From troll tribes to elf empires

Chapter 302 Another stage of the warrior’s path (Part 1)

The evolution process of troll warriors to elves mainly relies on a key and a door, of which the former is "will" and the latter is "energy".

Since Nesta figured out the 'universal plan' for troll upgrades decades ago, the warriors who were still trolls began to train their wills by overcoming levels 1 to 5 of violent states;

When such training reaches a certain stage, they gain a super strong individual will, and this super strong will prompts the warriors to complete the assimilation of the implant, and subsequently drives their entire body.

The evolution of elves.

As the evolution of the body takes place and is completed, the door belonging to 'energy' is naturally opened, and eventually the trolls who are not witch doctors are able to evolve into elves, and thus achieve life, etc.

The first ascent of the ladder.

After completing this step, most of the warriors still continued to adapt to the violent state out of inertia and instinct.

Up to now, the top batch among them have been able to maintain their sanity amidst the extreme frenzy, and maintain their normal training and even life.

Nesta's original idea of ​​"turning on the rage when fighting and fighting the enemy bravely in reason" has become a combat method that can be realized for a large number of warriors, although it has many disadvantages in various aspects.

Due to the influence of the reasons, it almost never became mainstream

But, what should we do next? But no one has a clear direction.

With the research assistance of the witch doctors, many branches of warriors have indeed appeared one after another, such as the music side, the agility side, the force analysis side, the weapons side, etc. It can also be said that "a hundred flowers bloom";

From this, combat forms such as 'tide of movement', sonic vibration, and dance to kill enemies were developed. To a certain extent, it can be considered that great progress has been made.

But if you look more carefully, you can find that these "Hundred Flowers" are actually more inclined to "skills" and "applications". At least no one has really achieved another breakthrough in the essence of life because of this. For the time being,

It's just some bells and whistles.

More importantly, the totem technology, and the external armor applications derived from it, gave a real blow to the research on the 'warrior side' and the 'flesh side', which for a time brought it to a state of stagnation.

The reason mainly lies in physical energy utilization, adaptability, and strong increase in combat power. The body of a warrior is completely defeated in the face of external armor.

Specifically, if the energy efficiency ratio that a warrior can exert in combat when using his pure physical body is quantified as ‘1’;

That is, assuming that they can use '1' of physical energy, without loss or amplification, to convert '1' into an effect. Of course, in fact there is both loss and amplification, so this is just a hypothesis;

Through external armor and the totems stacked on it, it is possible to obtain an energy efficiency ratio that far exceeds that of physical combat with the same physical exertion.

For example, when a warrior uses pure physical energy to supply the operation of the totem, depending on the armor configuration, he can actually obtain an increase ranging from negative levels to more than ten times;

Therefore, the popular armor flow and configuration flow have become almost synonymous with warriors.

But in terms of 'energy', they initially rejected the idea of ​​giant teeth, thinking that something like this was too illusory and dangerous (such as connecting electricity into the body), and it was really not suitable to create something from scratch.

It is the initial stage of exploration, and it is suitable to search and define in the opposite direction from the peak after reaching a certain height.

There were failures and more or less progress in the process, but the pursuit never stopped, and Juya is one of the representatives.

Different from the traceable path forward of the witch doctors, the use of 'will' is more illusory than 'spiritual power' and more immature, making his progress extremely difficult.

In terms of 'will', the training effect produced by 'suppressing rage' is far less obvious than before, so he needs to find new ways to continue to grow;

In terms of 'energy', to be honest, there is not much room for his imagination. Even the witch doctors are still difficult to give an accurate and specific definition for it;

But if there are those who follow the crowd and those who are satisfied with the status quo, then there must be the opposite.

Therefore, at this time, there is a group of soldiers in the Republic. Although they are not opposed to becoming "drivers" who rely on armor to fight, they are also pursuing a leap in life;

These warriors long for breakthroughs at the essential level. They hope to be able to continuously make progress in life levels like the witch doctors;

Therefore, they chose to persist in practicing at the will level, and at the same time, they explored their own physical levels.

This left many soldiers at a loss. They gradually began to wonder why they continued to train so hard.

In essence, the elves who inherited many of the trolls' personality traits are indeed warlike, but they are by no means 'cultivation mad';

When one's own training no longer brings enough feedback and satisfaction, it is not impossible to turn to the path of "technology stacking". It can even be said to be very common.

The process lasted several times, from the implant to the skin to the blood. They tried almost everything, but this 'dwarfing' process was as invisible as a black box;

In this regard, there are actually two conceivable paths.

First, use a small number of somatic cells from the giant teeth to proliferate a large number of homologous cell groups, and then incorporate them into themselves as part of themselves just like the original assimilation of the implant, part of the exogenous supply consumed by the proliferation process

Materials naturally become Big Tusk's 'trophies';

However, according to their observations of native cells and proliferating cell groups, if this method is used to increase one's own body mass in large quantities, it is very likely to leave some hidden dangers, at least there are known hidden dangers.

Issues such as balance' and 'lifespan';

So taken together, this seemingly smart 'dumb way' is actually not suitable to be implemented as a priority option.

Since the witch doctors intervened, they have really helped Juya a lot with their better knowledge and more convenient magical abilities. Even his initial ideas were also influenced by the witch doctors.

Continuous adjustments and optimizations are being made during research

When it comes to exercising their will, the witch doctors feel that they have nothing to say;

After all, this is what warriors are good at, and the witch doctor couldn't even give a clear explanation of what 'will' is, so he didn't comment on Big Tusk's idea.

So, with this idea in mind, he gathered several witch doctors who were interested in this aspect and willing to invest their energy, and with their help, he started this relatively long exploration.

Second, start from the external armor that contains a part of itself, use the "core" and "built-in plexus" as the hub, and use your will to render the other metal materials and plant structures of the armor;

Moreover, this kind of assimilation cannot take the path of "bone hyperplasia" like the fourth and fifth levels, but requires more thorough acceptance and integration.

Therefore, they conducted experiments on their own bodies, trying to explore the boundaries between 'cells' and 'materials that make up cells', and between 'body' and 'non-body' from a spiritual perspective.

At the beginning, due to the experience of becoming an elf and the path that had been chosen to a certain extent, Big Tusk still chose to focus on the two concepts of 'will' and 'energy' when exploring the improvement of the essence of life.

Start at each level.

In addition, at the parliamentary level and the research bias of witch doctors, this method of combat is more favored due to the advantages of totem armor in terms of mass production, combat power increase effect, and energy input and output ratio.

, and are more willing to work hard on totem research.

Moreover, this is also something that the ‘Ancient Tree Spirits’ will face in the future.

In order to verify this conclusion from a certain level, they first tried to partially destroy the giant tooth's implant to see how it changed from a 'part' to a 'non-body substance'

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Even though the physical body is more flexible than the external armor, there is almost no room for bravery in the face of this increase that is calculated at least several times or tens of times;

Therefore, the increase in strength that can be achieved through ten years of hard training cannot be compared with 'upgrading armor' in terms of effect and efficiency.

In other words, find ways to start with scale and size and strengthen yourself by occupying more matter.

Furthermore, if an 'external energy source' is connected, this increase intensity can be immediately amplified to ten times;

And if we choose to upgrade the level of energy supplies again (such as using pure high-energy cell fluid to drive), use the latest processing technology to increase the density of totems, and then equip the "intelligent brain" to assist in control

Then, the gap between pure flesh and external armor may even reach hundreds or even thousands of times.

The first item was temporarily abandoned. Although the second item was not sure whether it was feasible, Juya followed the instructions and started related attempts. However, the subsequent results proved that things were not as smooth sailing as imagined.

At the beginning, whether it was the 'naturalization' of the implants and external nerve plexuses in the body, or the assimilation of the core body and inner nerve plexus in the armor, the reason why it went so smoothly (it was actually very time-consuming)

time), because they are born out of the giant tusk itself and have natural homology;

But this time it was completely different. The plant materials and metal materials in the external armor did not belong to him. It may be because of this that the attempt this time has not yielded results.

However, the witch doctor team did not fully agree with this seemingly natural conclusion at this time.

Instead, they believe that when cells are separated from the body, they are separated from the body and have long since become another individual in the process of proliferation;

And in essence, it is just a complex aggregate of matter. Since the cells it is composed of can be assimilated, then as long as a method is found, the assimilation of other substances should also be completed.

Moreover, based on the characteristics that the warriors had shown in terms of ‘assimilation implants’, the witch doctor team suggested that Big Tusk try to take the path of ‘increasing entities’;

Therefore, ‘enduring physical pain’ came into Big Tooth’s sight.

Therefore, he chose 'electricity', which is most like energy in his concept, as a breakthrough point, and divided his ideas into three directions: 'exogenous reserve', 'endogenous generation', and 'electricity resistance'.

I wonder if I can turn myself into a 'self-generated electricity, electricity storage, and high-resistance electricity warrior'.

In fact, Big Tooth's idea can be said to be quite simple;

He must stay awake in pain, find consciousness in paralysis, and in the process practice and exercise his "will", just like how he overcame rage and thirst;

And because among the potential hostile gods, there is a guy who is very good at using electricity, so he wants to improve his resistance to 'electricity' attacks, and even master more powerful 'electricity' rules in turn, and

Use this as a basis to play more roles in future wars;

In addition, he wanted to find some possibilities in his own 'energy' through the most direct contact with electricity and magnetic fields;

If this exploration can be successful, it will be an alternative path for future generations.

The research has reached this point, and to a certain extent, it has actually gone off the topic. However, the witch doctors who have fallen into a stubborn state are not able to get out of it so easily. They have 'let go' of the giant tooth for the time being and start working on themselves instead.

Some slightly cruel verification

After continuing for a period of time, this "abnormal" phenomenon attracted the attention of other witch doctors, and caused a stir in the parliament regarding "experimentation", which eventually led to the matter being brought to the "heaven", and it was rumored that

Entered the ears of Azshara and other 'space witch doctors'

The fifth-level witch doctors first restricted the 'cruel' and 'immoral' experimental process, but the ideas of those witch doctors and some subtle discoveries in the process attracted their attention.

Therefore, not long after, Big Tusk was taken up to the sky and became the first elf warrior in history to enter space.

Afterwards, the fifth-level witch doctors who maintained the 22-in-1 state began to think and study the witch doctors' ideas in the low-matter-density orbiting laboratory, using the connection between internal and external feedback.

In the process, they discovered that the individual Big Tusk itself only had very illusory feedback inside;

It is just a collection of "strings", symbolizing his "existence" on the "material" level;

The feedback that belongs to 'thinking' is very weak, far from being comparable to near gods, high-level monsters, or even fourth- and fifth-level witch doctors, let alone the cheating fifth-level witch doctors who are still inside.

Ability to maintain one's own 'thoughts'.

However, when the giant tooth used faith and will to assimilate the implant, the witch doctors observed the original 'matter string' in its feedback, showing the instant's 'field' characteristics, and interacting with the advanced monsters.

There are slight similarities, and it also looks like an extremely simplified version of the near-god's 'realm';

Of course, this is only a similarity in 'existence form', not a functional equivalence.

(End of chapter)