How to survive in a soul-based game with full female mods

"..."

Alice was silent for a long time. Lin Yinxi understood her feelings very well, so he waited quietly.

It was almost five minutes before her mouth opened again.

"...I understand. But, take Liz with you. If that's the case, I'll allow it."

"Alice is right. Newcomer, I'll go with you. After all, it's too dangerous for you to go alone."

"No, I have to go alone."

Lin Yinxi flatly rejected the proposal.

He must kill the boss and then go to a nearby hidden map to find bait to lure the lord, which must be kept secret from them.

The excuse of memory recovery should only be used once in an important moment. If used too often, it will only arouse suspicion.

Although I don't mind defeating the Headless Horseman boss with Liz's company, what to do afterwards is another matter.

Because we can't let Liz go back first after defeating the boss, she will definitely find ways to stay close to me.

So it's best not to take her with you from the beginning.

"Why are you going alone? Any reason?"

"There's a reason for this, but I can't seem to tell you. Sorry."

"..."

Alice sighed deeply. Lin Yinxi fully understood why she was like this, but he would not give in.

"So."

The final determination was reflected in those silver eyes.

"If there's a Knight Commander who agrees with you acting alone, I'll allow it. It doesn't have to be many, just one of us. First of all, I unconditionally object."

"...I object too. Sorry, newbie. It's not that I don't trust you, but I'm more worried about you than trusting you."

"Uh... I don't object, but I don't agree either. First of all, I don't know much about you, this weird newcomer... Since today is our first meeting, what if your ability is only at the level of a small fry?"

Alice and Erica were against it, and Claudia was actually against it too. So, the remaining Knight Commander was Liz.

Lin Yinxi looked back at Liz, who was still clenching her fingers tightly.

The blue eyes trembled slightly, and it was obvious what kind of answer she would give. But before Liz could answer, he spoke first.

"Well, newbie, I'm sorry, but I also-"

"Lily."

"Ok?"

"Do you remember what you said before you cast Frost Storm during our last battle?"

"What did you say before you used that move? Uh... uh, wait, you don't mean to?"

Liz recalled it for a moment, then seemed to realize what he was asking for, and showed a look of astonishment.

"Yes, that's it. You said you would grant me anything I wanted, and I want that request now. Please agree with me."

"......are you serious?"

"So you think this is a lie?"

Lin Yinxi smiled faintly. Liz, in a dilemma, stamped her feet, but the result was obvious. Alice sighed, even deeper than before, as if she had a premonition of the future.

"...Okay, I agree. Go ahead, new guy."

After hesitating for a long time, Liz finally stood on Lin Yinxi's side.

The debate is over.

Claudia said with forced encouragement, "In that case, good luck to you, strange newcomer!", and then walked into the castle to heal her wounds. Erica also said briefly "Good luck" and followed Claudia in.

Alice said with a complicated look in her eyes: "Don't die, this is an order." Then she left silently.

Liz snuggled up to Lin Yinxi and packed various items for him, including food, as well as various life-restoring potions, spare weapons, and protective gear.

Of course Lin Yinxi refused, saying that he didn't need protective gear because his endurance was only 1, so the upper limit of the weight he could equip was very low.

With only a blood sword in hand, he could barely roll at level 1, but once he put on light armor or something, he probably wouldn't be able to roll anymore.

Anyway, if it gets through, it will be a fatal blow to the boss.

When Lin Yinxi told her that he would not wear armor, Liz jumped up and asked "Is this reasonable?!", but when he stubbornly insisted, she just puffed up her cheeks and looked at him, eventually giving up trying to convince him.

Since they didn't know the inside story, they were of course worried, so Lin Yinxi didn't find this trivial nagging bothersome at all.

On the contrary, he was grateful that someone cared so much about him.

...

"Bon voyage, newcomer."

On the day he left, the only person who saw him off was Liz.

"..."

...That's what he thought at first, until he saw Alice's ahoge sticking her head out and looking at him from afar.

Then, when their eyes met, she quickly hid behind the wall. In less than a second, she showed one eye again and looked at him.

What are you doing?

Regardless of the interaction between Alice and Lin Yinxi, Liz spoke with a very sincere and serious voice, unlike usual.

"And don't die. Absolutely not. If you feel your life is in danger, drop everything and run. Even if you have to roll on the ground and crawl, you must come back alive. And don't say those meaningless words about preserving your reputation, okay?"

"Absolutely not. From the very beginning, I have been a person who knows how to cherish life."

"How could someone who knows the preciousness of life do something so reckless??!"

Liz tugged at his cheeks tightly.

When he made a strange sound of "uh uh uh" from his mouth, she laughed and let go of her hand. It didn't hurt at all. It was just her little prank.

After giving the instructions, Lin Yinxi was about to get on the horse, but was stopped by Liz again.

"One more thing, give me your ears."

"Ok?"

Lin Yinxi listened attentively, thinking, "Do you have anything else to say now?"

Liz whispered in his ear with her cherry lips.

"If you can come back alive, I will grant you one wish. Got it? This time, anything is fine. Think about it carefully."

Then she smiled slightly, tapped his cheek lightly with her finger, and turned away.

Lin Yinxi thought about what Liz had just said, burst into laughter, and mounted the horse.

"I will definitely be back."

No matter how terrifying the Dark Mod is, as a hardcore player with 40000 hours of game time in the Souls series, I will never and cannot die from the first boss.

Um, wait a minute, that looks like planting a flag.

He tried to calm the chill on his back, grabbed the reins, and set off.

022. Contact War

"I think we've found the right place, right?"

Lin Yinxi finally saw the familiar scenery he had seen many times in the game, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He was wondering if he had gone in the wrong direction, but fortunately he found the right one.

It took two whole nights to reach the area of ​​the Headless Horseman boss, but in the game, riding a horse for about 10 minutes is enough.

He tied the horse, which seemed to have more energy after riding for two days, to a nearby tree, and then took the props needed for the boss battle from the saddle.

"One, two, three, four, five... Great, all right."

Lin Yinxi confirmed the number and then put them into a bag around his waist.

This was a key item in conquering the Headless Horseman. In order to avoid mistakes, he even practiced by throwing stones of the same weight.

If a mistake is made, the item will become ineffective, and the battle against the Headless Horseman will be considered a failure.

Although it is possible to fight it head-on, it will take more than 20 hours of concentrated fighting without making any mistakes to defeat it.

It is indeed possible, but it is not something that humans can do.

?Hmph!

After hearing a sound similar to that of a wild boar nearby, Lin Yinxi drew out his blood sword. This was the sound made by the monsters that appeared randomly around the boss.

Continuing along the road, we saw monsters wandering in the distance. They looked like wild boars that had shrunk to the size of medium-sized dogs.

There are a total of 8 monsters that must be defeated during the battle with the Headless Horseman boss. They are all of the same type, and their attack mode is to run over and use their bodies to hit and bite.

As long as you are careful, it's not difficult to deal with.

Lin Yinxi slowly approached, controlling the distance, and after six steps, his legs stopped. The monster closest to him seemed startled at the sight of him, and the hair all over its body tensed up.

The other monsters behind him were busy doing their own things.

Although it is a distance visible to the naked eye, it seems that the game's hatred range setting is also effective here.

“That’s a good thing for me.”

He already had a complete plan to lure the monsters in his mind.

Due to the way Darklight is set up, fighting large groups of mobs is much more difficult than fighting most bosses one-on-one, although both are annoying.

Therefore, the key to the strategy is to fight one-on-one as much as possible, one at a time. This is an eternal truth that applies to all Dark Light series.

The wild boar monster discovered Lin Yinxi and pounced on him without hesitation. Then when it was a few steps away from him, it opened its mouth wide and showed its teeth, which was the biting mode.

Lin Yinxi swung the blood sword towards Fang.

Ding--!

There was a sound like metal collision, and the boar monster's body bounced back slightly. Taking advantage of this opportunity, he quickly stabbed the sword into the boar monster's jaw.

With the feeling of the sword blade penetrating into the flesh, the tip of the knife that had been inserted into the jaw stretched out from the top of the head, and the boar monster's struggle stopped instantly.

Lin Yinxi drew his sword, but no blood flowed out.

If it were a game, the system would show how much experience he had gained, but there was nothing like that now, so he didn't know if the monster was actually dead.

Well, the head was pierced, and there was no movement, so it was probably dead. Even in the game, the wild boar monster would be killed by a single attack after being bounced.

"next."

Lin Yinxi took a few more steps forward, and a skinny wild boar nearby reacted to his appearance again and pounced on him.

If players are asked to point out the core combat element of the Dark Light series of games, the first thing they will choose is "battle fatigue", which is actually a second form of health.

Combat fatigue is a certain value accumulated during the process of defending attacks, counterattacking attacks, being attacked, rolling, etc. To some extent, reasonable planning of combat fatigue is more important than health planning.

If the player is hit by an enemy or fails to parry properly while the combat fatigue meter is full, the fatigue meter will be reset and the character will be incapacitated for 2 seconds.

In this state, the character cannot perform any operations until it recovers, and all damage received is multiplied by 1.5. Even in the original version, during boss battles, the player must be prepared to die the moment the fatigue value explodes.

In the Darkness mod, the duration of the incapacitation state is increased to 4 seconds, and the amount of damage taken is increased to 2 times instead of 1.5 times, which is like telling the player to die.

This is why parrying is considered important, as long as the player can correctly parry the enemy's attacks, the battle fatigue meter will not explode and will remain full even if it accumulates to the end.

Of course, enemies also have a combat fatigue meter, and filling it up is a prerequisite for performing special attacks called "parries."

Moreover, although this Headless Horseman is a monster-type enemy, he is the only boss that you can attempt to parry.

-Plurp!

After dealing with the eight monsters, a heavily armored horse covered in iron armor glared at Lin Yinxi. The knight riding on it had nothing on his shoulders. It was also wearing heavy iron armor, waving a spear, and looked alert.

This explains why this boss is called the 'Headless Horseman'.

The monster horse is twice as tall as an ordinary horse and is wrapped in extremely heavy iron armor, giving people a strong sense of oppression.

It is no exaggeration to say that just by running around, the dust on the ground is shaking.