Chapter 127: Absorption
Through the spirit network, Leo found that the tombs were not empty, but there were indeed corpses, but each corpse was very distorted, some had long hands and feet, some had mutated bodies, some had slender heads, and all in all, except for the characteristics of the human form, the other organs were very different from humans.
In addition, Leo clearly felt that the words engraved on the tombstones of these tombs were familiar, and the paracerebral system also said that these words were all words that he knew, but whether it was his own recollection or the comparison with the paracerebral system, he could not determine what kind of writing it was.
Leo immediately thought of a situation that was unusually similar to the one he was now, and that was a dream. Because when human beings dream, no matter how complete and concrete the dream world is, in the dream world, the dreamer can never distinguish any kind of text, only the text pattern that cannot identify the specific content.
Because Leo's Psychic Net has doubled its coverage, the Spire Cabin, which looked like a grave keeper's hut, has also come into his Psychic Net's area, allowing him to see what is inside the hut without getting close there.
Soon, the spirit network fed back the probing information to Leo, and the image formed by the feedback information surprised him a little.
If the spirit network detects some strange monsters in that room, Leo can accept it, after all, this nightmare world is a world where anything can exist, and it can be seen from the corpses in the cemetery that this should be a monster world.
However, the problem is that the result of his spiritual network detection is that the person in the house is a normal person, no different from the ordinary people in the world of Velon.
I saw that this person was a young man in his twenties, with a very ordinary appearance, wearing a leather jacket that may have been popular more than a hundred years ago, and the boots under his feet were the kind of sleeve hunting boots that were popular in ancient times.
At the moment, the young man was assembling a mechanical device that looked like an enhanced version of a mechanical bow and crossbow. It's just that this kind of bow and crossbow is not an arrow, but uses a rotating mechanical device to eject the circular saw blade specially used for sawing wood, and the force is so strong that it should be easy to cut off an arm-thick wooden stake at close range.
Just as Leo was about to take a closer look at the young man's condition, a noisy dog barking was heard, and the young man in the room became nervous, picked up the weapon he had just assembled, and looked out through the peephole in the wooden door.
Immediately afterward, Leo saw a dozen human-tall canine-like creatures tumble in from outside the walls, breaking into the cemetery and into his spiritual web.
Soon the psychic network found out the true situation of these canine-like creatures, although these creatures looked like canines, they actually had nothing to do with canines.
All of these canine-like creatures have a goat's head, but the mouth is very cracked, almost to the base of the ear, and full of sharp teeth, and the body is a human body, which can distinguish male and female from the chest and lower body, and the limbs are the limbs of a lizard, and finally a tail composed of bone joints, and the tail is covered with bone spurs like steel needles.
"Yubato. Such a unique image made it easy for the parabrain system to find the corresponding data from the database and present it to Leo.
Yubato is the name of this monster, which is not recorded in the occult books of Rembrandt, but in the mythological chapters of the Velen Bio Dictionary, an internal edition published by the Medical School.
This monster only appears in the folklore of the Kingdom of Mares, and legend has it that this monster is the caretaker of the Land of Eternal Sleep, specializing in preying on souls lost in the wilderness of death who have not been able to reach the Land of Eternal Sleep.
The ultimate goal of such monsters is to become human, and as long as they eat enough souls, their bodies will gradually transform, and eventually they will become completely human.
In the canon, this monster is among the unidentified monsters, except that this unconfirmed entity has not seen a living entity, but it does have a specimen of the monster's head and skelet. The specimen is now housed in the Natural History Museum of the Kingdom of Mares, and there is a hand-drawn drawing of the specimen in the published Biology Dictionary, and the head specimen is almost identical to the Yubato that Leo sees today.
At the same time that Leo spotted these monsters, these monsters also smelled the scent of living people on Leo's body, and they let out a few low noises similar to conversation, and then, like wolves cooperating with predation, dispersed far away from Leo, gradually surrounding Leo in it, and then advancing towards Leo.
Seeing that Yubato had taken himself as a prey target, Leo couldn't help but smile and reached out to draw his spear to finish off the monsters, but the action stopped again and turned the twins into cross-swords instead.
Leo, who was standing with a sword, quietly waited for the attack of these monsters, and these monsters themselves also have a high level of intelligence, seeing Leo standing in place, there was suspicion in his eyes, and after getting close to a certain distance, he circled around Leo and did not attack immediately.
After a few laps, with a low bark, the four Eubato located behind and on both sides suddenly rushed out and flew towards Leo, their toothy cracked mouths wide open, aiming at Leo's limbs.
However, just as they were about to bite their prey, the prey in their eyes suddenly disappeared, causing them to bite into the air, and as each other's bodies staggered through the air, a flash of light flashed through their bodies. When they fly to the other side and the four feet just hit the ground, their bodies immediately split apart from the part where the flash passed and become two halves.
After Leo eliminated the four Ebato, the whole person rushed out, and instantly rushed to the largest group of Eubato, the long sword in his hand waved rapidly, and these monsters that were extremely dangerous to ordinary people fell under his sword one by one.
In less than a minute, there was only one of these Yubato left, and the last Yubato tried to escape, but was nailed to the ground by Leo's sword, and the force of the run was unabated, causing it to cut the back half of its body in two.
Just as Leo had eliminated all of the Jubato and returned the twins to the Grave Keeper's Hut, the anomalous changes occurred again, and all the surrounding Yubato's corpses were in black flames, instantly burning to ashes, and those ashes turned into black smoke like the Book of Night and poured towards Leo.
Because of the experience once, Leo did not appear panicked again, but asked the parabrain system to carefully record the changes in the body to see what effect the black smoke had when it was integrated into the body.
I don't know if it's because Leo is well prepared this time, or because of the dream body, when the black smoke penetrates into his body and merges into the three-dimensional root on his bones, Leo can feel that his body is making some changes even if he doesn't look at the personal number interface.
When all the black smoke from the burning of Yubato's corpses melted into Leo's body, the changes in his body gradually subsided, and he immediately opened the personal data interface to view it.
In the interface, the base value of personal qualities has not changed as Leo thought, but the daily value consumed has been replenished, among which all the spiritual energy is full, and the daily value of will and spirit have also been restored. And the most peculiar point is that the daily values related to physical fitness such as strength, agility, and physique have exceeded the basic values, reaching eleven and fourteen points respectively.
Because of this, Leo felt that his body had become stronger, as if his base value had broken through the limit. However, this was only temporary, and he could feel that his daily values were dropping over time, like an adrenaline rush during a fight, and it would not take long for it to return to normal.
If Leo was a little disappointed by the fact that his personal qualities were only a temporary increase in his daily value, then he was really pleasantly surprised by the changes in his talents and skills that followed.
First of all, the energy storage value of the chaotic stomach pouch was instantly increased by hundreds of points, reaching more than nine hundred points, and there were only a few dozen points left from the upper limit of one thousand points, and he felt that when the upper limit of the energy storage value was reached, perhaps his body would get some changes because of this.
There is a change in one talent, and another skill has also changed, and this change is very huge, that is, the prompt behind the psionic skill to consume psionic energy has disappeared, which means that when he uses the psionic skill, he will no longer consume any psionic energy.
Undoubtedly, the spiritual vision skill no longer consumes psionic energy points, which is an extraordinary benefit for Leo, not to mention that the psychic skill can help him see all kinds of psionic objects, be able to see farther, be able to see at night, etc., just the dynamic vision that can be turned on at all times is enough to make Leo's strength greatly improve under the condition that the basic value of quality remains the same.
Leo thought that if he could perfectly control his skills and didn't need to consume psionic energy, then with the dynamic visual effects of his vision, he was absolutely confident that he could use cold weapons to block a hundred.
The disappearance of the spiritual energy consumption of the Psionic Skill can only be regarded as an appetizer for this change, and the real meal is actually the Dream Body.
Perhaps because of the process of absorbing black smoke, the paracerebral system has collected enough information, and the dream body, which originally had no explanation, has an additional explanation at this time, and this explanation is very simple, only absorbing the dream spirit.
While the explanation is simple, for Leo the value goes far beyond the change of other personal data.
Obviously, those Yubato just now should be dream spirits, which also confirms from the side that this is a dream world, and Leo can absorb them by killing these dream spirits and use them to improve his own strength, which is just like the Earth Federation's game to fight monsters and upgrade.
Judging from the situation just now, the effect after absorbing these dream spirits is undoubtedly significant, which may also be related to the first absorption, and it should not be possible to achieve such a strong effect as the current absorption in the future. But one thing is certain, that is, if he continues to absorb these dream spirits, his physical qualities should gradually improve, and his skills and talents will also change.
However, Leo was not only happy, but also faintly worried, because he knew very well that any gain must be paid. If he was able to gain so much from absorbing the Dream Spirit, then he would definitely have to give something, and the problem now was that he had no idea what he would give, and this unknown was the most headache.
However, Leo has no way to solve this problem now, so he can only leave it to the parabrain system for the time being, and once enough data is collected, perhaps the parabrain system will be able to analyze something useful.
After reviewing his talents and skills a few times, and finding no other changes, Leo was about to close the interface, but suddenly he was attracted by the content at the top of the interface and stopped closing his personal interface.
I saw that in the race column, there is now a less obvious percentage progress bar on the top of the hidden race bloodline, and the progress value on the progress bar is now 1.3 percent.
Seeing this progress bar, Leo didn't know that when the progress bar was full, his recessive race bloodline would be opened.
However, this is not a particularly happy event for Leo, as he still has no idea what his hidden bloodline is.
Leo didn't know what kind of changes he would have when the recessive bloodline was stimulated, whether he would have some physical abnormalities like the family, or whether he would get some inferior bloodlines that would have a negative impact on his original strength, etc., made him lack interest in stimulating the recessive bloodline.
After struggling for a while and confirming that he couldn't change the situation, Leo could only passively accept this uncertain change in his bloodline, and hoped in his heart that the worst would not happen.
Leo walked over to the ashes left by Yobato's burning and looked for something high-energy to see if he could find something high-energy in the ashes, like the monster Mogandy he had killed in the Black Forest Wonderland.
However, he was destined to be disappointed, and it was clear that the flames generated by the death of the Dream Spirit had completely incinerated them, refining all the essence into black smoke, leaving only some useless ash remains.
However, this situation allowed Leo to discover some useful information.
In the Nightmare Realm, the Dream Spirit will be refined into the essence after death, and if there is no Dream Body like Leo, these essences will be reintegrated into the Nightmare Realm, and the Dream Spirit will only be left with a pile of useless ashes.
But now in this cemetery, the corpses buried in this cemetery are all intact bones, and some are even decomposing, and there is no situation that the dream spirit should have after death, so the only explanation for this phenomenon is that these corpses are not the products of the Nightmare Realm itself, and they are all outsiders like him.
This made Leo think of the people who disappeared at 9 Golden Oak Street, the legendary city and the people in it. If they had simply disappeared rather than died, then they would likely have continued to live in the Nightmare Realm, and even preserved their civilization.