Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Boom——Boom——

Good morning, or good evening, you who seek the Faded Circle of Elden.

Now, I stood on a towering stone pillar, with flames roaring under my feet, mixed with the footsteps of several little ghosts surrounding me, and from time to time, a flying knife flew past my ears, leaving behind a slight sound of tearing the air.

Today may become the anniversary of my death, who knows.

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The time goes back to about an hour ago.

The underground cemetery at Stormroot.

After going down the stairs, the passage split into two paths, one leading to a deeper underground, and the other leading to a tomb. In the center of the tomb, a bright light was shining—a tool or a golden rune?

Each one of them attracts the curiosity of adventurers, just like a cat scratching a thorn in the heart.

but!

This is the soul-based world designed by the old thief Miyazaki. Every step you take, you have to be careful of Lao Liu's sneak attack.

For example, in this tomb chamber, anyone with a discerning eye can see that there is a stone imp guarding the light spot of the prop, and will focus all their attention on that guy.

And at this time——

call!

The sharp blade will then swing down from the blind spot of the tomb entrance, delivering a fatal blow.

"But I'm an 'expert player'. The map and level design of the entire underground cemetery are deeply imprinted in my mind!" I successfully lured the sixth little ghost to appear. Next, I can easily solve it by just slashing hard...

Whoosh!

Throwing knife?

In the tomb, was the gargoyle used as bait also triggered?

This shouldn't be the case. My distance control should only attract the hatred of one guy.

But I didn't have time to think about it. The little devil became angry after failing to launch a sneak attack from the blind spot. He grabbed a hoe-like weapon and swung at me wildly.

Calm down! Stand back with your shield raised.

One, two, three, and then a gravity strike.

At the moment when the opponent's movement was stiff, he rolled over to the back and stabbed the guy hard in the waist!

Bang!

Execution, done!

But when I kicked the little ghost stuck on the sword, I felt a sharp pain in my shoulder.

Were you hit by a dart unexpectedly?

Sure enough, in the real world, there is no such thing as an invincible execution gap.

"But now, you are also alone and helpless!" Without time to treat the wound, I dodged another flying blade, took a big leap, swung the sword and chopped the annoying stone statue imp in half.

Although there is no health determination, after defeating the opponent, a golden rune will fly in and merge into my body, so there is no need to worry about the problem of resurrection.

I picked up the prop from the ground.

Uh, it's root fat.

This thing is almost everywhere in the entire continent. It is transformed into a prop to attract the phototactic A-ti, which is also part of the old thief's malicious intent.

When I pulled out the blade from my shoulder, I found that the wound was bleeding uncontrollably... Could this be the "bleeding" setting in the real world of the Ring of Magic? It's more difficult than I thought.

I quickly drank a sip of the red holy bottle to heal my wounds.

Continue exploring downwards. After passing the door of the BOSS room, you must find the mechanism in the tomb to open the door.

After walking down another flight of stairs, a three-story room appeared before us.

The gate mechanism of the BOSS room is located in front of the statue on the second floor. There is no way to go up now, so you can only keep moving forward.

Whizzing--

Sure enough, there were also two little devils using darts here. I quickly put up my shield and trotted to the bottom of the platform where they were. When the other party jumped off the platform, I turned around and killed one of them with a sword.

The second one followed closely, leaping over with the hoe in hand raised.

I quickly raised my shield to block.

Boo!

I felt a slight sting on my wrist, but taking advantage of the moment I blocked the attack, I chopped hard at the opponent and killed him again.

But, what happened just now?

I took off the big leather shield and saw that there was a hole pierced through it by the stone imp?!

Speaking of which, this shield is not a 100% physical defense. It turns out that in reality it actually breaks the shield directly.

In addition, the puncture wound was not large, but the bleeding continued for a long time. It seems that the principle of the "bleeding" state may be to delay the coagulation of the wound. If the wound is too severe, it will cause a large amount of blood loss reaction.

By continuing to explore, I can constantly update the differences between the real world of the Ring of Magic and the world in the game. The thirst for knowledge can't help but make me cheer in my heart.

After passing through a narrow passage, a surge of heat gushed out.

Here it comes, a must-try fire mechanism in the underground cemetery of the Ring of Magic - a fierce fire released intermittently by the gargoyle pillars. It is of quite astonishing length and it is difficult to rush through it all at once, but the damage is also good.

Generally speaking, there will be an open space in the middle for hiding, but the timing of starting is quite strict. In the game, I always miss the last step, and end up being knocked to the ground by the flames, rolling and crawling.

So, the best way to deal with it should be...

I took out the throwing knife I had prepared and threw it hard towards the pillar of fire.

With a ding sound, the other side of the stone pillar... Hmm? Nothing happened?

Theoretically, the flamethrower should be stopped by touching the stone pillar, so I usually use a bow and arrow to solve it in the game.

Did I just miss the target?

This shouldn't be the case. After two days of training in hunting rabbits with flying knives, my skills have reached perfection. I shouldn't be unable to hit such a large static target...

"Gah!"

Suddenly, another hoe handle fell from the shadow on the wall beside him.

"Fuck! I almost forgot about you, old man!" I quickly raised my shield to block, pushed the opponent away, and then chopped off the gargoyle's head with a powerful sweep.

Uh, my hands are a little numb.

By the way, there are quite a lot of tough enemies in the magic ring. I don’t know if I can chop down the meteorite monsters and crystal people when I encounter them in the future.

After dealing with the sneak attack from the stone imp, I took out another throwing knife.

Could it be that in the real world, the fire-breathing stone pillars have specific triggering restrictions? Could it be the fire-breathing imp on top?

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Ah, bingo!

With a loud rumbling sound, the entire pillar fell into the ground, leaving only a small part exposed.

Fortunately, the True Ring has another advantage - the used props will not disappear at will, which means that throwing knives and the like can be picked up again after use. Great!

Oh, found a calling mud skull.

"Hello~"

Haha, what a strange sound, like that of an old man.

In addition, I also tested that if the stone pillar is in the closed state, I can trigger the flamethrower mechanism again by stepping hard on the top or chopping it with a knife.

This is pretty much the same as in the game.

The same method was used to solve the fire-breathing stone pillar on the other side of the T-shaped fork.

Before my eyes, a bouquet of silver flowers swayed gently in a corner at the end of the tomb. Beside it, on the fallen body, the light of the props flickered brightly...

Wait, I remember - there were two stone imps hanging on the front wall. In addition, behind the supporting stone pillars of the wall, there were guys disguised as stone statues on the left and right sides, and one of them had another one hanging on its head.

You are really worthy of me, old thief Miyazaki.

In the early maps, there were five tiger generals placed in front of the small props! You would be unhappy if you didn't kill the newbie, right?

Luckily I had memorized the map, so I just had to use the flying knives to lure them one by one.

Whoosh!

"Gah!"

Huh? You two brothers, why did you come down together?

Ding--

Wait, why did the guys on the left and right wake up? I didn't trigger them!

In an instant, all the Five Tiger Generals were awakened by me and rushed over with knives in their hands.

It's over, it's over, it's over!

As the old saying goes in the Soul Department: "Three dogs slaughter the firewood king."

These five little devils can kill all the Ah Ti in the border area!

In my haste to step back, I accidentally triggered the fire-breathing pillar.

With the rumbling sound of a mechanism, the entire stone pillar was lifted up again.

It’s over, the retreat is blocked, what should I do?

An idea suddenly came to my mind, and I quickly jumped to the top of the stone pillar before it fully rose.

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Then comes the opening scene.

Flames were roaring under my feet, and five stone imps were surrounding the stone pillar with hungry eyes, glaring at me.

I can only say that fortunately they are too small to reach the fire-breathing ghost and close the stone pillar. But now they can neither go up nor down, which is totally not a solution.

Old Galie, I'm afraid you have to come here and retrieve this big leather shield yourself.