Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Vic's Eye of Madness was taken away by someone?!

——No wonder, in the previous battle, Vic seemed to have been on the defensive, waiting for me to attack closely.

——At that time, I thought the other party was letting me down and looking down on me, but I didn’t expect that Vic in real life would be in such a miserable state.

Moreover, speaking of it, the Mad Fire branch in the game makes Haida the last prop of the Mad Fire Witch, and the finger-marked grapes are exactly Vic's eyes.

But I was still extremely surprised: "Who did it? Ah, could it be the leader of the Flame Watchers, Agonti..."

"Who?" Vic shook his head and sighed, "It's not anyone, junior. This is just the punishment I deserve for being bewitched by the crazy fire."

"······What's the meaning?"

"You came from Rodel and you know something about Mad Fire, so you must have heard the rumors about me." Vic sat down on the spot and couldn't help but smile bitterly when talking about his past, "Although, I should have been criticized more."

I was still in shock as Vic's eyes had been hollowed out.

Nefeli stepped forward and asked, "Senior Vic, my name is Nefeli Lu. I don't know anything about the Mad Fire and your relationship. Can you tell me in detail?"

Laya also came over and said with a pouty mouth: "Mad Fire is a very bad power. If it is not useful to Zero, don't get involved in anything, Sister Nefeli."

"...It is indeed a bewitching evil force." Since some people are unaware of this, Vic slowly told the story of his past. "Just now you said that you have ignited the giant cauldron of fire, so you should also know the final fate of the Finger Witch... In order to guide us Faded Ones to gain the power to kill gods, they will use themselves as a medium and let the fire guide us."

"Really? But we let a fire maniac ignite the giant fire." Nepheli interrupted.

"That's great... However, according to what that man said, ordinary fire maniacs should not be able to ignite the giant's fire." Vic said with considerable confusion.

Laya explained: "That doesn't seem to be an ordinary fire maniac, it's a bad guy who looks like Zero!"

"zero?"

"Ah, sorry, senior. I was so anxious that I forgot to tell you my name." I finally responded and briefly introduced myself and my current situation. "My name is Zero. I was ordered by the King of Blessing to ignite the giant flame... But at that time, Melina, my finger witch was forcibly abducted by Bernal, who was blessed with the insane fire. As for the insane fire who ignited the flame, it seems that he was a red shadow separated from me, and then parasitized on other people."

“······So that’s how it is. Have you seen the Three Fingers of Madness?” Vic asked.

I shook my head, and then realized that the other party couldn't see it, and added: "No."

"It seems that you must have other predestined relationships, junior." Vic said, returning to his past topic. "Like you, I am reluctant to part with Luna, my witch. In order to become the so-called king, I must abandon and sacrifice the girl who has always been with me and supported me. Is this reasonable? Since I am the king, I should bear such a fate... This is what the man named Xia Bolili said to me after I learned about Luna's fate. So, I went to meet the Crazy Three Fingers, but..."

He indicated the finger marks on the armor.

I helped explain: "Because you didn't take off your armor, you were completely burned?"

“Not only that, in that world filled with fire and as thick as molten lava, I was immersed in the center of chaos, unable to extricate myself. Inexplicably, my mind was filled with only anger and unwillingness towards fate, and the urge to destroy everything.” Vic spoke softly, but his words were filled with crazy chaos, “Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill… In my eyes and in my mind, there was only revenge and killing, but now thinking back, I have no idea where the source of this revenge comes from. There is only kill, kill, kill!”

I also recalled that when Mungott and Lance Shanks talked about the topic of insanity, there was always a hint of gunpowder.

——It seems that after Vic was driven mad by the insanity, he may have gone on a killing spree in Rodel.

"What happened next?" Nepheli asked.

"My memory is not very clear, but I vaguely remember that I caused quite a bit of chaos in Rodel. In the end, I was defeated by a man called 'Evil Omen Demon'." Vic also confirmed my guess, "... When I came to my senses and woke up, I only remembered that I seemed to be on the hill. At that time, only Luna was by my side. She must have used the blessing to teleport me back to her hometown."

——"I'm sorry, Lord Vic, in order to restore your sanity and the glory of a warrior, please allow me to take away your eyes that are stained with madness."

“······However, not long after that, Rodel suddenly sent cavalry here, under the order of the King of Blessing, to take me away and imprison me here.” Vic lowered his head, as if looking at his hands.

"Then, that lady Luna..." Before Laya could finish her words, I quickly reached out and covered her mouth with my hand, and then made a hushing gesture.

——The witch in the game was already dead when she was discovered by A-Tu.

——In reality, he should have been killed by someone... Dianhuo A Ling had been there, maybe it was him, it's hard to say.

"I... killed Luna." Vic stated calmly, as if he was trying his best to stay out of it.

But this made all of us shocked: "W-what?!"

"······The moment I woke up from the dying, Mad Fire's rage of revenge instantly took over my brain, telling me, telling me to kill my witch with my own hands." When saying this, Vic tried his best to make his tone cold and calm, but no matter how he suppressed it, his body couldn't stop shaking, as if a wild beast was roaring and screaming in his heart.

——In Crazy Fire Village, was it really Wick who killed the witch in the Calm Church? !

No wonder he was willing to be arrested and imprisoned in this prison.

Moreover, with Lance Shanks's temperament, since Mongot has imprisoned Vic, she must have been making trouble with the King of Blessings as the ancient dragon.

So, she must have known about this, which is why she kept telling me that she would find a way herself...

I always regarded that as Gu Long's tsundereness, but maybe, in fact, Lance Shanks was really angry... and it also contained her sadness and compassion.

“So, junior, I’m sorry, I can’t help you with what you just said.” Vic sighed, “… If you haven’t touched the Mad Fire yet, then you’d better stay away from it from now on. Otherwise, in the end, you will end up like me, hurting the people closest to you. No matter how much I pray, I will never be able to atone for that sin in my eternity.”

...Perhaps this is the reason why Vic will not leave this prison even if there is still the power of Madness in his body. Come and help me.

For the sake of his witch, Vic must not die, but in order to repay the witch, he will be locked up here forever, confessing, praying, and waiting for the forgiveness that will never come, until the day he can die.