Deep in the gloomy gray forest, there is a ruined castle, and the phosphorus fire floating in the looming interior seems to prove that this is not simply 'dilapidated'.

In the distance, two little guys less than 1 meter tall and wearing full-body leather armor were huddled together and muttered something in a low voice.... They all have very cute little faces, light purple skin, and a pair of pointed ears that are erected back, indicating that they are two elves.

At this moment, the female elf was mindful and rhythmically waving her little fingers, and a moment later a small mirror appeared in front of her.....

"Brother Rafal! Pellaini's spell was successful! Look! Hmm~" Her face was filled with joy that was out of step with her surroundings, and she said in excitement to another little guy with a serious face next to her.

"Stupid! Whisper..."Seeing this, the little boy covered the little girl's mouth and complained with some reproach,

"Are you trying to attract the eyes of evil? Don't yell, do you understand? ”

"Hmm~~" Seeing that the little girl was already nodding her head again and again, little Rafal put down her hand vigilantly, and then whispered to the empty void,

"Stupid, your spell has dissipated, hurry up and do it again...."

"Okay, Pellaini knows..... It's not true...."

"Huh?"

"It's nothing, I'll just cast a spell..."The little girl's words were obviously blocked by the little boy's serious expression, so she began to cast the spell sullenly, and after three consecutive attempts, it was successful again.

She instinctively wanted to jump up with cheer, but the next moment she quickly covered her mouth, and then looked at the little boy who had raised her hand again, and hurriedly said that she was not ready to make a sound.

"What a fool..... Well, spread your gaze to the castle and see what this mission is up against. ”

"Uh-huh~" The portrait in the mirror seems to be scattered at any time, looking very trembling and unstable, but it can also be seen from the little girl's rather focused and struggling expression that this may be the limit of what she can do at this time.

But in any case, a certain perception was successfully extended into the castle as the spell took shape, and began to have images reflected on the mirror......

"500 ordinary skeletons, 80 skeleton warriors, 30 skeleton squad leaders..... but at this moment, I saw that the picture in the mirror suddenly lit up, and then fell into darkness as if it had been shattered by something.

"The spell has been discovered..... What should we do with Rafal? The little girl asked nervously.

"It's okay, that's enough."

"Really?" Her eyes widened, and the little girl, who was obviously inexperienced, asked curiously.

"Well, there's at most one super high-level skeleton in there, you can follow me later..... By the way, can you cast buff spells? ”

"No... No way... I haven't learned it yet. Running a strand of hair through her fingers, the little girl replied with some embarrassment.

"What about the Immortal Possession?"

"I... I can only maintain 1 light point. The purple skin of her face turned dark purple, and the little girl looked even more embarrassed.

"I regret taking you with me," Rafal said helplessly, "I regret taking .....you," Rafal said, rather helplessly.

"You shouldn't have agreed, you're just a fool."

"Hehe~ Little Perini is only 4 years old, Rafal, you can't dislike it! Otherwise.... Otherwise, I won't play with you again! ”

"Hmph, it's just that I don't want to play with you, I'll be a real warrior Rafal in a month, and it's not like you who have to live in the 'egg' for four years!"

"You!" The little girl was no longer shy, but frowned angrily, but after a moment she asked a little nervously,

"Brother Rafal, are you really not going to come to me after you are born?"

"Don't come! Why come? Waiting to be dragged down by you stupid girl? Pellani's cheeks puffed up, the purple of his eyes darkened, and tears fell as if they had broken threads; She was angry and sad at this point, and then kicked the stupid Rafal so hard that she dropped the phrase 'Never see you again!'

After that, the whole body dissipated on the spot, as if it had never been there. The kick hurt, but Rafal insisted on not leaning over to rub it, despite the twitching of his face, but slowly let it return to normal on its own as he limped along.

"Hmph, Rafal is going to be a big elf right away, so he doesn't know like a stupid egg.... What a wayward guy. While muttering in his mouth, he took out the totem array board from his bosom, placed it in front of him, touched it with one hand, and muttered,

"The balance between good and evil, the fulcrum of good and malice, Valhalla, where endless history and planes are fighting, O Rafal the Summoner needs your help!" Immediately, the array in front of him lit up with a wisp of light, and then there was an illusory and beautiful voice that sounded in his head,

"What kind of help do you need, yet-born elven warrior?"

"I need the help of Artemista to ask him to be my strength..... Unfold the path of the future for Rafal and unfold the true experience of the Shadow Assassin with the blessing of light and shadow! ”

"Understood, please meditate on the dark side of Artemista with your heart, and Valhalla will use your thoughts as a medium to cast the power of the future."

"Yes....." Rafal began to meditate, recalling Artemista in his mind, contemplating a journey of his life in the Endless Plane.

A moment later, following his meditations, memories entered Rafal's mind, allowing him to revisit, from the perspective of a bystander, a certain aspect of the Heroic Spirit of Artemista, a lifetime in a certain plane.

It was the suffering born of betrayal, the salvation in unyielding, the firmness under hesitation, the despair intertwined with light and shadow, and finally the courage triumphed over fear, and brought him a crown of shadows; He is the opposite of light, the Pure Land born from a defiled mind, and he has spent his life in the intervals of the world, carrying out justice that belongs only to him.

After the experience, the power of the whirlwind rose from the second core and turned it into a dark ocean, and then spread from the inside out, to the surroundings, changing all the characteristics of his body in an instant; At the same time, Rafal seemed to have entered the prime of life in advance, and gradually became tall and strong on the basis of his present appearance; Later, the body as a whole dissolves into an illusion under the shadow, and finally only a faint outline appears in the depths of the forest; At this moment, a set of armor with mysterious patterns inscribed in matte appeared in the void, spread out and automatically put on him, and then fit tightly and hooked up with the implant on the back of his head and chest; The armor lit up with a glimmer at first, but after only a moment it melted into his body, becoming part of the shadow as well.

At this point, the change is finally over..... Rafal, who had 'grown up', stood up and began to experience a very different bodily sensation than before, and to feel the power attached to it, which was not strictly his own.

Gradually, the non-existent light in his eyes lit up, and after a few months, he once again had this kind of power, and he could feel the more suitable concept in it..... 'That's it, this is the path I should take!'

Although the witch doctor is also very good, he must become a warrior after birth..... Rafal actually understands that the current state does not really belong to him, but that the witch doctor uses technology, based on his ideas, and some aspects of the heroic spirits in the Endless Plane, to give these little ones who have not yet been born a chance to perceive.

A few years ago, the dream technology made a certain breakthrough in the real world, and the witch doctors have been able to accurately capture the subjective consciousness of the individual and send it into the dream to carry out the 'virtual time learning' in the 'high-fidelity' memory mode, and today's technology can support the virtual time span of 'real times 3', ensuring 90% of the memory of the dreamer; therefore, as the first batch of users after the technology matured, Rafal spent 9 years of virtual and 3 years of real time growth in his dreams.

Among the hundreds of thousands of elves in the same batch, there are those who choose to become 'true witch doctors' like Pelini, there are also those who prefer 'warriors' like themselves, and there are also friends who have embarked on the path of psychic warlocks; As for himself, since he initially possessed 'subjective consciousness' and gradually possessed the ability to think independently as he grew, he began to learn in dreams, and began to confirm the direction of his future path little by little with the assistance of the witch doctor instructors - the Shadow Assassin; 'Quiet' and 'Unreal' will be the main points of the body, 'Dodge' and 'Critical Splash' will be the main ways of attack and defense in the early stage, and 'Light and Shadow' will be the carrying of the essence of power, of course, all of this is not something he can do alone...... After all, little Rafal is a little elf who still has more than a month to be born into reality, and he is far from being able to gain such power now.

But in the dream realm, Rafal can rely on the heroic spirits he knows well, borrow their similar powers, to feel the battle and the road in advance, and extract the elements he needs from them, which can be used as food on the road to growth.

Of course, this is just 'what he thinks', in fact, the heroic spirits who have not yet formed today are far from being able to do such a thing.... His current state is actually a 'future possibility' simulated by the central intelligence based on algorithms, but the 'cognition' he produces in this process is likely to have a negative impact on the Heroic Spirit..... So that some aspects of them will have the corresponding power when they are truly born in the future, and acquire the ability to project that power onto the real person.

~~~~~~~ at this time, Rafal slowly approached the castle as if it were a ghost with only shadows..... and the skeleton slaves of 'Kacha Kacha .....' were laboring around the castle, some holding shovels and some pushing three wheels, constantly transporting large quantities of ore-like things into the castle.

'Stupid guy.... I didn't even find the underground mine, and I want to be a witch doctor just because of this perception?

The illusory shadow muttered in the depths of her heart, "This level will definitely be disliked in the future, and it seems that I will have to take care of her in the future.... Hmph, Uncle Rafal will barely come to see you in the future.....' In the silent chatter, the figure of the 'big' Rafal was a little more illusory, only to see him take out a matte dagger from his waist, and then, under the cover of some kind of 'silence' skill, he began to sneak attack the lonely, armed skeleton warriors from the periphery.

'Humph! Evil little skeletons! Greet the justice of your Uncle Rafal! In the continuous backstabbing and continuous critical hits, he successfully harvested a large number of 'human heads', but the 'splash' effect attached to the attack was obviously not under Rafal's control, so the skeletons who felt the pain inexplicably finally discovered his figure, and the elite skeletons launched a siege.....~~~~~~ burst into shouts, and the endless shadow blade exploded around Rafal as the center, sweeping all the darkness around him in an instant, and a large number of skeleton warriors shattered in the middle of the way; The attacks that fell on him had a 'miss' effect with a high probability, and turned into a gap for Rafal to take advantage of, allowing him to fight and kill several more powerful boss-level skeleton warriors, and in a split second from extreme stillness to extreme movement, the air exploded in shock, only to see a shining thunderbolt flash rapidly, and in the blink of an eye, crashed into the place where he had been standing;

'A majestic aura diffused from the height of the castle, and a powerful mage with only a head on his body and a body in material form, while the rest of the body was made of a thick dead aura, revealed in mid-air; Its illusory fingertips were flashing with thunder, and its hollow eyes were dark blue ghostly fire, staring at Rafal's illusory shadow.

"Quack, little one, the only consequence of provoking a mage is death.... Show up! My minions! A huge palm burst out of the ground at his words, and shattered the ruined castle with a single grip; Rafal dodged the sudden attack in a leap, and stared in the air in confusion and solemnity.

Two pure bony arms broke through the ground and slowly pulled up their bodies against the ground, and then a large, crowned skull emerged from the ground, and below it was a pair of large, hollow eyeballs that shimmered with ghostly fire.

"Imp! Get ready for the wrath of the Great Skeletron! ”~~~~~~~

"Rafal .... Born after 45 days.... Predetermined path for the minor of the mind of the regular side of the warrior ....."

"Selena.... Born 45 days later..... Predetermined path for the Psychic Warlock ......"

"Teryl ....."

"Saipan ......"

"A total of 130,000 people who are about to be born in this issue have been assigned birth assessments according to the level of virtual power*5, and the program is maintaining dual monitoring of the mind and body." After this mechanical sound fell, another voice belonging to the elf sounded,

"Understood, please continue." This is a huge room located deep underground, with countless prison videos, and the low-level witch doctors in it are watching the battles in front of them nervously and expectantly.

They are 'dream teachers', and the most common work in their daily life is to project their own subjective consciousness into the subconscious, and teach knowledge or give tests in the dream scene in a state of 'schizophrenia', for example, the 'skeleton mage' and 'skeleton king' that Rafal is facing at this time are the subconscious projections of one of them in the dream world.

"It's a pity.... The exercise in the dream realm cannot be directly reflected in the body, otherwise it will really make them sleep for another five or ten years..."

"Hah! Why don't you say that you sleep until the prime of life and then be born? ”

"That's not bad, it's born to be combat power..... In reality, the arrangement of the growth period is not so troublesome, we have almost shrunk all our forces in the past few years, right? All but the headquarters in the Black Forest were abandoned. ”

"It's okay, it's just dormant..... Truth be told, there's no need to maintain those garrisons now, is there? It doesn't produce essential resources, and it disperses our forces, and it's good to take them back. ”

"It's also ......~~~~~~~ whether it is the increasingly powerful gods on the continent, or the 'Valhalla' that seems clearer and clearer in the boundary between 'being' and 'nothing', or the murmur of endless rules inside, they are all under the daily surveillance of the fifth-order witch doctors above the track.

In the recent past, they have focused their main efforts on Valhalla for the time being..... When the witch doctors were able to accurately capture the consciousness of the individual masters, and kept a large number of memories within a certain limit while allowing them to enter and exit the dream realm, a new generation of dream techniques that were not subject to the witch doctor's own spells took shape rapidly in the past few years.

Subsequently, on the basis of the original equipment, the headquarters efficiently upgraded its functions, so that it has entered tens of millions of homes in a short period of time, and has become the latest and most fashionable learning and entertainment tool.

And for such a new thing, the playful and very curious young elves are the most welcome, and although their mental activities are still very immature, in terms of activity, they are by no means lower than their predecessors who have entered the prime of life.

Therefore, although the nearly 3 million extra elves in the past few years have indeed put a lot of pressure on the Republic in some ways, in addition to the long-term benefits that can be converted based on the growth of their power, this exponential increase can actually produce a visible help to the naked eye today.

For example, they can play with the little ones who have not yet been born in dreams, bringing them better companionship than the elves in the prime of life; For another example, when the 'Dream Network' became their main means of entertainment after studying, the speed of the Heroic Spirit's shaping plan was also greatly improved.

These young elves, who are not deeply involved in the world, not only form various manifestations of the heroic spirits in the real world by watching related movies and books, but also speed up the progress of their formation; In their dreams, they are still leading a larger number of unborn children who have passed the embryonic or ignorant stage of ignorance and early childhood, experiencing interesting little games such as 'Breaking the Cup War' again and again, and in just a few years, they have provided a huge amount of emotional food for the plan.

So when the time came, it was already time for the 43 Heroic Spirits to be born.......~~~~~~~~ and with the instructions from the orbit being issued, the entire Elven Realm was busy...... Outside the Black Forest, the military and political intelligence officers who were on duty in various parts of the northern continent were recalled, the soldiers who maintained the awe-inspiring in the mountains and plateaus also returned en masse, and the engineers in the deep-sea production base who were in charge of taking care of the equipment also returned. In the headquarters, the warriors put down their spiritual tasks, the witch doctors stopped their research projects, and the engineers also raised their heads from their work; The same is true in the dream world, where some of the little ones who should have been born were notified of the 'delayed incarnation' and, together with the younger children who were not yet 'mature', suspended their studies and practice under the arrangement of the dream teacher.

Subsequently, all the elves who had not yet been born and who had been born, with a total of 15 million elves, except for the fifth-order and fourth-order witch doctors, gathered in their dreams for the first time.

And when they are collectively immersed in the virtual world, the witch doctors who stay outside begin to cast spells collectively...... The main center of the headquarters, the spaceship center in orbit, and the dream brain are all connected, and then a nearly complete world is constructed in the virtual world based on the thoughts of the sleeping elves as a network; There, the polar continents of the southern hemisphere, the black forests and northern continents of the northern hemisphere, and the large and small spaceships in orbit are all unmistakably revealed; In addition, there are also those imaginary visions born from the near gods, such as the projection of the sun and the stars, the realm of heaven and the netherworld, the territory of heroes and history, and the pool of blood brewing filth and life, which also appear in the dream in a very similar form in the simulation of the rule level; Immediately, there were changes that were different from those of the material world..... In reality, the Valhalla and the Altar of the Heroic Soul, which were not grand compared to the main department, expanded the realm to the entire headquarters in the dream realm; After that, 15 million prime-aged people, teenagers, and egg spirits gathered and began to visualize in the square that had been magnified and incomprehensibly large.

The thoughts generated by their visualization converged over the altar as if they had a physical entity, and gradually formed 43 large, yet illusory reflections.

The sleeping Heroic Spirits floated up in the dream, and the dormant chamber that was enclosed gradually faded in the process, and then tens of thousands of phantoms separated from their bodies, and gradually dissolved into the thoughts of the elves.

In the process of dissolving, the illusory reflection in the sky that was born of visualization gradually took shape, forming hundreds of thousands of entities with different complexions, different mental states, and different body shapes, and then entangled with thoughts and drilled into the body of the heroic spirits.

Gradually, the 43 Heroic Spirits began to transform from solid to virtual, and they transformed into the state of the virtual shadow they had previously visualized, and then spread out like a grid...... Although it is not a 'bad outcome', the path of the formation of the Heroic Spirits still deviates 'slightly' from the expectations of the witch doctors in some aspects.

Looking at the rising and falling manifestations of 'below', the witch doctors were keenly aware of something unusual, although the heroic spirits gradually had a sense of 'subject', but the thinking side of the plan that would become 'story' and 'food' became their more general 'activity' characteristics..... In the rudimentary form of Valhalla, which floats in the void, the 43 main consciousnesses in Valhalla seem to be endowed with too much expectation and power, which causes them to be unable to maintain long-term thinking in a state of 'unity', but instead become the main body of 'thinking' from one side to another.