Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

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“······Apprentice, apprentice·····”

It was like slowly floating to the surface, and the call in my ears became clearer and clearer.

I slowly opened my eyes. In the deep and vast darkness, there was only a little blue starlight, shining like a gem, making me want to reach out and hold it in my hand.

"Disciple, Disciple, great, you're awake." A warm feeling wrapped around my hand, and then a big plaster head appeared in front of me.

——······I have to say it, Teacher Se Lian, this hood of yours sometimes ruins the atmosphere.

Although the woman in the hood does have a pretty face, she always has her eyes closed and a calm expression, and your voice is so anxious that it makes people feel that you are pretentious.

I sat up and shook my slightly dizzy head: "Where is this?"

"Have you forgotten, Disciple?" Se Lian explained, "We came from the Great Corridor of the Corrupted Lake, boarded this sarcophagus, and drifted all the way here along the underground river."

"Ah, it finally worked." I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Really impressed!

In the game, the screen just went black, and then you arrived at your destination.

But in reality it is so exciting!

Especially when falling from the waterfall at the end of the Grand Corridor, it was as if the elevator you were riding suddenly lost control and fell straight down.

Then he heard a loud splash of water falling in the darkness outside. However, because he and Se Lian were squeezed in the small sarcophagus together, he could not move at all. The excessive weight almost crushed his skeleton.

This is not enough!

What followed was another surging torrent, like a bumper car, rushing around and making people dizzy in the dark.

I vaguely remember that at the end, it seemed like we encountered another sharp turn, and my head suddenly hit the pyroxene stone cover of Se Lian, then it rebounded and the back of my head hit the sarcophagus again, and then...

——Damn it, it’s the stone cover again!

All in all, I arrived at my destination safely. I drank half a lipstick of Holy Grail Dew to recover a little.

After all, the next part is the highlight of Lani's side quest, challenging the "abandoned child of darkness" Esti.

"By the way, teacher, are you injured? Do you need to recover?" I handed over the Holy Grail bottle.

Se Lian shook his head and asked in return: "Disciple, you said it was successful... In other words, you knew from the beginning that the magic on the sarcophagus would send us here?"

"Hey, is there any magic on this sarcophagus?" This is the first time I know this.

As if seeing that I changed the subject, Se Lian sighed and explained, "If it weren't for the gravity magic attached to it, how could the stone carry people and float on the water? Moreover, it doesn't completely follow the flow of water, but can sail automatically like a boat. In addition... this magic seems to be usable only once..."

Turning around, we saw that the sarcophagus that brought us here had been shattered onto the ground by the riverbed.

Se Lian continued, "Except for us, no one has been here for a long, long time. How do you know this place, and use such a strange method, Disciple?"

"I..." I swallowed involuntarily, but I quickly found an excuse. "Actually, it was told to me by Lani's military advisor. He knew the character of his princess, so he told me the secret at the bottom of the Ansel River. He asked me to find Lani after the battle with Two Fingers and help her embark on the path of destiny as a god."

"...Is that so?" Se Lian was silent for a moment, but she still chose to believe me. She stood up and asked, "Then, the next step is the final hurdle?"

I nodded.

"Let's go, I'll help you find the princess so we can leave here." Se Lian took out his staff and complained softly, "I'm also beginning to get a little fed up with this seemingly endless darkness."

To be precise, it cannot be considered complete darkness.

In this huge cave, there are many luminous moss and fungi growing on the rock walls, which look like faint sparks in the night sky.

But in the other cave we stepped into, all the light was taken away by darkness, and you couldn’t see your fingers when you stretched out your hand, as if it was a black hole in the universe.

Only on the other side that is out of reach, there is a faint flickering light.

——This should be the venue of the final battle, but it’s strange, where is Esti?

The cave was completely silent, with only the footsteps and heartbeats of Se Lian and I, and no trace of that dark giant mosquito.

Is it that it has not yet awakened and is hiding in the darkness? It can't be that someone has already dealt with it, right?

Just when I was confused, Se Lian suddenly shouted: "Disciple, watch out behind you!"

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A large circle of purple light suddenly bloomed from the darkness behind us, and then a huge pale skeletal hand came out from inside and reached directly towards us.

I can only say that thanks to Se Lian’s reminder, I quickly rolled over and dodged.

At the same time, I cursed in my heart:

——Damn, you dead mosquito, you don’t play by the rules, right? You start with a fatal throw!

——I was already prepared, and I didn't want to summon the ashes yet, in case I was killed instantly by a single shot when I entered the door. I didn't expect that you would come to play tricks on me?!

Seeing that the sneak attack was perfectly avoided, Esti spun in the air, and purple gravity magic balls condensed on the three arms on her left side, and slapped them on the ground.

Suddenly, like ripples in water, three layers of impact quickly spread out.

"Jump! Teacher, you can dodge it by jumping!" I quickly reminded Se Lian, and when the first wave of impact came, I also jumped hard.

I did dodge the attack, but I didn't expect that the impact would also bring a gust of wind, which caused me to lose my balance after I jumped up, and I stumbled when I landed.

The second wave followed, and he jumped up forcefully. But the wind from the aftermath blew him away, and he couldn't stand steadily.

As a result, he was hit head-on by the third wave, and was slapped away by an invisible big hand.

——Damn it! Can't I jump from the spot? Should I jump forward to maintain my balance?

I quickly thought about how to deal with this move next time I saw it, and at this moment, in front of my head, like a scorpion swinging its tail, Esti's tail with a hedgehog-like shell came down on me.

I could only roll to dodge.

At the same time, from the side of Esti, a torrent of comets directly hit its body.

This made Esti suddenly shrink and drill into a circle of purple holes. Then with a "buzz" sound, the next second, this guy had run to the other end of the cave.

——This is indeed a marathon boss as famous as the Beast of Elden.

I stood up.

Teacher Se Lian also walked back to my side and said, "A monster born from darkness summoned by a rare person, Esti, I didn't expect that this creature that almost destroyed most of the border area would be so deep underground."

"How is it, teacher, can you handle it?"

"If we can't deal with it, we will be dragged into the endless darkness." Se Lian seemed to smile slightly, "Don't worry, apprentice. You may not know that if we were to say which faction in the former Rhea Lukalia Academy was better at fighting, it would definitely be us, the origin magicians!"

"Really? Then I will charge at full speed, and please support me, teacher!"

Seeing a colorful black light up behind Esti, Lance Shanks's Dragon Thunder Protection, Hound Steps, I raised the Night Starfire, started at full speed, and rushed straight towards this final branch BOSS.

——I still want to look for that dark moon.

——Darkness, don't block my way!