Sword Sorcery

Chapter 23 The Mood of Monsters
piece of night

In the dark and deep forest, the faint moonlight was blocked by sparse branches and vines, and it was impossible to see the surrounding scene clearly. Only the sound of branches snapping under the feet echoed slowly in the forest, which was breathtaking. I can't help but feel horrified.

Click!

A foot accidentally stepped on a dead branch, making a trembling sound, which caused Aaron to suddenly raise his heart. He hurriedly turned his head to look around, and found that there was no danger approaching for the time being, so he breathed a sigh of relief—— —

"What the hell is this place? Why am I here?"

Aaron felt that he seemed to be missing something, but he couldn't recall it. He sighed, looked at the obviously distorted trees around him, and frowned: "I've never seen these trees before, and they don't look like strange trees at all. Plants in the Nuo Kingdom area, where exactly is this place?"

Aaron shook his head, and of course he couldn't find any tricks when he asked himself, just when he was about to continue sneaking forward——

"Roar~!"

A roar came suddenly, and Aaron suddenly turned his head and looked behind him. He saw a giant wolf with silver fur leaping out from the shadow of the forest. Its huge and terrifying body scraped off countless branches and leaves, and its forehead was covered with silver-white hair. On the top, there is a round ring clearly engraved, and the middle of the ring is a cross shape!

Seeing this pattern, a word popped up in Aaron's mind instantly——

"Round cross!"

The next moment, the silver giant wolf rushed towards Aaron with a menacing aura, and the huge and terrifying shadow completely swallowed Aaron's figure!

"Ah~! Hoo hoo~ hoo hoo."

Aaron suddenly opened his eyes and stood up, panting heavily, with a look of shock on his face. After a while, he was free to check the information in his mind——

"Drip~, the operation of "Reverse Cross Breathing Method Part II" is over. This stage has been run for a total of 9 complete cycles. The host's body attributes have been improved, and the body indicators are being re-scanned."

"The scan is over, the current host properties are as follows—"

"Strength: 2.4 Agility: 3.0 Physique: 2.6 Strength Stage: Quasi-Knight"

Seeing that his attributes had increased a lot, Aaron couldn't help taking a deep breath: "Unexpectedly, the effect of "Reverse Cross Breathing Method Part II" is so obvious and terrifying. No! It should be said to be the 'deep sleep' of the chip. The function fits perfectly with the next part of the breathing method!"

Just now Aaron was practicing "Reverse Cross Breathing Method Part [-]", and fell into a state similar to 'deep sleep', his whole consciousness entered an indescribable illusion state, and in this state However, Aaron's cells are rapidly evolving, and his physical attributes have been greatly improved!

The second part of the Knight's Breathing Method is indeed somewhat different, requiring the practitioner to fall into a state similar to 'deep sleep' while maintaining the body's autonomous operation of the Breathing Method.Originally, it is impossible to have a dream in the state of 'deep sleep', but the practitioner's body is still running the breathing method, so his consciousness will magically enter a kind of 'illusion' when the body is in line with the breathing method among.

This kind of illusion is called the "monster artistic conception" by the knights - as the name suggests, this illusion is essentially the realm of consciousness of the monsters, because the knight breathing method is a technique created by simulating the ecological structure of monsters.Those quasi-knight-level existences, if they want to go further and break through the shackles of life and enter the stage of extraordinary life, they must get closer to the existence of 'monsters'!

The "monster mood" is to make the body, blood and even ideology of quasi-knights closer to the existence of "monsters". Simply put, any formal knight is a humanoid monster, completely detached from the existence of human beings themselves!

Under normal circumstances, the second part of the knight breathing method is very difficult to practice. The first difficulty is to enter the "deep sleep" state, the second difficulty is to maintain the body's instinctive operation in the "deep sleep" state The difficulty is that after entering the 'monster mood', the consciousness should not have too many distracting thoughts, otherwise it is easy to be squeezed out of the 'monster mood'!
This is very similar to ordinary dreaming. When you realize that you are dreaming in a dream, you will wake up very easily from the dream.And the "monster mood" also exists, if you have too many distracting thoughts, your consciousness will not be able to stay in the "monster mood".

Therefore, these three difficulties are almost exponentially increasing in difficulty. The first point is usually able to be achieved by most people.But the second difficulty is more difficult. At least a long period of exercise is needed to make the body use the breathing method as an instinct, and the body can automatically operate the knight breathing method in the case of 'deep sleep'.

As for the third difficulty, character, environment, experience, luck, hard work and other factors are all indispensable, and it is impossible to maintain it even if it is a little bit worse. That's why the road from quasi-knight to full-time knight is so difficult. The three difficulties have killed many prospective knights with great ambitions.

Even a quasi-knight who can successfully enter the "monster mood" once can't guarantee that he can enter it every day. Generally speaking, he can enter the "monster mood" four or five times a week, which is a relatively good level-new quasi-knights are needed Only by practicing the second part of breathing method for at least one year can one reach this level.

However, this is not a problem for Aaron, because the chip happens to have the function of assisting Aaron to enter the 'deep sleep' state!As for the state of 'deep sleep', the body can perform the knight breathing method autonomously, and it can also be handed over to the zero chip to assist in the execution!
The last remaining difficulty - removing distracting thoughts, can also allow the chip to temporarily block its own memory area when it falls into a 'deep sleep', so that when it enters the 'monster mood', there will not be too many distracting thoughts!
This is equivalent to solving three difficulties at once, allowing Aaron to stay in the "monster mood" for a long time, frantically evolve his cells, and quickly move towards the stage of a formal knight!
Other newly promoted quasi-knights often cannot enter the "monster mood" once in the first week, and even experienced quasi-knights only enter four or five times a week.

However, with the help of the chip, Aaron entered the "monster mood" nine times in just a few hours from morning to noon, and successfully completed nine cycles of the breathing method!
That's why Aaron's physical attributes have been exaggeratedly improved. If other quasi-knights knew about it, they would be so envious that they would shed tears on the spot!
At this time, the sun near noon shone through the window and shone on the white sheets, and Aaron realized that it was almost noon.

Gooooo~!

His stomach also made a sound as if protesting, because after Aaron woke up in the morning, he learned that the chip had improved "Reverse Cross Breathing Method Part II" and could start practicing immediately.

So, with the assistance of the chip, Aaron started the practice of "Reverse Cross Breathing Method Part II", successfully entered the "monster mood", and greatly improved his physical attributes.

"Hey~!"

Aaron stretched his waist, felt his obviously stronger body, and said with some pleasure: "Well~, it's time to have lunch."

(End of this chapter)