Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

"Ahhh-"

The death ritual bird let out a sharp, strange roar.

Dozens of icy blue and white resentful souls floated out from its black wings, like a Protoss aircraft carrier in StarCraft, releasing small spaceships and wandering around the ritual bird.

Magic - Ancient Death Ghost.

——Unlike in the game, this active skill has actually become a passive talent of the Ritual Bird in reality.

After being pierced by the vengeful spirits, many soldiers seemed to lose their strength instantly, and fell to the ground after their bodies swayed. As a result, no one dared to approach the death ritual bird for a while.

Neferi yelled, "All troops retreat! Get out of the attack range of the cuckoo trebuchets first!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a ball of blue fire flew towards us from the sky.

Huge broken rocks fell between us and the death ritual bird, and even though the lake water was cold, it was already burning with a dark blue flame.

Wuwuwu——

The cry of retreat echoed in the wind, but it also sounded like the bell ringing for the start of the game.

The Ritual of Death bird let out another strange cry, flapped its wings, and strode towards Nepheli and me.

Bols was about to step forward to resist his opponent, but unexpectedly, another huge black shadow suddenly swooped down from mid-air. It was another bird of death. Like a vulture catching its prey, it let out a death roar at Bols.

Bols quickly grabbed his opponent and threw him away.

And then, he couldn't bear the piercing devilish sound anymore, and he fell to his knees on the ground in a trance, holding his forehead.

"Zero, be careful!"

Nepheli's call pulled my worries away from the troll.

I saw that the top of the death hook was burning with black and white underworld fire like a torch, and it was coming straight towards us.

"Torret, you go back first!" Nepheli and I quickly separated from the horses and dodged each other's attacks.

After the netherworld fire hit the ground, it turned into a ravine that cracked the earth, as if it had directly split the barrier between the mortal world and the underworld. Countless black and white resentful souls stretched out their hands from the bottom of the abyss, wanting to bring living lives into the icy hell.

Seeing that the Hellfire Ravine failed to hit either of us, the ritual bird continued to drive its magic power and extended in the direction of the coalition forces' retreat.

Nepheli and I looked at each other and immediately rushed forward.

"Ah——" A pale resentful soul suddenly flew towards me, and it transformed into a corpse holding a death ritual spear.

He subconsciously swung out the hound's fangs and actually cut the opponent in half with one sword.

But at the same time, there was still a trace of coldness that penetrated from the palm of my hand into my body, and it was even difficult to dissipate, like a thin thorn stuck in my throat.

——It seems that I have to avoid it more often to avoid triggering the frostbite state.

"Hah!" On the other side, Nepheli, who was driving the thunder, pounced on the skinny wrist of the death ritual bird like a golden lion, smashing the rune fragments into pieces and interrupting the opponent's ground-splitting gully.

The Death Ritual Bird opened its mouth in anger and was about to roar.

“Don’t scream!” I swung my hand and swung a fire pot, and a red flame exploded in the other person’s mouth.

Nepheli took advantage of this opportunity and leapt high into the air in the storm, her twin axes flashing with lightning as she slammed directly at the ritual bird's drooping head.

This guy was hit so hard that his whole body shook. He immediately flapped his wings and soared into the air, ready to regroup.

boom--

Suddenly, it seemed as if several missiles were fired from a distance.

It's the arrow support from the Golem Giant!

Although none of the arrows penetrated the body of the ritual bird, the swirling arrows created a strong wind. Even though it just passed by, one arrow actually tore off half of the wings of the death ritual bird, causing it to fall unsteadily to the ground.

--good chance!

Nepheli and I were about to attack when a stream of blue fire came down from the gray-black sky opposite us and landed right in the center of us and the Death Ritual Bird.

——Tsk, damn cuckoo, still pestering us at this time.

——Don't they know how to read the air? Shouldn't they temporarily unite to deal with this third-party enemy?

boom!

A ball of fire actually hit the death ritual bird, knocking it down again before it could stand up.

——······Okay, I blamed them wrongly.

It turned out that it was simply because of poor aim.

"Retreat! The entire army retreats!" Nefeli yelled.

At this moment, the battlefield has come to an end. Due to the threat of the death ritual bird, most of the troops have withdrawn to the town in front of the academy, and only use catapults to carry out defensive throwing.

On Bols's side, the power of the Bird of Death was obviously not as good as that of the Death Ritual Bird that could control the souls of the dead, but the opponent always liked to run around everywhere, so he was more responsible for covering the team's retreat and restraining the Bird of Death.

Before the Death Ritual Bird attacked, I quickly asked Nepheli, "Is there anyone in the army who knows how to pray with holy attributes? The Death Ritual Bird's biggest weakness is holy attribute damage."

Nepheli thought for a moment and answered me: "...People who can pray with holy attributes are all working as doctors in the rear. I can't think of such warriors on the front line for now."

——Well, there’s nothing we can do. We can only rely on accumulating damage to defeat the opponent.

“Ahhh——” The death ritual bird, having come to its senses, let out another strange long cry. It saw that many of the dead souls hovering around it were absorbed back and merged into its broken black wings, which were then quickly repaired.

Having suffered a setback, it did not dare to soar into the air rashly this time. Instead, it gathered the black and white nether fire into a ball in front of it, and then swung its hook stick violently, like a ghost's arm that could extend infinitely, and grabbed towards the end of the retreating coalition army.

What was even more shocking was that the Death Ritual Bird flapped its wings twice and actually glided quickly and low over on the hellfire.

In the blink of an eye, it caught up with Nepheli and me, raised its hook stick, and smashed it down on our heads.

I quickly rolled over to avoid it, but unexpectedly, the hook stick caused an explosion after it landed on the ground.

The bone-chilling cold created a sudden gust of wind that threw me out.

And this annoying guy once again stood between Nepheli and me.

"This is really tricky!" I sighed, stood up, quickly circulated the rune power in my body and gathered it into my legs, speeding up and rushing towards the death ritual bird.

The opponent used a hook stick with hellfire to strike and chop continuously.

but······

Combat skill - hound step!

My figure was like a ghost. I quickly dodged the continuous attacks of the death ritual bird. After getting under its body, I slashed it with all my strength!

Rune splashed, and the death ritual bird screamed, flapped its wings, and moved back a little distance.

However, the hound would not let go of the prey in its mouth. I activated my magic power again and quickly chased after it.

The opponent swung the hook stick and made a wide sweep.

I took this opportunity and instantly pressed the runes in my legs under my feet like an air pump. A fierce hurricane whizzed out, lifting my whole body up, and avoiding the attack of the death ritual bird.

Combat skill——Scarlet Blood Moon Slash!

Almost at the same time, the sound of thunder was heard in my ears.

Nepheli actually seized the same opportunity as me and swept over on the rolling thunderclouds.

"Drink ah ah ah -"

"go to hell!"

The blood-red red dragon and the lightning dragon with crackling golden thunder sang and roared at each other, rushing directly to bite the enemy's head.

The Death Ritual Bird was simply unable to withstand the overwhelming force of our combined strength, and in the instant the slash fell, it fell flat on the water.

——But it’s not over yet!

At the last moment, this guy actually used its black wings to wrap its head, which should have blocked the attacks from Nepheli and me to some extent.

After landing and regaining our energy, Nepheli and I subconsciously wanted to seize the opportunity, chase after it, and completely eliminate the Death Ritual Bird.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah--"

The roar of death and the devil's sound pierce my ears.

Countless souls swarmed out from the broken wings of the ritual bird and transformed into spears, stabbing straight at Nepheli and me.

We had no choice but to ride on the force of the hurricane and roll backwards one after another.

But I saw that above the nearby lake, wisps of pale light were floating up and down.

...Those were the souls who fell in this war. They were summoned by the death ritual bird and all gathered towards the hook stick in its hand.

Moreover, this guy's body has actually degenerated into a dead bird, and all his strength has been concentrated on the top of the hook stick, as if he had summoned a black and white sun!

But this sun will not rise, but will fall towards the lake!

——This is the ultimate move of the Death Ritual Bird, Hellfire Nuclear Explosion? !

——I’m afraid that the scope in reality will be larger and wider than in the game, and there will definitely not be any deliberate large-scale dodging space left!

"Nefeli, come to my side!" I quickly summoned Torret and wanted to take Nefeli away.

But she had no intention of moving, and instead smiled slightly: "No need, Zero, it's over."

Ouch——

The howl of a wolf drew my attention to it, and I saw a huge white wolf fearlessly leaping up from behind the death ritual bird.

On its back, the brown-skinned girl had already drawn the bowstring, with a bright blue glow in her eyes.

The crystal clear arrow flew out of his hand and instantly hit the only remaining eyeball on the broken head of the death ritual bird.

"Ahhhhh!!"

This was just the final blow. The Death Ritual Bird's ultimate nuclear explosion move had not yet been released, but it let out a scream and fell to the ground.

【Enemy Felled】