Lu Xiu stared at the blurry-faced enemy she had built and fell into thought.
Soon enough,
she worked out where that sense of familiarity came from.
She had only meant to throw together a Berserker.
But when she thought of controlling blood and trading life for destructive power, she had inevitably drawn on classic game mechanics from her previous life.
First was the Berserker from Dungeon Fighter Online.
That online game class burned its own blood as fuel, pushing its life to the limit through Bloodlust. It could even condense blood into solid blades, making it the closest match to what Lu Xiu had in mind.
The trouble was, an online game made a lousy dungeon.
Beyond that,
while building the enemy just now,
Lu Xiu had also inevitably thought of another game—Bloodborne.
What brought Bloodborne to mind were mainly its blood-based weapons and its entire backstory, built around blood.
After all, why had hospitable old Yharnam turned into such a nightmare? Trace it back far enough, and the answer was the Blood of the Great Ones.
They discovered the Great Ones, extracted their blood, and found it worked like a miracle drug. Dilute that divine blood and inject it straight into a patient's veins, and it could cure anything.
That was Blood Healing.
Once Blood Healing was discovered, obscure, remote Yharnam quickly became famous far and wide. Outsiders seeking treatment poured in. The people of Yharnam even developed divine-blood products for purposes beyond medicine, going so far as to make wine with it because, apparently, divine blood tasted sweeter than fine wine.
But the Blood of the Great Ones did more than heal. It brought terrifying side effects. Before long, problems appeared: many who had undergone Blood Healing began showing signs of beast transformation on nights of the full