At first, the dream was chaotic. As consciousness awakened, a ball of light first appeared. It streamed out rays of light, twisting and turning, and quickly outlined a huge oval platform.
This platform that appeared out of thin air was suspended in the endless darkness and chaos. Towers of flames stood on the edge of the platform, and the blazing flames illuminated the platform clearly and brightly. Wiltok was at the edge of the platform, and he touched the smooth surface curiously.
The tower of flames, and the texture of hard and cold rock came from the palm of his hand. He knew he was dreaming, but it all seemed extremely real. He felt pain when he pinched his face, there was a heartbeat in his chest, and he could breathe air in his lungs.
However, Vertok soon became panicked, and he found that he had no way to escape from this dream that seemed like a real thing.
Wiltok ran back and forth on the floating platform, trying to find an exit. But except for the flame tower for lighting, there were no other special things on the empty platform. Wiltok tried to climb the stone tower, but the smooth tower surface failed.
He was helpless; he walked to the edge of the floating platform and wanted to jump off.
Outside the platform, the deep and boundless darkness seemed to be connected to the deepest fear in his heart. Wiltok couldn't help but take a few steps back, and immediately gave up the idea of jumping off the platform.
The frightened Wiltok began to worry about whether the oval platform would collapse, so he turned around and ran towards the center of the platform.
If this platform collapses, you should start from the edge. Standing in the middle, you may be able to hold on until you finally fall into the terrifying dark abyss.
"I heard that dragons can gain strength while sleeping. Do you really think they are just sleeping in?"
When Wiltok approached the center of the platform, a cloud of white mist rose from the hexagonal floor tile in the center. The dense mist turned into a monster with three heads. Its image was three giant pythons.
It grows on the body of a lizard and is composed of dense fog. The lines are hazy and no details can be seen, but the eyes of the three snake heads are impressive, like flames solidified into crystals, which are emerald green, amber and ice blue respectively.
"...Welcome to the Dream Arena, are you ready to take the test?"
The three-headed snake uttered human words, which frightened Wiltok to a halt. He observed it cautiously for a while, and found that not only was this monster that appeared suddenly not harmful, but it felt very kind and familiar.
"Who are you?" Wiltok walked over slowly and curiously looked at the three-headed smoke snake that was about the same height as himself.
"I am the mythical three-headed lizard Portanos, the guide of the Dream Arena...I am you." The three-headed snake replied.
Wiltok felt inexplicably happy and asked eagerly: "Are you me? I am the mythical three-headed lizard? But why did I become like this?"
The three-headed lizard Portanos did not respond to this question, and its six crystal eyes shone with light. Wiltok could not see any spiritual brilliance in its eyes. He could not help but frown and asked again: "Is this
where?"
Portanos replied: "The Dream Arena is a reflection of your psychic power."
"What is that darkness outside the arena?"
"It is the embodiment of your spiritual barrier, a boundary, and a barrier that can protect your spiritual will from being assimilated by the pan-consciousness outside the boundary."
"Pan consciousness beyond the boundaries? What is that?"
"I can't answer that, you have to find the answer for yourself."
Wiltok was thoughtful, thought for a while, and then asked: "Why do I appear here?"
"You synchronized the 'knowledge puzzle', mobilized unusable mental power, and your mental will was severely damaged. The Dream Arena came into being, which will repair your damage."
"I just want to get out of here, how do I get out?"
"Join the challenge, regain your abilities, and go out when you want."
Vertok pondered for a moment, and then tried to ask many questions from various angles. Some of the questions, the mythical three-headed lizard would answer, but most of the time, it would not respond, like a puppet without self-will.
In short, Wiltok figured out one thing, he could not leave the Dream Arena without participating in the challenge.
The rules of the competitive challenge are very simple. The guide Portanos draws samples from the ocean of pan-consciousness and then materializes them as contestants in the arena.
The strength of individual contestants is basically the same as that of the challenger. Wiltok is the only challenger in the arena. Every time he defeats a contestant, his mental damage will be repaired. If he completes five rounds of challenges in a row, he can open the arena treasure chest.
, take away the prize and the "key" to leave the dream.
The specific rules of the arena are as follows:
First, neither the challenger Vertok nor the contestants will actually die, but will experience pain and disability effects.
Second, the difficulty of each round increases by 20%, and five rounds constitute one stage. The difficulty of each stage is still within the challenger's current ability.
Third, challengers can reset the game, but cannot receive stage rewards repeatedly.
Fourth, the time flow rate in the dream arena is ten times that of the real world, and ten days in the arena are equal to one day in the outside world.
Fifth, each victory of the challenger will increase the mental attributes slightly, and the dream arena will also grow. The guide Portanos can extract more samples, provide more generous rewards, increase the flow of time, and evolve
Create various complex scenarios and environments.
When the matter reached this point, Wiltok had no choice but nodded and said: "I will participate in the competition."
"Challenger Vertok has decided to participate in the competition. His opponent is the goblin king Wovo from the unknown place!"
A loud voice echoed passionately in the empty arena. A translucent figure appeared opposite Wiltok, gradually materializing.
"The goblin king Wowo established a vast orc kingdom, with a sphere of influence spanning two rivers. Ogres, gnolls, centaurs, and goatheads all obeyed the will of this goblin king. Today, Wowo's reputation is gone.
People know that only the ocean of pan-consciousness records its legendary life. However, no matter how great the king is, there are still weak moments. Wowo was once expelled from the tribe and wandered alone in the wild. Hunger and cold almost killed it."
“The ‘Dying Goblin Wowo’ versus the ‘Toddler Wiltok’ is just right.”
"Who will be the real winner? Let's wait and see, I believe this is a wonderful game!" The mythical three-headed lizard turned into a puff of smoke and disappeared without a trace. The translucent gnome figure has been transformed into an entity.
Vertok looked at his opponent, his face full of surprise and contempt, and couldn't help but said to himself: "Is my opponent this little thing?"
Goblins are the most common monsters in the world. They are widely distributed around the world and have incredible adaptability. They can be seen on plateaus, mountains, swamps, grasslands, and forests. Most goblins are small and have little need for food.
There are also few, and goblins have good intelligence and dexterous hands, so they are often accepted by powerful races and serve as slave craftsmen and reserve rations.
However, almost all monster groups that enslave goblins will eventually be counterattacked by goblins and become slaves of goblins. This is because goblins are one of the few alien orcs who can independently awaken their bloodline memories. When there is abundant food, they will adapt to the situation according to the environment and actual conditions.
Need to evolve into smart hobgoblins, strong and tough bugbears, and other types of strange goblins, such as goblin cavalry, claw goblins, dog goblins, etc.
The gnome Wowo embodied by the guided person is just an ordinary gnome. It is less than 1.2 meters tall, has sparse hair, and pale green skin that highlights the shape of the bones. Because it is short and thin, it has a big head, and its thin neck seems unable to support it.
Without the weight of his head, he lowered his head, stuck out his buttocks, and knelt on the ground.
Suddenly coming to a strange environment, the goblin Wowo, who was about to starve to death, tried to raise his head and open his eyes to see the surrounding scene clearly. His eyeballs were cloudy and it was difficult to focus his eyes, and only a few thin yellow pellets fell out of his mouth.
teeth.
Vertok was confident that he could strangle this skinny little monster with one hand, but he forgot one thing.
The rule of the Dream Arena is that in the first round, the challenger and the contestant are of equal strength.
Just when Vertok was about to take action, the Dream Arena stopped supporting him and knocked him back to his original form.
With a "pop", Wiltok fell headfirst onto the smooth rock floor. His mental body curled up into the state of a two or three-year-old child. Due to lack of mental strength, he was unable to effectively coordinate his body, his vision became blurred, and his brain was unable to respond to various
The judgment of perceiving information plummeted. In order to prevent him from hurting himself clumsily, the mental body triggered a self-protection mechanism and blocked part of the muscle ability, making Wiltok's strength much smaller.
Goblin Wowo was startled by the movement, and then found Wiltok struggling to stand up on the stone floor. Although Wowo's mind was not very clear, his desire for food could overcome everything. In it
In his eyes, the clumsy Wiltok was like a piece of meat.
A large amount of saliva was secreted from the mouth, dripping down the mouth with missing teeth. Wowo's eyes glowed green, he stood up with all his strength, and rushed towards Wiltok.
"Meat, meat...Wowo, you want to eat meat!"
Wiltok's intelligence level has regressed to the early childhood stage, and his body is obviously much larger than the thin and frail goblin. At this time, he only has fear in his heart, crying and crawling in the opposite direction, leaving his butt and back
opponent.
This was an excellent attack position. Wowo jumped on Wiltok's back and bit the back of his neck with his toothless mouth. Wiltok wanted to grab it with his backhand, but he could do such a simple action.
No, I can only spin in circles.
In its current state, the goblin Wovo should eat food such as worms, grass seeds, and mushrooms. A "giant" prey like Veltok is obviously beyond its hunting ability. The goblin's toothless mouth cannot tear open Veltok's neck.
Vertok couldn't catch the little monster on his back.
So, in the dream arena that transcends time and space, the legendary Goblin King and the Stormrage Sword Master were entangled and fighting, and the scene was extremely ugly.
The two sides fought for a long time with no outcome in sight. The dying goblin Wovo changed its strategy and tried to gouge out the eyes of the young child Vertok, but it failed and was choked by Vertok instead.
Young children cannot yet effectively control their hands and feet, so they use their greatest strength to grab things.
For the goblin Wowo, this was the terrifying "brute force" that it could not resist. In the end, the challenger Wiltok strangled the contestant Wowo and won the first game.
With the death of "Dying Goblin Wovo", its body turned into mist, most of which was absorbed by the Dream Arena, and a small part merged into Vertok's body.
A piece of information about the goblin Wowo poured into Wiltok's mind, including its growth process and emotional memory, up to the time of its dying experience. Wiltok's mental body grew with the enhancement of his mental attributes, and the arena's
Portanos's voice sounded again in the sky:
"Challenger Vertok defeated his opponent. It was a great match. So, the next contestant is Wovo, the healthy goblin from nowhere!"
The time flow rate in the arena is ten times that of the outside world. Wiltok spent dozens of days and played more than two hundred games. His opponents were "Dying Goblin Wowo", "Healthy Goblin Wowo", and "Strong Goblin Wowo".
"Wowo", "Wowo the hobgoblin and his six wives", "Wowo the hobgoblin and his bugbear bodyguards".
The difficulty of each round will be increased by 20% compared to the previous round. Vertok played very hard. Especially in the last round, his opponents were the great goblin Wowo and two bear-headed goblins, causing Vertok to lose more than 130 games in a row.
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Fortunately, if Wiltok loses the game, he can come back, and the contestants will not be strengthened by winning the game. However, Wiltok is also aware of a dangerous possibility.
Every five rounds of the arena game is a cycle. Once it starts, it cannot be terminated. You must win five rounds. If Wiltok fails to pass the final round of the test, he will be trapped in this infinite cycle.
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Wiltok tried every means and adopted various tactics to win the final round of the game. It must be said that the memory of the goblin Wowo he had previously gained helped a lot. Wiltok may know Wowo better than Wowo.
Wo, and Wiltok himself also summed up experience from failure after failure and constantly understood his own abilities.
This is how fighting works. You must first fully understand what you can and cannot do; then try to understand your opponent's abilities. Then, by firmly controlling the rhythm of the battle according to your own abilities, you can often win.
In the last round, the 235th game, Wiltok rushed over at the beginning and used the stone ax captured in the previous game to kill the hobgoblin Wowo. He got the hobgoblin's whip and threw it directly to a smaller one.
The bugbear screamed again, pointed at the bugbear, fell to the ground and pretended to be dead, as if he had been killed by it.
Bugbears have low intelligence and stupid brains. The little bugbear happily ran to Wiltok, preparing to enjoy his prey, but was beaten up by the big bugbear.
The two bugbears started fighting like this. They didn't attack their companions lightly or hard, and the hobgoblin didn't tell them to stop fighting. As a result, one died and the other was seriously injured. Vertok easily won the game.
"Challenger Vertok has completed the fifth round and can now claim rewards." The mythical three-headed snake Portanos reappeared in the center of the arena, with a treasure chest appearing in front of him.
Vertok has a fierce murderous aura all over his body. He has played more than 200 games and killed hundreds of goblins. Although these all happened in a dream, the feelings are very real and the mind and body will inevitably be affected.
In the last game, when the big goblin Wowo and his bugbear bodyguards saw Wiltok, they were obviously shocked for a second. Wiltok charged towards the hobgoblin Wowo, but the bugbear bodyguards actually retreated to both sides. Will
Tok killed the great goblin Wowo with an ax before he could summon his bodyguards.
Wiltok approached the treasure box, and the lid automatically slid open. There was a dark golden light ball inside, which flew into his body.
He understood many things instantly.
Victor Wimbledon Randall, a strong man in the holy realm of the human kingdom, can also be called a demigod with a life level of nine. He is the master of the mind and controls the bloodline power of the emperor of the Elf Empire. Because of certain
As a result, he was blocked by the Demon Lord Spider Lady, and his soul was exiled to the ocean of pan-consciousness, becoming a god in the true sense.
Of course, becoming a god is not a good thing. The laws of the world do not allow powers above the ninth level to interfere with the main material plane. The dark side of the fire elemental sea-the ocean of pan-consciousness is wiping out his soul will.
Before slipping into the ocean of pan-consciousness, Victor created a secondary personality and took control of his body as a mark of returning to the main material plane.
He is Wiltok.
However, Vertok was not the first sub-personality created by the Master of Mind. The mythical three-headed lizard Portanos was.
Since the laws of the world do not accommodate extraordinary lives above the ninth level, the hydra lizards living in the swamp divided their souls into nine parts, thus gaining the right to survive and reproduce in the main material plane. Each of their nine heads has its own
A soul, when the nine heads merge into one, the Hydra's life level will reach the peak of the ninth level, and it will be promoted to the mythical Hydra, but it will only have a few decades of life left.
Victor, the master of the mind, drew on the characteristics of the split soul of the hydra lizard to create the secret method of Portanos, creating three virtual personalities with only instincts and no consciousness. They can help Victor become close to the elements and enhance his spiritual power.
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Portanos actually has four heads, corresponding to the four attributes of earth, fire, wind, and water. The fire-attributed head is the sub-personality Vertok himself, and the other three heads are the embodiment of elemental attributes. Vertok and
When any head is fused, his eyes will change, amber eyes representing the affinity of the earth element; blue eyes representing the affinity of the wind element; green eyes representing the affinity of the water element.
Elemental attributes have an impact on personality. Previously, Vertok had been integrating the most stable earth elemental attributes of Portanos. His eyes were amber, and his personality became stubborn and tough, causing him to desperately synchronize the "Knowledge Puzzle"
, in exchange for the power of demigods, just to kill some weak orcs.
This behavior is equivalent to the nine heads of the hydra lizard, and will cause unimaginable consequences.
Fortunately, Victor's wife Sylvia stepped in to rescue him in time, otherwise Victor would have completely slipped into the ocean of pan-consciousness.
The fatal loophole must be filled, but Victor cannot directly transfer his memories to the secondary personality.
Because this is still the unity of nine heads.
The secondary personality Vertok can only retrieve his lost memories, become the main personality, and then give up the excess mental power. This may cause some cognitive deviations, but at least he can survive.
As long as you can survive, as the master of the mind, cognitive biases can be corrected, and you will reach the same goal through different paths.
Victor can no longer let the sub-personality continue to use the "Knowledge Puzzle", which is the foundation of mind dominance. He evolved the "Knowledge Puzzle" into the "Dream Arena", extracting samples from the ocean of pan-consciousness to help the sub-personality improve its strength.
These samples have been selected by Victor and are all fragments of real-life consciousness. For example, the goblin Wowo was the king of the orcs who was active in the Southern Continent 900 years ago. His experiences, experiences, and memories will become the deputy personality Vertok.
Food for growth.
Every time Vitok wins a game, he is equivalent to drawing spiritual power directly from the dark side of the Fire Elemental Sea. Part of these spiritual powers belong to the sub-personality, and part belongs to the main personality. However, Victor's problem is that his mental power is too high
, continuing to enhance spiritual attributes will lead to a closer connection with the ocean of pan-consciousness.
But he has no better way. He can only hope that the mental attribute of the sub-personality will be increased to 55 points, which can accommodate the complete soul and will side, and transform into the main personality, and the excess mental power can be discarded.
The sub-personality completes five rounds and receives the prize. Victor will be awake for a period of time. He reads the experience of the sub-personality and makes some necessary adjustments to the mental body, thus affecting the direction of reality. However, the sub-personality Wiltok will not remember the main personality.
What exactly was done.
A split is a split, and Victor must never communicate directly with his sub-personality.
Five days ago, Victor summoned his two most powerful subordinates through the ocean of pan-consciousness. His shouts alerted some powerful supernatural beings. For example, the spiritual dream of Dragon King Philumat was torn apart by his shouts.
The Dragon King originally wanted to come over to check, but was met with a death stare by Sylvia, and was too frightened to move. But the dragon will come sooner or later, and it may not necessarily be her herself, but may send powerful servants.
Victor's body is very powerful, but his deputy, Virtok, is very weak and cannot exert much power. Facing the eighth-level Dragon King Philumat, he has no room for resistance.
However, the only way to survive is for the weak and weak. Before the sub-personality can be effectively protected, Victor decided to adopt the strategy of being in harmony with the light and the dust, temporarily suppressing the strength of the sub-personality to avoid encountering a powerful opponent in advance.
He made the following adjustments to his mental body:
"Viltok, spirit 13 points, body 14 points, perception 14 points, life 15 points."
"The prize for winning the first round of the arena: the primary method of all things, the title of Goblin Slayer (Touch of the Soul)."
"Fusing the head of the water element of Portanos, the life attribute is increased to 20 points, water element affinity, extraordinary vitality, gain the gluttony talent; gain the self-healing talent; unlock the surge talent (part)..."