Skyrim's Efforts

"Look, the Plague Village is just ahead. Your opportunity has arrived."

Lu Lu Wo smiled and pointed ahead at the dark and secluded tunnel.

The Starfire Knight and ordinary Sparkfire Church soldiers following him all wore expressions that said, "Are you kidding me?"

You call that pitch-black tunnel ahead, stretching as far as the eye can see and made up of countless dilapidated, remarkably similar wooden frames, a "village"?

Although the name "Plague Village" sounds rather eerie, like mysterious people in white coats might suddenly appear 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 "[Plague Village]" were displayed boldly before everyone's eyes amidst the filthy filter and the stench of the 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 our mental and physical resilience should be much better.

Unfortunately, the stench permeating the Plague 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 anymore already? You all have filter masks in your backpacks, thank goodness I told you to bring them beforehand."

Lu Lu Wo smiled, shook her head, and took out a mask to filter out the stench from her bag, putting 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 Knight who had 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 filled with despair. Suddenly, a still-warm mask was thrown at them. Turning around, they saw it was the youngest member of the Skyrim Strategy Team; Ta Mi had tossed him her own mask.

"Huh? 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." Ta Mi 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, Ta Mi'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 resistant to the smell."

When he said those words, he exuded an aura of dejection.

The Skyrim Strategy Team will be joining the Sparkfire Church's forces at this very moment, becoming the first lucky ones to explore Plague Village!

How exactly did things develop to this point?

Ta Mi 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 Rebel Army's side, apart from the Starfire Knight lining the streets to welcome them, the rest of the church had some doubts about their abilities.

After all, Scamellon were not very sensitive to outside information due to the war, and it was indeed a bit unreasonable to ask them to trust a group of outsiders for no reason.

So the Skyrim Strategy Team gave a small demonstration of their skills – a no-damage speedrun through Undead Burg.

It took a total of two days. One and a half days were spent researching the possible structure and changes of the Undead Burg and the properties of its monsters, and half a day was spent exploring the map.

After they figured out the Undead Burg, they successfully completed the entire course without taking any damage in less than half a day, and even took photos of the whole process.

This was something the Rebel Army 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 they ensure that the Skyrim Strategy Team won't turn around and collude with the Holy Light Church?

There are three factors that can serve as a guarantee.

Firstly, none of them had ever been to Scamellon before. They had no relatives or friends here and could not contact the Holy Light Church 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 Sparkfire Church guaranteed the Skyrim Strategy Team, and Bishop Vinsmoke, who was far away, also sent a message assuring them that the Skyrim Strategy Team was indeed trustworthy.

Thirdly, it's because Lu Lu Wo revealed that she is a Soul Eater, and even stated that she is the top Soul Eater adventurer in the Arnor Kingdom.

Everyone was relieved.

If the first two points were reasonably convincing, then Lu Lu Wo's identity as a Soul Eater made her and her companions seem incredibly endearing and lovable to the Rebel Army.

The main reason is that for a long time, Soul Eaters were invading the Holy Light Follower to take advantage of them. The peak period of the invasions was after the Holy Light Church's artificial Blessed by the Gods, suffered a setback in the Zane Dungeon, and the Holy Light Follower 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 Holy Light Church has adopted a policy of immediate and swift execution towards any Soul-Sucking Ghost Oath, which is only difficult to do in other countries.

In Scamellon, 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 dedicated to exploring the Zane Dungeon.

Even then, troops continued to arrive in Hypha Town as volunteers, and most of them were skilled in defense. They built fortifications around Hypha Town to prevent any possible, no, inevitable, attack from the Holy Light Church.

In what wasn't a very long time, the area around Hypha Town had been transformed into a Fortress suitable for defense.

At Lu Lu Wo's request, some people specializing in dungeon exploration also came along with the defense forces, strengthening the team exploring the Zane Dungeon.

The first task of this Exploration Team was to find the most strategically valuable areas among the currently open areas of the Zane 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 Burg. Each member of the Skyrim Strategy Team led a team to run through the resource gathering routes, and those who were taught then went out to teach others, gradually passing on their knowledge.

To this day, no fewer than ten teams are shuttling between the stable Zane Dungeon and Hypha Town, continuously transporting the resources needed by the Rebel Army to the outside world.

In this situation, the city lord naturally had to carefully calculate the types and quantities of resources produced by the Zane Dungeon every day, maintaining them at a level that met the Rebel Army's basic requirements but also kept them unsatisfied, forcing them to continue to invest more manpower and resources.

The Spirit Power 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, which has made it difficult for adventurers who want to explore the portal to move around, and they cannot form a large scale for a while.

However, this problem will be resolved sooner or later.

After successfully training a double-digit number of "brick-moving" teams, the Rebel Army fully recognized the Skyrim Strategy Team's strength and increasingly valued them.

Lu Lu Wo, meanwhile, took a holistic view and turned her attention to the undeveloped areas, carefully selecting among them.

Outside the city, Bei Er Tuo, along with Mi La and Ai Si Ai Mu, are exploring the Undead Parish, trying to thoroughly understand its layout and conditions.

The Sain Ancient City, 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 Darkroot Garden looks like a place that produces various plant-type items. Plant-type items in the Zane Dungeon are generally good stuff, so this place has been added to the list of places to be explored. Hervey was sent there with his Starfire Knight to explore it.

New Londo Ruins. This place is a bit too eerie. Although the suicide squad successfully discovered something called [Temporary Curse], its scarcity and other reasons have greatly reduced its exploration priority.

The same reason applies to the Catacombs next to the 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 explored so far, we haven't found any essential items that we need to obtain.

After summarizing the characteristics of the above areas, there is one more place that Lu Lu Wo will take Ta Mi to explore on her own.

[Plague Village].

This is the location of the second bell, according to the Hui Xin Ge. Ringing the second bell will reveal the mission of the immortals.

Although Lu Lu Wo thought that the so-called mission was nothing more than linking the fire, since the Zane Dungeon was made to feel so fantastical, she was happy to follow the dungeon's instructions and explore.

However, this wretched place truly stirred up unpleasant memories for everyone in the Skyrim Strategy Team.

That happened a very, very long time ago, though it doesn't seem like that long ago.

After they orchestrated a city-wide live -Frenzied Flame in the Warrior Country, nearly crippling a certain Second Prince, they were unfortunately drawn into Painting World called [Plague Village] within the Zane Dungeon.

Then I spent a rather "unpleasant" time in that Painting World.

From then on, whenever the words "illness" and "village" were combined, or even separated and placed in the same sentence, she could accurately identify these two words and then develop PTSD.

It truly caused me great psychological trauma.

That's why, when Lu Lu Wo heard the words "Plague Village" from Hui Xin Ge, she shuddered and almost had the urge to run away immediately.

But when she turned around and saw the Starfire Knight's adoring expressions, she suddenly couldn't bear to leave.

After all, if she left, these Starfire Knights would have to enter the Plague Village in complete darkness.

That would probably destroy the beautiful hearts of these people, and she didn't want to see that.

Therefore, the Skyrim Strategy Team accepted the commission, and Lu Lu Wo personally led the team to Plague Village!

Lu Lu Wo is amazing!

"I am truly a great man."

Standing amidst the pervasive stench, Lu Lu Wo with her hands on her hips, head held high, as if she were saving the world.

Meanwhile, Ta Mi, standing next to her, was hopping back and forth at the entrance of the Plague Village because he had discovered something amusing.

Leaving the tunnel leading to the Plague 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 Plague Village was also accidental. At first, everyone did try to find it, but to no avail.

By chance, a Starfire Knight purchased a hidden item— the Master Key —from the blacksmith Andre.

From then on, whenever that guy saw a keyhole in the Zane Dungeon, he would go over and poke it a couple of times to see if he could open it. His teammates said he was obsessed, and he only calmed down after dozens of Tranquilizing Spell were cast on him.

He actually found the hidden door.

It was a door located underground in the New Londo Ruins. Once that door was opened, the whole world opened up before us.

[Wyvern 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's another reason.

The road here is blocked.

The path leading deeper into the valley suddenly collapsed, and attempting to Flight Spell there would result in being attacked by swarms of dragons, so the exploration of Wyvern Valley was abandoned.

But an unexpected surprise awaited them on the other side of Wyvern Valley.

That was a dark tunnel leading to the [Plague Village].

This time, it turned out to be a lucky accident.

"Alright, you've all gotten used to it by now."

Lu Lu Wo cast Healing Magic on each of the people who had collapsed and vomited, then helped them up and waved her hand, saying:

"Let's go! Today we'll create some wonderful memories for you."