Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

As the Ancestral King fell down, his huge body turned into gray smoke. The golden Rune with a faint blue glow floated towards me and finally merged into my palm.

I also breathed a sigh of relief.

——In this way, the trial is completely completed, right?

Just as I was thinking this, I heard the cry of a deer again. I was so scared that I looked around quickly, suspecting that it was the King of Ancestral Spirits lurking in the fog again.

But there was no sign of the Ancestral King around me. Instead, a blue light was emanating from my body.

My mind became dazed, and dimly I seemed to see the ghosts of many animals emerging from the hole, looking at me.

"Eh~"

When I opened my eyes again, I saw Torrett's big head, turning his neck to look at me.

When he saw that I woke up, this guy stuck out his big tongue and licked my face.

"Stop! Stop! Stop! There's no need to wash my face, Torrett, I'm completely awake." I stood up quickly and found that I had been lying in Torrett's arms.

——Come to think of it, could it be that the last voice I heard during the trial was from this guy?

By the way, at the very end, I think I achieved a double jump!

With this kind of power, even Devil May Cry Vergil might not be able to catch up!

Hey!

I jumped suddenly, and then flapped my legs hard in the air... But apart from looking like a retard, there was no sign of me jumping up again.

“······Moo~ You are still quite energetic, Moo.” The voice of the ancestral high priest suddenly sounded behind him.

My body froze for a moment.

——It’s over, it’s over, I’m embarrassed by showing off again.

He scratched the back of his head quickly and turned around pretending to be nonchalant: "Moo ha ha, I, I am the one who wants to be the king, this kind of trial is not a problem for me, Moo."

——Damn, I subconsciously imitated the other person’s tone.

The other party was obviously speechless for a moment, and then continued: "You are worthy of being the chosen one. Since the young king voluntarily follows you, Moo and others should not continue to blame you."

As soon as she finished speaking, the ancestral priests and the ancestral bull-headed hunters behind her stomped their right feet three times in unison towards me and Torret, then raised their arms and cheered: "Moo--"

"Young king? So, Torret is actually your young king?" I was quite confused about this from the beginning. Besides, Torret looks more like a combination of a cow and a horse, and it doesn't match the appearance of the deer of the Ancestral King.

But the high priest nodded devoutly: "You are right, Moo. Moo has a powerful spiritual power, but it has not yet fully awakened... In time, it will be like the ancestral king of Moo, carrying the soul of the forest and granting Moo and others eternal peace."

——Eternal peace? Isn’t that just death? Do the ancestors also worship death?

I asked curiously.

The high priest shook his head and said, "Moo and others do not worship death. The belief in the ancestral spirits is the power of nature, and death is just a part of the cycle... But since some time ago, the king's power has gradually faded. Moo and others can neither die nor be resurrected, and the buds can no longer grow. Everything has come to a standstill."

——It seems that the breaking of the Elden Ring has also affected these primitive people, and their cycle of life and death has been imprisoned.

——However, because they have been staying underground all this time, these guys probably don’t know about the earth-shaking changes on the ground. They think that it is the natural decline of the power of the Ancestral King that caused everything.

"Now, with your help, the young king's new buds have sprouted, and Moo's hope is still alive!"

Following the high priest's words, all the ancestral spirits once again let out earth-shaking shouts of excitement.

It was then that I noticed that new buds had indeed sprouted on Torret's horns.

But it didn't branch out smoothly like a tree branch, but rather it poked its head out like a bamboo shoot breaking through the ground, emitting a faint blue light... Yes, it was a bit like a talismanic ancestral horn, but it was just in the budding stage.

——It seems that Torrett has indeed obtained some of the power of the Ancestral King.

No wonder I was attacked by these ancestral spirits as soon as I set foot on this land. It turned out that they misunderstood that I had captured the young king of the ancestral spirits and forced it to be my means of transportation.

And Torrett was reluctant to return to the whistle ring in order to defend me.

"The Chosen Moo." The Ancestral High Priest suddenly walked in front of me. "Can I ask you for a favor, Moo?"

"Hmm? Go ahead."

"In the northeast of this land, at a lower level, there is another King's Temple of Moo. Please bring the young king there to complete the trial, Moo."

——Ah, come to think of it, there are indeed two Ancestral Kings.

but······

"Can you send someone to have a proper talk first? I'm afraid that when I go there, I'll be beaten up by your ancestors and they'll think I kidnapped your young king."

"That's easy, Moo." The high priest clapped his hands, and an ancestor behind him held up a bunch of large deer antlers that looked very similar to hers, with the tips of the antlers still glowing faintly. "When the time comes, as long as you wear these Moo-light horns, Moo and his compatriots will not harm you."

——This is my favorite headdress, the horn headband!

- Of course, in the game, what the high priest said was of no use. The ancestors still beat me up without any hesitation.

"Thank you." I took the antler headband without hesitation and put it on my head.

——Hey, it’s still a little heavy. I feel like my head has shrunk a bit.

I'd better put it in the blessing backpack first. If I carry it with me every day, I always feel that one day I will become a turtle with its head tucked in.

"By the way, High Priest, I also want to ask you something." I asked curiously, "Do you know how to get to Noklongen?"

"Moo? Aren't you from Nokron?" The high priest asked back in confusion.

"Ah, to be precise, it should be the Dark Night Realm."

"The Dark Moo Realm?"

······I sighed and brought the high priest to the edge of the Ancestral Forest. I pointed at the dark starry sky and said, "Shouldn't there be a large building here? Why has it turned into a starry sky now?"

The ancestral high priest thought for a while before he recalled, "Moo, you mean the holy land where the Nox people worship the goddess Great Moo... Although Moo and others have pledged to protect this place, they have never set foot in that holy land, so Moo doesn't know where that holy land is."

——Huh? Even the ancestors don’t know?

My eyelids trembled slightly and the corners of my mouth drooped. What should I do now?

"... However, when the goddess Great Moo left Noklongen, she once told me: Explore the night, Moo. If you wish to become a member of the Moo tribe, the stars will light the way for you. The power to release destiny lies here."

Although the words repeated by the high priest were mixed with her accent, I could more or less understand that the key lies in becoming a member of the tribe of the night.

The goddess mentioned by the high priest must be the goddess with midnight eyes who fought against Queen Marika and became the faith of some Knox people. I remember that she, like Marika, belongs to the lineage of rare people... Could it be that only by becoming a rare person can one enter the dark realm of Noklongn?

So, I have to go find the "Full Moon Queen" Lenara to reshape my life?

Although the teardrop larva was obtained after defeating the replica teardrop, it was too troublesome and might not be successful.

...Wait, in Noklonn, besides the rare people, there must be a more important kind of existence!

Those teardrop slimes!

An idea suddenly came to me, and I quickly took out the item I had just obtained recently from my blessed backpack - the Silver Teardrop Mask!

——It can greatly improve the sensing ability and in turn imitate the thing that imitates others!

After putting on this strange mask, I felt like my eyes were still closed, but an extremely clear picture unfolded in my mind.

The stars scattered across the night sky gradually dispelled the darkness.

Down there, Noklongen's treasure finally revealed its true face before me!