Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 199 Millicent's Dream

Millicent had a dream, a very strange dream.

Before, because of the scarlet corruption, she would also have dreams, but they were nightmares.

But today's dream was not a nightmare.

In her dream, she saw another person.

That person was very similar to her, but also quite different.

Her hair was long and although she had the same red hair, this was definitely not Millicent.

Millicent had no way of knowing what kind of man this was.

All she knew was that this person seemed to be in pain.

Millicent fell into a deep sleep, but her consciousness was exceptionally clear.

Unfortunately, although she was conscious, she could not do anything.

Little by little, important fragments of that man's life appeared before Millicent's eyes.

She had no choice at all and could only passively watch this life that did not belong to her.

In addition to being able to see the picture, she also seemed to be able to feel what that person was feeling at the time.
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At birth, the brilliant golden light shines on the newborn baby.

But this child, who should have been sacred, could not see this gentle and dazzling light.

What comes before the warmth is the piercing pain.

Blind and mutilated.

She waved her limbs in pain, but she only had her left arm and half of her right leg to wave.

Millicent found that she seemed to be viewing everything from a strange perspective.

Millicent could confirm that the owner of the memory was the newborn baby, but she could see her from an outsider's perspective.

Perhaps this is not a real memory, but just the owner's imagination of the scene at that time.

After all, she was blind and unable to see. Even if she later mastered the method of seeing, it should not be this perspective.

Beside her, there were two equally blurry figures taking care of her.

From this blurry picture, one can only vaguely make out that one is a tall man with red hair, and the other is a man with waist-length blond hair, making it difficult to tell whether he is male or female.

The blond man didn't look tall. Standing next to the red-haired man, he only reached his waist.

But the blond figure exudes a different kind of dazzling brilliance in this memory.

That is a special kind of brilliance, a unique color dyed by the owner of the memory alone.

It is a gentle color, a pure golden color.

Millicent felt the owner of this memory's dependence on him.

The next moment, the scene in front of Millicent changed immediately.
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At this time, the owner of the memory picture has grown from a newborn baby into a child.

In this memory, the golden figure was holding three small prosthetic limbs made of gold and trying to put them on her.

All of her missing limbs were replaced with prosthetic limbs made of gold.

From then on, for the first time, she had the ability to move freely in the world.

Then a messenger came to the door, claiming to be the messenger of Two Fingers.

The owner of the memory was chosen by a two-fingered man and became a god from then on.
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In the next scene, the golden figure was followed by a huge number of followers.

They left the prosperous Golden City and trudged through the ice and snow.

At the end of the road, the golden figure planted a sapling and then watered the sapling with his own blood.

"Little sapling, little sapling, return to the embrace of the earth."

"But remember, you belong to me."

"Here, take it."

“Receive my abundance, receive my dewdrops, to quench your thirst and fill your body.”

"May you grow bigger and taller."

"Then one day, dream with me──"

"That beautiful law, that gentle dream."

She witnessed the sapling transform into a miracle.

In a short time, the sapling sprouted sacred buds and then grew into a towering tree.

The golden figure held her intact left hand and said to her:
“This will be our new home from now on.”

“This is our own paradise, where everything, no matter how beautiful or ugly, can grow and thrive according to its original form.”

“Everyone will be happy here.”

"This is our 'holy tree' Ablefil..."

Millicent was now certain that the images she was watching were all from Marlenya.

And that golden figure was undoubtedly Malenia's brother Michaela.
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As time went by, Millicent saw that Malenia had grown up a lot.

Her height is much taller than Michaela.

In order to match her growing body size, she has replaced many batches of her golden prosthetic limbs.

But Michaela has hardly changed at all, either in height or appearance.

On this day, the scarlet corruption that accompanied her broke out uncontrollably.

Scarlet corrupt flowers bloomed on the sacred tree, polluting it.

Strange creatures followed the trail of scarlet corruption to the sacred tree, hoping to coexist with them.

Michaela readily agreed and allowed them to stay in the sacred tree.

What followed was a rebellion by the knights.

Those who gather together because of faith will eventually leave because of the collapse of faith.

After discovering that all the beauty of the sacred tree was just an illusion, faith began to collapse.

They have realized that:

Michaela was not God, and he could not do what he had promised them.

"A holy tree infused with blood, but what grows out is an ugly tree, and it can never become a golden tree."

"The beautiful sacred tree... is nothing more than a dream."

The knights vented their anger at being deceived and were eventually killed by Michaela's Golden Needle Knights.

Malenia felt guilty for her existence; if it weren't for this innate law, their sacred tree would not have been tainted by corruption.

But Michaela didn't blame her.

After that, Michaela seemed to have changed in Marennia's memory...but nothing seemed to have changed.

He became more gentle, and the sacred tree became more harmonious, and there were no more disputes from then on.

Even the rebellion was never mentioned again, as if it had been completely forgotten.
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This time, the background of the picture returns to the dazzling golden city.

Marennia was taken back to Rodel by Michaela.

Marennia didn't know why, nor did she care what it was for, but almost all the demigods gathered together.

She had no feelings for these nominal brothers and sisters and was quite distant from them.

But Michaela got along well with them and was loved by them.

Marennia saw Michaela find a tall and majestic red-haired man with the same hair color as their father.

They had a pleasant conversation, and Michaela looked particularly happy until they returned to the sacred tree.

"Marlennia, I have found the Promised King."

"As long as I can become a god, he will become my king as promised."

"As long as I can become a god..."
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On the boundless snowfield, Malenia met an old swordsman in blue clothes. From then on, she began to learn the flowing sword technique to resist the scarlet corruption from her teacher.

She hopes to help her brother overcome all obstacles on the road to becoming a god.

After seeing some of the moves in the Flowing Water Sword Technique, Millicent suddenly understood.

The sword skills that he had used as if by instinct were actually derived from the Flowing Water Sword Technique.

She turned her attention back to the picture.

Marlenya learned the Flowing Water Sword Technique, and with the help of the special golden needles made by Michaela, corruption could no longer defeat her will.

From then on, she became Mikaela's sharp blade, also the blade of the sacred tree.

Knights with heroic wills gathered under her banner, accepted their fate of corruption, and fought alongside her.

The prosthetic sword she held high also became wings, destroying all enemies. It was a symbol of invincibility and heroic will.
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The memories after that became increasingly vague, and the fragments were extremely scarce.

Maybe those things weren't what Marenya thought were worth remembering.

It is also possible that she has begun to give up her own thinking and exists only as Michaela's sharp blade.

A broken war, a bloody conspiracy, and the final battle of Ionia...

Various scenes flashed before Millicent's eyes at a very fast speed.

At the end of it all, Millicent saw Malenia leap over the red-haired figure she had seen before, then brazenly unleashed the power of scarlet corruption.

At this point, Galide was completely transformed into a scarlet hell of corruption.

Millicent saw Marenia's lips move, but she had no idea what she said to Latarn.

Then, everything returned to darkness, and the gentle golden light disappeared long ago.
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Millicent was unaware of these fragmented memories because they were the only ones that made an impression on Marenia.

Or maybe it was because of the scarlet corruption that she couldn't remember everything.

The fragments of Marenia's memory are quite vague, and the characters can only be guessed by Millicent herself.

Sometimes, scenes from the same period would appear continuously, but sometimes, they would jump to who knows how many years later in an instant.

But the emotions contained in it are very strong.

Among those emotions was Marenia’s disgust for the scarlet corruption, and her tenacity in fighting it with her human will.

But there is also a special emotion hidden in it.

Although Malenia never expressed it, she hid it well.

But Millicent, who had some of her memories, could easily detect that it was a sadness that she had never shown to others.

This was the sadness that she had never shared even with her closest and most dependent brother Michaela.

After the battle of Ionia, the unconscious Marennia slept alone at the bottom of the sacred tree.

Gold had already left her, leaving only the whispers in the endless darkness:

"Don't abandon me..."

"elder brother……"
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Originally, Millicent was not very curious about Marlenia, a person she knew nothing about.

Rather, although she was born from Marenia, Millicent found it all inexplicable.

In her previous life, she was just an ordinary person who wanted to live an ordinary life.

Others came into contact with her because of Marenia.

And every time she mentioned or thought of Marennia, some memories that did not belong to her would come to her mind.

This situation made her feel that she had been changed subtly.

However, after seeing these fragments of memory, Millicent suddenly wanted to know what kind of person Malenia was.

She wanted to see Marenia.
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Millicent opened her eyes and found that her body was indeed free of pain, and the scarlet corruption no longer moved.

"Golden needle..."

After moving her left hand a little, Millicent found that she could move it freely.

I looked around and saw no one else in the cave.

Millicent didn't even bother to put on her clothes, but cleaned her body with the water flowing from the rock wall of the cave.

She had been suffering from corruption since she had escaped from the bud.

He had a high fever and was in pain. The blood and cold sweat from his broken arm had already made his clothes dirty.

Millicent herself couldn't stand this, let alone she had to meet someone later.

Millicent pressed the clothes under her knees, and with her left hand, she pulled the right sleeve off the clothes.

She held the sleeve under the running water to rinse it.

When the scarlet corruption and blood on it were almost washed away by the running water, she began to use the sleeve to clean her naked upper body.

It was only then that Millicent discovered that the scarlet corruption had spread from her right arm all the way around, infecting much of her body.

"What an ugly body..."

Although the scarlet corruption was suppressed, it was only suppressed.

Wounds once infected by the scarlet corruption will never heal.

In fact, rather than healing the Scarlet Corruption, Millicent hopes to hold the sword again so that she can repay others' kindness with the sword.

The golden prosthetic hand I saw in my memory seemed very good.

Speaking of which, the chest that was pierced by the golden needle just now had no trace of being pierced by the needle. It was as smooth as before, as if the golden needle had never been used. This surprised Millicent.

As she thought about this, Millicent finished cleaning her body.

She also washed her hair with running water, and then wanted to tie her hair up with a rope.

But Millicent tried several times but still couldn't tie her hair successfully.

Only my left hand is still a little uncomfortable, and I can't complete many things.

Millicent shook her head and put on her clothes.

I don’t have time to wash my clothes now, so I’ll just have to bear with it for now.

After putting her clothes back on, Millicent suddenly felt a little confused.

I wonder how Grandpa O'Neill is doing now?

What should I do in the future?

Although I want to leave Gaileed and go to the sacred tree.

But what is the world like outside of Gaileed?

She has been living here and has no idea about it and has never been exposed to such information.

Come to think of it, my previous life wasn't as peaceful and beautiful as I remembered.

There is something vaguely strange in some places, which makes people unable to think deeply.

"Millicent?"

"Are you awake? Can you come in?"

Bai Shi's voice came from outside the cave, interrupting Millicent's thoughts.

"Yeah, I'm awake."

"Please come in."

Bai Shi then walked into the cave and found that Millicent was much cleaner than before.

Millicent stood up and bowed to Bai Shi.

"Thanks you."

Grandpa O'Neill once told her that it was a man named Bai Shi who first discovered the trace of her escape from Hualei and entrusted him to look for her.

Her attention was distracted by the pain before, but when she came to her senses just now, the person in front of her seemed to be her benefactor.

(End of this chapter)