Hyperdimensional Warlock

Chapter 4400 Control Techniques

Chapter 4400 Control Techniques

After hearing Lady Moon's plan, Gulemo had a vague feeling that something was wrong.

Emotionally, he naturally hoped that Sean wouldn't die, especially after experiencing the previous cognitive reversal, he felt a strong sense of guilt towards Sean. This guilt made him subconsciously agree with the concept of "returning Sean to his original form" when he heard it.

But once those emotions are stripped away, and the issue is examined again, Gulemo discovers a problem: he certainly wants Sean to live, but if he does, what will happen to his sister?

Lady Moon said it was "delaying and waiting for a change," but this "change" was an unknown variable, while Sean's body was a certain safe option.

Now that Lady Moon has removed a safe option and given her sister Rigota a future full of variables, how can this be compared to the option of "directly resurrecting her inside Sean's body"?

Thinking of this, Guleimo asked anxiously, "What about my sister?"

Lady Moon knew exactly what Guleimo was thinking. She smiled faintly and said, "Your sister can be nurtured in the Soul Tree first, and we'll wait for the future to unfold."

Perhaps worried that Guleimo didn't know what a "Soul Tree" was, she thoughtfully explained: "A Soul Tree is a plant cultivated by soul sorcerers. It can draw power from the earth's veins to nourish the soul over a long period of time. The soul can reside in the tree and continuously increase its soul power... You can also think of the Soul Tree as a bed for soul sorcerers. Whenever they want to rest, they let the soul stay in the Soul Tree instead of inhabiting the body."

Finally, Lady Moon added, "The Soul Tree isn't anything valuable. I can provide one for free. Your sister can nurture it on the Soul Tree and wait for future developments."

Guleimo frowned slightly and said, "But can delaying and waiting for a change in circumstances really bring about a change in the outcome?"

Lady Moon thought for a moment and said, "I can't give you an absolute guarantee; the future is always full of variables. However, I can tell you one thing: if I directly let Rigota nurture the Soul Tree and wait for the variables to change, then the road ahead will indeed be full of unknowns and uncertainties."

"But if Sean is allowed to return to his original form, then this variable will begin to move towards a positive direction."

The reason is also very simple.

Because Sean is a very special person.

His special qualities are twofold. First, he is a selfless good person who is willing to sacrifice his own life to save others.

This is a very important trait.

This trait means that once Sean returns to his original form, the moment he awakens, given his personality, he will definitely do everything in his power to save Rigota.

At that time, if Sean, after his resurrection, were determined to revive Rigota without any external threats and with plenty of time, he would certainly aim for a "perfect resurrection."

This choice stemmed from his personality profile and was almost a foregone conclusion.

Therefore, returning Sean to his original form is equivalent to finding Rigota someone who would willingly give everything to help her achieve a perfect resurrection.

Second, Sean was chosen by an unknown, higher-ranking being.

This is also the most crucial point that Ms. Moon made when she proposed this option.

Although Lady Moon didn't know why that "high-ranking being" would take a liking to Sean, it was indeed an objective fact.

Sean was merely a mortal, yet the sealing inscriptions he carved were so inscrutable that even Camillo couldn't decipher them. This indicated that a high-level being behind the "Self-Seeking Method" inscriptions provided Sean with full-power support when he chose to carve the inscriptions.

This also means that Sean was personally chosen by that high-ranking being, the true chosen one.

Once this chosen one awakens, his special status and ability to mobilize runes at full power will be enough to secure a perfect resurrection for Rigota.

The above two points form the basis for Ms. Moon's proposal of "delaying until change".

With these two foundations, Rigota has a very good chance of waiting for the variable of a "perfect resurrection"!

"How about it?" Lady Moon looked at Gleim and Uriel: "What do you think of this option? Do you want to choose this one, or go back to the previous choice and directly revive Rigota in Shin's body?"

Faced with the Moon Lady's question, Uriel and Guleimo exchanged a glance and tacitly walked aside to discuss it in hushed tones.

Lady Moon didn't care, and instead turned her gaze to Camiro.

The latter immediately understood, raised his hand, flipped his palm, and a hazy mist appeared.

The mist in his palm was not an illusion, but a materialized dream power.

It is a strange force that lies between concept and energy.

Within this mist, a faint, illusory humanoid silhouette can be seen—the remnant soul of Sean.

From the dense, broken cracks on the outline and the completely unrecognizable face, one can tell that Sean's remnant soul is truly... severely damaged.

Under normal circumstances, even if such a remnant soul is placed in a medium specifically designed to hold souls, it is likely to continuously dissipate and eventually disappear.

However, because the power of dreams possesses a slight "conceptual" characteristic, it has become able to bear the shattered remnant soul.

It should be noted that, under normal circumstances, at least medium to high-grade soul materials are needed to refine a medium to carry a remnant soul, but the power of dreams can directly replace it.

This is why the Moon Lady sent Camillo to collect remnant souls.

"It's already formed a human shape?" Lady Moon looked at Camillo with some surprise: "You did this?"

The collection of remnant souls is like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle; normally, they are completely broken. But at this moment, the remnant soul of Shi En within the power of dreams has already begun to take on a human form, which is clearly something that someone deliberately pieced together.

Camillo nodded.

He has a slight obsessive-compulsive disorder. Since he's already collected the remnants of souls, he might as well put them together.

"How did you do that? I mean, how did you make sure the remnant soul was in the right position when you pieced it together?" Lady Moon looked over with great interest, this was the first time she had looked at Camiro directly.

It's important to understand that while remnant souls can indeed be considered puzzle pieces, they are still quite different from actual puzzle pieces.

Fragments of the physical body can be roughly located by relying on blood vessels, bone structure, and even skin texture; but fragments of the soul are different. They can be treated as a broken, transparent water slime with a completely gelatinous internal structure. They are transparent and have no reference points, making them extremely difficult to piece together.

Moreover, water slimes have a tangible "matter" to touch, while remnant souls are directly energy entities, making them even more difficult to piece together.

Even if Lady Moon wanted to piece together a human figure, it would take her some time.

But Camillo did it so easily? This puzzled her.

Camillo was taken aback, not understanding what Lady Moon meant at first, but after a long while he realized: "I used a dream power manipulation technique."

"Manipulation techniques?" Both Lady Moon and Mr. Sun looked at Camillo with curiosity.

As legendary wizards, they had naturally come into contact with many dream-based wizards and were very familiar with the power of dreams. This is why, when collecting remnant souls, their first thought was to use the power of dreams as a medium.

But they had never heard before that the power of dreams could piece together remnants of souls.

Faced with the curious gazes of the two legendary wizards, Camillo naturally dared not hide anything and explained in detail the techniques for manipulating dream power.

This manipulation technique was not Camillo's idea, but rather a product of Blanche's talent.

Blanche's special talent is "dream design," in which she often designs different scenarios in her dreams to experience different characters and stories.

Camillo didn't pay much attention at first, only telling Blanche not to get too caught up in the illusory dream.

But on one occasion, when Camillo woke Blanche up, she was in a depressed mood. After processing it on her own for a while, she still couldn't cheer up and even started crying.

When Camillo found out, he comforted Blanche while asking what had happened.

Between sobs, Blanche recounted that she had just experienced an extremely painful dream within her own dream world.

Upon further inquiry, it was learned that the general story of this dream was that a noblewoman fell in love with a coachman, but was forced to separate due to societal prejudice. However, when they met again later, she discovered that the coachman was dead, leaving only a tombstone. The one who killed him was her most respected and beloved father...

Camillo could only scoff at this melodramatic story, but faced with his student sobbing uncontrollably, he could only offer words of comfort.

After offering comfort, Camillo couldn't help but say, "It's clearly a dream story you created yourself. You knew the ending from the beginning, so why are you still upset?"

Blanche looked bewildered after hearing this: "Although I made up the story myself, I don't know the ending."

Camillo was stunned: Blanche had designed the story, and she herself didn't know how it would unfold? How could this be?

Upon further inquiry, it was learned that Blanche had only set a general story framework, and the subsequent developments were entirely up to her.

The root of this "free development" lies in the special dream power manipulation technique mentioned by Camillo.

This technique stems from the fact that the power of dreams possesses a certain degree of self-consistency.

As long as a hint is given and a framework is established, the power of dreams can automatically fill in the subsequent story thanks to this self-consistency.

The same reason.

After Camillo collected the remnants of Sean's soul, he then conceived a framework for Sean's soul within the power of dreams, and the power of dreams itself filled this framework.

Hearing this, the Sun and Moon Wizard probably understood.

"So, this is the manipulation technique you learned from Blanche? That remnant soul wasn't pieced together by you, but rather its approximate outline was pieced together through the self-consistency of the power of dreams?" Lady Moon asked.

Camillo nodded: "That's right."

Lady Moon looked on with admiration. She hadn't expected that the puzzle would be pieced together using the self-consistency of the power of dreams.

It is not manipulated by humans, but rather attributed to the essence of power.

This is a very typical example of natural attribution.

Among nature wizards, there is a similar faction: they believe that nurturing the power of nature within the body will eventually come to an end; but if one's power is unleashed in the natural environment, the power of nature will be inexhaustible!

Therefore, they no longer pursue their own growth, but try to return the power to nature, letting nature grow and complete its transformation on its own.

There's nothing inherently wrong with this idea; it's just that it's too risky for those who seek self-transcendence.

Lady Moon had no objection to this, but what she didn't expect was that this natural attribution could actually be used for the power of dreams.

The power of dreams is a concept.

This kind of manipulation technique is definitely not simple; it's comparable to a secret treasure.

As expected of Blanche with her mysterious talent.

Lady Moon couldn't help but sigh... If only Blanche's talent weren't mysterious, she would have wanted to take her away.

Unfortunately, her mysterious talent is too terrifying. If she were to die in the future, or even if she were to die without external force, her own emotional outburst could transform her into a chaotic, mysterious entity...

Disorder can cause disasters of varying magnitudes, but even the smallest one can easily impact a legendary life.

Therefore, when Lady Moon faces Blanche, she only expresses her feelings and does nothing to actually harm her.

However, the fact that Camillo was able to learn this skill also shows that he is not bad... In the past, they all focused their attention on Blanche and underestimated Camillo.

Lady Moon gave Camillo a deep look, then refocused her gaze on the mist in his palm: "Can you solidify the power of dreams?"

Camillo understood what Lady Moon meant. Sean's remnant soul was currently placed within the power of dreams. To ensure the remnant soul's stable existence, it was necessary to completely solidify it.

However, solidifying dream power is not so easy; at least Camillo cannot do it: "The nature of dream power makes it very difficult to solidify..."

Lady Moon: "If it cannot be solidified, we must find an alchemist to create the corresponding medium in order to continue to hold Sean's remnant soul."

She and Mr. Sun did know some alchemy, but to create a medium that could hold a remnant soul, they needed to be at least intermediate-level alchemists.

Moreover, even if they could refine it, they wouldn't dare to do so easily, because they might not be able to overcome the Alchemy Omen.

Everyone who achieves alchemy has their own unique method for dealing with omens.

Thinking of this, Lady Moon looked at Camillo: "Does the Church of the Radiant have alchemists?"

Camillo shook his head without hesitation: "I don't know, but the Church of Radiant Light of the Great Sman Empire doesn't exist."

Lady Moon thought for a moment, then sighed and said, "How about this, we'll try to contact an alchemist. In the meantime, you'll stay with me and help maintain the power of dreams."

Camillo, of course, dared not refuse and nodded without hesitation: "It would be my honor."

……

After a while.

Uriel and Guleimo had finished their conversation. They took a deep breath and went back into the tree hollow.

Lady Moon naturally noticed the commotion and shifted her gaze from the remnant soul in the mist to the two of them.

"After this period of communication, have you found an answer?"

“Yes, we have a general idea in mind.” Uriel nodded, stepped forward, and bowed respectfully. “But before that, may I ask a question?”

Lady Moon chuckled softly, "Why are you suddenly speaking so formally? Tell me, what do you want to ask?"

Uriel was silent for a moment, then slowly said, "Which one should we choose to help you two lords?"

"Or rather, which one do the adults want us to choose?"