Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Seeing Latan wake up, greet me nonchalantly and walk towards me, Melina and Lani scattered like birds and beasts in an instant.

I want to cry without tears.

——Brother Latan, you woke up at such a bad time!

——We finally managed to mediate the tense atmosphere, but as soon as you came, everyone ran away!

"How is it going? Did you get the curse of death?" asked Latan.

I could only nod with tears in my eyes.

"Really?" Latan squatted down, stretched out his hand, and silently stroked Lani's head.

"...Brother Latan."

"Hmm? It's okay. Let's go." Latan raised his head and smiled slightly. "...Since Lani has already embarked on her journey to the stars, let's hurry up and do what we need to do."

"Ah."

He patted my shoulder, stood up, and walked towards the door at the top of the tower.

——Even though he said that, as a brother, Latan would still sympathize with his sister’s difficulties.

I also followed the other person's footsteps and prepared to leave.

And in the darkness behind him, a faint and distant voice seemed to be heard: "······Zero, thank you······for your idea. I will consider it······Goodbye, my king."

Looking back, there was no moon in the dark sky, only the faint blue starlight was still twinkling.

After leaving the Tower of Divine Bestowal, I returned to the Great Study, where Professor Miriam of Magic was already waiting. She handed me three parchment scrolls with magic runes on them - Heaven-Falling Magic, Calmness, and the teleportation magic that we had agreed on.

He tried teleporting a little, but as soon as he memorized the corresponding magic runes in his mind, he just felt the power in his body wandering around wildly, and of course he couldn't use it.

——Sure enough, the intelligence value is not enough.

After saying goodbye to Miriam, Selemene rejoined the team.

Next, they were supposed to go directly to Stonewell, but thinking of the matter of Wolf Brother Blaze, they decided to go to the underground cemetery under the cliff on the east coast of Lienia.

The entire cemetery is divided into four layers. There aren't too many winding places. You can collect most of the treasures by walking through every corner.

The monsters inside are mainly stone imps and children of evil omens.

Of course, we also ran into a few evil soldiers and imps in the jungle at the entrance of the mountain path.

But then, with the appearance of purple light and the slash of the sword, the little ghosts became the dead souls under Latan's sword.

And everyone knows the stone ghost in the cemetery, it’s a classic.

As long as there is light from props in the dark tomb room, you have to be careful of the corners at the door or the top of the ceiling, as there may be evil little ghosts hiding there who can attack you.

Well, for a gamer like me, it’s not difficult.

The only difficulty was Ratan's reckless charge. He stepped on the arrow mechanism right at the beginning, and the stone imp stared at him, then fell from the top of the passage with a small hoe and hit him directly.

However, before I could warn him, he chopped the falling little ghost to the ground with a knife, and then swung his sword to quickly block the arrow shot from the end of the passage.

——What a violent dismantling move! Is there no option to avoid it in General Ratan’s dictionary?

As for the Sons of Evil in the cemetery, I originally tried to use the statue of the Younger Son of Evil that Tron gave me, hoping to talk to them and say that we had no ill intentions. However, they slapped the statue of my Younger Son and it flew away.

——Sure enough, the things from the royal city were no longer applicable in Lienia.

That would just make these guys part of our strength.

The mission is completed after finding the Knox Mirror Helmet in the secret room in the cemetery.

But Latan insisted that since they had come to the cemetery, they had to unlock the door of the BOSS. He wanted to see what was inside.

Nothing.

As a result, he really just took a look at the thing inside the door!

As soon as the three heads of the Guishu guard dogs turned around, Latan lost power while standing still... Fortunately, it was just a small BOSS in the early or middle stage. I used the Dragon Thunder Protection and solved the problem in no time.

However, I also had to remind him: "Brother Latan, your current condition doesn't seem to be a problem that can be solved by the sleepiness that Jerion mentioned. If we wait until we return to Gaileed, I'm a little worried that you will fall asleep in the middle of defeating those scarlet corrupt creatures."

"Hahaha~" Latan didn't take it seriously, "Don't worry, brother Zero. Before returning to Gallid, I should be able to upgrade this body to a level that will allow it to fight for a whole day."

"Really?" I remained skeptical.

After all, based on these two battles, Latan’s standby time should only be about half a day.

"Jerian said so, right? I am now almost the same as you Faded Ones," Latan explained with a smile, "However, there is a slight difference. You Faded Ones let Selemene and the others transform runes into power, while I increase the capacity of runes in my body... In simple terms, my body is now like a pool. Normally, like other creatures in the borderland, I absorb and store the power of runes, but once I start to move, I release water too quickly, and after it dries up, I can no longer move."

——Yes, it’s the classic problem of pouring and draining water again.

——No wonder Latan has such a precise grasp of his own activities, almost to the point of following his words.

I couldn't help but think of Lani's sleepy appearance before: "No wonder Lani was always sleeping before, it turns out that this is how the Puppet Drive accumulates power."

Latan said with a smile: "My sister is even more stubborn than me. She stays in the night sky of the fortress all day long. Although there are reasons for her to do so, it is more difficult for her to absorb the runes from the golden tree. It must have taken a lot of time to deal with the finger that was monitoring her."

"Well, she's been sleeping for about ten days? Twenty days? Anyway, she should have been sleeping since I went to Noklongen." I nodded, and I understood the little sleepyhead who couldn't wake up.

"However, speaking of battle, brother Zero, I found something quite interesting."

"Oh?"

"The underground cemetery you just visited should be your first time, and there are no signs that other people have been there. But whether it is the mechanisms in the cemetery or the hiding places of those stone goblins, you always seem to be able to predict them. You even know exactly how to open the trigger... The first time you can say it is a guess, the second time you can explain it as you have a very high sense of battle, and even the third time you can think that you often break into such cemeteries and have experience. But it's like this every time, and it's exactly the same. It's a bit unbelievable." Latan crossed his arms and looked at me carefully.

That hawk-like gaze, like an X-ray, can see through people: "Who... are you?"

I couldn't help but swallow.

——No, I didn’t expect that I would be caught so easily?

——But, it’s okay even if I tell Latan my true identity...

While I was still hesitating, Latan smiled and put his arm around my shoulders. "Hahaha, don't be nervous, Zero. Everyone has their own secrets, I understand... You are a trustworthy and responsible person, but I am a little worried. You work too hard and keep too many things in your heart... Don't break yourself if you are too strong. So, when you need help one day, don't carry it alone, just tell us."

Latan's words were so meaningful that they made people feel warm in their hearts.

“...Yes, Brother Latan.”