Chapter 7: The Cocoon of Calm
Paladin Lolanda temporarily resolved the internal strife of his set race, and gradually led the Silver Wizard to grow in the game, and soon, the Silver Wizard's tribe became more and more prosperous, and then spread to the whole world, and began to enter the fourth stage of the 'civilization' warm-up.
At the same time, the 'element-friendly cell body' controlled by Priest has just come out of the 'spores' stage and officially entered the 'biological' stage.
In the process of the game, it is naturally impossible to completely reproduce hundreds of millions of years of evolution and development, nor can it reproduce the progress and accumulation of every step of biology and civilization, but in general, the Discord Continent has still achieved the point of 'near-reality', at least for Priest, this level of game is already very real.
In the spore stage, Priest sneaked up through the current and sneaked up, and after a hard fight, obtained the 'Advanced Photosensitive Component', after equipping this component, Priest finally had a reliable means of observation, and could find more valuable food and cells in the dark sea.
After a full 8 hours of gameplay (7.5 minutes in reality after 64x acceleration), Priest can be considered to have finished the game process of the 'Spore' phase.
And the harvest of his cells at this stage can be regarded as very rich.
- Elemental sensing parts, thick cell walls, chitin ramming, strong flagella, high internal energy cell engine...... In addition to these high-high and low-level basic accessories, Priest also unexpectedly received an extremely rare SSR special component 'Elemental Adsorbate'!
It was an unexpected adventure in the interior of the volcano, when Priest, who had grown into a lethal predatory creature that could hunt by smashing shells with jets of water, was foraging for food in a dormant volcano, but in the middle of foraging, he was accidentally attacked by a special 'fire and earth dual-elemental' creature.
The battle process is skipped, anyway, it is quite thrilling, in short, relying on the special terrain, the unknown two-element creature stuck in a gap, grinding it to death, Priest only found that the guy who looked like an elemental creature was actually just an ordinary hard gum octopus - but on the body surface of this octopus, there is a special layer of cytoplasm, which can absorb a large number of favorable elements in the surrounding environment, and temporarily turn itself into an elemental life-like appearance!
After plundering this special genetic component called 'elemental adsorbate', the 'cell' controlled by Priest was suddenly strengthened, because it could use the magic element as a means of attack, and the part of the 'chitin bumper' that occupied a large share of the constitution could be removed and replaced with more other parts, such as a high-energy cell engine that can supply energy to the cytoplasm, or a special energy storage structure.
Soon, Priest, who was almost invincible in the surrounding seas, successfully reached the 'advanced' condition and could enter the second-order 'creature' stage.
"It's so cool!"
Even though he had been playing for more than eight hours, Priest still had no loss of energy - especially after mentally arithmetic, and after discovering that less than ten minutes had passed in reality, he was even less prepared to pause the game, but planned to continue playing.
"It's all entertainment anyway, and it's a lot more fun than hanging out on the streets."
With this in mind, Priest clicked 'Continue' without hesitation.
Then, a silver light curtain appeared in front of his eyes.
[The first stage of 'spores' is over, now start scoring]
[Ferocious: 10/10 - You are the purest hunter, devouring other cells, is the meaning of your existence]
[Symbiosis: 3/10 - You'll live dormant in a coral reef shaded by sea anemones, which is probably the only place you'll need help from other creatures]
[Breeding: 0/10 - Marauders have always been dismissive of this, you are only responsible for producing excrement]
[Collect 9/10 - You have collected many special parts, and you have even obtained the rarest abilities in the most dangerous extreme areas]
[Strength: 9/10 - Your strength is unrivaled in the multicellular world, and you are one of the most powerful beings in the entire primordial ocean]
[Begin to evolve biomorphs randomly...... Started randomly renaming 'Elemental Cell Body']
Because at the beginning, Priest chose to be 'all random', so even in the biological stage, his cell biomorphology and naming are completely 'random', for this, Priest doesn't care at all, anyway, he is the kind of person who 'as long as I have it', whether it is a creature he makes or not, his own name, as long as he starts playing, he has a sense of substitution.
Soon, the evolution of the creature was completed, and the 'Elemental Cell Body', which seemed to be soft, but was actually very hard, and its whole body shimmered with the light of various elements, suddenly became larger and deformed in a burst of white light.
But soon, as the form changed rapidly, the white light gradually dissipated, and what appeared in front of Priest's eyes was an unusually strange 'cocoon'-shaped creature, with more than twenty protruding bony armors, enveloping the soft internal organs, and the outside of the armor, a thick layer of elemental adsorb, which at first glance looked like a huge white thorny pine cone.
[Evolution Complete - Start Random Names Based on Elements: Calm Cocoon]
[Calm Cocoon: Higher Element Adsorbate, Affinity of the Whole System, Strong Skeleton, Strong Exoskeleton, Shock-resistant Internal Organs......]
"What should I do if I control a cocoon?"
After seeing the creatures that his cells had randomly evolved, Priest couldn't help but be dumbfounded - the size of the cocoon in front of him was about seventy centimeters tall, which could be said to be very small for some deep-sea beasts, but for a cocoon-like creature that resembled a pineal cone ball...... That's a bit too big.
Originally, Priest thought that he should still live in the sea, in this case, it would not be too difficult to control the Tranquility Cocoon, after all, he could also control the Giant Cocoon to swim in the sea by relying on elemental manipulation, but what he never expected was that because of the adaptation of the continent's ecology to this element, the beginning of the 'creature' stage of the Tranquility Giant Cocoon was actually on the beach!
"Is it possible to wait for the tide to flood the beach and return to the sea at that time?"
The idea was interrupted by Priest for a split second - for some reason, he vaguely felt that things were not that simple. Since the quest sent it to the beach, it is believed that the Cocoon of Tranquility has the ability to live on land, and Priest has this premonition that the Cocoon of Tranquility has evolved from its previous fragile multicellular body to this point, just to get out of the ocean and conquer the land!
Behind that 'randomness', there must be some deep hidden meaning!
"I must have not figured out what to do...... Think about it, Priest, according to the ability of the Cocoon of Calm, what is the way it can move on land? ”
Actually, there is no need to rack your brains or exert your strength, Priest just thinks about it a little along the right lines of thought and understands what to do.
"The transcendent world does not need the common sense of the human world at all...... The teacher said that death is only the beginning, and not having hands and feet does not mean that you cannot walk. ”
Thinking about it every day, Priest, who whispered a quote from a certain earl, frowned, and began to pour his spiritual power into the layer of 'elemental adsorbent' on the surface of the giant cocoon, and he whispered to himself: "Don't be bound by conventional thinking—if I can control the elements, then why do I need to grow my own hands and feet?" ”
As soon as the words fell.
As Priest began to control the surrounding elements through elemental adsorbs, suddenly, in the sand, the incomparably condensed 'water' and 'earth' elements began to converge, and you could see that the clear sea water mixed with mud and sand turned into a pale golden elemental fluid, which climbed to the top of the cocoon of calmness as if it were alive!
Countless elemental tentacles spawned and spread to every corner of the cocoon—and then, under Priest's control, these elemental fluids transformed into hands and feet, body and head, turning into a multi-meter-tall 'giant' figure, placing the 'Cocoon of Calm' in the center of the heart.
"Good!"
Controlling the elemental fluids and walking freely on the sand, Priest couldn't help but want to cheer excitedly—he already did—and that's the potential of the Cocoon! With the elemental adsorbate that has evolved to the extreme, he can completely rely on controlling the natural elements, transforming various forms, and achieving various postures and goals of action!
And just as Priest cheered his first steps on land.
In the main server of the magic net, Joshua who was walking in front of the light curtain with No. 3 was observing the performance of other players.
The so-called randomness is not really random, but directly selects a civilization with similar elements from the chaotic memory, and installs it for the random person.
He was very satisfied with Priest's performance, the evolution path of the Calm Cocoon is a truly historically recorded biological evolution process, Priest was able to immediately jump out of the original spore stage, devote himself to the role of the Calm Giant Cocoon, and quickly found a way to act, which is enough to prove that he has a clear mind and is not bound by traditional concepts.
In this world, there are not many people who have a talent for games, or who have little luck, and even fewer who happen to be playing the Continent of Discord, many people have signs of stuckness in the simplest spore stage, not to mention the creature stage?
Even if you have the corresponding intelligence, as long as the thinking is not qualified, it is useless.
Joshua looked around at the light curtain, and now there were nearly 6,000 players, of which 1,700 had been eliminated, and they had temporarily entered the one-day cooldown period in the real world, and only after one day, they could enter the Continent of Discord again and play the game of civilization.
This is to avoid the failure of the game, the possible chaos memory backlash, and also to give them time to think seriously about how to solve their own dilemma.
Joshua saw that many people unwittingly led their races and tribes to a dead end, perhaps because they took it for granted, or they did not think clearly about the clash of civilizations, so they made rash choices, which led to the failure of the game...... And this method of failure is similar to the reason for the destruction of most chaotic memory Chinese Ming.
"They'll learn."
Whispering to himself, Joshua turned his head and continued to watch Priest's gameplay.
But the other party's next move made Joshua shake his head in some disappointment.