Chapter 775 The Efforts of the Sky
"Look, the Sick Village is just ahead. Your opportunity has arrived."
Luluwo smiled and pointed ahead at the dark and secluded tunnel.
The Starfire Knights and ordinary Starfire Church soldiers following him all wore expressions that said, "Are you kidding me?"
You call that dark tunnel in front of you, which is so dark you can't see the end of it and is made up of countless dilapidated and very similar wooden frames, a "village"?
Although the name "Sick Village" sounds quite eerie, as if mysterious people in white coats might suddenly rush out and give them a martial arts workout, it can't be so hasty. How can a tunnel be called a village?
However, reality taught these people a good lesson.
The moment they stepped into the tunnel, the entire world before them was immediately covered by a "filter" of excrement yellow and dark green, making the whole place seem incredibly stinky.
Not to mention a chilling wind swept in from the depths of the tunnel, instantly assaulting their nostrils with a stench unbearable to mortals.
The ominous words "[Sick Village]" were displayed boldly before everyone's eyes amidst a filthy filter and a stench-filled wind.
"vomit!!!"
Some people with low tolerance for vomiting immediately began to stagger and vomit.
We're all soldiers who've been on the battlefield, so theoretically we should have better mental and physical resilience to withstand pressure.
Unfortunately, the stench permeating the sick village was no ordinary stench; it was a stench that Gong Qiying had added to.
It's magic! He added magic to it!
An ordinary person, after just a whiff, would naturally find it unbearable and begin to vomit and have diarrhea.
"Oh dear, you can't take it so soon? You all have filter masks in your backpacks. Luckily, I told you to bring them beforehand."
Luluwo smiled, shook her head, and took out a mask to filter out the stench from her bag and put it on.
"You all said you didn't need the mask before, but now you know to listen to me, right?"
"Ugh, vomit."
The vomiting soldiers nodded hastily, while the Starfire Knights who managed to hold it in also looked pale and quickly searched for their masks.
But someone was so careless that it seemed they hadn't brought their mask, and their face immediately showed despair. Suddenly, a still-warm mask was thrown to them. Turning around, they saw it was the youngest member of the Skyrim conquest team. Tammy had thrown her mask to him.
"Huh? Is this for me? Don't you need it?" Starfire Knight was bewildered.
"It'll be fine for a while. We can just take turns wearing them." Tammy had a bright smile on her face, looking energetic even under this terrible filter.
The Starfire Knight was deeply moved. After bowing deeply, he couldn't wait to put on the mask.
However, unnoticed as he put on the mask, Tammy's sunny smile vanished without a trace, replaced by a look of utter despair as he muttered to himself:
"Because we've been here once before, we're already used to the smell."
When he said those words, he exuded an air of dejection.
The Skyward Strategy Team will be joining the Starfire Church's forces at this very moment to become the first lucky ones to explore Blighttown!
How exactly did things develop to this point?
Tammy listlessly looked up at the sky, and couldn't help but recall the bits and pieces of the past few days.
Initially, when they first joined the rebels' camp, apart from the Starfire Knights lining the streets to welcome them, the rest of the church had some doubts about their abilities.
After all, Scammeron's people are not very sensitive to outside information because of the war, and it is indeed a bit unreasonable to ask them to believe a group of outsiders for no reason.
So the SkyCraft strategy team gave a small demonstration of their capabilities – a no-damage speedrun through Undead Town outside the city.
It took a total of two days. One and a half days were spent researching the possible structure and changes of the Undead Town outside the city and the properties of its monsters, and half a day was spent exploring the map.
After they figured out the Undead Town outside the city, they successfully completed the entire route without taking any damage in less than half a day, and even took photos of the whole process.
This was something the rebels had never seen before, and their astonishment reached its peak. For a proper strategy team, this should be a basic skill, and of course, only a high-level strategy team could do it.
Having proven their strength, the next issue to prove is "loyalty." How can we ensure that the Skyward Strategy Team will not turn around and collude with the Church of the Holy Light?
There are three factors that can serve as a guarantee.
Firstly, none of them had ever been to Scameron before. They had no relatives or friends here and could not contact the Church of Holy Light on their own, let alone cross the battlefield to join them. If they suddenly went there, they would be lucky if they were not mistaken for spies.
Secondly, the Church of Starfire gave Skyrim a guarantee, and Bishop Vinsmo, who was far away, also sent a message assuring the Skyrim strategy team that they were indeed trustworthy.
Thirdly, it's because Luluwo revealed that she is a Soul Eater, and also stated that she is the top Soul Eater adventurer in the Kingdom of Anor.
Everyone was relieved.
If the first two were reasonably convincing, then Luluwo's identity as a Soul Eater made her and her companions seem incredibly endearing and lovable to the rebels.
The main reason is that for a long time, Soul Eaters were invading the Holy Light followers to take advantage of them. The peak period of the invasions was after the Holy Light Church's artificial god, the Blessed One, suffered a setback in the Cene Dungeon, and the Holy Light followers collectively entered Cene to avenge their own Blessed One.
Before they even got to be tormented by the monsters, they were targeted by a large number of invaders.
Since then, the Church of Holy Light has adopted a policy of immediate and swift execution towards any Soulfleeting Pledger, which is why it is difficult to take action in other countries.
In Scammeron, Dementors are truly in mortal danger.
After that, the Skyrim strategy team successfully infiltrated the rebel army and recruited talent from various factions to form a team specifically for exploring the Cion dungeon.
Even then, troops continued to arrive in Hypa Town as volunteers, and most of them were skilled in defense. They built fortifications around Hypa Town to prevent any possible, no, inevitable, attack from the Church of Holy Light.
In what wasn't a very long time, the area around Hypa Town had been transformed into a fortress suitable for defense.
At Luluwo's request, some people with expertise in exploring dungeons also came along with the defense forces, strengthening the team exploring the Sien dungeon.
The first task of this exploration team was to find the most strategically valuable areas among the currently open areas of the Sien Dungeon and quickly organize manpower to go in and "move bricks," that is, transport resources out.
In just a few days, the exploration team had already figured out the resource points of the Northern Undead Asylum and the Undead Town outside the city. Each member of the Skyward Strategy Team led a team to run through the resource gathering routes, and those who were taught went out to teach others, gradually passing on their knowledge.
To this day, no fewer than ten teams are shuttling between the stable Ussane Underground City and Hypa Town, continuously transporting the resources needed by the rebels to the outside world.
In this situation, the city lord naturally had to carefully calculate the types and quantities of resources produced by the Sien Dungeon every day, maintaining them at a level that met the rebels' basic requirements but also made them unsatisfied and forced them to continue to invest more manpower and resources.
The mental energy production speed here is still somewhat different from that of branch cities in other countries. The reason for this is probably due to the war. Adventurers who want to come to explore the portal are unable to move around easily and cannot form a large scale for a while.
However, this problem will be solved sooner or later.
Since successfully training a double-digit number of brick-moving teams, the rebels have fully recognized the Skyrim conquest team's strength and have increasingly valued them.
Luluwo, meanwhile, took a holistic view and turned her attention to undeveloped areas, screening them for potential developments.
Outside the city, the Undead Parish is being explored by Berthold, Mila, and Esem, who are working together to thoroughly understand the area.
The ancient city of Sein, that strange city that sends chills down your spine just by looking at it, shows no signs of opening yet, so it can be removed from the exploration list.
The Black Forest Courtyard looks like a place that produces various plant-type items. Plant-type items in the Sien Dungeon are generally good stuff, so this place has been added to the list of places to be explored. Hervi and his Starfire Knights are sent to explore it.
Little Londo Ruins. This place is a bit too eerie. Although the suicide squad successfully discovered the [Temporary Curse], its scarcity and other reasons have greatly reduced its exploration priority.
The same reason applies to the catacombs next to Firelink Shrine. For some reason, the skeleton monsters inside are impossible to kill no matter how you fight them, unless you completely crush them into dust, but that would be too time-consuming. In the limited area that has been explored so far, we haven't found any items that we absolutely need to get our hands on.
After summarizing the characteristics of the above areas, there is one more place that Luluwo will take Tammy to explore on her own.
[Sick Village]
This is the location of the second bell, according to the disheartened man. After ringing the second bell, one can understand the mission of the immortals.
Although Luluwo felt that the so-called mission was nothing more than linking the fire, since the Sien Dungeon was made to feel so fantastical, she was happy to follow the dungeon's instructions to explore.
However, this wretched place truly stirred up unpleasant memories for the entire Skyrim strategy team.
That happened a very, very long time ago, though it doesn't seem like it was that long ago.
After they orchestrated a city-wide live-streamed madness in the Warrior Kingdom, nearly crippling a certain second prince, they were unfortunately drawn into a painted world called "Sick Village" within the Sien Dungeon.
Then I spent a rather "unpleasant" time in that world of painting.
Since then, whenever the words "illness" and "village" are combined, or even separated and placed in the same sentence, she can accurately identify these two words and then develop PTSD.
It truly caused me a great deal of psychological trauma.
That's why, when Luluwo heard the words "Disease Village" from Brother Disheartened, she shuddered and almost had the urge to run away immediately.
But when she turned around and saw the Starfire Knights' adoring expressions, she suddenly couldn't bear to leave.
After all, if she left, these Starfire Knights would have to enter the Blighttown in complete darkness.
That would probably destroy the beautiful hearts of these people, and she was reluctant to see that.
Therefore, the Skyrim strategy team accepted the commission, and Luluwo personally led the team to Blighttown!
Luluwo is amazing!
"I am truly a great man."
Standing amidst the pervasive stench, Luluwo stood with her hands on her hips, head held high, as if she were saving the world.
Meanwhile, Tammy, standing next to her, was jumping back and forth at the entrance of the sick village because he had discovered something amusing.
Leaving the tunnel leading to the sick village, the scenery was immediately pleasing to the eye, with clear waters and lush mountains. But as soon as you stepped into the tunnel, your vision was instantly clouded by a layer of filth.
Does this awful place even have cognitive interference?
Their discovery of the sick village was also accidental. At first, everyone was indeed trying to find it, but to no avail.
By chance, a Starfire Knight purchased a hidden item—the Universal Key—from the blacksmith Andrei.
From then on, whenever that guy saw a keyhole in the Sien dungeon, he would go over and poke it to see if he could open it. His teammates said he was obsessed, and he only calmed down after being given dozens of calming spells.
And he actually found the hidden door.
It was a door located underground in the Lesser Lund ruins. Once that door was opened, the whole world opened up before us.
【Dragon Valley】, a verdant valley suddenly appeared before the Starfire Knight!
However, this seemingly beautiful valley is inaccessible, mainly because, besides the monsters here being somewhat troublesome, there is another reason.
The road here is blocked.
The path leading deeper into the valley suddenly collapsed, and attempting to fly there would result in being attacked by swarms of dragons, so the exploration of Dragon Valley was abandoned.
But an unexpected surprise awaited them on the other side of Dragon Valley.
That was a dark tunnel leading to the "Sick Village".
This time, it turned out to be a lucky accident.
"Alright, you've all gotten used to it by now."
Luluvo cast healing spells on each of the people who had collapsed and vomited, then helped them up and waved her hand, saying:
"Let's go, let's create some wonderful memories for you today."
(End of this chapter)
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