Millennium Witch.

Chapter 123-122- Soul Brain
In the dead of night, the lonely stars cast their light, draping the three-story mansion like a veil. On the second floor, in a study, Lin De paced back and forth, his brow furrowed, looking like a salaried worker anxious under the pressure of KPIs.

His identity here is that of an ordinary wealthy businessman who runs several drinking water factories. As a necromancer, fighting using summoned creatures rather than in person is a principle that every necromancer should adhere to.

After a while, the communication terminal placed on the sandalwood table suddenly activated, and a phantom figure materialized out of thin air.

The other party was dressed in a pure white sacrificial robe, but its head and body were composed of surging, pitch-black fog, like a personified darkness.

"Saint...Saint Sir!" Lind immediately knelt down, his voice trembling.

That's right, this is his direct superior, the "Soulfire Saint," one of the three Saints of the Holy Spirit Sect, a walking strategic weapon, and one of the mages at the pinnacle of individual combat power in the Origin Civilization.

Legend has it that if he so desires, he can instantly strip the souls of hundreds of thousands of people in a town, casting them into an endless hell from which they will never be reborn.

Looking at Linde kneeling on the ground, the black mist face of the Soulfire Saint could not be read with any emotion. Only a neutral voice could be heard: "The experimental subjects who escaped from the Black Tower, have you found them?"

"I...I'm incompetent, there's still no progress..." Lin De was sweating profusely. As the high priest of reincarnation and a general of the Ghost Hand Society, he hadn't felt this terrified in a long time. "Please grant me a little more time, Your Excellency..."

“His Holiness the Pope has reached an agreement with President John. If you cannot find them in at most half a month, the government forces of New Eden will come in,” Soulfire Saint said calmly. “At that time, we may not be able to get either of the two test subjects.”

“New Eden?” Lind paused for a moment, then immediately understood.

Because the two important experimental subjects leaked by the Black Tower escaped into the Rustbone Free State, and Rustbone is entirely the territory of the Holy Spirit Cult, which even the Eight Great Companies find difficult to enter, the Black Tower would have to ask the Holy Spirit Cult to help them find the two experimental subjects once they entered the area.

This is also why Linde, as a general, was commissioned by the Black Tower to cooperate.

However, because these two test subjects were too important, the government of the New Eden United States was also eager to take action, and even had the idea of ​​waging a war on terror. Under the pretext of "rescuing the nameless national heroes," they sent troops into the Fus River to find the two test subjects before the Black Tower and the Holy Spirit Cult.

At that time, regardless of whether Black Tower Pharmaceuticals can obtain either of the two, the Holy Spirit Cult will most likely have wasted its efforts, with President John directly reaping the benefits.

"Your subordinate... Your subordinate will definitely find them within half a month!" Linde took a deep breath, "But it may require some... large-scale measures. I hope the church can approve my use of 'Soul Brain'..."

Necromancers are not good at one-on-one combat or direct confrontation, but they have many methods for large-scale destruction, especially in manipulating souls. He had previously worried about the great impact and dared not go all out, which was why there had been no results for so long. Now that the deadline was approaching, he naturally couldn't care less about that anymore.

"approve."

"Thank you, Lord Seiji..."

A moment later, the projected image transformed into starlight and scattered, and the study fell silent.

Linde took a deep breath and quietly pulled a small white skull from his clothes.

This is a special vessel that seals the "soul brain." The "soul brain" itself has no physical form; it is a special magical device born from the fusion of all understandings of the Holy Spirit Cult's necromancy. It can be simply understood as a "magical terminal made with a soul."

It has countless benefits.

For example, it does not need to be specially worn; it can directly reside in a spirit body and become a second layer of spirit body on the spirit body.

It can also deploy AI and various software, and take over the body by taking advantage of its spiritual nature. Even without cybernetic modifications, it can still achieve effects such as body management.

Most remarkably, it can amplify mental power, giving it unparalleled advantages over ordinary terminals in both spiritual defense and spell manipulation.

But why is something like this not well-known outside of the public?
The reason is simple: it has two fatal flaws.

The first drawback is that its raw materials are very scarce, requiring a large number of soul runes. Of all things in the world, only the human spirit is the strongest, possessing thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions more soul runes than other creatures. Even so, countless human souls are still needed to refine a single Soul Brain, which means that Soul Brains are evil objects that cannot be mass-produced.

The second drawback is that there is currently no technology that can perfectly separate the spirit body from the memory body, which means that a large number of memory fragments are bound to remain in the refined soul brain.

These memory fragments will gradually infiltrate the holder's spirit during use, until they reach the innermost memory, eventually affecting the holder's personality, thinking, self-awareness... until they become a cyberpsychotic or a personality stitched-together.

Therefore, even a high priest like Linde is forbidden from using the Soul Brain at will, and can only apply to the higher-ranking Soulfire Saint when there is a need. "I should be able to use it for at least 20 minutes without being affected..." Calculating his spiritual strength and the rate of memory fragment penetration, Linde made an estimate and pressed a button under the small white skull.

"Please enter your security password," a mechanical voice came from the small white skull.

"&*（￥%……" Linde uttered a string of safe words, all composed of Rustbone dialect, and then saw the top of the small white skull open from both sides, revealing a small space of about one cubic centimeter inside, where a small ball of phosphorescent fire was burning quietly, like a drop of green tear.

Looking at this incredibly precious item, Linde carefully raised his hand and touched the green phosphorescent flame with his fingertips. Then, a white tentacle appeared silently beside him, and with a gentle twitch, it rolled the skull-shaped storage box and the soul brain inside to the side.

Linde stood there dumbfounded, turning his head in a daze. He saw a black mass suddenly writhing in the shadows of the study, and the next second, the figure of a silver-haired girl appeared.

She held the small box in her hand, examining the green flame inside, and asked curiously, "Is this the Soul Brain?"

“You…give it back to me…” Lind trembled, his voice filled with unspeakable rage, then he roared, “Give it back to me now!!”

boom!
A chilling, bone-piercing green flame erupted in the study, spreading outwards. Yvette flashed out of the study and onto the corridor, unwilling to take the brunt of such an undefendable soul attack.

Immediately, she touched the brain in the box with her finger and felt a cool sensation enter her mind, along with a slightly dull AI female voice.

"System self-check in progress... Self-check complete... Unauthorized host detected. Please enter the startup password."

Yvette certainly didn't know what the activation password was, but the Soul Brain system architecture was the same as that of a normal magic terminal system, almost a brute-force transplant. Therefore, it was only necessary to use some rune hacking techniques to bypass these security passwords.

But right now, she still had to deal with that "general," so Yvette put the matter aside for the time being and turned to look at Lind, who had suddenly appeared from the study.

At this moment, driven by anger and certain fears and anxieties, Lind, the necromancer, had completely lost his mind.

Instead of creating distance and summoning his skeleton army, he summoned bone armor on his body and a white bone blade appeared in his hand, like an undead knight under the Grim Reaper, and slashed straight at Yvette.

Yvette naturally wouldn't refuse such a close-quarters combat challenge between mages. Red runes lit up her body, and she raised her hands forward, actually managing to catch the bone blade aimed at her heart with her bare hands.

Lind was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized something was wrong, but it was too late. Yvette raised her foot and kicked him in the stomach, sending him flying. Then she picked up her bone blade, rushed in front of him, and stabbed it fiercely into Lind's heart.

The light of the magic barrier shattered layer by layer, accompanied by screams. Lind was slashed in the abdomen, blood flowing freely. He gritted his teeth, used the force of the wind to retreat, and rolled down the stairs in a sorry state. Then he began to summon one skeleton after another that had been lurking in the soil of the garden outside the house.

"Kill her!" he growled to himself, like a cornered beast with nowhere to run, and in fact, he did just that.

As the High Priest of Reincarnation, a portion of his soul was sacrificed to the Soulfire Saint, making escape impossible. However, having lost the core secrets of the Holy Spirit Cult, he was destined for a fate worse than death. His only option was to fight the silver-haired girl to the death and retrieve his Soul Brain.

Under the dark night sky, countless skeletal hands emerged from beneath the grass, reaching towards the heavens, and then transformed into an overwhelming horde of skeletons. Like frenzied beasts, they charged towards the mansion, their movements swift and their postures bizarre. If one disregarded their appearance and only considered their demeanor, they bore a striking resemblance to the mutants.

Yvette ignored them and kept chasing after Lind, first rushing outside, then into the garden and golf course outside the mansion.

The area was finally open. Yvette hovered in mid-air, and the skeletons quickly approached her in a human pyramid formation, covering Lind's escape.

Seeing this, Yvette had no choice but to summon rune rings above her head, eventually reaching as many as 12.

This scene almost made Linde lose his mind.

Multiple rune rings represent the simultaneous casting of multiple spells, which is closely related to the mage's mental strength, magical power, understanding of runes, and the structure of the spells themselves, and is a manifestation of comprehensive strength.

Even Linde, a level 5 mage and the dignified High Priest of Reincarnation, a super expert second only to the Holy Priest, can only cast five spells at the same time at his current limit! Among his colleagues, the most powerful can cast six at the same time, and the weakest can only cast three. And these are all level 5 mages, all world-class super experts.

Why was she able to release 12 rings at once?
Is this just a bluff? Or is it just flashy special effects?

(End of this chapter)