In the magnificent, empty dream arena, the mythical three-headed lizard stood quietly in the center of the venue, with three pairs of jewel-like eyes reflecting Vertok's gradually forming body.
Vertok regained his sight, first looked up at the deep and distant dark sky above the arena, and breathed out slowly. Every time he came here, he would be afraid of the boundless darkness that enveloped the arena.
The dream arena is a manifestation of his soul, and the darkness surrounding the arena represents the chaotic nature of the ocean of pan-consciousness.
Wiltok is always worried that the Dream Arena will be completely swallowed by darkness. This is actually the natural fear of the soul consciousness towards the origin of chaos.
Fortunately, there are dozens of flame towers blooming with light, firmly driving away the darkness and protecting the Dream Arena.
Wiltok wanted to know what the flame tower in the arena represented. He could briefly recover his memory by winning five rounds. At that time, he should understand the nature of the flame tower, but he would inevitably forget these memories after waking up. This made Wiltok very
Annoyed.
Recovering his memory and finding himself is Vertok's strongest desire. He has always had a bad premonition that if he cannot find himself, the flame tower in the Dream Arena will eventually go out, which means that his soul will be swallowed by the origin of chaos, and then he will
It's over.
The problem is that Wiltok doesn't know what triggers the flame tower to go out, and how much time does he have left?
This time he entered the Dream Arena and clearly noticed something strange.
Portanos, the manager of the arena, did not immediately invite him to participate as usual.
After Vertok stood there and observed for a moment, he cautiously approached the manager and asked thoughtfully: "Portanos, is there something wrong with the arena?"
The mythical three-headed lizard made of smoke did not respond.
Wiltok thought for a while and then took the initiative to test: "I want to participate in the arena trial."
The manager of the arena finally moved, and three slender snake heads circled and danced in front of Wiltok. He said: "The Dream Arena is undergoing transformation, and the competitive trials are suspended."
Vertok was shocked and asked eagerly: "Transformation? Why transformation?"
"Challenger Wiltok has completed two trials, and his mental attributes have increased by a total of 11 points. I have also gained additional spiritual power. Therefore, the Dream Arena has begun to transform. Before the transformation is completed, the challenger cannot participate in the trial."
The Pan-Consciousness Ocean is a manifestation of the Fire Elemental Sea. The Dream Arena draws samples from the Pan-Consciousness Ocean for challengers to participate in trials, which is also a process of drawing spiritual power from the Fire Elemental Sea.
The main character Victor does not want the sub-personality to grow too fast. On the one hand, the sub-personality is not experienced and wise enough to control too powerful a force, but it can easily attract opponents of equal strength. On the other hand, the dream arena starts from the fire element sea.
While extracting spiritual power, it is also contaminated by the sample memory.
There is no free lunch in the world. Due to the memory isolation between the main personality and the sub-personality, Wiltok did not know that while he was improving his abilities through trials, his soul was bearing the burden and it took time to eliminate the contamination of the sample memory on the will side of the soul.
However, Wiltok intuitively believed that it was a good thing that the Dream Arena could automatically close the trial. He was inexplicably relieved and asked: "When will the transformation end? What will the Dream Arena transform into?"
"The time when the Dream Arena will complete its transformation cannot be determined. After the transformation, the Dream Arena will resume trials and gain some new features."
"This transformation of the Dream Arena is divided into three stages. At present, the first stage of transformation has been completed."
"First of all, the time flow ratio between the dream world and the outside world becomes 15:1. The 15 days that the challenger Wiltok spent in the dream arena is equal to 1 day in the outside world."
"Secondly, challenger Wiltok can manifest the items in his memory in the dream arena. The number of embodied items does not exceed ten. The better the challenger understands the characteristics of the items, the higher the success rate of manifestation."
"Finally, challenger Wiltok can repeatedly challenge those contestants who have been defeated, but there is no winning reward for repeated challenges."
"The second phase of the dream arena's transformation will be completed 60 days later in external time."
Wiltok roughly understood that the Dream Arena is also growing, which is called transformation. Before the transformation is completed, there will be no new trials, but the Dream Arena can be used as a place to practice skills. As long as Wiltok sleeps,
You can hone various skills.
With a thought in his mind, the shadow of the weapon appeared in his hand, and gradually turned into reality. It was a five-foot-long sword and gun. Its size, pattern, material and weight were exactly the same as Captain Rhodes' adamantine sword and gun.
The content of the Vientiane Original Method does not include the breaking method of swords and spears. It was the first time for Wiltok to use a sword and spear. He had enough time to explore the skills of swords and spears in the Dream Arena and try to integrate it into the Vientiane Original Method.
After wielding his sword and gun continuously for more than two hours, Wiltok said confidently: "Manager, I want to replay the second fifth round."
"As you wish, Huor, the Gnoll King from nowhere, will accept Vertok's challenge."
The thin and lean figure of the Storm Gnoll appeared on the arena. When it saw Wiltok holding a weapon, its green wolf eyes suddenly shrank, it arched its back and took a few steps back, asking: "Where is this place? Are you?
what?"
Vertok smiled coldly. He had heard this gnoll shouting like this every time he started, and he had heard it too many times. However, the gnoll Huo was always unfamiliar with everything here.
Vertok's shoulders did not move, he slid forward without warning, raised the sword and gun in his hand, and aimed a standard lunge at the ferocious jackal.
The original method of all phenomena circulates internal and external breathing, mobilizes internal latent and external forces, and integrates wind and blood. Wiltok's thrust is impeccable and has reached his peak level. The sword and gun turned into a straight purple stream, like a flash of lightning.
, to the extreme.
The storm gnoll's reaction speed was higher than that of its kind, and he couldn't dodge in time, and was instantly pierced through the chest by the sharp sword and gun.
The blade of the sword, with a hint of crimson, penetrated the back of the jackal Huo. Wiltok was very satisfied with his sword. He did not use the title of jackal killer. The fierce jackal's combat intuition was reflected in the lightning-fast thrust.
It lost all meaning in front of it. If its body movements could not keep up with its own prediction, it would inevitably be pierced through the chest with a sword.
However, before Vertok had time to be happy, the Storm Gnoll advanced instead of retreating, allowing the blood-stained sword edge to completely pierce his body, pounced in front of Vertok, and opened its bloody mouth full of fangs.
, biting him viciously on the face.
Victor's vision suddenly went dark, and then the light returned. In the arena, the Storm Gnoll had disappeared.
He knew that he had lost. The sword just pierced the Gnoll's heart. But before dying, the Gnoll activated his bloodthirsty talent and tried his best to die with him.
This was undoubtedly a failed exercise. The purpose of battle is to protect oneself first, and then destroy the enemy. Wiltok's combat skills could completely suppress the third-level ferocious gnoll, but he still lost.
Most orcs have strong vitality. They will not die immediately if they are stabbed in some vital parts. They can still maintain relatively complete combat effectiveness and carry out the most ferocious counterattack.
This is actually a very terrifying ability. Many adventurers thought they defeated the orcs, but ended up dying from the orcs' dying counterattack.
Wiltok heard that Bottom, Huck and others had just joined the adventure group, and there was a companion with excellent sword skills in the team. In his first battle, he stabbed the jackal seven times with a long sword in an instant.
It couldn't dodge the sword, so it stopped dodging at all, trying to knock the half-elf down with serious injuries, and then bit his face off in one bite.
Vertok has not yet ignited the fire of his soul. Without overwhelming advantages in vitality, explosive power and reaction speed, he can only deal with the dire orcs' desperate counterattack by improving his martial arts level.
In fact, the intermediate Wanxiang Original Method still has a lot of potential to be tapped, and the Dream Arena can help him explore a set of targeted combat skills based on the Wanxiang Original Method.
Wiltok waved his sword and gun and shouted with stern eyes: "Manager, I want to compete again!"
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In the afternoon, Wiltok, who was immersed in a spiritual dream, was shaken awake.
"My lord, wake up. My lord, wake up..."
Huck's anxious face caught Wiltok's eyes, "Huh?"
"Sir, those orcs are here again, and there are hobgoblins... Look!"
Wiltok jumped up from the cushion of branches, turned around and looked around, and immediately found a large group of goblins and ten ferocious gnolls gathering right in front of the low hill camp.
Compared with the attack in the early morning, the Bone Collector orcs were obviously more organized this time. They set up a circular formation 300 meters away from the low hill camp, with a dozen strong bugbears at the front of the formation.
Acting as attackers; more than two hundred clawed goblins were divided into two layers as the main force of the attack. The first layer held daggers and bucklers, and the second layer held slinging bows and simple spear throwers; while the fierce and agile gnolls were in the formation.
Wander around the periphery and be responsible for supporting.
It is conceivable that once the Bone Collector orcs launch an attack, the circular array they arrange can just wrap up the low hill camp. In this case, the front and both wings of the half-elf professionals will be enemies, and their weakness of insufficient manpower will be exposed.
If you get to the front, you can't guard against the left and right wings. Either side may be broken through by the orc bone collectors.
Hacker and others looked nervous, but their emotions were relatively stable. The orc bone collectors attacked the camp for the first time and were defeated inexplicably. Although Wiltok did not explain the reason, the half-elf professionals had some guesses.
However, Vertok's expression was particularly stern, and he stared at the back of the orc group with his eyebrows knitted. There was also a small group of orcs there, and they protected a hobgoblin tightly.
Each Bone Collector gang will have 2 or 3 hobgoblin leaders. After their attack was thwarted this morning, it was not surprising that the hobgoblin personally directed the subsequent battle, which was completely expected by Wiltok.
However, the orc bodyguards around this hobgoblin caused Wiltok to be highly vigilant. In addition to the most common bugbears, there were also more than a dozen half-human, half-goat monsters.
Their humanoid bodies have a head that looks like a ram. Their average height is over 2 meters. Their plump and knotted muscles seem to burst their fur. They also hold long, bright knives in their hands, which creates a sense of oppression.
Complete.
These are goatheads!
Sheep-headed monsters are gentle-tempered alien orcs. They unite around the four-horned sheep mother to form a sheep-headed clan and make a living by growing grass. Sheep-headed monsters have no fighting talent, but they are physically strong and powerful, plus a plant.
The food talent can fully absorb the medicinal properties or toxins in plants and store them in the body. The sheep-headed monster can actively release the medicinal properties and toxins accumulated in the body, and obtain effects such as excitement, madness, poisonous blood, self-healing, and pain paralysis.
Predatory orcs especially like to hunt sheep-headed monsters, but when the number of sheep-headed monsters reaches a certain scale, they can protect themselves. Even the most powerful centaurs and wilderness trolls must carefully weigh the gains and losses of attacking the sheep-headed monster clan.
They tend to hunt lone sheepheads in secret, but avoid direct conflicts with the sheephead clan. This is because the stubborn sheepheads have the ability to cause heavy losses to the invaders.
The main infantry of the Goblin Kingdom is the goat-headed monster. It can be said that the Goblin Kingdom without the goat-headed infantry is not worthy of being called a kingdom.
The most powerful bodyguard of the hobgoblin is the wild troll. But after these days of observation, Wiltok concluded that there are no wild troll bodyguards among this group of bone gatherers.
The reason is very simple. Wild monsters have an incredibly large appetite. When they are hungry, they will give priority to eating their companions around them. Even the leader of the hobgoblin cannot stop them. It is difficult for a hungry and well-fed Bone Collector gang to support a giant monster.
Blame the bodyguards. Perhaps, before they could collect enough treasure, the number of clawed goblins in the gang had already been reduced by half.
Wiltok did not expect that this group of orc bone collectors would have vegetarian goatheads as bodyguards.
The goat-headed monster is naturally dull and not good at fighting. A dozen goat-headed monster bodyguards actually do not pose much of a threat to half-elf professionals.
However, Vertok's "Goblin Slayer" and "Gnoll Slayer" two types of spiritual touch will definitely have no effect on the goathead.
He could scare goblins, but he couldn't scare the stubborn and stupid goathead.
If the leader of the hobgoblin throws all the goathead bodyguards around him into the battlefield, even if Vertok scares away the clawed goblins, the ferocious gnolls will still give it a go under the cover of the goatheads.
While Vertok was thinking about how to deal with the goat-headed monster, the leader of the hobgoblins over there began to organize an attack.