Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 389: Immortal Slash, two merged into one!

On this day, the originally peaceful undead settlement was suddenly attacked by an unknown group of monsters.

"Uh-huh!"

"Boom——!!"

In order to resist the invaders, the mentor from the Deep Church, who was originally leading the simple villagers to hold an open-air bonfire party, resolutely opened his arms, his whole body on fire, and rushed towards them!
"I'll clean the bastard's curse~"

“Gah——!!”

The villagers were deeply moved by their mentor's sacrifice and did not choose to escape. Instead, they rushed forward together to protect their homes and fought with the invaders!
But across from them, the leader of the invaders simply raised his knife and pointed it in their direction: "Kill them all."

"okay!"

"Ow-!!"

The invaders also rushed out suddenly!

"Shh-!"

A moment later, only corpses were left on the ground at the bonfire party.

The vicious leader of the invaders picked up the ball of light that was entangled with the ownerless soul from the remains of his mentor.

He showed an evil smile on his face: "Go on, there's another one!"

……

Deeper in the Undead Settlement, at the end of a dilapidated stone bridge.

In order to resist foreign invasion, the villagers placed a large number of wooden barrels here, filled with all the gunpowder found in the village.

The villagers who were tasked with the task stood on a simple watchtower behind the bridge end and threw homemade improvised explosives - flame pots - at the enemy to stop their advance.

But today.

“Bang! Bang!”

The sound of gunfire echoed one after another. Under the repeated attacks of the extremely terrifying weapons in the hands of the invaders, these villagers who were determined to defend their homes fell one after another.

The invaders even detonated the gunpowder barrel in reverse, blowing the few strong men in the village who were guarding the gate into pieces.

There are ruins everywhere.

Soon, a corner of the watchtower.

The old man who was locked in the cage and looked haggard was looking at the murderous group of people in front of him and was a little stumped: "...Oh, you are..."

A strong hand directly pulled open the steel cage: "Come out!"

……

Continuing down along the watchtower is the main road of the village, which leads to the most important building in the village, a simple church for worshiping the sacred tree.

Another instructor was patrolling the avenue with volunteer villagers and their guard dogs.

Their main purpose is to protect the sacred tree, because the sacred tree carries the curse of the villagers and is the key to maintaining the existence of the undead settlement.

But today.

"Shh-"

"Zila——!!"

"boom--!!"

There were continuous sounds of swinging knives, electric currents, and explosions. The villagers and the cute white puppy were all chopped to death and blown away.

The mentor who led the team was also filled with grief and indignation. He shouted the heroic lines "Poor child, come to me" again, and with flames all over his body, he rushed towards the invader without hesitation!
It had no effect, the man's knife flashed, and the last mentor fell down.

Then, the group walked along the road to the gate of the Sacred Tree Church, and the leading invader pushed the tightly closed thick wooden door.

"Can't open it from this side? Take a break!"

He was extremely brutal and kicked him!
“Crack—!”

The heavy and ancient wooden door shattered!

……

Inside the simple church where the sacred tree is worshipped.

The building was tall and spacious, but that was all.

In the center is a flat and open space, surrounded by high walls. A large tree with a vague human shape is facing the wall in a corner of the space, meditating.

The sparse villagers gathered around the big tree, kneeling on the ground to pray.

“…That’s it, the Cursed Tree.”

Looking at the tree, Li You also breathed a sigh of relief.

finally reached!

Although coming to the world of Dark Souls III is like going home for him, it is still very hard to speed through it all the way, okay!

Fortunately, the enthusiastic fat aunt tutor and the hospitable villagers' warm welcome made him feel a little comforted on the boring fast road.

It really has to taste like this!
He turned around and looked outside the broken gate, at the villagers, the zombie dogs, and the body of his plump aunt mentor lying on the stairs, and nodded slightly.

Thank you! I feel the warmth of returning to the village again!

Li You bowed his head silently to them for a moment.

Looking at his inexplicable actions, Edge and V looked at each other and understood what each other meant.

It’s okay, this guy is just generating electricity again.

“…Okay, let’s not waste any more time.”

Li You then turned around and drew his knife.

"Let's go, it's time to chop down the trees!"

Of course, although he was very excited, he did not forget to tell his companions how to deal with it.

“…This cursed tree was originally a sacred tree of the Undead Settlement. Its function is to absorb curses and dissolve filth.”

As Li You spoke, he took out handfuls of Divine Snow from his backpack and gave them to Edge and V.

"It's easy to guess what happened next. The sacred tree absorbed too many curses and mutated. After all, even a tree can't just eat without pooping, right?"

After releasing the Divine Snow, he adjusted his ninja tools and switched to the blowgun.

"So the Cursed Tree has become like this. Not to mention its human form, do you see those egg-like pustules on its body? They are the product of the curse and also its weakness. We will aim at these eggs in a moment.

"Also remember, this thing is basically only afraid of fire, other attacks are not very effective. And don't hit anything other than the eggs, you can't hit it."

After hearing this, Aggie and V both nodded.

They had long been accustomed to Li You's foresight and did not ask him how he knew these things.

Yuzu was ready, and Li You patted him on the shoulder: "How is your recovery?"

Yuzu nodded and said, "Weakness...It's over!"

"very good!"

Li You was also very satisfied.

Whether it is the first generation of Lothric or the third generation of Lothric and its surrounding areas, the time in the soul world seems chaotic.

The group has been in this world for a long time, but the sun tilting in the sky has hardly moved, as if time has stood still.

Fortunately, Yuzu's recovery depends on his own biological clock, so it doesn't affect him. At this point, his previous weak state has ended.

Although in worlds like Biochemistry and Extinction, even if Yuzu is temporarily weakened, the impact is not significant, but in Dark Soul, this is a lack of combat power, and one must be careful.

But now, Yuzu has recovered.

Li You nodded at him: "Tyrant form!"

"Ow-!!"

Yuzu removed his gas mask, tore off his clothes, and his entire body quickly expanded to over three meters tall!

He took the naginata from Li You's hand. The dark red biomass was wrapped around it, making it easier to use.

"Ready!"

Li You also drew his knife: "Let's go!"

A group of people rushed into the open space where the big tree was. A villager who heard the noise looked back, but was immediately stepped into the ground by Youzi!
"Roar--!!"

The other villagers responded and turned back, but it was too late. Li You had already led his men to kill the big tree!

With a tremor that shook the ground, the cursed tree slowly turned around.

The tree is quite large, at least twenty meters high from the root to the crown.

Its trunk swelled and became similar to a fat body, with dry and thin arms and legs on both sides, no head, and dry branches extending on top of its body.

The cursed tree was dark green in color, with dry bark all over. There were no leaves on the branches extending from the top, but instead there were pustules hanging on them, which contained the dried corpses of zombies.

Of course, we must not forget that if the Cursed Tree is regarded as a human form, then the large number of white pustules growing between its legs are its eggs - this is also the tree's weakness.

There are also a small number of eggs on its legs, arms, and back, but they are not as concentrated as between the legs.

It is called the Leftover Egg Tree because of its design that is very worthy of complaints.

The cursed tree was obviously unconscious and was driven purely by the curse accumulated in its body. So Li You didn't bother with it. As soon as the tree moved its legs and turned around, he dodged through the tree's legs, raised his hand, and purple-red flames spurted out!

"Whoosh-"

The Glazed Fire burned the eggs of the big tree. The flame, which had both burning and purifying properties, caused particularly great damage to the big tree. As soon as the flame pounced on it, the eggs of the big tree exploded one by one!

"Puff puff--"

"Uuuuuuu——!"

The cursed tree whimpered like the echo of a hollow valley, and its entire body trembled violently. Before it could move in any way, it fell weakly on its back.

At the same time, Yuzu and others have already taken action!
Edge and V scattered the God's Snow, and purple flames were wrapped around their weapons. Although similar, the flames of the God's Snow were different from those used by Li You, and the effect was not as significant.

But when used with weapons, the damage is enough.

Edge carried the Black Knight's axe and chopped at the boils on Daishu's left calf and right palm. V, with the help of Yuzu, jumped up and chopped at the testicles of Daishu's right elbow.

“Puff! Puff!!”

The results of both of them were outstanding, and they easily broke those abscesses!
As for Youzi himself, he cooperated with Li You, spewing flames from his mouth, burning the remaining pustules on the legs of the tree!
V, who had just landed, took a look and his mouth twitched.

Somehow, this scene reminded her of the guy with a burning crotch that she and Li You had encountered before...

Li You certainly didn't know what she was thinking. He was busy working with Youzi to attack, not even using a knife. The flames from the blowtorch quickly burned and cracked all of the tree's eggs! "Puff!"

As if it was awakened by the intense pain, the big tree trembled and propped up its body. Its slender legs actually supported its body and it sat down heavily on the ground!
"Boom-!!"

The brick and stone floor shook violently, followed by a rumbling sound!
With a loud bang and a shattering sound, the ground under the big tree suddenly collapsed, and everyone fell down with it!

"boom--!!"

But Li You was well prepared, and called V in advance, and the grappling hook pulled the two of them down at a constant speed. On the other side, Aggie hung on Yuzi's back and also landed safely.

This underground space is quite spacious, but dark and there is a considerable height difference from the ground. There is shallow water in the underground cave, and a candle is burning in one corner of the cave.

This is the cave house of wandering souls and the sacrificial site for the "Accumulator" oath.

"Boom-!!"

The cursed tree fell heavily to the ground, but the violent impact did not seem to cause any damage to it.

On the contrary, its abdomen was squeezed again, and another white pus came out. That was not all, a pale, slender, but huge arm poked out from the crack!

"Uuuuuuu——!!"

The cursed tree echoed, and the arm on its abdomen grabbed Yuzu and Edge, who were closest to it, at a speed completely opposite to that of its main body!
"Roar--!!"

But Yuzu is naturally not someone to be trifled with. As soon as he opened his mouth, large flames spewed out again!

Yuzu's ability to breathe fire comes from the T-Veronica virus. In essence, it is spitting out one's own blood, so it cannot be used all the time.

And of course, his flame has no special features, it's just pure high temperature!
The blazing flames burned the big white hand, causing it to shrink back involuntarily. Edge took advantage of the situation and, with the help of Yuzu's push, leaped up and chopped down heavily with the Black Knight's axe surrounded by purple flames in his hand!
"Pfft-"

The ferocious axe blade of the Black Knight's axe cut a huge wound on the tree's arm, but no blood flowed out, instead a dark cursed substance spread out.

The cursed tree was shaking violently, and its crown began to quiver, trying to shake off the "fruits" wrapped in zombies hanging on the branches!
Those "fruits" are filled with corpses of zombies and pus, which is also a way of attack for the Cursed Tree.

But Li You still had no intention of letting it succeed.

"Grapefruit--!"

Yuzu responded loudly, and then raised his hand. On his arm, he held the whale spear gun he had obtained earlier!
"Roar--!!"

Yuzu let out a roar, and the steel harpoon flew out!

"puff--"

The steel fork accurately intercepted a falling ginseng fruit, sent it flying directly and nailed it to the stone wall of the cave house far away!
"There's more later!"

As Li You spoke, he and V raised their knives and walked forward to start chopping the eggs off the tree.

In response, Yuzu continued to spit out the whaling spear in her hand, knocking the falling fruits away one by one!

However, although the whaling spear has unlimited ammunition, the harpoon it ejects will automatically disappear after a period of time, unless it is equipped with a rope, so it cannot be reused.

Just like the bullet shells dropped by guns with unlimited ammunition, they will be gone after a while.

I don’t know which programmer designed the system this way. He had no chance to find any loopholes.

Li You complained in his heart.

But fortunately, even if it refreshes and disappears, it will take at least ten minutes, so there is no need to worry for the time being. Or rather, the bigger problem is that Yuzu's aim is not that good, so from time to time he would miss, and those fruits would fall to the ground smoothly.

The ginseng fruit on the big tree burst open and turned into pus, covering the surrounding ground and emitting a foul odor.

This pus obviously cannot be touched, otherwise it will be extremely painful like a burn.

But fortunately, most of the fruits were knocked away by the pomelo, and only one or two fell to the ground, posing little threat.

At the same time, the concentrated fire from Li You, Edge and V had made it impossible for the Cursed Tree to bear it any longer.

Li You and Aiji swung their knives, chopping at the pale arm of the tree, leaving it covered in scars. V, on the other hand, aimed at the tree's balls and stabbed them with his sword!
"Puff puff--"

The abscesses were punctured one after another, and the claws of the tree were chopped one by one, and these attacks were all wrapped in the purple fire bestowed by the God's Flying Snow.

The tree's fighting power was weak to begin with, and after such repeated blows, it finally whimpered and fell to the ground.

"Woo——"

"Boom-!!"

The tree's originally dry limbs and the new arms that had grown on its abdomen all hung down limply, and the fat trunk fell down completely.

This sacred tree, which has been carrying a curse in the Undead Settlement since ancient times, has finally ended its mission.

The body of the cursed tree also turned into a wandering soul and dissipated. Its twisted soul, which contained the curse, was taken in by Li You.

But along with it came another item.

An overall round shape with a dark silver crystalline shell, containing a small dark furnace with a little starlight.

This is Kurland's smelting furnace, the key tool for the Fire King Rhodos to "refine" his soul, and it is also required to fuse the two Undead Swords.

Li You was so satisfied with the smelting furnace that he didn't even care about the soul of the cursed tree.

"Light a fire, we will return to the fire sacrifice site immediately!"

Li You put away the smelting furnace and came to the cave house of the wandering soul. The place where the candle was lit was where the extinguished campfire was located.

However, next to the campfire, there was a body that had been smashed to death. It looked like an old man, wearing an old armor wrapped in cloth strips.

This is the Paladin Fodorink, but now he has turned into a mad wandering spirit and become the Oathbearer of the Accumulator.

In fact, if you come here before defeating the tree, Fodorink is still alive, and he will give you the Accumulator's Oath after talking to him. But Li You killed his way to the tree directly, and didn't come to him in advance.

This was mainly because Li You had just tried to take an oath at the old wolf in Fran not long ago, but found that because he was not an ash or an undead, he could not get the oath of the Fran Guard from the old wolf.

In theory, an oath should be able to be made by anyone, whether living or undead, but perhaps because the "program" of the Fran Wolf was not smart enough, after its death, it could no longer recognize ordinary people.

Since he couldn't get the Flan Guard's Oath, Li You was too lazy to make an extra trip to try for the Accumulator's Oath.

After lighting the campfire in the Wandering Soul Cave House, Li You led everyone back to the fire sacrifice site.

……

"——Welcome back, Master Li You."

He was still greeted by the Fire Keeper's gentle greeting, and she nodded slightly to Li You.

However, Li You was a little anxious, and simply replied "Thank you for your hard work", then walked past her and came to Rhodes on the throne.

“…Oh, you’re back.”

Rhodes seemed to be taking a nap and was awakened only when Li You approached.

"Sorry, I seemed to have fallen asleep."

Li You looked at him. The remains of Rhodos were still burning with flames. His face was charred black, but a trace of pain could be seen faintly.

At this point, Li You was no longer anxious. He looked at Rhodes and asked, "It must be painful to be burned by the flames."

He used an affirmative tone, and Rhodos was stunned. Seeing Li You's expression, he said, "How can it not hurt to turn your body into firewood and let the First Fire burn and devour your flesh, blood and soul?"

“But even so, for thousands of years, generation after generation of kings have thrown themselves into the flames one after another, just to maintain the remaining light.

"I became the Lord of Fire according to my own will, and I am deeply proud of it. So you don't have to worry, I will not leave here, because I am the king, and this is my throne.

"As for you, just go and do what you want to do. I can see that you also came here with a unique mission, right?"

Li You nodded. In the game, players could sometimes hear Rhodes murmuring in his sleep, groaning and praying for death and liberation.

Although he had always told Ashes that he was basking in the glory of being a king, the pain of becoming the food of the First Flame could not be ignored after all - it was a pain that gnawed at the soul.

But even so, Rhodos would rather stay on the throne and turn into firewood once again.

All I can say is that he does have his own persistence, just like everyone else who is still struggling to survive in the soul world.

In other worlds before, the thing Li You did most often was to save people, save people, and save people. Although he would complain occasionally, he was actually used to it.

But when he arrived in the world of Dark Souls III, he became hesitant about whether to do so.

In the world of Soul III, there are really few living people left, and those who are still alive are alive only because they have their own mission or goal. Once they have completed their mission, they will basically choose to end their lives.

For example, Onion Brother, Hillis, or Hammer Brother Igor.

Of course, Li You could help these people, but what about after that? If he forcibly intervened and let them survive, wouldn't that go against their own wishes?
Li You hadn't figured out what to do yet. For example, during this trip to the Undead Settlement, he also got the remaining bones of the old woman Loretta that the thief Greyrat was looking for, but he hadn't given them to him yet.

“…Hey, what’s wrong with you?”

Seeing that Li You was a little distracted, Rhodes also started to ask.

Li You finally came to his senses, shook his head vigorously, and decided to talk about it later.

He then took out the smelting furnace from his backpack and handed it to Rhodos.

"Oh, so you found the smelting furnace."

Rhodes' eyes also lighted up for a rare moment.

“It looks pretty old, but seems to be usable, which is good.

"Well, just treat it as my old age and talk too much. You must remember to bring the deformed soul. 'Refinement' is a technique that solidifies the characteristics of the soul and then takes it out. As long as you use the deformed soul for refinement, you can get its corresponding power.

“Of course, your two weapons with souls can also be combined into one.

"Come on, give them to me."

Li You naturally did not hesitate. He took out two Undead Swords, Kaimen and Bailei, and handed them to Rhodes.

Rudos stroked the two knives and murmured, "These two knives are condensed with the soul of the forger. They are really rare sharp weapons. Don't worry, I will not let the forger's hard work go to waste."

As he spoke, he activated the smelting furnace with the power of his soul and fire. The two immortal swords gradually lost their shapes in his hands and turned into two floating souls, one red and one black.

Li You couldn't help but widen his eyes. Not only him, but also Yuzu, Edge, V, and even old man Andre, who had never left the forge for thousands of years, all came to the campfire to watch.

"…Oh, this is really rare." He said in a low voice.

In front of Li You, Rhodos put the two souls into the smelting furnace together, and the souls intertwined and fused in the furnace.

Then, as Rhodes threw a large number of ownerless souls (which he got from Li You) into the furnace, the fused two souls gradually stretched and were about to condense into shape!
At this moment, the smelting furnace shone brightly, and a gleam of light suddenly appeared from Li You's chest. The Sakura Dragon Divine Crystal in his body was responding to the fusion of the two Immortal Swords!

Li You's eyes widened instantly, feeling his divine power and energy being swept away, surging out and rushing into the smelting furnace!
Rhodos was also very surprised: "This power is..."

But the next moment, a beam of light shot straight into the dome of the fire sacrifice site!
"Om-!!"

Li You forced himself to open his eyes, and a long sword with gleaming light was floating in front of him.

"This is... the fused Immortal Slash?"

He reached out and grasped the hilt of the knife.

"boom--!!"

In an instant, there was only a vast expanse of white light in front of Li You's eyes!
(End of this chapter)