4 Chapter 4: Firelink and Preparations
'Shitty Bird! I'll make it into a fried turkey later!'
Artreus was furious because the journey was so long and the bird kept digging its claws into his arms. Since he doesn't have any armour, only a tunic, it penetrator into his flesh. His arms were completely limp since he couldn't move them at all due to the Crow's claws.
After a few days of travelling, he finally arrived at Firelink Shrine.
Crestfallen Knight: "Well, What do we have here? You Must be a new arrival..."
Before the Crestfallen Knight could continue talking, Nero had thrown his sword at the unsuspecting Knight. The sword was now sticking through his skull.
Nero didn't have anything against the Crestfallen Knight, he just killed him since he would go Hollow anyway.
If one died enough times or gives up the will to live, they will become a Hollow. The best example of this is Lord's Blade Ciaran. Despite her being a member of the race of Lords, she was the smallest of them, had ended up going Hollow and became a Hollowed Corpse at the Grave of Artorias, his deceased lover. The final stage of Hollowfication is to become the Hollowed Corpses that are strung up around the world which the Player can loot items.
The Race of Lords cannot become Hollow, or at least from what was mentioned, however, some individuals contradict this. Those beings King Vendric of Dranglaic, Lord's Blade Ciaran and eventually the Ruler of Anor Londo and the home of the Gods (+ Race of Lords) themselves Gwyn, Lord of Cinder, formerly the Lord if Sunlight and the inheritor of the Lord Soul of Light.
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After having dealt with the Crestfallen Knight, he made his way to all the treasures within Firelink Shrine and so them all immediately.
He doesn't need most of them like the Hammer, Zweihander, Lloyd's Talisman and more. And if he does need them, he already can duplicate them with Perfect Replication since he had touched them once. He, unfortunately, cannot do it to the Souls He finds. He actually could, but the conditions and requirements to do it are hard and a waste of time.
He briefly talked with the traitorous Cleric Petros and left him be for now. He'll kill him later.
Artreus: "Luna, is there a Direwolf Form that costs less than 1,500 Souls?"
[Small Direwolf, 750 Souls
Direwolf - 1,000 Souls
Hybrid Direwolf - 1,350 Souls
Greatwolf's Direwolf Child - 1,500 Souls]
Artreus: "Purchase the Direwolf of 1,000 Souls."
As he purchased his new form from Luna, he went to Level up his stats. He ended up having 476 Souls left after he levelled up 3 times and had purchased the Direwolf Form. He spent
# Stats
- Name: Artreus Greyrat
- Level: 1 ---> 4
- Class: Lord of Souls
- Vitality: 10 (♾)
- Attunement: 10
- Endurance: 10 (♾)
- Strength: 10 ---> 13
- Dexterity: 10
- Resistance: 10
- Intelligence: 10
- Faith: 10
- Humanity: 1 ---> 5
- Souls: 3,546 ---> 3 Souls
# Forms
- Currently Unlocked: Human Form, Direwolf, Hawk, Sparrow, Cooper's Hawk, Crow, Raven, Flying Ant, Mamba Snake, Black Widow Spider, Lady Bug, Dragonfly, Moth, Butterfly, Water Beetle, Codfish, Mosquito
All things considered, Artreus was celebrating inside his head as he had gotten a lot of Forms very cheaply. All of which are fast, small and useful in what he will do...right now!
He transforms into his Flying Ant Form.
Artreus: "Luna, take me to Striker's Base in the Marvel Universe!"
Luna: "Done."
In that instant his small Ant body vanished out of thin air as if it was never in Lordran, to begin with. The next instant he was inside Striker's Base.
He saw a lot of people moving around and almost crushing him but he didn't care. He flew and hitched a ride on William Striker's back.
He waited until he found his destination via taking the 'bus' and departed to his 1st objective.
He flew into the boiling container of bubbling liquid metal. This was Adamantium, he wanted the liquid substance and the solid-cooled down version too.
Fushi in the Manga had been captured by a church or something who thought he was an Immortal devil. They couldn't kill him so they made a container with boiling metal or magma and threw him inside it. Fushi eventually received enough Stimulus to become the boiling liquid itself and was able to escape the box.
Artreus wanted to obtain as many Forms as he can for free. Not only that but he wanted to use Adamantium to upgrade his gear and to have an unlimited supply of it since he can duplicate it now.
His entire body had been melted and reduced to nothing within the boiling metallic substance.
Eventually, something happened and the metallic liquid rose and slithered out of the container it was in. It slowly waited on the floor, creating burn marks as it travelled. The liquid rose and stood upright as it began taking the shape of the liquid male figure. Eventually, the liquid Adamantium changed and turned into flesh, blood, skin and clothes.
The whole process had taken 4 and a half days to Revive.
Artreus: "Now. To my next stop."
After that, he once again teleported Lordran and then back to the Marvel Universe. He did this because he had learned that he can bypass the need to purchase teleportation powers or Lara Doren's Elderblood Gene to teleport to places. Instead, he is essentially switching between Universes, back and girth and reappearing at different points.
The only reason he won't do this trick in the Dark Souls Universe is that he isn't strong enough to kill Gwyn or any of the mid to late-game bosses just yet. he is going to go to other worlds, and will encounter far more powerful beings. So it would be pointless to go to those areas as of now. Not only that but he wants to enjoy the Dark Souls Universe and lands of Lordran, Dranglaic, Lothric, Yharnam, and Elden Ring's 'Lands Between Lands'...whatever that means, as he hasn't played Elden Ring by the time he got Reincarnated.
He had gone to Wakanda this time to get the Black Panther Herbs and Vibranium. The next stop was to obtain one of the Super Soldier Serum then he can duplicate and give it to anyone he wants to. The final stop in the Marvel Universe was to take 'Ego's Seed'. He just stored it in his System space.
Next, he went to a World that not many people would think to travel to. He went to the 'Iron Man: Armoured Adventurers' Universe and gets the 10 Makluan Rings. After completing all the trials as in the original, he gets the 9th Ring from Jean Khan and removes the Dragon Seed from inside of him via the System, Luna.
Once that was done he went to Stark Industries to get one of those super-sized Terraformer machines that Stain tried to sell as weapons of war.
He travelled to the 10th Ring's location and convinced the Son of the Makluan Emperor to give him the Ring willingly.
The Makluan Guardian accepted his deal to take the Rings to another Universe. Artreus knew that upon the Son of the Makluan Emperor waking up from his Cryo Pod, his father would detect the Pod's signature and come to invade Earth.
He had to help them due to his greed which could endanger the Earth. Thus, he used all the Rings to create a singular weapon akin to The Crucible in Mass Effect. Once the Makluan Emperor arrived, Artreus fired his 'Mini-Death-Star-Crucible-Thiggy' at the lead ship. When it was destroyed the rest soon retreated and fled.
Once that was done, he could now use Jean Kahn's teleportation ring and have it empowered by the other 9 rings so that he only needs to go to a Universe once and doesn't need to use the Bypass technique if Multiverse hoping he had done previously. Now he fully has a Teleportation ability via the Makluan Rings.
The Makluan Rings may not be as powerful as the comic Mandarin Rings, but still powerful non the less. He now has the physical capabilities of the Hulk while having the Rings empower him.
In the Assassin's Creed Universe, he knew of only a few locations of Artifacts of Eden, but not all of them. He was in the present day. After some poking around in the Abstergo servers with his Rings powers to hack into it, he discovered that Desmond is still there and it is AC1 events.
He left to obtain some Apple of Edens (3 - Bottom of the Ocean, Ezio, Altair's Apples), and the Cloak of Eden in London.
However, he had to wait until after Desmond sacrifices himself to activate the power of The Shard (Ring) artefact after Assassin's Creed 3 events happen.
Artreus just had some fun back on Earth until then and obtained many more animal forms from going to various places and Zoos in the world.
The next few Artifacts to get were the Sword of Eden and The Ankh.
He had tried looking for The Amulet of Eden but couldn't find it so he gave up.
After obtaining the Assassin's Wrist Blade schematics, he left for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Universe to get the Witcher Mutation notes. He also goes to get the Elder Blood DNA strain from Ciri's mother and father, as Artreus had forgotten which side of her family had it so he took samples from both of them in his Mosquito form which made the blood he absorb go to Luna to analyse and separate.
The final word on his crazy hunting spree was the Elder Scrolls Universe, the World of Nirn.
Artreus paid Mercer Frey a nice little visit by teleporting Karliah right into his home so she can murder the ever-living shit out of him. He had bound and captured him beforehand so that he couldn't fight back as he was stronger than Karliah and can kill her. He went to the Ratway and told Brynyolf about Mercer Frey and gave a translated version of Gallus Desidenius' Diary to him.
Karliah was forgiven due to Mercer's lies being revealed. The treasure of the Guild was also returned. Not only that but Artreus had gone to get the Eyes of the Falmer himself. Always nice to add to his collection.
Upon Mercer's death, the Skelton key had fallen into the possession of Artreus. Karliah tried looking for it so she can return it to the Twilight Sepulcher.
'LIKE HELL I WILL HAND IT OVER!!! IT'S MINE FOREVER!!!'
He naturally will keep the original Skeleton Key as he is unaware if it will lose its ability to literally "OPEN & LOCK"/"UNSEAL & SEAL" ANYTHING.
(A/n The Skelton Key is one of the most OverPowered things to ever exist in the Multiverse if used in the correct hands. It is better than the Infinity Stones! That is literally how broken this thing is!)
He duplicates it and leaves the duplicated version for Karliah to find. Whether or not it is the same as the original, which he has, to help heal the Twilight Sepulcher is not his concern but Nocturnal's responsibility.
After that, he did a soldier march up to old General Falx Carius. Using Telekinesis, from the Makluan Rings, on the Heartstone in his chest, he dropped down onto the floor...dead...again. Taking the Champion's Cudgel to get his favourite Enchantment in the game, Chaos Damage, he left to get the following few things.
Uses the Skelton Key to Open a gateway into Apocrypha and goes to get as many books duplicated from Apocrypha as possible before Hermaeus Mora notices him...he then promptly deleted himself out of there immediately without delay.
(A/n He also could have used the Normal Method to enter Apocrypha via the Black Books.)
He gets into the Collage of Winterhold and duplicates all the books of the Library and the Arch Mage Quarters.
Arch-Mage Robes...Easy.
Atherium materials and Atherium Forge duplicated...omega tick.
Dwarven Black Bow of Fate...done.
Auriel's Bow and Shield...double check.
Bloodskaal Blade...you were saying.
He went to Morekai and just used the Skeleton Key to Unseal his bindings, then duplicate his staff and mask, thereafter he had then re-Sealed him. He wasn't ready to fight him, also it's best to let the Dovahkiin deal with him to complete the Collage of Winterhold Questline.
Duplicates Staff of Magnus as the real one will abandon him when he becomes too powerful. Also got the Eye of Magnus as a bonus.
He went to Skuldafn and duplicates the Dragon Priest Staff of Nahkriin. It was a little difficult as Artreus is nowhere near strong and enough to fight a being like the Dragon Priests yet. Let alone Nahkriin who is the Guardian of the Portal to Sovngarde and the Dragon Priest of Alduin.
Uses the Wooden Mask and buys a water form to transform his hand into the good old H2O stuff to touch Konahriik's mask and duplicate it.
Takes an Enchanting Table, Alchemy Table.
Has Luna repaired the White Phial?
Duplicates the entire Sacred Forge of Jorvaskar
Oghma Infinium was something he was gonna get by cheating. Like Hell, he will go to Blackreach and get all the damn elf blood samples when he can get it in less than a minute by turning into Liquid Adamantium to seep into the gaps of the cube. Old Herma Mora came to him but he just teleported out of there.
'I ain't listening to that shitty voice!'
His second final stop was Cyrodiil. He duplicates all the knowledge of the Golden Tower of the Imperial City and duplicates all the Elder Scrolls they possess.
