Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 396: Yuzu, giant form!
The cursed frog is a little over one meter long and looks like a giant mutated frog, but it has a pair of huge eyeballs on its head.

Of course, friends who are familiar with the Souls series know that this pair of eyeballs are not the real eyes of the Cursed Frog. The Cursed Frog’s own head and eyes are very small, hidden under the pair of big eyeballs.

As for this pair of eyeballs, in the Dark Souls worldview, they are actually the oath item of the first generation Tomb King Nito, called the Eyes of the Dead.

However, there is also a curse frog in the old man's ring, and except that its body surface is dark green instead of black and dark red, its other appearances are basically the same.

Li You was not quite sure what the big eyeballs on the cursed frog's head that the old man was wearing were. He only remembered hearing someone say that they were suspected to be the eyes of the dead prince Godwin.

The most troublesome thing about enemies like Cursed Frogs is that they spray a gray-brown mist from their mouths. Although this mist will obscure vision, it is not poisonous and does not need to be poisonous.

Because this fog contains extremely powerful properties, it will quickly accumulate curses in the bodies of those shrouded in the fog. If the victim does not leave the fog area as soon as possible, he will be directly swallowed by the curse - that is, "cursed to death".

Those who are cursed to death will grow black hard crystals on their bodies. These crystals are very similar to the dark gems used in metamorphosis weapons.

In addition, the death curse is only effective against the "human race", that is, the character of the player template. Therefore, some people speculate that the so-called death curse is actually the result of the human nature in the human body being aroused and then going out of control.

The human race in the Dark Souls worldview is also different from the conventional definition, so if you really want to talk about it, Li You is not sure whether the cursed gray fog of the curse frog will have any effect on him.

But of course he couldn't verify it.

and so…

"boom--!!"

The blood-red flames swept through the air, engulfing several cursed frogs at the entrance of the low cave at the edge of the poisonous swamp!

But there were still two frogs that escaped the net. They dodged the blood-red flames that Li You wielded, then quickly moved their limbs and rushed towards Li You!
The curse frogs moved their webbed feet quickly, making a series of rapid "click-click" sounds. Another curse frog jumped up, and with a "hiss", a large cloud of gray-brown mist blew down from its mouth!
To be honest, Li You’s PTSD was almost settling in just by hearing these two sounds.

His instinct was screaming - there's a cursed frog!
"boom--!!"

Fortunately, Li You was not fighting alone. Under his arrangement, Yuzu and the others who stayed outside also attacked. V held her rifle and Edge held a longbow, each aiming at a curse frog and shooting them down from mid-air.

Li You quickly stepped back, avoiding the mist emanating from the cursed frog, and instead pulled out the hand cannon from his waist.

“Bang! Bang!”

With two gunshots, the two cursed frogs' little heads, along with the eyes of the dead on their heads, were torn into pieces.

Li You finally breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, I have basically played all versions of the Souls series, and the total playing time is ridiculously long. But even so, every time I see the Curse Frog, I still can't help but feel nervous.

To be honest, Li You wasn't this nervous even before fighting the BOSS.

After all, the Curse Frog has a special mechanism. If you are surrounded, you will be dead if you are not careful. What's more, if you are in Soul 1, you will enter a cursed state if you are killed by the Curse Frog, and your health bar will be directly reduced by half, which is really uncomfortable. In comparison, the Curse Frog of the third generation and the Ring of Magic is already very friendly.

Li You finally breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that there were no other curse frogs around. He used a mental connection to ask Youzi and the others to wait for a while, and then he entered the low cave guarded by the curse frogs.

There are two wooden treasure chests in the cave, one open and the other closed, and in the middle is a curled up dried corpse with a ball of soul light in its arms.

Li You picked up the ball of light under the mummy, which was naturally the golden scroll.

As for the two boxes, the one on the left is open in the game, and it may have been used to place the golden scroll. If you open the one on the right, you can get a set of classical long dress.

Li You opened it casually, but after picking up the clothes, he realized that it seemed useless for him to hold this thing?
Individual pieces of equipment without set features and without defensive capabilities were indeed of no value to him.

But since he had already taken it, Li You just threw it into his backpack.

Walking out of the low cave, Li You avoided the poisonous swamp as much as possible and used a grappling hook to pull himself back onto Youzi's back.

"Where are we going next?" V asked.

Li You said: "Next... let's prepare to go to the next stop."

At the Fortress of Farran, he has already obtained the most important item. If he extinguishes the three bonfires as required, the first enemy to be faced in the game is Farran's Undead Squad.

Commonly known as the Street Dance Team - this is related to the unique sword techniques they use.

However, Li You had no intention of challenging the Street Dance Team now. Although the Undead Team should be the weakest among the Fire Kings, because they were an army gathered together to be considered the Fire King, and now there were only a few people left in the Street Dance Team.

But Li You was planning to keep all the salary kings until the end in order to maximize profits, so he would not go to the street dance team's dance hall to challenge them now, and the dance battle would be put off until later.

If I don’t join the street dance team, what else can I do now?
Needless to say, it is naturally another area that can be led to from the Crucifixion Forest, the Deep Church belonging to Aldrich.

Li You did not waste any time and did not let Yuzu turn back into human form. Instead, he sent him back to the companion space first. Then he took out the spiral sword fragments and took Edge and V back to the Firelink Shrine.

His purpose was simple, just to do two things: give the two scrolls to Mr. Obek, and then have a chat with Leonard of the Ring Finger who was captured earlier.

When Mr. Obek saw the old man's scroll and the golden scroll, his reaction was very honest: "This...!! It turns out to be the secret magic from the Farran Undead Corps, and the golden magic from the ancient magic kingdom of Urasil? How could you find such a thing?"

“…Thank you, you did keep your promise. Even if I spent more time in the study, I wouldn’t have known this.

"Okay, then I will interpret it. Give me some time, the new magic will definitely be useful to you."

Obek was a very pure person. After he finished speaking, he plunged into the work of interpreting the two scrolls, ignoring everything around him.

Li You did not bother him and stood up to leave. He ignored Komicus's boasting that "you can learn powerful spells from me" and teleported back to his companion space.

Greyrat has now gone to live in the Firelink Shrine, but there is another person in the companion space - Leonard.

He was tied up tightly by the tentacles split from Yuzu, and his mouth was stuffed with a thick cloth, leaving no room for escape.

Even if he is an undead, even if his body will dissipate after death and be reborn in the campfire, as long as he is controlled and made unable to live or die, there is no need to worry that he will run away.

Leonard had been locked up in the companion space since he was caught by Li You. Li You blocked his senses and planned to keep him for a while.

And now, because he was about to go to the Deep Church, he came back to see Leonard.

"Hello, Mr. Ring Finger. Just now you seemed to say that we could talk? I have time now."

Leonard: “…”

Just now?

Unless he had been tied up for too long and was unconscious, causing confusion in his memory, he was very sure that it was definitely not what happened just now.

But Li You didn't even let go of the tentacles covering his eyes, so Leonard could only accept his fate and said along with Li You: "...Yes, just now. Can we talk now?"...

after a while.

Beside the campfire in the Crucifixion Forest, three figures gradually emerged as the fire flickered.

It was Li You, Aiji, and V.

Yuzu is still staying in the companion space, because his second-stage body size makes it easier to move around in the Cruelty Forest.

In the manure pit area, Li You can let Youzi run around without any worries, but in the Cruelty Forest, it is a pity not to destroy the natural landscape like this.

At this time, Li You was holding a small lantern in his hand. If you look closely, you will find that the main part of the lantern is made of crystal.

[White crystal lantern: A special lantern made of pure white crystal, which can also be hung around the waist. Lighting the lantern requires the consumption of residual fire. The light of the lantern can reflect the summoning mark within the range. The holder of the lantern can summon the spirit of the person who left the mark to come to his own world. The maximum number of spirits that can exist at the same time is two. 】

Li You did not hesitate. He took out a ball of residual fire and brought it to the lantern. The lantern then absorbed the residual fire. A cluster of flickering flames ignited inside the crystal. Then, wisps of light that were not dazzling but carried warmth penetrated through the lantern and illuminated the surrounding ground.

This is the effect after the white crystal lantern is lit. This light allows Li You to see and summon the spiritual symbols left by other people.

At the same time, Li You also realized that the burning time of the lantern was limited. One residual flame could only keep the lantern burning for about ten minutes.

But this was enough. Li You quickly brought Edge and V to the location of the first summoning symbol. This was the side of the small fortress in the study where Obek had been. Under the light of the crystal lantern, a line of runes emitting purple and white light on the ground gradually appeared before everyone's eyes.

Edge and V were very curious because Li You had also explained to them what the so-called "summoning spirits" was.

As mentioned before, in the game setting, each world of Ashes exists in parallel, but different worlds occasionally intersect.

The rune marks on the ground are the key to connecting one's own existence with the ashes of other worlds. This rune can be seen by ashes from different worlds, as long as the other party has the remaining fire.

And those ashes can choose to summon the person who left the mark, and the summoned person will appear in the summoner's world in the form of a spirit.

Of course, this is the world view setting of the game. At the same time, the summoning mark may also be left by other people who arrived earlier in the same world to help their successors.

Before, what Sirius of the Kingdom of Dusk said to Li You was “the sign that summons me”, which was referring to this.

But it should be noted that the summoning mark in front of Li You is purple and white, which means that if he uses the mark, the one summoned will be a mad spirit.

As for the mad spirit, it will chop down anything that moves when it sees it, and it treats the summoner and the zombies and monsters in this area equally.

This mad white spirit belongs to the mad paladin, Fodorink, who was hiding in the cave of wandering souls under the big tree and was unlucky enough to be killed by the ceiling. Moreover, this Fodorink is quite powerful in combat.

Li You had no intention of summoning him. Fodorink had the same attitude towards summoners and enemies. Even a dog passing by would be chopped by him - oh, in the soul world, this seemed to be no problem.

After looking at Fodorink's summoning symbol, Li You went straight into the fortress next to him.

Advancing along the familiar stone roads and stairs, and getting rid of the zombies that had been resurrected and reoccupied the place, Li You found another milky white summoning symbol behind a stone pillar downstairs from Obek's original study.

The color of this one is very normal, and it is obvious that the mark comes from a very pure white spirit.

Li You brought the lantern close to the summoning mark, and the light of the lantern actually passed through the mark and projected the figure of its original owner.

V said, "Isn't this... Yiguo?"

Li You nodded: "It is the summoning mark he left behind. He promised to help us. The knights of Karim attach great importance to dignity and promises. This is his way of fulfilling his promise."

V and Edge both nodded: "So do you want to summon him?"

Li You wanted to say that it was unnecessary, but looking at the two people's eyes full of strong curiosity, he smiled and shook his head.

"Okay, then I'll summon it out and show you."

"Om-"

The white crystal lantern emitted light, and Li You stretched out his hand and touched the summoning mark on the ground.

The summoning mark suddenly lit up, but then faded. Then, a milky white, vaguely transparent figure slowly emerged from the summoning mark and stood up.

Beast helmet, black heavy armor, hammer and shield. Except for the different colors, this is Igor himself.

Li You knew that the summoned spirits were also "remotely controlled" by the main body according to the setting, so they had their own consciousness. However, the spirits seemed unable to speak, so Yiguo's spirit just picked up the sledgehammer and raised his hand to point forward.

His meaning is easy to understand: the old man with crystallization is in front, deal with him!

…Or something like that.

Li You also nodded: "I am here to find the Crystal Elder. But don't worry, my secret weapon is still behind."

Igo's spirit: "?"

But then he felt the ground shaking, accompanied by a rumbling sound, like a small earthquake.

Yi Guo was a little confused, but then he saw Li You imitating him, stretching out his hand and pointing upwards.

When Yiguo's spirit looked up, he was stunned.

A giant more than ten meters tall was leaning on the already decaying side wall of the fortress, looking down.

The giant pushed aside the smaller tree canopies that blocked his view and looked at Li You and his group.

Li You then smiled and said to Yiguo's spirit: "Okay, let's go, our companions are here."

Yiguo Spirit: “…”

No, man.

Do you still need me at this moment?
Although Igor couldn't speak and his expression couldn't be seen because he was wearing a helmet, Edge and V beside him clearly read this sentence from him.

V was also amazed and whispered to himself with the same feeling:

"Yuzu has this level of power. Does Li You really need me?"

(End of this chapter)