Reincarnated as incubus: I didn't mean to seduce you!

When a Mechanical Mage takes office, they are continuously fed with knowledge based on the strength of their Intelligence Attributes, until their brain can no longer absorb the related memory in the short term. At that point, the "fuse" of the Memory Crystal is triggered, interrupting the input.

And with that, the transfer of a Mechanical Mage is concluded.

It can be said without reservation that the higher your Intelligence Attributes at the time of transferring to a Mechanical Mage, the more knowledge you can absorb—thus breezing past the most troublesome learning threshold and possessing the most basic combat abilities of a Mechanical Mage.

If a person's Intelligence Attributes are sufficiently strong, and they themselves are quite talented, then the amount of knowledge they can absorb is even greater, naturally starting from a higher point.

Theoretically, if there were a monster with both extremely high Intelligence Attributes and native intellect, it would have the chance to absorb all the knowledge within...

Kael was just that, although he had the aid of a cheat.

But the problem now was, he had always misunderstood something: he was comparing the situation of native residents using Memory Cores to that of gamers.

How do Mechanical Mages acquire the related occupational skills when they take office?

For the natives, as long as they absorbed enough knowledge of Mechanical Mages, they could naturally combine this knowledge to form an array of fascinating occupational skills.

This aspect was quite unfriendly to gamers.

At the end of the day, gamers could never receive the memories infused by the Memory Crystal.

After all, to gamers, the Underworld Gates is nothing but a game.

If adding points to intelligence in the game can increase a gamer's intellect, then the first thing for the Human Federation's regional powers to do would be to let all players enter the game, and then just carry out education and scientific research within the game's environment.

All Attributes could be saved and added to intelligence, creating an era where everyone is extremely smart, an age of dragons among men!

However, in reality, no matter how many points players added to their Intelligence Attributes, they wouldn't feel smarter, just more directly aware of their increased spellcasting power.

Similarly, if the Memory Core could directly transfer memories to a player's brain, then the first thing the Human Federation would do is to cram all related knowledge of the Human Federation into the Memory Core, ensuring everyone takes on the role of a Mechanical Mage.

In that case, the day one becomes a Mechanical Mage would be the day when illiteracy is eradicated from the world.

But in fact... clearly that is impossible to achieve.

The power of Mechanical Mages comes from that knowledge, and players who cannot carry this knowledge can only ever draw an imperceptible smidgen of skills from the interface when transferring to a Mechanical Mage, with most of the knowledge going to waste.

It is for these reasons that Kael had a misunderstanding about taking office as a Mechanical Mage.

He also understood the core reason for the eventual cut-off of the heritage.

Due to the interruption of the transmission of knowledge, the top-tier Memory Crystals made by the goblin empire can no longer be manufactured.

The Memory Crystals used by subsequent generations of Mechanical Mages are either General Crystal Stones excavated from the ruins of the goblin empire or low-grade crystals they have recreated.

Such crystals can carry so little knowledge and skills that they quickly become bland and uninteresting just as they start to emerge in the minds of the initiates.

When the amount of knowledge one possesses at the start is insufficient, it means the starting point for Mechanical Mages has been lowered.

For many geniuses, the knowledge drawn from Memory Crystals at the time of initiation could be increased by tenfold.

Now, they need to spend much more time traversing paths they wouldn't have needed to, and due to the collapse of the goblin empire, Magic Technology and Alchemy Technology have been fragmented and scattered among various nations, leaving incomplete systems.

This series of conditions will directly lead to later generations of Mechanical Mages becoming increasingly weakened. Some exceptionally talented individuals who can innovate and forge new paths may still find their way even without one.

But for the vastly more numerous ordinary Mechanical Mages, there is no other choice.

Now, the Memory Crystal that Kael holds is equivalent to the most precious jewel of the goblin empire's twilight era.

Although in its waning days, before the goblin empire was completely destroyed, the knowledge recorded in their Memory Crystals would still be more and more refined than during their peak.

This is the inevitable result set by an era of spiraling ascendance.

He recalled once again Dr. Osborne's expression of surprise tinged with a hint of disappointment when he heard Kael's words rejecting the initiation as a Mechanical Mage.

It was as if a subordinate had eagerly brought his best treasure to him, looking at Kael with bright eyes and saying:

"BOSS, look, this is the finest jewel in Wandong City, the most supreme treasure for us (Mechanical Mages)!"

Then Kael glanced at it and said indifferently, "Oh, take it back."

That was, to some extent, demoralizing, and Kael could even imagine that Osborne must be starting to suspect whether the Magic Technology of the goblin empire had completely fallen behind the world.

At this thought, a faint smile appeared on his somewhat stiff expression.