Chapter 5 Entry Trial - Natural Transformation

"Ma Dan, the S-level trial won't be so perverted, and the third one will appear as a magical creature." The moment he saw the beating willow, Sherlock was not good.

According to the setting of the Forgotten Realm, all spirit creatures belong to magical creatures or higher-level creatures, and the beating willow can be known by looking at the name as a tree spirit, although it is the lowest level of magical creatures, the difficulty of transformation is not high, but Sherlock has no experience in transforming into plant life.

Looking at the beating willow that kept moving in front of his eyes and waving his branches from time to time, Sherlock could only muster 120,000 points of attention to observe.

In fact, as a tree, it is not difficult to embody its image, and it is even a little less difficult to substitute one's own consciousness into a tree than before, and at first Sherlock was only frightened by its identity as a magical creature.

Now the main problem is that Sherlock can't choose between the quality and quantity of his transformation, and the third ring is to beat the magic creature of the human willow, and the transformation form will only become more and more difficult after that, whether to spend more time on the simple form to get as high a score as possible or hurry up to complete more forms of transformation.

"Forget it, it's just a waste of time to go on like this, or give priority to quantity." Sherlock wasn't a very decisive person, and there was no particular basis for making this decision, except that suddenly he wanted to see what kind of transformations the druids had in the later stages.

Theoretically, the natural creatures of the main material plane and the elemental creatures of the elemental plane are within the scope of the druid's transformation, but in fact, it is impossible to design this way in the game, and the Forgotten Realm has made an extremely large selection and integration of all natural creatures, and in the end, only about five hundred morphological transformations with distinctive characteristics or universality are left.

Compared to the base of more than 100,000, 500 seems to be a very small number, but for players, 500 transformation forms is definitely a temptation that is difficult to refuse, so even if you know that the druid profession is a pit, there is still a steady stream of new people jumping in just for the figure of the transformed black dragon in the promotional animation. Even at the beginning of the game, the number of druid players surpassed that of warriors and mages.

So Sherlock was completely curious at this point. And now that he had made his decision, he no longer thought of a second way, and he gave up on embodying the dense branches and roots of the beating willow, and the image in his mind was only a straight trunk and two bare branches, and the roots were only split into two.

System Prompt: Transform into a Beat Willow to complete, score 46, next target - Bear Hound (3-20)

Although Sherlock's deformed beating Liu Meng looked no different from a human, his score of 46 was still unexpected, and he didn't get on the passing line, and the next transformation form of the bear hound made him even more stressed.

Because the form of the Bear Retriever Sherlock had seen in a strategy, it was a B-level trial, and it was the player's twelfth ring transformation form, and now, there was a bear hound in the fourth ring.

Sherlock learned about this beloved nature companion among the druids, and even one of his novice village mentors, Vecid, had a bear hound.

The Bear Hound is a wild creature, the size is large, with the appearance characteristics of both a bear and a dog, bear teeth, a dog nose, and a weak magical ability, as the top of the wild creatures, his strength is undoubted, and most of the bear hounds are very docile and friendly, and is one of the favorite natural companions of druids and rangers in history.

It's a pity that unlike the one who only needs to look like to be able to transform into a successful human willow, the transformation of animals has certain requirements for some main features, the proportions and lines of the entire body, Sherlock constantly adjusts the embodied image in his mind, but it has not reached the minimum requirements for transformation, and there are many problems in the substitution of consciousness.

"It's just a natural transformation of a bear hound, how long do you want to hold it?"

Suddenly hearing a mechanical sound coming from his feet, Sherlock saw that Luna One didn't know when he came out of the puppet's heart, I don't know if it was because he was too nervous to conduct the trial or didn't expect it, but he didn't realize until the other party spoke up, which is unimaginable in normal times.

"My energy is precious, and I don't want to waste it on your constipated face." Ignoring Sherlock's consternation, Luna One continued to grumble

Sherlock found this mechanical sound very annoying for the first time, just like the buff of taunt +2, and he finally confirmed that Luna One was indeed not Luna herself, although Luna was crazy and spoke very directly, but she was by no means so vicious.

"I want to concretize an image with a higher degree of fit, and strive to get a high score, you know." Sherlock, who couldn't afford to lose face, looked down at Luna One and argued.

"Look into my eyes."

"What's so nice about your eyes?" For the person he is at ease, Sherlock has always been upright, and when he said so, his gaze involuntarily moved to Luna One's eyes.

Strangely, Luna One's eyes seemed to have a new pair, the whites and black pupils disappeared, replaced by a spiral pattern, and constantly turned from the outside to the inside.

……

System Prompt: Transform into a Bear Hound to complete, score 86, next target - primary fire element (5-20)

Hearing the system prompt, Sherlock suddenly came to his senses, and then he found that he had completed his transformation, seeing that he clearly remembered looking at Luna One's eyes in the last second, how could he hear the sound of the system prompt in the next second, he could feel that something was missing in the middle, but he couldn't remember anything.

"You helped me?" Sherlock asked tentatively.

"Could it be that Opal (the god of druids) helped you?"

Hearing Luna One's affirmative answer, Sherlock didn't doubt it, except for Luna One, there was indeed no other possibility, but how did she do it, the Forgotten Realm has not found a single bug since the open beta, and Luna One can't have the ability to modify the system.

"Luna One, how did you do that?" Sherlock asked excitedly and eagerly, no matter how he did it, as long as it worked.

"I just poked your chrysanthemum ......"

"Is it hypnosis?" Charlotte has already reflected, "So you gave me back a hint that I'm a bear hound"

"Well, well, you got it right." Interrupted abruptly, Luna One apparently didn't expect Sherlock to react so quickly.

For the transformation mechanism launched by the Forgotten Realm, the first moment it was discovered by players, it attracted the research of countless players, and put aside those meaningless doubts, several points of view have been affirmed by the majority of players, among which the most theoretical basis is the subconscious theory.

The core of this theory is to use the subconscious mind to complete the embodiment of the image and the substitution of consciousness, this point of view has a very sufficient theoretical basis, from the mental patient, hypnosis, conditioning and other angles have been elaborated in detail, and in the virtual game the player is actually in a state of pure consciousness that has abandoned the body, the barrier between the surface and the inner consciousness is broken, and there is a complete possibility of using the subconscious.

"Even for the druids, natural transformation is not a simple matter, it requires years of contact, I really can't figure out why you adventurers can master it so quickly, I should suggest that Luna take this as the next subject."

Ignoring Luna One's doubts, if Luna can study this player's secret, then she is not an NPC, Sherlock received an affirmative answer, and his heart was completely convinced of the subconscious theory of natural transformation. The key now is how to use the subconscious mind to give himself psychological hints, which he doesn't know at all, but he doesn't have a clue.

The next target is the fire element, which is an elemental life, and the elemental life is one of the very few non-main matter plane creatures that the druids can transform, and the shape of the fire element is a humanoid white flame, and the difficulty of embodying it should not be high, so he is doing experiments.

"Luna One, can you hypnotize me again?" Sherlock looked into Luna One's eyes and said earnestly, he had a feeling for the state of being hypnotized just now, but because he didn't care at first, this feeling had gradually drained, and he was ready to enter the state of being hypnotized again, theoretically speaking, losing consciousness barrier, it is not difficult to evoke the subconscious.

Luna One didn't reply, but her eyes turned in a spiral again.

"When, then, but, yes." The moment she finished speaking, Luna's palm waved slightly, and Sherlock closed her eyes again.

"It's good to learn a few hypnotic techniques, otherwise it would be a shame." Looking at Sherlock, who was hypnotized again, Luna One muttered quietly, and then gave a hint.

Randomly, a hot wind blew, and a scorching fire elemental appeared in front of Luna One's eyes.

System Prompt: Transform into a fire elemental successfully, score 92, and the next target - Tail Explosion (6-20).

With a "bang", Sherlock, who had re-transformed into a human body, didn't even hear the system prompt, and the moment he woke up from the hypnotic state was the transition point between the surface and the inside, and it was the best opportunity to remember that state.

A minute later, Sherlock, fully awakened, immediately observed the creature of the whelk, and he now couldn't wait to transform again.

The appearance of the fried tail snail should be said to be quite curious, this is a snail creature with many tentacles on the bottom, and it is not known whether it is the head or the tail and constantly spews sparks, but now Sherlock does not care about these at all, he needs to quickly observe and note the morphological characteristics of the fried tail snail.

After observing for less than a minute, Sherlock closed his eyes again.

In fact, Sherlock still doesn't know how to actively evoke the subconscious, the only thing he can do is to enter the state when he was hypnotized just now.

Just like in real life, when we do a lot of things, we often hear the word "looking for feelings", which is ethereal, but real, it is a subconscious stimulus, it exists in our daily practice and a weak premonition of the development of things.

Fifteen minutes later, with a "bang", Sherlock finally managed to transform into a fried tail snail, and it was very close to what the system generated.

System Prompt: Successfully transformed into a fried tail snail, score 83, next target - Wind Fairy (7-20)