Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Lead Patch out of the Mengliu Cave, continue walking north along the river, and pass through a long and narrow valley.

The roadside was littered with rotting remains, and the smell was so awful that even the river water seemed to be stagnant and became dirty and sticky.

"That guy Nelius actually just dumped the body here." Patch followed me with a frown, "Old man, how long will your business of making money last?"

"It's almost there, right ahead." I suddenly stopped, "But someone wants to give us some sweet treats first."

The riverbed ripples.

I saw that the pieces of bones actually rolled over by themselves and gathered together to form the shape of a human skeleton.

"Deadborn! We are surrounded!" Patch quickly raised his large shield and gripped his spear tightly.

But I was eager to try: "I didn't bother to deal with you before because I was in a hurry. If a tiger doesn't show its power, do you really think I'm a sick cat? Leave the front to me, Patch, you handle the back!"

After saying that, I raised my shield, blocked an arrow from the Dead Man's crossbowman, stepped forward quickly, and chopped off the head of the skeleton holding the gun with one arrow.

—Huh? It fell down already? So fragile.

I stepped forward again and slashed the archer's waist with my sword. I actually broke this guy in half and his bones were scattered all over the ground.

······Could it be that because I increased my strength level twice, the damage of normal attacks has increased?

Oh, and don't forget to finish off the Deathborn.

——After these guys fall down, black and white flames will burn on their bodies, and then they will reassemble and stand up again.

As long as I cut them one more time before that, I can eliminate their second resurrection... Huh?

I chopped hard at the flaming skeleton of the Undead, but the flames didn't go out and the skeleton was still reassembling!

Is it because I am chopping in the wrong way?

Suddenly, I felt a chill from behind. I subconsciously dodged it, but the spear still cut a hole in my armor.

Before, the Deadborn whose head I chopped off resurrected so quickly?!

"What's going on? Can't these guys die?" I asked loudly in confusion.

Patch also responded loudly, even with extreme doubt: "These guys were resurrected after death. Without holy attribute attacks, there is no way to destroy them! Seeing that you are full of confidence, I thought you knew it!"

——This is too different from the game!

"There's no other way, let's retreat first!" Patch took out the pot, took a sip, and suddenly exhaled a cloud of mist.

But I quickly stopped him and said, "Wait a minute. Anyway, our strength is much higher than theirs, so why not take this opportunity to do some experiments."

“······When did you get it?”

I smiled and shook the bone burning with black and white flames in my hand. It was the thigh bone of the spear-dead skeleton that I had chopped down again.

Moreover, unexpectedly, this black and white flame was not hot, but rather icy cool.

When the fog dissipated, a funny figure suddenly appeared among the four dead borns.

That guy, with his extremely long and short legs, couldn't even stand up properly. He could only bend over on the ground, using his head to support the ground.

"Hahaha, Patch, did you see that? They can be put together even if they are missing parts!" I couldn't help but burst out laughing.

The Undead whose thigh bone I took seemed particularly angry. His scalp rubbed against the river surface, and he limped over like an extremely lame person.

"Interesting, so what?" After I chopped down all the Dead Born again, I took away the arm bone of the Dead Born with the spear.

They can even be combined, but it looks even funnier.

But this guy couldn't even hold the spear properly, and was so angry that he could only crawl on the ground.

Even Patch couldn't help but complain: "You guy, are you a devil?"

"That's very rude. Is there a demon as kind as me?" I knocked down the Deadborn again, and this time, I only took its skull. "Now, can you recover?"

Just like any other part that had been removed, the head of the Deadborn shook wildly in my hands, but with even more force.

But progress in physical recovery was minimal.

"I see." I figured it out almost clearly. I placed the skull of the Dead Born on the ground and chopped it down with force with my sword.

This time, the black and white flames finally went out and there was no movement anymore.

The runes emanating from it also gathered on me.

"Sure enough!" I told Patch about this discovery, "Even for the Deadborn, the head is still very important. As long as this is destroyed, it will be difficult for them to revive for a while!"

Patch naturally understood what he meant and crushed the restless skulls around him with one foot.

"How is it? My experiment is pretty good, right?" I said to Patch with a smile.

Patch looked at me speechlessly and sighed: "Normal people would have run away long ago when they saw these things that can't be killed no matter how many times they are chopped... You are really a complete weirdo. Oh~ I'm starting to have a bad feeling about today's business."

"Oh, Patch, be careful at your feet, there's a rotten slime." I pointed behind him and warned him.

As it happened, the guy suddenly swelled up like a pufferfish, with sharp bone spurs growing on his body, and rushed towards Pachiza.

Fortunately, Patch dodged quickly enough.

——However, the movement of the Corrupted Slime is extremely slow, so there should be few people who cannot dodge it. But in return, it has strong resistance to sword attacks, and it will hardly cause any damage when you chop it, and the benefits are also very low, so just ignore it.

"Let's go, a big business is waiting for us!" I continued to move forward with Patch happily.

Soon, they reached the end of Mengliu Canyon.

Looking at the wooden door at the bottom of the cliff, Patch turned around and ran without saying a word.

- Hey, hey, hey, you want to run away, can you outrun me? And Torret?

I grabbed him by the back of his collar, and Patch started yelling, "I knew it wasn't a good deal. You want to take me to the cemetery cave! There are super powerful monsters in there, I don't want to keep you company!"

——As expected of you, Patch. I remember in the game, during the battle memorial ceremony of General Ratan in "Star Shatter", you were the first one to run away!

"Old Patch Handyman, you took the money but you still want to refuse to pay, right?" I threatened, "But the monk can escape but the temple cannot. I know where you are hiding."

Patch said with a sad face: "Old man, can I give you a refund?"

"No, you ate my crab jerky. That's king crab, a high-end product worth 10,000 runes!"

"You are robbing me of my money!"

"Well, don't worry, don't worry." I comforted Patch kindly, "Look, I fell into your trap and was inexplicably teleported to a misty forest full of bears, but I was able to come back safely..."

Patch couldn't help but interrupt me: "But that wasn't the first time you opened that box and were teleported to the fog forest. Who knows if you did it on purpose!"

"Huh? What are you talking about?" I was confused. Uh, could it be that this guy has guessed that I'm not just A'ti from the border area, but another outsider who often used his teleportation trap as a shortcut to the fog forest in the early stages of the game?

——But I probably haven’t told anyone about that except Melina.

Patch looked at my face, and finally sighed, and said impatiently: "Forget it, forget it, it's my bad luck to be entangled by you. Besides, you are quite capable, so I will reluctantly accompany you this time!"

"That's right, doing business is hard work! We'll split the profits 50-50 later! I won't take advantage of you~" I smiled and patted Patch's shoulder.

Patch was helpless and took the initiative to step forward and push open the door of the Mongliu Underground Cemetery.