Comprehensive network wizard, magic emperor.

Chapter 241 Dragons Living in Computers

The campfire died down, and the sea breeze brushed against Linbo's face, turning into a urging voice in Gudorei, instructing the night watchman to return to the lighthouse as soon as possible to avoid catching a cold.

This is the Tower Dragon speaking to the mage. The wind and waves are its voice. It will urge the sea breeze to push Linbo's shoulders, gently leading him in the direction of home, dispelling the dark clouds in the sky so that the moonlight can illuminate the road.

This is what it means to be favored by the spirit of the world.

After a few attempts, Lin Bo realized that he only needed to enter a state of divine connection to communicate directly with the Tower Dragon, while the Tower Dragon would communicate with the mage in other ways at other times.

It is a dragon, and also the collection of all natural things in Stone Tower Town. Things with the true name in the ancient Dhorei language, such as wind, waves, water, soil, rocks, trees, humans, etc., are all its components, just like fragments of dragon scales.

Now that Lin Bo has established a clear connection with the Tower Dragon, his first thought is that he can learn new divination techniques and seek prophecies from the Tower Dragon; it will definitely not refuse him.

However, as it turns out, since it is a micro-magic world, the consciousness of the Tower Dragon is actually quite chaotic and vague, and it is not a qualified source of information for the prophecy.

Even though the Tower Dragon always responded enthusiastically without reservation, the information the mage received when seeking enlightenment from it was always ambiguous.

For example, when asked about lost valuables, the Tower Dragon replies, "It is true, but I don't know." When asked about tomorrow's weather, it replies, "It may rain, or it may be sunny."

Lin Bo had originally planned to buy another skill book on prophecy, but now he had to postpone his plans.

"I've let you down." Tazhilong's voice was always gentle and clear, but his tone was choked with emotion.

“(In magical language) Don’t be too hard on yourself,” the Night Watchman comforted it.

This is normal. The Tower Dragon is still relatively weak and has not grown enough. Besides, predicting the weather and finding lost items are not its specialties.

The Tower Dragon is adept at sensing the changes in the world and the turmoil of people's hearts, as if reading the lines on the palm of one's hand. Mages can use this to predict the rise and fall of dynasties.

Lin Bo inquired whether the construction of the waterworks in the town would proceed smoothly, and the reply was, "With the workers working together diligently, it will be completed in 21 days." He asked whether the townspeople's houses were sturdy, and the reply was, "Due to the cold winter, 60% of the population is freezing, but there are no dangerous houses for the time being." He then asked about the current state of education, and the answer was, "There is a shortage of teachers, and the children are restless."

“(In magical language) That’s amazing,” the Night Watchman praised softly.

The dragon of the tower just chuckled softly, and the sea breeze blew again, urging him to go home.

Lin Bo extinguished the campfire and began his journey back to the lighthouse, chatting casually with the dragon of the tower along the way.

After unlocking the "Endless Ritual" trait, he can enter a divine state relatively easily, requiring only a few seconds of meditation or quick activation through hand gestures.

In his divine state, he could effortlessly wield incantations and spells, which were extremely helpful in combat. After returning to the lighthouse, Lin Bo immediately began practicing hand seals and spellcasting, hoping to make his divine state a standard skill as soon as possible.

The book "The Wonderful Use of Gestures" that I bought at the time introduced a variety of hand gestures, including single-hand gestures, double-hand gestures, and complex gestures suitable for multi-armed creatures.

Lin Bo already uses many hand gestures, which makes it difficult to use one hand, so he has to choose a two-handed hand seal.

With hands clasped together in front of the chest, the right hand with its sword fingers pointing upwards forms the Heaven Seal, and the left hand with its sword fingers pointing downwards forms the Earth Seal. The wrists touching forms the Union Seal. This is a simple Heaven and Earth Seal, also known in ancient texts as the "Seal of Self and Other" or the "Seal of Unity of Heaven and Man."

Lin Bo chose it because after forming the Heaven and Earth Seal, he only needed to turn his wrist and flip his left hand sword finger upwards to activate his true self's spiritual power, which was very convenient.

After practicing for half an hour and becoming familiar with the new hand seals, he began practicing the "Mechanical Soul Destiny Calculation Manual." He was only one step away from upgrading this skill.

After entering a state of divine connection, one uses the power of words to resonate and connect their mind and body with the computer.

After a moment's thought, Lin Bo recited the true name of the Tower Dragon and activated the third-tier Word of Power.

He extended his senses into the electronic universe, and the Tower Dragon, also in a state of resonance, followed closely behind. Inside the Data Beacon, the Creator, with a pure white silhouette, sat behind a table.

"This world... is really interesting," the Tower Dragon whispered in his ear.

Lin Bo, standing in front of the computer screen, said, "(In magical language) You can create a body for yourself."

On the desktop of the data lighthouse, light converged to form a small white silkworm, which wriggled around in front of Lin Bo and spoke in Kening language.

"The morphology of insects is quite interesting. I have counted the moths hovering in the woodland and witnessed them hatching from their eggs, eating grass leaves, spinning silk to form cocoons, and metamorphosing in the pupa. Moths are also my eyes and ears."

In the information universe, communication can be achieved through speech, but in reality, it involves exchanging a string of data, which is simply expressed as voice.

Communicating in mortal language reduces the information richness compared to magical language, and the Tower Dragon's captivating vocal tone is greatly diminished, but the advantage is that ordinary people can also hear it.

Lin Bo had previously spoken with the Tower Dragon and learned that it primarily relied on various sounds in nature to perceive things, and that it remembered events through traces of time such as dust, engravings, wrinkles, and tree rings.

In the context of micro-magic, everything lacks the elements of miracles, is not clever or lively enough, and thus the world's spirit becomes dull and blind.

So the sorcerer's solution was to introduce the Tower Dragon into the electronic universe, transforming it into an intelligent life data entity, making the Lighthouse Network's servers the thinking brain, and the prosthetic seagulls the sensitive eyes and ears.

Unlike the True Name Mage, the Tower Dragon does not possess complete control over the electronic world, and its weak cognitive abilities only allow it to create the most basic data body for itself.

But the moment this white silkworm appeared, it meant that the Tower Dragon was no longer a purely spiritual entity; it possessed reality, even if it was just a string of data or a beam of orderly flowing electrons.

The white silkworm wriggled and chuckled softly, “I like this state. It makes me feel…real. Almost like you, darling.”

In the past, although the Tower Dragon could use the wind to blow the dust off Lin Bo's shoulders and the waves to gently touch his boots, these were not its physical bodies.

As a fragment of the world's spirit, it is a series of probabilities of events, the sum of historical destiny.

The wind blowing on Lin Bo's shoulder was created by the mutual disturbance and resistance of air currents in nature, producing a one in ten thousand possibility that it would emit a specific frequency at a specific speed in a specific direction. When it reached the mage's ears, it formed a word, and when it blew on him, it became a touch.

The Tower Dragon turned this one in ten thousand probability into reality, just so that Lin Bo could perceive its existence.

Even so, Lin Bo still needed to use his divine state to unconsciously integrate various subtle clues of revelation in order to truly hear the voice of the Tower Dragon.

Now, with a data entity as its avatar, Tower Dragon can communicate with Lin Bo more easily and conveniently.

Moreover, as this data avatar grows, it also nourishes its original body, making the Tower Dragon's thinking sharper, its perception more diverse, and its memory ability greatly enhanced.

Lin Bo carried the white silkworm toward the Tower of Heaven at the center of the electronic universe, eagerly anticipating the growth of the Tower Dragon.

"What should I do?" The white silkworm wriggled in the Creator's palm.

"Eat, grow, integrate, evolve. Don't worry, I'll help you through every step," Lin Bo explained.

They stood beneath the towering tree, the world before them filled with countless beings from the electronic universe, those towering intelligent life forms roaming like mountains.

"Understood, for you, my dear." The white silkworm and the tower dragon laughed brightly at the same time.

(End of this chapter)