Chapter 313 Is Zuo Gong the End of the Arms Race?
Someone is talking in the well! ?
Tu immediately remembered the story his grandmother told him when he was a child to scare him. It was said that there was a monster called the well goblin who liked to hide in the well and lure people in with sound, and then drag them into the well when they looked inside.
When he was a child, he was really scared by this thing, so much so that now he gets scared when he hears someone talking next to the well, which also makes the profession of demon hunter become very powerful in his eyes.
but
"Well fairies are usually female, right?"
Generally speaking, a woman's voice is more likely to create a terrifying atmosphere. If it is a man's voice, especially the one that just came from the well, honest and a little magnetic, it will only make people think of the unlucky farmer who accidentally fell into the well.
The horror atmosphere is gone, and it even turns into a rural comedy, as if a group of people will start singing and dancing in the next second.
"Hello, is there anyone there? It seems I heard it wrong." The voice sounded a little aggrieved, which made people involuntarily go over and talk to it.
"Who are you and why are you in the well?" Tus asked a few steps away from the wellhead, and asked his two companions behind him to hold his legs so that they could pull him back in time if any unexpected situation occurred.
He also said that if you really can't pull it back, just let go and don't get everyone involved.
"Oh, someone is finally here!"
The voice in the well became cheerful and introduced itself:
"I'm Jack Baldo from Catalina, a knight. I was accidentally ambushed and fell into a well. Excuse me, have you seen my armor?"
Jakobaldo, from Dark Souls III, is also the Onion Knight in this generation of games. He has a simple and honest personality and values friendship and loyalty. He is Gong Qiying's favorite Onion Knight.
As for why he fell into the well, it had something to do with an old acquaintance.
"What does your armor look like?"
Armor? Would a normal person ask for armor at this time? Shouldn't they ask the people above to pull them out?
Tus found this request very strange, but gradually came to his senses and realized that this man named Jackbaldo should be an afterimage, the same as the blacksmith Andre and the businessman Curie.
"Ah, it's round. All parts of the armor are round. If you have seen it, you will be impressed."
This description was too abstract. Tus imagined the other party's armor to be like an eggshell. Thinking of this ridiculous scene, he couldn't help but laugh out loud and asked, "Do you need me to pull you up?"
Since the other party is an afterimage, there should be no harm in building a good relationship with him, he thought.
"Thank you for your kindness, but forget it. I can climb up by myself, but without armor, I am in a rather awkward state now and I am too embarrassed to see anyone."
Tuss still had a strong sense of self-esteem, so he nodded and asked, "Do you want something to eat or drink? Can I pour rice porridge for you?"
Jackbaldo refused again and again, and finally Tus gave up asking, because he found that the other party seemed to only want armor.
"Well, how about I bring your armor to you if I see it?"
"Thank you, my friend."
It seems that the story that this afterimage can trigger ends here. Tus shook his head at the people and suddenly noticed the red element bottle on his waist. An idea flashed through his mind. He asked while holding the edge of the well: "Do you want an element bottle? We have plenty here."
Now the adventurers have learned their lesson and will throw the secret fire-infusing ritual obtained by defeating the three corpse magicians into the bonfire in the Firelink Shrine, which is the most convenient location for the bonfire.
This time Jackbaldo did not refuse again. Tus threw the element bottle down. After a while, another element bottle was thrown up with a light spot, saying it was a thank you gift. He picked it up and took a look.
【Undead Hunting Amulet】
[A tool used to hunt the undead. Throw it at the undead. Within a certain time and effective range, the affected person will not be able to recover through elements.]
[The legacy of Knight Lloyd, who led the hunt for the undead in the past. Lloyd, the main god of the White Church, has long been unbeliever, but the hunt for the undead has not stopped. They only block the undead's ability to recover and fight openly.]
Undead people, they seem to be the special race from ancient times mentioned in the campfire. So, is this thing useful to us?
Tus scratched his head. Since there was only one amulet, he did not use it to test it on himself. He put it in his pocket and ran towards Fingri and the others with his companions.
Thanks to the experience gained from previous explorations, the intricate terrain of the cemetery finally seemed not so complicated this time. The zombies were indeed disgusting and annoying, but if you ran around them, you wouldn't be covered in rice porridge.
As a result, they went around in circles and lost their sense of direction in their efforts to avoid the zombies.
After waiting for nearly half an hour, Tus and his two companions finally climbed onto the roof. To their surprise, Fingerly and his companions were just sitting there resting instead of exploring ahead.
"Oh, you're finally back." Fingerly nodded at him.
"Mr. Fingerly, where is the enemy? Did you kill him? Why don't you keep going forward?"
Fingerly shook his head. "No, he ran away."
"ah?"
He suddenly threw a telescope to Tus and pointed to a certain location in the sky. The other party raised the telescope and took a look.
Wow, the Cursed One was hanging in the air with his giant eagle in his hand, as if waiting for adventurers.
"Of course we all have to experience new things together. I thought you should be able to come over soon, so I'm waiting here."
Fingri stood up, brushed off the dust on his pants, and smiled cheerfully again. "Let's go and see what tricks he is playing. If we want to see something fun, no one should be left behind."
In other words, when you are tortured, you have to suffer together. The nature of suffering is very different between suffering alone and suffering with everyone.
The former will be so angry that he will smash things, while the latter will be so happy that he will laugh out loud.
The Binder was hanging on a giant eagle, suspended in the air in the distance, waiting for them, as if pointing them in a direction. He floated there, and the people ran towards him.
It is natural that you will encounter other monsters during the escape.
The rare gravekeepers in the cemetery have become wholesale cabbages here, and they are everywhere. In addition to the gravekeepers who use knives, there are also those who can use magic. It is purple-black magic. I don’t know the name, but it seems that the attack principle is similar to that of soul arrows.
In addition to the gravekeepers, wandering soldiers and slaves have become the most common monsters here. As long as you can find a commanding height, you don't even have to guess, there will be a few wandering soldiers hiding in it, waiting for you to get close and then shoot you into a sieve with crossbows. There is a high probability that they will become invisible.
They combined with the maggots that attached to the zombies, and relied on the power of the maggots to hang themselves on pillars and other buildings, creating the illusion of being suspended in the air, and combined with invisibility magic, they could deceive adventurers. After all, everyone thought that the monsters would hide behind the cover, but they didn't expect them to be hanging outside in the open.
Of course, when you step into the shooting range of the wandering soldiers, skinny and short slaves will definitely appear. They look weak, but they fight crazier than zombies. If a slave climbs on your head and grabs you madly while you happen to be in the shooting range, then it can basically be declared a restart.
The roof of the Deep Church was not designed like a normal roof. It was more like a place for fighting. There were horns and horns everywhere that could hide monsters. Not to mention other places, just looking at the eaves in front, you couldn't tell how many slaves were hanging on it.
After walking for a while, Fingri noticed the change and said:
"Be careful, the monster's equipment has changed."
When people realized that the heavy crossbows in the hands of the wandering soldiers suddenly turned into scattering crossbows, completing the equipment upgrade, the Cursed One jumped down from the sky and started a second battle with people.
The previous battle ended in a draw, but this time Fingri was serious. The three of them fought back and forth with the Cursed One, and there was even a tendency for them to overwhelm the opponent.
If all members of Hassawi's team really fight, they can reach the edge of B-level, and can almost tie with the swordsman Gapar when he challenged the sub-human swordsman. As for the current Gapar, they can't beat him.
Now Fingri and his men can't really fight for some reason, so they are in a stalemate with C++'s Cursed One.
With an eagle's cry, the Curse-Binder took off again. Matilda wanted to use her attack to stop the opponent but was knocked back a step by the huge sword thrown at her. After that, the sword automatically floated back to the Curse-Binder's hand.
As he left, wandering soldiers appeared in all kinds of unexpected places, holding more powerful and wider-coverage scatter crossbows and aiming at everyone.
Even the [Fire Grease] originally applied on the arrows turned into [Messermo Fire Grease].
With Matilda around, it is impossible for people to flee in a panic. Her armor is very magical and can transform into various forms by itself, including shields. As long as a few shields are erected in front of people, and water magic is used to extinguish the fire, the rain of arrows can be resisted.
“Dangdangdang——”
Arrows kept falling on the shield like raindrops. Taking advantage of this gap, Fingri suddenly thought: If we go forward, will the scatter crossbow become a more powerful thing?
He actually guessed it right.
Going further, the scattering crossbows in the hands of the wandering soul soldiers turned into continuous-shooting crossbows, the kind that could fire more than a dozen arrows at a time. Just think of it as the effect of magic.
The third battle with the Curse-Binder was basically the same, but with the injuries accumulated from the previous two battles, the Curse-Binder was obviously unable to hold on.
Just when Matilda was about to kill the opponent in one go, Fingri suddenly stopped him, and watched the Binder grab the giant eagle and fly away again.
Matilda did not question, but just looked at Fingerly. She knew that her captain must have his considerations for doing this, and everyone trusted each other.
"Have you noticed that although the enemy is blocking us, it is also showing us a way forward?"
Fingri used his strong intuition to detect this. "The roof of this church is more complicated than a maze. It's easy to get lost if we just walk around randomly. But with that guy floating in the sky, we can know where to go in the end even if we get lost while exploring the forks. So before we find a way to enter the church, we have to keep that enemy."
What he guessed based on intuition was exactly the same as Gong Qiying's design idea.
Although Fingri seldom explores the dungeon, the talent he displays is really suitable for this place, or is it that talented people can adapt to the environment no matter where they are?
Heavy Crossbow, Scatter, Continuous Shot, what's next? It seems there are no other styles to choose from?
As far as Fingri knows, there are only a few types of crossbows. If he wants to increase the power, he will have to use pure magic.
Could it be that something beyond his understanding will appear?
After a moment.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
"What kind of weapon is that thing? It's long like a stick, but why does the arrow it shoots out look like a ball? And it sounds like thunder when it's fired!?"
Fingerly's premonition came true again, and something beyond his cognition really appeared - the musket from "Bloodborne".
Some are short and some are long, and the styles are weird, but the style doesn’t feel particularly out of place.
One bullet from a musket can easily break a low-level magic shield, and even a mid-level one won't be able to withstand a few more shots. This time everyone really needs to be careful to dodge.
"I'll kill him!"
Tuss got behind a wandering soldier and rushed towards him with a loud shout. The soldier quickly turned around and took out a weapon that was completely different from the musket in Bloodborne and instantly performed an American Iai attack. The gun looked like a pistol, but its appearance was so strange that he couldn't describe it.
Oh no, I’m going to die again!
Tus thought in frustration as bullets thumped against his body.
"Huh? Why doesn't it hurt so much this time?"
He pulled the bullet out of the shallow wound, a little confused. Why was the power of the bullet reduced this time? It was impossible for his body to surpass the intermediate magic shield, right?
Just when he was confused, the wandering soldier blew himself off the platform, destroying the incongruous pistol in the process.
In the room of the Lord of the Sean Dungeon, someone was writing in a notebook while muttering to himself:
"The guns from Bloodborne are quite effective, and the unique gun counter-mechanism in the game has also been adopted, becoming something similar to a combat skill. If launched at the right time, it can put the enemy in a state of being countered. It has great potential."
"But why is the power of the automatic pistol from Crossfire so low? It's not even comparable to Bloodborne. Is it because of the difference in bullets? Or is there another reason? The last time I used C4 to bomb Maru, the effect wasn't good either, and she fell to her death."
"How strange, I still don't need this kind of thing."
The perspective turned back to the adventurers. When the Cursed One flew away again, Fingri almost failed to stop Matilda, and the opponent was so angry that his eyes turned red.
Why? Because the muskets are so disgusting. God knows how they managed to fight the Curse-Binder while using the Yharnam Iai.
Up to now, I feel that the Cursed Ones are not a problem at all. The constantly upgraded weapons in the hands of the Wandering Soul Soldiers are the biggest obstacle!
The key is that they don’t drop these guns!
What will become of these muskets next?
Then we walked forward, and the scene gradually became wider, and the previous cramped feeling finally disappeared.
Fingerly was inspired and pointed to a high platform and said, "That place is really nice."
"What do you mean?" Alayya asked.
"If I can put a battle magician with a fast chanting speed there, I can control the entire road and no one can take it down. I learned this from a book written by a military general recently."
However, when he said this, the people around him realized something and showed horrified expressions as if to say, "You are raising flags again."
This kid Fingri must have some similarities in his thoughts and thoughts with Gong Qiying. As soon as he finished speaking, a figure appeared on the platform he had pointed to before.
The man was dressed exactly like the invader [Hunter] who would appear in the Faran Fortress and give out "Hunting Manuals". One could tell at first glance that he was an old Yharnam hunter who loved life.
In front of this cool guy, there was a weapon that even adventurers couldn't describe, but Gong Qiying could describe it.
This thing is a Gatling gun, the Gatling gun from Bloodborne.
"This thing"
Although Fingri didn't know him, it didn't prevent him from sensing danger.
As the Gatling gun spun wildly, bullets rained down like a storm, and the Cursed Ones fell from the sky, Fingri could not help but swear, cursing:
“Will Zuo Gong’s incarnation also get involved later on?!”
As a playful person, he naturally followed the teachings of his "predecessors" and did something with the bonfire, bringing out the three incarnations of Zuo Gong Xun Zhan's sword.
If Zuo Gong really appeared behind Gatlin, he would never smile again!
"Sean, I still underestimated you!"
(End of this chapter)
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