Overturned Tower

Russell still remembered that Delphinium specifically asked about it when Camarse gave them the task.

What level of high-level officials should be arrested? At the top of which organization?

In her opinion, the company's top management chose to let them perform this task in order to find out some information from the "top"'s mind.

That being the case, if the person caught is too low-level or too marginalized, and knows too few secrets, wouldn't they have to catch another one?

Delphinium, adhering to the concept of excellent Party B, specifically asked Party A's requirements clearly to prevent itself from making great efforts to complete the target, and then lightly said "We don't want this effect, let's redo it."

As for whether they can really just grab any high-level person, it doesn't really matter.

Delphinium just wants a clear reply, so that even if they are asked to work overtime to catch another one, they will still have evidence to argue with, and they can also ask for some exchange of benefits.

As a result, Camarse directly predicted the behavior pattern of the delphinium and said, "Just catch any one."

Of course, not all senior leaders of the Lower City organization were mages... but that was a gathering of mages, and all the senior leaders attending the meeting happened to be mages. This is also the reason why the company asked them to step in to arrest people at that time - this is currently the only opportunity for them to accurately capture the mage without having to explain to the Special Enforcement Department what a mage is.

And it has been a month and a half since Quan Ri was caught.

Russell did not see him from within the company, nor did he see him on the news or being executed. He did not even transfer a memory master from Thoth Psychic Energy, nor did he apply for artificial intelligence from Sogo Island. Naturally, the Tian'en Group did not launch any new actions against Xiacheng District... This person simply disappeared without a trace.

Even other mages have never seen it fully cooked in the dream world.

Considering that they only caught one, even if they ate it, it wouldn't be enough for them to share... It was probably controlled by the company as a sample for some kind of experiment.

Russell previously thought that this was because they were studying the differences between the new generation of mages and the old mages. Or try to use full proficiency to study some techniques for mages.

But now that he saw the ruthless methods of the mages - being able to "use" angels and demons as materials, Russell immediately realized that he had overestimated the integrity of the company's top executives.

So Russell immediately called the deer-headed statue and entered the center of the Tower of Babel.

He wanted to talk to the deer-headed statue about it in person.

After all, the deer-headed statue is also an elf mage who has inherited memories, so she should know more information.

After listening to Russell's narration, the deer-headed statue gave an affirmative answer.

[Your guess is correct, demons and psychic powers did appear earlier than angels]

[Psyners and demons appeared a long time ago, but at that time there were no mind protection chips, nor red and blue shift detection devices. Psykers were called "devil eggs"... basically no one survived. , sooner or later he will be transformed into a demon]

[The mage has mastered the method of turning demons into soul wedges]

[However, as early as the first mage war, the war between the mages suddenly became fierce, so the demons were hunted down and killed.]

[After that, the mages established a systematic inheritance. I told you before that becoming a mage is much easier than becoming a psyker]

[You must repeatedly interrupt the mage's dream, train your mind to an extremely pure level, and become extremely mentally paranoid, trying to distort the world with your own will in order to gain spiritual power. But normally, one would have completed the mage’s dream and become a mature mage long before that.]

[Furthermore, the acquisition and use of spells can be learned, but there is no reference for psychic abilities. And once you obtain the spell first, your mind will no longer be pure, and it will be impossible to awaken your own spiritual energy.]

[Of course... there were indeed psykers who could use spells for a short period of time. But unlike you, they quickly lost control and turned into demons, and were subsequently hunted]

"Is it true..."

Russell murmured.

He had realized this before when he used the spell with all his strength.

Using spells is equivalent to "downloading emotions" from the dream world. Emotion itself is a kind of "red shift". In an era without the concept of blue shift, it will be particularly easy to lose control.

Although judging from the situation with Teacher Zhong, the mages actually have some means of manually increasing blue shift. But they are quite rare.

They will more often choose to use demons to make a wedge of the soul to increase their tolerance.

Russell's Wedge of Pain is the seed that splits from the Hammer of Pain.

This means that as long as the mages capture a demon, the entire school will have a psychic wedge to use.

The principle of the Wedge of the Soul is similar to that of a chip... If a chip is equivalent to a USB flash drive, the Wedge of the Soul is equivalent to a network disk.

——Directly transfer and download spells into the Wedge of the Soul, and then download large files slowly to reduce the impact, or preview small files directly in the network disk.

As long as the link with the dream world can be maintained, this is indeed a good way to prevent going crazy.

[The methods of the mages are much more radical than those of the execution department. They would even try to cultivate psykers and induce them to become demons... Of course, this kind of "ranch" failed in the end, because they were unable to stably awaken psionic powers, and they might not be able to awaken psionic powers if they were deliberately cultivated. 】

[In the end, the mages came to the conclusion that once they learned how to awaken spiritual energy, they would eventually be unable to awaken spiritual energy because their wills had been "contaminated" by this information]

Russell's pupils shrank slightly.

…Isn’t this what companies are doing now?

Seven islands that are completely isolated from each other, the chip that is the way to become a mage is blocked, a twisted cyberpunk world that drives people crazy...

And, the lower town is full of "illegal psykers".

Rather than saying that these are seven countries, it is better to say that these are seven "culture media".

But before Russell could continue to think, the words after the deer-headed statue shocked him:

[As for the source of Holy Orders, what Zhonggo said is right...it does have this value]

[The "Forging of Suffering" ritual used by Zhonggo on you used the Source of Holy Order as a material]

"……What?"

Russell was stunned for a moment, and his mood suddenly became complicated.

Did it turn out that he had also "used" the Source of Holy Orders unknowingly?

[To forge your will, it will take about half a bottle of the Source of Holy Order. The remaining unused portion is the "processing fee" paid to Zhonggo]

[You are valuable to the Tower of Babel, Russell. I'm afraid you can really complete the triple undercover role of the company, the mage, and the Holy See】

[From the leader’s perspective, I don’t want you to lose control]

There was sincerity in the ethereal and calm voice of the deer-headed statue.

[Of all the methods I know of to improve blue shift, using the source of Holy Order to perform dream rituals is the only one that has no side effects]

[Zhonggo is probably half of us, that is, the "conservative mage on land" I told you]

[That’s why I knew the whereabouts of Strangler in the first place, and that’s why I asked you to follow Strangler and join his school... This is also to grant you the Wedge of the Soul]

[The magic wedges used by the wizards at the Tower of Babel are all wedges of pain, and they all come from this hammer of pain]

[Only with the Wedge of the Soul can you enter deeper levels of the dream world and contact those crazy mages]

[Otherwise, in the dream world without physical protection, your memory and will will be easily rewritten by them. They don’t even need to take the initiative to do so, and they will infiltrate the spirits of the people around them]

[For mages, this just makes their minds abnormal...but you have also awakened your spiritual power]

[If they are going crazy, then you may lose control]

[——So, the forging ritual and the wedge of the soul are things that must be given to you]

[This is not a reward for you, but your "office props\