Chapter 412: Duel

As soon as he spoke, someone beside him said, "Isn't this guy the most ordinary D-level werewolf?"

"He awakened for the second time," someone said, "using the compatible genes of the dead team member."

"Since he chose to awaken for the second time, why didn't he get a more powerful one?" someone was puzzled.

"You don't understand. Secondary awakening must be not too different from the first awakening ability type. It is best to be in the same series. For example, the most common werewolf series, the evolved versions include the ghost wolf that can be invisible and speed-enhanced, the giant werewolf with giantization and strength enhancement, and the wolf king that can command wolf packs, etc."

"However, although this series is the earliest, its upper limit is very low. These three evolved versions are also C-level. He doesn't have many choices."

David didn't care what the people beside him were saying. He took a "holographic simulation helmet" from the bar and put it on his head.

A light spot suddenly lit up in front of his eyes, then turned into a line of text, "Detected login identity: David Watson. Iris verification passed, brain wave verification passed, magic spectrum verification passed. Welcome to the holographic simulation. Please select the simulation category."

Two options popped up: "Training Simulation, Battle Simulation."

This so-called holographic simulation helmet appeared two months ago. According to the headquarters, it was to let them familiarize themselves with combat, enemies, and various situations of dealing with magic disasters.

Its functions were incredibly powerful. It could completely simulate a space or scene. The flowers, birds, fish, insects, water flow, land, etc., in it were all exactly the same as in the real world.

It could also simulate magical creatures, simulate magic disasters, and more importantly, simulate the user's own situation.

It could establish a "clone" in the simulation space that was exactly the same as the user themselves, whose physical state, abilities, etc., were exactly the same as in reality.

Through this simulation, members of the Countermeasure Bureau could practice shooting, fighting, familiarize themselves with their own abilities, familiarize themselves with the abilities and weaknesses of magical creatures, and even engage in battles with magical creatures to simulate possible situations of dealing with various magic disasters.

There were many real magic disaster events that had happened in the past in the simulator. Investigators could enter them and participate in handling disaster events personally to accumulate experience.

This method could greatly enhance the survival ability of investigators without causing any actual losses, so it received strong support from all members of the Countermeasure Bureau as soon as it was launched.

The headquarters said that a magic technology called "Mind Reproduction" was used in the holographic simulation helmet, but David knew nothing about this.

In fact, the so-called "Mind Reproduction" technology was actually a type of application developed by Murphy through the mind network after his understanding of mind magic went a step further.

Its mode of action was somewhat similar to a Pensieve. Through memory extraction and Total Recall, various scenes were extracted and stored from the memories of all users, including their own physical conditions, ability situations, magical creatures encountered, magic disaster scenarios, etc.

Then, through digital technology, these scenes were given a digitized image.

Finally, connecting everyone together through the mind network formed the holographic simulation network.

This kind of simulation consumed a lot of computational power, so part of its computational power was provided by Murphy's supercomputer network, and part was actually provided by the users' own brainpower.

To avoid individual will tampering with the scenes in the network, Murphy adjusted the rules of the part of the mind network connected to the holographic simulation network, using the mind energy of all connected people to restrict and hedge against each individual, ensuring that they could not do whatever they wanted in the holographic simulation, but could only act according to real and effective reality rules, thereby ensuring the fairness and authenticity of the simulation.

David chose "Battle Simulation," and soon, he and Maurice were connected to a battle scene.

"Random battle scene: Magic Disaster·Magic Five-Legged Monster. Mode: Competition."

After a huge line of text made of fire flashed in front of David, it disappeared instantly, and he found himself in a forest.

He looked down and saw it was his own body, and he was fully armed.

He looked around at the surrounding environment, immediately took out a black box from his backpack, pressed the switch, and with a buzzing sound, more than a dozen ultra-small drones were ejected from the box and flew into the air.

Half a minute later, he glanced at the square electronic display screen on his left arm, which showed a radar map. A red light spot suddenly appeared about a kilometer away.

At the same time, another smaller blue light spot appeared more than ten meters to the right.

David was startled, immediately raised his gun, pulled the trigger toward the right side, and immediately a rain of bullets was sprayed out, turning the bushes in front into a sieve, but the blue light spot on the display screen appeared on his left.

"Bang bang bang!" It was also a burst of fire from a rain machine gun. David felt a chill in his heart, reached into his waist with his left hand, took out something like a beer glass, and then pressed a button on the handle.

The cup unfolded into a fan-shaped shield in the blink of an eye, then instantly enlarged, covering his whole body.

The next instant, the bullets hit the shield with a bang, but it only made his arms sore and numb, and he didn't suffer any damage.

David immediately started to move, and at the same time, the machine gun in his hand also fought back against the opponent. However, on the display screen, the blue light spot disappeared.

David was stunned, and then was shocked to find that the light spot didn't disappear, but completely overlapped with the green light spot representing himself.

In an instant, he topped the shield over his head, and then leaped out to the side.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh!" Countless bullets drowned his position, and some hit the shield, but ultimately failed to hurt him.

"Twice," David counted silently.

The opponent had already teleported twice in a row, with an interval of about a second or so. And from the replay he saw in the tavern, he could only teleport three times in a row in a short period of time.

One last time, and his ability would be temporarily unusable.

However, just as he thought so, he suddenly saw a spatial distortion in front of the place where he pounced, and Maurice's figure appeared there, holding a grenade with the safety pin pulled out long ago, currently grinning at him, then released the handle and threw the grenade over.

David was currently lying on the ground, with the shield still covering his body, and the grenade exploded the moment it was thrown over.

"Boom!"

Maurice looked at the dust rising not far away, a smile hooked on the corner of his mouth. His teleportation speed was extremely fast, and his own reaction speed was far beyond ordinary people. In this series of three consecutive flashes of attack, the vast majority of enemies were defeated in one encounter like this.

This time would be no exception.

He was waiting for the kill prompt to appear in the air, when suddenly, with a "Roar!", a giant wolf as big as a car drilled out of the dust, and a giant claw like a millstone fanned toward him.

At the same time, on the radar map on his arm, a red light spot also approached at extreme speed, almost overlapping with the positions of the two.

Amidst the "crack" sounds, a monster with five legs that was completely no smaller than the giant wolf also pounced out from behind Maurice.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 413 =====