Survival in the game world begins with Biochemical 2

Chapter 772 Odin's Chamber

Of course, in the end Li You did not really monopolize 70%.

After all, the thing was discovered by Atreus, and Li You also wanted to establish some basic trust with Kratos and his son.

It is one thing that he will not obey Kratos in everything, but he will also not forget to show kindness when it is time.

Of course there is another reason.

In the package he retrieved, in addition to the expected common material "Egil's Gold", there were also two scales that sparkled with a strange light.

"Hey, this looks like the scales of the World Serpent!" Atreus stood on tiptoe to take a look, "But it's different from what we found in the Lake of the Nine Realms? It's more complete, and... it's glowing."

Li You has already recognized that this thing is the "pure scales of the kingdom", which are tiny scales of the World Serpent that contain special powers after being infused with the light of the world.

This thing is an upgrade material for powerful armor in the game, and it should also be used in armor manufacturing in this world.

So Li You handed a scale to Kratos along with half of the gold.

Naturally, Mr. Kratos understood what he meant, and he didn't bother to be polite with him. He took the materials and put them away.

As for whether the favorability or trust value has increased? Probably...

In addition, Li You noticed that Kratos also had a magic pocket hanging around his waist, and he put the resources into it.

That makes sense.

"Let's go." Kratos continued to move forward.

As for Atreus, after seeing Li You spread his dragon wings and fly into the sky, the look in his eyes was glowing green.

For a child who had never traveled far and whose understanding of the world was based on the stories told by his mother, the various abilities demonstrated by Li You were too attractive.

If Kratos hadn't been watching, Atreus would have wanted to go over and pull Li You's wings off.

"Please, you must let me take a good look at you later!" Atreus begged.

"Okay." Li You put away the dragon wings transformed from his teardrops and agreed.

It is obviously much easier to establish a good relationship with Atreus than to improve Kratos' favorability.

"Great!" Atreus clenched his fists, and then even jumped a little to catch up with Kratos.

But I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but Li You always feels that after seeing his son’s appearance, Mr. Kratos seemed to glance at him with some displeasure?
Li You: …

Could it be that my plan to get along well with Atreus had the opposite effect?
Anyway, after dividing the spoils, the three continued to move forward, and the Temple Bridge came to an end.

What comes into view in front of us is a fairly spacious river channel, with both banks also covered with plants.

"Looks like we need to find a ship...wait, that's, Sindri?"

Atreus saw something again.

On the river bank connected to the bridge, there is a familiar small blacksmith shop, and the one swinging the hammer and forging iron in it is the dwarf Sindri.

Kratos frowned and walked forward immediately.

"Dwarf, how did you get here before us?"

Li You did not follow. He knew very well that as master dwarf blacksmiths, the two brothers Brokk and Sindri had some special methods to travel between kingdoms. Moreover, only dwarves could use them and others could not learn them. Sindri would explain these to Kratos himself.

So when Kratos was questioning Sindri, Li You was already looking for a boat.

Although the terrain was still slightly different from that in the game, Li You quickly found the white boat that was locked by vines on the shore. After throwing out the spiral sword and cutting off three vines at the same time, he dragged the boat out.

Kratos had also finished his conversation with Sindri and came to the shore.

"...Come on, I'll row the boat."

Li You naturally wouldn't compete with him for this, but the small boat he found was basically the same as the one in the game, and it would be a bit difficult to squeeze three people into the boat.

So in the end, Kratos sat in the middle of the boat holding the oars, Atreus stood at the stern behind him looking ahead, and Li You sat at the bow facing Kratos.

Li You: "..."

The sense of oppression is a bit strong.

Especially when Kratos just stares at you without saying a word (although he is actually looking at the waterway ahead), anyone who comes here will feel a little scared.

"By the way, Li You." It was Atreus who broke the silence, and Li You breathed a sigh of relief.

However, it was not his ability to fly that Atreus asked about.

"I remember you said before that you carry a curse that will make people with special powers hostile to you?" He looked at Li You, "I wanted to ask before, what kind of power are you talking about? Even I have it?"

At this moment, Li You felt that Kratos's eyes turned into a sharp blade, full of warning.

"Well... it's hard to say. After all, I'm not sure about the specific effect of the curse. You know what I mean." Li You decisively decided to pass on the topic. "As of now, many of those individuals with powerful powers are within the affected range."

"Is that so?" Atreus was puzzled. "Father said he felt the impact, which I understand, but so did I. Am I considered one too?"

"Ahem... Ahem! I don't know the details, maybe I'll know later." Li You coughed and forced a change of subject, "By the way, Atreus, didn't you want to hear me tell stories about other kingdoms? I just thought of one."

"Really? Okay!" Atreus didn't ask any further questions. "Father is really not good at telling stories... I'm very interested in things in other kingdoms!"

Feeling that Kui Ye's gaze had moved away, Li You also breathed a sigh of relief, and then said: "Then I will tell you the story of a god called the 'King of Sunshine' and his dynasty in a distant country..."

What Li You told Atreus was the story of Gwyn, King of the Darklings, and he focused on the fate of the sun gods and the cycle of fire.

It must be said that the stories of the Lords of Fire are very different from the legends heard in Northern Europe, and Atreus quickly became immersed in them.

So, Kratos rowed through the river of Alfheim, while Li You told Atreus the story of the King of Sunshine in a vivid way, and Atreus listened with great interest.

When the boat passed through a relatively narrow river area and came to the entrance of a large lake, Li You had already finished telling the general outline of the story, and Atreus also changed from being very excited at the beginning to frowning and thinking now.

"…So, the Sunshine King turned himself into firewood in order to continue the Age of Fire, but his dynasty fell apart? Even his children and subordinates became the targets of others' hunting?"

Atreus was puzzled. "Those are gods, and Gwyn is the king of gods! His position in that kingdom is equivalent to Odin's in the Nine Realms, right? Then why did he..." "Because King Gwyn is different from Odin. He hopes for a world with continuous light." Li You said, "But as I said just now, King Gwyn can be regarded as a great king, but also an extremely paranoid king. His decisions, his choices, and his will have become shackles that bind his children, and generations of people and gods in that world."

"Even thousands of years after King Gwyn's time, the new royal family that inherited the blood of the Sun Gods was still experiencing tragedy because of the fate and trust placed on them.

"In that world, being born as a god not only means power and strength, but also a heavy fate."

Atreus frowned and fell into thought: "I... have never heard such a story about gods. I don't know what to say."

It was Kratos who spoke up at this time: "Although there is a lot of nonsense, it is a good story overall."

"Oh?" Li Youdu looked at him in surprise.

"Hmph." Kratos ignored him and continued, "Your summary is correct. For gods, what they are born with is not only power, but also responsibility, fate and even curse. Atreus, remember this."

"...Okay, father. I'll remember that."

Having said that, Atreus was obviously still a little confused. He just followed the instructions and took out a small notebook to write down the outline of Li You's story and this comment.

Mr. Kui looked at Li You again. Although he didn't know why the story told by this man was so to his liking, his attitude towards Li You improved invisibly.

Of course, this does not affect the parts of the story that he is not satisfied with: "But there is one thing, your story portrays King Gwyn too well. There is no truly selfless god in the world, and he chose to become firewood out of his own desires."

"Okay, okay, you have the final say." Li You naturally would not argue with him about this.

Kratos did not say anything more, but turned to Atreus: "Child, do you see the temple in front?"

Without his reminder, the three of them noticed that opposite the lake they had just entered was an elven-style building. On its magnificent base was a huge arched metal ring, and a beam of the light of the world shot straight into the sky from the center of the base building.

But at this moment, the beam of light that should have been clear and shining with bright blue light was extremely dim in color. Dark red light was projected from the temple, dyeing not only the beam of light of the world, but also the sky in the distance into the color of sunset.

"Is that... what it looks like after being taken over by the dark elves?" Atreus murmured, "It feels so evil..."

"There is a platform with a sand table on it." Compared to Atreus, Kratos's focus has always been on how to move forward.

The sandbox puzzle is also a classic puzzle in the game. You have to find the corresponding runes in the surrounding environment and carve them on the sandbox as the answer to unlock the mechanism.

Kratos and his son have encountered quite a few along the way, so they are used to seeing sand tables.

As for Li You, he was observing both sides of the lake.

He did not forget that his mission was to find the Valkyrie imprisoned in this country. According to his memory in the game, the secret room should be on the lakeshore at the end of the left side facing the temple.

The good news is that, perhaps because this lake is different from the Nine Realms Lake and is an obviously artificial lake, its size is similar to that in the game, and you can almost see the edge at a glance.

So when Kratos rowed the boat to the side of the sand table platform and took Atreus to observe the sand table riddle, Li You also determined the direction to go based on his memory.

There is no need to say more about the rest.

"…There must be clues nearby. Let's go to the other side and have a look." Kratos, who failed to find the answer to the rune, planned to return to the ship with Atreus, but Li You did not follow.

Facing their gazes, Li You said, "I think I have found my goal. I will go ahead and do my own thing."

Kratos frowned when he heard that.

Li You wanted to say a few more words, such as promising that he would not be late, but unexpectedly, Mr. Kui did not say much this time. He just said, "Okay. I hope you won't delay us."

Kratos suddenly became easy to talk to, which surprised Li You. But Kratos didn't plan to say more. He pushed the boat with the oars in his hand and took Atreus to the other side of the Lake of Light.

Li You watched the two people rowing away. Atreus was even waving at him. He smiled, then spread his dragon wings, flew up, and headed towards the left bank of the artificial lake.

There are still some elven buildings left on the lakeside, but at this time the light and dark elves are continuing their war, and this place is also occupied by monsters such as undead warriors and nightmares.

Of course, these enemies do not pose much threat to Li You.

Faced with the nightmare of flying spitting all over the sky, Li You directly transformed the spiral sword into a shape similar to the Ampah's longbow. He pulled the bow, and several arrows wrapped in a faint storm and a circle of flames on the outside flew out as Li You released the bowstring!

Arrows wrapped in miniature storms are one of the rewards of the Ring World. They already have area damage, and with the addition of the flames of the spiral sword, any nightmare that is hit will be instantly detonated!

"Boom boom boom——!!"

The continuous explosions also attracted the attention of a strong undead warrior holding a big axe who was wandering a little further away on the lakeshore. It immediately let out a roar, flames leaping around it, and rushed up at a speed that was inconsistent with its heavy body!

But Li You had already made preparations. At this moment, the nightmare had been cleared away. Li You instantly turned the longbow in his hand into a battle axe, and faced the undead warrior's charge, chopped it down heavily with a heavy axe!
"Pfft-"

The Crescent Axe that Li You transformed into fell at a perfect time, just before the undead warrior's axe arrived, splitting its chest and making all its subsequent attacks fall into nothing.

"Ha——!" Li You shouted, pulled out the Crescent Axe and slashed it horizontally, cutting off the head of the undead warrior.

There was no one blocking his way ahead.

Li You put away the spiral sword and continued to move forward. He found a closed door in the small cave in front of him. On the door was a hexagonal magic seal that seemed to be carved from a whole piece of crystal.

This hexagonal magic crystal is a seal set by a special method. It contains powerful magic. The corresponding runes are engraved inside the crystal and cannot be broken by other means.

In order to remove the seal, one must use one thing - the magic chisel of the frost giant Somur.

Li You took out the chisel that was still emitting light and heat from his backpack and weighed it gently.

Naturally, when he saw the task of defeating the Valkyrie, Li You already understood the purpose of the system asking him to find Somur's chisel.

He came to the sealed magic crystal, held the chisel in one hand, and slowly moved it across the surface of the crystal.

When the chisel approaches the corresponding magic rune node, the magic power contained in it will begin to move. As long as Li You pierces the crystal with the chisel at that time, the rune will be temporarily ineffective. A general seal only has two nodes.

"clang--"

Without hesitation, Li You quickly found the rune node hidden in the crystal. After two consecutive stabs with the chisel, the lifted magic seal appeared on the surface of the crystal, and then the entire crystal shattered and fell, and the seal was lifted.

Li You immediately put away the chisel and pushed open the door. Looking at the dim secret room behind, he said to himself:

"The imprisoned Valkyrie... let me see her for myself."

(End of this chapter)