Chapter 149: Mental Partition [bonus]
Regulus descended to the second basement level, the small dedicated training room where he'd practiced Fiendfyre over the Easter holiday.
From inside his robes he drew a book: Advanced Occlumency: Cognitive Structures and Defense Strategies, pulled from the family's private collection.
He needed the mental partitioning technique.
The goal was to split his consciousness into two independent segments, each governing one Fiendfyre bird without interference from the other. Occlumency contained the relevant methods.
Advanced Occlumency went far beyond repelling external intrusion. It encompassed constructing mental labyrinths, fabricating false memories, and dividing the mind into isolated zones.
His earlier practice had focused exclusively on defense. Now it was time to pivot toward partition.
He opened the book to the chapter on consciousness segmentation.
The theory was straightforward enough. Imagine the mind as a great hall containing multiple rooms. Normally, all thoughts flowed freely through the hall, mingling together. The purpose of segmentation was to lock each room, confining specific thoughts to specific spaces, preventing any cross-contamination.
Simple to describe. Far harder to execute.