Chapter 301: Another Stage of the Warrior's Path (Part I)

The evolution of a troll warrior into an elf depends mainly on a key and a door, the former being 'will' and the latter being 'energy'......

Since Nesta figured out the 'universal plan' for the promotion of trolls decades ago, the warriors who were still trolls began to exercise their will by overcoming the berserk state of levels 1 to 5;

When this kind of training reaches a certain stage, they will gain a super strong individual will, and this super will will prompts the warriors to complete the assimilation of the implant, and then lead to the evolution of the elves of their entire body.

In the process of the evolution of the body and the completion of the body, the door belonging to the 'energy' is also naturally opened, and finally the troll who is not a witch doctor can evolve into an elf, and thus achieve the first ascension of the life level.

After completing this step, the vast majority of fighters continued to adapt to the berserk state instinctively out of inertia.....

Up to now, the top ones have been able to maintain their sanity in the extreme frenzied effect, and maintain their normal exercise and even life.

Nesta's original vision of 'going berserk in battle and fighting in sanity' has become a realizable way of fighting for a large number of warriors, although for various reasons, it has almost never become mainstream......

But what's next? But no one has a clear direction.

With the assistance of the research of the witch doctors, there are indeed many warrior branches that have appeared one after another, such as the music side, the agility side, the force analysis side, the weapon side, etc., which can also be called 'a hundred flowers blooming';

As a result, forms of combat such as 'movement like a tide', sonic shock, and dancing to kill the enemy were developed, and to some extent, great progress was made.

But if you look closely, you can find that these 'hundred flowers' are actually more inclined to 'technique' and 'application', at least no one has really made another breakthrough in the essence of life because of this, and they are just some bells and whistles for the time being.

What's more critical is that the totem technology and the resulting application of external armor have really given the research of the 'warrior side' and the 'flesh side' a blow to the head, and once made it fall into a state of stagnation.

The reason for this is mainly due to the utilization rate of physical fitness, adaptability, and the increase of powerful combat power, etc., and the body of the warrior can be called a defeat in the face of external armor.....

Specifically, if the energy efficiency ratio that a warrior can exert in battle when using a pure body is quantified as '1';

That is, suppose they can use the physical energy of '1', without loss or increase, to transform the effect of '1'.... Of course, in fact there is both loss and growth, so this is just a hypothesis;

Through the external armor and the totems stacked on it, it can obtain an energy efficiency ratio far beyond the physical combat under the same physical exertion....

For example, when a warrior uses pure physical strength to supply the totem to run, then depending on the armor configuration, he can actually get an increase of up to a factor of ten or so low;

Further, if the 'external energy' is connected, the intensity of this increase can be immediately amplified to more than ten times;

What if we choose to raise the level of the energy supply again (e.g., driven by pure high-energy cell sap), and use the latest processing technology to increase the density of the totem, and then equip the 'Smart Brain' to assist in control.......

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

Even if the flesh body is more flexible than the external armor, there is almost no room for courage in the face of this increase calculated by at least several times or more than ten times;

As a result, the increase in strength that can be obtained by ten years of penance cannot be compared with 'upgrading armor' in terms of effect and efficiency.

In this way, many fighters are at a loss, and they gradually begin to understand why they continue to work hard......

At the end of the day, elves who have inherited many of the personality traits of trolls are indeed belligerent, but they are by no means 'cultivators';

When the exercise of oneself can no longer bring enough feedback and satisfaction, it is not impossible to pursue the path of 'technology stacking', and it can even be said that this is very common.

In addition, at the council level, at the level of research bias of witch doctors, and because of the advantages of totem armor in mass production, in the effect of increasing combat power, and the ratio of energy input to output, etc., they prefer this combat method and are more willing to work totem research.

As a result, the popular flow of armor and configuration has now become almost synonymous with warriors.

But there are those who follow the crowd and those who are satisfied with the status quo, then there must be a negative side.....

Therefore, at this time, there is a group of warriors in the republic, who are not excluded from becoming 'drivers' who rely on armor to fight, but at the same time they also pursue the leap of life;

These warriors are eager for a breakthrough in the essential level, and they hope to be like the witch doctors, who can continue to progress on the life level;

Therefore, they chose to insist on practicing at the level of the will, and at the same time carried out their own physical exploration.

There are failures and more or less progress in the process, but the pace of pursuit has never stopped, and the giant tooth is one of the representatives....

Unlike the trailing path of the witch doctors, the use of 'will' that is more illusory and immature than 'spiritual power' makes it extremely difficult for him to move forward.

In the beginning, due to the experience of the elves and the path that had been chosen to some extent, the Great Fang still chose to start from the two levels of 'will' and 'energy' when he explored the improvement of the essence of life.

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

Thus, 'enduring physical physical pain' came into the tusk's sight.

In terms of 'energy', to be honest, there is not much room for his imagination, and even the witch doctors still have a hard time coming up with an accurate and specific definition of it;

Therefore, he chose the most energy-like 'electricity' in his concept as a breakthrough, and divided his thinking into three directions: 'exogenous reserves', 'endogenous generation', and 'electrical resistance', thinking about whether he could turn himself into a 'self-generated electricity, power storage, and high resistance electric warrior'......

In fact, the idea of the tooth can be described as quite naïve;

He had to stay awake in the midst of pain, find consciousness in the midst of paralysis, and in the process practice and exercise the 'will', just as he had overcome the rage and thirst.

And because there is a guy who is very good at using electricity among the potentially hostile gods, he wants to improve his resistance to the 'electricity' attack, and even master the more powerful 'electricity' rules in turn, and rely on this to play more roles in future wars;

In addition, he wanted to find some possibilities in terms of 'energy' through the most direct contact with electricity and magnetic fields.

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

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

Since the intervention of the witch doctors, they have really helped Giant Tooth a lot with their better knowledge and more convenient magic abilities, and even his initial ideas have been constantly adjusted and optimized in the research of the witch doctors....

In the exercise of the will, the witch doctors felt that they had nothing to say;

After all, this is what the warriors are good at, and the witch doctor can't even give a clear explanation of what the 'will' is, so he doesn't give any comment on Greatfang's thoughts.

However, in terms of 'energy', they rejected the idea of the giant tooth at the beginning, believing that something like this that is too illusory and has a certain danger (such as connecting electricity into the body) is really not suitable to be the initial stage of exploration from scratch, but is suitable to find and define it from the peak backwards after reaching a certain height.

And, based on the characteristics that the warriors had exhibited in the 'assimilation of implants', the Witch Doctor team suggested that the Greattooth try to follow the path of 'increasing entities';

In other words, we should find a way to start with the scale and strengthen ourselves by occupying more materials.

And in this regard, there are actually two conceivable paths....

First, a large number of homologous cell groups are proliferated from a small number of somatic cells of the megatus, and then they are incorporated into a part of themselves as if they were assimilated implants in the beginning, and part of the exogenous supply substances consumed in the proliferation process naturally become the 'trophies' of the megatusks.

However, according to their observations of protist cells and proliferating cell populations, if they use this method to increase their own body volume in large quantities, it is very likely to leave some hidden dangers, at least the known hidden dangers are problems such as 'balance' and 'longevity';

And this is also something that the 'Ancient Tree Spirits' will face in the future.

So on the whole, this seemingly clever 'stupid method' is actually not suitable for implementation as a priority option.

Second, starting from the external armor that contains a part of itself, with the 'core' and 'internal plexus' as the hub, to render the rest of the armor's metal materials and plant structures with will;

Moreover, this kind of assimilation cannot follow the path of 'bone hyperplasia' like the fourth and fifth orders, but needs to be more thoroughly accepted and integrated.

The first item was abandoned, and the second was not known if it would be feasible, but the Giant Tooth made an attempt to do so, but it turned out that things were not as smooth as expected......

In the beginning, whether it was the 'naturalization' of implants in the body, the external plexus, or the assimilation of the core body and the internal plexus in the armor, the reason why it went so smoothly (and in fact it was also time-consuming) was that they were born from the giant tooth itself and naturally possessed homology;

But this time it was completely different, the plant materials and metal materials in the external armor did not belong to him in the first place, and it may be precisely because of this that this attempt has not been fruitful.....

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

On the contrary, they believe that if the cell is out of body, it is out of body, and in the process of proliferation, it has already become another individual;

And in essence, it is only a complex aggregate of matter after all, and since it can be assimilated into the cells it is composed of, it should be possible to assimilate other substances as long as a way is found.

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

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

Therefore, they experimented with their own bodies, trying to explore the boundary between 'cells' and 'the substances that make up cells', which belong to the 'body' and 'non-body', from the level of mental power.

At this point, the research is actually off topic to some extent, but the witch doctors who have fallen into a state of stubbornness are not so easy to get out of, they temporarily 'let go' the fangs, and instead start to carry out some slightly cruel tests on themselves......

After a period of time, this 'abnormal' phenomenon attracted the attention of the rest of the witch doctors, and caused waves in the council about 'physical experiments', which eventually led to the incident being stabbed into the 'heavens' and into the ears of 'space witch doctors' such as Azhara.......

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

Soon after, Tooth was taken to the sky and became the first elven warrior in history to enter space.

Subsequently, the fifth-order witch doctors, who maintained a 22-in-1 state, began to think and study the ideas of those witch doctors in the orbital laboratory with low material density, using the connection between internal and external feedback.......

In the process, they discovered that the Giant Tooth itself only had very illusory feedback on the inside;

It is just an aggregation of a bunch of 'strings', symbolizing his 'existence' on the 'material' level;

However, the feedback that belongs to the 'mind' is very weak, far from being comparable to the near-gods, high-level demonic beasts, and even the fourth- and fifth-order witch doctors, and it is impossible to maintain their own 'thoughts' inside like the cheating fifth-order witch doctors.

However, when the Giant Fang used faith and will to assimilate the implant, the witch doctors observed the original 'material string' and showed the characteristics of the instantaneous 'field' in their feedback, which had a slight resemblance to the high-level magical beasts, and also seemed to be an extremely simplified version of the 'realm' of the near gods;

Of course, this is only a similarity in the 'form of being', not a functional equivalence.