Does the Arms Race End with Left Bow?

There's someone talking in the well!?

Tus suddenly remembered a story his grandmother told him when he was a child to scare him. It was said that there was a monster called the Well Spirit who liked to hide in wells and lure people over with its voices, then drag them into the well when they looked inside.

He was really terrified of this thing when he was a child, so much so that he is still afraid when he hears someone talking near a well. This has made the profession of witcher seem very powerful in his eyes.

But

"Aren't Well Spirit usually female?"

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 came from the well earlier, which is honest and somewhat magnetic, it will only remind people of an unlucky farmer who has accidentally fallen into the well.

The atmosphere of horror vanished, and it even turned into a rural comedy, making you feel like a group of people are about to start singing and dancing at any moment.

"Hello, is anyone there? -- I think I misheard." The voice sounded a little aggrieved, making people want to go over and talk to it.

"Who are you, and why are you in the well?" Tus asked from a few steps away from the well opening, while having his two companions behind him hold his legs in case of any unexpected situation.

He also said that if they really couldn't pull them back, they should let go and not drag everyone down with them.

"Oh, finally someone's here!"

The voice in the well cheered up and introduced itself:

"I am Jack Baldo from Catarina, a knight who was ambushed and fell into a well. Do you see my armor?"

Jack Baldo, from Dark Souls III, is the Onion Knight in this Yugi. He is kind-hearted and loyal, and is the Onion Knight that Gong Qiying likes the most.

As for why he fell into the well, it was related to an old acquaintance.

"What does your armor look like?"

Armor? Would a normal person ask for armor at this point? Shouldn't they be begging their superiors to pull them out?

Tus found the request strange, but gradually realized that the man Jack Baldo was probably a phantom, similar in nature to the blacksmith Andre and the merchant Ka Lie.

"Ah, it's round. All parts of the armor are round. If you've ever seen it, you'll definitely remember it."

This description is too abstract. Tus imagined the other person's armor as looking like an eggshell, and couldn't help but laugh out loud at the thought of this ridiculous scene. He asked, "Do you need me to pull you up?"

Since the other party is an afterimage, it shouldn't hurt to build a good relationship with them; that's what he thought.

"Thank you for your kindness, but I'd better not. I can climb up by myself, but I don't have any armor, and I'm in a rather embarrassing situation right now. I'd be too ashamed to face anyone."

With a strong sense of self-respect, Tus nodded and pressed on, "Do you want something to eat? Do you want something to drink? Would rice porridge be okay? I'll pour it down for you."

Jack Baldo refused repeatedly, and in the end Tus gave up asking, realizing that the other party seemed to only want the armor.

"Alright then, how about I send you your armor if I see it?"

"Thank you, my friend."

It seems the story triggered by this afterimage has come to an end. Tus shook his head at the people, then suddenly noticed the bright red Element Bottle at his waist. An idea flashed through his mind, and he leaned on the edge of the well and asked, "Do you want Element Bottle? We have plenty here."

Adventurers these days have learned their lesson and now use the Kindling Secret Ritual obtained from defeating the Three-Person Corpse Magician to put into the bonfire at Firelink Shrine, which is the most convenient location for a bonfire.

This time, Jack Baldo did not refuse again. Tus threw the Element Bottle down, and a short while later, the Element Bottle was thrown up again with a point of light, saying it was a thank-you gift. He picked it up and took a look.

[Undead Hunter Charm]

[An item used to hunt undead. Throw it at the undead, and for a certain period of time and within a valid range, the target will be unable to regenerate through elements.]

[The legacy of the Lloyd Knight once led the hunt for the undead. Lloyd, the chief god of the White Church, is long gone, but the hunt for the undead has not stopped. They merely seal the undead's regenerative abilities and fight them head-on.]

Undead? They seem to be a special race from ancient times mentioned in the campfire. By the way, are these things useful to us?

Tus scratched his head. Since he only had one amulet, he didn't bother to test it on himself. He casually put it in his pocket and quickly ran towards Fingel and the others with his companions.

Thanks to the experience gained from previous explorations, the intricate terrain of the cemetery finally didn't seem so complicated this time. The Living Dead were indeed disgusting and annoying, but if you ran around them, you wouldn't get covered in rice porridge.

As a result, their attempts to avoid the Living Dead backfired, making them lose their sense of direction.

After about half an hour, Tus two companions finally managed to climb onto the roof. To their surprise, Fingel and his group were just sitting there resting, without exploring further ahead.

"Yo, you're finally back." Fingel nodded at him.

"Mr. Fingel, what about that enemy? Did you take him down? Why don't you keep going?"

Fingel shook his head. "No, he ran away."

"Ah?"

He suddenly tossed a telescope to Tus and pointed to a certain spot in the sky. Tus raised the telescope and looked.

Whoa, the Cursed was holding his giant eagle, hanging in mid-air as if waiting for the adventurer.

"When there's something new, everyone should experience it together. I think you should be able to come over soon, so just wait here."

Fingel stood up, dusted off his pants, and smiled brightly again. "Let's go see what tricks he's up to. If we want to see something fun, we can't miss any of them."

In other words, when you are being tortured, you have to go together. There is a big difference between suffering alone and suffering together.

The former will get so angry that they'll smash things, while the latter will be overjoyed and laugh heartily.

The Cursed, carrying a giant eagle, hovered in the distance, waiting for them, as if pointing them in the right direction. He floated there, and people ran in that direction.

During their escape, they inevitably encountered other monsters.

The Grave Keeper, a rarity in the cemetery, have become like cabbages, everywhere you look. Besides the Grave Keeper who wield knives, there are also those who use magic—a purplish-black magic. I don't know its name, but its attack principle seems similar to that of the Soul Arrow.

Besides the Grave Keeper, wandering soldiers and slaves are the most common monsters here. As long as you can find a high vantage point, you don't even need to guess that there will be several wandering soldiers hiding inside, waiting for you to get close before shooting you into a sieve with crossbow bolts. Moreover, they are likely to be invisible.

They combine with maggots Living Dead, using the worms' strength to hang themselves from pillars and other structures, creating the illusion of being suspended in mid-air. Combined with invisibility magic, this deceives adventurers. After all, everyone assumes the monsters will hide behind cover, but instead, they're openly hanging out in the open.

Of course, when you enter the firing range of the ghost soldiers, you will definitely see skinny and short slaves. They look weak and frail, but they fight more frantically than Living Dead. If a slave climbs on your head and grabs you wildly while you are in the firing range, then it is basically time to restart.

The roof of the Cathedral of the Deep is not designed like a normal roof; it looks more like a place for fighting. There are horns everywhere that can hide monsters. Not to mention other places, just looking at the eaves in front, you don't know how many slaves are hanging on them.

After walking for a short while, Fingel 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 had suddenly turned into scattering crossbows, completing their equipment upgrade, the Cursed jumped down from the sky and engaged in a second battle with them.

The previous battles were evenly matched, but this time Fingel was serious. The three of them fought the Cursed to a standstill, and even seemed to be gaining the upper hand.

If the entire Hasawi Squad were to fight seriously, they could reach the edge of B-rank, roughly on par with the Sword Saint Gapar during his challenge against the Demi-Human Sword Saint. As for the current Jia Paer, they wouldn't be able to defeat him.

For some reason, Fingel and his group are unable to fight seriously, so they are locked in a fierce battle with the C++ the Cursed.

With a cry of an eagle, the Cursed took flight again. Matilda tried to use an attack to stop him, but was knocked back a step by the thrown Greatsword. Afterward, the sword automatically floated back into the Cursed's hand.

As he left, the figures of wandering soldiers appeared in all sorts of unexpected places, wielding more powerful and wider-coverage crossbows and aiming them at the crowd.

Even the [Fire Grease] that was originally applied to the arrows has been transformed into [Mersmer Fire Grease].

With Matilda around, it's impossible for people to flee in such a chaotic manner. Her armor is incredibly magical, capable of transforming into various forms, including shields. By simply raising a few shields in front of people, along with water magic to extinguish flames, she can withstand Arrow Rain.

"Ta-da!"

Arrows rained down on the shield. During this lull, Fingel suddenly thought: If we go any further, will the crossbow become something even more powerful?

He was right.

Further on, the crossbows in the hands of the wandering soldiers transformed into Repeating Crossbow, capable of firing more than a dozen arrows at once—perhaps due to magic.

The third battle against the Cursed followed a similar pattern, but with the injuries accumulated from the previous two battles, the Cursed was clearly on the verge of collapse.

Just as Matilda was about to finish him off in one fell swoop, Fingel suddenly stopped her, watching helplessly as the Cursed flew away again with the giant eagle in his grasp.

Matilda didn't question him, she just looked at Fingel. She knew that her captain must have his reasons for doing this, and everyone trusted each other.

"Have you noticed that although the enemy is blocking our way, they are also pointing out the path forward for us?"

Fingel, relying on his strong intuition, realized this. "The roof of this church is more complicated than a maze. We can easily get lost if we wander around aimlessly. But with that guy floating in the sky, even if we get lost while exploring the side paths, we'll know where we're ultimately going. So we need to keep that enemy alive until we find a way into the church."

What he guessed based on his intuition was exactly the same as Gong Qiying's design idea.

Although Fingel rarely explores the dungeons, the talent he has shown is really suited to this place, or rather, talented people can adapt to any place.

Heavy crossbow, scatter shot, rapid fire... what's next? It seems there aren't any other options available.

In Fingel's understanding, there are only a few types of crossbows, and if he wants to increase their power, he would have to use pure magic.

Could it be that something beyond his comprehension will appear?

A moment later.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

"What kind of weapon is that? It's long like a stick, but the arrows it fires are like balls, and it sounds like thunder when it's fired!"

Fingel's premonition came true once again, and something beyond his comprehension appeared—a musket from Bloodborne.

Some are short, some are long, and they come in all sorts of strange shapes, but the overall style doesn't feel particularly out of place.

A single bullet from a musket can easily shatter a low-level Magic Shield, and a few more shots would be enough to break even Mid Rank. This time, everyone really needs to be careful and avoid it.

"I'll take him down!"

Tus sneaked up behind a wandering soldier, yelled, and pounced on him. The soldier quickly turned around, pulled out a weapon with a completely different style from the Bloodborne, and instantly performed an American-style Iaijutsu. The gun looked like a pistol, but its appearance was so strange that Tuss couldn't describe it.

Oh no, I'm going to die again!

Tus thought dejectedly as bullets pounded into his body, yet...

"Huh? Why doesn't it hurt too much this time?"

He pulled the bullet out of the shallow wound, somewhat bewildered. Why was the bullet's power reduced this time? Surely his physical body couldn't possibly be stronger than a Mid Rank Magic Shield?

Just as he was stunned, the ghost soldier self-destructed, blasting him off the platform and destroying the incongruous pistol in the process.

In the room of the Dungeon Lord, someone was writing in a notebook while talking to himself:

"The guns from Bloodborne are quite effective, and the Yugi's unique Gun Parry mechanism has also been incorporated, becoming something like Weapon Skill. Activating it at the right time can put the enemy into a parry-like state, which has good potential."

"But why is the power of the automatic pistol taken from Crossfire so low? It's not even as good as Bloodborne. Is it because the bullets are different? Or is there another reason? Last time, the effect of using C4 to blow Malu was not good either, and the opponent still died from falling."

"That's strange, I think I'll stop using this kind of thing."

Shifting the perspective back to the adventurers, when the Cursed flew away again, Fingel almost failed to stop Matilda, who was in a frenzy of fighting.

Why? Because muskets are disgusting. God knows how they managed to fight the Cursed while enduring Yharnam Style Iai.

Having fought this far, it seems that the Cursed are not the problem at all; the biggest obstacle is the constantly upgraded weapons in the hands of the Wraith Soldiers!

The key point is that they don't drop these guns!

What will happen to these muskets next?

As you walk forward, the scenery gradually opens up, and the previous feeling of confinement is finally gone.

Feeling impressed, Fingel pointed to a high platform and said, "That place is really nice."

"How so?" Aleya asked.

"If I can place a combat mage there with a fast casting speed, I can control the entire road, and no one can take it down. I learned this from a book I recently read by an army general."

However, when he said that, everyone around him realized something and showed a look of horror, as if to say, "You're planting a flag again."

Fingel must have some kind of connection with Gong Qiying in terms of their thinking. As soon as he finished speaking, a figure appeared on the high platform that he had been pointing to.

The man's attire was exactly the same as that of the invader [Hunter] who appeared in Farron Keep and delivered the "Hunting Handbook," making it clear at a glance that he was an Old Yharnam Hunter who loved life.

In front of this cool guy was a weapon that adventurers couldn't describe, but Gong Qiying could.

This thing is Gatling, the Gatling from Bloodborne.

"This thing"

Although Fingel didn't recognize him, that didn't stop him from sensing the danger.

As the Gatling spun wildly, bullets rained down like a storm, and the Cursed descended from the sky, Fingel couldn't help but curse, saying:

"Won't even the Left Bow's Avatar get involved later on?!"

As a playful person, he naturally followed the teachings of his predecessors and made some fun of the campfire, which led to the emergence of the three transformations of the Left Bow Swift Slash Katana.

If Zuo Gong really appears behind Gatling, then he really won't be laughing anymore!

"Sean, I underestimated you!"