Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 408: Arriving at the highest city of Soul Three, Ancient Dragon Peak!

In a vast underground area.

There are many thick ancient tree trunks standing here, with sparks shining on the trunks, and the ground is covered with a layer of shallow water.

Huge fire crabs roam around here, and the huge mechanical crossbow built high up in the cave will fire exaggerated crossbow arrows that are powerful enough to tear apart the city walls, attacking all alien creatures active in the Smoke Lake.

This is the Smoky Lake, located deeper underground than the Catacombs of Cathas and adjacent to the Demon Ruins.

There is not much biological activity in the Smoke Lake itself, but today, the ground here is shaking constantly, and wave after wave of earthquakes causes ripples in the shallow water on the ground.

Li You and his four companions were running freely on the wide, smoky lake.

"Gah——!!!"

A shrill scream was heard, and the ground of the Smoky Lake shook violently again!
A huge sandworm head broke through the ground and soared into the sky!

The sandworm let out a shrill scream that echoed throughout the Smoky Lake, and its huge body suddenly pressed down towards Li You and the others!
However, Li You and others reacted quickly. Electric arcs were wrapped around Yuzu, leaving an afterimage behind V. Li You dragged Edge to sprint at high speed, and they dispersed to avoid the blow that shook the earth.

"——Li You!!" V shouted in the mental link, "Use your omniscient brain to think of a solution!"

Li You responded: "Anyway, run away first!"

Naturally, this gigantic giant sandworm is the overlord of the famous Smoky Lake.

So how did Li You and others provoke it? Let's start from the beginning.

They walked back from the campfire at the bridgehead of Irithyll Bridge, passed through the tomb of Overlord Wolnir, and went down along the bridgehead of the old suspension bridge in front, and thus arrived at the Smoky Lake.

In front of the Smoky Lake is the Demon Ruins - the only remnants of the former Izalith. The numerous tribesmen born from the flames of chaos, including minotaur demons, goat-headed demons, and demon priests (flaming big butts), have all turned into corpses here, with only the remaining demon deacons and some grunts still active here.

But of course, these enemies are no match for the giant sandworm that is over a hundred meters long and broke out of the ground at the end of the Smoke Lake near the Demon Ruins!
This giant sandworm is yellow-brown in color, and is covered with bone-like segments. If you look closely, you can see that most of its body is actually made up of the dead that it has devoured.

When it drills out of the ground and props up its body, it can even spit out thick golden lightning to attack the enemy.

Yuzu and Edge, who had seen the White Snake, were fine, but the size of this sandworm was still a little smaller than the snake. V was stunned and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Li You didn't complain. After all, even in the game, it was unreasonable for such a big thing to be active in Smoke Lake.

You know, under the Smoky Lake is the Demon Ruins. Even if the sandworm avoids the main area of ​​the ruins, its activities itself should cause the ruins to collapse.

But the sandworms and the ruins coexist in peace.

From another perspective, the sandworm in the game only moves stupidly in one position, at most burrowing around underground, which is also completely inexplicable.

Fortunately, when Li You came here, he actually saw a giant sandworm with normal mobility.

Then they were chased by the giant sandworm all over the Smoky Lake.

Giant Sandworm: What is the Overlord of Smoky Lake? (Tactical retreat).

There is no way around it. After all, if this thing really removes the game restrictions, it can easily defeat most of the bosses in Dark Souls 3.

Who dares to fight this beast? They are not even in the same league in size!

So Li You immediately chose Ni Ge Lu to get oil.

Fortunately, although this giant sandworm finally has legs compared to the one in the game, it still seems to have no brains.

It was fine for it to chase Li You and the others, but it forgot about the huge siege crossbow mounted at the highest point of the Smoke Lake.

The huge mechanical crossbow built by the slave giants made a creaking sound as it aimed at the giant sandworm that was rampaging in the Smoky Lake.

"call out--!"

With a muffled sound, a huge crossbow arrow that was more than ten meters long flew down and pierced the body of the sandworm!

"boom--!!"

Although the crossbow arrow did not hit directly, the impact caused considerable damage to the sandworm. The sandworm's body trembled violently, and it wanted to burrow into the ground to escape, but at this moment, Li You and others took action!
"It's now!"

The sword energy and explosives hit the sandworm's body, and although they did not cause much damage, they still attracted the sandworm's attention. The sandworm paused in its burrowing action, as if it was hesitating, and the second and third giant crossbow arrows fell immediately, "boom" and shattered the flesh and blood on the sandworm's body!
"Gah——!!"

The sandworm screamed again, and this time it burrowed into the ground without hesitation, avoiding the crossbow arrow.

But it still did not escape. Instead, it moved underground and finally came out from the entrance of the demon ruins, screaming again at Li You and others!

"Now you know what to do, right?" Li You said to his companions, then rushed forward first!
Needless to say, what happened next, with the Smoke Lake Giant Crossbow responsible for output, Li You and his team only needed to lure the sandworms into its attack range.

Although the sandworm was quite agile, it was huge after all, and the corner was narrow. The most important thing was that for some reason, it had identified Li You and his group and insisted on fighting to the end, which naturally ended in tragedy.

Finally, under Li You's deliberate instigation, the sandworm burst out of the ground and tried to swallow him in one bite, but ended up running head-on into the flying crossbow arrow!

"boom--!!"

The arrow almost pierced through the front half of the sandworm's body, taking its life. The overlord of the Smoky Lake trembled and roared, and finally fell down.

Giant sand worms, solved.

Looking at the huge sandworm corpse, V was also frightened: "I never thought I would see this kind of thing outside of those crappy monster-themed movies!"

Li You smiled and said, "There will be more monsters like those in the bad monster movies in the future. Let's go and move on."

……

After a while, in the hall in front of the demon ruins.

Amid the piles of demon corpses, the aging Demon King roared in despair.

The old demon king was so thin that his bones were almost visible, like the residue after burning. Although he swung the demon hammer inherited from the ancient Izalith in his hand, trying to fight the enemy, he was ultimately powerless.

When the old demon king raised his sledgehammer high and tried to summon molten meteorites to fall from the sky, his action was interrupted by a continuous flash of lightning, and the end of himself and the demon clan was already inevitable.

The old demon king took several steps back and almost fell to the ground, unable to get up for a long time. The remaining flame on his body became even dimmer.

But of course, Li You did not forget that although the old Demon King seemed to be at the mercy of others, he actually still had the final burst of power.

Sure enough, the next moment, the old demon king, who seemed to have no strength to rise again, suddenly raised his head, and flames all over his body instantly erupted!
The strong wind caused by the explosion swept all around, accompanied by rising flames.

But Li You and his companions had already dodged far away in advance and used the surrounding demon corpses to block the explosion.

After dodging this last attack, the old demon king was truly powerless to resist. The flames on his body were almost completely extinguished, and his entire body seemed to have turned into dry, hard rock, looking lifeless.

Li You then came out from behind the mountain of demon corpses and waved the Thunder Moon Shadow at the old Demon King for the last time!

"Fuck-"

Golden lightning roared out, tearing the old demon king's rock skin and splashing its magma blood. The old demon king wailed and finally fell down.

Li You put away his knife and absorbed the soul of the old demon king that was floating over into the pendant. This trip to the demon ruins came to an end.

He looked at his backpack, where the Izalith Spellbook and the Crana Spellbook he had obtained from the Demon Ruins were lying quietly inside.

His companions also came to his side. V looked at the body of the old demon king and said, "This... demon king? He doesn't seem very strong. The big bug outside is much scarier than it."

Li You said: "The demons were born from the Chaos Flame, which was a strange flame created by the witches of Izalith in the past. It is the source of the demons' power and life."

"But now, the Chaos Flame has been extinguished, so the demon race is doomed to have no future, and this old demon king is only breathing his last breath."

V was also stunned after hearing this: "Is that so."

Li You didn't say anything more. He took out the fragment of the spiral sword and planned to teleport away.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a force of attraction coming from the body of the old demon king.

Li You was stunned for a moment, then subconsciously opened his backpack and searched for a while, and finally found the object that the power was calling.

The "Devil's Blood" obtained in the biochemical world last time.

[Devil's Blood: A drop of blood containing special demonic power. It has extraordinary potential, but it requires a specific method to be absorbed. 】

Li You looked at the dark red blood coagulation, then looked at the body of the old demon king in front of him, and was somewhat surprised.

“Can this be absorbed?”

He took out the demon's blood, and the old demon king's body indeed reacted.

The huge body, which no longer had any flames, gradually shrank and squeezed, until it became less than one-third of its original size, and its surface completely turned into stone.

Then, as the demon blood in Li You's hand emitted a wave, the old demon king's body trembled, and finally shattered with a loud bang!
From among the debris, a dark red crystal that seemed to be burning with flames flew out and merged into Li You's demon blood.

Then the demon's blood lay back down and never responded again.

Li You: "?"

Is that all? He checked the item description and it still didn't change.

Li You was a little confused.

So... you are hungry, so you get up to eat something and then go back to sleep?
He didn't know what expression to make for a moment, so he could only shake his head and put away the demon blood.

As for his companions, they were naturally used to Li You taking out some strange things from his backpack, so no one asked much. Only Aggie said, "Then what should we do next..."

Li You finally came to his senses: "Go back to the Fire Sacrifice Site, and then go to Ancient Dragon Peak!"

The Great Library had been plundered before Li You came to Xunyan Lake. Now, apart from the four Fire Kings, there is only one place left, the Ancient Dragon Peak.

Although Ancient Dragon Peak itself is actually a hidden map and will not affect the clearance even if you do not go there, Li You still does not intend to miss this area.

The Fire Kings haven't been fought yet, not to mention the Undead Squad and the Giant Yum. Aldrich and Salivan are huddled together, and the two princes are also fighting in pairs. The difficulty of these two battles must be not low, and Li You is not completely sure.

The Nameless King of Ancient Dragon Peak is an absolute milestone in Li You's eyes. If he can defeat him, Li You will be confident that he can defeat all the powerful enemies in this world except the DLC area.

In comparison, the achievement rewards for defeating Wuming are not that important.

……

After returning to the Fire Shrine, Li You gave the two spell books to Komicus and Kalula respectively, and learned new spells.

Then, he sorted out the latest reward items, namely the achievement rewards for Overlord Wolnir, Old Demon King, and Dragon Hunting Armor.

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Falling into the Abyss. ]

[Achievement content: Send Overlord Vonir back to the abyss]

[Achievement Rewards: Achievement Points x 1000, "Black Snake" Spell Scroll/Wolnir Holy Sword/Wolnir Crown x 1 (Choose one). ]

……

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Devil's Remnant. ]

[Achievement content: Defeat the old demon king. ]

[Achievement Reward: Achievement Points × 1200, Lao Wang's Hammer/"Hotbed Residue" Spell Scroll × 1 (Choose one). ]

……

[Congratulations on completing the achievement: Memory of Hunting Dragon. ]

[Achievement content: Defeat the Dragon Hunter Armor. ]

[Achievement Reward: Achievement Points × 2100, Molten Iron Dragon Hunter Armor (Original Version)/Dragon Hunter Axe, Dragon Hunter Shield Combination (Choose one). ]

The first two were just regular rewards, but the reward for the dragon hunting armor made his eyes light up.

The original armor? The heavy molten iron armor that even his Undying Slash and Lightning Moon Shadow couldn't cut?

This thing is great!
Although he can't use it, it's just right for Yuzu in tyrant form.

Even if it is another option, it is a combination of axe + shield, the system is rare and generous. It seems that the harder the boss is, the better the reward is, and this point has not changed!
However, correspondingly, if the soul of the dragon hunting armor is given to Rhodos, he can only refine it into one of the three options: action-model armor, axe, and large shield. It seems that what Rhodos can do is relatively limited.

"In that case..."

After a little thought, Li You immediately chose the original armor. Because it was obvious that this was the only chance to get this original molten iron heavy armor!

After making this choice, Li You no longer hesitated and asked Rhodos to use the soul of the dragon hunting armor to refine the dragon hunting shield, a well-known artifact against the nameless king.

With the original Molten Iron Dragon Hunter Armor and the hand-made version of the Nameless Hunter Shield, Li You’s confidence has increased.

The reason why he had to hunt for the dragon armor before going to the Ancient Dragon Peak was actually largely because of the equipment for the dragon armor.

The previous mystery was revealed. The BOSS that Li You died the most times in while playing the game and his favorite BOSS was none other than the final BOSS of Gulongding, commonly known as the Principal’s Unknown King!
And the dragon hunting shield is specially made for him!
At this point, Li You was finally ready. After confirming with the Fire Keeper that Frustrated Hawkwood was not at the Fire Shrine recently, Li You immediately set off for Irithyll's underground prison.

In the underground prison, at the other corner of the exit of the jailer's hall, there is a meditation area prepared for the Ancient Dragon Road Trial.

Li You and his companions came over from the underground prison campfire. Li You looked at the half-broken petrified dragon man on the ground and said to his companions:
"Since we don't know how to get to Ancient Dragon Peak, you should go back to your companions' space first."

Yuzu and the others had no objections, and V even patted Li You on the shoulder and said, "I'm waiting to see the holy land you've been talking about!"

They were teleported back to their companion space together, and Li You looked around. After making sure it was safe, he sat down next to the stone statue of the little dragon.

He folded his legs and sat cross-legged on the ground, placed his hands on his legs, in a posture very similar to meditation, closed his eyes and waited quietly.

Not long after, Li You heard the sound of bells echoing in his ears.

“Boom! Boom!!”

After the bell rang, Li You's consciousness suddenly became extremely heavy, as if he had fallen into a quagmire and sank into darkness for a moment.

When he woke up again, the scene before him had completely changed.

He was standing on the edge of a cliff, with bottomless clouds below him and an old, unmaintained rocky road in front of him, which led to higher ground in an undulating manner.

This is the entrance to Gulongding.

While Li You was somewhat amazed at the scene here, he opened the system section and planned to summon Yuzu and the others again.

Unexpectedly, a system prompt jumped into his face.

【Ding! 】

[It has been detected that you have arrived at the hidden area - Ancient Dragon Peak. You have automatically received a special task. 】

[Special mission: Trial at the top of the ancient dragon.]

[Task content: Dragon faith has been the code of conduct for warriors since ancient times. Ancient Dragon Peak is the trial ground for warriors who pursue the power of ancient dragons. Clear the ancient dragon trial and embark on the true ancient dragon path! ]

[Quest requirements: Ancient Dragon Peak is a special map. You will temporarily gain the ability to revive at the campfire after death, with a maximum of five times. Please clear Ancient Dragon Peak within five deaths. If you die more than five times, the mission will fail.]

[Task reward: unknown. 】

[Failure penalty: Randomly lose two high-usage items, and other unknown losses. ]

[Note: Ancient Dragon Peak is a special map. The lottery section, companion section, function section and all derivative functions and props involving cross-border will not be available. ]

Li You: "???"

Wait a minute? Say it again, what can't be used! ?

what! ?

……

At the same time, in the Fran Fortress, in front of the gate of the Salary King Undead Squad.

The big hole dug by Yuzi on the ground is still there, but it has been stripped of its disguise, and the messy words of advice around it have been completely wiped away, leaving it clean and tidy.

A burst of hurried footsteps was heard, and a man wearing a light armor with a cloak and holding two slender swords came running over.

And the ones chasing after him were none other than a group of cursed frogs!
They swung their huge dead eyes above their heads and took small steps to chase the man, but the man had no intention of turning back to fight, he just ran forward desperately!

But after being chased all the way here, he discovered in despair that the door of the Undead Corps' temple in front of him was still closed, and there was a constant sound of metal knocking coming from inside.

The Undead Corps hasn't been defeated yet! ?

The man was obviously surprised, but he didn't have time to think about it. Under normal circumstances, he would choose to push the door into the temple and try to challenge the hip-hop team, but the group of curse frogs chasing him at this time was enough to make him give up all unrealistic ideas.

As he ran, he looked left and right, trying to find a way out. Although it seemed that there was no way out at first, he soon saw a large pit at the entrance of the hip-hop team leading to the underground, and immediately showed an excited look as if he had found a way out of a desperate situation.

There was a sign next to the pit that read "This leads to the underground cemetery." But it didn't matter where it led to, the man had no choice.

So he ran to the big pit and jumped in without hesitation!
The passage was unobstructed but not smooth. There were quite a few sticky spider webs on the inner wall, which stuck to his cloak and other parts of his body.

The man didn't care about all this. The cursed frogs might still chase him, and he just wanted to get through the passage quickly!

Fortunately, the passage soon reached the end, and there was no curse frog chasing after him. The man breathed a sigh of relief, touched the things on his body, and couldn't help but feel a little pain.

But he said he would never go back to pick up the things, so I just shook my head and chose to move on.

At this time, on the ground, after the cursed frogs dispersed, a bald figure wearing black leather armor appeared next to the large pit in the passage.

He used a rope to pull up the net bag disguised as spider silk below and looked at the props on it.

"What is this? A bunch of moss balls? An old key? ... It's useless."

The bald man scratched his shiny forehead and said to himself, "That guy said this business is a sure win, but why do I feel like I've been fooled?"

(End of this chapter)