Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Speaking of which, in the real world of the Elden Ring, there are also invading red shadows - similar to the phantom clones created by spells, when a person is dying and has intense emotional fluctuations, a red shadow clone containing aggressive resentment will be created, and at the same time, it will also seize a part of the person as a source of power.

Once, in the Ionian swamps, I encountered the red shadow of Millicent, and later learned that it should be her severed arm.

And Vic's red shadow was in the quiet church in the Crazy Village, with his bewildered eyes stripped away, but it was also there that he accidentally took the life of the person he loved.

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I couldn't help but feel deeply apologetic: "I'm sorry, Senior Vic, I clearly didn't know any of this, but I still wanted to force you to use the power of Mad Fire..."

"It's okay." Vic interrupted me, shaking his head slightly. "I guess you also want to chase someone, save someone, that's why you are so eager... I can more or less understand your feelings."

"Hiss~ Sister Melina was taken away by Bernard." Laya said for me, "After lighting the cauldron, I didn't expect that Bernard mixed in with us, kidnapped Sister Melina, and then flew to the top of the golden tree on the flames."

I also added: "Melina is my finger witch, I must go and save her."

"...I see." Vic hesitated for a moment and confirmed, "Although I can't help you with the matter of Guan Zhi's crazy fire, but junior, you just said that you will ride the fire to Lance Shanks, her hometown, Fam Azra, right?"

"Ah."

"Then, take this with you." A red lightning flashed through Vic's hand, pierced through the spear he picked up, and threw it to me, "Go find Lance Shanks, she will definitely help you."

"······Thanks."

After leaving Vic's prison, one still feels somewhat exhausted both physically and mentally.

But time waits for no one. Although I don’t know the reason, nothing good will happen to Melina in the hands of Bernal, who has got his hands on the crazy fire. I must hurry.

It would probably take two days to return to Rodel from the snowfield.

"Zero, what are your plans next?"

When Nefeli asked, I said as a matter of course: "I have to go back to Rodel as soon as possible to discuss the trip to Fam Azra with Lance Shanks. Sorry, Nefeli, I'll trouble you with the expedition's return trip... In addition, Millicent and Pollyanna seem to be going to the other side of the snowfield. When the time comes, you can ask Fenlig to go with them so that they can take care of them."

As for Letina, when we talked about the city of Sol, I asked her to transfer her attachment to Fenrigh. After all, the Son of Platinum and the wolf have a very good compatibility, and Fenrigh has swallowed two dragon hearts, and the rune power in his body can fully withstand the consumption of Letina's appearance.

"I understand. Go ahead and don't worry." Nepheli said cheerfully. "By the way, Zero, maybe when you get to Rodel, you can bring another witch with you. That way, after you light up the blessing there, we can also go and help you."

"Well, if things go well, I'll go talk to Mr. Mongert."

I blew the whistle, summoned Torret, and jumped directly from the Lingdu cyclone near the sealed prison.

The cold evening breeze brought up flying snow. Looking up, most of the sky was dyed crimson.

On the golden tree crown, the giant's flames burned more and more vigorously. In just half a day, more than half of the branches had been burned.

"Torret, please, take me back as soon as possible, go!"

Phew——

I rode as fast as I could. Fortunately, there were no obstacles on the way back. When I arrived at the blessed point, I touched it a little to eliminate my tiredness and sleepiness, and then I set off again.

I basically did not sleep all the way, and in this way, I finally returned to the Royal City of Rodel from the forbidden area around noon of the second day after the giant fire was ignited.

The sky was no longer bright and shining, but had turned grey, and the ashes of the burning fire drifted down like the heavy snow in the forbidden area.

Countless spark butterflies danced and flew towards the sky which they could never reach. There, the entire crown of the sacred golden tree was burning, and the trunk was gradually turning red.

But there is still some distance before the golden thorn can be burned.

The Kalia Knight suit was almost completely burned in the battle with the Fire Giant, but in order to prevent myself from inhaling too much dust, I just picked up a helmet from my blessing backpack and put it on.

The entire Royal City of Rodel was silent and deserted. Even the guarding soldiers seemed to have been ordered to evacuate by Monggot.

After all, when our expedition set out, Mungert also began to arrange for the entire population of Rodel to be transferred to Lienia and Nimgefu via the Dekedas Elevator. Even the return journey of the expedition was agreed to go directly to the Rhea Lukalia College and then meet up with Rodel's troops.

——I don’t know if the teacher is still in Rodel. He should have migrated with Rodel’s troops.

However, what Nepheli said was not a big deal. As long as Lance Shanks was willing to help, the worst that could happen was that they would stop by the academy or Stonewell. There were also finger witches in those places.

Thinking of this, I went straight to Rodel's sewer.

- Alas, without Melina by my side, and I have not yet mastered the blessing of teleportation, I can only take the shortcut here to reach the bottom of the deep roots.

Unexpectedly, the immortals living in the lower city were also taken away by Mongette. I thought that as soon as I came back here, I would receive their big and warm hugs, and they were all ready to sprint with all their strength.

However, although those guys are brainless and have lost their basic sanity, in the eyes of the Blessed King, they are still his people after all.

When they got to the sewer, the mice seemed extremely excited and ran around everywhere with squeaking sounds, but they had no time to pay attention to me, the intruder.

Perhaps they sensed the coming destruction, and they were in a panic, just like before an earthquake.

But those gargoyles were just as annoying as ever and took some effort to get rid of.

As for the Sons of Evil Omen, they were all released and left as Mungott had promised, so the entire underground seemed empty.

After wandering around in the sewers for a few times, we found the abandoned church that bore the ominous sign, and then there was the much-loved Crazy Fire Jumping Music.

This time, Lance Shanks wasn't there to fly me down directly, so I had to be extra careful.

But fortunately, I have the power of the hurricane, so it is much easier to go down than in the game.

When passing by the Mad Fire Room, I couldn't help but look into the depths. Monggot's seal still existed... I still passed through the hidden passage and headed towards the bottom of the deep roots.

The flying ants here were all wiped out along with their nests by Lance Shanks last time. Even if they could be blessed with resurrection, they seemed to have fallen into the bottomless abyss below.

The journey can be said to be smooth, but I still miss Melina's blessing transmission so much.

——If I had known that day, I would not have been stubborn with Melina. I should have learned a lesson from her.

——It’s too late to regret now.

But anyway, thanks to Torret's hard work along the way, I was able to arrive at the audience place of the dead prince as soon as possible.

The Forge Knight Siluya who was guarding here was quite surprised by my sudden appearance: "Master Zero, why are you here?"

"There's something going on. Where's Lance Shanks?" I looked around, but strangely, I didn't seem to see Lance Shanks.

Shiryuya couldn't help but sigh and said to me: "Lord Lance Sanx is now in a deep sleep with Lady Fia, but the situation doesn't look optimistic."

——The situation is... not optimistic?!

What happened again?