Deep sleep helps restore mental strength and maintain sufficient physical energy.
The jackals howled in the forest all night. In this way, they put pressure on the half-elf professionals and did not allow them to have a good rest. During the day, the half-elves would be dizzy and sleepy, and their combat effectiveness would inevitably vary.
of reduction.
Realizing that the Orc Bone Collector was about to launch an attack soon, the half-elf professionals really couldn't sleep. They also understood the importance of recharging their energy, but except for Hack and Wiltok, the others could only do
Close your eyes and rest your mind.
Huck has mastered the Heart of the Mirror. He can now sleep whenever he wants, and it is deep sleep, which can also be called hibernation.
In a sense, hibernation is a magical skill.
Now Huck only needs to rest for 3 or 4 hours a day to ensure that he is full of energy throughout the day. He will also repair physical and mental damage during sleep. Not only can he slow down aging and extend his life, he can also do more work every day than ordinary people.
He has a few hours of free time. Over time, his life span is twice that of an ordinary half-elf.
Wiltok has not mastered the Heart of Realm yet, but the Golden Toad Secret Form itself has a dormant effect and goes deep into the realm of the soul. Now he has the "Dream Arena", and the flow of time is ten times that of the outside world. Everyone else is sleeping
time, he can spend more time in the "Dream Arena", thinking, learning, training, and accepting challenges.
Thanks to the last successful trial, Wiltok's mental attributes recovered from 4 points to 13 points. It's like he got the key. Now he can freely enter and exit the dream arena and will no longer be trapped in the dream. If from reality
From the perspective of explaining it, Wiltok has only 4 points of mental attributes left. He is a vegetative person who has been in a coma for a long time and cannot wake up on his own. When his mental attributes reach 13 points, he can freely control his spiritual dreams through the dormancy of the golden toad's secret form.
Psychic dreams belong to the realm of surreality and are connected to the ocean of pan-consciousness. However, the extraordinary beings who master psychic dreams do not dare to directly extract the spiritual thoughts of all living beings from the ocean of pan-consciousness like Wiltok.
Although this can enhance one's spiritual strength, it also carries a significant risk of contaminating the soul.
In the past few days, Wiltok has been idle every night, and today is no exception. His companions saw him sleeping deeply as usual, but in fact he was undergoing a difficult trial in the "Dream Arena".
"The following is the fifth round of the second trial. Challenger Wiltok, are you ready?"
In the center of the dream arena, the mythical three-headed lizard Portanos stared at Wiltok with three pairs of jewel-like eyes. The body made of smoke seemed much thicker than last time, but his eyes and tone of voice
Still lacking spirituality.
Wiltok rubbed his cheek vigorously, adjusted his mentality, and gritted his teeth and said: "I'm ready!"
"The challenger decided to accept the trial. His opponent is Huo, the King of Jackals from an unknown place."
"The jackal Huo once left his own traces in the world. He is in an important period of life transformation and has just awakened the power of the storm deep in his blood."
"This must be a wonderful game, let's wait and see who is the final winner!"
Portanos's smoky body quickly faded, and the shadow of a jackal gradually turned into reality, right opposite Vertok.
It has a thin body, gray fur covered with mottled scars, and a round ear is missing from the coyote's head. It looks like a weak and weak body, but it exudes a powerful and wild aura. This third-level ferocious jackal's
His left paw was holding a strange knife polished with a giant rhinoceros horn, and his pale green eyes kept turning in his sockets, looking alert and confused, as if he was wondering why he suddenly came to this strange place.
The Dream Arena was empty and flat, with no place to hide. The gnoll Huo's eyes naturally fell on Wiltok.
It didn't recognize the humanoid creature in front of it at all, but Wiltok also held a horn weapon in his hand, and it was almost exactly the same as its weapon.
It is impossible for the jackal Huo to mistake the rhinoceros horn knife he polished with his own hands, because the texture of each rhino horn is unique. What's more, it also left its own claw marks on the hand of the rhinoceros horn knife.
Hook was even more confused. He remembered that he had slept in a cave before. When he opened his eyes, he found that he was in a strange and strange place. The humanoid creature opposite was still holding its rhinoceros horn knife.
Then what happened to the rhino-horn knife in his hand?
The jackal raised his paw, looked at his favorite weapon in confusion, then turned to look at Wiltok, and asked curiously and nervously: "What is this place? Who are you?"
The jackal language was meaningless barking in Vertok's ears, and he walked over slowly. Huao's eyes narrowed, and he immediately leaned down, bared his sharp teeth, and let out a threatening roar from the depths of his throat.
Grow.
Vertok immediately stopped, relaxed his body, and faced off with the Jackal for a while. Until Huao released his alert posture, his eyes became curious again, and he leaned forward slowly.
Huao is suspicious by nature and very vigilant, but Vertok's confusing behavior made it confused. The key is that the ferocious jackal's wild intuition did not prompt the danger, and it was confused in mind, so it adopted a wait-and-see attitude.
When Vertok takes two steps forward, it takes one step back; when Vertok walks faster, it assumes an attack posture, threatening the opponent not to come closer.
The Jackal and Vertok went back and forth for a long time. When it became impatient, Vertok suddenly dropped the rhino-horn knife in his hand to its feet and took half a step back.
Hook slowly lowered his body, but kept his eyes on Wiltok, sniffing the rhino-horn knife with his sensitive nose, and actually smelled his own scent from it.
The lean and capable Gnoll couldn't help but pick up the rhinoceros-horn knife and compare it with the knife in his hand. Wiltok slipped forward without moving his shoulders or bending his legs, and instantly moved in front of the Gnoll.
Hu Ao's reaction was extremely fast. The hair on his back exploded. He kicked off his hind legs hard and counterattacked. He raised two almost identical rhinoceros horn knives and aimed them at Vertok's face. The attack was swift and fierce.
However, the jackal was kicked in the chest by Wiltok and flew backwards for more than ten meters. He rolled several times on the smooth and flat ground before getting up again.
But just as it stood firm, it discovered that Vertok had already rushed in front of it. Just as Huao was about to fight back, he was kicked in the crotch by Vertok. He staggered back and was hit by a violent storm.
Vertok beat the gnoll violently, leaving it dazed and unable to parry. However, the body of the ferocious gnoll was extremely tough, and not even a single bone was broken. It barked angrily and fought back desperately based on instinct.
Unfortunately, Hook's counterattack was ineffective. He simply threw away the rhinoceros horn and sharp knife, scratched and swung it with his claws, and gnawed and bit with his mouth.
Vertok possesses the original method of all things and has superb martial arts. The jackal with sharp teeth and claws fights by instinct and is no match for him. He beat him into a beast, crawling on all fours and running around on the ground.
Hu Ao was very depressed and panicked. It found that its abilities could not be used at all. The bloodthirsty power it was proud of and the storm bloodline it had just mastered were all silenced. Even its wild intuition could not be used, otherwise it would not be able to use it.
Will be beaten so badly by Vertok.
However, Wiltok's unarmed attack did not cause much damage to the ferocious gnoll. It was not painful for him to hit the gnoll, and the gnoll basically could not hit him. The battle between the two sides entered a stalemate.
A competition of physical fitness.
This is exactly the situation Wiltok always wanted to create.
For three days, Vertok slept for an average of three hours every night. In the Dream Arena, three hours was stretched to thirty hours. As a contestant, the ferocious jackal Huo met Vertok for the first time.
What it doesn't know is that Wiltok has actually fought it more than two hundred times.
Vertok took the initiative to choose the Jackals as his opponents in the second trial in the Dream Arena. He was originally unwilling to conduct the Dream Trial in the wild, but the ghost of the Jackals following them persisted, prompting Vertok to hurry up as soon as possible.
Improve your abilities, especially your ability to deal with gnolls.
The Dream Arena extracted the incomplete thoughts of the Jackal King Huo from the ocean of pan-consciousness, and shaped its different stages into Vertok's trial opponent.
The gnolls are indeed much stronger than the goblins, but Wiltok is not a weakling now. He fought against the gnoll Huao for more than a hundred times at different stages, and finally defeated him. The rhinoceros-horned knife was used after winning the third round.
The loot he captured from Huo.
Vertok's martial arts skills became more and more proficient, and his understanding of the Jackal Huo became deeper. However, just when he was full of confidence, he was stuck in the fifth round.
During this period, Huao had reached a turning point to escape from the slump and reach its peak. Not only did it complete the violent transformation, but by chance, it also awakened the rare bloodline of the storm and initially mastered the power of wind.
Facing the jackal who activated his bloodthirsty power and was surrounded by air currents, Wiltok was instantly killed by the opponent as soon as he made a move. Just because Huao's speed was so fast that he could not react at all.
Fortunately, Wiltok can fail countless times in the Dream Arena and constantly learn lessons. He only needs to win once to obtain the victory reward of the second trial.
In the fifth round, after being killed by Hu Ao 55 times, Wiltok was not discouraged. He knew that the Dream Arena selected Hu Ao as a contestant, so he had every chance to defeat him with his current strength.
Through observation and reflection, Wiltok discovered that the Jackals had a very powerful hidden talent, which could be called "Despair".
When the jackal Huo is in a desperate situation, he will fully unleash his potential, become immune to all negative emotions, immune to pain, temporarily enhance his mental strength, completely liberate his bloodthirsty power and storm blood, and his actions will not be affected by air resistance.
The movement speed and attack speed are increased by 300%, and the burst of 20% additional power is increased. Even if Wiltok has gained some advantages, the crazed Hook can still kill him in one confrontation.
In a normal fight, the outcome of life and death is often determined at the moment of contact between the two parties.
The bloodthirsty talent of the gnolls has serious sequelae. After a few minutes of the bloodthirsty effect ends, they will fall into mental confusion caused by hunger for flesh and blood, their physical strength will decline rapidly, and they may even die suddenly.
Because his speed was overwhelmed by his opponent, Vertok could not survive Huao's weakening stage of mental confusion and physical exhaustion.
Wiltok also discovered that Huo at this period was only a third-level ferocious gnoll. It could not actively use its bloodthirsty talent and storm bloodline unless its desperate talent was triggered!
Therefore, Wiltok changed his strategy and kept hinting that he only wanted to beat Hook up severely instead of killing him.
Wiltok tried his best to restrain his murderous intention, lower his own strength, and fight Hook with his bare hands using only his superb martial arts, intending to first wear down its fighting will and physical strength, and then finally kill him.
Martial arts are about the weak defeating the strong. Hu Ao, the king of jackals, has never seen the mystery of martial arts in his life. Just like a simple side kick, Wiltok can use the reaction force of the ground to kick Hu Ao out.
More than ten meters away. Of course, this requires long-term practice to master all the techniques of side kicking.
The same goes for other types of martial arts.
Half-elf professionals with superb martial arts can often easily defeat alien orcs and half-orcs who are more talented and powerful as long as they are not crushed by their opponents.
The ferocious gnoll's body was naturally strong, but Huao didn't know martial arts at all, so he was beaten to pieces by Vertok.
Wiltok's fists and kicks do not pose a life-threatening danger to it, so it will not trigger the combat intuition in the wild intuition talent, as well as the terrifying "desperate situation" talent.
Vertok deliberately suppressed his actual level and also lowered Hook's combat effectiveness.
Of course, this is not advisable in real combat. You can hit your opponent multiple times and he can withstand it. He only needs to hit you once and you may not be able to stand it. But in the Dream Arena, Wiltok has the right to
Make numerous attempts.
Despite this, Vertok was already scarred and out of breath, and the speed and strength of his attacks were significantly reduced.
Huao felt the weakness of his opponent, and he rushed towards Vertok with a ferocious smile, raised his claws and swung hard at his opponent's face.
It's now!
A bright light flashed in Vertok's eyes. He slid sideways and locked Hu Ao's arm, stimulating the surge of talent. His basic strength increased by 40%, his physical strength was fully restored, and the wounds on his body healed quickly, and he twisted again.
With a click, Hu Ao's arm was broken.
Under extreme panic, the ferocious gnoll's potential was fully activated, his eyes turned red due to congestion, his body expanded twice, and he entered a bloodthirsty state.
Unfortunately, it was too late.
Vertok tightly wrapped around the ferocious Gnoll, first breaking its right arm, then pressing his knee against the Gnoll's lumbar spine, leaving it unable to exert any force, and then smashed Huao's back with a ferocious elbow.
Then turn its head to 180 degrees.
Even though its neck was broken, the tenacious jackal was still alive, but it completely lost its ability to move. It could only cry out and watch helplessly as Wiltok picked up the rhinoceros horn knife and pierced its head.
After killing Vertok dozens of times, the jackal Huo finally died in Vertok's hands.
The gnoll's body turned into nothingness, and a treasure chest appeared in the center of the arena.
Wiltok walked over and the lid of the box automatically slid open to both sides, revealing the dark golden light inside.
Without any hesitation, he touched the dark golden ball of light with his fingers, and all his memories were restored at this moment.
Vertok, or rather Victor, frowned his slender and straight eyebrows and murmured to himself: "I was forced to this extent by a group of weak jackals and goblins... It seems that I need to change to Wind
Only those with elemental affinity can cope with the next situation."
Victor quickly adjusted his mental body, and the figure of the mythical three-headed lizard reappeared, and the head of the wind element merged into his body.
The winning rewards for the fifth round of the second game of Dream Arena are as follows:
Wiltok's physical attributes are 16 points, mental attributes are 15 points, perception attributes are 17 points, and life attributes are 17 points.
Fusion of the head of the wind element, the perception attribute is increased by an additional 5 points, reaching 22 points, and extraordinary perception is obtained.
Master the intermediate Wanxiang original method.
Gluttony Talent: The efficiency of food and drug intake is increased by 200%, which is lower than before.
Self-healing talent: Wound recovery speed is increased five times, which is lower than before.
Activate talent: Instantly restore 30% of physical energy and energy, speed up wound healing, but the effect is lower than before.
The surge talent disappears.
Master the primary wind movement talent, which can summon breeze to surround the body and items, reduce air resistance, greatly increase movement speed and attack speed, double the effective range of long-range weapons, and increase the power by 40%.
The duration of the wind talent is 15 minutes, and the cooling time is 100 minutes.
Master the blood-boiling talent: imitate the bloodthirsty talent of the wolf man and carry out improved enhanced abilities. Wiltok activates the boiling blood, increasing the attack speed by 150% and bursting with 60% extra power. Each time can last for 3 seconds, and the cooling time is 25
Second.
Boiling blood can only be used up to 6 times in a short period of time, otherwise it will fall into a state of chaos caused by hunger and severely exhaust physical strength.
Extraordinary Perception: Vertok's perception radius has been doubled, and he is more sensitive to changes in airflow. He can often detect enemies in advance, and his attacks are more accurate than before.
Gnoll Killer (Title): Slightly adjust your mental body and grow psychic tentacles. Gnolls will subconsciously ignore your presence. You will not trigger the ferocious gnolls' wild intuition and desperate talents. When they see you, they may have been
You killed.
However, you must be careful of the Jackal's dying counterattack!
The title of Gnoll Slayer is a form of psychic touch. When using this title, the title of Goblin Slayer cannot be used!