Bizarre Realm

Mechanical Heart. Mind Academy.

Pandora’s figure floats at a height of twenty centimeters above the ground, seemingly like a ghost drifting towards the academy’s marble-built high tower.

Behind her is a group of somewhat strange-looking Lost Star Folk, whose appearances slightly differ from normal humans. Some of them have already grown hair, but some have completely gone bald due to genetic mutation, with all their hair follicles atrophied. The Lost Star Folk are easily recognizable; their heads are massive, with a diameter roughly 1.5 times that of normal humans, but their limbs are incredibly slender and elongated, resembling elves but actually weaker. With their innate racial attributes, it’s difficult for them to become competent warriors.

The Mechanical Heart has accepted over three hundred Lost Star Folk, the majority of whom are born with intelligence scores above 16. These people have naturally indifferent emotions as if they have emotional disorders, and their cognition of the outside world is different from normal humans. They are accustomed to following orders, adhering flawlessly to the arrangements of the Number 1 Sealed Object, and they ravenously absorb knowledge and power.

Among them, two-thirds are advanced in the path of Mind Sorcery, while one-third are advanced in the path of Mage.

"There should be a teacher’s class today."

Beside Pandora floats a crystal-like light sphere. She touches it with mind sensing and quickly heads to the high tower’s auditorium.

— "Advanced Metamagic Specialization."

Usually, courses for the Lost Star Folk are taught by other spiritual energy schools’ teachers. Sometimes it’s the versatile Ant Folk, sometimes it’s a Heart Stealer named Shawn, and sometimes a mind sorcerer from the Realm of Reality. Only for the most important classes does Shawn’s incarnation spare time to give a lecture.

The Lost Star Folk advance very quickly.

The entire Bizarre Realm is a resource-stacked realm for transcendents. As long as there are enough resources and curios, and one’s will is strong enough, crossing tiers swiftly is possible. The biggest hurdle is at high tier and legendary levels, due to facing severe pollution and challenges on the Path of Destiny.

"Almost all the current knowledge has been mastered."

Pandora’s figure lightly touches the ground, habitually using this to exercise her mastery of spiritual energy. However, due to lack of physical activity, her constitution remains extremely frail, with little change even when upgrading to transcendent.

"It’s time to visit the Spirit Library to download new knowledge."

Mind path courses don’t have many books for teaching. One of the core ways to master new abilities is by downloading new knowledge content from the Spirit Library. In a sense, Shawn is already infinitely close to a main brain’s ascended demigod, as his vast mind energy encompasses the entire half-plane, allowing other spiritual energy beings to gain knowledge by contacting his enormous spirit body.

Pandora found her seat.

She gently lifts a finger, dropping a peculiar crystal jar onto the desk.

— "Portable Brain Aid (Spiritual Wondrous Object) [Personal Terminal Aid]: The Portable Brain Aid is an organ the size of a walnut extracted from a main brain (elder brain) body, placed in a crystal full of mucus. This brain tissue is a living organism, which can be worn around the neck as a necklace or simply carried by its owner.

The Portable Brain Aid is nominally conscious.

It contains a small portion of the main brain’s knowledge and can answer questions through mind sensing.

If the Portable Brain Aid’s holder has mind sensing capabilities, they can communicate with the Portable Brain Aid and utilize its knowledge. A Portable Brain Aid will possess part of the abilities of corresponding main and elder brain in particular knowledge skills, allowing the holder to make judgments as if they themselves possess these knowledge skills.

In addition to storing information from the main brain, the Portable Brain Aid can also record information injected by its holder. If held by a creature with mind sensing, it can record everything the holder sees, hears, and perceives.

Heart Stealer spies often carried Portable Brain Aids so that when they returned to their community, the main brain could perfectly learn everything the spy encountered without any omission or misunderstanding."

Not all apprentices have this kind of spiritual energy personal aid terminal. Strictly speaking, it is also a symbol of status, carried only by a select few.

Automatic Writing Pen, Emotional Resonance Stone, Spirit Seal, and so on.

Pandora arranged her personal items, then sat quietly, waiting for the teacher’s appearance.

In her spare time, she would continuously use mind communication to converse with the Portable Brain Aid beside her, like carrying an incomplete old grandfather, able to exchange knowledge with high tier and legendary level main brain at any time.

Lost Star Folk apprentices on the arcane path are very envious of this, as they need rituals to enter the Spirit Library to learn and download.

Unknown time has passed.

A figure appeared out of nowhere in front of the long table. Shawn’s incarnation let out a light cough, and his gaze fell on Pandora, soon causing the young girl to put down the Portable Brain Aid, sitting properly with the posture of serious listening.

"Ahem."

"Today we discuss the application of metamagic specialization."

Shawn was projecting the incarnation of an incarnation, a demigod incarnation executing the projection technique, a mind sorcerer with a casting level around 20. His gaze swept across the present apprentices, most of whom were Lost Star Folk, but there were also ordinary people from the Realm of Reality. They instinctively sat apart, maintaining a certain distance from the Lost Star Folk, as normal people found the Lost Star Folk eccentric and aloof. They rarely communicated internally, as if having personality disorders.