Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

“Roar——” The deafening roar stirred up ripples in the Corruption Lake.

Oh, I didn’t expect that the eldest sister of the four sacred tree sisters would actually summon the corrupt tree spirit hiding here, and it rushed towards Millicent and me aggressively.

Originally, in the game, this guy could stand on the thick vine nearby and use a bow and arrow to skip class, but now, that position is occupied by the eldest sister Mary.

Even if I wanted to grab it directly, the terrain was extremely unfavorable. If I was not careful, I would probably fall directly from the vine and die.

Therefore, the best way is to help Millicent deal with the rest of the sisters first. In this way, maybe the eldest sister Mary can be forced to come down from the vine and join the battle, and then she can find a chance to escape from here.

However, in this case, we have to first find a way to deal with this corrupt tree spirit and my second sister Jasmine and my third sister Amy.

The two men had already entangled Millicent, so I could only run towards the corrupt tree spirit and block its progress.

The flames rose, tightly wrapping around the pitch-black blade. He aimed at the head of the crawling corrupt tree spirit first, and then used two combat skills - Fiery Storm Slash!

"Roar!" The corrupt tree spirit was also afraid of fire. It seemed to be in pain. It angrily reached out its hand into the lake and splashed the corrupt water towards me.

I had no choice but to quickly dodge and pull the corrupt tree spirit away from Millicent and the others.

In my ears, I heard Pollyanna arguing with her eldest sister Mary: "Sister, our matter has nothing to do with Zero! There is no need to involve him."

"That man is Millicent's companion. I hope he can abandon Millicent now, so that my father's plan can be realized faster... You have had a lot of contact with him. Do you think he will easily give up Millicent and leave here, Pollyanna?"

"But······"

"There's nothing to worry about, Pollyanna. If you really want that man to leave, why don't you go help Jasmine, Amy and the others now and deal with Millicent. Then everything will be over."

"..."

Apparently, the one thing that is slightly different from the game is Pollyanna.

Although this guy was always unreasonable and would make trouble for no reason, she had traveled here with Millicent after all.

She is not just a robot, but Pollyanna, a flesh-and-blood girl.

——Perhaps, finding a way to win her over would be the breakthrough point at the moment.

I was about to shout, but I saw the corrupt tree spirit raised its body and some golden flame came out of its mouth.

——Oh no, it’s breath!

"Roar——" The corrupt tree spirit roared at me, opened its big mouth, and a large-scale golden furnace fire with a deep red corrupt aura spewed towards me.

The flowers on the shore withered quickly once they were slightly stained by the flames, and then turned into ashes.

There was nothing but bare ground all around, and there was no place for me to hide.

——There’s nothing I can do!

I steeled myself, held my breath, and dove headfirst into the corrupt lake. Although the lake was only as deep as my legs and abdomen, diving to the bottom could at least help me avoid the corrupt furnace breath.

However, when I came into direct contact with this sticky corrupt water, I suddenly felt a burning pain all over my body. I could clearly feel the scarlet corruption seeping through my skin and quickly accumulating in my body.

When the roar stopped, I quickly got out of the lake, then a ball of bright red fire ignited in my left hand and I slapped my chest with it.

Prayer - the healing fire.

I had just cleared the accumulation of corruption when the tree spirit sensed my power and turned around and swung its huge tail.

The sticky lake water dragged my feet, and I used the hound pace, only able to avoid the opponent's sweep to the limit.

But I saw the corrupt tree spirit push its hands on the ground and flap its tail. The whole big guy actually jumped up from the corrupt lake water like a fish, hung upside down, opened its big mouth and swallowed me.

——Oh, it’s a bit hard to dodge! I don’t know if it’s too late.

At this moment, suddenly, two strands of silk wrapped around my waist from behind, and Pollyanna shouted in my ears: "Get out!"

Seeing this, I quickly kicked off and used the Storm Feet fighting skill, letting the cyclone drive away the lake water that was dragging my legs and feet. Then I was quickly dragged out of the lake by Pollyanna, making the attack of the Corrupted Tree Spirit fall in vain, and a tidal wave surged in the air above the Corrupted Lake.

"Pollyanna~" I couldn't help but call out her name with gratitude.

And she was just as sullen as always: "Don't be so self-indulgent. Let me make it clear first, I'm not here to help you! It's just that I think this monster is a nuisance."

"Yeah, it's indeed quite troublesome!" I also continued with her words.

But Pollyanna still snorted.

"······Pollyanna, what do you mean? Do you want to disobey father's orders?" The eldest sister Mary asked with a cold face.

"But my father's orders didn't say that we had to get rid of Zero," Pollyanna argued. "Millicent, I'll kill her, but it's okay to leave this guy alone."

"...I must take Millicent to see Marenia and I won't let you hurt her." I stood up.

As a result, he was elbowed by Pollyanna: "Shut up, you!"

"Alas." The eldest sister Mary sighed helplessly, "Father has spoiled you too much. He has allowed you to be so willful since the beginning. Pollyanna, have you even forgotten his kindness in raising you?"

"······I have never forgotten, but after meeting that Malenia, I also want to know, I·····Have we really been loved by our father? Isn't it because we are all that guy's buds, her clones, that our father brought us back from the Ionian swamps and raised us·····But what is the ultimate purpose? We, what were we born for?!" Pollyanna's face flushed, and she became more and more excited as she spoke, and the golden light in her eyes became brighter and brighter.

But Mary still looked cold and indifferent: "You don't have to think about these."

"But I can't help thinking about it! Damn it! Why? Why did Millicent get my father's love? Why, why even though I defeated her and cut off her arms, my father, who was almost killed by Millicent, still only cared about her and thought about her, and wanted to give her everything he had!" Pollyanna gritted her teeth and lowered her voice, "Now, I know. This is only because Millicent, like the goddess, possesses the purest scarlet corruption! Therefore, even if I can surpass her in everything, I will never get anything from my father, not even a glance."

Although Pollyanna was proud, she was also sharp-minded. Now that she had seen Marennia's true form, she understood why the sage Gwei was obsessed with Millicent.

Among the four sisters, Mary is calm and indifferent, Jasmine is ignorant and insensitive, and Amy is afraid of being hurt and timid. But she is the only one who is always unwilling to admit defeat and thinks so much.

Therefore, after meeting Malenia, she may have felt painful despair.

——It’s not a question of who is stronger or weaker between her and Millicent, but there is a difference between them in essence.

So, when they met here, Pollyanna told Millicent to prove that she would be the strongest one, and also the most appropriate incarnation of the Valkyrie Marennia... so that Pollyanna would give up completely.

"Forget it, whatever you want." The eldest sister Mary sighed again, she summoned her spear, and walked slowly over, "Father's order is absolute. We will deal with Millicent. As for you, Pollyanna, take care of yourself."

As soon as she finished speaking, the corrupt tree spirit roared again, spewing corrupt molten flames from its body, and rushed towards Pollyanna and me.