Chapter 85: Killing Transformation! Seeking Recommendation Votes
2016-04-18
Author: Floating Tower of All Beings
Ah!!!
A roar filled with unwillingness and indignation suddenly echoed in the Chess Half-Plane.
Immediately, Haruk stood up abruptly, swinging his hands as if holding weapons, before looking around in a daze. His mind was still stuck at the moment he died in the trial, because this trial was just too real. Even for a high-level professionist like him, it took a while to recover. This was also due to his strong mental will as a warrior; an ordinary person might have fallen into a state of catalepsy or even real d*ath from such an experience.
“Did I not d*e?”
Haruk stared blankly at his surroundings, and soon his gaze gradually cleared. His memories sorted themselves out, and he recalled that the d*ath he just experienced was merely in the illusion trial.
It was just too real.
Haruk couldn’t help but sigh internally. However, he soon fell into deep thought, a hint of regret appearing on his face.
He actually died like that!
Haruk was certain that his performance was absolutely unsatisfactory because he had just encountered the enemy, and his entire army was already wiped out. After a burst of frustration, the first thing Haruk did was to reflect on himself. This awareness of life and d*ath is not something one can encounter in ordinary times, and the reality of d*ath made his reflections even more profound. At this moment, Haruk thought of many things, primarily that he had been too reckless, and that he had underestimated the spellcasters. If his army had not been cleared out by the Cloud of d*ath, he certainly would not have felt so aggrieved to be beaten to d*ath by a group of low-level demons.
It was too aggrieved to d*e!
As one of the few high-level warriors among the indigenous people, although Haruk did not fall until the moment of d*ath, the manner of his d*ath was still too upsetting.
He was reflecting on himself.
Not only reflecting on his operational mistakes but also on his carelessness and his severe lack of combat skills against spellcasters.
Haruk found many loopholes in his combat skills, especially when facing spellcasters.
He stayed in place contemplating for a long while.
Then Haruk slowly lifted his head. As he walked down from the platform, he felt an intense fatigue, a fatigue that came not just from the mental level but even from the soul level. As a high-level professionist, the little bit of soul power he lost wasn’t significant enough to lower his profession level, so he just felt a bit weak. Haruk thought it must be because the situation at the moment of d*ath felt so real, which caused his current mental weakness.
There was no way around it.
Soren’s trial was a 100% simulation, including the feelings before d*ath and the pain before dying, which was almost the same as dying for real.
Mental weakness was inevitable!
Although he died once like this, Haruk felt that his gains were significant; after all, experiences facing d*ath are rare, especially in a situation where, if it weren’t for the illusion, he would have truly died. It also made him aware of his mistakes in consciousness, martial skills, and decision-making. For a high-level professionist, what they lack is no longer routine training, but a breakthrough in their mental state at a certain point. As long as they can break through this point, their strength could touch the legendary domain.
Haruk had a moment when he really wanted to try again.
However, his mental state was truly very fatigued right now. And he also knew that after failing the trial, he needed to report to the person in charge.
But!
Deep down, he still felt a bit unwilling.
He hadn’t died so miserably during the last demon attack, yet this time he was actually beaten to d*ath by a group of low-level demons.
He thought he should k*ll more demons to vent his emotions in the future; otherwise, this experience of dying today might become a lingering concern.
………………
Soren was also observing Haruk’s state.
It was obvious.
After dying in the trial of the Chess Half-Plane, he entered a state of mental weakness and slight soul weakness. At the moment of Haruk’s d*ath, approximately over a thousand points of killing experience in the form of soul energy separated from him, most of which was absorbed by the trial of the Chess Half-Plane. A small portion, for some unknown reason, integrated into Soren’s body, possibly related to him being the controller of the Chess Half-Plane. Spellcasters of the Arcane Empire had long researched how to utilize the power of souls. After today’s experience, Soren finally understood why the gods would be so willing to see the Arcane Empire destroyed.
There was no way around it!
The soul is a taboo for deities; once mortals begin to dabble in researching souls, it will inevitably provoke the gods’ displeasure.
This bit of soul energy was nothing.
The natives of this world can enhance their power in daily training and combat. If converted to soul energy, it would be the equivalent of Haruk’s gains from two or three days of training, and that’s just ordinary daily training. If it were actual combat, Haruk’s increase in power would exceed that amount of killing experience.
There was a test in the past.
Adventurers, training in conventional native ways (training grounds), gained about 300 points of killing experience in a day; this was basic training. If using the special training methods of certain organizations, as long as one could pass, they could gain around 3000 points of killing experience. All of this training relied on physical exercise to feedback into mental strength and then reinforce the soul. This is somewhat similar to Eastern cultivation, the transformation process of essence, energy, and spirit. A powerful body allows monks to perceive the existence of qi, and the existence of qi feeds back into strengthening the spirit, ultimately leading to the soul being further refined by the spirit.
The biggest difference for the natives is that they often encounter some sort of bottleneck.
At this time, they need to break through through special means. The greatest bottleneck faced by mortals is touching the moment of the legendary domain.
………………
Everything continued.
Although Haruk had already died, the Drow Warrior and the excellent officer George were still undergoing the trial.
Soren overlooked everything from the perspective of a deity, silently observing the expressions of these two. By his own standards, these two were clearly unqualified since they were only excellent among ordinary people. However, Soren did notice that the Drow Warrior had better combat skills while George had a stronger overall perspective; the latter obviously had the qualities to become a general.
One more observation was that Soren did not gain anything from their killing of demons.
On the contrary, when the Drow Warrior was surrounded by demons and ultimately died at the hands of the Frenzied Combat Demon, Soren suddenly received a bit of killing power!
How strange!
Killing the illusions in the trial yielded no gains, including the actual combat process itself brought Soren no gains.
The moment killing power emerged during the trial of Chess was actually at the moment of the Drow Warrior’s d*ath.
Killing.
This not only means killing others but also represents being killed oneself!
The time when Soren gained killing power was precisely the moment the trialist was killed. When the Drow Warrior was killed by the demon illusion, a tiny, very weak bit of killing power appeared.
In an instant!
Soren felt as if he grasped something very crucial, and his thoughts became much clearer.
He began to understand the core of the conversion of the Killing Domain!
……………… (To be continued ~^~)
