Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 298 Magical Clash

The guy hiding in Wheeler's head can trick Murphy when he uses Legilimency, and Murphy can naturally use the mental pathways established by Legilimency to fight back.

The moment the incantation was cast, Murphy's consciousness suddenly connected with another consciousness.

Shock, bewilderment, and a hint of fear—these emotions, like clouds scattered across the sky of consciousness, are impossible to ignore.

Murphy paused for a moment, then his figure materialized in the void, and he laughed, "Ragnar, you're scared."

The moment Murphy made contact with the other's consciousness, he knew the other's identity. He was indeed the fairy king Ragnar from a thousand years ago, as he had guessed.

"Damn it!" Ragnar roared.

The void of color in the consciousness space suddenly transformed into a wasteland, where countless fairies appeared, raising battle flags adorned with the heads of various creatures and wielding crude axes, sickles, daggers, and other weapons. At a glance, there were thousands upon thousands of them.

These goblins were nothing like the well-dressed bankers in Gringotts. Most of them were emaciated and wore only a tattered loincloth. Their weapons were also a motley collection, clearly not well-trained soldiers.

"Foolish wizard!" In the sky, the clouds coalesced into a gigantic goblin face. "You're courting death by intruding into someone else's mind!"

"Here, I am a god!"

"My power is boundless here. I will devour your soul, and you will become my puppet, just like Wheeler and the others."

Oh?

It seems the other party is also aware of the consequences of this kind of mental connection.

He seems to have done this kind of thing quite a few times before.

In order to perfect his theory of mental pathways, Murphy had already deduced the ultimate form of "domain" confrontation, or mental battle.

In his deduction, two different and incompatible mental singularities will inevitably tear apart and merge once they get close enough.

Just like two real singularities in the physical world.

Since both sides are absolute, the contradictions that arise at the boundary of their territories must end with "one absolute" defeating "the other absolute".

Since the mental singularity is the core of will, this inevitably leads to the complete collapse of the other party's will.

Once this kind of battle begins, it cannot end until a life-or-death struggle is decided.

As soon as Ragnar finished speaking, a horn sounded, and countless goblins roared and charged toward Murphy.

Murphy looked at the horde of goblins surging towards him like a tide, but felt no fear whatsoever.

Is this the fairy from back then?

Is this what they call the fairy kingdom?

Isn't this just the goblin, the kind of monster you often see in games?

Speaking of which, they are indeed called goblins (the word "fairy" is a literal translation, while "goblin" is a phonetic translation).

"However, in the war of minds, wasting so much computing power to create these useless puppets is just asking for trouble."

Murphy snorted coldly, and in an instant, a beam of light extended from in front of him, connecting to the throne at the very center of the fairy army.

The next instant, Murphy suddenly appeared before the throne. He stretched out his hand, and his magic, which had been tuned to the same frequency as the other party's magic wavelength but completely opposed to it, extended out. In an instant, he turned half of the fairy's face on the throne into nothingness.

"As expected." Murphy understood when he saw that the attack had worked.

This is the realm of mental imagery, the domain of consciousness; thinking in the physical world won't work here.

The only real thing here is the magic of the mental dimension—or what we might call spiritual power.

He had just used his own mental power to counteract the opponent's mental power through reverse interference, which is the only way in the realm of consciousness that can truly cause direct harm.

"Ah!" Ragnar suddenly let out a scream.

"Why, why could you hurt me?!"

Ragnar was so shocked he was almost going crazy.

This is his mental imagery space, and it belongs to him.

He is like a god here, able to control everything in this space.

In his understanding, it was impossible to directly harm the consciousness itself here.

The only things that can be used in battle are mental energy, thoughts, beliefs, ideas, concepts, intentions, and memories.

Normally, he would create this field and then create those fairy soldiers. As long as his will remains, he can recreate any number of those fairy soldiers, no matter how many are killed.

He would use this method to exhaust and make doubts arise in any opponent who was pulled into his mental space, thereby creating more illusions and gradually crushing their spirit, ultimately defeating them.

This was a tactic that had always worked for him.

In this way, he absorbed the souls of many descendants of the Brin family, turning them into puppets that he could control at will.

But Murphy was not fooled at all and immediately launched a direct attack on his will.

How did he manage to do that?!

"Mental dimension magic is still magic," Murphy said expressionlessly. "Magic is just waves, and waves can interfere with each other. Eliminating magic is nothing to make a fuss about."

Ragnar couldn't understand.

What waves? What interference? What are these things?

He tried desperately to break free from Murphy's grasp, but his head seemed glued to Murphy's hand, and he couldn't shake it off no matter what he did.

This is the phenomenon of "mental stickiness".

Once two psychic singularities get close enough, they can't break free. This is why Murphy uses this method of attack. He doesn't know the location of the opponent's main body. If Ragnar gets scared and tries to run away, he doesn't know where to chase him.

"You're insane! You're insane!" Ragnar realized the situation was dire. Watching his body slowly disappear, he suddenly understood. "You're using your magic to drain my magic!?"

"You want to die with me?"

He looked at Murphy, and sure enough, Murphy's will was weakening as it harmed him, and at the same rate as his.

The coherence of waves is bidirectional. When you cancel out someone else's magic, your own magic is also canceled out, and the consumption of both sides is even exactly the same.

"You will lose! You will lose!" Ragnar shouted.

He had already absorbed and devoured the souls of many descendants of the Brin family, and his total magical power was much greater than that of an ordinary wizard.

"Oh."

Murphy sneered, completely ignoring him, and the speed at which their mental energies clashed and annihilated each other suddenly accelerated.

Having been tricked by Ragnar before, he knew that the other party's mental strength was enormous.

But he was already prepared.

At this moment, he has the heads of three thousand corrupt officials in the Soviet Union as a computing power pool. The Seed of Mind virus is controlling their brains. On the one hand, it relieves Murphy of the computing power pressure brought by the frequency modulation of the Raven Array antenna through distributed computing. On the other hand, it can also gather the mental magic generated by this and transmit it back through the Seed of Mind network.

Therefore, in theory, Murphy has the spiritual power of three thousand souls that he could use to counter Ragnar.

With 3,000 spare batteries at hand, you think you can compete with me on battery life?

(End of this chapter)