I'll Give You Something Big
Hearing Lu Xiu mention several names.
Not only Cheng Xiu, but everyone else was also taken aback.
This looks so familiar... wait a minute.
Shen Nian realized what was happening and looked at Lu Xiu: "Aren't these names all bosses from Dark Souls dungeons?"
"Yes."
Lu Xiu brought up the System Panel and explained, "The BOSS here is troublesome, and it's not easy for me to fight. Moreover, it's planning to build a nest in the city. We can't ignore this, otherwise Sea City will face either an endless King's Scion or a mountain of flesh."
So I plan to place the Dark Souls instance here, then let its mutation expand, seize this area first, turn this place into the instance's lair, and let the Dark Souls boss fight it."
Shen Nian:
Cheng Xiu:
Others:
Is it even possible to play like this?
"Understood? Then let's prepare to retreat."
After confirming that the instance Placement Function also worked in the Assimilation Zone, Lu Xiu looked up and said, "It seems that another King's Scion has arrived."
I wonder if it's because I just held the gray silk thread and faced these King's Scion and their fathers directly.
She seemed to be able to vaguely sense the signs of the King's Scion gathering.
Jian Li looked at Lu Xiu and suggested, "Shall Shen Nian and I go with you?"
Shen Nian also looked at Lu Xiu.
"No."
Lu Xiu gently shook her head. "Your Mental Strength is too low. After I finish setting up the instance, I still need to enter it to accelerate the offline instance's mutation. It will be too dangerous for me to be outside then, so you should all come back with me."
Jian Li pursed her lips and nodded obediently.
Let's go.
Lu Xiu turned around. "I'll escort you for a distance, then turn back. The chances of encountering danger on the way back are slim, but it'll be safer that way."
"Good."
Cheng Xiu thought for a moment, then turned around without saying anything more.
The others, of course, had no objections.
to be honest.
If the main enemy were flesh-and-blood monsters, they would definitely stay—but facing monsters like the King's Scion, whom they couldn't even look directly at, staying wouldn't be of much help.
Especially after witnessing Lu Xiu tear the giant eye apart with her bare hands—they became even more convinced of this.
At this point, I can only try my best not to cause Lu Xiu any trouble.
"Miss Lu, we'll be waiting for you at the Frontier."
"Yes, we'll wait for you to come back before we start eating. If you have any questions, please be sure to contact us."
"I'm waiting for Miss Lu to come back for our wedding banquet----"
"Stop!"
Lu Xiu quickly raised her hand, speechlessly interrupting the group that had suddenly started wildly making pronouncements. "Don't make me look like I'm going to my death. And who just said they were going to get married? Did they say they'd get married after this mission before we left? If so, you'd better leave the group right now! Go on your own!"
Everyone awkwardly shut their mouths.
The group quickly retreated along the original route.
With Lu Xiu's external Psychic Barrier them, although they could feel a certain gaze following them from the depths of the ruins on the return journey, none of them suffered any substantial mental pollution.
The team moved very quickly, and soon crossed several blocks, arriving at a relatively safe area away from the core Assimilation Zone.
It was at this time.
Lu Xiu, who was at the very back of the group, suddenly stopped.
Noticing the commotion, everyone stopped and turned to look at her.
Lu Xiu clearly sensed that several more King's Scion had appeared in the direction they had just left.
Moreover, this time, the King's Scion seemed even larger than before, and the king appeared to have increased his efforts, channeling even greater power.
"The King's Scion are starting to gather. Alright, that's enough for now. You can walk the rest of the way on your own."
Lu Xiu waved her hand, then turned around and rushed back towards the depths of the South City Ruins.
Under the sunlight.
The girl leaped away using the Jump Kit, her blue ribbons and high ponytail, bearing the name "Disaster Hunter," fluttering wildly in mid-air.
The crowd's gaze lingered on Lu Xiu's retreating figure until the blue ribbons fluttering in the wind, along with her silhouette, completely disappeared from sight.
Let's go.
Cheng Xiu withdrew his gaze, took a deep breath, and said, "Let's go back to the defensive line and report the intelligence on the Assimilation Zone."
Jian Li and Shen Nian took one last look, then turned and followed.
The group moved towards the defensive line.
As soon as they approached the defensive line, a squad of soldiers quickly came to meet them.
Led by the soldiers, the group quickly crossed the defensive line and bumped into Chen Fu and Yan Fushou as they came out of the temporary command post.
I saw the members of the Strategy Group walking towards me.
Yan Fushou's bloodshot eyes instantly lit up. Although the group of teenagers in front of him were covered in blood and looked utterly disheveled,
At least they returned unharmed, and the worry that had been hanging over him finally subsided.
But the next second, his gaze swept across the crowd, he noticed something, and his steps suddenly stopped.
Lu Xiu is not here!
However, Chen Fu's words did have an effect after all.
Yan Fushou a deep breath, forcing himself to calm down. After all, Lu Xiu was truly strong, and he also knew that these people wouldn't easily abandon their teammates.
He suppressed his anxiety and quickly walked up to Cheng Xiu, asking, "Cheng Xiu, where is Lu Xiu?"
Chen Fu then noticed that Lu Xiu was gone, his expression changed, and his gaze also fell on Cheng Xiu.
She told us to leave first—then she turned back herself.
"Turning back? Why?!"
Cheng Xiu recounted his ordeal in detail, from the unbearable sight of the King's Scion to how Lu Xiu single-handedly erected the protective barrier and tore apart the giant eye, and finally to Lu Xiu's plans.
Yan Fushou and Chen Fu's expressions grew increasingly grim as they listened.
The two never expected that the so-called enhancement at the front line would result in the appearance of monsters like the King's Scion —even looking directly at them would cause their Mental Pollution Value to rise! And since there are offspring, there must be a monarch behind them. This, combined with Lu Xiu's plan to place dungeons in the Assimilation Zone, was quite unexpected.
The answer is self-evident: the monarch is likely more troublesome and difficult to deal with than imagined—the situation at the front lines deteriorated to this extent in an instant.
This is not good news for the front lines. If even the members of the current Strategy Group cannot directly confront the King's Scion, then there is no need to mention the ordinary soldiers.
The fact that Lu Xiu alone in the Assimilation Zone was also worrying; it was too risky. Even Chen Fu was starting to worry. A team and an individual are completely different things. Although it seemed that the Strategy Group members hadn't been able to help her much when they were around, the thought of Lu Xiu being alone made him even more worried.
Because there's no one to help out—
On the other hand, they also hoped that Lu Xiu's use of the dungeon rules to counter the new monsters on the front lines would be effective.
In short, I have mixed feelings.
A long silence fell outside the temporary command post.
A cold sea breeze blows from afar.
Chen Fu was the first to react. He took a deep breath and looked at Cheng Xiu: "You guys should rest for a bit."
But Cheng Xiu, Jian Li, Shen Nian, and the others did not leave.
Seeing this, Chen Fu did not insist, but instead came to Yan Fushou's side and together they looked towards the direction of the Assimilation Zone ahead.
At the same time.
The South City Ruins were swept by howling winds.
It was accompanied by a burst of tail flame.
Lu Xiu leaped into the air, her entire body becoming a Afterimage, using the Jump Kit to jump and glide between floors.
A strong wind was blowing in my face.
Lu Xiu narrowed her crimson eyes; the crossroads ahead was already in sight.
really.
Several King's Scion were wandering nearby, their bodies visibly larger than before.
However, Lu Xiu's target was not them. If she wanted to seize half of the city, she certainly couldn't do it here. She had to go at least to the center of the South City, otherwise the other half of the city and the front line would be affected.
As Lu Xiu glided along the wall, the King's Scion and their offspring in front of her noticed her. Their enormous shadows quickly swelled and twisted into the shape of octopuses, and then the giant eye in the center opened.
The next moment.
Several shadowy shockwaves tore through the air and hurtled towards them.
Lu Xiu didn't slow down; instead, she used the slight adjustments of the Jump Kit to push off the wall and spin around.
Boom!
The shockwave grazed her nose and her billowing ponytail before crashing into the building behind her, sending debris and shadows flying everywhere.
Lu Xiu turned around in mid-air, waved her left hand forward, and unleashed a torrent of powerful Mental Strength that condensed into invisible threads in mid-air, binding the King's Scion at the forefront.
Ten minutes ago, she might have found these offspring a challenge.
But things are different now.
Lu Xiu suddenly pulled her left hand back, causing the spiritual threads to tighten. The King's Scion at the front suddenly lost his balance and crashed hard into the tall building in front of him. The wall cracked open with a loud bang, and concrete blocks flew like rain as the building trembled.
Then, using the momentum of her run, Lu Xiu swung her arm forward again.
Call!
Before the massive King's Scion could even stand up again, Lu Xiu used it as a meteor hammer to smash into several other offspring to its side and rear.
Bang!!!
Several fleshy entities under the shadow of the King's Scion collided together, instantly rolled into a heap, and fell together. The massive weight of the entities collapsed an entire section of the overpass, and blood and bits of flesh splattered everywhere. The shadow dissipated on the spot.
However, Lu Xiu didn't even turn around to look at the results of the battle.
Laugh!
Her waist-mounted Jump Kit once again spewed out blue flames, increasing her speed even further. She overtook the King's Scion and headed straight for the central area of South City.
Go to the center first.
There's no point in getting entangled with these King's Scion.
On the other side.
The King's Scion quickly reformed and chased after Lu Xiu.
As Lu Xiu continued to penetrate deeper into the Assimilation Zone, shadows began to emerge from all directions.
It's like stirring up a hornet's nest.
From the top of the building, the abandoned streets, and the collapsed ruins—one King's Scion after another appeared, launching a pursuit and interception of Lu Xiu in mid-air from all directions.
The shadowy shockwaves shot out continuously, like fireworks.
At the same time.
At the southern end of the South City, in the coastal area.
As the waves rolled and crashed against the coastline, the enormous mountain of flesh standing on the beach suddenly trembled.
The enormous tentacles slowly rose in the seawater, stirring up towering waves.
At the top of the mountain of flesh, thousands upon thousands of giant eyes turned in unison, seemingly traversing a vast distance to spot the rapidly moving figure.
Immediately afterwards, a low, chaotic murmur arose.
"The Apostle of this region?"
"To think someone of this caliber would dare to hunt me down—that's quite audacious!"
He even went out to send his weaker companions out—only to return alone.
"I never expected him to be a hero—"
"Truly remarkable—and truly laughable."
On the other side.
The central area of South City.
This place is completely different from the outer Assimilation Zone. The assimilation mechanism shows no signs of being dispelled. The low-lying gray fog is so thick that it is almost solidified, and the surrounding high-rise buildings show strange signs of becoming flesh and blood.
At this moment, Lu Xiu was already surrounded.
Everywhere she looked, in all directions, were enormous King's Scion.
They were packed together densely, with countless thick tentacles dancing wildly in mid-air, and countless giant eyes moving simultaneously, all locked onto Lu Xiu.
Boom boom boom!
The shadow shockwaves poured down like a torrential downpour.
Even so, Lu Xiu did not stop.
With a tail flame erupting from her Jump Kit, she sidestepped, narrowly avoiding two intersecting shadow shockwaves, adjusted her position, and pushed off the wall, passing directly through the gaps in the tentacles waving by a King's Scion!
At the same time, he fired a lightning spear in the backhand, interrupting the inescapable shockwave of the shadow behind him.
Use leverage, slide down the wall, take off, and counterattack.
Lu Xiu moved like a ghost, sometimes on the ground, sometimes between high-rise buildings, constantly darting towards the city center.
Just then...
Lu Xiu paused slightly, sensing something, and suddenly turned her head, looking towards the coast of Sea City through the thick gray fog.
It might be because the distance is too close.
She could even sense the gaze of that monstrous monarch—
at the same time.
The King's Scion around them seemed to receive some kind of command, and their attacks became even more frenzied. Realizing that mental attacks were ineffective against Lu Xiu, they began to use their shadowy bodies, which were made of flesh and blood, to directly crash into Lu Xiu.
"Were you being watched because of the close proximity?----"
Lu Xiu took a deep breath and turned her gaze away from the coastline.
"But."
Lu Xiu glanced down and saw a ruined plaza below—the center of the South City had arrived. "I've arrived."
This location is far enough from the defensive line that placing the instance here can also prevent the Wall of Roshan from advancing inland.
Good location.
As Lu Xiu pondered this, she suddenly relaxed, letting her body plummet rapidly towards the plaza below under the influence of gravity, while simultaneously dodging several more shadowy shockwaves.
At the same time, the King's Scion offspring pounced on her.
This time, Lu Xiu didn't dodge; instead, she summoned the System Panel.
despair.
Lu Xiu landed lightly and unharmed using her Cat Step.
The moment she landed, she immediately placed her hands on the ground.
[Bite!]
[Confirmed placement of the instance: Dark Souls]
[Checking the overall structure of the copy----]
[Data stripping in progress----]
[Unlocking all restrictions----]
[NPC behavior tree fully open----]
[Core gameplay evolves automatically----]
A series of system notification sounds rang out.
The concrete ground beneath Lu Xiu's feet, which had originally displayed eerie, fleshy textures, slowly lost all its vitality, as if it had undergone millions of years of weathering in an instant, turning directly into soil mixed with pale ash.
Immediately afterwards.
A Bonfire appeared out of nowhere, its flames burning quietly in the Bonfire, almost extinguished.
As the Springfire appeared, the anomaly, or more accurately, the instance scene began to expand in all directions from the Springfire as the center, and the modern buildings and streets around it that had been eroded by the assimilation mechanism quickly collapsed and were reconstructed.
Ruins and rubble rise abruptly from the ground.
Just as the King's Scion, who was lunging at her, approached the Bonfire above Lu Xiu's head, it suddenly let out a shrill scream, the shadow instantly evaporated, and the monster's corpse inside scattered down.
The remaining King's Scion also realized something was wrong, and they all stopped and began to observe cautiously.
--Once the offline instance unfolds, it will no longer be the Assimilation Zone they are familiar with, but rather Lu Xiu's territory!
Although this field is still very small.
Lu Xiu slowly stood up, glanced at the familiar Firelink Shrine, then at the distant coastline, and murmured, "You like building nests, huh? Watch me build you a big one!"
That's all.
She turned around, facing the burning Bonfire, raised her hand, and suddenly transformed into countless scattered sparks, disappearing into thin air.
She entered the instance alone.
Sea City Coast.
A deep murmur echoed above the sea.
"----Um?"
At the same time.
After the sense of imbalance from the spatial displacement fades.
Lu Xiu refocused her gaze, and what came into view was no longer the city scenery, but a gloomy and oppressive sky, dilapidated ancient stone buildings, and the sounds of burning and the whistling of cold wind blowing through the ruins.
She was standing by the Bonfire at Firelink Shrine —but the offline Firelink Shrine was quiet; neither Crestfallen Warrior nor Lautrec were there.
Just as Lu Xiu was looking around, a system notification sounded, and a window popped up automatically.
[Bite!]
[The core character of the instance (the Undead played by player Lu Xiu) has been detected.]
[Offline dungeon clear conditions have been triggered!]
[Current completion requirement: Holy Site Pilgrimage.]
[Quest Description: Revisit Lordran, the land of the gods.]
[WARNING: Based on your past actions, the attitudes of NPCs and regional leaders towards you may change unpredictably. Please proceed with caution.]
Lu Xiu raised an eyebrow.
The offline dungeon completion quest appeared so quickly? I thought I had to find an NPC first.
And what's more, the Undead is the central figure—well, thinking about it, it makes sense, since according to the lore, the Undead that the player plays eventually inherits Lord Gwyn's mission of linking the fire, so he really is the chosen one.
But that's not important.
Lu Xiu entered the instance only to take advantage of the stimulating effect of the Architect clearing the offline instance, thereby accelerating the expansion of the offline instance scene and then competing with that monarch for territory.
Who the key figure is is not important for now.
"Call----
Lu Xiu let out a soft breath and casually swiped away the notification window in front of her. "Pilgrimage to the Holy Land, huh? Easy!"
She stretched her fair wrists, took out a weapon from her backpack, and a hint of joy flashed in her eyes.
Compared to King's Scion, physical monsters are more suitable for her constitution!
I felt happy even before the fight started.
Let's begin our pilgrimage!
As for where to begin----
The nearest Catacombs Gravelord Nito resides, so let's go there first!
Carrying her weapon, Lu Xiu charged straight towards the cemetery next to the Firelink Shrine.
Click click click----
She had just entered the cemetery area.
The scattered bones on both sides of the graveyard began to automatically assemble, and skeleton soldiers wielding swords and knives stood up unsteadily.
But whether it was Lu Xiu's imagination or not, these skeleton soldiers who would pounce on undead like mad dogs in the dungeon seemed a little strange today.
Although they stood up, they didn't seem very aggressive, and didn't even seem to want to attack her.
That's a bit strange.
However, Lu Xiu didn't care anymore. With her blood surging, she activated her Transcendent Skill. The Nameless Blade blazed with flames, and she directly passed through the above-ground cemetery and charged into the Catacombs.
Fire can not only enchant attacks, but also provide illumination.
Perfect.
call.
A long, blazing flame suddenly lit up in the Catacombs, and then began to move continuously.
Lu Xiu, wielding a burning, Nameless Blade, disregarded any notions of luring monsters or turn-based combat, and went straight for the kill.
Skeletons, necromancers, rolling wheels—cut them all down!
After breaking through the Catacombs.
Lu Xiu plunged headlong into the Tomb of Giants, where it was completely pitch black.
It continued its rapid ascent.
Accompanied by the sound of countless skeletons being shredded.
It took less than ten minutes----
She passed through the fog gate and arrived at Nito's tomb.
Bang.
Lu Xiu leaped down from the height and arrived at the huge underground cave. It was a stone chamber with almost no decorations, the only furnishing being the huge coffin in front of her.
Further ahead, all was quiet, only darkness and deathly silence.
This is the final resting place of the First of the Dead, Gravelord Nito.
Upon arriving here, the flame illumination effect on Lu Xiu's Nameless Blade became quite limited—because Nito utterly despised light.
Lu Xiu simply dispelled the flames transformed from the blood energy on the Nameless Blade and placed herself directly in the darkness. However, her beautiful crimson eyes still shone brightly in the darkness, making them particularly conspicuous.
She surveyed the enormous coffin before her, then raised the Nameless Blade and tapped it lightly.
"Nito, stop staying home."
I know you're home!
Lu Xiu had barely finished speaking.
Click click click----
The sound of bones grinding together suddenly rang out in the darkness.
Along with that came heavy moving sounds, and various eerie noises.
Before you see its form, you hear its sound.
Then, a bright light suddenly appeared----
That was the radiance of the Death King's soul.
Gravelord Nito, slowly emerged from the dense darkness.
It has a massive body made up of countless bones, covered only by a tattered cloak that seems to devour light. Just standing there, it makes one feel that this is death and decay itself.
The Gravelord Nito approached Lu Xiu, his massive body slowly leaning forward, his head lowered, his empty eye sockets staring into Lu Xiu's crimson eyes.
"The Creator ----"
A sound, seemingly composed of the superimposed echoes of thousands of dead, resounded in the empty tomb.
A strange light flashed in Lu Xiu's crimson eyes.
Wrong!
So strong!
The Gravelord Nito before me is far stronger than the one in the game instance! By a huge margin! The sheer, innate sense of oppression he exudes is simply incomparable to the Gravemaster in the instance.
Moreover—even though the Cross-Realm Arena event had already ended, it still retained its memories and knew that it was the Creator?!
This is far superior to other offline instances.
Does the system really favor the Dark Souls dungeon that much?
Why?
Lu Xiu was somewhat puzzled.
But soon...
She shook her head—never mind.
Now is not the time to delve into this.
Lu Xiu pulled her wandering thoughts back and looked again at the imposing Gravelord Nito before her.
She thought for a moment, then instead of attacking directly, she said, "Gravelord Nito, although you possess the Soul of Death and have a considerable amount of soul power, most of it is used to maintain the concept of death, isn't it?"
Lu Xiu is Architect, so of course she knows the design.
"So, if we really fight, you can't beat me."
Lu Xiu continued, "Besides, I also have this."
As he spoke.
Lu Xiu raised her right hand, accompanied by a flash of golden lightning.
The darkness of the tomb was instantly dispelled.
The Sunlight Spear hadn't even been formed yet, and it was already like this.
It truly is a miracle created by the holder of the Light King's Soul, which represents light and lightning.
Nature is inherently opposed to death and the end.
Gravelord Nito did not refute this.
Its massive skeletal body still stood silently in the darkness, like a silent mountain, only its royal soul flickered slightly, as if waiting for something to happen next.
Lu Xiu breathed a sigh of relief upon seeing this.
She wasn't sure if the NPCs from this instance would be under her control if they appeared in real life.
After all, this instance is so special.
If the other party can communicate, things will be much easier.
She looked at the First of the Dead: "----Do you want to see my world? Do you want to see the world where your power is unlimited? I can take you there, the only condition is that you need to help me kill all the invading enemies."
The tomb was deathly silent.
The Gravelord Nito stared into his empty eye sockets at the petite Creator before him, and at the light in her hand that tore through the darkness.
After a moment of silence.
It slowly straightened up, its massive, mountain-like skeletal body gradually retreating and merging back into the dense darkness.
The echo of bones grinding together lingered.
The voice, composed of countless superimposed echoes of the dead, reverberated once more throughout the stone chamber.
"Can----"
At the same time.
In the real world, at the South City Central Square.
A small Bonfire was burning quietly.
But outside this instance area.
Countless enormous King's Scion were perched there, their giant eyes looking down at the flame that they loathed.
They are waiting for Lu Xiu to reappear.
Just then...
Buzz!
An invisible wave suddenly burst outwards from the Bonfire.
Immediately afterwards.
The Firelink Shrine, which was originally only the size of a plaza, began to expand outwards, with the stone bricks rapidly enlarging and forcibly assimilating the surrounding modern buildings.
At the same time.
Northwest of the Firelink Shrine.
Countless broken tombstones sprang up from the ground like mushrooms after rain.
In the blink of an eye, an ancient cemetery took shape.
But that's not all.
The cemetery continued to spread until the entrance to a bottomless underground tomb also took shape!
Click click click----
A dense grinding sound of bones began to ring out.
As the cemetery and underground tombs appeared, countless skeleton soldiers, wielding broken swords and with soul fire flickering in their eye sockets, staggered to their feet.
At that moment, all the King's Scion in mid-air paused for a moment.
The giant eyes in the center of their bodies all turned in unison, looking at the suddenly appearing cemetery and the entrance to the underground tomb.
And just as these monsters instinctively felt uneasy.
Rumble----
The ground suddenly began to shake violently without any warning.
Debris fell from the abandoned buildings that were not yet covered by the instance scene.
The tremor did not originate from the Earth's surface.
Rather, it came from the depths of that newly formed underground tomb—
It's as if some colossal being is slowly awakening in the real world from some unfathomable depths of the earth.
The King's Scion were entrenched around the area suddenly became agitated.
They instinctively sensed a threat, their thick tentacles lashing wildly in mid-air, and their enormous shadows began to writhe violently, already itching to attack the graveyard.
And it was at this time...
Boom!!
With a deafening roar, the ground of the newborn cemetery exploded.
Countless clods of earth shot into the sky.
Then, a colossal body composed of countless skeletons slowly crawled out from the ground.
---- the First of the Dead, Nito!
The moment it descended into reality, the shadows in mid-air that formed the bodies of the King's Scion immediately began to twist violently and become extremely unstable.
It was as if even the shadow itself decayed before the First of the Dead.
Nito's massive body slowly rose to its feet, his empty eye sockets scanning the King's Scion giant eyes were gathering shadows.
Then, it slowly raised two arms made up of countless bones.
"Ah----"
A sigh and murmur, seemingly composed of the echoes of countless dead, resounded throughout the South City Ruins. Then, a dense miasma of death erupted outwards from the center of Nito!
Boom!
The miasma swept over the first few King's Scion.
The moment they came into contact with the miasma, the shadows and tentacles of those King's Scion, which had condensed into physical forms, vanished in the blink of an eye. Without the support of their shadow shells, the countless corpses of frontline monsters hidden inside lost their anchor and rained down from the sky.
But those monster corpses, mixed with viscous black blood, didn't even hit the ground; while still in mid-air, their flesh rapidly dried and rotted under the corrosive influence of the death miasma, until they evaporated.
In an instant.
They all turned into a field of white bones!
Pat pat----
Countless bones crashed to the ground, making a crisp, clanging sound.
Immediately afterwards.
Click click click----
These bones, which had just landed and were the building blocks of the King's Scion a moment ago, began to recombine and reassemble, transforming into skeleton soldiers wielding bone blades and with ghostly flames flickering in their eye sockets.
Assimilation? Manipulation of corpses?
In this regard.
The First of the Dead was clearly more skilled.
Seeing this scene...
Those King's Scion had not yet been affected experienced a violent contraction of the shadows that formed their bodies. They no longer had any desire to attack and instead retreated in unison!
At the same time.
Sea City Coast.
The thousands upon thousands of giant eyes on that towering mountain of flesh suddenly turned, all once again looking towards the direction of the Firelink Shrine, and at the same time, all the giant eyes showed a look of astonishment.
Sea City, the Seventh Defense Line.
A cold wind blew by.
Wei Yidong suddenly shivered without warning.
Not just him.
Fan Lixin, Cheng Xiu, Ah Yi, and even Chen Fu and Yan Fushou, who were standing nearby, all shuddered involuntarily.
"Have you guys noticed that the atmosphere has suddenly become a bit strange?"
Wei Yidong rubbed the goosebumps that had suddenly appeared on his arms, looking at the half-dead city at the end of his line of sight with suspicion and uncertainty.
Upon hearing this, the others exchanged glances and nodded in agreement.
Despite the fact that half of the city was dead, it did not erupt with the earth-shattering blue lightning as before, nor did it exhibit any exaggerated phenomena that tore the sky apart.
As far as the eye could see, nothing had changed.
But they suddenly felt a chill run down their spines.
It was as if something was silently spreading from the depths of those ruins, carried by the wind.
Shen Nian hesitated before asking, "Could it be Lu Xiu who made the noise?"
"A copy?"
Upon hearing this, Deputy Commander Yan pondered for a moment, "Lu Xiu is talking about the Dark Souls dungeon, right? That dungeon is quite large, isn't it? It hasn't even been half an hour, has it? She lured the dungeon boss out so quickly? And what kind of boss is it? It's so far away that it makes all of us feel uncomfortable?"
"It feels like anything is possible----"
Shen Nian replied, "There are too many powerful enemies in the Dark Souls dungeons, but the bosses are a bit hard to predict—"
Cheng Xiu pondered for a moment, then suddenly said, "Could this be that a new, powerful monster has spawned on the front lines—"
"Ah—no!"
Wei Yidong shouted, interrupting Cheng Xiu: "That was Lu Xiu's doing!"
Why are you so sure?
Cheng Xiu turned to ask, but he couldn't finish his sentence.
A dragon's roar suddenly came from above the South City Ruins —the moment Cheng Xiu turned his head, he saw the giant dragon take off.
Cheng Xiu was all too familiar with the dragon's appearance; it was the dragon on the Dragon Bridge in the Dark Souls dungeon!
Cheng Xiu: "----"