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Chapter 305: The Road to Living Sacrifice

The day before Leon and others discovered the road to the living sacrifice.

The Lord's room in the Thane dungeon.

“The narratives of the three scenes, Undead Settlement, Road of Living Sacrifices, and Deep Church, are connected. If they are separated separately, the effect will not be very good, so how should they be set up?”

Gong Qiying looked at the microscopic model of the Senn Underground City and turned his attention to the Fran Fortress and the Kassas Underground Cemetery.

Why do we say that the narratives of the above three scenes are continuous? Because this involves the story line of the Lord of Cinder, "Aldridge the Devourer of Gods".

As we all know, in addition to the more serious "Sage of the Deep", Aldridge's nicknames also include God Devourer and Drowning Pig. The reason why he is called Drowning Pig is because of one thing - he keeps eating people, and in the end his body swells up and turns into a black mud-like thing.

In the background story of Dark Souls III, the First Flame gradually weakened, and the requirements for those who could pass on the fire gradually decreased from the gods and heroes at the beginning to just having a huge soul that could withstand burning. Even the giant steel puppet responsible for screening the quality of the fire passers-on disappeared.

Eating humans was originally Aldridge's hobby, but after people discovered that he could strengthen his soul by eating humans, they locked him up and raised him like a pig, constantly feeding him human flesh, and finally throwing him into the original furnace to be used as firewood.

Among all the salary kings who have appeared, Aldridge is the least prestigious, as if everyone dislikes him.

Back to the scene, since Aldridge wants to eat human flesh, there must be a place that can continuously provide enough meat, such as an undead settlement.

The Undead Settlement provided human flesh, which was then escorted along the Sacrifice Road and finally delivered to the Deep Church for Aldridge to eat. After he had eaten his fill, he was sent on his way.

This is the story line of Aldridge, the god-devouring man. Of course, if you want to experience the complete story line, you have to combine it with a certain Pope who stays in the Frigid Valley.

The problem Gong Qiying is currently considering is that it is not a good idea to separate the three consecutive scenes, but if all of them are put together, there will be too many new things and he is worried that people will not be able to handle it.

Irithyll in the Frigid Valley is already a large scene. If you want to enter the Frigid Valley, you need a small doll, which needs to be obtained in the Deep Cathedral. There are already two new scenes.

Add in the Undead Settlement and the Road of Living Sacrifice, and there are four new scenes, which is no less than a major transformation for Sion.

Taking many factors into consideration, Gong Qiying had to make some choices.

In fact, he could just put an elite monster in the Catacombs of Casas that he could defeat to get the little doll, but that would be equivalent to giving up the excellent (torturing) map of the Cathedral of the Deep, and he definitely didn't want to do that.

When he was playing the game, he was tortured in the Deep Cathedral for a long time. Of course, he had to be released to make people happy.

Therefore, the Undead Settlement and the Road of Living Sacrifices must be considered for abandonment.

"To be honest, the positioning of these two maps is equivalent to that of novice maps. The monsters are not very strong. The terrain design is as good as before, but the characteristics are not very prominent. I can strengthen the monsters and terrain, but that would make it feel a bit weird. What kind of powerful monsters can there be in a place like the Undead Settlement where the old, weak, and sick gather?"

Gong Qiying thought about it and finally made a decision.

"Add a road to the front half of the Fran Fortress that connects to the Sacrifice Road. After crossing the Sacrifice Road, you will reach the Deep Church."

"As for the Undead Settlement, let's design it as a painting world for now, and then open it up as a new area when conditions permit."

He focused on designing the Deep Cathedral, while the Road of Living Sacrifice was more like an incidental feature for the narrative, so that the scene transitions would not be too abrupt.

The scenery of the Road of Living Sacrifice is similar to that of the Faran Fortress. The only distinctive monsters besides the Fat Granny and the Cage Brother are the Crow Man. Oh yes, there are also giant crabs, black knights, crystal old men, and two hostile Faran guards who are armed with the newbie's artifact - the Exile's Claymore.

This map is designed as a novice map. Newcomers who cannot beat the Fran Fortress can go to the Road of Living Sacrifice to practice.

In addition, in addition to being able to reach the Deep Church through the Road of Living Sacrifices, Gong Qiying originally wanted to design a road leading to the Deep Church in the Casas Underground Cemetery. The final destination of the two routes is the same bonfire.

But on second thought, the adventurers in the royal city could be teleported to the sacrificial site through the bonfire and then go to the path of living sacrifice. Adding a shortcut in the underground cemetery would actually reduce the mental power he could squeeze, so in the end the shortcut became a scrapped plan.

"That's it. The update of version 2.1 of Sean Dungeon is complete."

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Back to the present, Leon and his friends had just entered the Road of Living Sacrifice when they saw an unusual scene.

"Puff!"

The sound of fresh flesh being chopped continued to be heard. Leon and others hid in the nearby grass, watching the heavy-tasting events happening in front of them.

“Is that man eating people?”

Malu covered her mouth, her face full of disgust.

Following her gaze, I saw a tall and strong man, wearing rags, carrying an iron cage full of unknown but extremely foul-smelling things on his back. He was holding a heavy and strange tool that looked like an iron bar and a hatchet in both hands, and was violently cutting the zombies on the ground.

He threw the cut pieces of meat to his hunting dogs and threw the larger pieces of the body into the cage. Now he knew what was in the cage.

Seeing this, Leon remembered the incident they encountered when they first came in.

They had just walked a few steps into the Road of Living Sacrifice when they suddenly heard hurried footsteps coming from the front, and several zombies were running towards them.

They thought it was a surprise attack, but it was too disrespectful to let only a few weak zombies attack them. Leon was about to kill them, but found that the zombies did not want to attack them at all. They just kept running away, but were knocked down by the hounds that followed. Then heavier footsteps were heard from not far away.

Leon and his friends ran to the nearby bushes to hide and check the situation, and saw this scene.

He was now certain that the Cage Man was not chopping up the body to vent his anger, because his actions clearly showed that he was working.

What was his job, transporting ground meat?

Out of curiosity, Leon exchanged glances with his teammates and followed quietly.

He was responsible for keeping a close eye on the caged man, Drew was responsible for memorizing the nearby scenery and drawing a map, and Malu was responsible for quietly eliminating any monsters that might lead to exposure along the way.

The caged man walked forward slowly. The scenery along the way was not very pretty, just like the Fran Fortress without the swamp. It was hard to appreciate it. However, there were gnawed corpses and broken carriages everywhere on the road, as if they had been robbed. At this moment, something strange happened to the caged man. Several zombies dressed as bandits suddenly appeared and fought with him. Their target was the human flesh on his body.

Some people's bodies were chopped into pieces, but they were still obsessed with stuffing the torn pieces of meat into their mouths, looking like the reincarnation of starving ghosts.

Seeing that the Cage Man was defeated, Leon and the others quietly helped him, making the opponent think that he won the victory by his own strength.

The cage man roughly stuffed the zombies into the cage and continued walking forward. However, he ran into another wave of robbers after only a few steps. Leon helped him solve the problem again.

Then the third wave of robbers came.

"Are all the monsters here a little sick?" Malu couldn't help but complain: "They don't steal money but come for human flesh? The people here are too simple and honest."

The people on the Road of Living Sacrifice all like to eat human flesh. This is the first impression they have when they come in.

So why did this custom arise?
Even with their protection, the cage man's strength was not enough later. The robbers turned from mountain bandits to zombies, and then
With a "puff", when Leon and the others were busy dealing with the Crow Man, a machete chopped the cage man to the ground, and dragged the cage full of human flesh into the cave at the corner.

"Damn it, it was still robbed!"

Malu angrily kicked the Crow Man Mage in front of her, and suddenly a shrill scream came from behind. When she looked again, she found a Crow Man lying behind the rock.

Its cry was terrifying. A large group of pitch-black crow men suddenly appeared from the bushes, trees, and cliffs, and rushed towards the crowd.

Wait, there weren’t any monsters in those places originally, right? Malu had clearly explored them all just now!

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a scene of monsters piled up together, and the fighting style of this group of Crowmen is quite coordinated.

In the distance, there were Crow Man wizards casting magic, closer there were ones holding daggers, and even closer there were ones crawling on the ground. If you weren't careful you'd be ambushed and have bloody holes cut in your body by their sharp beaks and claws.

If it weren't for Leon and his group being besieged, they would have probably died long ago.

Are you sure this is a simple beginner map! ?
In the end, it was Tel who transformed into a green-skinned orc and fought his way out for the people, thus saving them from being surrounded and beaten.

When Leon and the others ran over to check on the caged man, he was already dead, and their plan to track him failed.

If they can really protect the Cage Man from death along the way, they can really follow him all the way through the Road of Living Sacrifices and reach the Deep Church.

After the Cage Man died, two spots of light appeared, one was bleeding grease and the other was a letter.

[The church needs more human flesh. The saints’ appetite is growing. We need to increase our efforts to capture them.]

This letter looks like it has been put away for a long time, perhaps more than ten years. It is really not easy to see the handwriting clearly.

"Church, human flesh? How are these two words connected?"

Who would associate a solemn and dignified church that represents God with cannibalism? What exactly are these so-called saints?
Before they could think deeply, they heard strange laughter behind them and turned around to look.

They saw a crazy woman in tattered clothes and with a weird smile on her face rushing towards them with a big knife. She was the one who had killed the man in the cage and taken his human flesh!

This is the cannibal girl in Dark Souls 3, and she is very similar to Miludret in Dark Souls 1.

"careful!"

Malu got furious when she saw it. This woman's smile was so scary, she must be a rare strong person!
Everyone became serious. As the saying goes, the wilder the smile, the stronger the strength. The cannibal girl's smile could no longer be described as wild.

So, Leon took out the backhand sword that was repaired by Andre and launched a swift slash without hesitation!

After a while.

"So weak."

Looking at the cannibal girl who fell to the ground and turned into ashes, Malu couldn't help but complain.

People all cast their eyes on her, and she immediately said, "What? What? I didn't expect that she looks so intimidating but has such poor strength."

It’s not that the cannibal girl is too weak, it’s that Leon and the others are too strong now.

Throughout the entire battle, the rock wall caused the most damage to Leon. He launched two swift slashes to instantly kill the cannibal girl, but he accidentally bumped into the rock wall.
"Let's go in and have a look."

They walked into the cave where the cannibal girl lived. When they saw the piles of bones in the cave, they couldn't help but say:
"What's wrong with the people here? Do they like to eat people so much?"

All the people encountered on the entire road of living sacrifice were human flesh fanatics. Even though the danger level here was not high, it still made people feel weird.

There was a purple light spot among the white bones, and Malu picked it up and took a look.

【Mercenary Sword Fight】

[A pair of short scimitars used by some mercenaries. They can be used to slash enemies with their sharp blades, but they are less effective against metal armor or hard scales.]

[Combat Skill: Spinning Slash]

"This is."

When she came into contact with the mercenary's sword fight, a technique on how to dual wield such weapons suddenly appeared in Malu's mind.

"seems very amazing!"

(End of this chapter)