Gods, Ashes Descend

Chapter 35 Disheartened Brother's Teaching and Starting Again

The Immortals' swordsmanship is characterized by its agility. Although greatswords don't seem to go hand in hand with agility, these guys have really mastered the art of swordplay.

The Undead Legion's style emphasizes practicality, abandoning defense in favor of offense, and their equipment, spells, and actions are devoid of unnecessary embellishments.

The Undead Legion wears light armor, wields a greatsword in their right hand and a short sword in their left. Their fighting style may be inherited from Artorias's style, emphasizing the combination of footwork, slashing, and physical skills. They use their daggers for parrying and as a foothold on the ground when sliding, making them as light and agile as wolves.

Most importantly, he's handsome. Whether he's strong or not is just a matter of one version, but whether he's handsome or not is a matter for a lifetime.

At the entrance to the sacrificial site, Disheartened Bro resumed his tutorial mode, but before that, Wood said to Levi.

"Li, you didn't accept the wolf blood, nor did you accept the rigorous challenges in the Crucible Forest to extinguish the three furnace fires. Although I don't know why you can't teleport using campfires in this world, rules are rules, so I can't give you the Undead Legion uniform. Besides, you're too weak right now, it would be embarrassing to wear it out."

Li Wei had no objection to this. As for the Farron Fortress, that cesspool, let whoever wants to go, go. Anyway, Li Wei didn't want to wallow in that toxic filth.

However, Li Wei was somewhat dissatisfied with being disliked by Brother Huixin. He raised the greatsword in his hand with one hand and swung it a few times.

"Brother Wood, what do you mean? I'm carrying this thing that weighs a hundred or eighty pounds with ease, and you're complaining that I'm weak?"

But then Wood explained.

"You've only reached the level of an elite warrior, far from being a strongman. Moreover, the power enhanced by your soul is just the foundation; true power doesn't come from enhancement."

During the explanation, Li Wei learned that 10 points in attributes meant an ordinary person, 20 points meant a warrior, 30 points meant an elite, 40 points meant an extraordinary person, 50 points meant a powerful man with a title, who could be called a strongman, and 60 points meant a demigod, such as Gundyr, the human tank.

Moreover, attribute enhancements are all balanced, and cannot exceed 5 points at most. There won't be any absurd situations like someone with 60 points of strength being able to uproot a willow tree or drag a tank around, only to be crushed to death because their physique is insufficient.

However, vitality, intelligence, and faith are three attributes that don't correlate with physical stats, so whatever.

As the formal lesson began, Wood started with zero frames, swinging his greatsword and spinning rapidly in place twice. On the second strike, he crouched down, sprang up, and then used the momentum to perform a backflip and move one body length backward.

Upon landing, he launched himself forward, his body falling at an angle, the dagger slamming into the ground. His body spun around a large circle with the sword, then he turned around, stuck the dagger in again, spun around once more, and then sprang up, spinning twice in the air before delivering a vertical slash that smashed the floor in front of him to pieces.

Wood stood up, half-crouched, and thrust his sword diagonally forward. He stepped forward and swung the dagger in his right hand, pulling it back and forth. He then raised his sword and slashed upwards, tilting his body so that the sword was above his right shoulder.

Wood took another step forward, forcefully swinging his arm and twisting his waist to deliver another spinning slash. Just as he was about to continue twisting his waist and jumping up, a cracking sound came from his waist, freezing him in place.

After a while, Wood, clutching his back, slowly stood up, glanced at Li Wei with a hint of regret, whose eyes seemed to say, "Coach, I want to learn this," and then spoke.

"It's already been burned once, so its strength has been greatly reduced. Forget about the full set, it's too much for it. You can practice on your own, I'll just watch."

Remember, use your waist to generate power, and also use the momentum from the sword to move; otherwise, you'll be waiting for a broken back.

"Oh! But how did you jump up with that Hawk Slash?"

"What 'Chicken-Eagle Slash'?"

After Levi explained, Wood rolled his eyes.

"That's called Wolf Leap. Stop joking around and practice slowly on your own. Take a break when you twist your back."

Whether it was tough on his back or not, Levi didn't know, but those two spinning motions on the ground would definitely wear out his knees. He changed his pants into knight's armor with knee pads before starting to practice. (Both Elden's Ring and Dark Souls 3 have Undead Legion Greatsword mods; those interested can try them out.)

But every time I try to spin the dagger by plunging it into the ground, it never spins properly and just falls to the ground like a lump of meat.

Sitting to the side watching Li Wei make a fool of himself during practice, Wood first chuckled, then suddenly thought of something, muttered "Captain," and buried his head in self-pity and dejection.

Besides practicing how to use the greatsword, Li Wei had another matter to attend to: he had to deal with Mr. Guda who had skipped class, as there was still a Spiral Sword stuck in his body.

When Li Wei carried a rocket launcher, intending to tell Guddar that times had changed.

Although Gundyr, the demigod, had his mind corrupted by the Abyss, he used his thick armor and physical strength to withstand the bombardment of the rocket launcher, and savagely charged over, pinning Levi to the wall and cleaving him in two with a single blow.

They used a powerful and miraculous method to tell Li Wei that the times had not changed.

Unconvinced, Li Wei once again took two grenade launchers to provoke Gundyr. This time, he knocked Gundyr into the second phase, but Gundyr in his oily mode jumped several meters high and more than ten meters away, and smashed the surrounding area with a heavy slash.

Although Li Wei dodged the obvious attack with a leap, before he could even regain his footing, a sweeping strike sent him flying back again.

Li Wei, battered by the harsh reality, lay on the stairwell like a salted fish, but the fact that his head was resting on the Fire Keeper's lap was a different story.

The Fire Keeper was puzzled by this.

"Lord Ash, you can't defeat Gundyr alone, why don't you take the others with you?"

Li Wei silently thought to himself, "If I kill Guda with my men, how can I seek your comfort?"

But what he says is righteous and noble.

"This is a challenge I'm taking on myself; I don't need anyone else's help."

However, when it came to manpower, Li Wei decided to expand the team again, increasing the number of people to three hundred. Although he had more than a thousand human black essences, he still had to leave some for consumption, so as not to run out of human essences to use and his underlings would go crazy again.

With more people at the sacrificial site, Li Wei felt that the room issue needed to be arranged. Otherwise, every time he sought comfort from the Fire Keeper, he would be stared at by at least dozens of gossipy eyes, which would make him feel uneasy even if he had a thick skin.

We really need to get some cement, otherwise, three hundred people lying on the ground would be too much to bear.

Time at the sacrificial site was imperceptible in the face of the ever-setting sun, but after a round of human depletion, Li Wei also began a new round of time travel for the sake of the team.

Although Gundyr wasn't killed by Livi, Livi tore the spiral sword off his body.

Therefore, this time Li Wei didn't have to painstakingly draw talismans on the ground; instead, he directly activated teleportation. This means that even if Li Wei were to die, as long as the campfire with the spiral sword still burning was still there, he could go back and cause trouble again.

Ashes and the Fire Keeper

(Fire Keeper! The one in the game is still the prettiest.)

(Disheartened Guy without a helmet, wearing the complete Undead Squad uniform)

(Gudar the Macho Man)

(Altitude comparison of Kudat)