Chapter 78: Chapter 35: Nightmare 1
Spiritual Lightning.
In Su Ziyu’s originally enhanced skill tree, the expansion branch of spiritual energy was ’Telekinesis Mastery,’ but now an ’Spiritual Lightning’ ability has been added.
This seems to be a conversion of spiritual energy!
Previously, Su Ziyu’s spiritual energy could only be used to move objects, like making a stone float, but now he can convert it into lightning power. However, this conversion consumes a lot of spiritual energy, almost five to six times that of moving objects. He barely converted a little current and already felt his spiritual energy nearing exhaustion, and his spirit was somewhat weary.
"Succeeded?" Skadi said with a surprised expression: "No! You haven’t acquired the power of the Aesir Race!"
"Failed," Su Ziyu curiously gazed at the arc jumping on his fingertip, replying: "But it seems I’ve indeed gained a little control over lightning."
Arcs of electricity appeared on the surface of his body.
The power wasn’t significant.
But it felt very magical.
"That’s considered a gain," Skadi nodded, speaking more relaxedly: "Get some rest early. Tomorrow we set off for Dream Forest."
The Valkyrie turned and left.
And Su Ziyu, like acquiring a new toy, couldn’t help but repeatedly try controlling lightning with spiritual energy.
"A very magical power."
"But too weak."
"This level of lightning can’t kill any monsters!" Su Ziyu finally somewhat grasped this ability, murmuring: "To unleash its power, spiritual ability must be enhanced first."
He currently has 8 points of Source Power Value.
Initially planned to strengthen the ’Telekinesis Mastery’ route, because behind this enhanced skill tree is the ability ’Telekinesis Flight.’
But now it seems ’Spiritual Lightning’s’ lethality is stronger!
——"Spiritual Energy LV2!"
——"Spiritual Energy LV3!"
After expending a full 6 points of Source Power Value, Su Ziyu suddenly sank into his mental world, once again seeing those light points within his body. With a slight current sensation from his brain, he noticed his spiritual power rapidly growing.
This enhancement was very apparent!
The spiritual energy within his body nearly multiplied several times.
Approximately two to three minutes later, Su Ziyu slowly opened his eyes.
He raised his hand towards a distant wine glass, and it quickly flew directly into Su Ziyu’s palm.
"Interesting!"
After spiritual energy was boosted to LV3, its stability greatly improved from the beginning. Initially, Su Ziyu struggled to move a stone, but now he could easily use spiritual energy to lift a table.
However, the consumption remained significant.
To reduce the spiritual energy consumption, one must activate the ’Telekinesis Mastery’ ability, which can reduce spiritual energy usage by about 20% during telekinesis. It might take ten years of practice to achieve this ability independently.
Crackle!
Arcs of electricity surfaced in Su Ziyu’s palm, this time with significantly enhanced power from spiritual lightning, unbearable for an ordinary person even once.
But the disadvantages were also clear.
High consumption.
Short range.
Its power should be strong within ten meters, but as the distance increased, his current spiritual ability level was insufficient.
"Huh?"
"What’s this?"
After completing the enhancement, the skill tree branch where spiritual energy was located expanded again, with new abilities appearing such as ’Static Field,’ ’Thunder Strike,’ ’Lightning Storm,’ and more.
The Space-Time Monitor System’s skill tree was extended once more.
In the Wasteland World, Su Ziyu acquired the ’Flesh Mutation’ enhancement route, in Dream Forest, he obtained the ’Spiritual Awakening’ enhancement route, and now there’s an additional ’Spiritual Lightning’ enhancement branch.
However, as the enhancement routes kept expanding, he needed to plan carefully how he should enhance his strength.
If the goal is survival, basic physical qualities must be strengthened, avoiding obvious weaknesses. Su Ziyu is currently slow to flee, thus considering activating the ’Telekinesis Flight’ ability because it can assist Su Ziyu in escaping.
He often had to fight monsters because he couldn’t escape!
Truly exhausting.
Night deepens.
Swoosh.
Su Ziyu raised his hand and tossed a tactical dagger, then with a wave, the dagger stuck in the wooden table returned to his palm.
The power of spiritual energy is extremely flexible.
During this half-day, he already came up with several unexpected winning strategies, but the downside is its significant consumption. Using telekinesis to control a dagger flying out has less power, even inferior to an ordinary crossbow, but attaching telekinesis when throwing enhances its power significantly, even allowing it to curve.
However, Su Ziyu’s goal wasn’t making the flying knife curve, but rather hoping one day to make a bullet curve.
How spiritual energy should be wielded requires more thought.
The night swiftly passed.
The next day, Su Ziyu and his companions prepared to return to Dream Forest.
This time was much easier.
The White Queen summoned a golden giant eagle, while Su Ziyu rode a pegasus with the Valkyrie, completing the journey that originally took seven or eight days in less than half a day.
"This is the place," the White Queen patted the giant eagle’s body and gracefully landed.
In front of them lay a lush primordial forest.
From the outside, it appeared unremarkable, but activating Spiritual Vision allowed Su Ziyu to see a gray fog, along with a semi-transparent light green barrier.
This is a half-plane.
Dream Forest is a half-plane attached to Chessboard Realm, a special world existing between reality and illusion.
Like a fairy tale realm.
"Let’s go," the Valkyrie brandished a golden long spear in the air, leading Su Ziyu directly into it.
He seemed to hear something cracking.
The next moment.
Su Ziyu appeared in Dream Forest, and it was nighttime there.
"Something’s not right!"
"The situation is worse than we imagined!"
The White Queen quickly appeared, scanning the surroundings with her gaze, raising her hand to conjure a dark red flame, dispersing the fog in front and noting: "Severe pollution here."
"Dream Realm Law has been altered by something!"
Dream Forest was originally a beautiful fairy tale world.
This was the realm of the elves.
But now Dream Forest looks like a nightmare, a sinister black fairy tale, countless trees having transformed into eerie silhouettes, and shadow-like creatures approaching like writhing black mud. However, before reaching Su Ziyu, they were casually incinerated to ashes by the White Queen.
Su Ziyu wasn’t very clear on how powerful the White Queen was, but she evidently displayed strength surpassing the Guardian Witch.
Divine spirits in the Nordic Pantheon weren’t omnipotent, with the Aesir Race’s strength leaning towards martial skill, and the Vanir Race’s power inclining towards magic. Even the King of Gods, Odin, learned magic from the Vanir Race.
The White Queen should also belong to the Vanir Race lineage, though when viewing her with Spiritual Vision, a female giant is seen for some reason.
"Found it." The White Queen’s figure floated in mid-air.
She conjured a flaming long spear in her hand, and when thrown, it pierced the fog, soon revealing a gigantic clay doll turning its head slowly, holding an apple made of black clay.
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