Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 416: Upgraded V and her goal

Lothric, below the tower by the high wall.

As the old elevator creaked, a slender figure wearing blue and silver slim armor and a gauze mask slowly descended to the bottom floor of the side tower prison.

The figure held a plain, bright-colored samurai sword in his hand. Apart from the fact that it was polished to a cold gleam, there was nothing special about it. The man had no other weapons.

On the bottom floor of this side tower is a circular closed prison, filled with the corpses of Lothric knights, all of which have dried up and rotted away, leaving only empty shells.

In the center of the circular prison, a black figure stood with his back to the elevator. He was wearing tattered armor, with disheveled hair, and holding a broad-bladed sword in his hand.

After taking two steps forward, the black figure immediately heard the noise and turned around. Under his messy hair, he actually had a pale skull face.

A survivor of an ancient small country destroyed in darkness, a soul-sucking ghost.

The soul-sucking ghost had been trapped in the prison for so long that he had already lost his rationality. When he saw someone coming to his door, he immediately rushed over, raised his arm, and swung the broad-bladed long sword in his hand vigorously, slashing at the person who came!

However, the person wearing the dancer's armor reacted surprisingly quickly. When he saw the soul-sucking ghost swinging his sword, he moved instantly, retreated to avoid the attack, and then swung his sword, avoiding the soul-sucking ghost's posture and slashing his side abdomen.

Although the knife looked ordinary, a flash of fire suddenly appeared on the blade when it was slashed. The flame and the blade combined to cut a conspicuous gap in the soul-sucking ghost's damaged armor, and drops of black blood flew out.

The soul-sucking ghost did not waver, but retreated quickly, then took a big step forward again, stabbing down swiftly with the sword in both hands!

However, the man continued to dodge and evade the attack deftly. The Soul-sucking Ghost's swordsmanship was relatively unique, with wide movements and full attention to all around, which was actually very difficult to guard against. But the man in front of him relied on his amazing reaction to dodge every time, and the most dangerous time, the broad-bladed long sword even cut through the flying gauze headscarf.

This person did not just dodge and not attack. In the intervals between the attacks of the soul-sucking ghost, he would swing his seemingly ordinary samurai sword from time to time, leaving scars on the soul-sucking ghost. The scars were deep and shallow, but when accumulated, even the soul-sucking ghost, who had long been inhuman, could not withstand it.

"Shh-!"

Seeing that this strange enemy dodged his attack again and then stabbed him in the leg with a backhand, the Soul-sucking Ghost suddenly roared, holding the sword in both hands, lowered his body in a step, and swung the sword upwards!

However, such a big movement certainly could not hit the person in front of him. Rather, such a big flaw gave the samurai sword containing the power of fire an opportunity to reach out.

But at this moment, the soul-sucking ghost suddenly attacked with lightning speed. A ball of white light flashed on his left hand, and he suddenly reached out to the person in front of him!

The signature skill of the Soul-sucking Ghosts, which is also the origin of their name, is "Soul-sucking"!
Even though the soul-sucking ghost has lost his mind, he is still a powerful warrior just by acting on instinct. His grabbing came without any warning, and even this slippery guy in front of him would have no way of avoiding it!

...It should have been like this, but just before he was about to catch the other person, a dark light flashed behind that person, and then the person's speed suddenly increased several times, leaving a mottled afterimage behind him!
She dodged the soul-sucking ghost's grip in an instant, and went around behind him, stabbing the knife in her hand into his open back!
"Pfft——!"

There is no doubt that the soul-sucking ghost was unable to block or dodge the knife. The cold blade shone through his chest, and the flame power hidden in the blade exploded, burning the soul-sucking ghost's body through and through!
"Boom-"

As she pulled out the knife, the soul-sucking ghost lost its support and fell heavily to the ground. A ball of soul light fell from the soul-sucking ghost's body and rolled to the side.

The man looked at the fallen corpse of the soul-sucking ghost, raised his hand, took off the veil covering his face, revealing the face of the symbol underneath.

Of course, this is exactly V.

After taking off her headscarf, she shook her long hair and complained to herself, "This soul-sucking ghost is not much stronger than the ones I met before. It looks quite scary."

As she spoke, she bent down again and picked up the soul light ball on the ground, inside of which was a dark red eye-shaped gem.

"I remember Li You said that this thing seems to be... used to 'invade' others?" V looked at the blood-red eye gem and shook his head. "It's useless, but I'll just take it back."

After looking around the prison and making sure there was nothing else, she got on the elevator again and went upstairs.

VThis time, under Li You's arrangement, I came here to check for omissions and fill in the gaps.

Previously, many areas were advanced too quickly, and even though Li You had a lot of experience in scraping land, it was inevitable that some special items would be missed. So now, he gave this task to V, who was eager to try and find more enemies to fight - also V after upgrading.

After V became a core companion, Li You used the experience points accumulated by the legendary prosthesis to upgrade her level. And of course, at this time he saw V through the display panel.

...Of course, I am referring to the ability attributes.

V was born in the cyberpunk world, and her attribute panel is also consistent with the cyberpunk game, divided into five major attributes: physical, reaction, technical ability, intelligence, and calmness.

As for the concept of these five attributes, it is not complicated. I won't say much about the physical body and reaction. Although there are some differences, they can be regarded as strength and agility in general.

Technical ability is unique to V. It involves the use of technical weapons, adaptability of prosthetics, etc. This is of course very important.

As for intelligence, in the cyberpunk world this is actually an attribute related to hacker technology, but from a macro perspective, it can also be regarded as ordinary intelligence - that is, the brain's thinking and computing ability.

The last is calmness, which is also a unique attribute of Cyberpunk. In the game, it is an attribute that affects stealth assassination and precision firearms-related abilities. In reality, it is a combination of V's mental will and other related attributes, which is somewhat similar to Li You's mental attributes.

Li You looked at V's attributes and abilities, and found that they were not much different from his previous expectations. The five major attributes were 12, 17, 12, 13, and 16, and the abilities were relatively balanced.

This is also related to V's previous identity. She was born as a company employee, so her wisdom and knowledge-related attributes must not be too low. But she is also a field agent, and prefers firearms that require more skills, so her reaction and composure are the highest.

If estimated based on the game level, the highest level with DLC is 60, and the highest level without DLC is 50. The total attribute value at level 60 is 81 points, because there are fixed attribute values ​​available even at level .

Based on this calculation, V's original level is 49, which is close to the maximum level without DLC. Of course, this is only the upper limit of the game limit, not V's upper limit.

At the same time, the values ​​on V’s ability panel cannot be compared with Li You’s.

It would be rather troublesome to travel through different worlds and come into contact with different ability systems.

However, Li You still has some understanding of V's abilities, so he can use this to strengthen her. After so many battles, V has accumulated quite a lot of experience points, at least enough for her to reach the equivalent of level 60 in the game.

So after asking V's opinion, Li You improved her attribute values, and the final results were: Physical 16, Reaction 20, Technical Ability 12, Intelligence 13, Composure 20.

Technical ability and intelligence remain unchanged, because V has the talent to support them, and the uses of these two abilities are relatively limited, and the current attributes are sufficient.

Reaction and composure are both increased to the upper limit of 20 points for a single attribute in the game, and the rest is to increase the physicality to 16. As for V's current fighting method, it has basically changed to using cold weapons to fight, and at most occasionally uses Li You's magic modified firearms, so this point increase should be the most suitable for her.

Of course, Li You is not unwilling to raise individual attributes to maximize instant combat power, but the problem is that the system indicates that V's attributes can exceed 20, provided that the five basic attributes are maxed out first.

So this is the highest number at the moment.

After the upgrade, Li You equipped V with a set of equipment. The one that perfectly outlined her figure... No, it was the dancer armor that best suited her in terms of overall performance, and the chaotic samurai sword with a +9 sense, which were her protective gear and weapons.

After putting on new equipment, V asked Li You to take her into the battlefield in her heart, where she also asked Li You for advice on how to cultivate her Qi.

After Li You left, she spent the twelve hours of activity alternating between studying Qi cultivation and combat training, with only the most basic rest in between. She could be said to be concentrating on her hard work.

She didn't withdraw until the opening time of the battlefield in her heart ended.

At this time, she had basically found her own way. At present, she mainly relied on her prosthetic body, supplemented by Qi or other extraordinary powers, and continued to strengthen herself along the fighting method she was most familiar with.

——For V, her goal is actually very clear.

When she was still in Arasaka Tower in Night City, her goal was very simple, just to make a name for herself in that city. The reason she joined Arasaka was actually for this purpose.

Later, because of Li You's intrusion, her life changed a lot. Apart from anything else, the great things she and Li You had done together had made her past goals insignificant.

So at this time, V's thoughts began to change drastically.

After they formed an alliance with Rai Xuan and defeated Saburo Arasaka, V finally learned about his origins from Li You and the existence of the heavens and myriad worlds.

After a brief shock and impact, V's spirit became high.

Since there is such a vast world in Night City and even outside that world, it means that she still has a long way to go.

In addition, she had a high enough liking for Li You and trusted him enough, so after thinking about it, she decided to leave with Li You.

So for so long, V has been most interested in fighting and improving his strength. If you really want to talk about it, these two things can be said to be the same thing, in short, it is to gain more power.

V: Gradually becoming a tile thrower.

As for what she will do after gaining more power, just like her original goal of "becoming famous and famous", V actually does not have a particularly clear plan. Maybe she pursues power in order to stand on the true top of the world and live a glorious life, or maybe it is just to give herself the confidence to see the true power and the vastness of the world. These are all possible.

Anyway, she is not the kind of crazy person who throws tiles.

But at the same time, her short-term goal is very clear, which is to catch up with or even surpass Li You as soon as possible.

No matter what, she couldn't be weaker than Li You, right? Otherwise, how could she avenge the arrow shot at her when they first met?
In this world, V finally improved her strength as she wished, but Li You's improvement was even faster. So this also made her feel a sense of urgency.

If this continues, when will we be able to pin that guy down?

V was half-distracted as he thought, and with a creaking sound, he took the elevator back to the upper level.

Li You did not follow her to the prison, but he also reached the high wall. After all, V could not use the campfire to travel to various places by himself.

So Li You teleported to the first campfire on the high wall, and then let V open a path to the soul-sucking ghost's prison by himself.

They had seen the Soul Sucker before in the Faran Fortress, but judging from the background, the one imprisoned in Lothric City should be stronger, so he became V's target this time.

After defeating the soul-sucking ghost, V felt that Li You was still too cautious. Even if she came alone this time, how could the soldiers on the high wall threaten her now?

Just as she was thinking this, she walked down the elevator, but suddenly her expression changed and she looked outside the door of the elevator room.

There, a man wearing a robe decorated with gold and silver, a tricorn hat and a silver mask was waiting for her. It was Leonard of the Ring Finger.

"That soul sucker is dead, good job."

At this time, he clapped his hands, walked into the elevator room, and said, "I didn't expect that there was a newcomer I didn't know about who got the blood-red eye gem alone... Is it you!?"

The last time Leonard ran to the Firelink Shrine, he was tied up severely by Li You. Naturally, he was deeply impressed by Li You and the people around him.

V was not wearing the dancer's crown at this time, revealing her face completely. If it weren't for the dim light in the lower level of the side tower, Leonard would have recognized her long ago.

Seeing that the "newcomer" he thought was actually Li You's man, Leonard immediately took several steps back and planned to leave. However, at this time, a "bang" sound came from behind, and a figure smashed through the thick wooden board above the side tower and fell to the center of this floor.

The flames around the figure rolled and retracted, and then Li You's figure appeared.

"What's going on...Leonard?"

He looked over here, also a little surprised, and then his face darkened slightly.

"I thought I made it clear to you last time. As long as you behaved yourself, we would keep our distance. But you showed up here. Does that mean..."

When Leonard saw Li You appear, his whole body tensed up. He tried to distance himself, but behind him was the entrance to the elevator room, and V, holding a blanket in his hand, was standing there, staring at him, leaving Leonard no way out.

Although Leonard felt that he was not afraid of V, once he was entangled, Li You, whom he was afraid of, would get the opportunity, so he could only give up any unwise ideas.

"...You misunderstood. I don't want to break the agreement between us." After thinking about it, Leonard said tactfully.

"I came here this time because I got the news that a new guy, Finger, went to challenge the imprisoned soul-sucking ghost, so I came to check out the situation. I didn't expect that the new guy was actually one of yours."

As he spoke, he looked at the Dark Moon Sword badge hanging on Li You's waist, and the corner of his eyes in the peephole of the mask twitched noticeably.

"...You became the Dark Moon Sword, but your subordinates are Rosaria's fingers. I don't know what your leader would think if he knew about this."

Li You just smiled and said, "V is not my subordinate, but my companion. As for the oath, she just made an oath and did not offer anything to Rosaria. At best, she is just a reserve force and is not within the hunting range of the Dark Moon Sword."

He paused and said, his tone slightly lowered: "But you, it's different."

A faint murderous aura spread out, and Leonard immediately became fully alert to prevent Li You from suddenly attacking.

But that didn't happen. Li You looked at Leonard again and judged the truth of what the ring finger said. Judging from his reaction, he should not be lying.

So he continued, "But we did have an appointment after all. So if it's just a misunderstanding, then go away and don't forget what you promised me."

"...I know. If I don't attack you and your companions, you won't interfere in my affairs. It's a matter of keeping out of one's own way." Leonard looked at him and asked, "Are you really going to let me go? Doesn't this violate your oath?"

Li You said expressionlessly: "If you don't leave, I will follow the oath of the Dark Moon Sword, sacrifice your blood to the sword, cut off your ear and return to report."

Leonard didn't dare to talk nonsense. The flash of power that Li You showed just now, with an ancient and terrifying aura, made Leonard feel indescribable trembling. He didn't want to fight with Li You at all.

So he took out a piece of returning bone, crushed it, and teleported away.

After he left, V also walked out of the elevator room and looked at Li You: "You just let him go like that? Won't Yuershika be unhappy?"

Li You thought for a moment and said, "If the captain knew about this, he would probably do it. But the captain's attitude towards me is a bit strange, and there are many mysteries about Leonard. I don't think we can treat him as an ordinary finger."

V raised an eyebrow: "Oh?"

This was a sign of her interest, but Li You just shook his head: "It's hard for me to explain... I don't know much about him either."

Leonard's identity and background story are also the hardest hit areas in the study of Soul Three Souls. After all, he calls himself the "Knight of the Goddess" and is closely related to the reborn mother Rosalia.

As mentioned before, Rosalia's identity has been debated for so many years, but there is still no conclusion that convinces everyone.

It is said that she is most likely to be Gwynevere, but it is equally possible to be someone else, such as Gertrude, the "Angel's Daughter".

The difference in Rosalia's true identity will also affect Leonard's position, motivation and background.

In the game, Leonard's side quest is that he will appear at the Fire Shrine in the early stage to guide the player to obtain the blood-red eye orb for invasion. After the player signs the oath of Rosaria and offers her the cut blue tongue, he will recognize that the player has become a real finger.

Later, when the conditions are met in the later stages of the game, Leonard will kill Rosaria, or rather kill her body, and take her twisted soul to the depths of the temple in Anor Londo, to the bedroom of the Sun Princess Gwynevere.

The player can use the Gray Eye Orb found on Rosaria's body to invade him, kill him and take back Rosaria's soul, and Leonard's side quest ends here.

Throughout the entire branch, there is no direct reason why he killed Rosalia. We can only guess based on the conversation when he was invaded that he probably wanted to prevent Rosalia's soul from being defiled.

But no one is sure who Rosalia is, and what the defilement Leonard mentioned is.

After all, Li You has the highest degree of identification with the Dark Moon Sword, so it is natural that he doesn't like people from the Finger Cult.

But Leonard is not a traditional finger. His story is a bit similar to "Golden Flash" in Soul One and the beloved knight Lautrec, and his character is more outstanding.

In short, Leonard is recognized by most players as a knight who, although his methods are somewhat cruel, is also loyal, faithful and persistent, and he goes forward alone for his goddess.

Li You had a favorable impression of such people, so after catching Leonard last time, he made an agreement with him that the two sides should keep out of each other's way.

Even though Li You agrees with the concept of the Dark Moon Sword, he will not bind himself for the sake of the oath.

On the other hand, the biggest benefit of killing Leonard is Rosalia's soul, which can be used to create the miracle of "sunshine nourishment", allowing the people around him to slowly recover their lives.

That was indeed a powerful miracle, but Li You was not particularly short of means to speed up recovery, and it was not necessary for him.

In that case, he chose to let Leonard go and let him do what he wanted to do.

Since he couldn't explain the whole story to V, Li You could only tell V a few things. V also saw that some of Li You's words seemed difficult to say, so he stopped asking.

“…Let’s get back to business. As you can see, the enemies here are no problem for me. Where are we going next?” V asked.

Li You came out alone with V this time. Yuzu was still sleeping in the camp and Edge hadn't left either, so it was just the two of them.

He thought for a moment and said, "It seems that the high wall is indeed too easy for you now. Then let's change places and go to the Fran Fortress."

V: “…………”

It's one thing to test the knife, but can we please talk it out instead of going to the cesspool?
(End of this chapter)