Chapter 87 Demon Slayer Mission
Chapter 87 Demon Slayer Mission
After passing the selection, Lu Li’s main quest has been updated, and it feels like a huge leap.
[Main Quest (Final Round): Demon Slayer]
Mission content: Kill the leader of the evil spirit camp, Muzan Kibutsuji, within three natural months.
Mission difficulty: Difficult ~ Must die
Mission Rewards: Return Qualification, World Core
Failure penalty: -1 to all attributes
The mission content is simple and straightforward. It is not the kind of mission that will cost you G if you can't complete it. And the attribute deduction is not an unacceptable punishment for someone like Lu Li whose stats are increasing so quickly.
But Lu Li felt that the lighter the punishment, the more difficult the task would be.
And he actually had no choice. Even if he didn't kill Muzan, the explorers in Muzan's camp would not let him go.
If I fail to complete the task successfully, maybe there is no need to punish myself with space.
Judging from the upper limit of the world difficulty, it is very likely that a second-level explorer will enter this world. He has already been strengthened in Muzan’s camp. Even if he has a numerical advantage, it is still within the first-level explorer. It is hard to say whether he can still have an advantage against a second-level explorer.
If there is a second-level explorer on the opposite side, with basic attributes above 30 points and the demon bloodline to strengthen the body, plus super-speed regeneration, it may be more powerful than some of the upper-rank in the original work.
He couldn't complain about the current situation. After all, he had chosen the difficulty, and he enjoyed challenging the strong.
In this world, there is a chance that a Dead Man's Chest will drop when an explorer is killed. He believes that he will earn a good income.
Without considering the opponent's strength, Lu Li felt that the most troublesome part of this mission was the time limit.
If a coward like Muzan keeps hiding in the Infinite City and he can't find the place, he may really be unable to do anything to Muzan.
So he also needs to do some "world planning". He can't let Muzan be so scared that he hides in the Infinite City and never comes out.
"Brother Lu, what did you just say!?"
When he heard that Lu Li was going to look for the Twelve Demon Moons, Zenitsu's voice rose several decibels.
"What are the Twelve Ghost Months?"
Tanjiro asked innocently.
Lu Li then remembered that Tanjiro didn't know what the Twelve Demon Moons were at that time. To be honest, there were many things that the previous Water Pillar had not explained to Tanjiro.
"They are the twelve strongest ghosts!"
Shanyi explained, and then looked at Lu Li worriedly, "Brother Lu, you just passed the selection, how can you go to find such a dangerous ghost right away? Even if you are very strong, it's too dangerous. That's a ghost that only the pillars can deal with."
He had heard about the Twelve Kizuki from his grandfather. It was said that they were very dangerous and terrifying, and no one knew how many people they had eaten. The lower moons of the Twelve Kizuki were okay, and the pillars of the Demon Slayer Corps could still deal with them, but the upper moons of the Twelve Kizuki had not been replaced for hundreds of years, and even if a pillar encountered them alone, they would only have one way to go, and that was death.
He believed that his senior brother was very powerful, but he didn't know how Senior Brother Lu compared to the legendary current pillars. He regarded his grandfather and senior brother as relatives, and didn't want to see them fighting with such a dangerous guy.
"The twelve strongest ghosts..."
Tanjiro muttered, wondering if the ghosts knew how to turn ghosts into humans? His sister Nezuko was turned into a ghost, and he was fighting hard to turn Nezuko back into a human.
"Brother Lu, can I go with you?"
Tanjiro requested.
"No."
Lu Li simply and directly refused, "You are all too weak."
After saying that, he walked down the mountain alone, "Zenitsu, remember my words, consolidate your strength first." He didn't want anything to happen to his kind-hearted junior brother Zenitsu, but it was impossible for him to always stay by his side and be his bodyguard.
The best way to protect your teammates is to kill all the enemies.
"Senior Brother Lu..."
Zenitsu looked at Lu Li's back and recalled his senior brother's blunt rejection of Tanjiro just now. He knew that it was not only a rejection of Tanjiro, but also a rejection of himself.
He became a reserve member of the Demon Slayer Corps because he was cheated by a woman, owed money and was chased for debt, and was eventually rescued by his grandfather. However, he also knew that the vast majority of people present joined the Demon Slayer Corps because their families were destroyed and their happiness was taken away by demons.
He has known Senior Brother Lu for a long time, but he never knew what Senior Brother Lu had been through to make him so eager to join the Demon Slayer Corps.
Today, seeing that Senior Brother Lu was so determined to find the Twelve Ghost Moons, he thought that Senior Brother Lu must have had a past that he couldn't bear to look back on, and had been deeply hurt by ghosts.
"I will practice hard until I can help."
Zenitsu talked to himself and made up his mind.
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After coming down the mountain, Lu Li had no intention of reporting to the Demon Slayer Corps.
He took the selected ore directly amid the puzzled gazes of the two lolis, because he didn't need the Sun Blade, the Demon Prisoner was enough to deal with the ghosts in this world.
Joining the Demon Slayer Corps is just a task of standing in line with a camp. In fact, he does not have to be bound by any constraints of the Demon Slayer Corps. How he acts later depends entirely on his own will.
And now is the moment when every second counts. After a few days of adaptation, those explorers transformed by Muzan should have stabilized their strength and should have taken action now.
As fellow space travelers, it’s easy to guess what the explorer on the other side is thinking.
In order to win this battle between factions, weaker explorers will most likely hunt down the protagonists who are still in the growth stage, while stronger explorers will choose to hunt down the pillars.
This is a 3V33 faction confrontation on the surface. The opposing explorer's top priority is definitely not to kill the explorer, because the explorer is hard to find, the target is small, and the strength is unknown.
The Pillars are different. They are known to be powerful. Compared to young potential stocks like Tanjiro, they are already trees that are about to bloom. Killing them can effectively reduce the combat effectiveness of the Demon Slayer Corps.
Moreover, judging from his own side quests, the side quests of the explorers in Muzan’s camp are likely to be to kill nine pillars for rewards, and the other party will definitely take action.
In addition to destroying the manpower of the Demon Slayer Corps, the other side should also try to preserve the high-level combat power of the Muzan camp. Therefore, the Upper Ranks may be reminded or informed of some information about threatening pillars, and some of the Upper Ranks may even be transferred to fixed locations.
In the original work, the territories of many Upper Ranks are unknown. There is only one relatively clear one, which is Upper Rank Six. The Gemini Demons. The location of the brother and sister of Gitarou can be determined to be in Yoshiwara.
Lu Li also currently has no effective means of finding the other party's explorer, so he can only rush to Yoshiwara to check, hoping to catch him if possible.
He felt that he would not come back empty-handed. Even if the Gifutaro siblings had already moved, he would most likely encounter explorers, because the other party also knew that Yoshiwara was the only upper-rank demon territory that had been exposed in the original work. They would think that explorers from the Demon Slayer Corps camp would definitely come to investigate, so they might make arrangements in advance to surround and kill the strong men of the Demon Slayer Corps.
While Lu Li was on his way, the news that he had passed the selection with his record of annihilating all the Fujishiyama Oni had been spread to various parts of the Demon Slayer Corps through the crows.
The news that a newcomer with extraordinary strength has joined the Demon Slayer Corps makes ordinary soldiers sigh that geniuses are really unreasonable, and makes the Nine Pillars look forward to the activities of the new strong man in the Demon Slayer Corps.
On the top of Momoyama, Jigoro was relieved when he saw the letter, "This kid has gone too far. I'm afraid it will give the current Nine Pillars a headache. Catching ghosts is a troublesome thing."
He never doubted that Lu Li could pass the selection, but he was still somewhat surprised that Lu Li killed Teng Xishan.
He was very happy with the strength Lu Li showed, and felt that perhaps in the near future, the nine pillars would become ten pillars.
(End of this chapter)