Chapter 689

Memory duplication causing more trouble?

Raistlin thought about it, the memory duplication technique is a seven-ring spell, which can intercept a memory of the caster and seal it in the thinking gem. When casting the spell, he can choose to forget this memory or keep it. In popular words, it is " The difference between "copy" and "cut".

"Cut" memory is generally used against enemies who can read minds, and it can also counter interrogation spells such as mind control.

Wait until after the fact to retrieve the memory from the gem.

Some powerful and secretive forces or organizations rely on this method to keep their secrets and cultivate the deepest spies.

When Ren saw this spell before, he was lamenting the magic of the spell.

Memory involves the "self-awareness" of an intelligent creature. If one person's memory is completely copied and infused into another person, will there be two "I"s in the world?

In the previous life, this was a very profound philosophical question, which has never been solved.

In the world of Allenus, memory is not equal to the soul, memory is only a part of the soul.

The soul here is the source of power and the most essential thing of a creature. In the teachings of many gods, the soul is far more important than memory, or even the body. The creation of the soul belongs to the authority of the gods.

All in all, memory duplication does not create a new soul.

Moreover, the duration of the memory duplication technique is limited. Raistlin remembered that the seven-ring memory duplication technique can be preserved for about five years. It is speculated that if it is upgraded to the ninth ring, it should be extended to about twenty years.

Unless, when the memory is about to expire, Master Ogulev recasts the cloning technique and instills new memories, for example, in the last year.

So how to deal with the memory produced by this clone in the past twenty years?

Intercept it by casting a spell and re-accept it later?

Or just erase this memory?

After reinstilling the memory, if the memory is a little different from before, is this clone still the same as before? Even the memory is different, does it mean that he is dead? Will the clone's self-perception be biased?

Does the clone think he is the real Oglevi master?

After all, the memory duplication technique does not have the effect of mind linking. Master Ogulev cannot control the clone, and cannot even monitor the thinking activities of Clonk at all times.

When Master Ogulev and the clone stood together, looking at each other, what did the clone think?

Will he accept the fact that he is just the other's creation?

Raistlin had foreseen the result.

He looked at Master Ogulevi who was sitting opposite and replied: "The problem is control and betrayal. Master, your clone is out of control?"

"good."

Ogulev nodded slightly, with some approval on his face, and sighed: "However, those are not clones, I call them 'replicas'."

"When I created the replica back then, I didn't think too much about it. I thought they had my memory, the same experience, the same character, and the same goal. They were essentially another me. We worked together to conduct magic research, hoping to find I didn't think about the issue of loyalty, but the facts taught me a lesson."

He made no secret of his mistakes and was very frank.

"What lesson?" Raistlin asked curiously.

"The first clone I created, he has all my memories, including magical knowledge, experience, and skills. In just over 120 years, he has been promoted from an ordinary person without a trace of soul power to a thirty-level holy soul wizard. It is my most powerful clone, and it has done a lot of things for me in the open and in the dark, and even presided over the Supreme Council instead of me..."

Raistlin was startled to hear this.

It's too scary to be promoted to the thirty-level holy soul wizard in one hundred and twenty years.

You must know that there are currently seven holy soul wizards below the thirtieth level in the Supreme Council, including the two founders of the Council, the Duke of Purple Flame, the great sage of Congerald.

Master Ogulevi even allowed this replica to attend the Supreme Council...

What an adventure!

"When I was about to copy the memory for him for the seventh time, he attacked me." Ogulev continued: "He saved all the memories of the previous six times, and has the complete memory of these 120 years. He has been preparing to replace me."

"He also copied multiple memories, even if I die, he can continue to exist."

"Moreover, he has been secretly researching the method of creating a real soul for more than a hundred years, and wants to completely get rid of the limitations of the memory copying technique."

Ogulev suddenly stopped at this point.

"Master, did you defeat that clone?" Even after knowing the result, Raistlin was still terrified and couldn't help asking.

"What do you think?"

Ogulev asked back, with a playful look on his face.

Raistlin subconsciously believed that Oglevi had thwarted the clone's conspiracy. No matter how fast the clone upgrades, no matter how strong it is, it is still worse than Master Ogulev's body.

But seeing Ogulev's expression, a terrible thought suddenly came to his mind.

Did the clone succeed?

Impossible!

"Hehe..." Ogulev laughed twice, "You don't have to think about it. That clone is very powerful, and its understanding of me is no different from my own, but I am not so lax. In fact, I did it a long time ago. Noticing his abnormality, I tampered with the memory from the second time I copied the memory, and he really fell for it. Using this, I easily defeated and imprisoned him."

"I see." Raistlin breathed a sigh of relief, but there was still a trace of doubt deep in his heart.

Is the Master Ogulev in front of him himself, or a clone?

I'm afraid only he himself knows this.

"After I created that arcane technique, I used it to create a lot of replicas." Ogulev said: "Ever since I noticed the abnormality of the first replica and imbued the later replicas with memories, I still have reservations. .The memory is incomplete, so the talent and potential are naturally poor. The strength of these clones is far inferior to the first one, and they don't help me much."

"After losing the assistance of the first replica, my research on the aging of the soul has stagnated, with little progress."

"However, I checked his memory and found some interesting things..."

"Oh, that's right." Ogulev seemed to have suddenly remembered something, touched the short beard of his chin, and said with a smile: "About the first clone, you should have heard of his name."

Raistlin asked subconsciously, "Who?"

"Fertantilus." Ogulev replied.

"It turned out to be him!"

Raistlin was taken aback. This Fertantierus was a man of the empire hundreds of years ago. Everyone in the empire knew that he was promoted to the Holy Soul Wizard in his early 100s, setting a record at the time and becoming the youngest supreme soul wizard. member of parliament.

He thought about it carefully.

The deeds of Fertantiles have been around for a long time. This master was promoted to Holy Soul Sorcerer in 1967 in the new calendar and became the ninth member of the Supreme Council.

But thirty years later, Fertantius disappeared, never to be seen again.

This is one of the unsolved cases in the history of the empire.

Only now did I know that Fertantileus was actually a copy of Master Ogulevi, and if it got out, it would definitely shock the empire.

Raistlin's eyes flashed suddenly.

"What did you think of?" Ogulev immediately noticed.

"Three years ago, I was hunting the green dragon in the forest of death. There was a mysterious wizard beside the green dragon. It called the wizard 'Fertantilus'. At that time, I thought it was just a coincidence, because there were many people in the empire. They are all called by this name." Raistlin's face was stunned, and he looked at Ogulev and said, "It was only later that I found out that he is the simulacrum of the black-robed Duke Tuzley, and he owed me a favor for helping him out."

This is almost an ironclad proof that the Duke in Black Robe is the clone of Ogulev.

However, Ogulev still didn't admit it, but just smiled and said: "This is another story, and it has nothing to do with what I want to tell."

"Yes, Master." Raistlin could only listen.

"I found in Fettitilus's memory that he also created replicas, scattered all over the world and on many planes, trying to find a way to create souls." Ogulev's face was a bit complicated, "His method of thinking Unlike me, he really found a clue."

Raistlin had already guessed.

Fertantilus disappeared in 1997 in the new calendar, which is 535 years ago. Before that, Ogulevi said that he had entered the dark region for more than 500 years, and the time coincided exactly.

Sure enough, Ogulev said: "The clue lies in the illithids in the dark area. This race that is born with psychic powers has gone farther than anyone else in the study of the soul. And the soul is the understanding of the potential of the soul. digging..."

Raistlin couldn't help clicking his tongue, "Fertantilus created a soul with psychic spells?"

"How is it possible!" Ogulev immediately laughed, "The plot was exposed as soon as he made some progress, but the success made me interested in illithids."

"So I came to Elaento to continue his research."

Raistlin observed a three-second silence for the illithid.

The most powerful holy soul wizard in history, Elaineto's illithids are impossible to resist. You don't need to ask, and you know that illithids have tragically become the research object of Ogulev.

The eyes of the soul saw that when Ogulev said "research", his emotions did not fluctuate at all.

Obviously, in the eyes of Master Ogulev, the illithids are nothing but experimental subjects, no different from mice.

This made Raistlin's heart awe-inspiring, and he saw the cruel and cruel side of the other party, who abandoned all ethics and morality for the sake of immortal magic research.

Bad luck for Elaine too.

There are many illithid cities in the Lower Underdark, and some smaller communities, but Elaento is the easiest to find by outsiders, because the city was previously built by duergars and conquered by illithids. The few duergar who fled spread the word, and Elaentor's location circulated among those familiar with the Underdark.

"I am developing psychic powers while perfecting Fertantius' soul research."

"Finally completed after nearly a hundred years."

Ogulev's expression became serious, "Fettitilus's thinking is very unique, mortals cannot create souls, but souls are everywhere in the world."

Raistlin shuddered suddenly when he heard this.

"Babies who have not yet been born already have a soul, but no memory, just like a piece of white paper that can be scribbled on."

Ogulev said in an indifferent tone: "Take out the soul of the embryo, copy my memory and infuse it in, and then bridge the conflict between the soul and memory through Nine Ring's 'Mind Healing', supplemented by 'Memory Weaving' and 'Mind' Surgery', these three spells are cast once a day, continuously, and after a few months, the two will be perfectly integrated."

"At the same time, modify the spell that creates the replica, delay the growth, and let the replica grow in a normal human cycle, growing from a baby to an adult."

"Put the fused soul into this replica."

"The new soul and the clone grow together, and all the content about my personal experience and identity in the duplicate memory is sealed in the depths of the soul, and only magical knowledge and experience are retained."

"As the strength of the clone increases, the knowledge will be unlocked step by step."

"When he is promoted to the holy soul, the sealed memory will be completely released, and there is a nine-ring 'mind control technique' attached to it, because of the constant hints from his mind for many years before, he will not have any will to resist this mind control technique, and will never betray."

"If the main body dies, this duplicate will become the new main body."

"At the same time, the soul of this replica will not age within two thousand years, and the problem of longevity is also solved!"

Raistlin gaped.

A lot of information churned up and down in his mind, forming a complete puzzle from the fragments one by one, and he had already guessed what Ogulev would say later.

"I used this method to create the last replica." Ogulev's eyes were filled with regret. "It went well at first, but later, an accident happened."

"The duplicate is still out of control?" Raistlin asked.

"That's right." Ogulev cast his gaze, "You must have guessed that this duplicate is Kelstone."

Even if Raistlin had prepared himself, he still found it hard to believe what the other person said.

Previously, Ogulev denied that the Duke of Redstone was his clone.

He has believed it.

I didn't expect things to turn around. The Duke of Redstone is indeed not a clone, but it is a product created by Master Ogulev!

Almost everyone knows the experiences of Duke Redstone when he was young.

He was born in 2101 in the new calendar. At the age of eight, he discovered his talent and entered Nether Floating City to become an apprentice wizard; at the age of ten, he held the first soul transformation ceremony, perfected the soul transformation, and became an official wizard; at the age of twenty-two, he was promoted to be the youngest in history. Legendary wizard, and created the "psychic" specialization, famous in the empire; he was promoted to the holy soul wizard at the age of fifty-eight, became the youngest member of the Supreme Council in history, and was named a duke. Lars Floating City.

Such a splendid achievement earned the Duke of Redstone the reputation of "the first genius".

However, such a huge secret is hidden behind the scenes!

The Duke of Red Stone was created by Master Ogulevi. It was originally a replica used to prolong life and regain new life, but in the end he betrayed Master Ogulevi!