Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

As the giant mecha Dangerous Wanderer directly took out the sealed "Dead Sleeping Girl" Fia from Godwin's third eye, Godwin's huge body slid to the ground and began to disintegrate.

I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and smiled and gave Roger beside me a thumbs up.

But then, there was a sudden violent shaking from underneath the body.

"What's going on? Can Godwin still move?" I was a little shocked.

——Even after all this, he is still so difficult to deal with?!

Roger shook his head and said, "No, it's this dream that's collapsing! Zero, look outside!"

Looking out from the wanderer's vision window, he saw that all the tall buildings began to shatter from the top, turning into fragments of light and flying towards the dark and oily sky.

——That means the Dangerous Wanderers are also disintegrating?!

As soon as this inference came to my mind, the next second, the deck under Roger and I broke, causing us to fall directly downwards.

"Wow ah ah-"

It's over, it's over. The Dangerous Wanderer is seventy-nine meters high, and we are at least sixty or seventy meters away. If we fall down like this, we will definitely die!

"Zero——" Roger's voice was getting farther and farther away in my ears.

I turned around and realized that he was the only one falling down, while I was still suspended in the air... Ah, yes, I am still Ultraman now, although I have been shrunk into a humanoid form, but I still retain my basic abilities.

When I thought of this, I quickly went through the dismembered parts, found Roger, and picked him up by the waist.

This guy also hurriedly reminded: "And Feiya."

"Fia... Oh, there she is!" Ultra attacked, and when I found Fia's falling figure, I clamped Roger with just one hand, then flew over, hugged Fia, and quickly got out of the range of the disintegration of the dangerous wanderer, and landed safely on the ground.

The Ultraman-chan pattern on my body began to fade away, and I returned to my original appearance.

It was a close call. Fortunately, the power of illusion in my body lasted a little longer. Otherwise, we three would have been in trouble just after defeating Godwin.

——By the way, even if I shrunk, doesn’t that mean the Ultra Power in me hasn’t actually decreased that much?

——If I had known earlier, I could have fought Godwin in this form.

Looking up, the scene was like the end of the world. Bricks and tiles of buildings, broken pieces of mecha, everything turned into dust and was sucked away by the endless dark universe. Even the black smoke produced by Godwin's collapse rolled into the sky.

However, beneath the black smoke, the strange door once again appeared in the center of the earth.

Roger said slowly: "The dream is collapsing, which means someone is about to wake up."

"······Fia." I turned my head and sure enough, she, who had been unconscious just now, had stood up from the ground.

Feiya smiled at me, but she still looked sad and pitiful: "Master Ling, long time no see. I didn't expect that in my dream, it was you who saved me again."

"Fia, are you okay?" I walked forward and took a quick look at her.

"There are so many whispers of Death that they have swallowed me up, but with you here, everything is fine." Feiya said, and slowly walked towards the direction of the gate to the dead. "... In the prince's dream, I found the strange door you mentioned before, Lord Ling. You are right, this door is indeed closely related to Death at the border, and it is also the key to Queen Marica's promotion of the Eternal World... It is a door to reincarnation."

"The Gate of Reincarnation?" I couldn't help but frowned slightly.

At this moment, everything in the world seemed to have calmed down and stopped in front of this door.

Fia stroked the hand of the statue on the door and continued to explain: "On the other side of the door, it seems to be the shadow land of death. Originally, the creatures on the border would pass through the door after death, go there to be purified and reborn. But now, the door of reincarnation has been sealed from the inside by Queen Marika in some unknown way, and the cycle of life and death has been cut off... The real dead cannot pass through the door to be reborn, and suffer the torment of purgatory; and the living on our side of the land cannot seek death. They can only continue to go through the tree's reincarnation, and are constantly exploited by the runes of life, and gradually become lifeless like the living dead... It was also in this dream of [Death] that I realized that even the dead are just another form of life, just like those immortals. They are just poor people who cannot get a real death. Their souls are imprisoned in this land by [Eternity], gradually losing themselves and unable to rest."

"······To be honest, I still don't quite understand how the Immortals came about, and how the Dead Born are the same as them?" I was quite curious.

——However, one is so thin that only bones are left, and the other is just a skeleton. In a sense, they are indeed similar.

"Lord Ling, you know about the reincarnation of trees, right?" Fia asked back.

I nodded and said that as long as Rodel's ordinary soldiers did not completely perish, they would be resurrected through blessing after a period of time. However, in this process, the golden tree would absorb part of its power to prepare for the birth of new life, which would lead to the continuous dilution and decline of the power of living beings on the border.

Fia explained, "In fact, even if their bodies perish, their souls do not disappear. The tree will reshape their bodies, allowing them to be so-called [born], and this newly shaped body is the Immortal. The reason why they look stupid is, firstly, because the runes in their souls are too scarce. They can barely sustain life, so how can they think? Secondly, the Golden Tree shapes the bodies of the Immortals only to ensure the minimum level of soul containers... The same is true for the Dead Born, except that they are not resurrected by the Golden Tree, but are another kind of Immortal born under the influence of the 'Prince of Death'."

I kind of understood what Fia meant. If things continue to develop in this way, even if it ends normally, it means that after the border area has gone through decline, all the people there will become those mindless immortals, stagnating here forever without any further development.

This is the [eternal] truth that Marika obtained after being deceived.

Looking at the gate in front of me, I speculated and asked, "So, in order to solve the current situation at the border, we must reopen this reincarnation gate and let the real cycle of life and death start again? Feiya, do you have any ideas?"

Feiya shook her head: "The door... was sealed from the inside by Queen Marica, so we can only solve it from the inside. We can't really touch Death, so we can't open the door."

She paused, then suddenly turned to me and said, "But maybe you can, Master Ling, because you are actually from the real other side of the fog, from another world, right? Maybe you can come into contact with the real [Death]."

"But even I can't push open this door." I smiled bitterly. I wanted to stretch out my hand to demonstrate to Fia, but when I thought about how I had touched the door before and summoned Godwin, I retracted my hand.

And Fia also gave an answer: "Because you have not yet obtained the power to control [Death] in this border area."

“·······Destined death?”

"Yes, you still need that power to completely break the current [eternal] order, and then go to that shadowy land and return the real [death] to the borderland."

——Well, that means I have to take the destined death and defeat Pi Dan, then I can have a chance to enter the so-called shadow land of death.

Since we are talking about the destined death, I continued, "I understand. But right now, the biggest problem is that I can't find a way to get to Fam Azra, where the destined death is... Originally, I was planning to rescue Lance Shanks so that he could take me to the ancient dragon's hometown, but I didn't expect to encounter so many things."

"Lord Lance Shanks?" Feiya looked at the ancient dragon and hesitated for a moment before she said, "Well, I'll release you all from this dream of [Death] first, but...Lord Lance Shanks has also been eroded by [Death]. You may need to discuss this with her, Lord Ling."

······A bad feeling, it’s coming.

"Please close your eyes, Master Ling. When you wake up, you can return to the audience place... I will continue to explore the true [Death] here. See you later."

Listening to Fia's words, I closed my eyes obediently, and at that moment, I seemed to be thrown into a cold darkness.