As a player, can you be normal?

Chapter 792 The Mortal Blade's weakness is Mom's frying pan.

1888 1 Month 2 Day.

The trio of Blackie, Lennie, and Piek in the courtroom were all somewhat... stunned when they heard Amuro playing with the meteorite.

"You mean... that guy named Amuro summoned a meteorite?"

Li Nuo sneered: "Don't be surprised, he used this trick on me before."

He wasn't lying; during the World War, when Amuro and Phil teamed up to challenge him, they actually summoned a meteor.

However, this meteorite was larger than the one before.

Blackie gave a cold laugh: "Just how many nation-destroying things have you been hit by?"

In Li Nuo's eyes, none of those things could compare to the destructive power of the [Ghost Abalone].

"Just who is this Amuro?" Lennie asked, intrigued.

Xiao Wu said, "Federal pilots don't follow the rules."

Li Nuo chimed in, "That's right, the Federation's pilots are all monsters."

The reality is cruel to Cainhurst.

The temporary team consisting of Li Nuo, Xiao Wu, the idiot couple, and Amuro is so powerful that it could destroy the world.

The five of them just happened to have relatively kind personalities.

In other words, it wouldn't even be Li Nuo and Xiao Wu's turn to make a move. Even if they wanted to, they wouldn't have the chance, because Cain Hearst was already gone.

……

"It's all turned into ruins now..."

Li Nuo stared with dead fish eyes.

The shield released by the idiotic couple protected them from the impact of the meteorite.

But Cain had completely... vanished, leaving only ruins destroyed by the meteorite, a huge crater, and a raging fire burning in the snowstorm.

Xiao Wu was grabbing Amuro by the collar and slapping his head hard.

"You're going to kill us!"

"I'm sorry! But Miss Xiaowu, it's strange that you're using Li Nuo's face to do this!"

"You dare to use counter-damage!"

"I was wrong! Stop hitting me!"

Standing at the very back, Li Nuo suddenly realized something: how awesome he was for withstanding Amuro's Great Meteor Technique back then...

"How did I manage to withstand that attack and then beat this guy up...?"

Miaham tapped his shoulder.

"Um... what's going on?"

Seeing that Miaham and Derby looked like they'd lost their souls, their faces deathly pale, Li Nuo couldn't help it. These guys who were just messing around with summoning meteors as a trick were definitely not normal.

Aita ran over and bowed deeply in apology: "I'm so sorry! I thought Mr. Amuro would use a shockwave like the Zero Wave Cannon, but he summoned a meteor instead! It was my oversight; I should have had Pippen do it..."

Miaham: "Zero Wave Cannon...what is that?"

Pippen chuckled and explained, "It's a particle cannon that distorts the gravity of the air. It belongs to advanced dark magic, similar to creating an artificial black hole. It compresses magical energy by destroying magical factors and air, causing an explosion. Its power is actually greater than the meteor summoning spell, but its destructive range isn't as violent, hahaha!"

Li Nuo: "Ah... I remember now, Amuro used this move on me too. I'm getting more and more awesome..."

Amuro: "Miss Mai, stop hitting her! You're in Li Nuo's body now, his attack power is too high!"

Xiao Wu: "You know I'm in Li Nuo's body. Li Nuo's physique is so strong, he'd die from just one punch! And you fucking released a meteorite!"

The more they try to explain, the worse it gets.

Mr. Derby felt like he was going to faint. Even a fool could understand that these five were beyond the category of monsters. Aita was not lying when she said she was a god.

"Where... exactly are you from?"

"Would you believe me if I said I'm an artist?"

Li Nuo gave a casual reply.

Derby sat down on the snow, covered his head, and stared at the snow with wide eyes: "In the end, I'm the outsider."

Li Nuo: "Ah, don't think like that. I know people who are even more useless than you (Brother Ting), so you're still considered lucky. Um, there are some things I need your help with, Mr. Derby. You are an excellent academic, right?"

Miaham chimed in, "Mr. Derby is the best archaeologist; his knowledge is truly admirable!"

“I wouldn’t say that…” Derby placed his finger on his heart and said, “My heart is a sealed forbidden object, a kind of learning thing called ‘Fire Seed’, which contains a special magic. It’s a curse I received when I was young and ignorant and accidentally entered the archives. But it can help me better interpret historical information, or rather, I can understand some of the voices from the previous two eras.”

The level 200 quest is called "Cainhurst's Archaeological Records," and at least one of Derby and Miaham is involved in archaeology.

But the things Li Nuo wanted to know had nothing to do with any mission; it was just his pure curiosity.

"To be honest, before I ask you anything, let me give you a choice: do you want to leave here immediately? I have a feeling there will be more fighting...?"

"You brat, do you think I can survive if I leave here?!" Mr. Derby said the most cowardly thing in the most arrogant tone: "Strange things appear everywhere on the Night of the Hunt in Yharnam, and there is infection everywhere. If I don't have anyone with me, I won't be able to survive the whole night!"

Miaham covered his mouth and laughed: "Mr. Derby...you're really funny..."

Li Nuo said with a smile, "I only need to ask you for one thing."

Derby, like a teacher, sat cross-legged with his arms crossed and said, "Hmm."

Li Nuo asked, "What are Cain's vampires?"

Derby: "The most primitive humans in the world."

That's pretty much what Li Nuo thought.

To put it simply, Cain Hearst's vampires were the first humans to form the Third Age, Bloodborne.

The mysteries of the world originate from the Golden Cup Labyrinth buried deep beneath Yharnam. Guarding the bottom of the labyrinth is the Queen of Yharnam, and the creatures that roam the labyrinth are descendants of the Sumerians, who are tall and have pale skin.

The appearance of vampires is exactly the same as that of the Sumerian descendants.

Li Nuo was thinking about keeping an eye on the vampires, especially since there were still some vampires who survived the meteorite in Cain's area. He needed to at least make use of their value before exterminating them.

Derby's conclusion, if there are no issues, will lead the main storyline back to the earlier Second and First Ages.

That is, the world of Dark Souls and Elden Ring.

Li Nuo didn't know what those two eras would bring him; he just felt that he couldn't let go of any path that might make him stand out more, all for the sake of killing Shufarel.

He stood up.

Eta, Pippen, Xiaowu, and Amuro are all waiting for him.

"General, what should we do?" Xiao Wu was serious when she called him "General".

Of these five, the one who can be in the lead is definitely, and can only be, Li Nuo, since he is the most mentally sound.

"The fact that the main quest hasn't updated means there are still living vampires. We should drag them out and keep the leader; it might be useful."

Li Nuo walked forward, facing the wind and snow, the girl's graceful figure and neat ponytail swaying in the white world.

"Also, be careful, Fenrir and Lennon might suddenly appear."

Then he pointed at Amro.

"You! Stop releasing meteors for no reason! Xiao Wu can't use my body, and my health is about the same as a chicken's, don't kill me!"

Xiao Wu, seizing the opportunity, grabbed Amuro by the collar: "Did you hear that...? If Li Nuo's body dies, my soul will die with him."

There was another implication in her words: if Amuro continued to play around with the meteorite carelessly, she would hit him.

Amuro forced a smile: "I understand... but Miss Mai... if you hit me again, I'll really activate my counterattack, your attack power is too high."

The voice just fell.

A beam of light pierced through the flying snow in the distance, and the red light struck Amuro.

boom--!
A colossal gargoyle statue rose from the ruins. This was Cain Hearst's ultimate defensive weapon, a technological creation whose scorching rays could instantly fuse even the hardest materials in the world.

Gargoyles are made from this material.

When the smoke in front of Amuro dissipated, the gargoyle was injured by its own rays and melted into a pool of water, which seeped into the fire-ravaged ruins.

Queen Mariana, the vampire, rose from the ground, her body stiffening as she gritted her teeth and stared intently at the men who had destroyed Cain's castle.

"Damn it... what on earth is going on?"

She was still wondering if the other side had used some new technology to summon meteorites from outer space to attack Cain's castle.

The queen turned around and saw the giant dragon she had been raising gnawing on the ruins in the distance.

"Fenrir, are you planning to abandon Cain?" Cain's vampires had been slaughtered by a member of the Healing Church before, but they had never felt such despair.

The Queen's digestive system churned, and the bursting energy of the blood gem she had recently swallowed summoned the "artificial ancient god" inside the gem.

"You Healing Church have just abandoned Cainhurst like this... Then I can only rely on myself..."

The queen's body began to convulse.

A strange writhing movement emerged beneath her skin, her abdomen suddenly swelled, her gorgeous dress ripped apart, her spine twisted and elongated, and her arms split and multiplied, transforming into dozens of tentacles covered in suckers.

With a snap, her head fell backward, her jaw split open to her ears, and thick black mist surged from deep in her throat, within which countless scarlet eyeballs gleamed.

Flesh and blood tore and reformed continuously, growing larger and mutating, shattering the tranquility of Cain's night sky with the tearing sound of the Queen's transformation.

She transformed into a towering, deformed mass of flesh, with countless arms intertwined and extending outwards. Eyeballs of varying sizes squeezed out from the clasped arms, densely arranged throughout the "trunk."

The arms formed the tree trunk, and the eyeballs formed the leaves.

Like a giant tree of flesh and blood.

Mr. Derby's mouth dropped open. He felt like he was dreaming, dreaming within a dream. How could such a bizarre thing exist in this world? Miaham covered his eyes and closed his own. Just one look at this thing could make an ordinary person's brains explode.

Li Nuo stroked his soft chin: "Just by standing this thing there, it's a masterpiece of performance art... How dangerous is it?"

Xiao Wu showed the Queen's stats: "S+, but mainly because of a 'one-hit kill' move."

Queen Cainhurst, Marianne, blasphemed the body of the Old God.

[Danger Level: S+]

【Attribute: Normal】

[Skills: Loyalty (creates a continuous stream of soldiers); Seed (grows larger and spreads the curse); Black Death Eye (a black, arcane cannon of death, one-hit kill, and can take down two lives of creatures with resurrection at once; a 100% hit rate ability)]

The Cainhurst vampires, born deep within the Great Labyrinth, are descended from the Queen of Yharnam. They are the true descendants of the Sumerians and the "perfect life" in Bloodborne, but ultimately succumbed to the reproductive prowess of humanity.

Later, a group of executioners slaughtered Cain, resulting in fewer and fewer vampire survivors, and almost none of them being male.

Without Fenrir's help, the vampire clan would have disappeared long ago, and they wouldn't be as numerous as they are today.

Queen Marianne hopes to give birth to an offspring of the ancient gods, thus finding a way for vampires to survive in the world, even if it is a blasphemous act.

Everything Mariana had was destroyed by that meteorite.

She could only pin her hopes on the Blood Gem she was researching, hoping it would allow an ancient god to enter her body and merge into a new offspring of that ancient god, thus delaying the extinction of the vampire race.

She is an artificial ancient god born from the blood gem, a blasphemous creation that defies the laws of nature.

Everyone deliberately retreated behind Amuro; even Mr. Derby and Miaham learned this trick. Amuro is the kind of saint who has real power.

He spread his arms, clenched his teeth, and his face was flushed.

"No, why are you getting excited!" Xiao Wu couldn't help but complain.

“Because…” Amro paused, “because I can help those who have lost Yharnam to take revenge.”

The sky underwent a strange change.

Day encroaches on night.

A black light rose from the Queen's Tree of Flesh and Blood. The black light appeared as a black dot in the white sky. As it began to expand, time stopped and the temperature plummeted.

The eyeballs in her outstretched branches began to tremble, their pupils all looking at the black dot in the sky, releasing black smoke and dust, their roots intertwined and twisted together.

then.

A wound was torn open in the sky, and from that abyss-like crack, a huge black sun slowly emerged. It had no light, only pure darkness, like a black hole that devoured all light.

The air trembled.

Everyone was unable to move.

A viscous shadow writhed on the surface of the black sun, as if countless twisted arms were struggling within it.

In the silence, a jet-black ray burst forth from the center of the black sun.

Wherever the rays passed, everything froze instantly; the snow turned into glistening ice sculptures, and even the wind stopped moving.

Finally, the extinguished light dust surged into the sky.

Night has returned.

What fell... was Queen Marianne's tree of flesh and blood.

Amuro stood at the very front, gazing with a pitiful look at the withering trees in the distance.

100% damage reflection—that's his most terrifying power in the eyes of outsiders.

"what……"

Mariana's soul howled as she broke free from the tree, her icy fingertips grasping the "trunk" that was about to turn into thick liquid.

"No... I can't die, I can't! Aren't you an Ancient God! Even an artificial Ancient God is a god, you're blaspheming this world! I will avenge that damned Byrgenworth's arrogance! Healing Church, weren't you going to find the secret of 'Elden' with me! Fenrir!"

"..."

The answer came from a red-haired man, Pippen, who wielded a simple longsword and transformed into the red-haired pervert Adol. With a casual sweep of his sword, he severed a giant tree with a diameter of a hundred meters.

Fire shot into the sky.

Flesh and blood exploded.

The swirling snowflakes seemed to be trying to bury the historical dust of Cain Hearst.

As Pippen watched the Queen's landing spot, preparing to deliver the final blow, a pair of dark eyes suddenly appeared in his subconscious. Pippen took a step back as if facing a formidable enemy, assuming a counterattack stance.

But Fenrir was faster. He emerged from a painting that hadn't been burned, teleported to the Queen's side, and embraced the Queen, who was now completely powerless to fight any longer.

Then the guy landed slowly.

"You've finally arrived, Fenrir..."

Queen Marianne saw her as a savior.

"That group of people is terrifyingly strong. They are like the opposite of the ancient gods, and we cannot resist them."

"You've worked hard, Your Majesty, it's time to rest."

Fenrir tossed the queen in his arms behind him. Suddenly, a giant dragon that was gnawing on the remains in the distance rushed over, bit the queen, tore her into pieces, chewed and swallowed them, and exhaled a puff of putrid smoke with satisfaction.

Fenrir walked towards Lino and the others.

"Nice to meet you, or perhaps not quite. I think you should know who I am: the lord of Waterdeep? Or perhaps the acting bishop of the Healing Church... um..."

His pupils shone with the twilight of death.

"Come on, I can't let you destroy such an important place as Yharnam."

Suddenly, black lightning flashed in his pupils, and the Mortal Blade charged towards the crowd in the form of electricity.

Amuro can use damage reflection, but it only works if the opponent doesn't understand the mechanics. Once the opponent activates the skill faster than him, the skill will fail. This is how Lino beat him during the "World War," and Fenrir wants to do the same.

Xiao Wu pressed down on Amuro's shoulder: "Idiot, get out of the way!"

She foresaw Amuro's "death" in advance.

boom!
Aita took out a black frying pan and mercilessly swatted away the Mortal Blade.

Everyone was dumbfounded.

The power to sever immortality was destroyed by my mother's kitchen utensils.

“Hey…” Even Fenrir was surprised: “How did you do that?”

"Are you talking to me?"

As Aita asked questions, she walked toward Fenrir. This usually carefree and silly girl finally revealed a glimpse of her divinity. She simply walked over quietly, yet snowflakes floated around her.

When Aita stood before Fenrir, her blonde hair turned blue, and her white dress blended seamlessly with the snow.

She spoke slowly.

"You're the one who killed Phil?"

Before Fenrir could answer, she continued, "That's my and Pippen's best friend, so..."

Aita's entire body erupted with massive magical energy, preventing Fenrir, who was closest to her, from opening his eyes. He could only hear a sound from the exploding snowstorm.

"Go to hell and apologize to Phil, you piece of trash."

On this night, the power of the twin goddesses from Ys descended upon the night of the hunt.

(End of this chapter)