Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

"What?! Senior Ingwill, you are saying that the golden tree at the border is burning... No way? What on earth is happening outside?"

"Is Stonewell still in the hands of the Golden Man? No? The current Storm King is a Faded One... This is really unexpected."

"Neferi Lu? I have some impression of this name... Oh, could it be that person's descendant?! Holai Lu, the man who defeated the king!"

In the main hall of the Dragon Cathedral, a group of lost knights surrounded Ingwill in layers, just like the old ladies at the entrance of the village, asking him all kinds of questions about what happened besides Fam Azra.

I was like a sardine in a can, squeezed among this group of iron lumps, acting as a "translator".

——You heard it right, it’s a translator, or a diplomatic spokesperson.

After finally dealing with the two Divine Skin Apostles, the black and white flames that sealed the exits disappeared, and the Lost Home Knights guarding the vicinity also rushed in immediately.

Of course, my first move was to use the hound pace and run away.

But unexpectedly, Ingwill stuck his axe into the ground, clasped his hands in front of his chest, and stood in front of the lost knights with an appearance of one man blocking the pass from ten thousand.

They were confused and hesitant at first, and then one of them asked tentatively: "Are you... Brother Ingwill? Once, one of the king's wings."

Then, Ingwill raised his head a little more proudly.

The lost knights immediately became like fellow countrymen, their eyes welling with tears. After asking, I learned that they were all knights of Stonewell, but because they could not find their true homeland, they were taken in by the Storm King.

However, at that time, Stonewell still respected wild beasts, and the Storm King was on good terms with the ancient dragons. The knights worked diligently under their command and regarded Stonewell as their second home.

Unfortunately, the golden cavalry still arrived.

Ge Fulei led the powerful army that had not yet faded, and marched into Stonewell to fight against the Storm King. In the end, the Storm King was defeated, and a large number of lost knights had to leave their homes again. Only a small number of them returned to Stonewell under the call of Greg, but that is a story for later.

And it was at that time that everyone from Fam Yazra came here.

Originally, they came here just to seek help on the king's orders, but they never expected that before they could return, Stonewell had already been breached by Gefulei's army.

Everyone lost their homeland once again. With nowhere else to go, they stayed here to help the ancient dragons guard the dragon church which was on the verge of collapse, as a way of repaying the kindness of taking them in.

Therefore, when the knights saw Ingwill, they were extremely excited, but they couldn't help but sigh.

They were excited, of course, because they didn't expect to meet an old friend in a foreign land, and that old friend was the famous knight known as "One of the Storm Wings". They sighed, because they all recognized that Ingwill had now turned into a wandering soul on the border and turned into ashes, which meant that they could never return to the homeland they once guarded.

However, the Lost Home Knights were still very interested in what was happening at the border area and kept asking questions.

As for Ingwill, he really doesn't like to talk. He just stands aside with an air of being a dignified senior. Facing the questions that kept popping up from the Lost Knights, I was the one who answered them all. However, he just nodded with a hum. Those knights thought that after he turned into ashes, only I, the summoner, could understand his words...

Forget it. Considering that the Lost Knights don’t seem to intend to make things difficult for me anymore because of Ingwill’s reputation, I won’t bother with him.

Moreover, after the God-skin Apostles were defeated, part of their runes turned into blessed light, so it was not difficult to keep the ashes summoned nearby. I just took it as a temporary rest, chatted with them, and collected some information by the way: "By the way, I seem to have heard one of your elder brothers say before, has this Fam Azra recently had other faded people break in besides me?"

A Sword and Shield Shixiang nodded and said, "If I remember correctly, that man was wearing silver-white armor, and he was accompanied by a woman... Moreover, his ability is probably not inferior to that of Brother Ingwill and you, and he even had a strange weapon in his hand. Many of our brothers felt that as soon as the weapon touched them, part of their strength was swallowed up, and they were unable to stop him."

·······Swallow the Scepter. After activating the combat skill, it can take the health of the weapon from the surrounding enemies.

Sure enough, Bernal and Melina passed by this side.

"What about the time? Brother, do you still remember the exact time they appeared?" I asked hurriedly.

"This Fam Azra is isolated from the world and no longer has the distinction between day and night, so it is difficult for us to tell the exact time, but... from my personal feeling, it should not have been too long." Sword and Shield looked at the other companions.

One of them nodded in agreement. "It was probably around the time when the central storm rotated 10,932 times before you, Brother Faded, arrived."

"One... one thousand nine hundred and thirty-two?" I was confused.

——Can the storm in the center of Fam Azra be used to tell time?

The other party even nodded again with confidence: "The storm will probably make a circle when I count to about forty. When I have nothing to do, I will habitually count the number of circles of the storm... Don't be fooled by the wind that seems to be changing its form all the time. But if you observe carefully, you can find a fixed pattern from it. It is quite strange! You think, the real wind should be completely invisible, but..."

This knight was obviously a fan of Central Storm and spoke about it with great enthusiasm.

The other knights seemed to have become numb to this, and all had expressions that said "here we go again".

I was half in admiration and half thinking, "How boring you are!"

However, assuming that the knight remembers one number per second, and one lap takes 40 seconds, then these 10,932 laps... would take about five days?! Did Bernal and Melina also pass by here in about five days?

"Come to think of it, after that man, before you came, brother, it seems that someone else broke into the altar hall of the church here." A man who had lost his homeland with two swords suddenly said.

"Oh?"

"However, that person's movements were quite secretive, and none of us brothers were able to detect him. Only the two Divine Skin Apostles were disturbed and sealed the altar with the black and white fire."

After Shuangjianshixiang finished speaking, another sword and shield followed suit: "Hearing you say that, I also remembered... At that time, there seemed to be a turbid yellow flame that burned the seal of the Shenpi apostles and rushed out directly from here, exactly the same as the silver-white knight! However, the flames of Shenpi and his men went out very quickly, and I didn't see any of them. The direction they fled was also the location of the group of orcs, so we had to give up."

——A turbid yellow flame...crazy fire?

——Sure enough, in addition to Bernal, as Teacher Mungert mentioned, perhaps Tron, who has mastered the Three Fingers of Madness, has also arrived here?

I couldn't help but frown... Ah, come to think of it: "Is it really okay for Ingwill and I to defeat the Divine Skin Apostle? You won't be held accountable by the ancient dragons, right?"

The knights looked at each other and then smiled.

"It's okay, it's okay. The ancient dragons are sometimes too lazy to meddle in other people's business. They allocated this church area to us. As long as we don't have a large-scale conflict with foreign countries, they won't bother to intervene."

——Foreign countries, I think they are referring to those dragon orcs... Indeed, I have never seen the Lost Homeland Knights hanging out with those orcs.

Gu Long is too lazy to meddle in other people’s business?

——Then why was it that when I arrived, Adulla and the others were welcomed so warmly that even Fam Azra was almost unable to come up?

Another Lost Home Knight continued, "And to be honest, we don't get along with the Divine Skin Apostles. They are so mysterious and cunning that even if we enter here, we will be attacked by the Divine Skin Apostles just like you... After all, we are also people from the Golden Age, and we are hostile to them, the subordinates of the Goddess of the Night Eyes."

——That’s good. No need to worry about being backstabbed.

I breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the exploration and search for people in Fam Azra can be carried out with the Dragon Church here as a base.

And Ingwill still stood up straight, silent, just humming and nodding beside me.