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( ) Called up the map again, Su Wu pointed to the small town built on the dry river bed and asked, "Is this here?"

It turns out that this is the Hegu Town recorded in Yuan Ye's diary, which is quite close to my Xinshou Village.Link stretched out his hand and moved to the left, pointing to a big tree next to the beam of light, "It's here."

Su Wu's expression became serious.

Link's description is vivid and vivid, it is impossible to say such details without personal experience.If his Novice Village is really in the Pillars of the Earth, the only human NPCs in it are...

"Child of Nature?"

Link nodded hesitantly, not understanding why Su Wu's expression suddenly changed: "Is there something wrong?"

"The Son of Nature is a high-level npc that has never appeared in the game as a player."

Link didn't think there was anything to make a fuss about: "Maybe it's like an expansion pack or a patch, it's a new profession."

"No...you don't understand, every time a new class is added, the difficulty will increase accordingly. Last time I lost two companions."

'Losing' means death, and Link's throat felt dry, and he lost the mood for teasing.

"Originally, my idea was to go to Xinshou Village to meet you first, but now I have to re-plan." Su Wu moved the character to the magic circle in the corner, and then selected [Eden City] from the long list that popped up.

He limited ten days in the game, and asked Link to return to reality to discuss the next step if he could not complete the basic training for novices during this period.

Su Wu also specifically told Link that the body in the game represents the spirit, and any irreparable damage will directly affect the physical body in reality, and even life-threatening in serious cases.If there is an unexpected situation that causes the real body to wake up, no matter where the spiritual body in the illusion is, it will immediately fall into a coma, which is very dangerous.Never set your cell phone and alarm clock, let alone let your family members wake you up.

Seeing Link staring straight at the screen that has entered the teleportation mode, Su Wu explained that the only things the computer can operate are the viewing panel and short-distance teleportation. Now his priority is to learn how to protect himself.

"There are so many things to teach, I can't finish it in a while. Tomorrow is Saturday, are you still going to work?" Glancing at the wall clock, Su Wu is going to let Link stay overnight. Anyway, it is not far from the provincial capital. Only an hour's drive away.

"I'm a freelancer, um... I write online novels." For Link, the biggest advantage of this job is that he can arrange his time freely.

"Really, that's great." Su Wu raised his eyebrows, "It can save a lot of energy in explaining."

Before Link could understand the meaning of this sentence, Su Wu asked if he had learned the skill.

Link shook his head. In order to verify whether sleeping can leave the game, he hasn't had time to learn it yet.

"The Son of Nature is an envoy of God, and his skills belong to the category of divine arts. I happen to be a mage, so I can help you in casting spells." Su Wu, who has been playing for a year, can call himself an experienced veteran. The spellcasting trick he taught Link is Self-suggestion + wild imagination.

In Edgar, in order to solve the defect of not being able to perceive the elements easily, human beings invented the auxiliary method of using rituals and hints.Under the self-hypnosis of "I can feel the elements", you can directly skip the perception bottleneck that plagued mage apprentices in the early stage, and directly enter the link of strengthening control.

But that is the setting of the game. It is impossible for the player to really perceive the elements as written in the game or novel. Many legal professions have spent several months or even longer on the basis of how to cast spells.In the end, on the basis of suggestion, someone further invented the step of using imagination instead of 'perceiving the elements before casting spells'.

"Do you understand?" In fact, from Link's bewildered expression, Su Wu also knew that he didn't understand.

"In this way, let me go into more detail. Both arcane and divine spells come down to spells. If you want to use spells, you must first do the most basic thing—feel the elements. This is very difficult for modern people who have grown up with scientific knowledge. Because in In our hearts, we always believe that fire and wind are nothing but 'light and heat from burning matter' and 'horizontal movement of air and ground'. No matter how real and incredible the game world is, the only way to break the ingrained concept is to rely on a stronger Psychological hint."

Su Wu used the fireball technique as an example. After the hint of 'I can feel the pulsation of the elements', he began to imagine releasing a basketball-sized fireball, which exploded when it hit the target he wanted to attack.Thinking step by step according to this type of pattern, coupled with details such as 'what is the range of the attack' and 'what kind of damage will it cause', the spellcasting that was originally impossible is completed in the process of 'thinking'.

"Is this okay?" Su Wu's explanation made Link dumbfounded.His feeling for the dream game was only on the level of 'reality', but no matter what, he still couldn't accept that he could complete the spellcasting only by imagination.

"Because the game itself is already an existence that cannot be explained by science, so you should not use the original standards and common sense to measure it. In Edgar, everything is possible. Remember the questions of the questionnaire? Love, money, power , as long as you are strong enough, not to mention three thousand, conferring titles and being kings, even pursuing immortality and conferring gods can do it."

"But that's just a game, not real." After finishing speaking, Link was also stunned.He suddenly realized that this might be the real reason why Su Wen and Yuan Ye were unconscious.Because it is too real, people who are addicted to it would rather sleep to death in the illusion than return to reality with nothing.

"Did you feel that the world was fake in the game? Don't deceive yourself, only those who are dissatisfied with reality will be selected." Giving up half a bed, Su Wu said that he should either squeeze with him or sleep in the living room sofa.

"It turns out that the first question when installing the game means this, but now I make money by writing web articles, and I can sleep until I want to wake up. I have more freedom than office workers. How could I be dissatisfied?"

Su Wu only gave Link the back of his head when he muttered to himself, he was used to living alone and finally chose to sleep on the hard sofa.

I thought I would be tossing and turning, but in fact Link fell into a deep sleep not long after lying down.The switch between reality and dream was just a few minutes of rest with his eyes closed, and when he opened his eyes again, he had returned to the game.It's still that simple tree house, which has changed a lot since it was 'offline'.Not only the dust accumulated over the years was cleaned, but even the short wooden stake that Link used as a chair once sprouted new shoots, and the light green fluorescence seemed to paint the entire room with a layer of green wallpaper.

Birdman was arguing with the elves with an impatient face. When he realized that Link was "waking up", he loudly scolded him for forcing reading regardless of his own ability, which caused him to be unconscious for two full days due to excessive use of mental power.

With such a big difference in time, how will I explain to the npc the phenomenon of waking up for ten days and sleeping for ten days?

Link sat up covering his head.Not only was his body sore and weak, but his head also hurt badly. Could it be that he was using too much mental power as Birdman said?

"Follow me rookie! You've missed two days of training." Hull forcefully grabbed Link and dragged him to the spacious treetop.

It wasn't until he was asked to take out the inheritance that Link remembered that the skill book seemed to have been lost because of dizziness... What should I do?After two days, will someone pick it up?

As soon as he said that the inheritance was lost, he was immediately hit by Hull.

"Idiot! Inheritance is the embodiment of divine grace, how could it be lost. It has become a part of your body, and it will appear as long as you think about it."

Is it so amazing?Just as Lin Ke recited the inheritance silently in his heart, the skill book appeared in his hands instantly.

Although Su Wu had already reminded him not to look at the game world in his dreams with the original common sense standards, Link was still shocked.He has seen the holographic magic projection, and witnessed the whole process of Hull transforming from a bird into a human, but summoning the item himself is another matter.

Is this really just a game?The sight, hearing and even touch are all the same, it is hard to believe that it is an illusion that only exists in dreams.

Link opened the inheritance under Hull's urging, and the page automatically turned to the fourth page he browsed last time. There was a thin halo flowing on the completely dark page, and the constantly changing silhouettes of animals could be vaguely seen.

Um?Why is this chapter still, shouldn't it be on the fifth page?

"Don't look at me, look at your inheritance. It is the carrier and container that conveys the power of the gods. You must communicate with the gods through your own perception and obtain approval before you can use the corresponding power." Hull used himself as an example. His body is Thunderbird is also a follower of Gasos, the god of atmosphere and thunder. He was born to fly, but as a human, Link had to waste a spell slot if he wanted to fly.

"What is a spell slot?" While asking the question, Link also prayed in his heart, I hope it is not a dnd type of spell slot, it is too troublesome to memorize spells every day.

"In a broad sense, spell slots refer to the number of spells a spellcaster can cast per day, including magic spellcasters. When the spell slot reaches the upper limit, you cannot learn new abilities, so you must be careful when choosing, don't Greedy can learn everything." Hull explained in detail that the spell slots of different species are different, such as elves and magical creatures, which are born with elements, the original spell slots start with ten, dwarves and Because gnomes cannot cast spells, they have no spell slots at all.Human beings are in the middle, neither high nor low, but the individual differences are particularly large. There are only three low ones, and six high ones.

Sure enough, there is no such thing as a bug job, if it is too strong, it will be restricted.Link asked feebly, "How many spell slots do I have?"

Hull gave him a blank look, "How could I know your spell slot. Try it yourself, if you can't learn new abilities, it means your original spell slot is full."

original?The word gave Link renewed hope.

How could I forget about leveling up? Magic slots can actually be increased.

Holding the skill book in his arms, he thought hard about what he should learn for the first skill.

This game is too dangerous, it is better to learn healing first, safety first.

After careful consideration, Link chose the World of Warcraft druid he is most familiar with as the brain supplement object.Thanks to Su Wu's foresight, he taught the tricks of casting spells in advance, otherwise he would not know how to learn skills even if he wanted to break his head now.

According to Su Wu's example, from spell effects to skill effects, Link recalled the druid's healing spells over and over again.

If it is as miraculous as Su Wu said, I hope that the healing technique can get rid of my headache and fatigue first...

Just when he was thinking this way, a green light appeared out of thin air, circling Link a few times, and the pain and fatigue that had been bothering him since entering the game disappeared.

A line of words appeared on the faintly fluorescent skill book - [Natural Healing].The skill description is that it can eliminate abnormal states such as diseases, toxins, and curses, and has secondary healing effects.

It turned out to be a success!

Compared to Link's excitement, Hull breathed a sigh of relief. He nodded to the watching elves: "It's the guardian."

The elf who had met Link a few times but had never talked to Link stepped forward, nodded and smiled politely and friendly, "Hello, future guardian. I am Iris, the glow elf of the Northern Shining Forest."

"Uh... hello." Like the inheritance, the elf exuding a faint fluorescence is like the elf in the movie Lord of the Rings, noble and elegant, making people easily feel ashamed, even the rough-headed Link can't bear it.He nodded, asking why the Son of Nature split into two camps to cover up his uneasiness and restraint.

"The duty of the children of nature is to protect nature and maintain balance. At the end of the Silver Age, with the rapid rise of human beings, they cut down forests, filled wetlands, and randomly synthesized new organisms, which greatly destroyed the balance of nature. Serious differences have formed. Conservatives believe that human beings belong to creatures and should not adopt radical extinction proposals. Radicals believe that human beings have lost their original essence, and their continued existence will threaten more species. That is, since then, the Sons of Nature have split For the two factions, the Guardians uphold the tradition and continue to maintain the most basic connection with humans. The Punishers completely cut off contact with humans, and like all Chaos creatures, they regard humans as inferior life forms and slaughter them at will."

It was the elf Iris who explained Link's confusion. He also explained that because human beings are born with chaotic alignments, most of them will become punishers even if they pass the final test.As a loyal ally of the guardian, he volunteered to help Link train his archery skills, which was also the instruction of the enlightenment mentor Hull.It is necessary to master combat skills that do not rely on divine power, so that there are other means of self-protection after the spell slots are exhausted.

Link complained endlessly. Compared with the skills that can be learned by 'thinking', the physics department needs to practice hard skills honestly.

In this game world that should be regarded as high magic, any novice ranger can beat a non-talented professional by several blocks.The child of nature seems to be able to choose skills independently across talents, but if it is miscellaneous and not sophisticated, even magic and martial arts will be useless.

Just when his mind was full of thoughts, what should he do if he must not be able to learn the essence of elf archery with a human body?Suddenly, two skills [Divine Enlightenment] and [Eagle Eye] appeared in the skill book.

what happened?I haven't thought about it yet, how did I learn this skill by myself?

Link scratched his head and threw the question to Hull as a mentor.

"Apocalypse?" Hull frowned. "It's an auxiliary prophecy. When you are confused and in trouble, you can ask the gods for guidance. What are you thinking about? You have used up three spell slots, and humans usually only have three. Up to four spell slots, even if it is a special case, it is only five to six spell slots. If you want to obtain the transformation of the core of the child of nature, you must have three abilities under the same talent to achieve it."

Forgot all about the transformation, Linkyu cried without tears.