Chapter 22：Sea of Consciousness (2/2)

After bringing out the orb, Jeremy placed it at the top center of the 'staff' that was being left empty until now.

Then he checked every nook and cranny of the 'staff' to see if there was anything missing or being misplaced or not.

*Fwuuu...*

When he realized that there was nothing wrong with the 'staff', Jeremy exhaled a long breath of cold air.

Then Jeremy thought ponderingly to himself while taking a deep look at the 'staff', 'Now, the last thing to do is to set up an Enchantment Diagram for this staff, then inscript the runes on the diagram. Hmmm... It seems like the first stage of Enchantment won't be anywhere nearly enough to fuse those pieces together.'

'That makes it the second stage then... A bit hard with my current soul strength, but with the help of my sea of consciousness, it should be somewhat possible.'

'Alright, from the looks of it, around 30-31 mL of mana fluid should be enough. But... which diagram will be best for this staff?'

Jeremy, who had been thinking until this point, started to consider about the resources he currently had, and what enchantment method to be used.

Even after thinking for sometime, he still couldn't come up with the best diagram for the 'staff'.

So, he decided to sit down on the spot and closed his eyes preparing to do meditation.

Not long after, he entered into a meditating state of which, right after that, he tried to access into his sea of consciousness.

Actually, a sea of consciousness's main function was to govern one's mind. It was clearly different from soul strength that was closely related to one's will.

It could be said that, the body was the outer layer of a person. Then within one's body, there situated a sea of consciousness that directly influenced a person's mind. Lastly, at the center of the sea of consciousness, there was something called 'soul' residing there which was the source of a person's will.

A sea of consciousness could also act as the first layer of defense for a person's mind and soul. It could also be used to observe the internal and external world of a person of which would be increased accordingly with higher cultivation or higher class.

For those reasons alone, a person's sea of consciousness must be as strong as their body and soul if not stronger to protect the person's achilles heel, the soul.

That meant, even if a person's personal strength was heaven defying, but their sea of consciousness was weak, that person might be easily killed by a weaker cultivator or class with stronger soul and sea of consciousness.

That's why, most of the time, a sea of consciousness could only be accessed by high ranked classes. Only those higher ranked classes had the privilege of attacking and invading others' mind and soul with only some few exceptions for certain races and classes.

In Jeremy's case, it was somewhat different from others. In his past life, he had accessed into his sea of consciousness when he reached a Class 3 Grand Mage. Meanwhile, other people had to struggle to access into their sea of consciousness even after they reached a Class 4 of their respective pathway.

However...

In this life, Jeremy could already enter into his sea of consciousness since when he had tried to breakthrough into an Apprentice Mage stage. It happened at the time when his mind and body were completely exhausted that he achieved a breakthrough.

As for the reason why he never bothered to enter into his sea of consciousness was because, there was no need to access into it at all. Because right now, his sea of consciousness was very small, and it couldn't be used to attack anyone.

At most, it could only be used to defend against a mild mind strike, search his dormant memories, and also scan a small area around himself with his mind sense that was directly related to his sea of consciousness.

Let's come back to the current situations...

As of now, Jeremy was sitting cross-legged while doing meditation.

Not long after, he...