Chapter 3: Firelink, Undead Berg and Knights.

Once Adrian and the Chosen Undead who he still did not know the name of arrived, they were left at the entrance to Firelink Shrine. When he was dropped by the crows he looked around as he was seeing this for the first time in real life. It was just as depressing as he remembered from the game but even worse. 

"How low things have fallen since my death? This scheme is depressing."

She shot him a quick glance as she had to agree. She did wonder about how long ago he had died as it was not always an instant recovery Adrian looked down at her as he finally had some advice for her. After killing the demon they both acquired humanity which he knew she could use. 

"I have two pieces of advice for you. One is a way for you to recover your human appearance and the other is on a name. It would be most useful for you to have one would it not?" 

She thought about the name part and paused. She had no idea what her name could have been as she had died many times so she had lost most of her memories. The ones she did have were just of battle. 

"I do not know. Undead lose memories of their past the more they die. I must have died too many times while in the asylum so I have forgotten. But how about you think of one?"

Adrian imagined he was naming a cat or something so he thought of one. However, he walked toward the bonfire as he needed to upgrade his stats. He wanted to get all of his stats to 100 before he left. He wanted to be perfect for his future of endless battle. He would serve as long as she gave him the power to keep fighting and killing. 

"How about Seraphine? That fine with you?"

She nodded as having a name at all would give her something to hold on to keep her from going hollow. That was the biggest fear of the undead to completely lose themselves to madness. A new name would be great for her. 

"Thank you Adrian, now, how do I get rid of this hollowing?"

He pointed at the bonfire. 

"You kindle at a bonfire with humanity. We got some from that Demon and you can also find some at that corpse over there."

She looked at the corpse he pointed at and walked toward it. She would use her own, but having more was better. She placed her hand on its head and drained the humanity from it. Once she finished she walked toward the Bonefire and Reversed her hollowing surprising Adrian with how pretty she actually was.

She grew long white hair, her skin was on the lighter side, but she had a gnarly scar going from her collar to her cheek. Adrian definitely felt it suited her as he himself had scars as well from his time on the battlefield. He even kept them from being removed as they were moments of the battlefield. 

"I did not expect you to actually look half decent." 

She did not know how to take that. 

"Thanks, I guess."

She looked at her reflection on her shield and tried to see if she could remember anything from her past. She looked into her amber eyes and long white hair. She tied it into a ponytail as she put her helmet back on.

Adrian looked at his soul count and what stats he needed to boost. His carry weight was fine as he was built differently, but better stats would be better in anything.

<Souls Count: 45,433>

He looked at the Bonefire and asked the system something.

'System, do I have to use the Bonefire, or is there a difference between you and it?'

<No difference at all. The host can use the system or the Bonefire when needed.>

'Good to know.'

-Race: Fume Knight/Lord

Class; Fume Knight/ Dragon Tamer.

-Vitality: 25(30)

-Attunement: 25

-Endurance: 25

-Strength: 25(35)

-Dexterity: 25(35)

-Resistance: 25

-Intelligence: 25

-Faith: 25

<25 possible level-ups.>

Adrian looked at his stats and he used 10 of his available level-ups to upgrade his strength, 10 for dexterity, and 5 for Vitality.  Once he did that he felt the system break down 45,000 souls into pure energy which was used to refine him to become even stronger. His muscles and bones grew stronger while becoming more nimble and flexible. 

Even with his muscular body he would never become slow and he even felt like his body was more efficient. It was like his organs and body worked better in every way. He groaned with how great he felt right now as he stretched his limbs.  He flexed his giant body as he moved his shoulders around. It was like he was even more of a tank than before. 

He popped his neck and he knew he was going to follow up with more vitality. His end goal was to be able to regenerate even from loosing his head. 

"Now this is amazing."

Seraphine went to the bonfire and used her soul to level up as well. She looked at him as he sat down on a large stone waiting for her to finish. 

"I will increase my strength so I can fight better with this heavy gear." 

He removed his helmet and rested it on his knee.

"Do as you will, but plan ahead. Will you follow me around forever or will you stake your own path? I do not mind either way, but it is my mission to put Lord Gwyn to rest and let the fire fade."

"Hahahaahaha, good one. You might just be able to pull it off giant. Do as you will."

Adrian turned to the laughing Crestfallen warrior who slumped against a wall. The warrior looked at both of them and more importantly looked right at Adrian.

"I overheard you earlier. So you are a Fume Knight, are you? Been a long long time since your kind vanished. Now you come back a an undead? The world is going to shit?' 

Adrian squinted his eyes looking at hi. 

"You could say that. Now, what are you doing slumped on a wall? You are a warrior are you not? Stand on your feet and fight."

The warrior sighs as he looks around.

"I am defeated and broken. I will go hollow in time and there is not much I can do about it. Now, you two look in better spirits than I do. Just do as you will and do your duty. Fume Knights were heroes before the world went to shit."

Seraphine who finished with her leveling walks up to Adrian as she looks at the Crestfallen warrior.

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"You going to come along or will you just sit there? A warrior does not let their back hit the ground, so stand and come with us."

The man simply scoffed.

"I will sit."

Adrian rested his greatsword next to him and started thinking about where he will go first. There are a few options right now as he could go to the catacombs, or  he might go to the Valley of Drakes. He might get his first pet, but it does not seem like a worthwhile investment. However, the Drake in the Undead Berg would be a good starting mount. It would make traversing this place a whole lot easier as even as a veteran player of Dark Souls, who knew what other dangers were around in this real world. 

Seraphine glanced at the greatsword he placed down on the ground next to him and sneaked up to it.  She had just gotten stronger so she felt she just might be able to lift that sword. She grabbed the handle and tried to lift it off the ground, but she couldn't even make it budge. Adrian glances down at her still trying to lift it with her meager power. She feels it start to go in the air and she feels she managed to pick it up, but she notices she went off the ground. Adrian chuckled at how funny it looked.

"Nice try."

She lets go and landed on her feet. She looked a little annoyed, so he patted her on the back. She felt her back hurt as she rubbed her back even more annoyed.

"Come on. You might get your own Fume Knight Greatsword and armor if you can gain the physical might and prove yourself to me. I am the former Capt-"

She cut him off and finished for him before drinking some Estus as it felt like her back got bruised.

"Captain of the Fume Knight Order. You already told me. Now let's go."

He started to walk toward the location of chests and loot first thing first. As a dark souls veteran, you hoard and collect every single shiny first. Seraphine looked as he found chests, soul items, firebombs, and humanity. She followed him as he taught her some of his knowledge from the days when he played this game like it was religion. He went through the elevator shaft as he jumped down it. When places got too small for him he simply shrunk down. 

When they arrived at the three chests she looked at them with interest.

"Here is a good lesson, find every short cut and you might find loot."

He got the homeworld bones, Morning Star which he gave the Seraphine, and more loot. She had her sword she looted so she just kept it as a weapon for tight places.  Once he had grabbed everything in his memory she was looking at him with curiosity. At first glance, he seemed like a brute, but he was actually really smart. Now they were standing overlooking the graveyard.

Adrian wanted to see how it differed from the game and he already got his answer. The skeletons were not fragile animated skeletons, as they looked like skeleton knights. Their bones were black, they had a green fire for eyes, and were standing like a proper fighting force. He counted about 20 of them and that was just what he could see above ground. Seraphine looked up at him as she waited for what he would do. 

"How do we do this?' 

Adrian paused as he looked at those skeletons. 

"I fight head on so I will charge in and fight them. You should come along as a saying we had in the order. 'Only through battle can ones worth be measured.'

"You have a lot of respect for your order?"

He nodded as the system directly filled him in on the reality warping Death had done for him. He was going to play the part through. 

"It is my duty as captain to find my brothers and end them."

She was interested in hearing that story, but as he was experiencing it firsthand so he was most interested. She looked up as he jumped down toward the skeleton knights.  She charged right next to him as the stationary knights moved the moment they saw them. They moved nimbly and rapidly as they moved in a strange formation. In the back was a shaman who began to chant in a raspy voice to Neto. 

He ignored it and ignited his whole body in flames as he saw 10 skeletons surge toward him. 4 of them lept into the air while the other 6 ran around him like he was some beast. However, the airborne skeletons were simply sitting ducks as he cut thier heads off with his longsword. In the same movement, he kicked one of the knights in the face turning it into shards. 

Seraphine faced 10 more, but she used her shield and longsword to fight them. She had to be careful as she did not want to die early. She focused on her opponents while Adrian swung down with the Fume Knight greatsword. He smashed it through the tower shield of one and killed it. He was stronger an faster and he moved like a nimble giant that made him feel like a Custodes. 

In a few more moves the remaining skeletons were left dead. 

"That was not so bad." 

He turned to Seraphine who kept parrying and slashing with care. She was facing 8 now as she had managed to behead 2, but now she was struggling. She was being swarmed and she did not have Adrian's overwhelming power so he helped her out. He charged in and shrunk down to 7 feet tall along with his armor and swords. With his help, they managed to kill all the skeleton knights. 

<Each one is worth 1,800 souls, a total of 20 were killed. 36,000 souls gained.>

"FUCK!" 

Seraphine sat down on a grave and drank some estus. 

"That was rough." 

Adrian did not notice as he picked up the Zweighthander which looked like a toothpick in his hands. He grew back to his full height and handed it over to Seraphine as he had his equipment and was not going to change it out. It was hand created by Death so he would not change it for anything. 

"You can have it. Might do you some good." 

Se grabbed and could barely wield it. She could swing it with both hands as she needed more strength.

"Thanks, I will use it when I get more power."

She put it in her inventory just like the shields and weapons. He found that any weapon he picked up that was human-sized would scale up to his size for him. He just did not need to keep all of them as his current weapons and armor would do. Once he finished looting this place for all it was worth he started to head toward the Undead Berg. There he would test out his Dragon Tamer class on the Dragon there.

If it did not work he would just kill it for the souls as he wanted Kalameet to be honest. That was a dragon worth taming he knew how powerful it was. Not only did Anor Londo not dare fight him, but they even feared him. Either way he had more souls to use, but he would use them when he found a safer place to do so. 

They went up the stairs as they killed the weak surrounding hollows for souls. It did not take much as they entered the Undead Berg. Any souls were good as he would need a total of 1,766,304,244 souls to reach max soul level. Plus if he could bring Seraphine out of this world along with Solair he would have good partners. At their strongest, they would both be worth the investment if they could also max level in the other worlds.

As they walked through the sewer Adrian was planning things for the future. When they came out into the Undead Berg they were swarmed not by mindless hollows, but by knights. Real human knights and they were armed to the teeth as they had all of their weapons drawn and aimed at him. He was already at max height so they were warry of him. 

"Halt, giant. Your kind is not welcome here. Leave or perish."

'This is different.'

He looked at all of the knights as Seraphine came out next to him. They pointed their bows and their spears at her as well. A lead knight walked out and when looked at Adrian in shock as he ran out and kneeled in front of him with his face hitting the ground. 

"A Fume Knight. I knew it wasn't so, your order was not extinct. Please, forgive my knights, my lord."

'This is even more different.'

Adrian removed his helmet as he looked at the kneeling knight before he patted him on the shoulder. He would play along with the backstory the system made for him. 

"I am glad someone still remembers us?"

The knight looks up with pure reverence when he saw Adrian's eyes. Those black sclera only the Fume Knight order have the armor, the weapons. He remembers them like it was yesterday.

"Ages past my life was saved by a Fume Knight. Your service to Lord Gwyn has never been forgotten, my lord."

Adrian was quite happy to have this backstory, so he thanked the system even more for this. 

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