The two people hugged each other and finally calmed down. Tasia said to Xiao Chen: "Thank you. It is very important for me to meet Belia."
"Nothing. We can almost take our seats. If you wait too long, I, the chef, will get anxious." Xiao Chen said with a smile.
After everyone was seated, Xiao Chen continued, "I let Belia take the risk and come in today so that both of you can feel at ease. But more importantly, I invited an expert to identify the condition of Tashia's soul. This feast that I prepared with all my efforts is the reward I promised her."
He introduced the blue-haired woman to Tashia: "She is the spirit of the Dream Tower's sacred book, the Sea of Consciousness Shadow Scroll, and an expert on the soul. I asked her to diagnose your condition."
"I am no longer a book spirit. I have my own name: Xiao Mu, Xiao of Xiaochen, and Mu of morning and dusk."
Seeing that everyone turned their attention to him, Xiao Chen said, "Don't get me wrong, this is the name she gave herself the day before yesterday. It has nothing to do with me. She wasn't like this before. She was a big, burly man."
Xiao Mu covered her mouth and chuckled. There was no trace of the big man on her body. She looked Tasia up and down and said, "You saved such a broken soul. Even I have to admire you. She has accompanied the mages of the Dream Tower for so many years. She is the most miserable spirit servant I have ever seen."
"Spirit servant? What does that mean?" Xiao Chen asked puzzledly.
"Since the meditation space can accommodate human souls, how could the Dream Tower mages of generations not have thought of your idea? Those powerful mages often collect the souls of volunteers and place them in their own meditation space. This is the spirit servant.
These spirit servants are different from the mage's own creations. They have their own memories, thoughts and skills, and are very good helpers to the mage. As long as the methods recorded in "The True Form of the Fantasy World" are used, they can be put into reality to fight for the mage. "
"What's going on? How could Miss Tasia become a summoned servant!" Belia asked with a sullen face.
"Don't be like this, Belia. I believe Xiao Chen doesn't know these things." Tasia held her arm. "Ms. Xiao Mu, why would someone be willing to become a spirit servant? What kind of constraints does this have on them?"
"It's a proud thing to be a follower of the great Dream Tower Wizard. What's more, most of these people are on the verge of death, just like you. Becoming a spirit servant is equivalent to prolonging their lives. Some people do this while they are in good health, and the reasons are varied. Don't you humans always have various reasons for doing things? Just like you, you had to accompany Xiao Chen as bait, which is why you ended up where you are today." Xiao Mu pointed at Tasya, holding a roasted leg of lamb in his hand.
"You are so unreasonable." Belia shouted.
"She's telling the truth. I've been thinking about it all day. If I could go back to that rainy night and choose again, I would still come." Tasya said.
Xiao Mu didn't care about Belia's dissatisfaction at all. She continued, "As for the constraints, the spirit servants are attached to the meditation space, so the magician naturally has a strong control over them, and can even give them life and death. Once the meditation space cuts off the supply of spirit servants, those souls will soon dry up."
"Miss, this is terrible." Belia said.
"But your situation seems a little different." Xiao Mu stretched out a hand and placed it on Tasia's arm. She sensed it for a while and said, "You are not Xiao Chen's subordinate, but a part of him."
"A part of me?" Xiao Chen asked in surprise.
"When she joined in, her soul must have been about to collapse, and you used your own power to repair her. This allowed your spiritual powers to finally connect together. In the past, those mages would never give the authority to control their spiritual powers to the spirit servants. But in the process of repairing the soul, you allowed her to gain some authority. Even if she didn't become half a master, she at least became a steward of this world.
Now you two are like two workshops sharing the same warehouse. Although you are doing your own work, in fact all the materials come from the same source and can be used.
So you can say that you have included her, but you can also say that she has included you. Tasia is now like an autonomous, independent super-distracted person.”
"Are you saying that our connection has become too close?" Xiao Chen asked.
"That's right. You are now in a state where you are in me and I am in you. It is difficult to separate you."
After hearing this conclusion, Tasia didn't say anything, but Belia was anxious, "Then can the young lady still get out of here?"
Xiao Mu said: "At least not recently. Only when she becomes very powerful and can separate the part of her soul related to Xiao Chen, can she truly leave here."
"That means there is still hope." Belia sighed.
"But it's meaningless to just leave here. She must be able to enter another body. The human soul is different from a weapon spirit like me. I was born to enter various carriers, so I have strong adaptability from the beginning. But the human soul is shaped by its own physical conditions. It is closely related to its original body from the beginning. It takes a lot of luck to find a body with a high degree of fit."
Xiao Chen had not expected the situation to be so complicated, and Tasia didn't know what to say. She was silent for a long time to sort out her thoughts, and finally sighed; "I didn't expect my situation to be so different."
"Because a spirit servant like you and a master like him are extremely rare. I have never seen a spirit servant of a mid-level wizard, let alone one that can share so much power with the master."
"Why?" Tasya asked.
"Because it can't fit. The mage's spiritual power is too great, and as a spiritual servant, it will overwhelm the receiver's meditation space: in layman's terms, it will burst. Therefore, most spiritual servants are warriors, who have both combat power and do not take up space."
"Then Xiao Chen..." Tasia looked at him worriedly.
"You don't have to worry about this. Didn't you see that Xiao Chen's meditation space is so vast? Do you think we are crowded in this world? It won't be a problem if we have ten or twenty more people?"
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Coming out of Xiao Chen's meditation world, Belia looked pale as if she had suffered a serious illness. She stood up from the sofa and said to Xiao Chen, "Sir Xiao Chen, this matter is of great importance. I must go back and contact the Alonso family immediately."
"That's natural."
"Please take good care of Miss Tashia during the days I'm away. After all, everything she has suffered is caused by you," said Belia.
"I will."
After Belia left, Xiao Mu, who was sitting on another sofa with his legs crossed, looked at Xiao Chen's worried look with interest and said, "I've asked around. The Alonso family is known for protecting their shortcomings. I think you're in big trouble again."