Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 405: Logan's Legacy, the Soul Pendant is Strengthened Again
The phantom city, Irithyll in the Frost Valley.

Somewhere in this town, there is a gloomy and terrifying underground prison, and it is said that beneath the underground prison lies the city of sin.

That is the hometown of the lonely fire king - Giant King Youm.

Of course, it's Giant King Yum, not Giant King Yum.

Or you can just call it Big Tree.

At this moment, Li You was walking in the underground prison of Irithyll.

"Gah——!!!"

A scream suddenly sounded from nowhere, as if it was echoing in everyone's ears. Even Li You, who was well prepared, was still a little scared.

"… MD, I can't avoid this hellish noise."

The underground prison map mainly highlights a hellish, gloomy environment, the staring jailer with a branding iron, and the sudden mysterious screams at key locations, all of which reveal the thief's malicious intent.

But fortunately, Li You won’t stay here for too long.

"Boom--!"

He kicked open the locked iron window at the end of the passage and crawled out of the opening, followed by Yuzu and others.

There is a platform outside the window, and a mummy here can pick up a Roaring Dragon Ring that increases magic damage. Li You is of course not polite, and puts the ring into his backpack, then takes out a hand cannon, kills several guards on the bridge below, and then jumps down.

"Okay, today we are going to teach you a little speed-pass common sense. You can jump directly from the underground prison to the City of Sin from this bridge." Li You muttered to himself, standing on the edge of the bridge pier and observing.

"Jump down, you won't die - but you have to have a silver cat."

Yuzu, Edge, and V: We're used to it.

It's just a disease, nothing to complain about.

Compared to this, Li You looked down and saw that the grappling hook had been cut out: "We will go down from here."

As he said that, he jumped down with the help of the grappling hook!

Today, Li You can use the grappling hook with ease. With his physical fitness, it is not impossible for him to learn to be Spider-Man.

So he landed on the ground lightly, retracted the grappling hook, and was already on the stairs leading to the city of sin.

This is really a little speedrunning knowledge, which can skip the darkest area of ​​the underground prison - the Jailer's Hall.

But unfortunately, Li Youxia came down, and he still had to go to the hall. Many things here were must-haves.

Fortunately, those jailers belong to the underworld, but they are only good at torturing people who cannot die. For Li You, there are plenty of ways to deal with them.

He stood at the entrance of the hall, fumbled in his backpack for a while, and found a decoy grenade. He couldn't remember whether this decoy grenade was a product of the biochemical world or was just something he brought over from 2077. Anyway, it was useful.

Li You activated the bait grenade and threw it with force. The grenade fell in front of the central statue where the jailer was patrolling in a circle, making a "beep, beep, beep" sound.

The jailers immediately heard the unusual noise. They took small, rustling steps and surrounded the place, looking at the flashing decoy grenade.

Li You at the entrance of the hall smiled and snapped his fingers: "Goodbye, sister jailers."

"Boom——!!"

The decoy grenade exploded immediately, and the flames engulfed all the jailers!
When the flames died down, only a pile of broken bodies remained on the ground.

The only remaining jailer in the nearby passage heard the noise and arrived late, only to bump into Li You who was walking into the hall. With a "bang", a big hole appeared on her iron mask, the back of her head exploded into pieces, and she fell to the ground with a thud.

"Speed ​​collection!"

Li You waved his hand and started the three-light mode again. He killed all the long-legged treasure chest monsters and the big-headed dolls with incomplete parts. If the iron prison door could not be cut, he asked Youzi to remove the entire door from the door frame and swept it away in a whirlwind.

Dragonscale Wedgestone, +3.

Sinful Ashes, +1.

Thunder Sword Scroll, +1.

Dark Crown Ring, +1.

Forbidden Child Kalula, +1...something doesn't seem right.

Carla: “???”

Li You: "Ahem... Let's go to my Firelink Shrine. It's safe there."

In the end, Carla was sent back to the Fire Shrine by Li You with a confused look on her face and she was half-reluctant.

Li You did not stop: "Next is the City of Sin!"

In fact, to this day, the City of Sin has long been destroyed by the flames of sin, and the area that players can explore in the game is only a corner of it that remains.

The Fire King Youm was made king by the people in order to suppress the fire of sin, but unfortunately, even after he became the Fire King, the City of Sin still could not escape the fate of being burned by flames.

The situation in the City of Sin is even simpler. The most important collectible item is the Logan Scroll from a court magician who is still surviving here.

Of course, we can also pay attention to where Onion went, but Li You estimated that he could not escape the convergence of the world line.

--soon.

"what--!!"

The court magician, holding a staff in one hand and a sledgehammer in the other, fell unwillingly under Li You's sword. A dark yellow scroll fell from his body.

This is the scroll of "Big Hat" Logan, the founder of crystal magic.

When Li You got this scroll, he felt a little emotional.

His earliest fragment world was the ancient city of Sen in Soul One. It was because he rescued Logan there that he obtained the soul pendant, which allowed him to survive the most difficult period at the beginning of his journey.

And now, he has also come to the world of souls, but it is already a thousand years after the first soul.

The old friend from that time only left behind a scroll...

Just as he was thinking this, the soul pendant on Li You’s chest suddenly floated up by itself!

The sapphire on the pendant glowed, and in response, the Logan Scroll slowly unfolded, and the magic words on it began to glow.

Then, a beam of light shot out from the pendant and poured into the scroll. Then blue magic power surged out, outlining the image of an old man wearing a big hat in mid-air.

“…Yo! I finally see the unknown hero who saved me again!”

Li You was stunned on the spot!

"...Logan? How is that possible?"

Logan's magic image laughed and said, "You may be a little surprised, but don't worry. Although I don't know when you will see this message. Maybe by that time, you and I will no longer be here, and it's just that my successor accidentally cracked the secret I left behind, hahaha!"

Li You saw the clue. This seemed to be just a video message left by Logan. It seemed that he had no consciousness of his own.

“My unknown hero, you helped me in the past, but disappeared without a trace in the blink of an eye. I can only follow the instructions of the voice in my mind and throw my thank you gift into the unknown rift.

"So, maybe you will see this video thousands of years later? Hahaha, that's really curious!
"Well, I'm going to stop talking nonsense. Whether you are the unknown hero himself, his descendant, or a lucky thief, just listen carefully.

"I left some hidden spells in this scroll, which are ways to improve my pendant.

"I am currently in the Duke's Library at White Dragon Seath, studying the infinite knowledge here. I have to say, this is really great!

"Thanks to the collection of books here, my research on magic and crystals has made great progress, so I have found a way to improve the pendant. In order not to miss this inspiration, I sealed the spell in the scroll.

"After you see this message, if you understand magic words, you can modify it yourself according to the spell I left. If you can't, you can also find a trustworthy magician and let him handle it. In short, don't let this method never see the light of day!
"Well, enough of the old man's nagging. Goodbye, little unknown hero. I am now going to devote myself to the endless knowledge.

"If you are really from the future, then when you see this message, you must be able to witness the results of my research, right? How about my hard work and the evolution of magic? Are you shocked? Hahahaha!"

Logan's magic image gradually faded away amidst his self-talking laughter, and the soul pendant also lost its light and fell down. Only the magic scroll was still floating in the air, and a few new lines of magic words gradually appeared in the blank space at the end.

Li You was a little dazed until the magic scroll fell into his hands by itself. V beside him stretched out his hand and waved it in front of him, which made him react.

"…How are you? Are you okay?" V asked.

Naturally, his companions had also seen Logan's video just now. Combining his message with some of the information Li You had revealed before, even Yuzu could understand the relationship between Li You and him.

At the same time, even for them, "Big Hat" Logan was not a strange name - they had heard it from Orbeck more than once.

"I didn't expect that your pendant has such a great origin." V patted Li You, "Don't be in a daze, don't you want to see what this spell Logan left you can do?"

Li You looked at her, then looked at Yuzu and Aggie beside him. They were both looking at him with some concern.

So Li You took a deep breath and said, "That's right. Since it is something that Logan left behind on purpose, it must have its value."

"Let's go, let's take a last look at the prison here, then go back to the Fire Shrine to find Teacher Obek!"

Li You confirmed along the way and found that Onion Brother Jackbaldo was indeed imprisoned in the prison of the City of Sin for "some reason".

"...Oh, don't worry. I've been sitting here thinking for a long time. It's about time that things are resolved." Li You looked at the iron cell door that locked Onion. Without saying much, he just told Onion to take care of himself and left.

Onion was trapped inside and couldn't get out, but on the other hand, he was also safe inside. On the contrary, if he was released, he would definitely carry the Storm Binder to find Youmu to "fulfill his promise."

It is not time to fight against the King of Fire yet, so Li You chose to let Onion stay inside for a while.

However, the moment of decisive battle is approaching.

Irithyll, the city of sin, Li You has been to both sides and reached the gate of the Lord of Cinder. So the next thing to do is... return to the inner city of Lothric and enter the Great Library!
The only enemy standing in his way was the Dragon Hunter Armor.

That is the target that Li You will deal with next, and he has already made a lot of preparations for it.

After confirming that nothing necessary had been missed here, Li You teleported back to the Firelink Sacrifice Site.

——Afterwards, below the passage to the Fire Shrine.

Oubeck looked at the scroll that Li You took out and was quite surprised: "Is this... the scroll of that Big Hat Logan?"

"...You have found something incredible. This is the great magic that was lost in ancient Biheim. I never thought that someone like me would one day come into contact with it.

"…Hmm? What is this?"

He also noticed the magical text at the end of the scroll that was different from the previous text and felt a little confused.

Li You didn't say much, he took out the soul pendant again and activated Logan's message - this thing can actually be played repeatedly manually. Li You also wanted to complain, but this time he saved his saliva.

After watching the magic image, Obake, who had not yet recovered from his surprise, was even more stunned.

"You, you, you...I, I...who are you..."

Li You was helpless: "Well, Mr. Obeck, calm down and don't bite your tongue."

"Don't think too much about it. Look at what Big Hat said in his message. He didn't even know when the message was activated. This pendant was just passed down from my elders. Don't scare yourself."

Oubeck's eyes were still full of shock. He looked at Li You and wanted to say something, but in the end he just shook his head.

"...Okay, whatever you say is what it is. Anyway, this is the pendant and secret spell left by Big Hat Logan. No wonder it has such powerful abilities but has never been recorded.

"I can interpret and operate this technique. Please allow me to perform this technique."

Oubeck's eyes were rarely so fanatical. He looked at the scroll in Li You's hand and the pendant on his chest as if he was looking at his dream lover.

Li You felt a little scalp-tingling, and quickly took off the pendant and handed it to Obek together with the scroll.

"Then trouble you."

"Leave it to me! I'll start interpreting it now!"

Obek was immersed in the world of magic again, and Li You took this opportunity to take another walk around the fire sacrifice site.

He spoke to Carula who had just returned to the Fire Shrine, and after expressing his trust in her, he chose to learn dark magic from her, generally referred to as dark arts.

Li You also entrusted two Braille scriptures that recorded dark miracles and the gravekeeper's spell book to Carula.

By now, Li You has collected most of the magic scrolls and Braille books, but he is still missing a lot of spell books.

There was no way. Most of the spell books were lying in the demon ruins beside the Smoky Lake. Li You had not gone there yet, so naturally he did not get them.

After handing in all the spell books he could, Li You used the souls he had saved for so long to "learn" most of the spells currently available from all the spell teachers except Saint Irina. He immediately had a large pile of magic scrolls in his hands.

Fortunately, this thing can be stacked and stored in a backpack, taking up only one slot, otherwise his backpack would not have enough space.

However, it is not enough to just learn spells. To use spells, you need corresponding catalysts, and the catalysts also need to be strengthened to increase the bonus...

Li You thought about it and found that it was rather troublesome to collect the three spell sets at present. And because the corresponding system had not yet been fully formed, even if he could barely piece them together, it was estimated that the final combat effectiveness would still not be as good as if he took a knife to chop.

How did that sentence go? Oh, I got it.

We 9 wise warriors are like this.

So Li You simply sat down and checked his pile of magic rings again.

The magic rings in the soul world are also a profound field. Powerful rings can provide a variety of effects. Li You has currently collected a variety of equipment, including the Favor Ring, Silver Cat Ring, Evil Eye Ring, various spell amplification rings, captive chains, and so on.

In fact, Li You originally wanted to put on as many rings as possible on his hands to get the full bonus.

Ten? Far more than that. Who says I can only wear one ring on one finger?
But unfortunately, this way of playing is strongly banned by the system.

Or maybe it's not the system's fault, but the rules of the world itself. These rings are powerful magic items, and if the same person wears too many, the enchantments between them may conflict and cause disorder, and in the end, none of them will take effect.

That is why, although the people in the soul world are not stupid, they are still very obedient and only wear four rings on their hands at most, and Li You can only do the same.

The last things he wore were the Ring of Favor, the Captive Chains, Aldrich's Blue Stone, and the Lloyd's Sword Emblem Ring, which he also obtained in the Deep Cathedral. Its effect was to increase attack damage when the wearer was uninjured.

Li You certainly knew that there were other useful rings, but these were the only ones he had that were more helpful.

Then, he simply sorted out the weapons and looked at which ones were currently usable.

His own weapons include Lightning Moon Shadow +9 and Blood Undead Slash +4 (equivalent to +8). There is no need to say much about these two main weapons.

Then there are Yuzu's broken naginata and Edge's Black Knight's greatsword, both of which are special weapons +4, and finally +9, the one in V's hand.

"…It's still a bit troublesome to take these dragon hunting armors." Li You frowned and thought.

The attack of the Dragon Hunting Armor is relatively easy to deal with. It is basically a big swing, axe chopping and shield smashing. The second stage only has lightning attached.

But the problem is that the Dragon Hunter Armor is a simple and unpretentious strength. The moves are not complicated, but the power is extremely heavy and the damage is extremely high. That's not all, it is also extremely tanky and has high resistance.

Apart from freezing, which it may be afraid of, other attributes have very limited effects on it.

This was just the dragon hunting armor, not to mention the pilgrimage butterflies floating in the sky. Li You had felt their hospitality last time, which was much more enthusiastic than in the game, so he would never underestimate it.

Although I can bring Yiguo with me at that time, it probably still won’t be enough.

Li You murmured to himself: "It seems that we must come up with a suitable battle plan."

"Hmm, Dragon Hunting Armor, Pilgrimage Butterfly... Qin Hunting Armor..."

Suddenly, a flash of light seemed to flash behind Li You's mind, and inspiration came to him: "Got it! Maybe this will work!"

He quickly went over his idea in his mind, perfected it from every angle, and then came up with a plan: "Let's do it!"

"...Yes, but we also have to consider personnel transfers. We can't let the salary kings in the rear be poached."

After thinking about it, Li You found the thief brother who was staying at the fire sacrifice site.

"Greyret, I want you to help me contact someone."

Greyrat: "...Hmm?"

By the time I finished explaining things here, Teacher Oubeck over there had also finished it.

"—Done! I did it!"

On the other side of the passage, Obake raised his hands, an irrepressible smile on his face.

"I have deciphered all of Big Hat Logan's scrolls and his hidden spells! Ah... this is the secret of magic..."

Li You came over after hearing the noise: "It's done so quickly?"

Oubeck looked at him and nodded heavily: "Take it! This is the pendant strengthened by a special spell!"

Li You took the soul pendant and looked at it. Its appearance had not changed much. At most, the gem in the middle became deeper, but the effect was even better.

[Soul Pendant (Special Accessory/Enhancement)]

[Item Description: A pendant that contains special soul power, created and strengthened by Big Hat Logan. It can memorize any five spells. The wearer can release this spell without using a catalyst, and the magic power consumed when releasing it will be lower than the normal level.]

[System Note: The pendant has been strengthened by absorbing the power of the remnant soul of a powerful spirit, and can release the unique spirit control technique engraved in the remnant soul.]

[Currently memorized spell: Soul Crystal Gun/Phantom Body.]

[The inscription of the residual soul: Agong's spirit descends, Humhu's spirit descends, Gangju's spirit descends, Yueyin's spirit descends, Yakshalu's spirit descends. ]

[Enhanced feature: Soul source. You can choose to activate it when releasing soul-type or crystal-type magic with the help of the soul pendant. Within 15 seconds, releasing this magic will not consume magic power.]

Li You: “!!!”

He was stunned for a moment, and only after calming down did he make sure that he was not seeing things.

This feature is... unlimited mana for fifteen seconds?
What else is there to say?

Get ready to eat me, Comet Azrael!

(End of this chapter)