Bane left Piheim in anger because of the ridicule from the other magicians there, and instead began searching for the "Big Hat" in the hope that he could guide him.

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Benjamin, an undead who had previously cooperated with Lu Ming, possessed both strength and good character, and could be summoned to help. Bane, on the other hand, was simply brought in to make up the numbers. In Lu Ming's memory, the monsters here were all crystallized, possessing high magic resistance.

However, Lu Ming had previously completed Dark Souls 1 through videos, so who knows if the monsters here really have high magic resistance. At least that YouTuber used a highly enhanced, fire-infused graveyard greatsword and didn't use magic to fight them.

After confirming who the summoned helper was, Lu Ming pressed the summon button without hesitation. All that was needed now was for the other party to respond.

Of course, before those two guys responded to the summons, Lu Ming drew his Irithyll Straight Sword, hid it on his back, and then went to the cell door, knocked twice to attract the snake-man guards outside.

Upon seeing Lu Ming banging on the cell door, the snake-man guard angrily approached and roared as he thrust his flame-shaped greatsword at Lu Ming.

However, what it didn't expect was that Lu Ming actually dodged its attack and plunged the Irithyll Straight Sword into its head!

After killing the snake-man guard, he tore off a bunch of keys hanging from the guard's waist the instant the guard fell.

Lu Ming cautiously glanced outside the cell and, seeing that no other snake-man guards had been drawn by the sound of the snake-man guard falling to the ground, breathed a slight sigh of relief. He then tried key after key, trying to find the key that could open the cell where he and Ramanlas were.

Just as he was trying out keys one by one, Benjamin and Bane responded to Lu Ming's summons and were summoned over by the now-extinguished campfire. Benjamin, dressed in a silver knight's outfit, even struck a rather flamboyant pose, leaving Lu Ming and Ramanlas speechless.

"Alright, alright, it's just the two of us and those two people here. Who are you posing for?" Lu Ming said helplessly, looking at Benjamin with some exasperation.

Benjamin glanced at Ramanlas, then at Lu Ming, and Bane, who also had a black line on his head. Seeing that they couldn't accept his muscular physique, he had no choice but to change his posture and plop down next to the campfire.

After a while, Benjamin pointed at Ramanlas and asked Lu Ming, who was still trying out the key, "Another one?"

“Yes!” Lu Ming replied without turning his head.

“It looks much better than the previous two.” Benjamin said, lighting the campfire casually.

Upon hearing this, Ramanlas was slightly taken aback and hurriedly asked, "You think I'm pretty?"

"Isn't that obvious?" Benjamin seemed a little impatient with Ramanlas's question, as if he was angry at Ramanlas's lack of confidence.

Meanwhile, the newcomer, Bane, chimed in, "If you, Madam, are not considered a beauty, then the so-called beauties of Piheim are not even ugly."

Hearing these words, Ramanlas, who had never been praised by anyone other than Lu Ming, was overjoyed. Although, in her heart, she still had some doubts about Lu Ming and the others' aesthetic sense...

Just then, Lu Ming finally found the key that could open the cell door and opened it.

Pushing the door open, Lu Ming turned around and shouted, "The door's open, we should begin."

Immediately, Benjamin got up from the ground and, like Ramanlas and Bane, followed Lu Ming out of the cell and onto a platform outside the cell.

Benjamin and Bane were both shocked as they looked at the building that housed both a library and a prison.

Just then, they saw a snake-man guard in the distance turn on a phonograph. As melodious music played from the phonograph, the door of a cell containing a group of monsters with blue, eyeless, octopus-like heads and snake-like bodies suddenly opened, and the monsters ran out of the cell.

Seeing the tentacles writhing on the monsters' heads, Ramanlas's face almost turned green. She was terrified of those sticky, slippery things.

"Take down those two snake-men first, then worry about the rest." Ignoring the monsters, Lu Ming pointed to the two snake-men guards on the ordinary lower stairs where they were, who were clearly frightened and helpless by their group's escape, and said to Ramanlas and the other two.

“That makes sense.” Benjamin nodded slightly, then took out a talisman and shouted, “Giant Thunder Spear!” He instantly threw out a giant thunder spear, which pierced the head of one of the two snake-men guards!

With his head struck by the giant lightning spear, the snake-man guard was instantly and irrevocably dead. His head was blasted into pieces by the spear.

The next moment, Bane also took out his magic staff and fired a soul spear, killing another snake-man guard without saying a word.

"Well done." Lu Ming clapped his hands with a smile, then said to Benjamin and Bane, "I have a use for two of those things with tentacle heads and snake bodies, so you two go and deal with those crystallized wandering souls. Leave the rest to me and Ramanlas."

"What do you need those evil things for?"

"Take it home and raise it."

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Chapter 91 - The Duke's Library (Second Copy)

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Lu Ming appeared somewhat insane as he forcefully smashed the monster that dared to block his way and frighten his wife, Ramanlas, with one of the many greatswords he obtained from the Farron Temple.

But precisely because of this, even monsters like the cursed and crystallized wandering spirits, who have lost their minds, try their best to avoid him and her.

The unobstructed journey allowed Lu Ming and Ramanlas to quickly arrive before two snake-like monsters. Although they looked like other monsters, the two of them were not aggressive in the slightest.

If you listen carefully, you can still hear their sobs as they lament their fate.

Step by step, Lu Ming walked towards them, took something out of his pocket, and showed it to the two monsters who wanted to run away as they sensed his approach, or rather, used it to sense his presence.

"Holy Maidens, this is Her Highness the Princess's ring. I think you two are familiar with it, aren't you?" As the two monsters stroked the ring with their tentacles, Lu Ming asked as kindly as possible.

"This is indeed Her Highness's ring, but where did you get it from?" One of the two monsters raised its head and asked Lu Ming in a sweet voice that was completely out of character for its appearance.

"She can talk?!" "She can talk?!"

Before Lu Ming could speak, Ramanlas and an old mage in a nearby cell asked in great surprise.

“They are the saintesses of Princess Sunshine, of course they can speak. They have simply been transformed. Also, who are you?” Lu Ming looked at the old mage in the cell, answering his question while also asking him a question.

Upon hearing Lu Ming ask who he was, the old mage proudly declared, "I am the famous 'Big Hat Logan'!"

"Big Hat Logan? Oh! I remember now, you're the wizard who created the Soul Spear!" After thinking for a long time and not being able to recall the plot of the first game, Lu Ming finally remembered who the old wizard Big Hat Logan was.

At this moment, one of the two saintesses who still retained her own consciousness after being modified by the White Dragon Hiss poked Lu Ming's face with her tentacles and said somewhat angrily, "We're asking you, where did you get His Highness's ring from!"

"Oh, sorry." Lu Ming touched the spot where he had been poked, turned around, and said to the two saintesses, "This was stolen from an evil organization by one of my wives."

"And then?"

"Then I want to take you back to the country where my wives and I live now, and try to turn you back." After thinking for a moment, Lu Ming said the truth.

"Why? Why would you want to turn us back into humans?" The saintesses, realizing that Lu Ming wasn't lying and genuinely wanted to turn them back into humans, asked in great confusion.

"I used to be a knight of His Highness Gwyndolin, so isn't it normal for me to help the princess's saintess?"

"Gwyndolin?" "Your Highness?" Both saints were bewildered by Lu Ming's answer. Clearly, they didn't know who Gwyndolin was.

"He is the younger brother of Princess Gwyndolin, and the son of King Gwyn. Although I and the other Silver Knights believe he is androgynous..." The speaker was Benjamin, who was carrying a large pile of shields as he approached.

"Although Your Highness was raised as a girl by the King, the way you're saying it sounds a bit like slander!"

"Then why won't Your Highness bathe with us Silver Knights? Back when we followed the King to hunt dragons, we bathed in the same pool as him!"

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Walking through the enormous Duke's library, Lu Ming and his group began their looting spree. Bane and Ramanlas were particularly adept, practically grabbing any books or equipment they saw, forcing Lu Ming to take out his phone to help Ramanlas put things away. Benjamin, meanwhile, pulled a phone from his armor—a phone he'd obtained from a dead undead before responding to Lu Ming's summons—and handed it to Bane, instructing him to collect the loot.

"I never thought I'd actually run into that 'Big Hat'! I thought I'd never find him!" Bane was a little too excited because he had met the legendary Big Hat Logan.

"Don't forget, your 'big hat' is still in jail. If you keep going like this, do you not want his guidance anymore?" Turning back to look at Big Hat Logan, who was pitifully flipping through several books that Lu Ming had taken from the bookshelf, Benjamin kindly reminded the idiot Bane.

Upon hearing this, Bane immediately remembered that Logan was still locked up in the cell. He then put the dozen or so books he was carrying into his phone and stopped taking books from the bookshelf. After all, the books couldn't fly away; he could read them under Logan's guidance after he was rescued.

After leaving the prison section of the library, Lu Ming and the others arrived at a corridor located outside the building.

Looking at Anor Londo, which appeared magnificent in the setting sun, Benjamin stopped and sighed, "Is this the timeline?"

"Did you notice?" Leaning against the wall, Lu Ming was also looking at the distant royal city of Anor Londo and its outer city.

"After you two leave, I will go to His Highness and tell him everything. Even though this is not my time, and the timeline is different."

Hearing Benjamin's words, Lu Ming smiled slightly and then walked towards the other end of the corridor. As he walked, he said, "Now we'll rescue Logan first, and then we'll take down that treacherous dragon!"

“That’s true. Now is not the time to talk about these things.” With a slight smile, Benjamin, Bane, and Ramanlas followed Lu Ming to the library’s book section.

Incidentally, the two saintesses who were transformed by the white dragon were now placed in the shadow of Ramanlas by Lu Ming.

Transforming one's shadow into an entrance to a space is something many mages do. After all, summoning spells consume too much mana, so it's much more convenient to store summoned creatures or beings bound to a contract in one's shadow. Furthermore, Lu Ming had tested this method before, and he and others were able to bring living things out of a dungeon using this method! For example, a goo whose limbs had been broken.

The creature was taken into Lu Ming's shadow, and when Lu Ming released it from the shadow, it was perfectly fine. It was just that some of it had been severely corrupted by the abyss.

This is why Lu Ming placed the two of them in Ramanlas's shadow. He didn't want to see the two saintesses released covered in marks from the corruption of the Netherworld. His shadow, after all, contained an immense amount of Netherworld black mud!

As soon as they entered the library area, Lu Ming and his group encountered seven or eight crystallized wandering spirits and two mages wearing something resembling chainmail.

While Lu Ming and the others were carefully dealing with the crystallized wandering souls, the two mages were actually hiding behind two pillars in a very sneaky way, stabbing Lu Ming and the others with soul arrows from a distance.

Because these crystallized spirits weren't armored, their only equipment being a shield and a crystal, they were exceptionally agile. Combined with the two mages hiding behind pillars and firing sneak attacks, it was difficult for Lu Ming and his companions to defeat them quickly.

Finally, Benjamin and Lu Ming were both so frustrated that they simply took out the Holy Bell and the Amulet and began to use the Giant Thunder Spear to pierce the crystallized wandering souls.

The two mages were hiding in such a tricky angle that Lu Ming and Benjamin couldn't hit them with arrows or miracles. They could only wait until Lu Ming and the others had taken down all the crystallized spirits before they could attack.

However, it must be said that the shields of these crystallized spirits are incredibly tough. Even though their master was flattened by Lu Ming's greatsword, they didn't even have a scratch!

This is completely different from the quality of shields in other dungeons!

Although Lu Ming was curious about why these shields, which were just ordinary grunts' shields, were so sturdy, the fact that those two disgusting mages were still shooting people from behind the pillars was very annoying.

So without saying a word, Lu Ming immediately used his divine speed to quickly kill the two mages.

"Snake people, saintesses transformed into monsters, skeletons killed by crystallization curses, and these six-eyed mages. It seems our Duke really enjoys studying them!" Benjamin kicked one of the two mages, noticing its six eyes, and said with a hint of disgust.

“Ancient dragons have immortal scales, which is why they are immortal. The white dragon Seath has no scales, so it cannot be immortal. Because of its fear of death, it began researching crystalline power, which even the ancient dragons considered forbidden. These snake people, saints, mages, and crystalline spirits are likely its experimental subjects in this research. Perhaps, it has now made itself an experimental subject!” After distributing the two mages' staffs to Bane, Lu Ming looked at the vast interior of the library and sighed softly.

"As expected, dragons are not to be trusted!"

“It’s not that dragons are untrustworthy, but that Hiss betrayed the ancient dragons and joined us for his own reasons!” Turning around, Lu Ming walked step by step toward the bodies of the crystalline wraiths, putting away the shields as he spoke to Benjamin.

"Anyway, I just don't really like dragons." Benjamin said somewhat unhappily when Lu Ming contradicted him.

At this moment, Bane spoke up, "Let's forget about the white dragon for now. Let's rescue that 'Big Hat' first, and then we can talk about everything else!"

“Alright.” Hearing Bane’s words, Benjamin said nothing more, and instead led Bane to search the floor first, trying to find where the key to Logan’s cell was kept.

Although Lu Ming had obtained a set of keys from the snake-man guards, unfortunately, none of those keys were the key to open Logan's cell.

In order to rescue Logan and have another helper to fight Heath, the four of them had to come here first.

Just after Lu Ming put all the shields into his phone, a very strange cry suddenly rang out in the library.

Upon hearing the shout, Lu Ming was immediately startled and hurriedly looked around, wanting to see which idiot had opened the box.

As a result, they saw a mimic with a slender humanoid body hugging and gnawing on Benjamin at a corner not far away!

The mimic's head is a treasure chest, and its teeth are human fingers, so its bites don't hurt much. However, fingers and teeth can't harm you, and if a wooden or iron treasure chest were to forcefully trap you, you wouldn't be able to withstand it.

So after the mimic's three or four bites, Benjamin was sent back to the campfire.

After Bane unleashed two Soul Spears, he was kicked back to the campfire by the Mimic.

As the powerful and eerie monster slowly turned its head to look in their direction, Ramanlas was so frightened that she immediately hid behind Lu Ming.

Lu Ming coldly watched the mimic approach step by step, shielding Ramanlas behind him. At the same time, he drew the Blue Flame Sword from his waist, preparing to parry the mimic's attack with the Farron Greatsword in one hand, while gripping the Blue Flame Sword tightly in the other, ready to cast a spell to kill the mimic with the Soul Spear.

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