From the warrior who called herself Neferi Lu, Fang Zheng learned about the castle and its owner.
As mentioned before, with the broken ring, the Golden Law was destroyed and the throne was vacant. In order to become the new generation of King Elden, many descendants fought each other, snatched the Great Rune and tried to recast a new ring to become the King of Elden - well, this was basically the same as Fang Zheng's previous experience of the Chuangbi fighting to become the Supreme God and snatch the Supreme Throne, so he didn't bother to care.
Greg was one of them, but unfortunately, he was weak and cowardly. He was defeated in the royal city and escaped from the royal city dressed as a woman. He was afraid of Latan and hid in the city without saying a word. He underestimated the Valkyrie Marenia and was beaten badly. He even knelt down and kissed her feet to show his obedience...
Wow... Just by listening to him I feel that this person is a typical example of being despicable, cowardly and weak.
This man is also very self-aware, saying that things may change over time, so don't look down on the poor youngsters! Let me start over again after I start practicing!
However, the way this guy became stronger was not by practicing martial arts or sleeping on straw and eating bitter food, but... limb transplantation!
That’s right, this guy formed a team to hunt down the Faded Ones, chopping off their arms and attaching them to their own bodies - well, to be honest, Fang Zheng didn’t understand if there was something wrong with this guy’s brain... You don’t really think that you can increase your strength by using someone else’s arms, do you?
Greg's brutal and brutal behavior naturally aroused public indignation, and Nepheli came here to completely defeat this stupid and brutal guy and put an end to it all.
Fang Zheng had no grudge against Greg, but if he wanted to pass through the castle, he had to pass through the throne hall where Greg was, so he agreed to Nefeli's request, and the two of them went together to find Greg's misfortune.
However, just as the two of them walked to the front yard, they saw a man kneeling on the ground not far away, and in front of him was a dead dragon. At this moment, the man was staring at the dragon and muttering to himself.
"...My fellow dragon, your power is beyond doubt... It can push me to a higher level."
"Greck!"
Seeing this man, Nepheli also roared.
"You have committed so many evil things that even the wind has been tainted. Your deeds will never be forgiven. Prepare to die!"
"oh……?"
Hearing Nefeli's roar, the man turned around, and at the same time, his cloak fell off. Then, a scene that made people's scalps tingle appeared in front of Fang Zheng and Nefeli.
On the back of Greg's huge body, several arms were seen waving constantly. Although these arms were about the same size as those of a normal person, they seemed a little uncoordinated on Greg's huge body. They were more like the limbs of a centipede, shaking densely. He raised his arms and held a big axe with his two arms. At his right elbow, there was another hand holding an axe, which he raised high and then dropped down with force.
"You are just a faded one, yet you are so arrogant! Kneel down!"
With a roar, Greg slammed the giant axe in his hand heavily to the ground.
"I am the Golden King!"
“Go to hell!!”
At this moment, Nepheli also raised the sword in her hand and rushed towards Greg with a flash of thunder!
Fang Zheng was dragging his greatsword, swinging it leisurely behind him while sizing up Greg in front of him.
"That's it?"
It must be said that seeing Greg like this made Fang Zheng quite disappointed. When he first heard Nefeli say that Greg had attached someone else's arm to his own body, Fang Zheng's mind either came up with a hundred-armed giant or a thousand-armed Avalokitesvara.
But...what's the use of your limb graft???
Staring at Greg in front of him, Fang Zheng was completely puzzled. The arm was so short, and it was mounted on the back, so you couldn't hit anyone with a weapon, right? Apart from shaking it there to annoy people, what other uses did it have?
“Bang!!”
Just when Fang Zheng was complaining in his heart, he saw Greg chopping Nefeli off with an axe. Then he turned around, raised the axe in his hand, and rushed towards Fang Zheng aggressively.
“Die!!”
"careful!!!"
Seeing Greg swinging his axe at Fang Zheng like a raging wave, Nefeli, who was lying on the ground, hurriedly warned him. However, facing Greg's axe, Fang Zheng just took his time and swung his sword.
"boom!!!!"
The next moment, Greg flew high into the sky as if he had hit a speeding truck, then rolled to the ground, rolling several times before stopping.
"That's it?"
In front of him, Fang Zheng was still carrying the greatsword, looking at Greg with contempt and disdain.
"With just this little ability, you dare to act so presumptuous in front of me?"
“Woo…”
Sensing Fang Zheng's cold, disdainful look, Greg trembled all over. At that moment, he seemed to recall the past, how he was defeated, kneeling in humiliation in front of the opponent, and surrendering to the opponent... Was he going to experience the same humiliation again this time?
No! Absolutely not!
At this moment, Greg was furious and he suddenly raised the axe in his hand and chopped down at his left arm!!!
“Aaaaaaaaaaah!!!!”
Greg's wailing echoed throughout the courtyard, and Nepheli was even more surprised when she saw this scene. Greg slammed his hand to the ground, and then his left arm was chopped off. Then Greg raised his bare, bleeding elbow and looked at the dragon's body next to him.
"Oh, powerful dragon...give me your power!!"
While roaring, Greg suddenly stretched out his left arm towards the dragon - but at this moment, Fang Zheng kicked him in the face, knocking Greg to the ground again.
"You don't really think I'll give you a chance for the second stage, do you?"
Seeing Greg being kicked to the ground again, Fang Zheng snorted coldly, then he raised his sword and stabbed it hard at Greg's head.
"call!!!!"
The next moment, scorching flames emerged from Greg's body, completely burning the golden king in front of him into a pile of gray dust.
"It's just stupid."
Looking at the ashes dissipating in the wind, Fang Zheng shook his head. This guy might have gone mad. He was standing right in front of him, and he actually dared to cut off his own hand and try to upgrade to the second stage?
He doesn't think this is the time for the game to have invincible CG cutscenes, does he?
But to be honest, the fact that he can have so many arms attached to his body means that he is not a normal person.
"call……"
At this time, Nepheli also stood up. She walked to Fang Zheng and stared at him.
"I didn't expect you to be so strong. Are you going to become the King of Elden?"
"Hehe, probably."
Fang Zheng shrugged and then looked at Nefeli.
"What are you going to do next?"
"I plan to look around the city to see if there is anything I have missed, and then go back to the Hall of the Round Table, where the Faded Ones gather. My father is also there..."
"Oh, in that case, I have something to ask of you."
Fang Zheng told Nefeli about what happened to Little Red Riding Hood outside the city gate. After listening to him, Nefeli also frowned.
"You mean the lady's companions? It's hard to say. From what I understand, they probably... won't have a good ending."
"Anyway, please go look for it."
"All right."
Hearing this, Nepheli thought for a moment and nodded.
"I'll go look for any clues."
"Then I'll leave it to you."
After handing over the matter of Little Red Riding Hood to Nefeli, the two parted ways. Nefeli continued to search in Stonewell City, while Fang Zheng passed through the castle and continued to head towards the Royal City. Before leaving, Fang Zheng also asked Nefeli about the Royal City and epilepsy. As expected, he learned that there was an epilepsy village not far from the Royal City, but the road to the Royal City was not easy to walk now, because the Royal City had been completely closed and the Decadas Elevator had stopped operating. If Fang Zheng wanted to go to the Royal City, he had to find the symbol of the Decadas Elevator and activate it.
As for where the talisman is... Nefeli said she doesn't know.
Fang Zheng didn't care about this. Dianhuo Village was his goal. He could go to places like the Royal City or not. It didn't matter if he couldn't find the talisman. The worst that could happen was that he could just... climb up himself.
When you were an assassin, didn’t you climb enough towers?
After saying goodbye to Nefeli, Fang Zheng continued to move forward. He walked through the vestibule, pushed open the door in front of him, and walked in. In front of him was a passage, at the end of which was an octagonal room with statues standing beside it, and in the center of the room was a huge throne.
Of course, there was no one there.
The fire is about to go out, but the king is nowhere to be seen.
Fang Zheng glanced at the empty throne in front of him and shrugged.
This is no nonsense. The owner of this chair was just hacked to death by me.
After passing through the royal court, Fang Zheng finally reached the passage behind. However, just as he was about to leave, a white shadow suddenly appeared out of nowhere and blocked his way. It looked like a ghost, and at this moment, he covered his eyes with his hands and muttered to himself.
"My Lord Witch, my Lord Witch, where are you? Please accept my grapes..."
Looking at this ghost mumbling to himself, Fang Zheng originally did not intend to pay attention to him. After all, he had seen similar guys several times along the way. They just kept the movements before death, mumbling and repeating their own words. They were simply ghost repeaters and could not communicate with others at all. At first, Fang Zheng was going to ask something from these ghosts, but the result was of course... nothing.
However, just as Fang Zheng was about to leave, he suddenly stopped.
Because he had seen this ghost in the village before!
If Fang Zheng remembered correctly, the villagers in that village at that time also kept their hands on their heads, covering their eyes, and kneeling on the ground!
Could it be that this ghost is related to the insanity? Then what are the grapes he mentioned?
"Ah, grapes... Chapoli grapes..."
At this moment, the ghost stretched out its hands and raised them in front of Fang Zheng's eyes. In its hands was a yellow, rotten-looking... eyeball!
"Dedicated to the blind witch, the light that guides her to the other side..."
"Well……"
Listening to the ghost's words and looking at the eyeball in its hand, Fang Zheng was speechless. Although this thing is indeed round, and the rotten and yellow appearance does look like a ripe and rotten grape, but... this thing is not a grape!
In the end, Fang Zheng still endured the nausea and took the grapes from the ghost. After all, he could feel that there was indeed the power of the primordial fire in the eyeball. And Fang Zheng was also very curious about how it was formed.
And...where is that blind witch?
Unfortunately, the ghost didn't know how to answer Fang Zheng's question, so he had to put away the grapes and walk out of the royal city.
However, what Fang Zheng did not expect was that shortly after leaving the royal city, he saw a familiar figure on the side of the road.