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Zicomo had taken this into consideration, which is why he personally went and brought Crookshan back.

Zicomo never has too many cats.

It would also be a good companion for Lorris, and besides, Crookshanks' round face is actually quite comical after a while, no wonder Hermione bought it in the original book.

Nothing major happened during the rest of the summer, and Zicomo shifted his focus to the border region.

After two years, Zicomo finally arrived at the royal city of Rodel, a magnificent city located at the foot of the Golden Tree and the power center of the entire border region.

The one guarding this place now is Mongert, the brother of the Blood King Monger.

However, Zicomo will not encounter him for the time being. At this moment, Mongot is at the foot of the real Golden Tree, which is the entrance to the Golden Tree.

Zicomo has now arrived at the ruins of the battlefield outside the city, the site of the Second Battle of Rodel.

The battlefield was filled with all kinds of weapons and arrows, the most eye-catching of which were those special weapons that were as thick as pillars.

These special weapons have one end that is inserted into the ground like an arrow, and the other end that is shaped like a cylindrical hammer.

However, the hammerhead was hollow inside.

This weapon was recorded in a perfumer's notebook that Zicomo once found.

After this weapon is fired, a poisonous gas will drift out from the hammerhead. This gas will corrupt life, which will then turn into flowers and be reborn.

This is why beautiful flowers bloom everywhere on this battlefield.

This signifies that the perfumer, who symbolizes saving lives, joined the war, and also reflects how brutal the war truly was.

Even perfumers who are doctors have to transform into poison masters and enter the battlefield.

Chapter 120 The Corpse of "Ominous King" Mongot and Gransanx

In the ruins of the battlefield outside the royal city of Rodel, on a relatively clean and flat area, Zicomo found a blessed spot.

After activation, Melina's image appeared.

She first looked up in the direction of the golden tree, then turned around and said, "Thank you for finally bringing me to this place. I was born at the foot of the golden tree, and it was there that I received the mission bestowed upon me by my mother."

"But as you can see, my physical body has been burned away, leaving only my soul. That's why I'm so eager to find the reason why I'm still alive. Perhaps the place where I was born can give me the answer."

"Oh, by the way, there are also some of Queen Marika's proverbs here. Would you like me to read them to you?"

Zicomo sighed as he looked at the piece of wood before him. He knew perfectly well the purpose of Melina's continued existence; she was an insurance measure created by Queen Marika.

On the one hand, it helps the faded ones burn away the thorns at the entrance of the golden tree that repel everything; on the other hand, it prevents the faded ones from going down the path of madness.

This is why, at the end of the Madness ending in the game, Melina says she will grant the protagonist his destined death.

As for how Marika created Melina, perhaps she was born from a relationship with the Queen of Night-Colored Eyes.

As mentioned before, Melina has a connection with the Queen of the Sky-Colored Eyes.

This also explains why the Queen of the Sky-Colored Eyes so easily handed over her destined death to Marika.

After all, this game even features the self-indulgence of Marika and Radagan, as well as the gay relationship between Mungo and Michaela.

Adding another lace trim to Queen Marika and Queen Sky-Colored Eyes wouldn't seem to be a problem.

Seeing that Zicomo hadn't responded for a long time, Melina asked, "Don't you want to hear it?"

Melina's voice brought Zicomo back to his senses. He said, "No, I want to hear it. Go ahead and tell me."

Marika left her words of wisdom at the blessing point, and it seems that only Melina is special enough to see them.

“I will directly repeat Queen Marika’s maxim: ‘Demigods, my lovely children. You can be anything—you can be kings or gods. But if you do not become any one of them, you will be abandoned…and become sacrifices.’”

This shows that Marika had foreseen everything that was about to happen as early as when she smashed the Elden Ring.

The War of Shattered Gods must have a victor; otherwise, the demigods will be abandoned.

Those faded beings she had banished to the borderlands would become her second line of defense, returning from outside the borderlands to offer sacrifices to the Elden Ring.

However, no matter how hard she tried, she never imagined that such an oddball as Zikomo would appear, directly turning the power of a demigod into his own nourishment, which destined the Elden Ring to be unable to be repaired.

"That concludes my retelling. I hope you will enter the royal city soon."

After Melina finished speaking, her figure vanished and she hid again.

Her behavior made Zicomo shake his head. This blockhead was still the same, preoccupied with his own mission and indifferent to everything else.

Perhaps only things related to Marika can get her attention?

Just like the proverb of this blessed point.

Zicomo stood up from beside the blessing point and continued toward the royal city of Rodel.

He hadn't gone far when he saw a man dressed in aristocratic attire on the road, which greatly surprised Zicomo.

Since the Elden Ring shattered, the humans in the border region have either died or gone mad.

As a result, sparse population and vast land area have become a major characteristic of border areas.

In the past two years, Zicomo has met very few people with whom he can have a normal conversation.

The nobleman in front of him saw that he didn't rush up to kill him and seemed to think that they could communicate.

Zicomo stepped forward, about to greet him, when in the next instant he saw an ancient golden tree rune appear at the feet of the person in front of him in prayer.

After the light faded, he had transformed into an ominous demon.

Zicomo looked completely bewildered.

What is this? The dead BOSS suddenly came back to life and attacked me?

Wasn't this guy killed by him two years ago?

Could it be that the ominous demons are actually an organization, and there are actually many of them?

The last one was called Malkit, what's this one called? Malzahar?

The ominous demon before him ignored Zicomo's doubts and did not attack him.

Instead, he stood still and said, "Faded one, I have found you, you who are manipulated by the fire of ambition."

Zicomo rolled his eyes upon hearing this.

The previous ominous spirit seemed to have said the same thing. Did these guys plan this together, or is this the only phrase they know?

It's impossible that all the ominous signs and demons are from the same person, right?

Wait! It's the same person!

A thought flashed through Zicomo's mind: Could these ominous demons be clones of someone?

Whether it's true or not, you'll find out by trying it.

Thinking of this, Zicomo retrieved a fragment from his system space, which was entangled by withered roots. Ignoring the ominous demon's continued babbling, he pressed it to the ground and then injected magic into it.

The next instant, a golden tree pattern rose up beneath the feet of the ominous demon.

The ominous demon itself was as if it were being crushed by a mountain, lying on the ground and unable to get up no matter how hard it struggled.

"I didn't expect it to actually work." Zicomo was somewhat surprised.

This fragment is called "Malkite's Prison Gear," and its effect is to temporarily pin Malkitte, who was once imprisoned, to the ground.

This thing was looted from Patch by Zicomo, and no one knows where Patch stole it from.

At the time, he thought this thing was just trash because he had already killed Malkitt. ​​He never expected it to be useful to the ominous demon in front of him.

It seems that the ominous demon in front of us is indeed someone's clone.

As for who that person was, Zicomo already had a guess.

That is the current ruler of the royal city, King Mongot.

As mentioned before, with the shift in mainstream power, ominous signs have transformed from symbols of nobility into curses in the eyes of the public.

If any family in the royal city has a child with an ominous appearance, the child will inevitably be thrown into the royal city's sewers.

That was the place the royal city used to cover up all filth and filth.

Ironically, it is Mongot, who carries ominous signs, who has become the current king of Rodel.

Perhaps Mongot never revealed himself to the people of the royal city, because he knew that the son of the ominous sign could not gain their approval.

Therefore, he chose to disguise himself as an ominous demon, which explains why a large number of ominous children were active on the battlefield during the Shattered War.

The citizens of the royal city may think that their King Rodel is making the most of this power, but in reality, it is the army that Mongot trained himself during his exile in the royal city's sewers.

Even he himself might transform into an ominous demon, finding himself on the battlefield.

In other words, the real name of the "Malkit's Prison Gear" in his hand should be "Mongt's Prison Gear".

So, does that mean that Monger, who was once imprisoned in the royal city's sewers like Mongert, also had his own prison?

However, Zicomo wasn't very interested in this, since he had already killed Mongo, and even if he found his prison equipment, it would be useless.

Could it possibly be used as a cenotaph for Monge?

It's better to focus our attention on the ominous spirits right now.

Seeing that the ominous demon was about to break free of the bindings, Zicomo used the same trick again, pressing the ominous demon to the ground once more.

Zicomo wasn't in a hurry to kill him. Instead, he asked him, "Logically speaking, I've already killed the Omen Demon, but your appearance made me realize that there might be more than one Omen Demon. It's even possible that they are all clones of someone. Am I right, Mongot?"