Elden Clergyman

The blonde girl appeared out of nowhere again.

Because he had experienced this before, Lord was used to her sudden appearances and disappearances, and was no longer surprised. After thinking for a moment, he asked.

"In other words, if I want to strengthen one set of 'Laws', I can only fight with that set and cannot use the power of another set of 'Laws'?"

He didn't know what the law was, but from the girl's description, he felt it was a system.

"You can understand that."

In that case...

After thinking for a moment, Lord made a decision.

Normally, just use the magic ring system first. After all, there is no room for improvement on his other account. If he really can't beat it, he can switch accounts.

And more importantly, when he was fighting with that strange existence just now, he also discovered that although the two systems were not connected to each other, they could be used together.

To describe it in gaming terms, if he holds a weapon with attribute corrections, then this weapon can benefit from the attribute bonuses of both Dark Soul and Elden Ring, and all kinds of gains, BUFFs, and defense and damage reduction can all be superimposed when both systems are activated at the same time.

This is very scary.

Although for now, the bonus brought to him by this Elden system cannot be said to be very significant, it can only be said to be almost nothing. At most, the damage during execution is increased by one.

But what about the future?

Wait until he maxes out his attributes, collects all kinds of armor and weapons, and then adds some miracles and magic that increase his power. Finally, when the dual systems are activated...

He couldn't even imagine how great that would be.

Of course, that's for the future.

Right now, let alone collecting all the max-level items, he doesn't even have a Fire Keeper who can level up.

The runes in his pocket were only a few hundred dollars saved from killing those soldiers.

"Anyway, let's get out of here first."

After searching the cave for the last time and confirming that there were no hidden elements or collectibles, Lord jumped out along the exit and returned to the place where he first fell.

As for what that strange guy said to him during the battle?

What compatriots, what chaos fire, what is it...

It was impossible to say that he wasn't curious, but the problem was that he had only been in this world for less than a day, and he couldn't understand what the other person was saying at all, and he didn't even remember what it said.

But he's used to it.

It’s the same principle again. There is a shortage of all kinds of people in the Souls-series games, except for the Riddler.

If you ask him to spend every day trying to figure out what those people mean, it would be better to just pick up a knife and chop them.

Just like that, after returning to the place where he originally fell, Lord searched the cave one last time. After confirming that there was nothing left around, Lord raised his head and looked at the door not far away.

He took a step forward, climbed the stairs, and pushed open the wooden door. Outside was a building that looked like a cemetery corridor, with torches burning white flames on the walls.

Directly in front of me was a blessing that looked like the golden humanity floating around before. On the right, there was a platform that looked like one could jump down, but it was blocked by a thin foggy door. After I leaned over and touched it, a prompt popped up on the system saying [This place is sealed by a little devil].

Little devil?

Lord glanced around and saw two strange-looking statues stacked together not far away. After getting closer, he looked at the two statues and finally settled on their heads.

One of the heads had something that looked like a stone sword stuck in it, while the other head had a hole in the same position.

Reach out and touch it, and a prompt pops up.

[Insufficient number of Stone Sword Keys]

It looks like I can't go there for the time being.

But although he couldn't enter the dungeon on the right, during the search, he found a corpse next to the devil statue with a light spot on it.

After approaching and touching him, three more items appeared in his inventory, namely 'Faded Old Finger', 'Faded Hooked Finger' and 'Finger-Broken Knife'.

After studying for a while, he determined the functions of these three things.

Writing suggestions, drawing yellow talismans, and kicking out those who came to help...

This function seems a bit too familiar, it's just a completely new skin.

After putting away the three props, Lord looked around again. After confirming that nothing was left behind, he used touch to activate the blessing and started walking again.

And soon, something more familiar appeared in front of him.

This round base, and the raised mechanism in the middle...

Lord was silent for a moment and walked up.

He pressed the mechanism and the elevator rose as he expected.

Feeling the familiar sense of climbing, the last trace of doubt in Lord's heart disappeared.

This is Dark Souls!

The elevator stopped and Lord came to the upper floor, where an iron door appeared in front of him.

He looked around, made sure there was no other way out, and tried to see if there was any hidden passage. Then he walked to the iron gate, reached out to grab the bottom, and climbed onto the stage with force.

wow-

As the iron gate rose, soft sunlight shone through the gaps and spread upwards little by little.

Not until the sunlight covered his entire body was the iron gate completely lifted up, and the scene outside the gate was finally revealed to Lord.

Rocks, sunshine, and a gentle wind.

Grass, trees, and small animals walking around.

Looking at the colorful, peaceful and harmonious world in front of him, Lord stayed where he was, eyes wide open.

for a long time.

He uttered a sigh.

"Fuck, like honey!"

Chapter 5: Santa Claus

Lord certainly knew that the place in front of him was not Rumi.

After all, although he was expelled from the Soul Society on a daily basis, as an old Soul 5 player, he had of course fought Soul many times and was very familiar with the place called Ru Mi.

But the problem was that he really couldn't think of any other adjective.

After staying in the simulation world for a long time, I was in a desperate and maddening world every day, dealing with a bunch of monsters that looked so scary.

After a long time, the zombies were all handsome in his eyes, and any place that was not a cesspool or a poison pool was considered a beautiful environment.

From soul one to soul three, even including the evil soul and blood source, he thought that as an old undead, he had seen all kinds of scenes. He was even mentally prepared to see poison pools, cesspools, and piles of monsters when he went out.

but now......

Looking at the world outside that seemed so beautiful that it seemed unreal, Lord racked his brains and could only use the word "like honey" to describe this place.

I can only say that this kind of start is indeed beyond the imagination of an old immortal.

"what happened to you?"

"...It's okay, I just feel a little sad."

Lord sighed and then looked at her.

"By the way, I don't know your name yet."

"I don't have a name."

After a pause, she slowly added.

"But you can call me 'Alice' if you want."

This is a very common name and suitable for use as a nickname.

"Alice?"

Lord nodded. Although he felt that the name was a bit unlucky in the soul world, he did not object.

After a brief communication, a new question emerged before the two, which was where to go next.

Although Alice said she wanted to solve the "strangeness", she didn't know where the strangeness was.

As for Lord, he was a newcomer and knew nothing about this world.

But it doesn’t matter.

Because not far away, there was a golden blessing floating there that Lord was very familiar with, and next to it stood a guy dressed in white and wearing a white mask.

According to his experience, this is probably the classic opening bonfire with discouraged brother.

Lord originally wanted to go over and start a fire, then talk to Brother Grayheart to see if he could gather some information about the world.

But just as he walked over and before he touched the blessing, the man with the white mask spoke to him first.

"Oh, you're the Fader, right?"

White Mask looked at him, his tone sounding a little strange.

"I longed for the Elden Ring, and so I came to this borderland—there's no need to deny it, I know it all, after all, it's always like this."

As he spoke, his eyes looked back and forth at Lord several times, and then he spoke.

"But, it's truly sad and lamentable... You don't have a witch by your side, you don't know where to find guidance, you can't gain the power of runes, and it's even more impossible for you to be invited to the Hall of the Round Table..."

"I can only die in obscurity."

Is this guy being sarcastic to him?

Listening to the artificial tone, Lord seriously suspected that this guy was either a eunuch or was being sarcastic to him.

But he didn't care much. After all, the tone of the previous generations of Desperate Brothers in the Soul Series at the beginning was hardly friendly, and some even said something quite aggressive like "You are a dragon, that's fine" at the end.

Compared to the tone of White Mask, Lord was more concerned about the information revealed in his words.

Witch, Fader, Junction...

Guidance, Rune, Hall of the Round Table, and the Elden Circle...

He knew about the witch. After all, he already had a witch's ashes in his inventory. If he guessed correctly, it should be the fire keeper's.

As for the Fader, the witch also called him the Fader before, so it seems that the Fader is his identity in this world.

As for the rest...

"What is the Elden Ring?"

Lord asked directly, interrupting what White Mask was about to say.

"...You don't know the Elden Circle?"

The white mask looked at him with a subtle look, and his tone became more normal.

"I have lost my memory." Lord said simply.

"Amnesia?"

White Mask looked at him suspiciously. His first reaction was that he was lying, but he quickly realized that he had no reason to lie at all.

After all, the Elden Ring is no secret in the border area. It is no exaggeration to say that it is common sense. There is no need for the other party to lie about this.

"Then you are really lucky to have met me, Fan Lei."

White Mask's tone returned to its previous strange tone, and after introducing himself, he explained.

"The Elden Circle is the source of all laws, the foundation of all things in the world, and the symbol of supremacy."

"Whoever controls the Elden Ring will be in charge of the laws of the borderland and will become the 'king' of the borderland."

"And you, the Faded One, I don't know why you lost your memory, but the fact that you're here means you're ready to fight for the Ring and become the 'King of Elden'."

"See that golden light over there? That thing is called blessing. It allows you, the Faded Ones, to rest for a while, and it also emits a faint light that spreads outward. That is the 'guidance of blessing,' and it is the path that the Faded Ones should follow."

Huh? Are there any with automatic navigation?

Glancing at the golden blessing beside him, he could indeed see a ray of light extending outward like a golden ribbon in the surrounding golden light, like a finger pointing in a certain direction.

Lord walked over and followed the instructions until he came to a small slope. Looking in the direction of the golden light, a half-ruined church and a golden knight riding a big horse and carrying a huge halberd in front of the church appeared in his sight.

It's a bit like a Soul 1 Giant Guard riding a horse, it feels like an elite monster...

"By the way, Fan Lei, do you know where to find a witch?"