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Chapter 584 Shadow Land Sweep Operation

"Ping ping ping pong."

In an underground tomb with candlelight, V swung the mantis blades in both arms quickly, and the slashes came down like a rainstorm, but were blocked by a broad black iron sword.

The warrior fighting her was a warrior wearing heavy black armor and holding a big sword. His cape swayed with the turbulent air currents, and after blocking V's combo, he swung his sword back without a moment's rest.

He really didn't need to breathe, because his body appeared whitish and translucent. He was not a living person at all, but just a soul.

However, although this heavy warrior has the advantage of being a spiritual body, he still cannot gain any advantage in front of V.

Facing the sword swung back by the unknown warrior, which was mixed with the vacuum blade, V just turned slightly and went behind the warrior. She sprayed wisps of air from the outside of her arms, and the mantis blade stabbed, instantly piercing through the body of the unknown warrior from behind!

Two blades protruded from the warrior's chest, his body stiffened, and then he turned into white smoke and disappeared, leaving only his armor and, of course, the black iron sword.

"...The knife feels really weird on this guy."

V withdrew her hands, and with a little force, the mantis blades on her arms were retracted and disintegrated, and then reassembled in her hands to form a Pandora's briefcase.

Yes, this pair of mantis blades is a transformation of Pandora. After becoming familiar with the use of Pandora, V has long been able to transform it into weapon-like prostheses in the cyberpunk worldview, and because Pandora is a magic weapon, the prostheses it transforms into are even stronger than Li You's legendary prostheses.

So now, V has replaced the prosthetics in both hands with gorilla arms to enhance his basic strength, and then on this basis, he relies on Pandora to transform into weapons to attack, and the final effect is very good.

"Thank you for your hard work." Li You came forward. He and Kara had been watching the battle. In this underground tomb, there was only one heavy warrior in spirit form, so there was no need for three people to attack together.

Li You picked up the armor and sword left on the ground and looked at the system description: "Gu Lao Armor, Gu Lao Sword... Hmm? Gu Lao Sword?"

How should I punctuate this name?
Objectively speaking, this set of equipment is already quite good for an ordinary soldier, but Li You naturally couldn't use it, so he just threw it into his backpack.

"Let's go to the next place. Where is it?"

Kara at the side answered: "The next one is... the nameless temple in the south, and then the lava tube forging ruins."

In the information provided by Lailana, there is a detailed map of the Shadow Land, which includes ruins, underground cemeteries, caves, and churches scattered everywhere.

In addition, the map also marked names that Li You had never seen before, such as "Unnamed Temple" and "Forging Ruins".

These two things do not exist in the main game, so Li You doesn't know about them. Fortunately, Kara knows this very well.

The so-called nameless temple is a unique building in the Shadow Land. It is said that the souls of warriors who have lost their names or hearts will live there.

There are four nameless temples, located in the four directions of east, south, west and north. Each temple contains a warrior's soul. Defeating them will give you the remains of the soul owner.

Li You and his companions are now in the nameless temple in the west. The soul that V just defeated is the one living here, the Lone Prison Knight.

As for the Forging Ruins, as the name suggests, they are ancient ruins used to forge weapons. The Shadow Land has a unique forging technique that can create the "Flow Pattern" series of weapons, whose characteristic is that after being thrown out, they will move back to the holder's hands.

Messermo's flaming spear was reforged using this forging technique, so it also has this characteristic.

"The Nameless Spirit Temple and the Forging Ruins can both be considered the characteristics of the Shadow Land. There are also some interesting things in them. This Rakshasa Blade was obtained from the Nameless Spirit Temple in the East."

Kara showed the large sword behind her and said, "Actually, I also got a set of Luosha's armor. Since it doesn't suit me very well, I put it in the magic bag."

Li You nodded: "Okay, let's continue. I am very interested in those forging relics."

Since leaving Shadow City, Li You and the other two have used the blessing to teleport quickly between marked locations, collecting various specialties of Shadow Land.

Four nameless temples, three forging ruins, and scattered underground cemeteries were all conquered by them one by one.

——The remains of a lava tube forging.

In this square building filled with hot air, there is a huge iron pipe with flowing magma in the middle of the ruins. Li You and the other two were watching the interaction between a golem and a lava slime in the small room in front of them.

The lava golem, which was more than two meters tall and had a rough appearance, was actually stroking the head of a lava slime as if it were touching a small animal, which made Li You and the other two marvel at it.

"This scene is quite heartwarming." V watched with interest, "Should we still do it?"

"Of course." Li You touched the bracelet made of his teardrops, "Remember to dig out the red crystal behind the golem intact."

"I see." Kara picked up the Dark Moon Staff, "Then leave it to me."

"Don't steal the monsters? I found them!" V immediately objected.

"Stop arguing, both of you come at me together." Li You tried to smooth things over.

Kara and V looked at each other, neither of them spoke, but walked into the room one after the other.

"boom--!!"

After a while, Li You and the other two arrived at the forging altar at the top of the forging ruins.

The so-called altar was actually like a huge furnace. Li You clearly saw that there was something vaguely wrapped in the furnace.

"Click——"

The spiral sword pierced through the furnace directly, and the flames inside were completely absorbed by the vortex generated by the sword. As Li You pulled out the sword, the props stored in the furnace also fell out.

A sledgehammer and a sharp piece of pale golden gravel.

"This is...!" Kara was quick-eyed and quick-handed, and picked up the piece of gravel. The gravel was heavy and had some strange patterns on it.

"It's the Ancient Dragon Rock Forging Stone!"

Ancient Dragon Rock Forging Stone is said to be the scales of the Dragon King. Its significance is basically equivalent to the wedge-shaped stone original disk in the Dark Souls world. It is the material needed to strengthen weapons to the limit. It is said that weapons made of Ancient Dragon Rock Forging Stone have the power to kill gods.

"This is a good stuff. It's worth the trip to the forging ruins." Li You took the golden forging stone handed over by Kara and put it and the sledgehammer on the ground into his backpack.

That hammer was called the "Anvil Hammer" and was one of the treasures of the ruins. In addition to these, they also picked up a large number of forging stones of various levels in the ruins, as well as some unique weapons made using the Shadow Land forging technique.

There is no gatekeeper in the forging ruins, so you can leave after obtaining the treasures in the forging altar. Li You and the other two then headed to the next location.

——The Barrett underground prison, covered with frost and filled with large pots.

"Boom boom boom!!"

After confirming that this was the territory of the Horned People, Li You bombarded the area directly. Any person or object related to the Horned People was blown to pieces, and all the useful things were swept away without leaving a single thing.

When they left, the underground prison was almost completely empty.

——The vast and solemn Fog Valley Underground Cemetery.

Like the underground cemetery at the border, this place was always full of traps and was guarded by soldiers and knights. Li You and his two companions flew around the guards, focused on looting items, unlocking traps, and then headed straight to the deepest part of the cemetery.

Here, Li You was surprised to find the face of the dead prince Godwin, which looked exactly the same as the one under the city of Stonewell, but it was much smaller.

The BOSS guarding here is a skeleton-like knight who wields a pair of golden battle axes. He also has a unique fighting skill that allows him to transform himself into lightning to quickly approach and dodge attacks, which greatly interests Li You.

So he took action himself, using a combination of Blood Undead Slash and Spiral Sword to send the Death Knight away, took away the opponent's weapon, and then left.

……

In this way, with the help of the map given by Laelana, they explored the valuable places marked on the map in the Shadow Land one by one, and filled their backpacks with all kinds of weapons and props.

—Boni Jail, burned down.

——Ancient iron meteorite forging ruins, take the light.

——Kill all the nameless temples in the south and north.

Li You once again demonstrated his ability to sweep things. He would never miss anything valuable. As for whether those things were offerings for the altar or burial objects placed in the cemetery, he didn't care. He just wanted to throw them all into his backpack.

Li You: Picking up trash makes me happy.

What main mission? All I have in mind is picking up trash.

Li You took out a portion of the ashes of the forging golem and the ancient dragon rock forging stone from the altar of the Taiul forging ruins and threw them into his backpack: "Next stop!"

Kara, V: “…”

The two exchanged glances for the first time and reached a consensus: Master/this guy has finally gone crazy.

——After some time.

The dark and deep Dragon Cave.

“Roar, ahhhh!!”

The lava earth dragon, wielding a dragon-scale sword and looking like a giant lizard, crawls on the ground and rampages in the cave, spewing hot flowing magma from its mouth all over the ground, which is very deterrent.

However, once Li You opened the flame field, even the magma could be suppressed and controlled, and the lava earth dragon's breath was extinguished.

Then, Kara rang the bell and summoned the soul of the forging golem Taiul. Taiul rushed forward with his fists waving, and hit the lava earth dragon on the neck with a few "bang bang" punches. Although it did not cause any damage, it successfully angered it.

The lava earth dragon bit and slashed at Taiul, but Taiul was a forging golem and had a very high resistance to any damage unless it was hit by the red crystal on its back. Even the lava earth dragon could not hit it.

With Taiul holding the lava earth dragon back, Kara and V immediately opened fire, alternating between magic and Pandora, and soon blasted the lava earth dragon into a sieve.

Of course, both of them were careful to avoid the earth dragon's chest to avoid losing the spoils. After the battle, Li You personally took out another dragon heart from its body.

"Very good, dragon heart! For the dragon feast ceremony, the more of this stuff the better." Li You put away the heart and looked at the huge corpse of the lava earth dragon. He felt a little regretful, "If only Yuzu was here too, it would not be wasted."

But there is no need to be too regretful. The so-called lava earth dragons are just warriors who have over-performed the dragon feast ritual, and their appearance at the end of this road. They are of course no longer human, but at most they are sub-dragons, and they are probably not of much help to Yuzu.

Compared to the lava earth dragon, Kara has pointed out that the way out of this cave is the road to Spiked Mountain: "The Dragon Feast Altar mentioned earlier is at the foot of the mountain. It is said that there is more than one dragon active on that mountain."

Since she said so, Li You naturally would not delay any longer: "Then I'll have to dig a few more... I want to see them for myself."

However, this lava earth dragon is only a small BOSS halfway through the journey. The real BOSS of this dragon cave is an "ancient dragon man".

From the appearance, it is basically equivalent to the little dragon man in the Dark Souls world, with a thin body, skin close to stone, and wielding a big knife covered with gravel.

Naturally, such enemies pose little threat to Li You. Whether it is the Dark Soul or the Old Man Ring, these humans transformed into dragonmen are actually products of extremes, which is completely different from Li You's dragonmanization.

Li You unsheathed the Blood Immortal Sword, and with a set of sword dance, he chopped down the ancient dragon man with his sword, leaving only its stone-breaking sword.

"Dragon hunting sword? Interesting."

Naturally, the knife also went into Li You’s backpack.

The Dragon Cave was broken through, and Li You and his companions walked out of the cave, and found that it was completely dark. The three decided to start camping, anyway, it was very convenient to enter and exit the companion space, and they could go back when they rested.

After dinner, by the campfire.

"…Messermo is Melina's biological brother!?"

V, who was originally controlling Pandora's transformation, was so surprised that he almost jumped up when he heard the conversation between Li You and Kara.

"How did you know about this?"

Kara said: "I once heard Michaela mention that Messermo and his sister can both see the virtual image of fire, so they can become 'fire seeds'."

"Then, Master just told me that Meimei has this ability... When I think about the fact that Meisemuo is the son of Queen Marika, and Meimei's mother is most likely also Marika, the fact becomes obvious."

"No wonder she knows so much about how to ignite the Sealed Tree..." V thought back on Melina's behavior and was not so surprised.

However, when the surprise passed and the topic ended, Kara and V reacted and immediately turned their heads away and kept silent.

Li You: "......"

What are you two doing?
Although these two people have been following him, they basically adhere to the principle of not communicating if possible. The total number of sentences they have spoken in the past two days does not exceed five.

Li You was a little confused. It was okay about V, but it was clearly Kara who took the initiative to suggest that V come along. Why was she doing this?
It's not like he didn't think about "mediating" the situation, but unfortunately, neither of them paid any attention to him on this topic.

Seeing that Kara and V were still at odds with each other, Li You could only shake his head helplessly and turned into his companions' space: "You should go to bed early."

However, after he left, Kara and V both stood up.

The two exchanged glances across the fire and nodded. Then, Kara took out the famous sword Yueyin and the Dark Moon Staff, and V picked up Pandora and walked towards the open space in the distance.

...The night passed quickly.

After a night's rest, Li You, who was full of energy, was planning to go to the Spiky Mountain with great interest. However, during breakfast, he saw that Kara and V both had obvious dark circles under their eyes and their hair was messy. In short, they looked listless.

Li You: "?"

"You two sneaked in in the middle of the night?"

(End of this chapter)