Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 471: The Pope is resurrected, Li You and Nero reunite
The Demon Sword Cult built a new headquarters.

This headquarters was built by the sea. Compared with the old headquarters, My Sword Academy, which is now the residence of the Knights of the Order, the buildings here are taller, more solemn and more spacious.

The main building of the headquarters is made entirely of white marble. Its shape is like a holy monument, pointing straight to the sky. It is surrounded by a large number of small buildings. In the center of the holy monument-shaped main building is engraved the huge mark of the Demon Sword Cult.

No matter from which angle you look at it, this headquarters can demonstrate the power and majesty of the Demon Sword Cult, and it also exudes a solemn atmosphere. Li You was also impressed by this building.

Of course, he hasn't arrived here yet, and they are still outside the forest.

However, in the afternoon, with the falling of two rays of light, one golden and one white, Credo had already arrived at the headquarters with another knight of the order.

At this moment, he was standing in a spacious bedroom in a corner of the top floor of the headquarters.

The bedroom itself is quite spacious, but the decoration is not luxurious, it is just the common decoration for ordinary clergy.

In the center of the room, there was a stone bed and a stone curtain covering it. Both the stone bed and the curtain were engraved with the prayers of the Sword Cult, and Credo stood by respectfully.

The person he was waiting for was, naturally, the old man who was sleeping peacefully on the stone bed - Pope Sancotos.

At this time, the Pope was lying quietly on the bed, his eyes closed, no longer breathing, looking very peaceful. However, his face was not covered with the white cloth used for the dead, and even the bullet hole between his eyebrows had disappeared without a trace.

Credo remained in a leaning position, frozen in place, as if waiting for something to happen.

suddenly!

Pope Sancotos suddenly opened his eyes, his eyes were blood red!
His body trembled violently and twisted, his chest unconsciously pushed up, and his whole body twisted into an extremely strange posture. On his face, black blood vessels spread out, and his expression was ferocious, making him look as if he was about to mutate.

But Credo just remained still and waited.

The Pope's struggle lasted for a short while, and then he calmed down on his own, and he returned to his previous peaceful appearance. But the difference this time was that a strong breath of life emanated from his old body.

After a while, the Pope slowly opened his eyes.

He slowly turned his head and glanced at the person waiting next to him: "It's Credo..."

Credo lowered his head even more: "Your Holiness, you are awake."

The Pope propped himself up a little, raised his hand and pressed his forehead, as if he was recalling what happened before. Soon, his expression twisted violently, and he said in a sinister voice: "...I didn't expect that Dante would find us first. He really knows how to cause trouble for others!"

However, his ferocious expression disappeared immediately, and he regained his calm appearance. He sighed and said, "If I hadn't been favored by God and passed the ascension ceremony, I'm afraid my soul would have returned to God's kingdom by now."

Credo said: "My people are already tracking him, and they will definitely find him as quickly as possible."

At this time, a steady sound of footsteps came from behind Credo, and a man wearing the same white robe of a cult cadre and holding a notebook in his hand walked out.

The man had a dark brown complexion, long, almost black hair that was hastily combed, and a pair of monocles on his left eye. He was tall and broad-faced, but he was hunched over, and he walked slowly to Credo's side with a timid look.

Seeing that the Pope had woken up, his eyes lit up: "Ah, Your Majesty! You are awake! You look... great!"

The Pope also looked at him and forced a smile: "Agnus, thank you for your hard work."

"No, no, no, it's okay!" The strange man called Agnas was the head of the Technical Department of the Demon Sword Cult. He was in charge of all the cult's research on demonic power, as well as various related developments.

Agnas seemed to want to get closer to the Pope, but when he raised his hand, he bumped into Credo who was standing beside him. Credo immediately turned cold, shook his hand, snorted, and distanced himself from Agnas, not disguising his disgust at all.

Agnas also looked at him, his expression becoming grim: "K, K, Credo! You asked that brat named Nero to chase Dante, didn't you!"

Credo was unmoved: "What's the problem?"

Agnas suddenly became furious: "This is a big problem! What if he finds out about my research facilities under the castle?!"

Compared to his previous conversation with Li You, Credo changed his words this time: "The most important thing now is to catch Dante, we can't care about so many things!"

“You you you you you…!!”

Agnes was annoyed by Credo's official manner. He pointed at him and called him "you" for a long time but couldn't figure out what he meant.

It was the Pope who was watching coldly from the bed who finally spoke: "Credo."

"Please give me your orders." Credo bowed his head.

"Gather everyone together. I have to reassure them."

"clear."

After receiving the order, Credo turned and left without even looking at Agnas, which made him very angry again.

"Agnus."

"Yes! What do you want?" Agnes stood at attention, but his hunchback was still useless.

"In any case, Dante has arrived at the City of Destiny, and the Demon Sword Sparta is in our hands. We are only one step away from the final implementation of that plan." The Pope spoke slowly.

"So, I'd like to make some final adjustments to 'Savior'. Are you okay with that?"

"Yes! Of course no problem!" Agnes was overjoyed.

"Then I'll leave it to you. This is something only you can do."

After hearing this, Agnes was so moved that he almost prostrated himself and burst into tears of joy. He immediately hurried out.

The Pope sat on the stone bed, looked in the direction the two left, and a faint cold smile appeared at the corner of his mouth.

……

In the other direction opposite to the headquarters of the cult, is Mount Lamina.

The Fortuna Castle was built on the top of this mountain. It is said that in the Middle Ages, Sparta, who served as the lord of the City of Destiny, lived in this castle.

This was also the place Li You had applied to visit before, but unfortunately he waited for a few days and was not approved in the end.

At this time, the demon hunter Dante had just sneaked into the castle and was wandering around inside.

Demons occasionally appear here, but they are obviously not powerful enough for Dante to kill with one sword, and there is not even a hint of tension to be created.

On the contrary, Dante acted like a tourist, looking at this, touching that, and he almost engraved a "I was here" on the portrait of the Pope on the second floor of the castle hall.

It's not that he had nothing to do. His partner, Tracy, had already infiltrated the Demon Sword Cult in advance and discovered something during the investigation, so she called him here to meet them.

However, Tracy only told him the agreed time but not the location, so Dante could only wander around looking for someone.

"I wonder if she would scold me less if I told her that I was late because I got lost..."

Dante continued to explore while muttering to himself. He was indeed somewhat interested in everything about this castle.

"Did Dad really live here? It doesn't seem like it..."

At this time, a sharp female voice sounded: "If you are looking for the magic weapon left by Sparta, then give up. Even if he left something, the cult would not put it on display outside."

Dante raised an eyebrow, "Huh? You actually showed up on your own initiative? I thought you were definitely going to continue playing hide and seek with me."

As he spoke, Dante turned around, but saw no one, and it seemed that Tracy had no intention of showing up.

"I was planning to play hide-and-seek a bit, but who made someone arrive so late? The Pope is gathering cadres now." "Oh, that, haha..." Dante laughed, "something happened on the way, so he was delayed. By the way, how come the Pope is alive and kicking so soon?"

"Who knows? I'll know once I see him." Tracy said secretly, "Anyway, don't waste time. The information about 'that'..."

"Ah, I know." Dante said confidently, "The Yama Sword in the hands of the cult must be broken, right? They can't use it."

"Hmm?" Tracy's voice revealed a hint of confusion, "How did you know?"

Dante chuckled twice. "Sometimes there are adventures! I met a strange guy on the way here and talked to him for a while. This is what he told me."

"...Really? It seems that you are not wasting time just because you are so late." Tracy's tone softened slightly. "So where is it?"

"It's in the laboratory under this castle, right?" Dante continued to smile.

"Your new friend is really powerful, knowing this?" This time, Tracy's voice showed obvious surprise. "Then I have infiltrated the cult for nothing, right?"

“Hahaha, how could that be?” Dante laughed, “The movements of the cult still depend on you. Besides, I wouldn’t dare to believe him without your confirmation.”

"...Okay, stop playing tricks. Anyway, the cult can't use the power of the Yama Blade, so there's no rush to retrieve it. Next you should go to the cult's headquarters, which is more important." Tracy's voice remained calm, "I'm going there too. If we start from here, the fastest way is to go through the forest behind."

"Okay, okay, you have the final say." Dante made a perfunctory salute, "Then I'll be ready to rush over there... But is it okay for me to take a look here first?"

"…It's up to you, but I don't think there's anything related to Sparta here."

Dante just smiled and said, "Maybe there will be something that only I can recognize."

……

Right next to the edge of the City of Destiny is a relatively low-altitude hill called the Firm Hill. This area used to be an iron mine, so the inside of the hill was directly dug through, and the passage can extend all the way to Mount Lamina.

If we go this way, we might encounter fewer demons... That's what Nero originally thought.

But when he saw the dozens of demons falling before the Scarlet Queen, he regretted it.

"...I should not have gone this way through the mines!"

Why are there so many demons in this uninhabited mine? It's like a den!
Nero cursed in his mind but continued to attack with his hands, killing the demons that blocked his way.

Since there was no one else here, he could use the power of the Devil's Hand as he pleased. But even so, because there were too many demons, he spent some time saving people when crossing the residential area on the edge of the town, so it was already night when he arrived at the mine.

"Hey... I don't know if Ji Liye and Li You have arrived at the headquarters yet, and what happened to Credo..."

Continuing forward, Nero's Scarlet Queen, Azure Rose and Devil's Hand took turns to clear out the clustered demons, but then they encountered the problem of the elevator in the mine being damaged due to disrepair.

"You're all against me, right?"

Nero was also a little annoyed. Along the way, he encountered a lot of messy mechanism door locks, most of which were old and broken, causing him a lot of trouble.

Fortunately, because of this, he understood one of the uses of the Devil's Hand that Li You had told him before.

Standing at the bottom of the deep mine, Nero looked up and locked onto an iron rod extending from the middle of the mine.

He raised his right hand, activated his magic power, and the devil's hand suddenly stretched upwards!
The demon hand condensed from the shadow grabbed the iron rod and pulled Nero's body upward. After crossing the height of the iron rod, Nero used the same trick again, using the demon hand to grab the higher obstacle and quickly went up again!
Just like that, relying on the convenience of the devil's hand's ability to grab things through the air, Nero successfully climbed to the top of the mine and walked out.

"……Well?"

As soon as he walked out of the mine, he realized something was wrong.

This is an open and flat area in the mountains. There are scattered wooden houses built on the open land in the distance, which were left by the miners who worked here in the past.

However, at this moment, behind the group of wooden houses, there stood a huge black stone tablet. Its shape was at least 80% similar to the holy tablet in the city, but it was much smaller.

On the surface of the stone tablet, the dark golden lines flickered with an indescribable light. Just as Nero stared at it for a while, several scarecrow demons emerged from the strange spots of light of different sizes on the stone tablet.

Nero frowned slightly: "Is that why there are so many demons?"

If this is true, then he can't just walk away like this. He must deal with the problem of this stone tablet first.

There were some citizens who followed the Knights of the Order and Li You to the headquarters for refuge, but they were only a very small minority after all. The vast majority of citizens still hid in their own homes, relying on the high doors and deep walls to resist the demons.

After all, demons are more likely to appear in Fortuna than anywhere else in the world, and the citizens have had this experience.

On the day Li You first came into this world, there was no one on the streets because everyone had received a notice from the cult and had returned home for refuge.

Although the residential buildings in Fortuna were built relatively solidly, they were still unable to resist the large number of demons, not to mention that there were demons that could ignore physical obstacles.

So Nero couldn't allow the stone tablet to continue to summon the devil. He had to destroy it, or at least stop its function.

"boom--!!"

The scarecrow demon that emerged from the stone tablet was about to run away when a gunshot attracted their attention. Nero pulled out the Azure Rose and shot one of them down, then carried the Scarlet Queen and taunted, "Want to dance with me?"

Then, all the scarecrows jumped up and rushed towards Nero!

“Buzz! Buzz! Buzz——!!”

"Shhh!!"

The battle was short, and Nero's Crimson Queen simply accelerated and slashed, killing all the lower-level demons who couldn't see the difference in strength. The Crimson Queen drew a smooth arc in the air, and was carried back to Nero's shoulder.

For Nero now, a few scarecrows can't pose any obstacle at all.

"Okay, next is that board... Ugh!!"

Nero was thinking about how to deal with the stone tablet when he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right hand!
"This feels like... a demon!?"

Immediately afterwards, a figure fell from nowhere!

"Boom-"

When the smoke and dust cleared, Li You looked up and said with a smile, "Hey, Nero."

Nero: “???”

"Are you a devil?"

Li You: "?"

What is this silly child saying?

Fortunately, someone who could answer their questions appeared soon after.

On the black stone slab at the back, a huge pit suddenly appeared as if it was swallowed by lava. Then, a ball of blazing flames rushed out of it, condensed into a solid in mid-air, and slammed heavily into the open space between the hills!
"boom--!!"

As the flames gradually faded, the huge shadow that rushed out of the stone tablet revealed its true appearance.

It was a huge demon with a beast-like body and a human-like upper body. Its head looked like a bull, but also a bit like a lion, and it was surrounded by blazing flames!
At this moment, it raised its head and looked into the distance.

"...It's been two thousand years since we last met, human world."

(End of this chapter)