The morning light emerged, and the mist dispersed.
When Duncan woke up, he felt like his whole body's bones were about to fall apart. He turned over and moved a bit, realizing it was just an illusion.
He was mentally, spiritually, and soulfully exhausted, but his body was still full of energy and he could even practice early in the morning.
"The taste of the Valkyrie..."
"Not bad at all!"
Duncan got up, and a servant came in to help him dress and wash. Once he was clear-headed, he rode his horse around the town, finally recovering a bit of vitality.
Last night, he really gave it his all; he had never fought such a tough battle!
In a frenzy, he carved out a bloody path in the Heroic Spirit Hall.
Duncan even remembered that later on, the main god of the Norse Pantheon, Odin, had his appearance change from 'Nordic Main God' to 'King of the Wild Hunt.'
In the end, Duncan didn't know how many people he cut down, but he eventually encountered a legendary Wild Hunt Hunter. The result was barely acceptable, as they ended in mutual destruction.
Duncan felt that this guy might have been from the Mythical Era, a half-human, half-god figure, just like Beowulf, with a bit of divine blood.
The opponent was Duncan's first head-on confrontation with a three-star gold unit, with strength akin to a legendary Giant. Even after activating Great Frenzy and stacking Unflagging Intoxication, he could only barely fight to a draw.
Anyway, he didn't lose in the end!
When it really came to a life-for-life situation, he would still kill a three-star gold legendary hero!
Who was afraid of whom!
Even when Recklessness was added as a frontal state, he still cut down divine incarnations!
"Unflagging Intoxication really messes you up; I don't quite remember what happened later."
Duncan rubbed his head. Everything from last night seemed like a big dream, his blood boiling, utterly wild. He said that Frenzy messes you up, and once that reckless negative state kicks in, it's truly as if he's thirsty for slaughter.
Dimension Space.
In the god's-eye view, Duncan finally sobered up, recollecting many memories. Asgard should have a huge chasm separating it from the real world, not belonging to the same dimension.
——Duncan[Odin's Gaze][Sol's Gaze][Freya's Gaze][Avalon's Blessing][Diana's Favor][Valkyrie's Kiss]!...
No.
How did he end up with so many labels overnight?
Duncan was a bit stumped.
Could it be he overdid it last night?
He focused his mind to inspect carefully. The ones in the front were fine, just gazes, watching him. He didn't know when Avalon's Blessing arrived, and Diana's Favor, which wasn't there before, suddenly appeared yesterday.
——"Valkyrie's Kiss[Special Ability]: The Valkyries only favor the most courageous and powerful warriors. You earned their favor through a blood battle that burned down the entire Heroic Spirit Hall. They will rejoice upon seeing you and be willing to bestow victory blessings upon you."
Can't quite remember.
The honey wine really gets to you! Unflagging Intoxication was totally overdone! All the states were stacked!
It seems he also fought with the Valkyries?!
Duncan rubbed his forehead and found that his Legendary Level had changed, becoming '3/7', gaining an extra point of Legendary Level, coming from Asgard's Heroic Spirit Hall.
(The 6 points of Legendary Level of the Hengist and Hosa brothers were accumulated from a lifetime of fighting and founding a nation.)
More details were recalled.
Duncan remembered there were seats for the twelve main gods of the Norse Pantheon at that time, but actually, not all the gods were present. Most of the divine figures were vague, only three divine incarnations were relatively clear.
They were Odin, Sol, and Freya.
——Odin[Nordic Main God][King of the Wild Hunt][Aesir Race](Neutral).
——Sol[Thunder God][War God][God of Strength][Aesir Race](Neutral).
——Freya[God of Love and Beauty][Magic][War][Vanir Race](Neutral).
Last night, the appearances of these three deities were the clearest, probably because they received more worship. Apart from Odin and Sol, it was Freya who was most interested in Duncan, even watching him for a moment before leaving.
"No?"
"Didn't I get anything?"
"Even the mist-covered Avalon gave me a Nord Bow? Such a big Pantheon as the Norse Pantheon couldn't even spare a decent piece of equipment?"
Where's my Divine Artifact?
Where's my huge Divine Artifact?
Duncan's expression was somewhat helpless; last night's performance was all for naught.
But then again.
If they really gave anything to Duncan now, he'd likely use it to chop down Germanic barbarians, and with particular ferocity.
All of yesterday's events seemed as if he had established a diplomatic relationship with the Norse Pantheon.
Odin inviting him to visit the Heroic Spirit Hall meant to say: Look, how fitting is this place for warriors like you? There's fine wine and delicious food every day, and after you've eaten and drunk your fill, you can cut down people and revel; isn't it highly attractive? Do you want to join the Norse Pantheon's camp?
The initial plan was this. Unexpectedly, Duncan's bloody combat set the entire arena ablaze, even causing Odin to manifest the visage of the 'King of the Wild Hunt.'
Duncan, an archer by trade, didn't even touch his bow yesterday, brutally hacking down numerous heroic spirits.
He directly carved out a bit of Legendary Level in the Heroic Spirit Hall!
"Combat Skills did not improve."
"It seems the Heroic Spirit Hall truly follows different laws from the real world."
Duncan checked his abilities.
Normal.
After all, whether he died or the enemy died, they would all resurrect.
At most, he gained a little proficiency.
Duncan flipped through the projection pages of the Dimension Space, indeed discovering many changes, including the opened 'Norse Pantheon' sanctuary.
Odin's Viking Sanctuary, permanently raises morale. (Fearless of battle death)
Sol's Power Sanctuary, enhances combat training with some extra uses. (Great Frenzy)
Freya's War Sanctuary, provides additional skill blessings and allows priests to train 'Germanic Battle Cry Warrior.'
There were only three sanctuaries of the divine spirits.
"It seems the Norse Pantheon isn't that powerful after all, unable to compare with the heyday of the Roman-Greek pantheons."
Duncan rested his chin on his hand and continued flipping.
This glance led him to some unexpected surprises, or rather, he once again felt the power of the Dimension Space!
——"Detected Divine Realm - Asgard!"
——"Detected cross-dimensional presence - Nordic Gods!"
——"Parsing Divine Spirit Law."
——"Dimension Space replicates the Root Law of Divine Incarnation!..."
——"Law of Cause and Effect deduction evolution."
In the page of the Law of Cause and Effect deduction, Duncan saw a new mark 'Divine Incarnation', and when he focused his mind, a line of information quickly appeared.
"Divine Incarnation (Extraordinary Divine Power): Without severing the link with the human vessel, replicate your own soul to form a temporary personalized incarnation, equivalent to a divine spirit walking the world as an outer body incarnation, which can act according to your preset plans and retain a portion of its thought patterns.
After the divine incarnation takes over the human vessel, it can no longer be enhanced in an unconventional way, but the main body can reload the human vessel at any time and check the action log of the human vessel incarnation."
[Current soul strength is 'Essence', capable of creating a conventional divine incarnation to take over the human vessel.]
(Divine incarnation must rely on the strength of the soul to create more incarnations. As the soul advances, the incarnation's action plans will also be closer to the abilities of the main body.)
What is this?
Soul hosting?!
Duncan's expression was quite shocked, is the outer body incarnation really this strong after the dimensional upgrade?
— "Plan 1 - Missionary Work: You can designate a certain faith faction, during which the outer body incarnation will act with this as its main task. The capabilities of the outer body incarnation are influenced by its own abilities and cannot exhibit unconventional performance."
— "Plan 2 - Military Training: You can designate this as the main task for the outer body incarnation, and in the subsequent actions, it will focus on training soldiers, supplementing armaments, and raising military funds, etc."
— "Plan 3 - Land Cultivation: You can designate this as the main task for the outer body incarnation, and in the subsequent actions, it will focus on developing territories, boosting production, and enriching the treasury, etc."
There was a large section of backup plans for the outer body incarnation that could still be customized according to personal wishes.
"But some plans seem unusable."
"Is it because of my own lack of abilities and I'm not good at these things?"
Duncan fell into deep thought.
For example, regarding the 'business' plan, it indicates the need for professional talent to cooperate, as the human vessel itself is not skilled in commerce.
"This is basically small-scale soul hosting!"
"Using your own soul to crystallize a replicated set of consciousness, allowing it to do many things for you."
Duncan tried it out slightly.
Soon.
The human vessel in the projection screen began to move, directly ordering the army to assemble at the parade ground, and then started training the soldiers, even conducting planned, staggered training sessions with completely different contents, showcasing first-class skills in military training.
Because in the state of divine incarnation hosting, many of his own combat skills are in effect, providing additional amplification effects.
— "Master of Archery: Significantly improves the training effects of archers."
— "Weapon Master (Spear, Axe, Sword): Significantly enhances their training efficiency when training corresponding types of soldier units and imparts the corresponding basic combat forms."
— "Riding Skill Proficiency: Remarkably improves their mastery efficiency when training soldiers in riding skills."
Damn!
This is too satisfying.
So this is the biggest gain from entering the domain of the Norse Pantheon!
The dimension space has replicated the abilities of divine incarnations from the Norse gods.
"This is more exaggerated than using Wind Spirit Moon Shadow!... But I like it!..."
Duncan was like someone who had obtained a new toy, pondering how to use this outer body incarnation ability.
It can operate within such a vast space.
The Norse gods have no human vessels in the real world, so their divine incarnations probably just operate in Asgard, but Duncan, through the human vessel carrying the outer body incarnation, can do countless things.
Even if he were an Outer Heaven Demon now, he would be a unique one!
While Duncan was flipping through the logs.
He did discover some unexpected surprises from information captured outside human vessel number one.
"Detected a compatible human vessel."
"Law of Cause and Effect calculation!"
"Target is an alien life form!..."
A string of characters appeared.
— "Human life form (soul compatibility 100%)."
— "Humanoid life form (soul compatibility 50% to 90%)."
— "Alien life form (soul compatibility 20% to 50%)."
Hmm?
Discovered a new human vessel?
Humans are 100% compatible? Humanoid beings are much less? Alien life forms have very low compatibility?
Did it catch some peculiar and strange entities?
"Do you want to attempt a capture?"
Duncan thought and decided affirmatively, since he currently only had one human vessel, if it wasn't suitable, he could just retreat and leave it to the law of cause and effect.
The dimension space began to undergo changes.
In an instant!
The enormous feather-like nebula began to operate, countless streaming lights crossed the void, as if penetrating the space-time of the dimension space, directly anchoring onto an inconspicuous existence.
"Capture target!"
"Detect reality law!"
"Lock onto human vessel number two, law of cause and effect calculation for soul compatibility — 45%!..."
"Target is an alien life form — Dragon Egg (Ice Dragon)!"
"Mark reality plane [Lost Horizon: Ice River Epoch]!"
"Please bestow a true name for the dragon."
Duncan thought for a moment, then named it 'Augustus.'
In the next second.
The projection interface of the dimension space revealed a change, splitting in two, with human vessel number one training soldiers, while in the second projection page, a pitch-black ice cave emerged. Upon Duncan adjusting the screen, a progress bar information appeared.
— "Loading (Possession) complete!"
— "Dragon Egg (Ice Dragon) (Augustus) [Remaining hatching time 21 days and 6 hours]."
— "Soul compatibility 45%."
(After consciousness is loaded into human vessel number two, it may experience significant discomfort due to soul compatibility with the new body.)
Damn.
This is truly an Outer Heaven Demon.
Duncan eagerly gazed at this dragon egg, curious about what his second human vessel would be like.
Hurry and hatch.
I've never tried being a giant dragon!
.........
(PS: The Heroic Spirit Hall doesn't just get visited once, there will be more opportunities later.)
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