When I traveled through time and became a player, I just wanted to commit suicide

"Are you ready to leave? Please give me your hand, close your eyes and imagine the blessed point you want to reach. It will only take a moment."

Melina gently held Li Shanren's hand, and then the two of them beside the blessing point turned into golden light and disappeared without a trace.

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Platinum Village is a hidden little village located in the southwest of Lienia. It is built in the crevice of the mountain wall. The lake water under the mountain wall is inexplicably dirty and mottled, with oily green, light black and light yellow mixed together, presenting a corrupt color.

The trees growing in this pond have lost all their leaves, leaving only dry trunks and branches. The bare branches are twisted and stretched towards the sky, as if trying their best to escape from this place.

Li Shanren rode Torret in the pool. Hundreds of meters above his head was a gray cliff dome that blocked the sunlight. The light here basically came from outside the side dome.

After walking for a while, he encountered a hillside at the foot of the mountain wall and immediately turned up.

After walking along the hillside for a few minutes, we could see hunched corpses lying on the ground from time to time, and the surrounding grass and trees were stained with silver blood.

Suddenly, he saw a female warrior wearing a dark silver crown squatting silently by the roadside. In front of her were more than a dozen corpses piled up into a small hill. Under the hill of corpses lay dried blood mixed with red and silver.

Li Shanren dismounted and greeted her.

"Long time no see, Neferi."

Nepheli was also a Faded One of the Round Table Hall. They had defeated "Limb-Replacing" Greg together. Without her help, Li Shanren would not have been able to defeat the Fragment King without any danger.

The female warrior in the wild battle skirt and shoulder armor raised her head slightly and recognized the Faded One in front of her with whom she had fought side by side in the city of Stonewell.

"Well... it's you."

She responded hoarsely, then looked back at the mountain of corpses in front of her.

"When you came here, you must have seen the corpses all over the ground. This village was massacred, but they were powerless to resist. The weak could only be ravaged, plundered, and killed. It was really a scene like hell on earth..."

At this point, Nepheli suddenly lowered her voice, "I saw a similar scene when I was a child..."

There was a hint of bewilderment in his tone.

Li Shanren was silent for a while, then asked, "The person who caused this massacre may not have left yet. Do you want to go up and take a look?"

He didn't expect to actually meet Nepheli here.

In the original plot of the game, Nepheli would indeed come to investigate the massacre in Platinum Village, but after it became a reality, Li Shanren didn't think that the other party would stay here forever. Maybe the other party had already completed the investigation and left on her own.

Speaking of which, this was not the first time that Li Shanren passed by Platinum Village, but he did not run into Nefeli nearby on the roadside.

However, it was precisely because he did not see Nefeli that he had never formally explored the Platinum Village area. Of course, on the other hand, it was also because there was really nothing in Platinum Village that attracted him.

This time, Li Shanren also planned to explore on his own if he still couldn't see Nefeli.

To be fair, he still had a good impression of this compassionate female warrior.

Hearing Li Shanren's words, Nefeli nodded in agreement, "You are right. We should investigate. I am no longer the helpless child I was back then. Although it is too late, I will let those violent people know clearly that I, Nefeli, am now a warrior."

"In that case, you go into the village first. I want to pray for them here and come back later."

After saying that, Nepheli took off an axe from her waist, put it against her forehead, closed her eyes slightly, and said no more.

Seeing this, Li Shanren did not disturb her anymore and turned around to continue walking up the hillside. Since this was already the entrance to the village, he did not summon Torret to come out for transportation.

On the way, he made some preparations for the exploration.

Due to the decline in his intelligence attribute, he can no longer even use the Meteorite Staff. If he wants to be a wizard again, he can only pick up his original Stargazing Staff or the Demi-Human Queen's Staff that only requires 10 points of intelligence.

But this would waste his current strength and agility. With his current strength, even the legendary weapon Sword Skeleton Greatsword, which he needed to hold with both hands to barely lift, can now be wielded freely, and it is enough to pose a threat to the enemy without any skills.

But his endurance is not high, so he probably needs to rest after swinging a few times...

Strength determines whether he can lift it, and endurance determines how many times he can swing it continuously.

Of course, the greater his strength, the less stamina he would need each time he swung his weapon, and the two physical qualities went hand in hand.

When it comes to choosing weapons, Li Shanren really suffers from choice difficulty. With his current attributes, he can basically use all weapons except those that require additional faith, intelligence or sensory attributes.

After hesitating for a long time, he decided to use a long sword, a longbow, and a Kalia knight's shield.

Before coming to Platinum Village, Li Shanren went back to the Round Table Hall and asked the blacksmith Xiu Gu to forge and strengthen his weapons.

In addition, he had asked Melina to upgrade himself to a higher level before, and basically spent all the remaining runes he had.

Currently, his level has been raised to 90, and he has temporarily allocated attribute points to "focus", raising the upper limit of the focus value to 95.

Unfortunately, the 104 concentration points required to summon the Headless Horseman are still insufficient, so for now I can only make do with summoning other ordinary ashes.

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Walking on the dimly lit mountain path, Li Shanren moved forward cautiously step by step, holding a longbow in his hand, and two Greg soldiers guarding him one in front and one behind.

There were nothing but corpses on the road. I walked for seven or eight minutes and didn't see a single living person. This shows how cruel the massacrers were.

The name of this village is Platinum Village, and the villagers living here are naturally the sons of Platinum.

However, they are not the second-generation Platinum Sons of the Blood Dynasty whose heads look like funny toads, but the first-generation Platinum Sons who look more like normal people.

The Sons of Platinum are artificial life forms, and whether they are the first or second generation, they all have their own flaws.

The defect of the second generation of Platinum Sons is mental retardation, while the first generation has deformed and weak legs and cannot walk. They are a bit like the young apprentices created by the Full Moon Queen using birth magic in the academy's library.

It is precisely because they have such defects that the Sons of Platinum are not regarded as normal lives, and are not even born blessed by the Golden Tree. Therefore, they suffer discrimination and enslavement everywhere, and being killed wantonly is commonplace.

In this era when the Elden Ring is broken and the law is collapsing, no one cares about them.

Five or six minutes later, Li Shanren arrived at a dilapidated little village. Apart from a few low stone houses, the scene seemed no different from before, with corpses still everywhere.

"The village... the village is finished, Mr. Elpas, please hide well..."

Next to the dried-up well, a skinny old man's soul knelt on the ground, stretched his hands upward, and repeated this sentence with a sad expression.

Li Shanren silently passed by the white soul and turned on the lantern at his waist. The pale yellow light illuminated his surroundings to avoid sneak attacks.

At this time, he was standing at the fork in the road in the village. After thinking about it, he decided to get the teardrop larvae first.

A few minutes later, he came to the backyard of a tall stone house and found the teardrop larvae left there next to the body of the secret agent near a sarcophagus.

The appearance of the teardrop larva is very much like a budding fetus. It does not even have a basic shape, but is just a curled up mass of silver flesh. However, it feels more like metal, and there is a blood-colored fiber similar to an umbilical cord extending from the bottom.

With it, I can go to the Full Moon Queen to use the birth magic and adjust my body back to normal.

At this point, the main purpose of coming to Platinum Village has been achieved.

Li Shanren stopped where he was and thought for a while, then took off the longbow from behind and, escorted by two Greg soldiers, walked towards the high slope on the left side of the village.

In the original game, there should be surviving villagers on the road who would come out to attack, but the reality is that there are almost no survivors in the entire village, so naturally no one would attack them.

After walking up the slope for dozens of steps, Li Shanren finally met the first living person in the village.

The man was holding a strange dagger and a black bottle, standing quietly beside several corpses. He was wearing a thick cloak woven from black feathers, and his attire was very different from that of the villagers here.

Moreover, there was blood on his knife.

It was obvious that the other party was not only an outsider, but also the murderer who slaughtered the village.

The man turned his head and saw other outsiders. He swung the black bottle in his hand without any hesitation, spraying out a large cloud of black and gold dust.

Seeing this, Li Shanren immediately took two Greg soldiers and retreated seven or eight steps.

"Bang bang bang-!"

After the dust lingered in the air for half a second, it quickly turned into a series of violent explosions. If someone passed by at that time, they would definitely suffer serious injuries.

After retreating to a safe area, the Greg soldiers serving as the rear guard decisively raised their crossbows and shot at the man.

On the other side, the soldiers serving as the vanguard held up their brass shields, stomped their feet on the ground, roared, and fearlessly charged at the enemy with their pickaxes raised.

"Whoosh-"

The tip of the arrow was wrapped with strands of golden lightning, and it shot at the outsider with lightning speed, interrupting his second attempt to swing the black bottle.

The ashes and souls of these two Greg soldiers have been strengthened five times by Li Shanren. Like the Lost Knight and the Headless Knight, they changed after the third strengthening.

Among them, the soldiers serving as the vanguard will use many common combat skills, such as battle shouts, arrow spinning slash, arrow upward slash, endurance, blind attack, etc., and will even use "determination".

When soldiers serving as guards use crossbows, they sometimes shoot enchanted crossbow arrows, such as the lightning crossbow arrow they just shot.

Although the two of them are still not as good as the Lost Knight, with the cooperation of each other, they are enough to deal with elite opponents in another world, and even gold-level enemies can be slightly restrained.

Soon, the outsider was knocked down by a pickaxe from the vanguard soldiers, and then Li Shanren drew his longbow and shot two arrows, killing him on the spot.

The opponent is not good at close combat.

This outsider belonged to a group of perfumers, who were originally highly respected herbalists.

Since the beginning of the Shattered War, the herbalists who used to be peaceful were also sent to the battlefield. Under the tempering of blood and fire, their nature of curing diseases and saving lives gradually changed, and they became perfumers who could use pollen to make poison powder and gunpowder.

Among them, some perfumers voluntarily drink perfume powder in order to gain more powerful strength, thereby affecting their body and brain, gradually falling into self-destruction and madness, and embarking on the path of depravity. Therefore, they are called "corrupted perfumers."

The outsider in front of him is a fallen perfumer.

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Thanks to Liu Jie Fa from Evil Dragon Valley, Yuan Feng who loves to eat Zhongshan Lu Dou Zong, Jiang Bei from Gu Yue River, Yun Yue ヽ Xing Huan, Jin Feng Yu Lu, 〈⊙_⊙〉, Gu Hei Hei Hei, D. K., Qian Shou from Zha Tian Gang, ~Wanderer~, This Life is Crazy, Syracuse Good Citizen, An Ren Ben 242, Sui Shu Bai, Yuan Xing., \Life Without Regrets\, Dai Yan Xi, Pencil Core 1, Yun Luo Kan Ri, Jun Ma Lu who loves to eat breakfast rice porridge, and Yi Bai l for their rewards!

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