Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

"Moo~Moo~Moo~"

"Brother Niu, stop, put me down!" Like a maggot, my hands and feet were tied up, and an ancestral minotaur carried me on his shoulders and took me deep into the forest.

——That’s right, I, the great Prince Elden, have been kidnapped!

After all, on that cliff with no way to retreat, these guys had no moral principles and used their numbers to bully the minority.

I couldn't fight four hands with my two fists, and I couldn't release nuclear weapons like Marlennia, so after repelling a few guys, I was accidentally knocked over by a wild bull that came out from the side.

Now, the guy who caught me is showing off his prey.

But, what is unscientific is...

Why were they all arrested? Torrett was treated better than me!

I don't know where these guys found the wooden frame, but they actually let Torret stand on it, and then these ancestral minotaurs lifted it up, just like an ancient king was traveling, sitting in a sedan chair carried by eight people.

Torrett was also acting very strangely today. After being caught, I originally wanted to put him back into the whistle ring first, and then find a way to escape.

But unexpectedly, Torrett actually refused and refused to go back no matter what.

Now it seems that there is really no need for this guy to go back. After all, he enjoys imperial treatment.

Just like that, this group of ancestral spirits that puzzled me took Torret and me through this underground forest and took us to the vicinity of their temple.

“Ahhh~ah~ah~ah~”

The melodious and ethereal voice is like a mother's hands, soothing her child in her arms to sleep.

In a hall that also looked like a broken temple in ancient Greece, several ancestor priests with deer antlers on their heads were gathered around the corpse of a huge elk, holding the skull of a young ancestor in their hands and splashing ice-blue spring water on it.

The high priest who was singing nearby turned around after hearing the footsteps of the ancestral minotaur.

"Moo~moo moo."

"Moo, moo, moo."

——······I really don’t understand what they are saying at all!

But the ancestral priest didn't seem to care about me at all. He walked straight to Torret, walked around the spirit horse again and again, and looked at it carefully for a long time.

Suddenly, she stood in front of Torret again, holding up the skull of the young ancestor spirit, and sang loudly: "Ah~ah~ah~ah~ah~"

Torrett actually matched her rhythm easily and even added the beat at the right time: "Whee~Whee~"

A ripple-like green glow emanated from the skull and gathered on Torrett's body as he cried.

Seeing this scene, the ancestral minotaurs began to march in unison as if involuntarily, raising their arms from time to time and bowing to Torret and their high priest.

By the way, he threw it directly to the ground, and it fell so hard that it hurt my ass.

——Let’s not worry about what happened for now.

Now that those guys' attention is not on me, I quietly fiddle with the ropes that bind my hands and feet. After all, this kind of straw rope is not difficult for me to break free with a little strength.

It was about to succeed.

Phew——

Suddenly, a roar came from Torret's side.

I couldn't help but look up, and saw that the ancestral priests who had originally gathered around the giant elk corpse had all gathered around Torret.

They held up the skulls of their young children and sang strange tunes.

Ice-blue mist gushed out of the skull and splashed onto Torrett's body.

——Although this thing is useless in the game, the water mist can still cause harm!

Torret clearly let out a cry of pain, but it still stood still in the mist, motionless, enduring the pain.

"Wait a moment!" I struggled hard with both hands and broke the rope.

The three or five ancestral minotaur men beside me saw this and immediately pounced on me, pressing me down under the Five Oxen Mountain like the Monkey King making trouble in Heaven.

"Three ghost wolves! Go help Torret!" I fumbled for the soul-summoning bell and shook it forcefully. Three ghostly blue lights transformed into wolves as I summoned them and rushed towards the ancestral priests who surrounded Torret.

But the high priest suddenly stood in front of the three wolves, took the young skull and splashed it hard, splashing out a clear ice-blue river, temporarily blocking the ghost wolves.

"Moo! Moo, moo!" she yelled.

I was just about to command the three wolves to continue attacking, but suddenly I felt the weight on me gradually decreasing... Those ancestral minotaurs actually stood up one by one and retreated to the side.

——What is going on here?

The ancestral spirit high priestess stepped directly over the ancestral spirit river she had spilled and stood in front of me. She actually said, "Golden Moo, it's been a long time since we last met, and you are still so rude."

——This guy can communicate!

"What exactly do you want to do to Torret?!" I quickly stood up and asked sternly.

"You call that creature Torret Moo..." The high priest did not respond to my words directly, but looked at me for a long time before nodding slightly, "Moo, since you have been chosen, it is not a bad idea to tell you Moo... Moo and others are conducting a trial for the young king, and the king of the ancestors will be resurrected here and reappear!"

——······Young king?

"Moo~moo~moo!"

A group of ancestral minotaurs followed suit and cheered.

"What the hell is this trial? I only see Torret suffering in pain. Stop it now!" I stretched out my hand and the Night Starfire thrown away by those ancestral minotaurs turned into golden Rune light and gathered in my hand.

Suddenly, the group of ancestral minotaurs also took out their weapons.

——Do you want to fight?

——Just now the position was not good, there was a cliff behind me. In such an open place, as long as I can pull, I am not afraid of these guys.

But when the high priest raised his hand, he stopped the impulse of the ancestral minotaurs.

"Then Moo, the chosen Moo, do you want to take the place of the young king and undergo the trial?" She asked, gazing into my eyes.

"I can't ask for it!"

The high priest nodded and turned away.

The group of priests also stopped their soul trials, and Torret immediately collapsed to the ground as if he had fainted.

"Torret!" I quickly jumped towards Torret. Oh, I even forgot to untie my feet. I cut the rope with a sword and ran to its side.

It was visibly that Torrett's entire body had become thinner.

"How are you doing?"

“······咴.” Torrett responded in a low voice.

"Let's stop talking for now and go back to the whistle and rest for a while." I blew the whistle, but this guy still stayed by my side stubbornly and shook his head.

"Ah~Ah~Ah~Ah~" On the other side, the group of priests began their beautiful singing.

This dark land under the starry sky was lit up with red and yellow lights like candles in all directions.

“Whew——”

There seemed to be a sound of a deer calling in my ears. Torrett and I turned our heads and looked in the direction of the sound. We saw that the huge elk corpse was emitting an icy blue light, exactly the same as the soul mist emitted by those skulls.

The high priest said slowly: "The chosen one, the trial you requested has already begun."

——What? It turns out that it’s just a challenge to the King of Ancestral Spirits. I don’t even need to light the altar bonfires scattered across this land.

After stroking Torret's mane, I stood up and said, "Then you wait here. I'll be back soon, Torret."