From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 285 Breakthrough! Level 5!

Nesta fell into a long dream

The beginning of the dream is hazy and illusory. There are busy traffic, rows of high-rise buildings, endless pressure of life, and the company of parents, relatives and friends;

There, he was born and grew up, from being hungry for food to being able to earn his own living, from a teenager full of fantasies about the future to a teenager who is content to live with the present;

After awakening, the young man began to pay off his debts for his past casualness, and eventually died suddenly on his desk from exhaustion.

After that, there was a second dream that was extremely clear.

He came to a brand-new world, where he had an old witch doctor who was like his teacher and father, a companion who worked together, and friends who had dreams. He worked hard with them, broadening his horizons step by step from the wilderness, building the present, and imagining the future.

Then, there is the third illusory dream.

Death and immortality, the breakdown of hard work and eternal existence, the betrayal and loyalty of friends, the support and breakup of partners, and other imaginations based on possibility, have merged into different future pictures, intertwined with each other.

It opens up one timeline after another, where there is the loneliness of an independent study room whistling in the evening breeze, and the pride of seeing all the flowers in Chang'an in one day;

Finally, I woke up from the dream

At this moment, various states and emotions, such as vicissitudes and exuberance, hope and helplessness, joy and sadness, courage and hope, flashed through his heart, and finally ended up in the experience of reality, summary and calmness.

expect.

He did not dwell on the happy or sad scenes in his previous dreams, but began to observe his own state in more detail.

The 4.7-meter new body is roughly the same as before, only the brain in the chest has undergone significant changes;

Its cell structure has been completely transformed, but it still maintains its past functional state due to inertia and previous needs, just like the previous bone cells that maintained the stability of the bone structure.

Although the difference between 'professional' and 'non-professional' has caused a significant slowdown in the speed of thinking, which also makes Nesta look somewhat dull at this time;

But from the observation of its own thinking, it is obvious that the new brain still maintains the connection between perceptual and rational things according to the traditional model.

However, these are not important for now.

After Nesta realized that it was generally okay, he immediately turned his attention to the visualization body, and immediately saw the 0s and 1s flowing in the digital elf's brain all the time;

They are nearly infinite and seemingly endless. They are extremely agile and extremely complex at the same time. In just that small corner, they have actually accumulated a data scale that exceeds that of the entire body.

This is a good thing, indicating that the dream integration method is indeed as imagined, and it has accumulated enough samples in a short period of time, saving Nesta the emotional journey that may have taken more than ten years to complete in reality.

However, the brain of the visualized body has not really started to operate at this time, and the dominance of self and thinking is still maintained between the brain structures supported by multifunctional cells.

And what comes next is the test of ‘success or failure’ with no shortcuts.

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After a period of observation and calculation, Nesta fell into the deepest meditation of his own accord and began to execute the final step that determined success or failure.

Little by little, he activated the structure representing brain thinking in the visualization body, and as the endless 0s and 1s accelerated, the brain in the chest, which had been transformed, also began to be integrated by the visualization body.

The biological links between cells in the brain are being 'extinguished' one by one at the moment, which represent brain functional areas that are gradually transferred to the visualization body;

First, it is the passive operating area of ​​the body that has been integrated before;

After that, there is the perceptual functional area in charge of the eyes, nose, ears, touch and other senses;

After that, there is a series of conscious feedback areas that dominate rationality and sensibility.

The bioelectrical feedback on the brain structure is dissipating bit by bit, and its carrier is slowly 'dissolving' and peeling off from the main body;

The main structure of the brain is dying out at an accelerating rate. The optic tectum, lateral brain, and pituitary gland, which were generated by the front, middle, and hindbrain and have differentiated successively in the long evolutionary history, have been successively disbanded, until the most primitive notochord structure has been completely reduced to nothing.

In this process, his consciousness, self, and will have become closer and more complete on another level;

Finally, when the brain completely dissipates and the visualization body reaches unity, a shocking and spiritual glow emerges from the depths of the will.

And Nesta's perception was also pulled to infinite highs and then dropped to infinite lows at this time;

His thinking seemed to break free from the shackles of the body in an instant, transcending the blessings of cells, and saw a tangible 'truth';

They are a large number of strings, links for names, and reflections of matter in different dimensions.

However, this mysterious and unknown experience came and went quickly. Before Nesta could recover from the inexplicable shock, this seemingly 'temporary experience' began to be gathered and covered.

Finally, it is unified with the reality that is visible to the naked eye and verifiable by touch;

He only vaguely felt that there seemed to be some unknown mark left somewhere on his body, but he could not observe it or determine it.

Until his consciousness fell back and his rationality returned, everything before was like a fourth consecutive dream, leaving only hazy memories in his heart.

That seems to be the most basic extraordinary characteristic of this world?

Nesta did not regret forgetting at this time. His experience when he first controlled the magic crystal told him that it is no good or even dangerous to 'see' and 'remember' something too early;

They are very likely to destroy your current understanding of the world, and the fragmentary fragments you see and remember cannot form a complete set of logic;

For a mage, this is equivalent to having his foundation destroyed.

So he calmed down and focused on the more real present.

At this time, the visualization body finally completely integrated all of Nesta's cellular wills. In his body, thinking, and self, there was no longer a distinction between 'potential' and 'main'.

This is the feeling of ‘all are one, one is all’, and the entire body has achieved true unity at the level of consciousness;

Different from the previous ones, for the purpose of 'coexistence', by distinguishing functions, an overall cell stacking structure was formed in collaboration;

Now Nesta may be considered a true and complete "one". The many cells that once cooperated and coexisted have completely become a part of him and are his extension in the real world;

At least, this is true at the 'cellular level', but as for the more microscopic areas, further exploration is needed.

In addition, the ‘human’ nature has been completely preserved, and Nesta has not turned into a biological computer based on the meditation space;

At the same time, in the 'brain armor room' inside the body's chest, a pool of cells flowed at the bottom like a semi-fluid, leaving only a purple crystal sphere that exuded misty brilliance, left alone.

Above it is the magic crystal belonging to Nesta.

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‘Crash’.

Endless purple colors emerge from the 'gaps', they flow and cover the body, and merge into a whole;

Afterwards, the muscles and bones regenerated and the shape returned. Above the silent 'Niesta', another naked Nesta appeared.

He felt himself now, and found that when thinking and consciousness reached true integration, everything became different again;

Although the difference between 75% and 100% does not seem to be very big, the disappearance of the difference has indeed pushed me to cross a qualitative change level again.

On the somatic side, multifunctional cell populations fill every gap in the body;

The stingy Nesta, on the other hand, did not want to waste any lifespan, even though this lifespan was not too conspicuous to him, so he did not actively divide cells to maintain his original body shape;

Therefore, his height and body dimensions were reduced from 3.5 meters to just over 3 meters.

But on the other hand, even if there is a large amount of extracellular water loss, the single weight of the multifunctional cell still piles up its weight to about 5 tons, which is about three times higher than the average level of the group of 1.5 tons.

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Under such circumstances, although the total amount of matter at the cellular level has not changed, the basic data in terms of physique, strength, agility, etc. have shown far higher results than the basic elf body.

These things will inevitably be quantified in the future, but at this time Nesta's mind is not on this aspect, but is eager to try the fifth-level experience in self-definition.

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At the fourth level, even if the visualization body has accumulated a consciousness integration degree higher than 75%, compared with the current 100%, it is by no means covered by the mere 25% gap;

During this period, there was a qualitative change caused by a quantitative change, and it seemed that this resulted in his biggest leap in strength so far.

The first thing to focus on is the ability that Nesta acquired at the fourth level, which he named ‘mimicry mode’;

Due to space limitations, he did not release the 'mimic body' to the maximum in his last attempt to maximize;

But according to estimates, the limit of what I could control at that time should be about 17 meters tall and weighing about 430 tons.

Now, this data seems to have achieved a huge breakthrough all at once. Although its specific scale cannot be known until actual verification, it is estimated that it should exceed one hundred meters, and its weight may be around tens of thousands of tons.

A larger volume naturally means a larger stacking space for totems, and the increase in totems can be reflected in bonuses to strength and other aspects.

Therefore, this is definitely an unparalleled enhancement. Nesta feels that high-level monsters, at least the level of high-level salamander (No. 1 high-level salamander that was not seriously injured), are no longer his opponents.

After looking at the surrounding environment, he resisted the urge to experience it immediately and began to appreciate the progress in other aspects.

Slowly sitting up, the liquid in the culture chamber was pushed away by the movement of the body, causing weak fluctuations in the top cavity;

Then, the body disintegrated during the thought, turning into a purple wave that swept past, and gathered into two 2.5-meter-tall Nestas a few meters away, but a lot thinner;

They walked in the culture cabin, but as they walked, they continued to split and shrink, from 2.5 meters, 2 meters, to 1 meter, 0.5 meters.

Finally, this place has turned into a "Lilliputian country", with hundreds of 10-centimeter-level Nestas standing densely in the training cabin;

They swam, walked, ran, cast spells in the liquid, and randomly tried their abilities in this state. When they occasionally collided with each other, they simply merged with each other and became larger, and then tested the limits of different physical states.

where.

His eyes narrowed and temporarily focused on one of the pocket nestas;

This greedy guy wanted to split again at this time, but only two pools of ooze monsters were separated, so he realized that 10 centimeters was the minimum value to ensure self-sufficiency while ensuring body function;

It is actually possible to subdivide it further, but then it will not be able to maintain the form of the elf, and it can only squirm forward in the training cabin like a slime.

As a result, the two ooze monsters merged again and returned to their previous appearance. However, he did not stop and started trying to transform his body again.

In this process, the pocket wind wolf, the pocket volcano salamander, the pocket saurodon, and even the pocket rapid bird appeared one after another. Just like the "three-second test", he understood everything in detail and truly understood the operation of its body.

Creatures with different structures can complete changes by relying on their own bodies rather than druid abilities;

Moreover, this ability truly completely changes the body from the inside out, and can 100% reproduce all its characteristics such as its flight ability, gill breathing ability, and even its sense of smell, vision, etc.;

It can be said that it has truly become that species, rather than just a simulation of appearance. 'Kaz~ Is that you, Kaz!'

After undergoing more than ten transformations, this kind-hearted pocket Nesta stopped panting. This was because the body's energy supply could not keep up.

After resting for a while, another idea suddenly came to his mind.

'What will happen if I execute the mimetic body in this state?'

As soon as his little eyes lit up, the miniature Nesta immediately turned his head and stared at the 'extreme distance' with eager eyes. It was a huge body like a hill. Isn't it the 4.7-meter mimic body of the minor Nestas at the fourth level?

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But at this moment, the atmosphere in the training cabin seemed quite strange. Hundreds of little ones of different sizes and seemingly different races suddenly looked collectively in the same direction and spoke with a sly expression.

The eyes are staring at the same thing.

'Ah! The multi-threading planning was not done well.'

There is a slight confusion in the thinking, but for now this is just a small problem. With a slight debugging, the 'Niesta Consciousness' can even divide the thinking into tens of thousands of simultaneous threads;

As a result, less than a blink of an eye later, the actions of many pocket nestas returned to the non-impeding appearance of independent individuals.

In this process, Nesta also initially grasped the lower limit and excess value of the computing power required to maintain the natural operation of each body in addition to the "full control of the total thread" situation;

When the computing power distribution is lower than the lower limit, the body will not run smoothly. When it exceeds the excessive line, although there will not be negative effects, it is still a waste.

Therefore, he now redistributes the proportion of thinking occupied by each body based on this data, keeping them within the normal limits of no more and no less, while the remaining thinking is concentrated on overall thinking.

The eyes turned back to the pocket body again. The previous ideas had not been abandoned. All Nestas started to transform into 'mimic bodies' under the influence of unified will and different threads of thinking.

After reaching the fifth level, the previously doubtful mental power seems to have become a real thing, and its involvement in reality has been taken a step further;

One of the major manifestations of this is that casting a spell no longer requires the participation of other media other than ‘matter’

For example, 'actions' and 'spells' are no longer necessary for casting spells. You only need to carve runes in meditation, and your own 'mental power' will become the final medium, thus producing spells in reality.

Effect.

Moreover, on the basis of "silent casting", most of the spells have become "pseudo-instant" that can ignore time. There are only a few spells that are born from high-level magic crystals and need to be used to the maximum extent.

It is only necessary to consider the issue of time, but only to the extent of a few seconds at most.

This is also true for the pocket Nestas. In terms of power and durability, they may not be as good as the large Nestas, but the "silent fire" and "pseudo-instant fire" are also retained in them.

So, when all the pocket nestas focused their attention on the 'big mountain', it completely disintegrated almost instantly and turned into small substances with complex compositions;

Afterwards, the dust was attracted to the bodies of the Nestas and gradually transformed into their 'mimic bodies'.

At this time, the overall thinking retained in the digital visualization body "Zhong" also began to analyze its own mimetic body in different states.

During the observation, Nesta discovered that the limits of the mimic body that can be controlled by different body types and their assigned thinking threads are also different;

For example, the 10-centimeter-level Nestas can become 13-25 centimeters (the width and depth of the body will also change accordingly) and be completely integrated into them;

At 15 cm, it can support 17-55 cm of mimicry;

At 20 cm, it can mimic a simulated body of 22-120 cm;

When it reaches 30 centimeters, it can maintain a mimic body with a lower limit of 34 and an upper limit of 350 centimeters.

In other words, Nesta can use only 30 centimeters of itself to maintain a body that is similar to its own original size and has even stronger physical capabilities;

And how many 30cm-level Nestas can he differentiate? The answer is more than a hundred

Later, as the size of the mimic gradually expanded, the amount of cells required inside it should logically increase sharply;

But in fact this is not the case. Instead, due to the aggregation of thinking threads, there has been a qualitative change in control power, and thus the control of a larger body size has been achieved with the integration of fewer cells.

For example, the control limit for a 40 cm body increases to 6 meters, and the control limit for a 50 cm body increases to 12 meters;

When the size of the pocket body reaches 70 centimeters, the corresponding mimic body has exceeded the controllable limit of all cells and all thinking at the fourth level, reaching the 18-meter level.

, full totem control of a mimic body weighing 500 tons.

By this time, the experiment could no longer be carried out.

Because under the pressure of this super large mimic body, the other large and small Nestas, or mimics, were pressed against the culture bulkhead with a look of shame.

This cultivation cabin, as well as the meditation room outside, are after all the public property of the Republic. It would be a shame if they were damaged or burst;

When the retreat reaches this level, Nesta's thinking about the future path is temporarily exhausted. He may have to brew outside and settle for a period of time before he can find new ideas.

Therefore, he decided to end this retreat and go to see Azshara and this Republic that has been special for many years;

As for the remaining verification, as well as the improvement of other aspects after upgrading again, let's leave it to the outside.

As a result, the large and small mimic bodies dissipated into material particles during the movement of thoughts, and many pocket nestas also turned into purple tides;

Then, the two of them all rushed towards a random Nesta in a certain direction, and merged with him in the chaos;

At the same time, the thousands of scattered thinking threads also dissipated at this time, and they all returned to the unified big thinking.

Then, the visualization body began to construct the simulation according to the recorded values, and in a relatively short period of time, it completed the reconstruction of a 4.7-meter-tall, 18-ton body.

At the beginning, this body was obviously made of a composite bone material that was half plant and half metal, with countless totems gathered on its upper, lower, and inner sides;

And when Nesta's cells were all integrated into it, more subtle changes also occurred, but what finally manifested was still the body created at the fourth level, only in terms of body shape and body proportions.

Looks more naughty

Diamond-like purple eyes, extremely realistic internal and external structure, if you ignore the height and excessive weight, then perhaps only the long tail at the end of the spine and the cloaca that can be opened and closed in the crotch will show the difference;

The rest of the appearance is the same, and even the structure of the internal organs seems to be the same.

Then, his forehead suddenly squirmed and cracked, and a purple hemisphere emerged half-covered. But in the next moment, Nesta showed obvious shyness on his face, and then sucked it into his skull.

Inside the armor.

'My body is already in golden proportions. Yes, that's right. It's definitely like that.'

Thinking like this, Nesta, whose control over the mimic body has greatly increased, controlled the soles of her feet to turn into tail fins, jumped slightly, and quickly climbed to the top of the training chamber;

And this container, which had been expanded to half the volume of the meditation room, now seemed to have intelligence and 'actively' opened, making way for this house elf who had 'dwelled' for more than twenty years.

So, he broke through the liquid surface and rushed out, accurately starting to fall before hitting the top;

On the way, all the culture fluid residue on the body surface and inside the body was absorbed, and the tail fin turned into two feet again. Then when a set of casual clothes appeared, he finally stepped on the wooden floor of the meditation room.

Sunlight fell from the roof made of leaves, shining mottledly on Nesta's face. At this moment, he took a deep breath and felt a sense of comfort all over his body.

"Ah~ It's better to be outside anyway~~"

(End of chapter)