Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 288 There are always unscrupulous people who want to harm me!
“Is this… the Land of Shadows?”

Melina was surprised when she saw the scene in front of her.

The appearance of the Shadow Land is completely different from that of the border land, and it has a unique magnificence.

This place was unfamiliar to her, yet inexplicably familiar.

"I have an inexplicable familiarity with this place. It seems like I once lived here."

Bai Shi turned around and looked at Melina, who was constantly looking for the source of that familiar feeling.

Just now, Melina also came to the shadow land through the withered arm.

Unexpectedly, the shadow did not appear on Melina's body, and her strength was not suppressed by the shadow.

Leida and the others will arrive later, so it’s just the two of them now.

Bai Shi suddenly thought, would Melina be influenced by Michaela?
It is not known whether Michaela used her ability on him alone or if she left a trap on the withered arm.

Maybe it is necessary to test it, otherwise your wife may be left by a cow without you knowing it.

Bai Shi looked at Melina and said:

"Melina, I want to test whether you are under the influence of Michaela."

Melina nodded. She was actually a little worried about whether she would be affected.

"Well, ask the question."

"What do you think of Michaela?"

"Judging from the current situation, they can already be considered our enemies."

Bai Shi nodded. Based on his experience of being charmed just now, a charmed person would not have any hostile thoughts towards Michaela.

But at this moment, Bai Shi suddenly had the idea of teasing Melina, so he asked again:
"So, who do you like best?"

Melina was a little shy and her ears turned red.

"Is this part of the test?"

"of course."

"…I like you."

"It's a bit hard to hear."

Melina took a deep breath, raised her head and looked at Bai Shi.

At this moment, her expression was serious as she moved closer to Bai Shi step by step. The shyness she had just shown was completely gone.

"I like you best."

"I like to sit next to the blessing and watch the light rise when traveling with you. I like to listen to you share your gains with me after the battle. I like to witness you fighting bravely and getting stronger."

"But the happiest moment was when I walked with you in Stoneville after regaining my body."

“Although I was already very familiar with Stonewell, it was the first time I actually walked down the street with someone I loved.”

"So, can you confirm me now?"

Bai Shi's heart beat faster and faster as he watched Melina approaching step by step.

"Um……"

Melina moved closer to Bai Shi, tiptoed gently, and took the initiative to kiss him.

Like a dragonfly touching the water, the soft touch on the lips disappeared in an instant.

Bai Shi suddenly experienced such a confession, and he couldn't bear it.

Seeing that her tactics were successful, Melina's lips curled up slightly, but she deliberately curled her lips.

"Humph, you have such little tricks, and you still want to tease me."

Melina won today's battle.
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Bai Shi summoned Torret, who carried the two of them along the plain to the largest ruins below.

Next to the ruins, there was a spiral tower that stood tall and reached into the sky, which made Bai Shi somewhat concerned.

Along the way, there are a large number of stone buildings shaped like door frames everywhere.

Based on their shapes, Bai Shi guessed that they might be something related to the cemetery, but he didn't know why there were so many of them scattered randomly on the plain.

When passing by one of the stone door frames, Bai Shi seemed to sense something and looked up and took a quick look.

Then he saw a hunched humanoid creature squatting on the stone building.

At the same time when Bai Shi saw him, that guy also discovered the two people here and jumped down from the building.

It was one person, probably.

He wore a golden mask, and had many twisted, sharp, ominous horns growing from his long white hair. He was skinny and had dark skin.

This humanoid creature was wearing only a piece of rag around his waist and the wrist guards on his hands and feet.

Maybe this is the Horned Man?
After falling to the ground, the creature rushed towards Bai Shi and Melina in an extremely twisted posture.

Looking at the two round-bladed knives in his hands that were flashing with dim light, it was obvious that he did not come with friendly intentions.

Bai Shi silently watched the creature running towards him, and couldn't help but feel surprised at his strange running posture.

This guy's sprinting posture was extremely weird, with his entire upper body leaning straight forward like he was bowing, and his head was even lower than his waist.

Normal humans cannot see what is in front of them, but his head was stiffly tilted upwards and facing forward.

The shape is slightly similar to the ninja running in Naruto, but in fact it is much more twisted and weird than that running posture.

As he ran wildly, his two arms holding the round-blade knives twisted behind his back, forming an M shape.

Come on, this posture is really weird.

Bai Shi had never seen a guy with such a posture at the border.

Moreover, unlike the Hound Knight who changes the physiological structure of its legs and arms in order to move, the limbs and shape of this thing are not much different from those of humans, which makes it look even more weird.

The guy had already come near Bai Shi.

This strangely shaped enemy spewed out thick dark mist from its mouth, which began to obscure the vision between him and Bai Shi.

Bai Shi summoned up a storm and just as he was about to disperse the fog, he saw the monster somersault forward and then kicked towards him.

Bai Shi casually took out a dagger and stabbed the blade into the sole of his flying kick.

Another one who likes not to wear shoes.

The dagger sank into the sole of the foot and came out from the instep, and blood gushed out immediately.

The guy felt pain in his foot and exerted force again in time, and his body passed over Bai Shi's head.

When he landed, he used his hands to support himself on the ground, and with his feet, he pulled out two flying knives from his body and shot them towards Bai Shi flexibly.

Bai Shi became interested in this guy's strange attacking movements.

After shooting down the two flying knives, he jumped off the horse, ready to see what other tricks he had.

Bai Shi stood in front of him without making any move, just quietly waiting for this guy to attack again.

After hesitating in front of Bai Shi for a while, the enemy could no longer hold back and attacked again.

He stretched out his arms, supported himself on one foot, and rotated his body continuously.

The sharp blades in his hands rotated and swept towards Bai Shi fiercely again and again.

Faced with this guy's continuous attacks, Bai Shi easily blocked them all with a dagger.

This guy’s strength is pretty good, he’s at the hero level, and he’s considered relatively strong among them.

But this appearance doesn't give Bai Shi the feeling that it is a boss, but more like some elite monsters at the border.

There was a special dark shadow on his body, which was similar to the shadow on Bai Shi's body.

Previously, the shadows on Bai Shi's body brought him negative effects, but now after being dispelled, he is just the same as usual.

However, the shadow on this guy seemed to strengthen him, allowing him to display the strength of a hero.

I don't know if this shadow that enhances strength is only possessed by him, or if all creatures in the Shadow Land have it...

While thinking, Bai Shi blocked all attacks from the guy in front of him.

If these were the only moves, it would be a bit boring.

As if sensing Bai Shi's disdain, the enemy rose into the air again, spinning his body in the air and swinging his two round-edged knives with great force.

But this proud move was still easily blocked by Bai Shi.

However, after performing a set of swings, he moved his body, then suddenly leaned down and stood upside down, clamping Bai Shi's arms and shoulders with his strong and powerful legs.

The next moment, he exerted force from his waist, and instantly burst out with terrifying power to lift up Baizhi.

Seeing this, he unconsciously smiled beneath his mask.

As long as he gets within his best attack distance, he can easily kill the enemy with his strong legs.

However, after using this throwing technique, Bai Shi followed the trace of his flip and threw him to the ground at a faster speed.

When facing an attack like the death roll, as long as you turn faster than the enemy, you can defeat the enemy.

Looking at the strange man lying on the ground, Bai Shi threw the dagger in his hand.

The dagger instantly sank into his neck, severing the connection between the spine and nailing him to the ground.

The strange man dropped the round-blade knife in his hand and reached out to pull out the dagger.

The moment he pulled out the dagger subconsciously by physical instinct, his head broke, and after twitching for a while, he died.

Bai Shi walked forward and picked up the pair of round-bladed knives on the ground that were used by the previous enemies.

A line of small characters appeared in front of Bai Shi for the first time in a long time, telling him the name of the weapon - "Cursed Swordsman's Round Blade".

This pair of weapons needs to be held with the backhand, which is a bit novel. At first, Bai Shi didn't pay much attention to it, thinking it was just an ordinary round blade.

But after a closer look, I found that this thing was not completely connected, but was roughly circular.

There are several sharp blades protruding outward on the outer ring of the weapon. Once it hits, it will probably cause irregular wounds and cause heavy bleeding.

This is a tarnished weapon with special combat skills.

After picking up the weapon, Bai Shi tried the combat skills above.

After injecting magic power and releasing combat skills, Bai Shi also swung out an attack just like the previous enemy, moving and spinning in the air, and at the end of the attack, he kicked high down.

Bai Shi put away his weapon. This thing was quite flashy.

Using this weapon is like dancing. I wonder if this enemy called the Curse Swordsman is acting as a dancer here.

After defeating the enemies, Bai Shi and Melina continued to move towards the road leading to the ruins.

On the roadside, Bai Shi saw his long-lost "old friend" - a stone tablet.

Bai Shi hurriedly urged Torrett to run over to see if there was a map there.

When we walked near the stone tablet, we saw a small box placed on the broad base of the stone tablet.

Bai Shi opened it and found three bound parchment scrolls inside.

I picked one out at random and opened it, and it turned out to be a map.

Melina also opened a copy, and the content was exactly the same as the one in Bai Shi's hand.

Although these three maps have slight differences, they were all created by the same person and depict various conditions in the area.

Melina scanned the map and said:

"It seems that these are the companions that Leida mentioned in the Shadow Land who stayed here."

"The map isn't very wide, and only has some nearby information, but it should be enough for now."

Bai Shi nodded.

"Then let's take one. The remaining two will be enough for the three of them."

Melina nodded and waved the one in her hand.

Bai Shi then put the card in his hand back into the box.

Melina spread the map in front of the two of them.

In addition to mapping the terrain and towns, this map also has names next to them.

The area where Bai Shi and Melina are now is called the Cemetery Plain, which is quite appropriate.

As for the large town next to it and the scattered remains of small settlements nearby, they are collectively called the Fire Kissed Ruins.

Melina was very experienced in drawing maps, and she nodded approvingly as she looked at the map.

"The map is very clear. The person who drew it must be a careful and reliable person."

Bai Shi couldn't make out anything, so he shrugged and found a strange mark on the map.

There is a road on the map that runs all the way from south to north through the Fire Kissed Ruins and intersects with another road on the plain ahead.

There is a special sign drawn at this fork in the road.

The golden cross has a semi-arc hanging to the right, which is what the symbol looks like.

It is obvious that this mark has a special meaning, probably hoping that they will go there.

Bai Shi and Melina had no plans to go directly to the marked location for the time being. They wanted to go to the ruins first to find out what was going on.

So the two of them walked along the road beside the stone tablet.

After a while, brick and stone walls gradually appeared on both sides of the road ahead, as well as the remains of burned buildings.

A pale soul appeared on the side of the road, kneeling on the ground and looking at the ruins in front of it.

He was like the white ghosts often seen on the border, repeating his obsessions in a hollow and mechanical manner.

Bai Shi walked forward and listened to his words silently.

"They were all burned..."

"Burn by Messermo and his minions."

"What have we done? We just live a peaceful life..."

Bai Shi looked at the soul with some surprise. It was obvious that he was also one of the Horned People who were slaughtered and burned.

After careful observation, Bai Shi discovered three irregular small horns on the soul's head wrapped in cloth, sticking out from above his left ear and from the back of his head on both sides.

So this is what ordinary Horned civilians look like?
To be honest, they look not much different from ordinary border residents.

But there are some differences in form.

The Horned People seem to be much taller than ordinary border residents, and their bodies are also thinner.

As for the cursed swordsman who was holding a pair of round-bladed knives, he was taller than this soul and had more horns on his head.

Considering what the ancient king said before, the Horned People are a race with clear upper and lower classes, are very barbaric, and worship horns and furnaces.

It seems that the difference between the upper and lower classes is not just in status; the difference in appearance and strength is probably even more obvious.

Bai Shi led Melina forward and discovered that there were many people wandering in the ruins.

Bai Shi was a little surprised. How could there be survivors in these ruins?
Thinking of this, Bai Shi walked forward, hoping to find some indigenous people with whom he could communicate.

However, when Bai Shi and Melina got closer, they found that there seemed to be something wrong with the people there.

Although in the Land of Shadows, it is normal to have some shadows on your body...

But these horn people looked like shadows pulled up from the ground, pitch black, like shadows in a cemetery.

Bai Shi had seen that special horned man holding the round-blade knife before. He actually had a real physical body.

It was obvious that something was not right with these horn men.

After seeing Bai Shi, all the people in the ruins rushed over violently.

Bai Shi sighed as he looked at the villains who were rushing towards him as if they had some blood feud with him.

It's back, everything is back.

It feels like the wild dogs on the roadside want to come up and take a bite, just like in the game.

Since he was the one who rushed up, Bai Shi won't be polite.

Damn, there are always villains who want to harm me! I'm using my Sea Tiger Explosion Fist!

Bai Shi threw a punch forward, and the raging storm penetrated the already dilapidated ruins, tearing all the shadow-like horned people into pieces.

Standing in front of the deep ravine that had just been blasted out, Bai Shi recalled the horned men who had just rushed up.

There were more than a dozen Horned Men who rushed up just now, and there may be some more wandering around in the ruins.

"The number seems a little wrong..."

“That’s a bit strange.”

Bai Shi touched his chin.

He is not an extreme person.

But since what happened here can be called a massacre, why wasn't everyone killed?

They even went so far as to completely seal off the Shadow Land to prevent what happened inside from getting out. Bai Shi originally thought that no one from inside to outside would be spared.

The result was not only that they were not all destroyed, but their forms were transformed instead?

Come to think of it, why did these guys react so strongly when they saw me?
Obviously I didn't do anything, I was just an ordinary fader passing by.

Could it be possible...?
Bai Shi glanced at Melina.

If Melina's brother was indeed the Messermo who set fire and massacred the Horned People, then he probably wasn't coming for her.

But it doesn’t matter, the result is the same anyway.

Bai Shi wandered in the ruins for a while and finally found a special dagger here.

The blade of this short knife was narrow, blood-stained, and badly damaged, and it could no longer be used as a weapon.

But it is also tainted with an evil spirit, which gives it a special power.

This power transforms it into a talisman with special powers and effects.

A line of small characters appeared in front of Bai Shi again, revealing its name - "Kaizakana".

Bai Shi waved the dagger in front of him, then threw it into the space disc.

Other than that there's not much to note here.

By the way, a few horn men ran out from a cemetery-like place just now, and one of them had a vat on his head.

After the guy died, a special piece fell out of the tank.

Bai Shi could feel that as long as he integrated the fragment into his body, he would be able to reduce the suppression of the Shadow Land on his own strength.

After integrating a sufficient number of them, perhaps one could actually gain strength from the shadow.

Bai Shi had already removed the negative effects on her body, and Melina didn't need this at all.

However, Bai Shi was not in a hurry to use it. He put it away directly, planning to learn more about it before using it in the future to avoid any accidents.

　My family drags me out to eat every day. I feel like the National Day is even busier than usual...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)