Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 135 Millicent's Bud
After saying goodbye to Jie Lian, Bai Shi first returned to the residential area.

After saying hello to Hilbert, Bai Shi left Red Lion City and began his exploration of Gaileyd.

Just now, Jie Lian wanted to give him the relic sword, hoping that he would use it.

Bai Shi didn't refuse either.

Not to mention how powerful the relic sword itself is.

Regardless of their power, he needs to collect legendary weapons and then achieve the achievement of collecting all legendary weapons.

Now the number of times Feng Ling Yue Ying can be used is 4 times. Although it has not been filled to the upper limit of 5 times, it is enough.

Previously, I used five times the experience and super damage when I defeated the evil omen demon and Greg.

But by defeating both of them, I completed an achievement for each of them and gained two opportunities to use them, so it was considered a balance.

After activating the Great Rune, an achievement was also completed, which was to reactivate any Great Rune.

However, unlike other clear achievements that can be completed by defeating enemies, the judgment of this series of collection achievements such as collecting legendary weapons and amulets is still somewhat vague.

Because in the game, in addition to the required legendary weapons, other gold-quality weapons are also weapons of the same level.

But due to various reasons, their legends are not widely spread.

If you only want the legendary weapons in the game, Bai Shi will remember most of them, so there shouldn't be any omissions.

But if all weapons are required to be of gold quality, then it will be a bit difficult.

And what exactly is the concept of so-called collection?

The city of Moren is already under his rule, so does that mean the sword skeleton greatsword kept by the city of Moren is already in his collection?

These are all unknown for the time being, and I'm afraid we can only figure them out after the border areas are unified in the future.

As for now, Bai Shi has no use for the Relic Greatsword for the time being, so he should leave it in Red Lion City for now.

Bai Shi didn't take anything extra when he left, but just took some props that looked like masks from Hilbert.

This is an item that their perfumer often uses. It has the same function as a mask and needs to be replaced regularly. Hilbert stuffed a lot of it into his luggage when he left his residence.

As long as it does not enter the body's interior, cleaning scarlet corruption is relatively simple.

Of course, the premise is not to soak in the scarlet corruption for too long. If your body is in direct contact with the scarlet corruption for a long time, external infection should not be underestimated.

In addition, Bai Shi also took away some corrupt moss medicine.

As for the supplies used to clean the scarlet corruption stuck on the surface of the equipment, Bai Shi almost didn't bring any.

Because although it is inevitable to be stained with scarlet corruption, as long as you leave the lake of scarlet corruption, you can use the storm to peel off the scarlet corruption.

Bai Shi followed the direction given on the map and headed towards the town of Selia.

After traveling for a while, Bai Shi saw a huge checkpoint built against the mountain. This was the checkpoint leading to the town of Selia.

But Bai Shi did not pass the level, and he had no plans to go to Seria for the time being.

Bai Shi moved along the side of the checkpoint towards the Ionian Swamp.

Bai Shi remembered that veteran O'Neill's approximate location was in the eastern part of the Ionian Swamp, where there was a very conspicuous large area of scarlet dead branches.

Go down here and walk along the shore, and you should be able to find that area.

Walking and searching along the shore, Bai Shi also encountered many puppet soldiers and bird-shaped puppet soldiers.

"Bai Shi, these should be the same things you have seen before."

"It seems to be something from the magic academy."

Melina spoke up to remind Bai Shi.

"Well, are you talking about the puppet soldiers in the camp when we went to rescue Teacher Se Lian?"

"Yes, they look the same."

Bai Shi thought back to the previous battle. Although he did not take action, it should be the same.

The main thing is that the shapes of these puppet soldiers are very unique. It seems that only the Magic Academy in the entire border area has such puppet soldiers.

The three siblings, Latan, Lacade and Lani, have a very good relationship and were on the same front during the Shattered War.

Here in Latan, there are even puppets of the kidnapped girl from the volcano, so it’s not surprising that there are puppet soldiers from the academy.

On the battlefield where Rodel counterattacked the volcano, there were also puppet soldiers active, and they should all be the academy's assistance.

As for these puppet soldiers in front of them, they are patrolling in groups everywhere, and their only target is corrupt creatures. As long as they encounter corrupt creatures, they will rush up to attack.

Often, at the cost of a few soldiers being shattered into pieces, the wandering corrupt creatures can be killed.

Afterwards, they would pick up usable limbs from the puppet soldiers' broken parts on the ground, attach them to their own bodies, replace the broken limbs, and then continue patrolling.

These puppet soldiers are very cheap combat units. They are very simple, but they have some combat effectiveness and can be considered to be very cost-effective.

Perhaps the Red Lion City has the technology to create these soldiers, which is why there are so many puppet soldiers wandering around.

After walking along the edge of the swamp for a long time, the road on the shore finally disappeared, leaving only an unclimbable cliff.

Looking at the scarlet corrupt lake water surging like a tide in front of him, Bai Shi got off Torret and squatted beside the lake.

Bai Shi took off the gauntlet on his left hand and reached into the lake of corruption. Suddenly, he felt a strange touch on his hand.

This was not water at all, but more like surging, thin mud, which was hard not to associate with the rotting flesh after decomposing a corpse.

The corrupt lake water climbed onto Bai Shi's hands and kept wriggling, trying to invade his body. However, after just ten seconds, Bai Shi's hands began to feel itchy.

When I pulled my hand out of the lake, there was still a layer of scarlet corruption stuck to it.

He casually shook off the scarlet corruption on his hands, and the strange feeling quickly disappeared.

The scarlet corruption isn't that strong at the edge of the lake, I wonder if it will be different in the center.

Baishi looked at Torret and asked if it could move here.

After confirming that Torret was not afraid of the Crimson Corruption, Bai Shi began to move deeper into the Ionian Swamp.

As Bai Zhi got deeper into the matter, the dead branches around him became more and more numerous and thicker.

This was a good thing, meaning the direction should be correct and he was getting closer to his destination.

Strange creatures corroded by scarlet corruption gradually began to appear around.

There are terrestrial sea squirts that spew out scarlet corruption.

There are land octopuses with white and red fungi all over their bodies.

At the bottom of the Corruption Lake, bubbles exhaled by living creatures would occasionally float up.

It's just that they didn't attack actively, so Bai Shi didn't see their full appearance.

Not long after, Bai Shi encountered a group of Zunfu Knights who were still active.

Bai Shi tried to communicate with them, but there was no response.

These Zunfu Knights seemed to have lost their will in the scarlet corruption and attacked Baishi without hesitation.

The Corrupt Knights are knights who worship Marlennia and voluntarily follow her to fight despite knowing the consequences of gradually becoming corrupt.

Because they knew their fate, they were not afraid of death in battle, and their offensive was crazy. Even though their equipment had been prayed to resist corruption, it still became ineffective after a long time, and they lost their minds under the erosion of scarlet corruption.

The leading knight commander raised the halo sickle in his hand and waved it continuously, and the sacred Michaela halo attacked Bai Shi.

A noble knight thrust his spear into the ground, and dense golden spears spread across the ground.

The other two noble knights raised their spears and charged towards Bai Shi, one on the left and one on the right.

The golden glow on them was totally inconsistent with Gallid who was covered in scarlet corruption.

Bai Shi looked at the incoming attack and raised the Dragon Hunting Sword from Torret's side.

Torrett carried Bai Shi and ran towards those noble knights.

The incoming halo and light spears were nimbly avoided by Torret, while the spears that stabbed from the left and right were blocked by Bai Shi.

As the white consciousness passed over the two corrupt knights, one of them was pierced through the chest by the sword and spear, and was hung on the sword and spear.

The next second, as Bai Shi swung his sword, his body was completely torn apart by the sword and spear, and fell on the dead branches in pieces.

The commander of the Zunfu Knight Squad continued to throw out halos.

The White Consciousness Sword and Spear thrust forward, and the storm's torrent destroyed the halo along with his body.

The remaining two Zunfu Knights were also quickly dealt with by Bai Shi.

Bai Shi picked up a relatively intact corpse and took out a talisman.

Winged sword emblem.

This is the amulet awarded to the Zunfu Knights. In the middle is a raised prosthetic sword and on both sides are spread wings.

It can inspire the holder during consecutive attacks, thus bringing a boost in strength.

Regardless of the corpses of these corrupt knights, Bai Shi continued to move forward in the lake.

Suddenly, Bai Shi saw a different place among the dead trees.

It was a very thick scarlet dead branch, spread across the lake, occupying a large area like a small island.

There were five scarlet buds lined up at the thick roots of the dead branch, and they were the ones that attracted Bai Shi's attention.

These five flower buds obviously did not originally grow here, because the scarlet flower buds that Bai Shi had seen along the way often grew in higher places.

And although there are several flower buds clustered together, they do not grow side by side like this, but are very neat, as if they were transplanted by someone.

This always gives people a sense of déjà vu of the clone incubator in science fiction movies.

Bai Shi rode Torret over to find out what was going on.

When he walked to the edge of the flower buds, Bai Shi discovered that five of the buds here had already bloomed.

It did not bloom like a normal flower, but still maintained the shape of a bud, leaving a smooth gap, as if it had been opened from the outside and the contents taken out.

There are four flower buds that look like this.

But only the last bud showed a completely different state from the previous four buds.

It was torn from within.

There was no smooth crack, but rather a crack torn from the inside, and then something struggled to break out of the shell.

Bai Shi put on a mask and stood in front of the huge flower bud. The flower bud was very large, almost as tall as a person.

But without counting the outer petals, the innermost space is probably only enough for a person to curl up like a toddler.

Bai Shi used his hands to pry open the crack of the flower bud and observe the situation inside.

In the flower buds that grew out of the scarlet corruption, there were still some remnants of pollen.

Liquid scarlet corruption continued to surge and wriggle.

Inside this flower bud, there is a bloody right arm, which is being swallowed up by the scarlet corruption.

The scarlet and rotten tentacles were attached to the right arm like flesh and blood.

Bai Shi reached out to pull the broken arm, but it was tightly entangled. If he pulled harder, the broken arm would probably break into several pieces before it could be pulled out.

Bai Shi gave up the idea of taking it out and just observed it.

The arm must have been severed, as can be seen from the cuts on the muscle.

However, the overall cross-section of the cut is not smooth. It is more like being cut off bit by bit rather than being chopped off.

Combined with the narrow space in the flower bud, it must be because her right hand was bound, so she couldn't escape even if she broke the bud, so Millicent used some method to cut off her right arm bit by bit and escaped.

Bai Shi was certain that this was once Millicent's bud.

In this case, these flower buds must also be the work of the so-called 'sage' Gwei.

They, the followers and believers of the Scarlet Corruption, collected all the clones of Malenia that were separated after she released the Scarlet Corruption and raised them up.

Then at a certain period of time, they used these scarlet flowers of corruption to try to corrupt them in order to create the scarlet goddess in their hearts.

Corruption pollen can drive creatures into a frenzy, and the Crimson Corruption itself has the ability to alter the mind of a creature.

If they succeed, they will receive five vessels worthy of becoming the Corrupted Valkyries who serve the Goddess of Corruption.

When Marennia completely becomes the Goddess of Corruption, the five sisters will also become Valkyries of Corruption.

And they did.

At least half of it was successful.

The other four sisters except Millicent did not resist the Scarlet Corruption, which was exactly what the corrupt believers expected.

In the game, they and Millicent who resists corruption are in completely different camps, and they even fight each other.

But it seems that Gwei still underestimated Millicent's strong will.

Each of the five Millicent sisters represents a part of Marlene's heart.

Their weapons and prayers bear witness to this.

Millicent represents Marlenya's self-esteem in fighting the Scarlet Corruption, as well as her will to fight.

The one that Malenia was directly fighting against was the Scarlet God of Corruption. Having inherited his will, Millicent naturally resisted when faced with a mere Scarlet Flower of Corruption.

It’s just a pity that will alone is not enough.

Although Millicent was not completely corrupted, she still underwent an incomplete transformation. The scarlet corruption surged within her body, and her memory was blurred, unable to remember what had happened.

She also lost an arm and became disabled like her other sisters.

If Millicent had not lost this arm, she would have been the most complete of the five sisters, without any limb loss.

The defects of the other four sisters were too obvious. Among the four of them, there were only two intact eyes.

Bai Shi touched his chin.

Where is Millicent now? In that corrupt church?
If that was the case, Millicent still did not escape, but was simply picked up again by the corrupt followers.

　I made up a little reason why Millicent's arm was cut off. Originally, there was an invasion by Millicent here, so some said that Millicent invaded others in madness, and was eventually chopped off an arm by Atai or someone else. This is quite reasonable, but if that's the case, our protagonist would definitely not be so cruel. If it was someone else who did it, it would be a bit heartbreaking, and there was no suitable candidate_(:з」∠)_ I had to make up the part without information myself, after all, it's a novel.

　　
　
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