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Chapter 253 Golden Midas

On the trails of the Golden Forest, soldiers were patrolling under the leadership of the captain.

"Everyone be on alert! The intruder is nearby!"

The soldiers came and went, some meticulously, some just pretending.

Among them, a soldier with bad luck discovered the traces of the invaders.

"Intruder! You came just in time to try the ax my wife prepared for me!"

With a flash of sword light, the soldier fell to the ground before he could react, and his ax was in the opponent's hand.

Xiaode handed the sword to his left hand, waved the battle ax with his right hand, nodded and said:

"Your wife has a great axe."

The soldier collapsed and cried: "No—! My axe!"

A voice came from behind: "Take care of your head first rather than your axe."

The soldier instinctively wanted to turn his head, but then he felt a chill on his neck and everything fell into darkness.

The enemy was dispatched neatly, but the opponent's shout just now attracted the attention of others, and the squad leader led the soldiers to surround him!

Xiao De and Xiao Pa immediately got into a fighting stance, back to back. After a moment of confrontation, it was the Golden Kingdom's soldier captain who couldn't hold back and launched the attack first!

Xiao De used his sword and ax to hold the opponent's long sword, and then knocked the sword from his hand with a flick. Xiaode followed up with another thrust, directly piercing the soldier captain's throat.

With a "puff", Xiaode drew out his sword, and the soldier captain fell in front of him.

"kill--!!"

However, the captain's death did not scare away the soldiers. Instead, they all roared and rushed towards the two brothers!

"bring it on!"

The two raised their swords to fight!

……

The two brothers advanced all the way. Although soldiers from the Golden Kingdom came one after another to stop them, due to poor organization, they were scattered by the two brothers as soon as they gathered. In the end, they had to flee in defeat.

The two rushed through the checkpoint and went deep into the heart of the Golden Kingdom.

When they arrived here, there were more soldiers, which made the brothers a little wary. They did not rush forward again and were ready for a positional battle.

But what the two of them didn't expect was that the soldiers were all shouting in panic, ignoring them, running past the two of them, and rushing towards the exit of the forest.

Xiaode and Xiaopa both looked confused.

What happened?

Xiao Pa thought for a while, then suddenly turned the sword in his hand, slapped the leg of a soldier who was running past him, put him to the ground, then squatted down and asked:

"What's going on? What are you running for?"

The soldier was very frightened: "King...King Midas is crazy! He wants to turn us all into gold! If we don't run away, it will be too late!"

Xiao Pa looked surprised and exchanged a look with his brother.

Xiaode asked: "Midas, where are they?"

"It's at the very end of the level here!"

Xiao De and Xiao Pa got the answer, and did not embarrass the frightened soldier and let him leave on his own.

The two of them looked deep into the level and saw the high morale and fighting spirit on each other's faces.

"You know what I'm thinking, brother."

"Of course! The legendary King Midas went crazy and turned everyone into gold, and a pair of heroic brothers appeared at this time, defeated Midas and saved the Kingdom of Gold! Isn't this what we thought? Do you want an adventure?"

Xiao Pa was a little helpless: "...Is this what we want?"

Xiaode said, "Of course! Looking at all this, it looks like a heroic story in an epic!"

"Let's go, let our brothers' reputation spread throughout this land today!"

Xiao Pa still wanted to complain, but in any case, fighting Midas was indeed their pursuit, so the two of them still carried their weapons and headed inward.

Not far away, the two heard roars and vibrations coming from inside the level. Xiaode became excited at that time and shouted:

"King Midas! You will face your death today, because in front of you are the brothers Deimos and Paneus who inherited the blood of Poseidon! Drink ah ah ah -"

He picked up his ax and sword and charged forward with a roar!

Although he didn't completely agree with his brother's actions, it was naturally impossible for Xiao Pa to leave him alone at this time, so he followed closely.

Then, the two of them turned the corner and saw an unexpected but somewhat familiar scene.

"——Yuzu, a powerful blow to the ground!"

Wearing a black King's Hand suit and a Hannya mask, Yuzu held a sledgehammer turned into a naginata in both hands, fell from the sky, and hit the ground heavily with one hammer!

Where the sledgehammer fell, there was an old man with an old face, skinny body and short stature. He wears a crown and is richly dressed, obviously of high status.

However, his whole body, from the decoration of his robes to his skin and pupils, was golden, and his whole body seemed to be a statue made of gold.

This is the Golden King, Midas.

All around him were things that had been turned into golden statues. There are rocks, there are wild boars, and there are soldiers of his own.

Among the golden statues all over the ground, Midas wandered in a daze until he bumped into Li You and his party.

Seeing the heavy hammer falling on his head, Midas was so frightened that he cried out in fear. He backed up on his hands and knees and barely managed to avoid being hit directly by the sledgehammer.

But when the heavy hammer fell on the ground, it also cracked the ground on all sides. Spider-web-like gaps crawled in all directions, and the strong shock wave shook Midas off the ground.

Not flying very high, Midas seemed to have turned his body into gold, but was still able to move, so he was much heavier than he looked.

But Yuzu was already prepared. He swung the sledgehammer in his hand and swung it upwards, sending Midas flying high like a tennis ball!

Li You on the side has already sheathed his sword, and his energy has already been accumulated. Seeing Midas flying into the sky, he instantly drew his knife and dodged!

Secret · Dragon Flash!

He learned the secret sword skills from his cheap brother Ashina Isshin, and generated a sharp sword energy, dragging a vacuum wave towards Midas in mid-air.

When swinging the sword, Li You also activated the ability of the moonlight blade, so the front part of the flying sword energy was still shining with green moonlight.

In the astonished gazes of the two brothers Xiao De and Xiao Pa, the sword energy easily split Midas in two from the middle!

The remains on the left and right sides of Midas fell to the ground, and now they completely turned into lifeless golden statues.

After Li You swung the sword, he turned around and sheathed it, as if he had expected this result.

that's the truth.

Combining Lei Guang Yueying's special skill Moonlight Blade with Dragon Flash, this is one of Li You's most destructive moves at present, and its cutting ability can be said to be intimidating.

Li You and the others had already tried it just now. Even if Midas' body was just touched, the golden ability would be activated. Even the bullets fired by the gun could not escape, and the lethality was greatly offset.

However, if an ordinary weapon cuts it down, it will instantly turn into gold. The bronze ax in Li You's hand has turned into a golden ax, and he can get off work at the speed of light.

But for Li You, this is not a difficult characteristic to deal with. If he wanted to, he could use the most brainless method, take out a weapon with infinite bullets and slowly scrape Midas to death.

The bullets were very ineffective against him, but they were not completely ineffective. What's more, Li You still had an anti-material sniper rifle in his hand.

But now that they are in this world, Li You decided to be more gregarious, so he finally chose to deal with him with a knife.

The effect is also very significant.

Li You, Yuzi, Ai Ji, and Ye Ge, who was flying in the sky and shouted unhappily, "It's not fair, I can't beat this guy," gathered around Midas's body.

The hammer head in Yuzi's hand has also turned into gold. However, he only stomped the sledge hammer on the ground, and the golden biomass materials on the hammer's head shattered into pieces, turning into gold flakes on the ground, while the naginata underneath remained the same as before.

"How to deal with this corpse?" Ai Ji, who like Ye Ge had no chance to perform and only cleared some soldiers, asked.

Li You thought for a while and said, "How about I move these things away and see if I can sell them for gold?"

A voice interrupted from the side: "I'm afraid that won't work."

Li You and others turned around to look, and it was Xiao Pa, one of the two brothers who had just come over, who was speaking.

The two brothers were somewhat familiar with each other. Fortunately, Aiji had been with Li You for so long and was used to the sudden increase in friends. At that time, he asked without any surprise: "Why?"

Xiaopa replied: "King Midas, his golden touch is more like a curse than a gift from God. The gold transformed by his hands is only specious and different from real gold."

Li You seemed to understand, and he had seen similar settings before, so he asked: "It means that these only look like gold, but they cannot actually be used as gold, right?"

Xiaopa nodded.

"In this case, let's forget it." Li You said without regret, "Then there is nothing valuable here, let's go."

But at this time, his brother Xiaode quickly stopped him: "Wait a minute! Although King Midas' gold cannot be sold, his head is also very valuable! This is the head of the Golden King. Take it Take it back and your name will spread throughout the world!"

Li You was a little surprised: "A Midas head can make me famous all over the world? Is he so powerful?"

The little Pa on the side also helped to explain: "It is indeed very powerful. King Midas has lived for hundreds of years and has never been attacked by anyone. His head can naturally make people famous."

Li You was thoughtful. He didn't know some of the settings of this world. It seemed that he had to read more and ask more questions.

However, Midas' head was indeed useless to him. A dead Midas could no longer turn stone into gold, so holding it was meaningless.

So he said: "I am just a traveler, there is no point in coming here. If you are interested, how about I leave it to you?"

Xiao Pa was stunned, and Xiao De waved his hands repeatedly: "How can this be done? This is your trophy! Although our brothers are just starting out, it is impossible for us to pretend to claim other people's military exploits. It will smear the blood of our ancestors!"

Xiaopa also said: "In the past, there were fools who pretended to steal the deeds of the great hero Hercules, and ended up becoming the laughing stock of all Greece. We will not do such things."

Looking at their serious expressions, Li You thought for a moment and gave a last smile: "Don't worry, I don't mean to give you the credit and reputation or anything. It's just that you have also seen that my companions and I are outsiders. , I am completely unfamiliar with this place, so I have to ask you to help with this kind of thing. Of course, I will also pay you."

The two brothers suddenly realized: "That's no problem!"

Xiaode even said: "The reward is waived. It would be great if we could share some of the wine we had before!"

Li You laughed: "Okay!"

The two brothers immediately took action and disposed of Midas' body. Li You's knife cut off Midas diagonally from the shoulder, so his head was left intact.

After Xiaode and Xiaopa cut it off, they tied the head with a rope and handed it to Li You. Li You handed it to Yuzi with his backhand and let him hang it on his waist. Then, the group of people found an open space together. Li You took out the wine flask and wine glasses as promised, and filled them up for the two brothers.

Xiao De was impatient and immediately picked up the glass and drank it all. Then he was stunned for a moment: "This taste... is different from last time, but it is also very good!"

Xiao Pa then drank the wine and thought about it: "Compared to the previous one, this wine seems to be stronger. Well...it has a taste that wine can't match."

Li You also poured a glass and tasted it himself, and found that the water pouring out of the jug had turned into turbid wine.

The two brothers are quite good at wine tasting.

It was only then that Xiaode remembered to ask: "By the way, these are your companions, right? Can you introduce them?"

Li You didn't hide anything, and said openly: "This is the general in our team, his name is Youzi. That one is our scout and hunter, his name is Ai Ji."

"What's floating in the sky is a mascot, a talking sword. It's of no use, so don't worry about it."

Ye Ge was furious: "It's useless to tell anyone!"

Xiao De looked at Ye Ge in mid-air with some distraction. Ye Ge was so impatient that he wanted to kill someone, so he uttered: "...so handsome!"

Ye Ge's topaz eyes suddenly softened, and the murderous aura just now disappeared instantly. It flew around Xiao De and said, "Although your equipment is shabby, your vision is good! You are specifically allowed to call me by my first name! Remember, my name is Ye Ge, and I am invincible. Magic sword!"

Xiaode was very excited: "Oh! So awesome, so awesome!"

Ye Ge drifted: "That's right, with one swing of my sword, I can cut a monster as high as a mountain in half!"

Druid: "Too strong!"

Not to mention that this person had a sword, one dared to say it, and the other dared to believe it. Xiaopa still remained calm and collected. He looked at Yuzi and Aiji politely, and then came to the conclusion:

Not to mention this giant-like warrior, even that woman is probably not much worse than the two brothers.

As for Li You, he couldn't see through it at all.

Xiao Pa was getting more and more surprised, but there was no hostility at all. He asked openly and honestly: "Li You, you are not an ordinary person in the place where you came from, right? You both have such strength, you must have been to many places?"

Li You thought for a while and said, "I have indeed been to many places. It's a long story."

Xiao Pa was fascinated: "That's amazing. You look very young."

Li You smiled and said, "She should be much older than you, but the adults over there don't have the habit of growing beards."

"On the other hand, you are still young and will have plenty of opportunities to become stronger in the future."

Xiao Pa was also very confident: "Yes! We will definitely do it."

While the group was talking, Ai Ji suddenly changed his expression and quickly changed from sitting on the ground to half-crouching. His eyes narrowed slightly and his ears moved, as if he was listening to something.

Then, she looked at Li You: "Someone is coming. They should be soldiers from the Golden Kingdom, and there are quite a few of them."

Li You immediately stood up: "In that case, let's go. Little... Deimos, Panius, are you coming?"

The two brothers looked at each other and nodded: "Let's travel together!"

[Deimos and Paneus became companions. 】

...There is no such system prompt, it was assigned by Li You himself.

He raised the knife and said, "Let's go, we are still far from our destination."

……

Three days passed quickly.

As mentioned before, although the game only has twelve levels in total, judging from the map, the brothers of the Double-Edged Warrior experienced a long journey, traveling through most of the Greek peninsula from north to south.

So between the twelve levels of the game, it may be a boring journey most of the time.

Maybe it's for this reason that every time the protagonist reaches a new level, he loses all the weapons he got before, right?

During these three days, Li You and others traveled with the brothers and fought together.

However, after leaving King Midas's checkpoint, there were very few soldiers on the road, only one or two occasionally, and other times they were mostly gangsters.

Such a journey is undoubtedly boring for the two brothers who are eager for adventure, but they have to go.

Therefore, outside of time on the road, they would invite Li You and others to discuss and exchange ideas.

It is said that the two brothers used to compete with each other, but they were both taught by the same master and could not break the moves, so they became more and more boring as they fought, and then they stopped competing so much.

Now, it was rare to meet a traveler from a foreign country whose fighting style was very different from theirs. Naturally, the young and passionate brothers could not hold back and wanted to ask for advice.

However, Xiao De and Xiao Pa's challengers were also Li You and Ai Ji. As for Yu Zi, after the two brothers came together one time and were easily beaten away by him, they gave up trying to compete with Yu Zi.

In Xiaopa's words, if there is still a way to fight in a life-and-death duel, but if you have to stick to the point during the sparring session, you can't use it at all, so there is no point in fighting.

There was no one to play with, which made Yuzi a little disappointed.

So Li You asked Ye Ge to accompany him to play ghosts and catch people, and Ye Ge acted as a human being.

"Li You——! Remember this!!"

Ignoring Ye Ge who was being chased around by Yuzi's tentacles, Li You tied a piece of cloth around his fist and waved to Xiaopa on the opposite side: "Come on."

Xiaopa shouted low, rushed forward, and grabbed Li You's arms with both hands!

Although the two brothers Xiaode and Xiaopa are not built like strong men, their muscles are unambiguous. They are half a head taller than Li You.

Xiaopa also wanted to rely on his strength to force Li You to give up dealing with him and wrestle with him. In the previous wrestling, Li You used modern fighting techniques to easily remove the strength of both of them and knock them down with their backhands. Xiao Pa was also impressed by this, so he specifically targeted them at this moment.

It's a pity that he misunderstood one thing. Although Li You's skills are not bad, what is even stronger is his strength.

He faced Xiaopa's grasped hands and held them back without hesitation. The two of them immediately stood in a stalemate and began a competition of pure strength!

A look of surprise flashed across Xiao Pa's face. He didn't understand why Li You gave up his advantage.

But then, the huge power coming from his hands made him look shocked.

There is such a thing! ?

But it was already too late. Li You continued to exert more force with his hands, and soon overpowered Xiaopa, pushing him back and gradually overpowering him.

Xiaopa struggled several times, but couldn't push Li You away. He became a little anxious and suddenly let out a war cry!

"Drink ah ah ah——!!"

A vague red blood energy instantly rose from his body, and the strength of his arms immediately increased by at least 20%, which in turn overwhelmed Li You!

But Li You's eyes lit up.

This is it! This is what I want to see!

This special power he named "blood energy" made him feel particularly familiar after sensing it last time.

Now it seems even more obvious. This is an amplification effect that can be actively activated. Judging from the performance, it is very similar to the combat skill "Battle Cry" in the Dark Souls series.

However, the source of this amplified power comes from the bodies of the two brothers, probably from their blood.

Maybe, they both did inherit some divine blood? It's just too thin, so it's not within the scope of the title of God Killer.

This large amount of information and thoughts passed through Li You's mind in an instant, and his hands were not slow. The energy in his body flowed and adhered to his fists, canceling out the increase in Xiaopa's battle cry and pushing him back again. .

"Dong--" Li You exerted his last effort, and Xiaopa could no longer hold on and fell to the ground.

"Are you okay?" Li You stretched out his hand to him.

Xiao Pa didn't make any fuss, grabbed Li You's hand and stood up: "I'm convinced!"

Li You smiled slightly. Both brothers have pretty good personalities. They have self-esteem and self-confidence, but they don't set their sights on others. It's good that they can learn with an open mind.

"I'm not convinced——!! Let's compete again, compete again!!"

Just as Li You finished thinking this, shouts from the side reached his ears.

Li You: "..."

Xiaopa: "..."

On the other side, Xiao De's face was obviously red and swollen. He chased after Aiji and kept saying: "What you did just now doesn't count! You are playing dirty tricks! Let's compete again!"

Aiji was very annoyed: "Why did I play dirty tricks? You said it yourself. If I let you leave the circle on the ground, you would win. Now you don't admit it?"

Xiaode: "But...but what is that! Why can you attack with poison? How could I wait there?"

Aiji spread his hands: "Then you still lose, doesn't it? You have admitted it yourself."

Xiaode was speechless for a moment.

"Then...then I've stepped out of the circle, and you still punch me!"

Ai Ji: "Didn't you say it yourself, if you get hit in the face, you lose?"

Xiaode: "..."

"Anyway, let's compete again!"

Aggie's mouth twitched: "Let's go and play!"

Xiaode wanted to say something else, but Xiaopa, who came after hearing the sound, had already grabbed his hair and dragged him away.

"It hurts, it hurts, Panius, let me go!"

The farce ends here.

All in all, the group's journey was quite peaceful and they didn't encounter too many enemies on the way.

Two days later, they encountered a forest checkpoint again, this time with more guards. However, with Li You's full firepower, the defenders collapsed faster.

After passing this level, you come to the deepest part of the Golden Forest, which is also the southernmost and most dangerous place in Midas' kingdom.

Ye Ge, who was humming all the way, floated down from the sky and said, "Hey, Li You. There seems to be a big guy in front of you."

Li You was not surprised: "I know, we came here just to find him."

When he answered, his eyes had already passed through the sparse woods and looked towards the distant wilderness.

There, you can see a huge human foot cast in bronze, being buried in the soil. As for more parts, it was beyond his sight.

That is the final BOSS in the Golden Kingdom area—the bronze giant, Talos!

(End of this chapter)