this infinite world

—Indeed, it is a powerful nation.

As Yang Yun crossed the high walls of Lothric at a speed unimaginable to ordinary people and officially entered the city, he thought to himself.

The 3D modeling in the game is naturally incomparable to reality. Just like the capital city of Lordran, which was built with great effort by the Sun God race that ruled a world, it is definitely not a small village that can be visited in a few hours... In fact, the city wall just now was only an insignificant section of the entire city. Only after entering the city was Yang Yun able to see the whole picture of this vast city.

only……

"The people are truly suffering."

Seeing the city's desolate state, with corpses of the starved scattered everywhere, Yang Yun couldn't help but shake his head slightly. Not only were the dilapidated and collapsed houses left unrepaired, but the corpses lying dead by the roadside were also left unburied. Even the large defensive siege equipment used to defend the city was in a state of disrepair, clearly indicating improper maintenance… Of course, considering that the vast majority of the city's residents and soldiers were either dead or had turned into zombies, the lack of maintenance for military equipment was perfectly normal.

Moreover, the city's troubles go far beyond that.

The undead were one thing, but these mindless zombies, driven only by instinct, didn't have any decent weapons or equipment. They were no match for the knights, who were either still aware of their own consciousness or simply following their instincts from their previous lives. Yang Yun immediately realized that the reason for the city's dilapidated state was the numerous black, sludge-like monsters that roamed within its walls.

These monsters, which look very much like those from Cthulhu games, are not only incredibly strong, capable of sweeping away even three or five battle-hardened knights, but they also clearly possess some kind of mental pollution; at the very least, the knights' movements are noticeably slower when facing them.

Moreover, this thing clearly grows from ordinary residents and exists as a "parasite".

Yang Yun could see clearly that after a zombie was killed by a knight, its chest suddenly burst open, and then large amounts of black matter poured out, instantly transforming into a new monster... If these monsters hadn't seemed to be quite afraid of fire, and if the knights hadn't had plenty of fire flamingos, the entire city would probably have already fallen.

Moreover, in contrast to the appalling situation of monsters roaming the city, the sky was not peaceful either. This was because in the skies above the city, there were creatures that resembled both insects and withered branches... and Yang Yun clearly sensed from them an aura exactly the same as that of the black monsters in the city.

However, these flying monsters did not attack Yang Yun, so Yang Yun let them be.

—It gives me the feeling of something falling apart.

Yang Yun thought to himself, "Stepping on the air, I feel a light touch under my feet."

It wasn't that Yang Yun was unwilling to fly. For a reincarnator who had unlocked the fourth-order gene lock, "flying" was just a very basic skill, the kind that one learns without a teacher... But, this world is different.

When Yang Yun tried to fly through the sky, an ominous premonition inexplicably arose in his heart, as if this action violated the rules of this world.

Yang Yun always trusted his sixth sense. In short, it was better to avoid trouble, so he abandoned his plan to fly and instead used a technique similar to Zheng Zha's "Moonwalk" to rapidly advance towards the city's tower. After all, moving on air isn't flying... just like Saitama from One-Punch Man. Even though his physical body was so extraordinary that he could leap from the moon back to Earth, he still hadn't mastered the techniques of flight or levitation; at most, he could only jump "slightly higher" than ordinary people.

However, this "keeping to themselves" situation obviously won't last forever.

"Roar!" As if he had crossed some invisible boundary, just as the target tower was close at hand and about to be reached, Yang Yun suddenly heard two dragon roars.

"Huh? A dragon?"

Staring blankly at the two dragons rising from within the city and swooping down towards him in the sky, Yang Yun was somewhat stunned. Although he had long sensed the presence of a considerable number of flying dragons within the city, most of them were in a state of slumber, as if everything were unrelated to them…

Although they were just ordinary flying dragons, not Elder Dragons, the fact that dragons were used as a regular defensive force within the castle was enough to demonstrate the strength of this nation. After all, with the death of the White Dragon Seath, the Elder Dragons of this world were very likely extinct.

However, this was the first time he had ever seen a dragon so hostile towards him.

Is this some kind of early warning mechanism? Or am I infringing on this country's "air superiority"?

Yang Yun watched with great interest as the two dragons flapped their wings and flew towards him at a moderate pace. It seemed to be an ironclad rule engraved in the world's regulations, or perhaps it was only winged creatures, such as crows, demons, and dragons, that could freely soar through the sky.

...However, the situation of these two dragons is not very good right now.

Previously, it was one thing, but when these two dragons flew through the air, Yang Yun could easily see that their wings each had a clump of black, unidentified substance, exactly the same as the substance on the humans in the city earlier… Clearly, this was the reason why dragons hadn't been seen in the city's battle; even powerful creatures like dragons had been parasitized by the enemy, rendering them powerless. These two dragons were probably among the few still capable of fighting.

only……

"boom!"

Suddenly, lightning struck, tearing through the dark sky!
Without the gathering of dark clouds or the foreshadowing of lightning, this violent bolt of lightning seemed to burst forth directly from the void, like a spear of divine punishment, condensed from the void, carrying the force of annihilation, and piercing straight to the top of Yang Yun's head!
However, facing this sudden attack that would make even an ordinary fourth-tier expert tremble, Yang Yun's eyes remained completely unmoved. Just before the lightning struck his body, his figure flickered like an illusion, as natural and imperceptible as a breeze across water…

"Well, I have to admit, even though it looks like the country is doomed and our race is about to perish, there's still some nail in a wrecked ship..."

"At least as the head of the security team, you are quite competent."

At the top of Lothric City, a figure stepped onto the city wall even faster than lightning. Just as Yang Yun's deep voice rang out, the lightning bolt that should have struck first seemed to arrive late, crashing down and shattering the ground where he had just stood.

Sound and light are inverted at this moment; cause and effect are out of place here. It is as if the very existence of that figure has already transcended the speed of this thunder.

The next moment, Yang Yun emerged from the dust with a perfect superhero-like landing, looking at the steel armor before him with interest: "That random electrical discharge just now..."

"So it's you, isn't it?" (End of Chapter)