Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 120: Research on Consciousness Transfer

"It's true that light elements are hard to get on Earth, but I never said I was using a light element clone technique!" Surprisingly, Cyrae suddenly covered her mouth and laughed softly, dropping another bombshell. "This isn't the magic you're thinking of. It's a low-level light puppet! The magic consumption is totally different!"

"Light puppet? No way!" Even Cyra was shocked by this unexpected twist. Light puppet magic was actually quite simple for her.

"But what's the point of doing this?" To me, it seemed a bit like taking off your pants to fart.

Light puppets use less magic and can be controlled remotely with mental power if used properly. But that requires full concentration and isn't flexible or comfortable. Unless it's a special situation, using a light puppet to go out while staying inside to control it remotely is basically just wasting time and magic! Light elements are already so scarce on Earth - I couldn't see any benefit or need to do this.

"Because my real body's light puppet can move on its own without control. And since it uses less magic, I can have more than one clone existing at the same time!" Seeing that we indeed raised this question, Cyrae couldn't help looking smug as she revealed more details. "Let me put it this way - this consciousness is a branch separated from the main body's consciousness! Except for occasionally needing to go back to sync information and replenish elements, I can move around completely independently without any limits. So you can treat me as a separate consciousness!"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!" I was totally confused. Did this mean the light puppet Cyrae summoned wasn't an ordinary one? Never mind that the solidity and duration of a light puppet can be adjusted by using more light elements - that's barely acceptable. But what's this about separating consciousness? I've never heard of magic like that!

"I have all the memories and personality of Cyrae from before the separation. But after separating, because this light puppet body started having completely different experiences from the main body, I'm both Cyrae and not Cyrae. You might as well call me by my clone name - Cylaren!"

By now, Cyra and I were dizzy from all these shocks, totally unable to figure out what was going on. Cylaren seemed to have expected this reaction, so she didn't mind and just kept explaining.

"After syncing today, I've heard about your descriptions of your world. You probably know that light elements have the hidden ability to communicate with spirits and souls, right? Actually, for the past thousand years, Lady Elara has been privately researching a high-level mental magic that can transfer consciousness and even transfer souls. The inspiration came from the Angel Descent Formation. Accurately speaking, this should be a specialized research area of one of the Angel Descent Formation's built-in functions."

The Angel Descent Formation again? This part I could finally relate to! From what we saw of Elara's attitude in our world, she did show great interest in the Angel Descent Formation. She even got Reed involved, although Reed's research on formations didn't seem to have much to do with spirits and souls.

"So did it succeed in the end?" Cyra couldn't help interrupting. From the looks of things, it should have succeeded.

"Unfortunately, she failed," Cylaren shook her head. "Although she didn't fully figure out how the Angel Descent Formation's principles work to transfer souls and consciousness, Elara didn't come away empty-handed after a thousand years of research. She accidentally developed a half-finished product that can separate part of her consciousness through a spiritual connection - that is, the 'Spiritual Convergence' magic - and extend it into the Spiritual Network. As for the actual use of this half-finished product, it's not that great. At most, it allows some multitasking during remote conversations, so you don't have to keep switching between reality and the Spiritual Network."