Chapter 760: The myth in the darkness—Dark Souls!
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
Let’s return to the time before the warriors returned from the battleground.
[New Task: Myth in the Darkness
Task Target: Host, please improve your skills to a high level
Skill Ranks: Beginner, Elementary-level, Intermediate-level, Advanced-level, Battle Master, Battle Grandmaster, Kingly Master, Godly Master…]
Mr. Fang thought for a moment and felt like this ranking system was similar to those in games.
After remembering the System’s job, he didn’t think it was strange.
Fang Qi saw that there were several levels after godly master, but they were not levels that he should think about right now.
He glanced at his battle skill rank.
[The host’s current battle skill rank: Battle Grandmaster.]
[Task Objective: Increase battle skills to the level of Kingly Master
Task Reward: The Dark Souls series
Task Description: Bro, link the fire?]
After receiving the task, Mr. Fang would play some old games such as Resident Evil 1 and 2 or the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3 to practice his battle skills and push up his limits.
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Some time had passed since the catastrophe in the Orc Kingdom and the neighboring nations.
With help from caring people, the Orc Kingdom and the neighboring small human nations began to recover from the catastrophe.
Of course, it would take a long time before they could return to their previous prosperity. But after the catastrophe, many people felt relieved.
…
“Hu…” Fang Qi stretched as he looked at Resident Evil 2 on his screen. He had reached the end with a dagger. Besides, he reached Act IV of Diablo 2 in Hell Difficulty and the final dual with Chong Lou in the Legend of the Sword and Fairy 3. During the process, he had gradually decreased his use of items in the game.
After he made the achievements one after another, Mr. Fang heard a beep sound from the System.
The task was completed, and the privilege to release Dark Souls 1 was granted.
…
After the Burning Crusade was released, even the new shop witnessed a big growth in the number of new players. Despite the extra folding space that Mr. Fang had previously prepared and wasn’t used, the new shop was now bursting with customers.
The System version series games were usually released according to the sales of the previous game, so the Assassin’s Creed series was still being released one by one.
Besides, since the new expansion of World of Warcraft had just been released, the new players who entered the shop to play World of Warcraft wouldn’t pay attention to other games yet.
At this moment, Mr. Fang sat in his shop…
“Little Sala, the shop released the trailer for a new game today. Don’t you want to watch it?” Mr. Fang tried to lure her to watch it.
“Oh. I’m trying to level up to level 70.” Sala looked at the vast new land before her in excitement. “Wow… Is this the Outland?”
“Look at that person… she has a flying mount!” Helen grabbed Sala’s arm and screamed.
Mr. Fang was at a loss for words.
Then, he looked at Harrison who was sitting nearby.
The middle-aged assassin smiled embarrassedly and said, “My teammates are taking me to do a raid…”
On his screen was the huge Gamesman’s Hall, and he was busy playing chess in the instance, Karazhan.
“…”
Resigned, Fang Qi came to the Yuanyang City Shop. “Xiaoyue…”
“Boss, you are trying to trick me to play another horror game?!” With a pout, Jiang Xiaoyue pointed at the knight standing in darkness on the cover of the trailer and said in displeasure, “I won’t be tricked this time!
“I won’t play this game!”
Beside her, Little Bell covered her eyes and said, “I won’t play horror games again! Never!”
This deer almost died in horror when it tried Outlast after watching Mr. Fang play the game with the hide-and-seek style.
Sitting before the computer, Little Bell continued to control its tauren character and do quests.
You won’t play it? I’ll play it myself…
The good thing was that there was a huge number of players in the shops. On top of that, Mr. Fang was playing the game himself, and a small group of players followed him into the game. Therefore, this game had gradually reached the requirements for the sequels.
By now, some time had passed since the Burning Crusade was released.
Since the big raids took a long time to complete, even some high-level players began to have more free time at hand.
…
[Beep! The sales of Dark Souls 2 reached 1,000. The release of Dark Soul 3 begins. The cinematic trailer of Dark Souls 3 is activated.]
At this moment, Fang Qi finally heard the prompt of the System.
Meanwhile, a dog-headed man had just got online and logged into QQ.
Suddenly, this man saw a recommendation message. On the cover was a knight dressed in ancient armor and engulfed by sparks of fire which looked like the embers after wood was burned into ashes.
“What’s this? Dark Souls 3?”
“I’m surprised!” The dog-headed man widened his eyes. “An actual new game?”
He clicked on it.
Endless darkness appeared on his screen.
The long, cold, and desperation-inducing darkness made the world look as if it was in a chaotic period.
His gaze continuously traveled in the darkness…
“But then there was fire.” As the ancient voice filled with visited sounded by his ears, sparks of flame appeared in the darkness.
“With fire… came disparity.” On the desolate and bleak land that seemed lifeless, a blazing fire burned. “Heat and cold; life and death; and of course… light and dark.”
An ancient presence rushed toward Mr. Dirk as if a long-sealed gate was opened. Following the footsteps of history, he returned to the beginning of the world with the appearance of the first life and the separation of light and dark…
In the silence and desolation at the beginning of the world, the story… began.
The rain poured amidst thunder and lightning bolts. The ocean of clouds swept around like surging waves. The four statues of huge dragons sat in four directions. With deep and strong bell rings, gods rode huge ancient dragons and controlled golden lightning bolts, soaring in the high sky, just as praised by many myths and legends.
In an ancient grand hall covered in ivies and vines, countless white candles of different lengths lit up like stars. Then, dark blood floated up and gathered in one place.
…
A giant skull that had a crown slowly crawled out from the deepest darkness in the bottomless abyss behind the decayed skeleton cup.
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The pilgrim kneeled before the ancient and huge castle which was built on the high mountain as if it stood on the top of the world.
“I stand here… I’m the Lord of Cinder, and this is my throne…”
“Death will destroy you again and again…”
“Only you…will survive among the accursed ones…”
Words resonated in Mr. Dirk’s ears while he watched the extremely ancient figure who seemed like it could only exist in myths and legends fly down on a huge dragon while the golden lightning light gathered in its hands… The holy thunderbolt was thrown down like the judgment from gods!
The last scene that he watched was a golden lightning tribulation!
Mr. Dirk’s mouth was wide open, but he couldn’t utter a sound the whole time. Then, he suddenly realized at the end of the trailer that…
Even the words such as legend or epic couldn’t begin to describe 0.01 percent of the wonder that he had just watched!
He felt as if his entire brain was trembling.
“This is a myth!” After putting down his virtual reality headset, he roared hoarsely in a trembling voice.
“A myth?! Where?!” The elves twitched their pointy ears…
They instantly swarmed up and stood behind him.