Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

The sound of the horn dissipated with the wind and rain, and after being knocked down, the dead born with their heads destroyed could no longer be resurrected.

——Finally, was Tibia’s calling ship solved by Letina?

I summoned Torret and quickly ran to the north side of Shuihuan Village. At the foot of a dilapidated house, Letina was holding a ball of golden rune light and a blue-white light that was like a satellite surrounding it in her palm.

"Letina." I got in front of her and dismounted. "Thank you for your hard work."

Letina shook her head and responded: "Thanks to Master Ling and the others for reducing most of the power of the Calling Ship, I was able to defeat the other party in the end... By the way, Master Ling, I'll leave these to you. They are of no use to me."

As she spoke, the golden rune in her hand was like a thin stream, shining with a faint light and penetrating into my body.

Ashes - Ashes of the Skeleton Militia, obtained.

——In the game, bosses usually don't deliberately target the ashes of the dead, so they can be resurrected infinitely. It's a good choice to attract firepower, but... their attack capabilities are not enough, so the effect can only be considered average.

"And this." Letina raised her hand and took out a hairy tuber that looked like a large black onion or a sweet potato and handed it over.

"Is this the dead root?" I took it. "Let's gather outside the village first and give it to D later. He might be able to use it."

——Of course, this is a lie.

——According to the plot in the game, D will be returned to me and I will be introduced to the Beast Priest Gulang.

——After all, I have never met the big dog from Queen Marika's house, so it is more reliable to be introduced by someone, in case the other party in real life notices the stubbornness in me and goes crazy and kills me right away.

——And this is the clever strategy of “rejecting before welcoming”.

I let Letina sit on Torret, and I led the spirit horse out of Shuihuan Village. Laya and D had already arrived at the meeting place.

As soon as Laya saw me, she happily ran to me with her unique snake-like steps: "Zero, is this how you guys usually fight? After experiencing it myself, it feels very interesting~"

"Eh? Laya, have you never fought before?" This made me a little confused. After all, there were many guys with unclear minds at the border, like A'ti, who would be bitten by a dog for no reason.

Besides, Laya is from the Volcano Residence, and has never been involved in a battle?

"Uncle Furnace did teach me some simple moves." Laya seemed a little embarrassed and stretched out her little hand to scratch her face. "But because I run very fast, I usually avoid those that I can run away from."

——That’s true. If I could run away, I wouldn’t bother to get into trouble.

D followed Laya and came over. I took out the dead root from my arms and threw it to him: "This is what you are looking for, right, D."

D took the dead root and put it in his arms.

······Huh? Why don't you give it back to me and introduce me to the Beast Priest?

"What's wrong?" Perhaps because he saw something strange on my face, D asked casually.

"Um... that..." I was a little embarrassed to say it directly. I asked him to take me to see Senior Beast, so I could only beat around the bush and ask, "We are going to Gallid's place next, D... do you want to come with us?"

D shook his head, and a slight sigh came from under the mask: "The last time I went back to the hall, some idiot said that he had made an important discovery and invited me to solve it together, so I plan to go back first."

——······Uh, the idiot D is talking about couldn’t be Roger.

——By the way, didn’t he understand what I meant?

——Galeed! Dragon Tomb! Beast Temple! They are all in the same area!

"Then let's say goodbye." D was about to turn around and leave, but then he remembered something and said to me, "... If you don't want to be a fool who gets killed for nothing next time, you'd better avoid the ship as soon as possible after seeing it... You can't handle them alone."

After saying that, D's figure gradually turned into golden fragments of light and dissipated away.

——Is it possible? Could it be that because I failed the test this time, he didn't plan to let me go to the Beast Temple and take over his job? !

······It seems that next time, I will have to pick a dead root by myself to get D's approval.

Hey~

"Zero, what's wrong with you?" Laya beside me heard my sigh and asked curiously, "Actually, do you want that black thing?"

"Huh?" I turned my head in surprise. Was I so obviously exposed?

Laya smiled and said, "It's not that difficult. Next time you meet that D, you can get the dead root by defeating him, right? Oh—"

I couldn't help but reach out and tap Laya's forehead: "Not all problems can be solved by fighting, my lady. Just like your necklace, if you really went to fight with someone, wouldn't you not be able to eat the delicious shrimp?"

"Eh... is that so?" Laya pouted her lips slightly and asked doubtfully, "But if you beat him, can't you also ask him to cook prawns for us?"

"..."

——There is some truth in that, but not much.

I realized the deep-rooted upbringing Laya received, and sighed, so I decided to give up the topic for now: "Forget it, let's talk about it later. Let's hurry to Galid first."

"Ok!"

However, when Laya's horse first stepped into the Water Call Village, it was eaten by the Dead Borns until only its corpse was left. It is unknown whether it can be resurrected under such circumstances.

Now, I had no choice but to let Laya ride with me on the Torret again and head towards Gaileed.

Gradually, gradually, the road that Torrett walked on changed color imperceptibly. The lush green became withered and dry, and it was as if blood soaked the earth, dyeing it with a light crimson.

At the end of the distant sky, there seemed to be a ball of raging red fire burning, with sparks flying, and even the sky could not escape being eroded and stained by this dangerous color.

——Scarlet corruption breeds decay, an evil force comparable to that of nuclear weapons.

Today, the entire land of Gelid has been turned into a hell on earth by the Goddess of Corruption. Even before I set foot there, I can already feel the thick sense of suffocation in the air. When I close my eyes, I can seem to hear the endless wailing and lamenting of countless lives, which makes people feel unhappy.

Continue forward and you will see the wall of fire that Roderica mentioned.

Rune magic was used to make it burn endlessly, and even every crack in the masonry was emitting faint sparks. In order to prevent the scarlet corruption of Gaileyd from spreading further, the "Berlin Wall" was erected.

But... this wall of fire is probably about five or six meters high! Even if Torrett used his full strength in a double jump, he couldn't get over this wall of fire!

——In the game, even Ah Tai’s knees couldn’t hit the wall, but in reality, it was completely impossible to climb over it.

I moved closer to the wall carefully. The scorching heat from the fire would make people burn and dehydrated. If I touched it, my blood would probably drop rapidly.

It seems that we really have to follow Roderica's advice and find a way to get to Gailed from the Gael Tunnel.

——Think positively and don’t wake up that stinky earth dragon. Pass through the passage smoothly and the Gale Fortress is almost in front of you.

Using the portal from there, you can go directly to the gate of Red Lion City, which is also a good shortcut.

Having made up my mind, I was about to turn around and look for Laya to explain, but... where is this little girl?! She disappeared in the blink of an eye?

——Wait, there is a red spirit nearby that will invade the player! Could Laya have been kidnapped again? !

Phew——

Just when I was getting a little anxious, Torret called out and turned around.

I followed it with some curiosity, and soon I found Laya in front of a black sword stone monument on the side of the road.

She seemed to be reading the words with great interest, and she even forgot to close her little mouth.

I breathed a sigh of relief and ran over quickly: "Laya."

"Zero~" Laya turned her head and said with a smile, "It seems to contain the story of your Faded King, Ge Fulei!"

——King Gefulei’s conquest, the final place.

——The golden army is unstoppable and victorious in every battle...

——But without the blessing, the color faded.

——Well, I have no memory of Atei, so I don’t know what kind of battle I fought after following Gefulei here... Maybe it was to hunt down the giants? After all, their skeletons can be seen everywhere in Gelid.

"Come back and see later. Let's find a place to rest and eat something first. After that, we have to go to the Gale Tunnel." I said to Laya.

When Xiao Laya heard this, her mouth was watering: "I, I'm hungry too, let's go to that church and rest."

After saying that, she ran over without waiting for me to stop her.

——Hey, that’s…

Forget it, maybe the Red Spirit has been destroyed. After all, there are so many people coming and going, and Torrett hasn't disappeared on his own yet.

I shook my head helplessly and followed Laya towards the Smokehouse Church, but when I got closer, I found that the girl was lying at the door and seemed afraid to go in.

--What's wrong?

Just as I was about to ask this, a woman's pious voice came from inside: "Ah~ Lord Faded, I hope you don't have to suffer anymore from now on. In the name of Lord Two Fingers, I will do everything for you, as long as you stay by my side forever and give me strength."

——······Hiss, I got involved in the confession between the Finger Witch and a certain A-Tu.

This is youth~