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Chapter 625: Complete Collection Part , Border Area
——Half a day later.

"…Speaking of which, I've always wanted to ask, what's the difference between a god like Queen Marika and the demigods of her children and those 'Outer Gods'?"

Li You turned around and looked at V in surprise: "Why are you asking this suddenly?"

"I'm just curious." V sat on a wooden bench, playing with the black knife in his hand. "Didn't you say before that Mikaela, who returned as a god, was also missing something? What was it? You're not referring to Torina, are you?"

Seeing the curiosity in Kara and Aggie's eyes, Li You replied: "You guessed right. But I can't answer your first question completely accurately, so I'll just tell you what I know."

“The so-called Outer Gods, or external gods, just as the name suggests, refer to gods that are not under the Golden Law system, and this scope is very broad. As long as one can be considered a god, he or she can probably get this title at the border.

"We know of quite a few Outer Gods, including Mad Fire, Corruption, and the previous Fire Evil God. They are all among them, and their powers vary. So 'Outer Gods' is just a general term, and the ones on the other side may not even be real gods at all.

"As for Queen Marica and Michaela, and your second question...it can actually be summed up in one sentence."

Li You paused for a moment before saying, "The gods of this world are essentially just carriers of laws, and possess only a portion of the 'essence of being a god' - if we use the words here."

"In the borderland, there is only one true God, and that is the Supreme Will."

After listening to this, the other two Vs were all in deep thought. Only Yuzu, who had regained her human form, stood aside, completely uninterested.

Li You still had something to say. If we really compare them, the "gods" in the Borderland are obviously inferior to the true gods in Dark Souls, and they cannot be compared with the gods in other works. However, by the time of Dark Souls III, the true gods in Dark Souls were dead or hiding, and their power had declined extremely seriously, so in terms of the difficulty of clearing the game, it was easier than the Ring of Magic.

But on the other hand, the supreme will of the creator of the borderland is not comparable to that of ordinary true gods in the dark soul.

As for Queen Marika, she should obviously be much stronger than Michaela, whom Li You defeated, but Li You had no way of knowing her specific level of strength.

After finishing the small talk, Li You looked at the treasure chest in front of him and opened it. In the treasure chest, there was a short hook sword with a unique decoration. The outer circle of the curved blade of the hook sword was a twisted flame pattern, which looked like half of an eroded and faded sun.

This is also one of the "legendary weapons", a sword collected by the city of Thor, the Eclipse Hook Sword.

The uniqueness of this sword lies in the fact that it contains the Death Flash Flame of the Dead Prince, which can add the most terrifying "Cursed Death" abnormal state to the enemy when attacking.

Unfortunately, in the game, only characters in player modules are cursed to death, and the sword's abstract performance also means it's not very useful even in PVP, so it's become the least noticeable of the legendary weapons.

But even so, this sword is a legendary weapon after all, and it is just right to use it to burn the spiral sword.

Of course, Li You and his party were in Sol City at the moment, in this "Eclipse Church". After they left the giant cauldron of fire, they rushed all the way here, mainly for this sword.

Of course, since he was already there, Li You also took the opportunity to beat up the boss guarding the city of Thor, the veteran Neo, and also used the duel field to snatch away his weapon - the veteran general's flag.

Veteran Neo also has heroic strength, but in front of Li You and his group, he can only be beaten to pieces with sticks.

Although he was the first to take action, Li You did not kill him in the end. Instead, he took away the other half of the secret symbol of the sacred tree collected by Sol City in addition to his military flag.

With this symbol, the way to the sacred tree is opened - although it is not necessary.

The wild snowfield leading to the Holy Tree of Michaela is just to the west of the Giant Snow Mountain. You can reach it easily by descending from the west side of the mountain.

The reason why Li You still wanted to get the secret symbol of the sacred tree was, firstly, because he was already here, and secondly, he wanted to get the guy hiding in the secret passage leading to the sacred tree.

——Speaking of the past, the reason why Li You and his group came to Sol City was very simple.

Although the plan was set to find trouble with Three Fingers and use it to upgrade the Spiral Sword, it was not that easy to achieve.

Just to say one thing, the +7 spiral sword can now suppress the power of the Mad Fire. Even the previous Mad Fire King Midra can only resist to a limited extent and cannot escape.

But this time we have to face the Three Fingers, the source of the crazy fire at the border. The flames it emits are probably even stronger, and even the bottom line estimate is that it cannot be weaker than Midra's.

Even though the Spiral Sword has been further strengthened than the battle against Midra, even if Li You fights Midra again now, he cannot use the Spiral Sword to completely absorb his crazy fire power, and can only use a small part of it.

So in short, the current spiral sword is also unable to absorb the power of the three fingers.

Now we are back to the classic framework: The spiral sword cannot suppress the insanity fire! Then upgrade and strengthen it! It must swallow the insanity fire to strengthen it! Then swallow the insanity fire...

Fortunately, the enhancement of the spiral sword is not tied to the crazy fire, it can still improve itself by burning other weapons. However, nowadays, unless it is a legendary weapon or it is similar to them, it is not very meaningful to enhance the flame of the spiral sword.

In short, Li You’s mission now has changed back to: strengthening the spiral sword.

He remembered that he had completed the same mission in the Shadow Land, but it just so happened that in order to complete the final ending of this world, Li You also had to collect materials and upgrade the Spiral Sword.

It doesn't take much, as long as he levels up one more level, Li You will be confident enough to suppress and absorb the power of the three fingers. If he levels up two more levels, the crazy fire released by the three fingers can also be easily controlled by him.

According to Li You's estimation, the power levels of the Mad Fire and the Ash Extinguishing Flame should be similar, so by the same token, Li You only needs to upgrade it by two more levels to be able to control the Ash Extinguishing Flame.

So he came to run the mission.

Another legendary weapon was obtained, as well as the hero weapon of veteran Neo, but this was far from enough. However, Li You was not worried. In addition to the city of Sol, there was also a Strolling Spirit Temple outside the city, which could copy the golden memories of the demigods, even the memories that had been consumed.

Earlier in the Weeping Peninsula, Li You and his companions had seen the first Wandering Spirit Temple. There were a total of seven such spirit temples at the border, five of which could copy demigod-level memories, and two could only copy heroic-level memories.

In addition, as far as Li You knows, coffins with the ability to replicate can be found in the Shadow Land - these are all resources.

There are many more, such as the drops of various wild bosses, the locations of various treasures, and the treasure house given by Patch...

Li You has the experience of collecting all weapons and props in the game, and also has the extra gains after coming to this world and Kara's knowledge. As long as he wants, he can hoard a large amount of resources in a short period of time.

The Spiral Sword is getting more and more picky. It's useless if it's not a legendary weapon? Then I'll stuff you to death with a mountain of heroic weapons!

And it just so happens that for the final stage of the plan, Li You also needs to travel around the border area to complete his arrangements. Now is the perfect time to accomplish both goals at the same time.

Li You put away the Eclipse Hook Sword and said, "Let's go, it's time to run the map again."

……

In the next half month, Li You's footsteps truly covered the entire border area.

Combining the areas that he and Kara had visited and the blessings that they had lit up, they moved back and forth across the border to clear out the caves, ruins, tunnels, and wild bosses, and the harvest was extremely rich, especially weapons and equipment.

The weapons that Li You acquired these days, only those above the heroic level, numbered eighty-two.

There are more than 300 weapons that players can collect in the game. Li You still has requirements for performance, but the number is still quite large.

Among these, some were props and weapons that were dropped or picked up, and some were snatched away by Li You using the duel field. In any case, they all ended up in his backpack.

What was gained in the process was naturally not only weapons and props, but also items such as magic and prayer scrolls. Li You accepted them all and distributed the useful ones to his companions.

Naturally, these things were mainly given to Kara, and V also took a small part of them for research, but she herself didn't expect to figure out anything.

In the process of collecting these things, Li You visited all the treasure spots that he had passed by but did not enter before, such as...

Example location one – Patch’s Treasure Vault No. 1.

According to the map drawn by Patch himself, Li You successfully found his treasure house. He didn't come here to take it on purpose, but just happened to pass by on the way to rob, so he came in to take a look.

But what surprised Li You was that there were actually quite a few good things here.

A small amount of weapons, a bag of golden seeds, and some holy grail dew drops and crystal dew drops. Patch had previously claimed that this was his most valuable treasure trove, and this time it turned out to be true.

These things happened to be useful to Li You, so he naturally accepted them all without hesitation - if there was any left, Patch would definitely cry for joy later, and Li You couldn't bear to see others cry, so it was better to take them all away.

After searching the treasure house here, Li You became interested in going to another treasure house of Patch. Therefore, Patch's weapons warehouse was also moved out completely. Example location 2 - the center of Lake Lienia, near the north shore.

While his companions were clearing out the headless temple soldiers around them, Li You stood under the huge walking temple and started to transform into a half-dragon.

He transformed the spiral sword into the Latan Greatsword, let out a long roar, and the repulsive wave spread instantly!
"boom--!!"

The pale skeleton barnacles attached to the legs of the Wandering Spirit Temple all shattered and fell off in an instant. The Wandering Spirit Temple trembled, and its four giant rock legs gradually curled up, and finally bent down on the spot, turning into an ordinary spirit temple.

Li You naturally avoided the main body of the spirit temple in advance and came to the temple gate. As he pushed the stone door open, the headless soldiers guarding the spirit temple disappeared immediately.

In the center of the mausoleum, lies the coffin of a headless demigod. This is the place used to replicate memories.

Li You walked forward and held out his hand: "What I want to copy is... the memories of Michaela and Latarn."

Example location three: Sunshade City, City Lord’s Hall.

With an unwilling roar, the current lord of Sunshade City, "Ironthorn" Elronmel, who was wearing ironthorn armor and was famous in the border area for his other identity as the "Bell Hunter", fell under the joint attack of Kara and V.

Elonmeier's attack is extremely heavy, and his special skill "Och Sword Dance" is as fashionable as flying a sword. Unfortunately, in front of the combination of Kara and V, it is difficult for him to exert his fighting power.

After Elronmael fell to the ground, V stepped forward and picked up the greatsword that originally belonged to him - one of the legendary weapons, the executioner sword of the Marley family.

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She exchanged a glance with Kara and nodded.

At the same time, Li You had just opened a treasure chest in a tower room outside of Riyin City. Inside the treasure chest was a golden right arm prosthesis.

Example location four – the entrance to the Eternal City of Norklongn.

After a long time, Li You came back, for no other reason than to find the BOSS he didn't defeat at the beginning, the teardrop.

In order to save time, Li You directly grabbed a soldier of the Fallen Eagle Legion on the way here and threw him into the hall where the replica teardrop was.

Then, when the replica teardrop sensed the presence of an intruder and instinctively mimicked the other party's appearance, a long whip burning with flames and covered with sharp blades flew from the sky and directly wrapped around the body of the replica teardrop!

The new form of the Spiral Sword, the Whip Form, was unlocked after absorbing a lot of other weapons in recent days.

Before the replica teardrop could react, Li You in mid-air had already pulled hard, and the flames wrapped around the whip solidified its body, and the sharp blade tore it apart completely!

The teardrop was cut into several pieces and fell to the ground. On the other side, Kara, who was waiting outside the hall, got the signal and immediately fired a broom to shred the fallen eagle soldier who was out of condition.

Fallen Eagle Legion soldiers: “…”

Li You landed on the ground immediately, and before he could call out, the teardrop larva on his wrist, which had been as quiet as if dead, woke up on its own. It turned into a ball of silver slime, pounced on the debris on the ground, and quickly absorbed them completely.

"You're quite a eater." Li You laughed as he watched the larvae of the mimicking teardrop jump back into his hand and turn back into a decoration.

After devouring the remains of its own kind, the size of the Mimic Teardrop larva more than doubled, and now it is no longer a bracelet, but a complete arm armor.

"Devouring its own kind is indeed useful for it...it seems that the one in the secret passage cannot be let go." Li You made up his mind.

In the secret passage leading to the sacred tree, there is also a rogue replica teardrop hidden. That is why Li You specially obtained the secret symbol of the sacred tree.

But now, he was still in no hurry to go there. The Snowfield and the Holy Tree were both places he had to go to later, and it would be the most efficient way to solve them together.

——As mentioned above, Li You and his party "plundered" everywhere in the border area. While reaping rich rewards, they also made their names spread among the survivors in the border area.

However, they did not have a good reputation. The survivors regarded them as a looting group because Li You and his group were always robbing everywhere in a hurry. Many survivors called them "Firestorm" - which sounded similar to the extra thieves organization in the comics.

By the way, Li You himself was not aware of this. He continued to do his own thing, collecting all the resources he could find as quickly as possible, which also made the name of the plundering group spread more and more widely.

……

Two days later, in Galid, Selia town.

Selia was a town that was good at magic, but it has long been destroyed. However, the dark magic used by Kara actually came from here, and even General Ratan learned gravity magic here when he was young.

However, Li You did not come here to pay condolences or look for treasure, but to find a very important person for his future plans. She should be in the church on the cliff behind the town of Selia.

Of course, Li You also knew that the "side quests" in the game could not be applied in this world. After all, the timelines of various events here were completely different, and the game experience could only be used as a reference.

Before coming here, Li You asked Kara if she had seen anyone in the church on the cliff before.

Kara had come to the town of Selia and passed by the church of corruption before in search of the sealed origin magician Master Luther. However, she replied that she did not see anyone at that time.

Therefore, Li You could not be sure whether the person he was looking for had not appeared yet, had already left, or his fate had simply changed unintentionally, but he still had to give it a try.

"Are you sure you're here? Don't make another wasted trip." V said from the side. "Also, the time agreed with Lani is coming soon. Have you forgotten it?"

Because of the reasons just stated, the group had failed quite a few times during this period, so V was complaining.

As for the time agreed with Lani, when Li You passed through Lienia before, he went to ask Iggy, who was working as a blacksmith outside the ruins of the royal territory, and was told that "Lani will wake up soon", so Li You agreed with him on an exact time for the meeting.

"Don't worry, I certainly haven't forgotten that." Li You said, "By the way, I said I would send the letter to Torina, have you mailed it for me, Aggie?"

Aggie nodded: "I sent it out and received a reply, but you haven't read it yet."

"Okay, I'll take a look after this." Li You nodded. He had been so busy collecting these things that he was dizzy and felt like a big boss who was busy with all kinds of things.

In fact, logically speaking, there is no time limit for the main mission, so he doesn't need to be so anxious, but for some reason, he always feels that he may not have so much time to waste, so he can only rush forward.

"...Hmm?" As he walked, Edge seemed to have discovered something.

Li You's brain was working rapidly on multiple parallel projects. When he heard Edge's voice, he subconsciously turned his head to look.

Edge immediately reminded everyone through the mental link: "There really is a person in the church ahead, and this smell... that person must be infected with Scarlet Corruption."

The Gallid Fields were occupied by scarlet corruption, and they had become very familiar with this smell in these days.

Li You's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Really? Then let's go!"

——In the church of corruption.

A young woman wearing a simple but bloodstained travel robe and with messy red hair was leaning against the wall on one side of the church, moaning softly.

Her face was also stained with blood, and her eyes were dazed, obviously she was not in a clear mind. Her right hand was completely gone, and she tied it hastily with her clothes as an emergency measure.

Hearing the footsteps of someone approaching, she reluctantly raised her head and said, "... Ugh, who is it?"

"Whoever you are, you'd better leave me alone. The scarlet corruption in my body is wriggling..."

Before she could finish her words, Li You had already taken two steps forward and held her down: "Please bear with it for a moment! I'm here to help you cure the scarlet corruption!"

girl:"?"

The people behind: “…”

Someone started again.

(End of this chapter)