Warlock Apprentice

Chapter 2671: Chapter 2672: Synchronization

What is immersive live streaming?

The Wise Sovereign harbored this question, watching as Angel and Kaier entered the Hanging Jail Stairway.

As Angel’s figure disappeared, the surrounding floating star river began to slowly change. Everyone suddenly felt a sensation of sinking, as if they stood on soft cotton candy or warm mire, their bodies continuously subsiding in a sweet and fervent embrace...

This feeling wasn’t unpleasant; it even carried a lazy comfort, gradually calming their moods.

”Changing emotions imperceptibly has a hint of Heart Illusion.” The Wise Sovereign pondered, although outwardly there were no signs of drastic emotional change, even the Black Earl didn’t notice anything, but as an old monster bored for millennia, he had quite a bit of confidence in his control over his emotions.

Even though he couldn’t detect the emotional changes influenced by illusion, the other side definitely did some guiding.

It felt a bit like Heart Illusion but without the traces of Heart Illusion. The Wise Sovereign had been somewhat puzzled about this peculiar illusion before, and even after personally experiencing it, he still couldn’t pinpoint at which step Angel’s illusion showed an anomaly, nor where this anomaly originated from.

As the Wise Sovereign was contemplating, the power of the illusion completely enveloped them. Soft, comfortable, without a sense of suffocation.

Only their feet felt slightly weightless.

When the feeling of weightlessness disappeared, they fell from not too high in the air.

In the end, everyone landed in a fragmented ruin, and at the center of the ruin stood two people, one being Angel, lazily leaning against the doorframe, and the other being Kaier, who looked at everyone in surprise with a hand over his mouth.

”Is this... the inside of the Hanging Jail Stairway?” Vay looked around in astonishment.

”Yes.” The Black Earl, also drawn by the scene, responded. He had been here before and was quite familiar with it: ”This is the first room after entering the door.”

”How did we suddenly arrive here? Is this an illusion?” Vay stepped back in shock.

He felt something behind him and turned to see... the Wise Sovereign!

Vay was startled, rapidly stepping back several steps, finally hiding behind the Black Earl, and trembled as he spoke: ”Why, why is the Wise Sovereign also here? Did he destroy the earth’s ring wall?”

The Black Earl looked at the close Wise Sovereign and gently shook his head: ”No destruction. This is simulated using illusion.”

”Illusion simulation?” Vay exclaimed: ”So this Wise Sovereign is fake?”

Before the Black Earl could answer, the Wise Sovereign looked over with a smile: ”I’m not fake; someone just used illusion to bring us closer. But this closeness is only apparent, while in reality, we’re still very far apart.”

”Then why can I touch you?” Vay still didn’t understand.

Vay’s question had just fallen when he was attracted by Dox’s shout from the side: ”Is this made of Porodense Stone?”

Vay turned his head to look, only to see Dox had already run to a corner of the ruins, holding a milky-white square brick.

Under his feet were similar square bricks, though most had shattered; only the one in Dox’s hand remained intact and flawless.

”I’ve handled Porodense Stone many times, and this feel is definitely Porodense Stone!”

As Dox exclaimed, he looked toward Angel: ”Gold, is this Porodense Stone?”

The Wise Sovereign intended to say, this is an illusionary realm, separated by other-dimensional space, there’s no way they can answer you. You need to ask in the Mind Ribbon.

However, unexpectedly, Angel, upon hearing Dox’s call, lazily turned his head and said: ”Why do you care? These are all simulated by me, and you can’t take them out anyway.”

”No problem, when I come in later, I can take them out!” Dox replied with satisfaction: ”By the way, I saw it first, so it belongs to me!”

Dox was completely mesmerized by the benefits in front of him, not even considering the anomalies of this illusionary realm.

The others, however, looked at Angel with eyes full of suspicion.

How on earth was this done? They were clearly outside, so how did they follow Angel into the Hanging Jail Stairway? If this was an illusion, how did Angel achieve this?

Not just the apprentices, even the Black Earl and Wise Sovereign were astounded.

If this were illusion technique, it’s equivalent to directly leading them into the Hanging Jail Stairway!

The Wise Sovereign at this point gently crouched down and scooped up a handful of porcelain-like soil ash from the ground.

Judging from the surrounding shattered floor tiles, the soil ash should have been left behind by the shattered Porodense Stone.

The Wise Sovereign slowly rubbed the soil ash, sensing its fine and smooth texture, a feel that indeed matched that of Porodense Stone after breaking.

”Is this also what you simulated using illusion?” The Wise Sovereign looked towards Angel.

Even taking a step back, he might be able to comprehend the overarching cohesion of the illusionary realm. However, down to such exquisite detail, all perfectly replicated... you tell me this is illusion?

”Yes.” Angel somewhat deflatedly replied to the Wise Sovereign, then turned to another side: ”Red, can you stop what you’re doing, stop rummaging through everything.”

”And you, why are you getting involved, put down the dust in your hand.” Angel also looked at Vay, who was following the Wise Sovereign’s lead, scooping up soil ash from the ground.

With Angel’s rebuke, Dox and Vay halted their actions and obediently put down what they had in their hands.

With all those items dropped, Angel’s expression slightly eased.

”This is a live stream, understand? It’s not for you to treasure hunt, it’s for you to watch with your eyes.” Angel scolded: ”Every time you touch these things, it consumes a large amount of my computing power, especially the Wise Sovereign and that dust in your hand.”

”Do you know how much computing power they consumed of mine? You don’t!”

Angel: ”Consuming computing power like this, I might as well just stand here and serve you all specifically! How am I supposed to continue streaming?”

The Wise Sovereign, hearing this, gently placed the soil ash in his hand back on the ground: ”Our touching these things, being able to sense their real textures, is that your consumption of computing power?”

Angel nodded: ”Exactly. This is a synchronous live stream. The so-called synchronous means that everything I perceive inside, you can immediately see. What I see is what you see; what I get is what you get.”

”This is not as simple as pre-arranging an illusionary realm. Real-time presentation of the illusionary realm, and simulating all the things you touch, consumes computing power.”

The illusionary realm in the Shadow Box of the plays has no variables. Even in the experiential Shadow Box of plays where you make your own choices, it seems the choice of the experiencer is a variable, but in reality, there is no variable at all; once the Shadow Box is made, a self-consistent logical chain already exists, with any choice within this logical chain.

Whereas this immersive holographic live stream that Angel set up can be said to have variables everywhere.

The reason is simple: because Angel was entering the shattered Hanging Jail Stairway for the first time as well. The unknown itself is an uncontrollable variable.

”””

And for those who entered the holographic live stream, anything they touched would also be fed back to the computing power center for integration and real-time feedback, which is also a kind of variable. Because Angel couldn’t control what they would touch, and he couldn’t decide what was touched.

Such a huge variable would certainly lead to an increase in computing power.

After Angel explained the general situation, everyone finally understood why Angel had been so lackluster before; it turned out it was due to the increase in computing power.

However, even so, everyone was extremely impressed by Angel’s mastery of illusion techniques and his innovative and whimsical ideas.

In this kind of immersive holographic live stream, the Black Earl didn’t know if Sanders could do it, but he was sure that an ordinary illusionist wizard absolutely couldn’t. Even the more straightforward 2D live stream was likely impossible, let alone this kind of illusion technique.

Black Earl: How many times has Angel surprised us now? Or should I say... terrified us?

What is a genius? Perhaps this is what a genius is.

While the Black Earl sighed in his heart, everyone else had different feelings. Vay, undoubtedly, who always looked at Angel through idol-colored glasses, now had his filter thickened several times; Kaier was both shocked and in awe, and still hadn’t come back to his senses.

As for the Wise Sovereign, he was also surprised by Angel’s methods. However, what he was thinking more about was not the strangeness of the method but what exactly the other party’s identity was?

The Moving Mirage, Immersive Illusionary Realm. Both types of illusionary realms were extremely difficult. The former he had heard of, but the latter he was witnessing for the first time and knew just how terrifyingly difficult it was.

Could such a formidable foundation be truly supported by the current Noah clan?

The Wise Sovereign marked another question about Angel’s identity. The probability of him being from the Noah clan continued to diminish.

As for Dox, he was the most composed of them all... He understood how difficult this illusionary realm was, but he had long been accustomed to the shocking bombs Angel occasionally threw out. Plus, back in the Princess Town, he had experienced Rabbit Cha Cha’s Twelve Zodiac Palaces and was already shocked to the core.

Angel’s illusions even created a wise life like Rabbit Cha Cha, so this immersive live stream was just another thing. - Although Angel denied that Rabbit Cha Cha possessed wisdom, Dox still felt Rabbit Cha Cha had great spirituality. Even if it truly wasn’t a wise life, Dox believed that creating the Twelve Zodiac Palaces, Rabbit Cha Cha was definitely more difficult than this immersive live stream.

It is based on this that Dox appeared so calm.

However, Dox’s comparison wasn’t actually valid. In some respects, creating Rabbit Cha Cha was indeed harder than an immersive illusionary realm. But the two couldn’t be compared because Rabbit Cha Cha was an alchemy work made with the Mad Hat’s coronation, while the immersive live stream Angel was currently doing was an application of illusion technique.

The nature of the two is completely different, meaningless to compare.

After all, Dox was an outsider. He only saw the surface, so having this understanding was normal. However, Dox’s calmness made others seem inexperienced.

With Dox as a comparison, others were also embarrassed to show surprise, trying to remain calm.

”It turns out you need computing power, then you could completely block us from touching things and just view the scenery,” Dox suggested.

Angel, however, responded with a question: ”If you can do better, why aim for less?”

Dox was momentarily choked, murmuring, ”Isn’t this to reduce your burden.”

Angel was not without gratitude; he first said ”thank you,” and then added, ”I can still bear it for now.”

Angel was not someone who would force himself. Recently, he looked defeated, but in fact, he had just exited the supercomputer state. He initially thought the immersive live stream’s consumption of computing power would require him to enter the supercomputer state to sustain it.

But he underestimated the Power of Nightmare Illusion, which was not only extremely stable but also had a certain degree of coherence in its illusion logic.

Another most crucial point: Angel possessed more than one Nightmare Realm; the Wilderness of Dreams counted as his nightmare realm. The material and tactile feeling simulated by the illusion, he could completely simulate through the authority of the Wilderness of Dreams.

As long as it existed in the Wilderness of Dreams, simulating it in reality meant Angel’s consumption would be minimal.

Only when something doesn’t exist in the Wilderness of Dreams would Angel simulate it in the immersive live stream costing a certain amount of computing power.

So even without entering the supercomputer state, Angel could support the immersive live stream now.

As for why he previously suggested others touch less and not increase his pressure, it was merely Angel’s habitual modesty.

Moreover, setting the rules in advance could avoid certain people with an itchy hand, touching this and declaring it treasure, and then touching that and announcing ownership again.

That would indeed be too embarrassing.

So, better not let them know he could make the live stream perfect without much trouble or effort.

”Although this kind of live stream is quite immersive, won’t it scare the Wood Spirit?” At this time, Dox asked a question that everyone was very concerned about.

Previously, the Wise Sovereign only allowed two people in, and now with so many people appearing, even if they were just illusions, wouldn’t it frighten the Wood Spirit?

Facing the puzzled gazes of the crowd, Angel replied in an exasperated tone: ”Just synchronizing the situation here to you guys already consumes a lot of computing power. If I were to synchronize your illusions into it, would I be insane?”

Hearing Angel say so, everyone then realized that they were actually still outside.

And the illusionary realm before them was essentially created by illusion nodes left outside by Angel. The illusionary realm was outside, how could it possibly affect the situation inside?

Understanding this, everyone felt a bit embarrassed.

The illusion was too real indeed, so real that it felt like they were genuinely with Angel in the Hanging Jail Stairway, which led them to ignore the essence of the illusion.

This also showed how high Angel’s level of illusion technique had become.

In the Black Earl’s view, its uniqueness might even surpass that of Sanders.

”Since it’s not bidirectional, you can see us, I understand that. Why can he also see us?” Dox asked at this moment, pointing to Kaier.

Angel: ”I pulled him into the illusionary realm. Otherwise, if I were muttering to you not to touch this and that, wouldn’t he think I’m crazy?”

Angel hadn’t forgotten that Kaier was the instigator of everything. Previously, he hadn’t brought him into the Mind Ribbon out of concern that he and Vay might get exposed; now that everyone was in the illusionary realm, bringing him in was no longer a concern.

Moreover, compared to Kaier and Vay getting exposed, it was Angel himself who was most likely to be exposed.

The Wise Sovereign’s gaze, though not revealing suspicion, had a subtle smile, as if saying: You act, keep acting.

Angel was genuinely planning to keep acting.

Even though he felt the Wise Sovereign might have realized he wasn’t a Noah descendant, as long as he didn’t admit it, could the Wise Sovereign really be absolutely certain?

Anyway, Angel planned to keep stalling; as long as the Wood Spirit didn’t react to Sanders’s aura, he would continue to act.

If the Wood Spirit truly identified Sanders’s aura, he wouldn’t have any other choice; exposure would be exposure.