From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 280 The Road to the Fourth Level

In April of Rune Calendar 67, Nesta's resignation caused a great stir;

At this time, many witch doctors who had no prior knowledge finally understood the foreshadowing that had been laid when the 'Voting Weight for the Speaker Election' was established before. They guessed that the Speaker seemed to have already had it at that time, or even longer ago.

Plan to resign.

The discussion on the resignation he submitted was delayed for several months. During this period, various individuals, representing different circles, tried to dissuade Nesta. However,

The results were all in vain.

So, at the end of July in Rune Calendar 67, Nesta, wearing a chest full of medals, gave a 'farewell speech' in the Plaza of the Heroes, and assumed the empty status of 'Member of Parliament' without retaining any title.

He left the political stage cleanly.

Afterwards, the Parliament held an election for the Grand Speaker in August 67 of the Rune Calendar. Azshara relied on her own merits and the political assets of her and her husband to defeat the other competitors by a huge advantage and was officially elected as the Republic's No. 1 Speaker.

Second term as Grand Speaker.

At this point, her era begins

Nesta did not participate in the selection process of his partner. At Azshara's initiative, he entered a meditation room on the top of the mother tree as soon as his resignation was approved and began his own retreat.

journey.

When he was upgraded to the third level, it was the 46th year of the rune calendar. When Nesta turned sixty-one, almost 21 years have passed now.

During this period, although he was responsible for the responsibilities of the 'Speaker' and needed to disperse his energy among various matters, he actually never stopped cultivating himself;

No matter how busy you are every day, you must allocate at least part of your time for meditation, which can be regarded as a balance between practice and governance to a certain extent;

But recently, with the arrival of a certain ‘bottleneck’, the previous ‘both sides’ approach finally no longer works;

At the moment, Nesta urgently needs a long and continuous period of time to sort out his own practice progress and clarify the subsequent path.

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The path of spiritual practice of a witch doctor does not seem to have many bells and whistles in the 'third level' defined at this time.

When multifunctional cells that can serve as the 'starting point of thinking' were previously deduced, what Nesta has been doing is to continuously transform the cells in the body and turn them into 'thinking' as much as possible.

' part of.

After completing the inspection of himself and grasping his status, Nesta naturally understood why he was promoted because of this.

This is just the basics

If he is willing to pay a higher price, he can also obtain a larger or smaller body shape, or even a completely different body structure;

For example, on the basis of atrophy and dormancy, if he can actively discard some cells, he can even compress his body to tens of centimeters;

For example, Mao's hair has now turned into controlled 'muscle whiskers', but it still maintains its original appearance;

And this was one of the reasons why he did not dare to convert the "old central" system for the time being, and thus the road to "quantitative change" had no choice but to come to a halt.

When increasing, it is necessary to actively expand the volume dimensions of individual cells to accumulate body shape and even improve physical fitness;

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At this time, Nesta was in an embryo culture chamber. The infusion of nutrients and the maintenance of breathing were all assisted by pipelines, so he could stay in seclusion for a long time without any distractions.

The increase in mental perception is mainly reflected in spell-like disturbance control, spell casting speed, spell casting intensity, etc. Nesta intends to leave this part to be quantified later;

At first, this expression was limited to each cell itself, but after the accumulation of data gradually became abundant, it began to be integrated upwards with Nesta's active intervention, from the cell level, to the cell group level, and then to the tissue and organ level.

, up to the somatic level;

But unlike the original visualization body, which was the same as the external body, the current appearance of the meditation space is a transparent one, with endless "digital spirits" of 0s and 1s flowing through most of the body.

The idea has emerged, but I have no idea how to implement it.

After thinking hard to no avail, Nesta decided to copy the answer given by nature and achieve the purpose of operating it by simulating the body itself.

However, due to the reasons mentioned before, this kind of control will be relatively monotonous, consume high energy, be slow and complicated, and have almost no prospects for more uses besides freshness.

So, can it assume the role of 'consciousness center' and become the concentrated expression of 'self'?

With this idea in mind, Nesta started his own attempt.

The 'outside' of the meditation space is the visualization body of the spirit, while the 'inside' is the manifestation of the iceberg of consciousness mimicry, the magic pool, the boundary of space, etc.;

Therefore, whether it is 'actively abandoning' or 'accelerating splitting', one will pay a corresponding price. Only the change of 'no increase, no decrease' is the most cost-effective.

In order to solve this problem, Nesta repeatedly made many attempts, but they all failed due to various reasons, either because the energy consumption was too high, or because they created new weaknesses for themselves;

All in all, the 'following road' seems to be there and within reach, but the key to unlock it has not yet appeared.

This is also Nesta's helplessness. As the pioneer of the road, he must accumulate success through the process of constant trial and error.

What should we do? Since the cellular thinking unit is weak, can the expression of each of its "thinking units" be limited to the simplest mode?

For example, 0 and 1?

And when the retreat of unknown ages finally reached this point, the meditation space that had been transformed into the 'Sea of ​​Fireflies' by Nesta gradually revealed earth-shaking changes.

At this time, the visualization body once again replaced ‘nothingness’ and became the subject of meditation;

In this way, when the 'main consciousness' in the narrow sense needs to control the body to complete a certain action, although its needs are still formed from the brain, the 'control' of the end will abandon the traditional path and be replaced by 'cell simulation calculation'

to realize;

And the moment when Nesta 'activated' this new visualization body and made it really start to run.

'boom!'

But now, after the advancement is successful, this kind of control has not only been optimized in terms of speed and energy consumption, but also greatly expanded its variable range, thus turning it from a useless one to a usable one.

ability.

After the construction is completed and fully activated through deep meditation, the relationship between the visualization body and the body changes. They are no longer simply 'the former achieves the latter', but become 'the latter manifests'.

Transforming the former', the 'Digital Elf Visualization Body' has become the embodiment of the 'new center' during meditation;

The latter, however, takes a single cell as the 'starting point of thinking', and while its 'individual value' is low, it also lacks the cohesion of integration between them because it is 'unsystematic'. Therefore, although it is stronger than 'precision', it is sparse.

to 'whole'.

The silent and invisible roar starts from the meditation space, and what follows is the infinity and almost endless elevation of spirit and thinking;

If he actively accelerates cell division to increase the number of cells, and then expands the dimensions to improve the quality of a single cell, he will be able to accumulate a body shape far beyond the current one, as well as complementary physique and strength;

For another example, since hair has long ceased to be 'hair' and is essentially a kind of 'muscle', the length is determined by one's heart, and the length is arbitrary;

In addition, weird changes such as the six-fingered piano demon, three heads and six arms, two penises and three eggs, etc., seem to be achievable if research is done.

However, even though Nesta has now reached the fourth level, he still maintains the barrier of flesh and blood creatures. Although his lifespan is long, there is always a limit;

In terms of height and body shape.

In the normal mode, Nesta can shrink the height to as low as 1.8 meters and increase the height to 6 meters as high as possible;

When shrinking, this change is achieved by controlling the shrinkage and dormancy of some cells;

The advantage is reduced energy consumption, but the disadvantage is an all-round decline in physical fitness.

With its own narrow thinking subject as the core, there are hundreds of trillions of 'fireflies' appearing around it, each representing a cell that has completed transformation.

This seems to mean that he has to amplify his computing level to "hundreds of trillions" or even higher at every moment?

So, how should we go about the road ahead?

Now, Nesta's body has two different modes of operation, namely the 'old center with the brain and spinal cord as the main axis', and the 'new center with multifunctional cell groups as the main axis';

Although these two systems go hand in hand, their respective operating processes are quite obviously different.

This kind of change has been maintained until recently, and finally there is no turning around and no progress.

Because the remaining ‘native cells’ are basically brain, spinal cord, nerve fibers, blood cells and other tissues and cells that cannot be replaced, or dare not be replaced;

On the whole, the former is more efficient but less extensive, while the latter gives Nesta cell-level self-control.

In this process, some cells that achieve their original mission through high differentiation will have their functional bias weakened after transformation;

But on another level, because of its complete system, the former can complete more tasks in a short period of time with less energy consumption, and it also has more powerful computing power;

At a certain moment, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration and came up with the idea of ​​"why not think of a solution in the meditation space"

The meditation space is the center of his spiritual power and an important starting point for the witch doctor system to cast spells. Its formation process brings together the consciousness of all cells in the body, whether it is the main consciousness or the subconscious, it is this space that exists in nothingness.

the foundation of one’s life;

In addition, for decentralized thinking to complete the integration process through binary systems, a plan must also be devised.

After that, Nesta completed the preliminary connection between the various 'single thoughts' by constructing a new form of visualization body and using countless trials and errors from least to most;

So at this moment, hundreds of trillions of 'thinkings', based on the meditation rules explored by Nesta himself, turned into calculation points that could express 0 and 1, and suddenly gained huge computing power;

And its first task is to explore the operating mode of its own body.

Because the starting point of these ‘thinkings’ are cells that have completed transformation, and these cells are naturally within the operating scope of the ‘old center’;

Therefore, although Nesta and other elves seem to be the same, with their hearts beating, breathing, and internal organs moving, in fact there are huge differences inside;

And more complex things are completed through upward connection?

Just do it as soon as you think of it. Anyway, I have failed so many times, so this time is not the worst.

The core of 'trying' is meditation, and Nesta needs to regulate the most basic operating rules in meditation;

Just as these thoughts were manifested into 'fireflies' before, now it is necessary to change them into a manifestation mode that can express binary;

In addition to the drastic changes that have occurred in the 'visual body', other virtual concepts such as the 'magic pool volume' have also been found to have expanded by more than ten times after completing the adaptation to the current situation;

In addition, mental perception, body control, etc. have all been qualitatively improved.

At the same time, as the degree of transformation continues to increase, the proportion of 'self' in the sea of ​​consciousness also continues to increase, and as a result, mental power also achieves continuous growth.

The advantage is that the body shape gained in this way has real physical enhancement;

The disadvantage is that the process of change and maintenance after the change require a sudden increase in energy consumption.

Especially in terms of perception and mental strength, the comparison between the successive ones is like the second level rising to the third level, and the body has also undergone qualitative changes in terms of strength and reaction speed.

'It seems like it's really an upgrade, not an upgrade?'

This center starts from the 'basal level' and consolidates the 'scattered' thoughts one by one through the operation of 0 and 1. Its goal is to act outward on the body.

During the process, everything from the heart, bones, muscles, skin, to hair, to most of the soft tissues in the body have been transformed.

After a long while, when his consciousness fell back and his thinking returned, Nesta felt his current situation, and was filled with deep surprise in his happiness.

But it also has the ability to 'self-sustain' in the meditation space, and does not need to control everything in detail;

Therefore, Nesta was able to maintain his thinking ability as he is now.

After preliminary confirmation, Nesta began to think about the reason for this. Although it is a good thing to advance, he is the path breaker after all. In order for the younger generations to be able to reproduce and avoid detours, this step cannot be so confusing.

to cross over.

The impact of this operating mode on the whole can be summarized simply as - all organs except the brain will be disconnected from the signal series of the nervous system.

In other words, when only running the latter, Nesta will transform into a "high-frequency warrior" and complete the action with difficulty amidst exaggerated lag.

In other words, even if Nesta does not deliberately maintain the meditation on the 'visualization body', his body will still complete the operation according to the established pattern;

However, if he still wants to optimize the whole or the details, he can still use meditation to transform the relationship into 'the former achieves the latter', and then through the improvement of the visualization body, the impact on the operation of the body can be achieved

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At this moment, Nesta's thinking was extremely active, her mental perception was extremely sensitive, and her control over her body had reached an unprecedented level of precision.

This not only maintains the control precision brought by the 'cell-level self', but also avoids its various shortcomings in overall control such as 'energy consumption' and 'slowness' by simulating part of the 'old center'

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However, because the same 'mission' has been dispersed throughout the body, it has been shifted from being undertaken by some cells to being completed by all cells, so the functional 'total value' at the overall level has been greatly enhanced.

Like, yes or no?

Examine yourself first. The most important changes undoubtedly occur in the meditation space, especially the whimsical yet traceable ‘digital elf visualization body’;

In the previous construction, the relationship between the visualization body and the external body can be roughly defined as 'the former achieves the latter';

At that time, Nesta built a new center based on "multifunctional cells" through "weaving" in the visualization body;

No matter whether it was physical or mental, there was no breakthrough under such a huge accumulation, not to mention that with the arrival of the bottleneck, the "quantitative change" was also forced to stop.

However, there is no way to carry out subsequent operations on 'nothing' and 'chaos', so he created the concept of 'thinking' and embodied it into firefly-like 'dots' during meditation.

Due to restrictions for various reasons, Nesta felt quite unable to start with them.

At this time, just maintaining their 'self' existence in the meditation space has taken up a large part of the thinking resources, and they are no longer able to perform more complex 'tasks'.

Among them, the former relies on the functionality evolved over millions of years and still controls the body holistically according to the traditional "from the center to the four directions" model;

The latter, because of the role of the ‘thinking starting point’ of multifunctional cells, has formed a self-control model that ‘starts from the grassroots level’.

But countless subsequent attempts proved fruitless, and the reasons were gradually understood by him through constant failures.

This part of the 'self' based on single cells has a very limited size, so it does not have very powerful 'thinking' attributes and abilities;

As for body control, the changes are a bit 'scaring to the elves'

Before completing the 'Digital Elf Visualization', Nesta was actually able to control most of her organs, including the internal organs, through cells;

For example, the heart can control its beating frequency, even stop it completely, and change its overall shape;

In addition, the height, shortness, fatness, and appearance, as well as the appearance and contours, can also be changed within a very small limit.

Moreover, although ‘quantitative changes’ have been occurring and have accumulated to very large values, the expected ‘qualitative changes’ have not yet arrived;

But now, with Nesta's attempt, everything has turned into nothingness and chaos.

What he needs to do now is to try to glue these scattered 'thinkings' to each other to form a highly unified 'self', thereby establishing a thinking center based on the meditation space.

Therefore, after Nesta made such a 'setting', the cells slowly transformed all their own changes into binary expressions in the process of the body's self-operation.

The same is true for other organs, most of which are 'limitedly controlled' and use completely different cellular bases to reproduce functionality.

Moreover, visualization is not just a simple ‘operation’, there is a more complex series of requirements that need to be carried out at the same time.

In fact, the amount of visualization at this level is enough to 'burn' Nesta's thinking, let alone visualization, even a simple 'instant quadrillion calculation' cannot be completed by him;

The reason why he can maintain his thinking at this time and not be 'burned' to death is because these 'fireflies' are the manifestation of his thinking consciousness in meditation;

Each of them actually represents a very small part of Nesta's "general self", although the cellular level "self" cannot be as flexible as the narrow self due to the lack of a system;

Indeed, his plan was successful, but it was more than that.

Nesta noticed that he seemed to have completed a bottleneck leap, and it was not an undetermined small level improvement in this stage, but a major stage jump.

Whether it was the moment of leap forward just now or the feeling that it has stabilized at this moment, the changes that happened to me all proved that this was a large-scale qualitative change.

For example, for the same movement of elbow bending, the old center can complete it the moment "thinking occurs";

But on the 'new center' side, the reaction time was obviously shortened due to the downward shift of the 'starting point', but during the execution process, a lot of time was wasted and slowed down by 'motor integration'

The overall speed at which the action occurs.

The reason for promotion ultimately comes down to the word ‘integration’.

Previously, those modified cells had become the ‘starting point of thinking’, and as the accumulation continued, their number increased, eventually reaching about 75% of the total cell mass;

This indeed improved Nesta in many aspects, but because it was not connected into a complete thinking system, it did not lead to qualitative changes in all aspects;

Now, although there are still gaps between them in space, and they have not formed a complete organ like the brain, at the level of magic, they are based on meditation and use the self-spirit as the 'thread', which has become a concept.

On the whole, in action, so when each of these subtle to the extreme 'self' is integrated, qualitative changes will naturally occur.

Moreover, if he can complete this "digital" integration earlier, then in fact, when the cell conversion reaches 20%, he will be able to usher in this advancement;

But now, my own conversion rate has reached about 75%. Not only has I completed the advancement, I even immediately felt the new bottleneck.

Therefore, Nesta does not intend to end this retreat immediately

I radiated my sense of magic on the spot and took a rough look at the status of the headquarters. I found that the headquarters was unobstructed, and the audio signals from other parties also showed that everything was normal;

Originally, he planned to get close to Azshara, but unfortunately his partner didn't seem to be in the headquarters at this time, so the 'eavesdropping' continued for a while. The main purpose was to confirm Azshara's whereabouts and status, and then he had to

Knowing that he was inspecting the vassal city-states in the northern plateau at this time

In this way, after confirming that everything was going smoothly and sending a message to the mother tree for her companions, Nesta once again withdrew her mind and began her next journey of spiritual practice.

(End of chapter)