Progression in Bloodborne

The next ten months or so had flew right by, for the readers at least, it was very, very long for Diluc.

As always with these time skips, we'll start with what he did in Bloodborne.

To begin with, he threw hands with Vicar Amelia, she was perhaps, the biggest burden in his journey.

However, before fighting her, Diluc went and visited the Witches of Hemwick.

Once he entered the room and the black figure with a sickle spawned in the middle of the room, he went and ran around, looking for the Witches of Hemwick.

He soon found both of them, back-to-back with each other and their staves ready.

As soon as he revealed them, they exploded in a red ethereal blast and teleported away. They weren't as stupid as he'd like them to be.

Therefore, he had to come up with a new strategy. Diluc remembered every single place they would teleport to, sometimes, behind boxes, sometimes, behind chairs.

By the end of it, he had documented a total of 16 potential teleportation destinations. They can wander if left for too long, which threw him off a bit, however, he realized it and soon knew everything they had to defend themselves.

In order to attack them, he'd have to meet them at one of their potential spots and attack before they had a chance to react. It would be even better if he could predict where they'd teleport and get a free attack by hitting them right after teleporting.

Finally, on his final attempt, he had gotten the pattern down.

The witches would teleport to the furthest possible teleport point they could. However, once they'd teleport there, the previous point could no longer be teleported to.

Therefore, Diluc was running around the arena at top speeds while dodging the sickle-wielding summon.

It took about 5 seconds for the witches to get out of their fazed state after teleportation, that was his window.

By the time he'd reach the Witches of Hemwick, he'd only be able to get about 2-3 attacks before they teleported away, and he'd have to sprint again.

It was quite exhausting with his stats; he wasn't used to being so weak.

After a couple of minutes of teleporting and dodging the explosions that they'd do before teleporting, Diluc had completely exhausted them of their teleportation points.

Their solution? Spam spells until they died.

All types of spells were sent towards Diluc, he didn't recognize any of them. They only thing he recognized is that they all were aiming at his life.

Diluc dodged life-threatening spells for a good 5 minutes before they abruptly stopped.

Seeing that they were potentially out of mana or some mage bullshit that he didn't know about, being a magic swordsman and all, he charged them.

Of course, he didn't eliminate the possibility of them having a last-second trump card, but considering the horrified faces of the annoying trolls, he let his guard down a small amount.

As it turns out, they did have a trump card, it was to summon a massive shadow monster thingy.

Unfortunately, this is something they'd take to their graves as Diluc had sliced them up before they could summon it.

Usually, they'd just use their bodies to tank while they were 'out of mana' so they could summon their trump card. However, Diluc had attacked them too much during their teleporting around the area phase.

Only after they exhausted their teleportation points would they go into 'Spell Hell' mode. And then they'd tank while they summoned a shadow demon.

Of course, they couldn't, and they died because of it.

Next was the Blood-Starved Beast.

Diluc made his way through Old Yharnam while killing a vast number of beasts. He picked up some Ritual Blood along the way.

Before long, he found himself in front of the Church of the Good Chalice. A weird name with a weird beast inside.

He was excited to have a great fight with a poison beast.

Unfortunately, Diluc used Pungent Blood Cocktails.

He didn't think the beast was so weak to it.

The Blood-Starved Beast immediately forgot the fact that it was in the middle of a fight and went to lick up the remnants of the shattered bottle.

In the meantime, Diluc made a bloody mess out of its ass.

He used the Hunter's Axe to deal the most amount of damage he could in a small amount of time.

Diluc then slapped himself because he switched to the Saw Cleaver and used Fire Paper in order to deal extra damage.

Fortunately for him, he didn't need either. The beast never learnt and continually went after every single Pungent Blood Cocktail that Diluc had thrown.

He almost convinced himself to let the beast fight back, but there was no reason to make a boss fight harder when he didn't need to and didn't get anything out of it.

The only reason he kept Champion Gundyr alive was to sharpen his skills.

The beast fell in a matter of minutes with plenty of Pungent Blood Cocktails to spare and use on other beast bosses.

This was around the time that Diluc started seeing things.

There would be shadow creatures in the corners of his eyes, when he went to look at them, they'd disperse.

Of course, this wasn't much and it didn't scare him all that much.

He even got a lot out of being insane.

Every now and then, his vision would flash and he would gain a level of x-ray vision. This allowed him to see under the clothes of the girls around him.

This was all fun and games until he saw Momo's body, although it was only a couple of months until they were officially married, he still felt sick perving on a minor, even if it was unintentional.

He wanted to sell his insight, but decided against it and continued to rack it up. He wanted to experiment what it would cause in the end.

Every time his sight lit up; he closed his eyes for a couple of seconds until it went away.

He didn't need to rely on x-ray to see the girls naked, most of them would just drop their clothes if he asked.

Diluc then began on Amelia. She was a nightmare.

Being real life, killing a beast, with fire paper or not, was quite difficult.

Therefore, he couldn't knock the bitch out of her heals.

That was all the fight boiled down to, how much damage could he inflict in a short amount of time?

This caused Diluc to instead go on and conquer a large chunk of the chalice dungeons, getting a +10 saw cleaver and a bunch of Blood Gems along the way.

This allowed him, against all odds, to kill Amelia by out-performing her heals.

There wasn't much to say about the fight as the healing was the only thing that caused any trouble. Every attack was easily dodged and counter-attacked.

It took 8 months straight farming the chalice dungeons in order to kill Amelia.

What shitty game design.

The god that made this game is shit.

With these thoughts, Diluc allowed himself to get kidnapped so he could get a bunch of different materials and fight Darkbeast Paarl.

Along the way, he made the Blades of Mercy +9. Chunks were difficult to farm in the chalice dungeons, but that didn't stop him from maxing his inventory out with them while he was farming Blood Gems.

The Blood Rock was an ever-elusive item that he wouldn't get for a while.

Regardless, the fight with Paarl was far more difficult than Diluc would've liked.

The Pungent Blood Cocktails worked... not really.

He'd throw the cocktail to the edge of the arena. Paarl would take notice of it but wasn't as blood-hungry as the Blood-Starved Beast and didn't neglect its own safety in order to run to it.

After Diluc had retreated to the other side of the arena, Paarl would turn around and lick it up.

Or try to. The electricity sparked off his rotten tongue and vaporized the blood, causing him to become enraged and charge Diluc.

He tried many times to make it work, but Paarl was effectively always buffed by the cocktails.

Therefore, he had to handle it the normal way.

Thankfully, this was much easier than making the Pungent Blood Cocktail work.

As a skeleton, this big electric beast was very weak from a Kirkhammer to the leg.

Thankfully, Diluc had a +9 Kirkhammer. And yes, he upgraded every weapon he had to +9. Including the Wheel of Lagarius he had gotten after killing Willem.

Regardless, using the Kirkhammer, using Ludwig's Holy Blade. It was all the same, Paarl fell to the might of the blunt weapons.

His electricity mainly did damage in making Diluc's hair float, it looked pretty cool.