Bizarre Realm-Chapter 213 - 30: Thought Steel Seal! Correcting the Out-of-Control! (Part 2)

The Main Brain completely controls the Heart Stealer race, serving as both the physical and spiritual core. It also acts as a living repository of the Heart Stealer’s history, experience, and ability—the true leader of the Heart Stealers, controlling numerous strange creatures with Mind Control.

——"Mind Sensing (1 kilometer): Your Spiritual Energy is greatly enhanced, granting you a one-kilometer Mind Sensing capability."

Shawn’s spiritual sensing resembles a web, capable of capturing the mind waves of all creatures within range.

"Once Mind Sensing is activated, I feel like a mind radar."

He further accesses his Spiritual World.

——"Confusion Domain[Extraordinary Domain]: As a materialized Law of the Mind Path, you can create a Confusion Domain with a diameter of one hundred meters. All creatures within this field must pass a mandatory Willpower Exemption Determination, or else be suppressed in Intelligence and Knowledge, succumbing to the effects similar to the Confusion Technique."

Not a particularly powerful domain ability.

Mainly affecting the mind, causing enemies to be unsure of what to do, being confused is essentially like having a mental crash.

The most powerful domain in the Mind Path should be the Law Power that erases intelligence and thought freezing (turning directly into a vegetative state).

"A very useful lower-tier domain."

Once Shawn activates this domain, he can plunge enemies with weaker wills into a state of bewilderment. Its essence is the Knowledge Law suppressing the opponent’s cognitive processes.

At the current stage, the Extraordinary Essence has been completely assimilated.

——Dumbing Technique (5 Ring Spell).

Shawn has mastered some new spell knowledge, but still lacks high ring spell knowledge; it seems he needs a way to seize more from stronger adversaries. He discovers that many powers of the assimilated Extraordinary Relics act on the brain.

It should be related to Su’en’s Brain.

Currently, his Extraordinary Level is——5th Level Arcanist/5th Level Mind Warlock/5th Level Arcane Spirit Master.

Totaling 15 Extraordinary Levels.

Just enough to reach the threshold of a Death Pilgrim, marking his entrance into the ranks of High Tier Caster. There are still five Extraordinary Levels required to formally begin the Path of Destiny. These last five levels nearing Legendary status should have the highest difficulty to advance, as acquiring the Extraordinary Essence necessary for ascent means seizing it from Legendary monsters.

Beginning from advancing as a High Tier Transcendent, challenging Legendary creatures beyond one’s level becomes routine; those lacking the capability to challenge never survive.

The Extraordinary Relics used for advancement are relatively rare.

Fortunately, there are many Legendary creatures in the Bizarre Realm, especially strange beings intersecting planes, most of them are Legendary Evil Objects.

"So, next, I need to saturate the Thought Mark for the Runaway."

"Until I completely embed the Thought Steel Seal."

After almost half a month of experimentation, Shawn finally tore through the mind defenses of the Runaway, converting a sliver of the Knowledge Law he possessed into substantial power to invade the Runaway’s inner Spiritual World.

Next is slowly reconstructing its self-awareness. Once completed, it should revert to a normal person.

"However, its severely distorted form may be very difficult to restore."

The Runaway’s flesh has twisted into an evil form resembling a banshee or night witch. Shawn could cleanse its mental pollution, but for the deformation of flesh, he currently has no remedy; thus, even if the Runaway is saved, its racial template is no longer human.

The next day, the Runaway was able to eat normally.

It’s slowly transitioning from a permanent madness to an unstable madness state, still hostile to everyone except Shawn. Yet, when facing Shawn, it appears incredibly docile, like a tamed Mind Servant.

It still shows severe signs of madness, such as fear, mania, hysterics, bloodthirsty desires, etc., but these negative states are disappearing one by one.

Through the Mind Link, Shawn cuts through its mental illness as if performing surgery, one slice at a time.

Time silently passes by.

Shawn began the final stage of his research work, discovering that Mind Domination, Suggestion Technique, Personality Parasite, and other Mind Control Spells can all stack a Thought Mark, but it must be done when the target is completely helpless—a state of total control—before further applying a Thought Mark.

"Enemies that can’t be Mind Controlled also can’t have a Thought Mark applied." 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

"Is this how the strange creatures enslave other races?"

In the Distant Realm, the strange creatures possess powerful enslavement capabilities, able to dominate and enslave other intelligent races. Shawn now seems to have found his own path along these lines.

"It’s said the Heart Stealers once enslaved a planet’s human subspecies, giving birth to a new race like the Gith."

"Were it not for more severe pollution, the powers of the Mind Path are indeed formidable!"

"Without the inquiry, I might have gone half insane already."

Shawn maintained a daily frequency of stacking ten Thought Marks, while beginning other research work, swiftly mastering more knowledge through Reading Magic.

Eventually, after ten days, Shawn completed his own ’Thought Steel Seal’ for the first time.

"Master!"

In the laboratory, the Runaway’s shackles were completely removed, the Curios stripping Casting Ability were unfastened too, its thoughts completely transformed. Shawn’s will reshaped its brain’s active knowledge that sparked madness.