Wizard: I have ten trillion nanomachines

"So this is a special soul talent; the witch array has a use after all..."

Within Luo Kunlun's mental space, he rapidly reviewed abstract memory information, extracting the most crucial and useful information in just a few seconds.

The Soul Refining Witch Array, composed of 666 rune stone tablets, and its core function of devouring souls.

Thinking of this, Luo Kunlun had a thought, and the witch array covered with strange patterns was drawn to him by an invisible force and quickly came to his front.

Meanwhile, the remaining Dawn Society apprentices and knight servants in the underground palace were all firmly imprisoned by Lokunlun's telekinetic powers.

Some of these people trembled with fear, while others tried to resist, but they were all as if bound by invisible shackles, and were dragged involuntarily to the center of the witch formation.

Among them were more than twenty wizard apprentices (ranging from elementary to intermediate level), and the remaining four hundred and thirty-odd were specially trained knights, all of whom were subordinates who helped the Dawn Society rule.

After the spiritual energy was injected, the Soul Refining Witch Array was instantly activated.

The runes on the 666 stone slabs simultaneously lit up with a dark red light, and an invisible force field appeared in the center of the witch array.

The next moment, the apprentices and knights in the formation convulsed violently as if struck by a high-voltage current, their eyes wide open and they let out mournful howls.

Their bodies withered at a visible rate, and nearly transparent spirits were forcibly peeled from their flesh, as if caught in an invisible net, and converged toward the center of the witch formation.

These are the spiritual bodies of mortals and low-level apprentices, which are fundamentally different from the spiritual bodies of formal wizards.

Spirits are extremely fragile and under normal circumstances, they have no chance of existing independently of the physical body. Even a gentle breeze or a small flame can completely scatter them.

A formal wizard's spiritual body is the product of a deep fusion of powerful spiritual energy and source matter, making it solid and resistant to ordinary physical and energy impacts.

It is worth mentioning that the source substance is not the soul itself, but a product of the combination of spiritual power and a certain special substance. Therefore, the source substance still remains in the brains of these apprentices whose spiritual bodies have been stripped away.

Therefore, after extracting the spirit body, all the source matter was extracted from the withered corpses in the array.

After dealing with the source matter, he raised his hand and hurled the 451 corpses, along with the ruins of the underground palace, into the distant wasteland as if discarding garbage. The corpses landed with a dull thud, raising clouds of dust.

At this moment, all the spirits in the witch formation had merged into the original aggregate of souls in the center.

This aggregate was translucent, about the size of a baby's fist, with countless fragments wriggling inside, radiating mixed soul energy.

Luo Kunlun reached out and grabbed the aggregate of souls, bringing it to his face. He sensed the energy fluctuations within it and pondered for a moment.

"With just this little bit of soul energy, an apprentice can be promoted to a full-fledged wizard?"

According to the general understanding in the wizarding world, the total mental power of a novice apprentice is roughly equivalent to that of one hundred ordinary mortals.

The mental strength of advanced apprentices far surpasses that of novice apprentices, often being dozens of times greater.

Andrea's advancement based solely on the souls of forty-five qualified individuals clearly defies common sense.

The difference in sheer energy volume cannot be compensated for by any so-called special soul ability.

Moreover, in Luo Kunlun's view, although Wu Ke's talent and ability are rare, they are not considered heaven-defying. They are not even comparable to "Saint Awakening," let alone the computing power he now possesses by integrating the distributed mental network.

Andrea had the same question back then, but she was never able to find the answer and could only attribute it to the unknown mysteries deep within her soul.

But for Luo Kunlun, whether the answer is important or not is not the key point; what matters is that this Soul Refining Witch Array is indeed effective.

In the next instant, Luo Kunlun no longer hesitated and absorbed the aggregate of souls into his own mental space.

Under the initial purification effect of the Soul Refining Witch Array, the soul energy in the aggregate is continuously stripped away and transformed into pure spiritual energy.

Consuming souls to enhance mental power is not difficult for wizards; the real challenge lies in eliminating the side effects.

Each soul carries a vast amount of memories, chaotic thoughts, and more or less a degree of self-awareness.

The more powerful a soul is, the more stubborn its self-awareness becomes, making it not only much more difficult to devour, but also potentially leaving serious hidden dangers.

The memories of others can interfere with one's own cognition, chaotic thoughts can erode one's spiritual origins, and one's self-awareness may even lurk and backfire in the mental space.

It can still suppress and digest a few or a dozen souls by relying on its powerful mental strength.

However, if the number reaches hundreds or thousands, even a formal wizard will inevitably have their mind overwhelmed and descend into madness.

Recklessly devouring souls will only drive you insane.

But this kind of improvement method is hard for wizards not to be tempted.

Simply by constantly absorbing, one can enhance their spiritual power, and even plunder the knowledge and soul talents of others... This is an almost cheating method of improvement.

Therefore, since ancient times, wizards have conducted a lot of research on soul devouring in order to reduce the side effects of soul devouring.

The Soul Refining Witch Array is one such achievement. By fusing a large number of souls into an aggregate and stripping away some of the messy information, it reduces the side effects during absorption and makes the soul easier to digest.

However, the purification ability of this witch array is ultimately limited.

This time, Luo Kunlun refined 451 people at once. Adding the 45 souls of gifted individuals left behind by Andrea, the total number of souls has reached 576.

Such a massive amount of soul energy has long exceeded the purification limit of the Soul Refining Array, and the aggregate still contains a huge amount of impurities.

But Luo Kunlun had his own way of solving the problem.

The core cause of the side effects of soul devouring is nothing more than the memories, thoughts, and self-awareness within the soul of another.

But there are ways to manage the side effects of lozulron.

The cause of the side effects of soul devouring is nothing more than the memories, thoughts, and ego within the soul of another.

Simply store it in your mental space, remove it, and then take it out to absorb again.

Once you enter his mental space, you will be at his mercy. Luo Kunlun can directly extract the impurities that have gathered together within it.

It involves removing impurities, not dismantling like a spiritual entity.

The disassembled wizard's spiritual body, apart from the solidified model and memories, only has basic structural units left.

They will disappear soon.

It wasn't absorbed by Luo Kunlun to increase his spiritual power; otherwise, Luo Kunlun would have already reached the first level and wouldn't need to manage the archipelago.

To be precise, it was absorbed by space itself.

Luo Kunlun could sense that the space expanded after that.