Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

As night fell and the fire flickered, I looked at the gurgling boiling water in the pot. The white mist curling up was already filled with the aroma of meat. I first added mushrooms and herba spatholobi to absorb a little bit of the greasy smell and enhance the flavor, and then cut in the golden loya fruit to replace the taste of tomatoes.

Continue to simmer for a while, and when you lift the lid, the mild aroma of mutton will hit you.

I took a bite and the taste was still a bit bland.

——After all, there are not many good seasonings at the border. For ordinary people, with the eternal blessing of Queen Marika, they will not die even if they do not eat or drink. Therefore, the culture of food can be said to be pitifully small.

However, I have recently discovered that the lightning flower can be dried and ground into powder, which will give a tingling and numbing feeling. It can be used as a substitute for peppercorns. After the mutton is out of the pot, sprinkle a little on it and the taste is still quite good.

I nodded with satisfaction, poured a bowl of broth, and happily ran to Ke Lin, who was watching his teacher nearby, and the golden mask, who was still pointing his left hand at the golden tree like a statue: "Teacher Ke Lin, the fresh broth is out of the pot, do you want to try it?"

"... I say, Master Ling." Colin seemed a little angry. "The teacher is concentrating on interpreting the history and evolution of the borderland, looking for a way to save the world. Please don't always come and disturb the teacher's thoughts, Master Ling."

I smiled and continued to pass the mutton soup in my hand over: "Well, after all, Teacher Ke Lin, you used prayer to heal four people. This is my little token of my appreciation."

At such a close distance, Colin could of course smell the aroma of mutton, and he couldn't help swallowing his saliva, then sighed: "Okay, thank you, Master Ling."

Not long after he took the soup, the golden mask seemed to move its fingers slightly, which surprised Colin: "Hey, teacher, you mean you want to taste it? This kind of crude soup?!"

——Wow, that’s so rude!

——Although the taste is certainly not as good as that of a five-star chef, nor as good as the mutton hotpot in my original world, this is the best dish I can make at the moment!

It seems that since seeing the golden mask, Mr. Colin's attitude towards us has changed 180 degrees, and he always puts his teacher first in everything.

"I'll get you another bowl." Of course I ran away tactfully.

When I went back to serve the soup, among the five people lying by the fire, Miss Jiusi let out a low moan. When I looked over, I happened to see her open eyes.

"You're awake, Miss Jiusi." I pointed at the pot. "If you're hungry, take some first. It may not taste very good, but it's good to fill your stomach. I'll go deliver the meal to the Golden Mask teacher first."

"Zero, Lord Zero?" Miss Jiusi's eyes were still a little hazy with sleep, and she seemed a little dazed.

When I came back with the food, she was still sitting there, holding her forehead, looking dizzy and uncomfortable after a hangover.

"What's wrong?" I asked with concern.

"······Lord Ling, what exactly happened?" Miss Jiusi raised her face with a sad look and bloodshot eyes.

——Even though she had been given the Holy Grail Dew Drops, Colin’s Recovery Prayer, and the Blessed Light’s healing, it seemed that Miss Jiusi had not yet fully recovered.

"You should know these three people next to you." I pointed at Millicent and the others and explained briefly, "We defeated the God-skin Apostle in Windmill Village and completely ended the so-called celebration... But I didn't save your former companions, or rather, I can no longer find any trace of them."

"The celebration is over, is it over?" Miss Jiusi still couldn't believe it.

I gestured with my head toward north-east.

Over there, the windmill village that I set on fire had been burning for quite some time, dyeing a corner of the night sky a grayish red.

Misjius widened her eyes and stared blankly at the fire.

I added, "I will burn all those charming flowers. Naturally, the powder made from the flowers will no longer exist in this world."

"Ah...ah-ah." A trembling sound came from the bottom of her dry throat. Miss Jiusi's disbelieving eyes gradually turned into shock and terror. Her hands slowly climbed up her face, scratching and tearing.

She turned her head suddenly, and like a cheetah, she pounced on me, her eyes flashing with anger, the same red madness as those of the skinned girls: "You, you, you, what on earth did you do?!"

But I said calmly: "It's very simple. I just destroyed the poisonous flowers and the poisonous objects that deceived people's hearts, and completely cut off the tragedy of that village."

"you you you--"

"······Miss Jiusi, do you really still remember your so-called companions?"

"What companions!" She gritted her teeth. I'm afraid that now Miss Jiusi wants to skin me alive and tear me apart.

"As expected, you have been poisoned too deeply." I shook my head helplessly, grabbed her hand, pulled it, turned over, and subdued Misjius to the ground, "Let me tell you the story of that village and you, Misjius."

"Woo! Woo—" The woman struggled and roared like a beast.

——But I am a macho warrior who focuses on strength and agility, so capturing the opponent is as easy as a chicken.

I continued to talk to myself, "Although Windmill Village is close to the Royal City of Rodel, it is actually more closely related to the Volcano Mansion. The strange ritual performed in that village is not simply skinning, but a more decadent intercourse... The pink flowers in the village can bewitch people's hearts and stimulate the most primitive desires. No matter whether they are men or women, they will only constantly desire each other's bodies. Even if they are skinned, they will still look like fairies in their eyes... And what the Volcano Mansion needs is the crystallization of evil, the offspring born from the powerful warrior gene."

——Although there is no clear statement in the game, the Divine Skin Apostle is secretly connected to the Volcano Mansion.

——And the current owner of the mansion, Lady Tanis, is an exotic dancer herself, and seems to have a close connection with the dancing girl in Windmill Village.

——In addition, in the Disaster of Ditica, it is said: "A crazy portrait with peeling skin... A woman named Ditica committed many morally flawed acts and was said to have given birth to countless alien children."

This item is one of the last items in Laya's branch quest, and it is inextricably linked to Laya, a snake person... It is even possible that the woman named Ditika is her real mother.

The characteristic of skin peeling was consistent with that of the woman in Windmill Village, which led me to make a series of inferences.

——Perhaps Ditika was originally a member of the Windmill Village, or maybe it was the other way around. The Windmill Village was born because of Ditika’s example.

In short, she gave birth to Laya, which made the Volcano Mansion find a unique and sinful way to cultivate a powerful alien child. After all, the Golden Dynasty would not accept aliens, and evil omens were regarded as blasphemy, and such children would inevitably be abandoned and would become a force against the Golden Dynasty.

The flowers of depravity bloomed beautifully in the windmill village.

Men like "Big Horned Brother" Telages will be treated as studs and constantly exploited.

Once it is useless, it will be skinned by the Divine Skin Apostles.

After all, in their belief, it seems that if they wrap the newborn apostles in human skin swaddling clothes and present them to the goddess with midnight eyes, the goddess will grant them strength and allow them to grow into gods of death.

——This is the annotation of the amulet divine skin swaddling cloth.

The women also had sex day and night and became decadent, and they did not look like they were skinned by others. Just like Miss Jiusi who was scratching her face in annoyance in front of me, they peeled their faces off themselves!

I'm afraid that physical stimulation alone is not enough to satisfy those women. The only way to get spiritual satisfaction is to grind the flowers into powder and inhale a larger dose at one time.

The so-called celebration is to capture fresh men and make them new studs to have sex with others.

The women's desires were satisfied, Shenpi would guide the new apostles, and finally, the fruit of evil would be picked by the Volcano Mansion.

“······And you, Misjius, probably just passed by here unintentionally, and were dragged into it without knowing it. The first time you were enchanted, under the influence of the flower, you tasted the forbidden fruit, and since then, it was out of control... Perhaps, at the beginning you did have the idea of ​​rescuing your companions, but unfortunately, you didn't have enough strength. And the longer you stay in that village, the deeper you will sink into the quagmire... Now, Misjius, have you completely become one of them?" I asked coldly.

While I was explaining it, Misjius had already calmed down and lay on the ground like a dead person, staring blankly at the sky, at the dazzling golden tree.

I don't know whether she listened to what I said, or whether she lost her mind after the addiction attack like she did in Windmill Village.

——Alas, what a poor man.

I couldn't help but sigh and could only serve a bowl of mutton soup and place it next to Miss Jiusi.

"...That's purgatory, Master Zero..."

Miss Jiusi's voice was so weak as a mosquito that I even suspected that I had heard it wrongly.

Looking back, I saw the crystal tears in the corners of her eyes like meteors sliding down the night sky, and finally, disappearing forever in the dark earth.