Three days later, in the Hall of Illusion in the Elf King's capital, Elena accompanied Xiao Chen and Roger who had hurried over, waiting for the warrior selection to begin.
The Hall of Illusion is a circular building that looks a bit like an arena, and is used to examine the elves who are going out for training. All the candidates are waiting in the corridor near the inner entrance for the selection to begin.
As a race with a long lifespan, the elves naturally have considerable connections. In just a few days, they gathered dozens of masters from various races.
There are half-elves who carry bows and arrows and long swords, and whose faces are very similar to those of elves.
There are dwarves holding war hammers and axes with impatient faces,
There are lion-like orcs with golden manes, black noses and brown eyes.
There are goblins with bone necklaces and painted faces,
There are even Naga sea creatures with six arms and snake-like lower bodies.
But there are only two humans, Xiao Chen and Roger.
There were several races that Xiao Chen had never seen before, so he couldn't help but take a few more glances, attracting their attention. However, the looks they gave him were not very friendly.
Xiao Chen looked at the goblin who was only half his height and said, "I didn't expect the elves would rather ask the goblins to help than invite humans. Could it be that the elves hate humans to this extent?"
"It's not that they hate it. From an aesthetic point of view, elves definitely prefer humans who are similar to themselves. However, judging from past history, humans have always been the most powerful and terrifying race in the world. So the elves have complicated feelings towards humans. They are wary and fearful.
After all, most of the wars of the elves in the past were fought with humans. There are quite a few older elves around you who have participated in the two wars with the Black Dragon Empire." Elaina explained to Xiao Chen while observing the candidates of various races, "On the other hand, other races are in the same position of being suppressed by humans as the elves. Naturally, they are willing to stick together with the elves. If it weren't for my guarantee, and if you happened to be in the capital of the elves, the elders would not invite you to join this expedition."
"Don't worry, Roger and I won't let you down." Xiao Chen said.
Perhaps it was the quiet and grand hall that gave these players invisible pressure. No matter whether they were reckless orcs or irritable dwarves, none of them made any sound and there was no communication between them. Instead, they were meditating or doing warm-up exercises.
About an hour later, the selection officially began. Under the arrangement of the administrator of the Hall of Illusion, the candidates entered the inner hall one by one to take the test. There were five entrances, which meant that five people took the test at the same time each time, and each group would take about several dozen minutes to an hour.
Xiao Chen found that most people were energetic and motivated before entering the venue, but when they came out, most of them looked very tired or even depressed.
When an orc came out, he threw his sword to the ground fiercely and shouted angrily: "Asshole, why is there a master-level enemy!"
The orc was immediately taken away by the elves, but those who had not yet participated in the test became nervous. For high-level people in any profession, a master-level opponent is a difficult obstacle to overcome.
"Roger, do you think you can challenge a higher level?"
Roger shook his head decisively and said, "If it were a normal master-level warrior, I would have basically no chance of succeeding in the cross-level challenge. I am still a long way from the peak of the high level."
"I think we can give it a try. The enemies in the illusion are not real people, so they will definitely have problems in responding. We must observe carefully, maybe we will have a chance." Xiao Chen said.
When it was Xiao Chen and Roger's turn, it was already the fourth batch.
The guiding elf brought Xiao Chen to an entrance and let him walk along a passage. After Xiao Chen walked about 40 to 50 meters, a bright end appeared in front of the originally dark passage.
Walking out of the doorway, there was a high mountain under the setting sun. In the rosy sky and mist, there was a straight mountain road leading to the top of the mountain. A voice rang in Xiao Chen's ears: "Challenger, please run all the way to the top of the mountain along this mountain road and defeat all the enemies you can defeat before your health points are exhausted."
Then the words "Health value: 100" appeared in the void in front of Xiao Chen's right.
With the Traveler's Heart, Xiao Chen, with the help of the ring's clear mind and energy perception function, could vaguely feel that the scenes he saw were all false. He seemed to have entered a small room and was floating in the air. It was not that he was moving forward, but that the surrounding scenery was moving backward. It was as if he was in a particularly realistic virtual reality game.
With the help of the ring, he sensed the energy core of this room. This core did not appear in the illusion, but was hidden behind a certain sky. Xiao Chen was even somewhat sure that if he attacked this core, he would be able to directly destroy the illusion and interrupt the test. However, since Xiao Chen had to pass the selection, he naturally had to play with them.
This was also a rare experience. Xiao Chen felt the real feeling of being down to earth, and watching the very realistic clouds rolling, he gained some new insights into his own meditation world.
He walked along the mountain path for a while, and a warrior in armor jumped out from the roadside, raised his long sword and charged at Xiao Chen. Xiao Chen didn't want to expose the inheritance of the Dream Tower, so he used the fire magic he learned from Tashia. First, a fireball knocked the warrior to the ground, and then a pillar of fire suddenly rose from under the warrior's body, and the scorching flames quickly burned him into charcoal.
As you continue to go up, the enemies that appear begin to grow wings and become the elves' nemesis: war angels. These war angels are much more difficult to deal with than ordinary warriors. They are flexible, dodge quickly, and can shoot arrows from the sky.
Xiao Chen was caught off guard and shot in the shoulder. His health dropped by 5 points. He switched to ice magic, used an ice shield to protect his body, used ice cone magic to freeze the war angel, and finally used an ice spear to kill them.
The battle angels along the way became stronger and stronger. At first, they were mid-level battle angels, and later, there were even two high-level battle angels fighting together. However, the high-level in the illusion were set according to the convention, and the attack routines would not change, except that the strength and speed increased greatly. In front of a wizard like Xiao Chen who had very keen perception and abnormally strong mental power, this kind of enemy only wasted some of his time.
Xiao Chen took steady steps, observing and memorizing the battle patterns of these battle angels all the way. Later, he figured out the rules, and faced stronger enemies with more ease than at the beginning. He eliminated all opponents and walked to the top of the mountain. A battle angel holding two swords appeared opposite him. Xiao Chen was very familiar with the swords. They were the judgment and protection swords in Mei's hands.