Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

When I left the library and took the elevator down, the first thing I saw was Mugram lying in a pool of blood.

I felt a shock all over my body, and immediately turned around and stepped on the trigger stone in the middle of the elevator again, making it rise back to the library, and then walked carefully towards Mugram.

It was drizzling outside, but there was no one around.

Mugram's chest was still rising and falling slightly, but he was stabbed in the abdomen.

I swallowed hard, squatted down, and asked quickly, "Mugram, what's wrong with you?"

“Little...be careful..."

--careful?

I subconsciously pulled out the hound's fang, turned around and swept it horizontally.

Suddenly, a dark shadow leaped up like a swooping crow, and its sharp claws rushed towards my face, forcing me to draw my knife to block.

boom!

Although I blocked the opponent's attack, the next second, I was kicked hard in the chest by the opponent, and I fell out.

The man who appeared was dressed in black secret agent clothes, with a hood on his head, revealing a mask made entirely of bones underneath, and a black crow feather cloak on his back, like the god of death in this night rain.

——“Blood Finger” the killer of Yashan, how could he appear in this place.

Before I could think carefully, another beam of cold light came down on me as I lay on the ground in the cold rain.

I could only raise my hound's tusk to block. At the same time, taking advantage of the opponent's downward force, I pushed the ground hard with my back foot, then raised my lower body and kicked directly at the opponent's head.

The man immediately dodged.

I took advantage of the situation and used my upside-down foot as an axis, stirring the water like a dragon to help myself stand up quickly. At the same time, I wiped my long teeth with my left hand, turned around and made a bloody slash, forcing back the two people who were about to rush forward.

"Oh wow~ You really are worthy of being the great hero of Gaileyd, your reaction is so quick." The man with bandages on his hands and feet, wearing black secret agent clothes, said frivolously.

His hair was messy and his beard was long and stubbled. Although he was smiling, his light yellow eyes were as hungry and cunning as a hyena's, releasing the murderous intent to tear people apart without any concealment, just like the long knife in the man's hand, with a clear blood color.

"'Scavenger' Yaluo." I recognized him. "I didn't expect you to be in league with the people of 'Blood Finger'."

"Don't say such harsh words~" Yaluo laughed, swung the long sword and put it away, "The guidance Queen Marica left for us Faded Ones is to collect the power of the Great Rune of the demigods to become the King of Elden, right? Isn't that what Lord Two-Fingers told you, great hero?"

——Come to think of it, Jerry told me.

——On the night when the battle festival ended, this man went to attack the unconscious Latan, trying to obtain his demigod power. Fortunately, he was driven away by the guarding Forge Knight Tok, and then he left the Red Lion City.

Yaluo continued to talk: "You are the same, right? You entered the Rhea Lukalia Academy after hearing that there is a very easy-to-obtain Great Rune here, right?"

"What a pity! I am a Knight of Kalia." I flatly rejected his offer of sympathy.

"Really? That's perfect. I've been eyeing the hound's fang in your hand for a long time. Hand it over!" As soon as the guy finished speaking, he walked forward without any hesitation.

Combat skills - Iai, sword-drawing slash.

A cold light flashed towards my neck.

I put up my shield, blocked the opponent's attack with all my strength, then counterattacked and swung my sword straight at Yaluo's head.

The opponent dodged the attack with a quick step, then retracted his right arm to gather strength and used his left hand as a crosshair to aim at me: "Watch out!"

Combat skill-penetration!

——This move is not easy to block with a shield. If you fail to defend against it, it will expose a huge flaw to the opponent.

I subconsciously turned my head to avoid it, but a sharp gust of wind pressure blew in my face, startling me. I staggered backwards in a hurry to keep some distance.

"Oh wow, did you see that?" Yaluo chuckled.

——Could this guy have developed combat skills like me and used Storm Blade during the penetration?

There was a stinging pain on my face. Clearly the opponent's blade didn't touch me at all, but the invisible cutting of the wind made the actual length and width of the knife in Yaluo's hand longer and wider than what I saw, making it difficult to guard against.

...No, where is the killer of "Blood Finger" Yashan?

The moment he became alert, a chilling murderous intent ran up his spine.

Instinctively, I took a step forward, then turned and leaped, swinging forward with my hound's fangs.

Sure enough, this guy seemed to have grown out of my shadow, and his sharp iron claws poked directly at me.

Fortunately, I reacted quickly enough and cut off half of his head with one sword...

Quack, quack, quack——

I seemed to hear the crows' cries and the sounds of them flapping their wings and flying up. It was as if I was hit by the Sharingan's illusion. The moment the hound's fangs hit the opponent, Yashan's entire body turned into pieces of black feathers and disappeared before my eyes.

wrong!

This is the combat skill - Mist Raptor!

By the time I reacted, the killer from Crow Mountain had already fallen from the blind spot of my vision. The raptor's claws instantly tore my chest apart. The six bloody wounds were like burns on fire, and the pain was so severe that I felt dazed.

And the next second, someone kicked him in the waist.

I was like a piece of trash that was thrown out. I fell to the ground and rolled several times before I stopped.

"Cough—cough—" I gasped for breath rapidly, but I didn't dare to be negligent for a moment. When I stood up as quickly as possible, Yashan and Yalu had already attacked me from the front.

They had no intention of giving me a chance to catch my breath. Perhaps, Mugram looked so miserable after suffering several rounds of sneak attacks like this.

but--

The moment the other party raised his weapon and attacked me, I stepped hard on the ground.

Combat skill - Storm Foot!

The birds and beasts immediately retreated in the storm, and Yaluo, who had seen my control over the storm during the battle festival, couldn't help but stop.

This is a good opportunity!

Combat skill—Wolf Attack Blood Dance Stage 2, activated!

My whole body brought up a storm, and in the blink of an eye I rushed in front of Yaluo, and swung the scarlet blood blade at him wantonly!

The opponent was obviously caught off guard. Even though he raised his sword to block my attack, the impact of the Blood Slash still sent Yalu flying.

——It was fortunate that Lenara helped me recover all my strength after the battle, otherwise, I would have ended up like Mugram.

——By the way, he was ambushed here when he was not in full condition.

——After all, Mugram had no other means of rapid recovery except for the Holy Grail bottle.

Regardless of all this, I planned to continue pursuing the victory, but Yashan did not sit idly by.

The sharp claws were approaching, but I just took a step back. The opponent's attack was like a surging river, rushing towards me again and again.

——Hound Step. I am not proficient enough in using it. I only know how to charge forward and have never tried to retreat.

I couldn't distance myself from him, so I could only block him with my shield, which made a clanging sound. In a blink of an eye, I was forced to retreat to the corner of the small square.

Yashan retracted his hand and gathered strength, as if preparing to use this as the final blow, and delivered it with all his strength.

But I seized the moment when he was gathering strength and quickly rolled to the side to avoid it.

whoosh-

A dark yellow cold light flashed by, and the killer from Yashan seemed to have predicted my action and swung a Gurkha scimitar directly at me.

Just as I finished rolling, the machete stabbed my shoulder.

Suddenly, blood spurted everywhere!

It was like being thrown into a barrel of knife blades, rolling around for a circle before coming out. Dozens of wounds all over my body burst open in an instant, making me suddenly exhausted and powerless, and I fell to my knees in a pool of blood.

—Damn it, I wasn’t paying attention.

——Is he actually in the “bleeding” state?

"Hahaha, in this way, your weapon, your glory, and the demigod rune on your body, will all be mine! Great hero!" Yaro laughed wildly with a ferocious face, holding the long knife in his backhand, like a beast that had caught its prey, he opened his bloody mouth and pounced on me.

——Move! Move now!