sentenced the dune dwellers to death and was about to sprinkle the potion and leave, saw this scene, but a flicker of interest crossed his eyes. “Interesting. In this desperate situation, these dune dwellers are actually wasting their meager remaining resources, performing a ritual of worship over an ordinary rock.”

“In the ancient wizarding world, as far as I know, one of the oldest magics is sacrificial magic.”

“At least that’s true for the Star Era.”

“Sacrificial rituals seem to have some kind of instinctive resonance with intelligent life. Is this a psychological comfort for wasting resources, or is there something else going on?”

When Locke saw this scene, he immediately gave up the idea of leaving and decided to stay and continue observing. At the same time, he took out a true vision crystal from his star ring and immediately recorded this scene at any time.

The dune people surrounded the sick dune man, roaring and singing, and some of them gave him a special plant drink to drink.

A middle-aged dune dweller spoke telepathically, “Great Stone Spirit, you have guided us to our homeland, protected us and enabled us to survive until now, and guided our evolution. Please, Great Stone Spirit, allow this warrior to evolve beyond his suffering!”

“Please, great stone spirit, guide us in our evolution!”

“Please, great stone spirit, grant us the ability to survive!”

Eleven minutes later, the dune man on the rock was barely breathing and almost dying.

Even if he died immediately the next moment, it wouldn’t be surprising.

The ceremony in which the Dune People place their psychological hopes is still being held.

From the old man’s sacrificial words, Locke learned that this tribe developed a specific rock worship because they looked for rocks that were more likely to appear near water sources, and used this method to find water sources.

At the same time, someone started to fabricate a lie that this group of dune people had the protection of some kind of gods.

The Dune People certainly did not understand what gods were, and naturally did not know the difference between the true gods in heaven and the hypocritical false gods in the major colonial worlds, but they did believe that they had the protection of a powerful god through their own needs.

The key point is that they not only believe that they are protected by gods, but they also believe that these gods are constantly guiding their evolution.

Over the past hundreds of years, whenever they faced the crisis of genocide, they would collectively pray to the stone spirit, and then magical things would happen.

Although the sacrifices at that time seemed to be of no use, the crisis of genocide would always disappear inexplicably, and some plants needed by their tribe would grow around the stones.

It was as if… the stone spirit really existed.

At the same time, the blood essence of the Dune people has indeed undergone specific changes. This phenomenon of causing specific changes in their blood essence through worshiping stone spirits seems to be the reason why their civilization has continued to this day in their own sacrificial language.

Locke also learned from the old Dune people that the number of this Dune tribe has been declining over the years.

On the one hand, the environment continues to deteriorate, and on the other hand, this evolution seems to have reached a dead end. The death rate of their newborn babies has been increasing recently.

Wizard Zaran Bailey’s plan to transform the Dune plane was the final blow to the last remaining civilization of the Dune people.

Locke frowned. “Stone Spirit?”

He walked directly to the rock in front of many dune people, touched it with his palm, and carefully felt whether there was any magical pressure, or special magic tides, or special spiritual fluctuations.

But… nothing.

This is just an ordinary rock.

Locke looked at the bloated dune man lying on the rock. Although the special heavy particle pollution of the nium element was only a little bit, it was rapidly destroying the man’s blood essence. In the end, he would turn into a pool of pus and blood and lose his life.

Originally, Locke wanted to prevent this misfortune from befalling him. After all, it was just a convenient thing for him.

If this scene makes you feel uncomfortable, then your mood is the most important thing, and you naturally want to prevent this scene from happening in front of you.

But at this moment, he frowned. “I estimated he only had ten minutes to live, but it’s already almost thirteen. And this guy’s still alive?”

“It looks like he’s going to die soon.”

Locke looked puzzled and turned to look at the group of Dune people who were performing a sacrifice. “No. There are no magical fluctuations or any special spiritual fluctuations. There should be no supernatural power.”

“Could it really be useful?!”

Locke turned around with a confused look on his face. He looked at the dune man lying on the rock, and saw that his life was like a dying lamp, gradually dimming.

“Did I miscalculate? No, I estimated the value based on his remaining spiritual energy. I calculated it based on the maximum. As a potion master close to the second ring, if I can’t calculate the life or death of a mortal, then I am derelict in my duty.”

“Even if the Dune People possessed a special resistance to the heavy particles of the element Ni, they couldn’t have survived for thirteen minutes. Furthermore, as a race with low magical talent, the Dune People, aside from their decent talent in the School of Psychic Magic, are completely awful in other areas. Their magic resistance is severely biased and low.”

Locke pondered, “Taking all the information into consideration, I can conclude that this ritual is effective. Or rather, something this person took during this ritual took effect.”

“If I had intervened directly before, I would have prevented this ritual from happening. If I was in a bad mood, I would have simply ignored these two people, which is also common sense.”

“You can’t see this scene either.”

“If I hadn’t estimated this man’s lifespan, I wouldn’t have realized that this realization would extend his lifespan by about four minutes. I would have thought it was a useless ritual and that this native died in ignorance and stupidity. But I followed him anyway, and I realized that his lifespan had been extended in some way.”

Locke’s eyes flashed with intense interest. “An unknown phenomenon is, to me, a hard-earned treasure.”

“Behind unknown phenomena, there must be some undiscovered principles and mechanisms, or at least I haven’t read about them, which still belongs to niche and cutting-edge research.”

“Either way, I made a killing.”

Locke realized that the dune man in front of him was about to die, and immediately frowned. If he died, he would be forced to stop observing.

The next time we see him again, we may have to wait for a while, and we will have to be responsible for testing every day.

If necessary, he would even need to ask his two students, Williams and Gregor, to come and monitor them every day, or even artificially create an occasion to force these natives to hold the ceremony again.

Moreover, I cannot be sure whether this phenomenon occurs by chance or not, it occurs with probability.

Therefore, the best way is to prevent the death of this native in front of him.

Locke guided the moonlight to guide more of the Holy Spring Nectar potion into the native’s body. At the same time, he directly opened a bottle of Bear Spirit Green Gall potion and injected the potency into his body through the moonlight to increase his magic resistance.

The Holy Spring Nectar Potion increases his essence, and the Bear Spirit Green Gall Potion increases his magic resistance.

With these two measures combined, coupled with the unknown power generated by the ritual, the dune man’s complexion actually began to improve and his body began to return to normal.

Of course, this is just a tendency.

Because Locke did not directly take action to treat him, and because the soul of a mortal has no magic pressure structure and is more fragile than a piece of tofu, Locke could not use too strong medicine, so he was still half-dead.

If it were an ordinary first-level alchemist, he might not be able to save him.

After all, taking the potion itself increases a certain kind of magical contamination.

The mortal soul is so fragile that if he drinks a bottle of potion with a slightly stronger effect, he will die immediately.

“According to my plan, the efficacy shouldn’t be that great.” Locke looked at the mortal. “The two potions I gave him were both diluted tens of thousands of times with moonlight. That’s why I dared to give them to him. Otherwise, he would have been poisoned by my potions first.”

At this time, the dune man on the rock had regained some ability to speak. He said joyfully, “The stone spirit has appeared…it has guided my evolution!”

“Look at my chest! You didn’t see me. My deformed bones are starting to become normal. I’m evolving, I’m evolving…”

The people in the dunes were extremely surprised and immediately danced even more happily and sang even louder.

“He has evolved! He has evolved! The Stone Spirit has been guiding us to evolve!”

“The Stone Spirit gave us everything we needed to evolve!”

Locke suddenly had a thought. “The Dune People have always had a stone worship that stemmed from their search for water, and there’s also a certain evolutionary worship tied to stone.”

“They believe evolution can help them resolve their current predicament. Could it be that they believe the Dune Man lying on this rock is undergoing some kind of evolution?”

“Because of their belief, their evolution was really accelerated?”

Locke looked at the deformed bones on the Dune Man’s chest. “This kind of steel bone must have been developed to cope with extreme drought and retain water.”

“I’ve read the information about the Dune People. Their evolutionary speed is indeed very abnormal.”

“Life science requires the courage to propose hypotheses. Only by doing so can I push the boundaries of my cognition,” Locke pondered. “Although this seems absurd, I can propose a hypothesis: the Dune People believed that the Stone Spirits were helping them evolve, and they gained the energy and ability to evolve from them, which led to a corresponding acceleration in their evolution.”

“The Dune People’s rituals accelerated their own evolution.”

“A certain kind of group consciousness resonance may be able to accelerate a certain evolutionary direction of an organism.”

Locke looked at the dune man on the rock, realizing he was about to die, and frowned. “In that case, I won’t let you die.”

He took out the last bottle of lucky potion he had prepared from the astral ring, and then used moonlight to inject it into the body of this mortal.

Lucky potions are rare. After taking them, one does not need to endure huge magical pressure and has a very small burden on the soul.

Even ordinary people only need to dilute it ten times to drink it safely.

Using this mechanism, one can use the lucky potion with fewer dilutions to maximize its potency and protect the life of this mortal.

All the luck that Locke had gathered when he was refining the lucky potion was now bestowed upon this mortal, guiding him towards the direction that would be best for his future.

This can indirectly guide him to immortality.

The most important thing is that this will not destroy the effect of the ritual itself. Locke is only strengthening this effect, not completely distorting it.

This will not affect your observation.

At this time, a full moon appeared above the stone.

The people of the dune were stunned for a moment, and then they seemed to think that it was the manifestation of the stone spirit, and called the moon the Moon God.

Locke felt a certain cognitive power coming together.

“This feeling… a kingdom? I understand. It’s impossible for normal organisms to gather collective consciousness and cognition. It’s like a tree without roots, or duckweed without water.”

“But the Dune People are a naturally telepathic race, possessing a high talent for Psionics magic. Every one of them, even children, can achieve short bursts of telepathy.”

Unlike the huge distributed psychic network built by Locke based on a mature spell model, the telepathy of these Dune People is like two people facing each other with walkie-talkies.

As long as the distance is a little farther or the environment is a little more complicated, assimilation will not be possible.

But just this level of telepathy is enough…

Their desire to survive was based on their worship of God, which gave them the idea that they could definitely overcome the real environment, but this idea disappeared in an instant and reappeared in the next.

But because of the existence of the dune people’s telepathic field, it has existed for a long time and turned into a kind of group consciousness resonance and echo for thousands of years.

This special group consciousness reflects the collective ideal of the entire Dune civilization, and this ideal is guiding this group of Dune people to accelerate their evolution and respond to this crisis.

After Locke realized this, he immediately thought: “The researchers in Group 2, as well as those in other wizard academies, may not have realized this.”

“There are many reasons. The Dune People are indeed able to survive temporarily due to some special underground structures in the Dune Plane, such as underground glaciers.”

“This so-called hypothesis of accelerated evolution caused by collective consciousness resonance, even if it truly exists, is merely icing on the cake, not the true reason for their survival. Therefore, it would be difficult for other researchers to detect it without careful observation.”

“Another point is that this is just a low-level, backward colonial plane. If those wizards are arrogant and think they have figured out why the Dune people can survive.”

“It’s really hard to think about it further.”

It was because Locke was a skilled potion master that he was able to calculate the normal survival time of the native by chance due to the sewage pollution of the wizard Zalan Bailey, and realized that the native had lived for three more minutes.

He came here in order to think about what allowed the native to live for three more minutes.

Thinking about it carefully, Locke even had to thank the wizard Zalan Bailey, because if it weren’t for his heavy element particle sewage pollution, he wouldn’t have to calculate the time of death of a native.

If this were the case, even if I had seen the ceremony, it would have been difficult for me to realize the abnormality of the time of death of an indigenous person in this life-and-death crisis.

“The Dune People are gifted, and in order to survive, they might have unconsciously created something that developed in the direction of the Kingdom. Of course, it’s definitely something different.”

“After all, they’re both vehicles. Bicycles and cars are two completely different things. But they do point in similar directions.”

“If that’s the case, then I should really thank Zaran Bailey.” Locke said with a strange expression. “I was saying, he’s not my enemy.”

“However, if that’s the case, my Moon Magic Mirror should be able to reflect this resonance of group consciousness and amplify it. If it can be amplified, it can further accelerate evolution. Then I can observe this change more clearly and prove my hypothesis.”

“And if I succeed in proving it, I’ll have discovered a new way for life to evolve.” Locke swallowed. “I haven’t read any similar literature, or perhaps I’m just too uninformed. But this is at least very cutting-edge and rare research.”

“If I could integrate it into my great magic…”

“I’ll give it a try. Success or failure depends on this one!”

(End of this chapter)