Chapter 259

Chapter 259 Distributed Mind Power

Chapter 259: Distributed Thinking Psychic Energy

“This potion…” Locke’s face changed. “Before, I had only heard of the Hive Consciousness Potion. It is a miracle drug among wizards in the plant magic sub-direction of the School of Life. It is the most coveted thing.”

“Even among first-ring potions, these are quite difficult to refine, and the materials are extremely rare. Some of the materials are only in stock, or have even become extinct. They are extremely precious first-ring potions.”

“But I didn’t expect the effect of this potion to be so unique.”

After taking the hive consciousness potion, Locke began to sweat all over his body. Every powerful magical energy was invading his cells, strengthening his magic power, and even had the effect of partially modifying his spirituality.

At the back of Locke’s brain, a series of illusory thought nerve tentacles appeared. These thought nerve tentacles were constantly flying like the dreadlocks at the back of Locke’s forehead.

Of course, these mental tentacles do not really exist, they are just Locke’s [psychic manifestation], and they will disappear when the psychic power is released.

As the Hive Mind Potion transformed part of the spirituality within Locke’s soul essence, the details of the illusory thinking neural tentacles that appeared at the back of his head became more and more realistic.

At the same time, an illusion appeared before Locke’s eyes.

In the center of a bottomless dark world, there was a cold black sun, and around that cold black sun, there were countless swarms of bees moving around.

These underground world swarm creatures seem to have countless consciousnesses communicating with each other, and special psychic signals flow among these swarms.

When they need to find food, they will release special psychic fluctuations to allow the colony to produce more underground bee colonies looking for food; when they need to encounter enemies, they will release special psychic fluctuations representing crisis to increase the proportion of bee warriors in the entire colony.

The entire ethnic group does not have a single individual consciousness, or any existence that can be called intelligent.

But the entire group, as a consciousness, possesses superb intelligence, and each individual is a separate neuron of this group.

And it is this special spiritual power that connects each individual.

This is a distributed intelligence evolution method that is different from independent intelligent individuals.

The seemingly unintelligent individual becomes the smallest unit of the brain of the tribe. A tribe is a collective consciousness.

As the images in the illusion moved, Locke seemed to have transformed into an underground queen bee, and he established a psychic connection with countless underground bee colonies.

In reality, Locke, who was sitting in a chair in a simple laboratory, had many psychic thinking nerve tentacles appearing in the back of his brain.

These psychic thinking nerve tentacles plunged into all the magic plants that Locke carried with him – the black sword bamboo, the three newly replenished ominous mandrake vines, the big blue owl banana, the crystal palm fire lotus, the iron wire grass seeds, the Clivia flower and the rotten earth konjac king, and the thunder purple sweet potato vine that was parasitic on the rotten earth konjac king.

In an instant, Locke developed a deeper and closer connection with these magic plants. These magic plants not only formed a magic grafting relationship with him and were controlled by his own plant magic spell model, but they also entered the distributed thinking psychic system with him as the core.

In other words, he and these magical plants formed a small ecological network with wizards as individuals.

As the main body of this ecology and the main body of this small ecological network, the connection between me and these magic plants is closer. I can feel the simple emotions emanating from them and can more easily distribute the magic power of these magic plants.

Through this psychic network, I can also understand the current status of my magic plants to help me think about how to better cultivate the magic plants.

This will greatly enhance one’s skills in the field of breeding.

Locke sat in the laboratory chair and thought: “No wonder this potion is the dream potion of botanical wizards. The real main effect of this potion is that it can help me build my own distributed psychic network.”

“Distributed psychic networks are widely found in the natural environment, commonly found in various insect swarms, forest flowers and trees, moss and lichen systems, and so on…”

These insect and plant populations have all adopted a distributed thinking model during their natural evolution, which is completely different from the pursuit of increasing individual intelligence in the development of higher animals.

By taking the Hive Mind Potion, wizards can enhance some of their spiritual abilities, allowing them to acquire a type of distributed thinking intelligence that insects and plants have evolved over billions of years – a psychic information network.

“This can improve the botanical wizard’s understanding of plant magic and enhance its overall power, which will be of great benefit to my future.”

“Currently, it has increased the direct combat capabilities of all my magic plants by at least 30%. This is because during combat, I can better distribute my own mana through the psychic network with the energy of the Talmud treeman in my heart, giving my magic plants a mana-grafted relationship.”

“I’m afraid that wizards in the School of Life who specialize in insect magic will also experience a similarly significant increase.”

“I’m lucky to have this potion. It’s a real bonus.”

“The main ingredient of this potion seems to be the brain of a queen bee from an underground bee colony. I just don’t know where this underground world with a cold black sun is located.”

“The wizarding world is so vast. I have only seen the tip of the iceberg and am far from seeing the true face of this world.”

Locke also realized that because of the spiritual nature deep in his brain and soul, an energy called [psychic power] was generated, so his magic pressure and magic power were also enhanced after taking the hive consciousness potion.

Only then did Locke realize that enhancing personal magic power was only a subsidiary effect of the Hive Consciousness Potion. Its real function was to help wizards obtain the crystallization of the Hive’s billions of years of evolution – the distributed thinking psychic network.

Locke pressed his palm on the amethyst matrix, and suddenly a number 780 popped up on the crystal ball.

Locke’s brow twitched. “A surprising 30 mana increase! Unfortunately, this potion increases my mana by automatically increasing it while generating a psychic network. So, after I take the second bottle of Hive Mind potion, I won’t be able to increase my mana much more.”

The remaining 20 mana points are of exceptionally high quality.

I estimated that every time I improved by one point, I would need to make a huge effort or use a huge amount of magic resources.

After all, after the mana reaches 800, it will enter a period of inefficient improvement. If you rely entirely on yourself to improve it like the wizards in the past, it will be a waste of time.

Therefore, the closer your mana is to 800, the higher the difficulty and resources required for each 1 point increase, but the benefits are actually not that great.

This is probably why modern wizards seek to use promotion potions to become official wizards.

In order to be able to skip directly, the garbage upgrade time from 800 mana to 1000 mana.

Locke suddenly realized that the three ancient biological bloodlines in his body seemed to react because he had produced a distributed psychic network. This psychic network in the plant and animal ecology seemed to be somehow connected with the ancient biological bloodlines.

Locke pondered for a moment, then, just before this special linkage reaction wore off and the potion was about to be fully digested, he suddenly cast the archaeological spell [Summon Grave Spirit] on himself!

The Hive Mind potion’s primary ingredient was the queen bee of an unknown underground bee colony, so there was a possibility of a negative energy particle field that he could capture.

Every time I read, I can further improve my archaeological skills by learning about the profound secret knowledge hidden in the past.

Moreover, this was related to the issue he had been studying for a long time – the bloodline of ancient creatures, so Locke did not miss the opportunity and directly used the summoning of tomb spirits.

“If it were an ordinary botanical wizard, I’m afraid they wouldn’t be able to discover this secret. Or even if they have the blood of ancient creatures in their bodies and happen to have the opportunity to take the hive mind potion, they don’t have archaeology skills. Even if they find something, they will eventually give it up.”

Locke thought, “I am able to do this because I am at the intersection of three disciplines.”

Inside the makeshift laboratory, Locke’s eyes lit up with joy. “I’ve captured it! Sure enough, this potion also contains a negative energy particle field that I can capture using archaeology spells!”

“This is…”

(End of this chapter)