Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

"What's wrong?" I ran back to my friends and was quite curious seeing their serious faces.

And Ishutopia also spoke frankly: "Brother Ling, it will take a long time for the sage to repair the golden needle. We have discussed it and decided to go to the church in the back mountain now and bring the girl back. What do you say?"

——Bring it back... Ah, yes, with Brother Hu here, we don’t have to worry about the scarlet corruption on Millicent’s body infecting others.

——Moreover, the magicians who fell in the town of Selia just now were not beheaded and dismembered by Brother Wolf and his men, which means that they will be resurrected again through blessing.

——If time goes on, those guys will become trouble.

"What a great idea!" Thinking of this, I couldn't help but clap my hands, and at the same time sighed that I hadn't thought of this. "Then let's set off quickly. Fortunately, the Holy Bloodwood Buds we need to collect are also near that church."

"Oh? I see." Wolf Brother Blaze suddenly realized, "No wonder Zero, you went to so much trouble to help that girl... It's better to say that collecting Holy Bloodwood Buds is just a side job."

"Didn't I tell you at the beginning?"

Everyone shook their heads.

——Ah! It seems that there really isn’t one.

——I have been a riddler for too long. I only arranged for the separate actions and indeed forgot to tell everyone the reason.

Looking back, it’s a little embarrassing.

Ishutopia said cheerfully: "It doesn't matter. Brother Zero, whatever you do, you have your reasons. We just need to trust you."

--believe!

This word touched me, so I couldn't help but mention it a little more: "In addition, there is a cave nearby, which may contain moss crystals... There is still more than enough time given to us by City Lord Jie Lian. I am also worried that we will not have enough raw materials to make moss medicine by then. Let's go and collect some later."

"Okay, we'll help them to the end. As long as you can find it, we'll go with you."

"Great! Oh, and, Brother Wolf, Senior Ishutopia, have you searched Selia Town? If nothing is found, we need to search quickly before those magicians are resurrected."

"...you kid, you're making more and more demands."

"Hey~" I smiled along with my friends, and then according to the memory in the game, I led everyone to quickly search the town of Selia.

Magic Dragon Emblem Amulet +1, magic scroll of Night Comet, magic stone sword key, a golden seed, and Luther's pyroxene staff... Brother Wolf and Brother Pot shook their heads, saying that they couldn't use anything. Blaze even remembered the Nocti Fluid Sword that he couldn't give to Pollyanna, and gave it to me.

And Ishutopia took the magic dragon emblem amulet from me.

——He seems to have a special liking for dragon props.

In addition, I also gave him an extra golden seed.

——After all, in the game, Ishutopia’s stats are relatively low, and it is only active in Nimgefu.

——And there will be extra golden seeds in the end, so it is better to give one to someone else so that he can have one more chance to use the Holy Grail bottle and have more chances of survival.

After looting the entire town, we quickly went through the back gate of Selia Town and walked up the mountain path.

Along the way, a few dead people appeared from time to time.

However, after encountering our White and Black Special Forces, we can only say that their fate has come to an end tonight.

"I didn't expect there are dead born here too. It reminds me of bad things." Ishutopia said casually after chopping down the last skeleton.

Alexander felt the same way: "That village... This is the first time I've seen so many deadborn gathered together, and there's no way they can be dealt with. Let me tell you, brother Ling, when I met those ghosts today, I kept wondering if there was something wrong with my hearing. Why didn't I find the sound of the horn?"

"Oh, did you encounter a ghost today too?" Ishutopia turned around and asked.

"Ghost?" Laya tilted her head, curious about the words spoken by Ishtopia.

“Hahaha, it’s not really a ghost, it’s just that those magicians appear and disappear mysteriously… At first I thought there was no one in the town, but suddenly a pyroxene magic sword slashed at me from behind.” Ixutopon said lightly, “Thanks to Brother Wolf, he could hear the footsteps and the sounds of those guys using magic. If I were alone, I would have suffered a great loss.”

I also sighed, "Hey, our side is also quite tricky. Veteran General O'Neill has been summoning ghosts who died in the Ionian War in the center of the maze. His hands are numb from chopping, and the number of ghosts has not decreased at all."

"Then how did you solve it?"

"Thanks to Alexander, he..."

I was just about to promote Alexander's new idea for solving the maze when Wolf suddenly reached out and interrupted our conversation: "Zero, something is wrong."

"Huh? What... I'm going!"

Rumbling--

Suddenly, a huge black rock rolled down from the top of the hillside, almost blocking the entire mountain road!

Even though we were experienced in battle, a few of us subconsciously turned around and ran.

"Wow—shit! I forgot! There's a rockfall trap here!" I yelled in fright.

"You know this?" Ishtopia was shocked. "But, since there is a trap, then there must be someone on top? Is it a magician? Or is it the bug that Grandpa Gwei mentioned?"

"This should be a triggered magic trap. Once the ritual is completed, it will be automatically triggered as long as someone approaches." Blaze explained to us while running.

Suddenly, Alexander stopped and turned around: "In this case, it is useless for us to just run away! I am Alexander the Iron Fist, and now-"

Boom!

"Brother Hu——"

Just as Alexander faced the black boulder head-on, he was knocked away and turned into another boulder, which quickly passed us and rolled directly to the foot of the mountain.

However, the stone of the magic trap disappeared on its own after rolling to the bend in the cliff.

We ran back quickly.

"Brother Hu, are you okay?" Ishutopia stepped forward and asked.

Alexander held onto the top of the pot and sat up, laughing happily: "It was so thrilling, my pot almost broke! My strength training is far from enough."

"······How did you come to the conclusion from my words that there's no point in running away?" Blaze held his forehead in silence.

"However, the stone disappeared by itself... Could it be that when we go up there again, it will roll down again?!"

"Bingo, congratulations, you got it right, Ishutopia-senpai." I nodded at him.

"..." Ishutopia was speechless, "Then what should we do? Brother Ling, you must have a way!"

——To be honest, in the game, you can just ride Torret and twist your body to avoid it.

——But the rolling stones in real life are obviously much bigger than those in the game, and I hardly saw any place on the mountain trail where I could hide.

Alexander spoke first: "From what I feel, the stone doesn't seem to be solid, and the weight is not as heavy as imagined. If the four of us work together, we should be able to stop it."

——Is this how a strong man thinks? It's a bit too direct.

"It is indeed not an ordinary stone, but a platinum product... I have come across this kind of trap in the magic academy. When the rolling stone just falls, it has no impact force. Therefore, we have to run up the cliff at full speed and intercept it when it just falls from the magic circle. There is still a chance." Brother Wolf put forward another constructive suggestion, "Zero, what's wrong?"

"Where is Laya?" Alexander's words made me look around, and suddenly I found that Laya was missing.

"Huh? Didn't she come down with us just now?"

After Ishutopia finished speaking, a bad thought popped up in our minds.

I immediately summoned Torret and ran towards the mountain path at full speed: "Laya - Laya - where are you? Laya -"

We were almost halfway up the mountain, but there was no Laya and no more falling rocks.

Suddenly, a response came from the front: "Zero——"

"Laya!" I ran over quickly... and was shocked.

I saw that the little snake was actually supporting an entire big rock by herself at another corner of the mountain trail, which was the location of the rockfall trap... The rock was obviously three times as high as her!

——Is this the value of the Volcano Mansion?

Our group rushed forward, and Alexander and Blaze offered their hands to help hold back the falling rocks.

I quickly held Laya's hand and looked at her whole body: "Are you okay? Laya."

Laya shook her head: "I'm fine, this stone isn't too heavy~"

"That's too much." Thank God, I breathed a sigh of relief.

Alexander on the side also hit the platinum boulder several times with his fists, and even easily pushed it back: "Well, it is hollow after all."

"After all, it's just a magical product. Apart from the platinum shell on the outside, there should be nothing but air inside." Blaze pushed the boulder away and let it roll away. "Now that we're here, let's go."

"Wait, I remember there should be a rockfall trap ahead, be careful."

This time we were prepared and ran to the top of the mountain with all our might.

At the moment the rockfall trap was activated, Blaze and I made a cross-cutting attack, chopping it back and making it roll away.

Then, Alexander rushed forward and punched with all his strength, causing the boulder to break into pieces like an egg, and finally turned into a pool of mud and seeped into the soil.

"It's finally solved." I breathed a sigh of relief.

"Zero, is the church we are going to just in front?" Laya followed me and asked me.

"Ah."

"But why do I feel like it's very hot there?"

······Hmm? It's very hot?