Chapter 584 Shadow Land Sweep Operation
“Ping-pong-pong.”
In a candlelit underground chamber, V quickly swung the mantis blade with both arms, and the slashes were like a rainstorm, but were blocked by a thick black iron sword.
The warrior who fought with her was a warrior holding a big sword and wearing black heavy armor. The cloak behind him swayed with the turbulent airflow. After blocking V's combo, he swung the sword back without a moment's breath.
He really didn't need to breathe, because his body was whitish and translucent. He was not a living person at all, but a soul body.
However, although this heavy warrior had the advantage of a spiritual body, he still couldn't take advantage of V.
Facing the sword swung backhanded by the unknown warrior with a vacuum blade, V just turned slightly and went around the warrior's back. The air spurted out from the outside of her arms, and the mantis blade stabbed, instantly piercing the body of the unknown warrior from behind!
Two blades protruded from the warrior's chest, his body stiffened, and then the whole person turned into white smoke and dissipated, leaving only his armor and of course the black iron sword.
"... The feeling of the knife cutting this guy is really strange."
V retracted her hand, and with a little force, the mantis knives on her arms were retracted and decomposed, and then reassembled into a Pandora briefcase in her hands.
Yes, this pair of mantis knives was transformed by Pandora. After being familiar with the use of Pandora, V had already transformed it into those weapon-like prostheses in the cyberpunk worldview, and because Pandora is a magic weapon, the prostheses it transformed into are stronger even compared to Li You's legendary prostheses.
So now, V has replaced the prostheses on both hands with gorilla arms to enhance basic strength, and then on this basis, rely on Pandora to transform into weapons to attack, and the final effect is very good.
"Thank you for your hard work." Li You stepped forward. He and Kara had been watching the battle. In the underground tomb, there was only a heavy warrior in the spirit state, so there was no need for three people to attack together.
Li You picked up the armor and greatsword left on the ground and looked at the system description: "Gu Lao armor, Gu Lao greatsword... eh? Gu Lao greatsword?"
How should this name be punctuated?
Objectively speaking, this set of equipment is already good for ordinary warriors, but Li You naturally can't use it, so he threw it into the backpack.
"Let's go to the next place, where is it?"
Kara on the side answered: "The next one is... the nameless temple in the south, and then the lava tube forging ruins."
In the information given 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, "Nameless 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 them 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 in it.
There are four nameless temples, located in the four directions of the east, south, west and north. There is a warrior's soul in each temple. Defeat them and you can get the remains of the soul owner.
Li You and his friends are now in the nameless temple in the west. V just defeated the soul that lives here, the Lonely 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. Its characteristic is that after being thrown out, it will move back to the holder's hand.
Messemo's flame spear was reforged using this forging technique, so it also has this characteristic.
"The nameless temple and the forging ruins can both be considered the characteristics of the Shadow Land, and there are some interesting things in them. This Rakshasa sword was obtained in the nameless temple in the east."
Kara showed the big sword behind her and said, "In fact, I also got a set of Rakshasa's armor. Because it doesn't suit me, I put it in the magic bag."
Li You nodded: "Okay, let's continue. I'm very interested in those forging ruins."
Since leaving Shadow City, Li You and the other two have used the blessing to teleport quickly between the marked locations and collect various specialties of Shadow Land.
Four nameless temples, three forging ruins, and underground cemeteries scattered everywhere have been conquered by them one by one.
-Lava tube forging ruins.
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 looked at the interaction between a golem and a lava slime in the small room in front.
The rough-looking lava golem, which was more than two meters tall, was stroking the head of a lava slime as if it were touching a small animal, which surprised Li You and the other two.
"This scene is quite heartwarming." V watched with interest, "Are we still going to do it?"
"Of course." Li You touched the bracelet made of the teardrops of his body, "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 fight over the monsters? They were the ones I found!" V immediately objected.
"Don't argue, both of you come 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 came to the forging altar at the top of the forging ruins.
The so-called altar is actually like a huge furnace. Li You clearly saw that there was something vaguely wrapped in the furnace.
"Crack--"
The spiral sword pierced 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 and picked up the gravel. The gravel was heavy and had some strange patterns on it.
"It's the Ancient Dragon Rock Forging Stone!"
The Ancient Dragon Rock Forging Stone is said to be the scales of the Dragon King. Its meaning is basically equivalent to the wedge-shaped stone original plate in the Dark Soul 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 thing. It's worth coming 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.
The sledgehammer is called "Anvil Sledgehammer" and is also one of the treasures of this 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 with Shadow Land Forging Technique.
There is no gatekeeper in the Forging Ruins. You can leave after obtaining the treasures in the Forging Altar. Li You and his three friends then went to the next location.
—— The Barrett Underground Prison covered with frost and filled with large pots.
"Boom boom boom!!"
After confirming that this is the territory of the Horned People, Li You bombarded all the way there. Any person or thing related to the Horned People was directly blown to pieces, and all the useful things were swept away without leaving anything.
When they left, this underground prison was almost a white land.
—— The broad and solemn Fog Valley Underground Cemetery.
Like the underground cemetery at the border, this kind of place is always full of traps and guarded by soldiers and knights.
Li You and his two companions flew around the guards, concentrated on looting items, unlocking traps, and then went 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 much smaller.
The BOSS guarding here was a skeleton-like knight, who used a pair of golden battle axes and had a unique combat skill of turning himself into lightning to quickly approach and dodge attacks, which made Li You very interested.
So he took action himself, sent the dead knight away with a set of blood immortal slash + spiral sword, took away the opponent's weapon, and then left.
...
In this way, with the help of the map given by Laylana, they explored the valuable places marked on the map of the Shadow Land one by one, and filled a backpack with all kinds of weapons and props they looted.
——Boni Prison, burn it all.
——Take all the ancient iron meteorite forging ruins.
——Kill all the nameless temples in the south and north.
Li You once again showed his sweeping skills. 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 task? I only have trash picking in my mind.
Taking out a forging golem's ashes and ancient dragon rock forging stone from the altar of the Taiwuer forging ruins, Li You casually threw them into his backpack: "Next stop!"
Kara, V: "………"
The two exchanged a rare look and reached a consensus: Master/this guy is finally crazy.
——After a while.
The dark and deep Dragon Cave.
"Roar, ah, ah!"
The lava earth dragon, wielding a dragon-scaled broadsword and looking like a giant lizard, crawled on the ground and rampaged in the cave, spewing hot flowing magma from its mouth all over the ground, full of deterrence.
However, once Li You opened the flame field, even magma could be suppressed and controlled, and the lava earth dragon's breath was extinguished.
Then, Kara shook the bell and summoned the soul of the forging golem Taiul. Taiul rushed up with his fists waving, and "bang bang" a few punches hit the lava earth dragon's neck. Although it did not cause any damage, it successfully angered it.
The lava earth dragon bit Taiul and swung the knife down, but Taiul was a forging golem. Unless the red crystal behind it was hit, it had a very high resistance to any damage, and even the lava earth dragon could not hit it.
With Taiul restraining the lava earth dragon, Kara and V immediately opened fire, firing magic and Pandora alternately, 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 the knife and dug 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 again, feeling a little regretful, "If Yuzu was here too, it would be better to avoid waste."
But there is no need to be too regretful. The so-called lava earth dragon is just a warrior who over-performed the dragon feast ceremony and became what he looked like at the end of this road. They are naturally no longer considered human, but at most they are considered sub-dragons, which is probably not very helpful to Yuzu.
Compared to the lava earth dragon, Kara has pointed out that the way out of this cave is the road to the Spiked Mountain: "The dragon feast altar mentioned before is at the foot of the mountain. It is said that there are more than one dragon active on that mountain."
Since she said so, Li You will not delay any longer: "Then I have to dig a few more... I have to see them."
However, this lava earth dragon is only a small BOSS halfway, and the real BOSS of this dragon cave is an "ancient dragon man".
From the appearance, it can basically be equivalent to the little dragon man in the Dark Soul world, with a thin body, skin close to stone, and wielding a big knife covered with gravel.
Of course, such an enemy is not a threat to Li You. Whether it is Dark Soul or Old Man Ring, this kind of human-turned-dragon man is actually an extreme product, which is completely different from Li You's dragon man.
The Blood Undying Slash was unsheathed, and Li You performed a sword dance and killed the ancient dragon man, leaving only its gravel knife.
"Dragon hunting broadsword? Interesting."
Naturally, this sword also went into Li You's backpack.
The dragon cave was broken through, and Li You and the other two walked out of the cave, and then found that the sky had completely darkened. 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.
"... Is Messermo 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 do you know about this kind of thing?"
Kara said: "I once heard Michaela mention that Messermo and his sister can see the virtual image of fire, so they can become 'fire seeds'."
"Then, just now the master told me that Meimei has this ability... Thinking about the fact that Messermo is the son of Queen Marica, and Meimei's mother is probably Marica, the fact is obvious."
"No wonder she knows so much about how to ignite the seal tree..." V recalled Melina's behavior and was not so surprised.
However, when the surprise passed and the topic was over, Kara and V reacted and turned their heads away immediately, keeping silent.
Li You: “………”
What are you two doing?
Although the two had been following him, they basically adhered to the principle of not communicating if possible. They had said no more than five sentences in the past two days.
Li You was a little confused. V was fine, but Kara had clearly taken the initiative to ask V to come along before, so why did she do this?
It was not that he had not thought about "mediation", but unfortunately, on this topic, neither of them paid attention to him.
Seeing that Kara and V were still incompatible, Li You could only shake his head helplessly and turned into the companion space: "You should rest early."
However, after he left, Kara and V both stood up.
The two exchanged glances across the fire on the ground and nodded one after another. 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.
...One night passed quickly.
After a night's rest, Li You, who was full of energy, was about to head to the Spiked Mountain with great enthusiasm. 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: "?"
"Did you two sneak in in the middle of the night?"