above the ring

Chapter 21 Storm Hill and the Entrance
Lear and Irena had a barbecue.

The refreshing feeling of skewers is addictive, especially when the meaty ingredients are still so delicious and attractive.

After eating and drinking enough, Lear got rid of Irena and gave it to Selian, who asked her to help guide Irena about the magic of prayer, and then he embarked on his own journey.

The original intention of coming to Post Station Street to find Teacher Serlian was for the move of "magic shield".

This move is actually not very useful in the hands of others, but in the hands of Lear, it is a rare skill that strengthens shield defense. Although it cannot bounce back direct magic attacks in the game, it is enough for Lear Anti-enchant type weapon attacks.

Although things are contrary to expectations, they have also obtained the control of the fire. Covering the surface of the shield with the fire that changes its appearance will definitely enhance the shield's defensive ability. In this way, the shield's defensive effect is very significant, which will be Lear's future. In the fight against the clone of the Omen King, "Ominous Omen" Markit, it will provide great help.

So far, Lear has never forgotten this boss battle.

He still remembers what happened when he played the first week. In Ningmgfu, Markit was the only boss that allowed him to fight more than three times.

This guy's moves are really hard to counter, "many and complicated, clever and refined", he is talking about Markit.

In the game, most of Markit's moves cannot be bounced back, they can only be defended, and because many of Markit's skills have special energy, even if he defends completely, he will lose a lot of blood.

Through the blessing point teleportation, Lear came to the blessing point in front of the storm level, put on a Grek soldier suit, and Lear walked to the inside of the level.

It is now ten minutes at noon, and the golden tree is shining brightly. Standing on the ruins of the huge checkpoint, the giant troll is staring at Lear who entered the checkpoint without any pretense.

In fact, this mountain monster has caused a lot of difficulties for Lear before. This huge guy has a heavy attack force, and it is not easy to bounce back, and he especially likes to be reckless, unless the mountain monster lowers his body and hits him on the head. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to stun him by simply relying on the rebounding technique.

The roar of the troll is quite loud, and this guy's tone is still very heavy, Lear still doesn't want to meet this big guy in the early stage, he finds it troublesome.

Using Grek's soldier's suit, Lear easily walked from the bushes on the side to the back of the barricade. Although all of Grek's soldiers were staring at Lear, they didn't make a move directly.

This successfully allowed Lear to pass through the Storm Pass and enter the famous Storm Hill.

Looking north all the way, the wind gradually picked up.

The violent wind rolled up the dark clouds, and the thunder rolled in the dark clouds. The sky of the storm hill became very dark, and the clouds covered part of the golden tree's light. The furious and disorderly wind seemed to change the color of the whole world.

The terrain here is very special, it happens to be at a wind outlet, and Lear's geography in junior high school is not bad, so he judged that the terrain of the storm hill is very conducive to the formation of a wind vortex, and the strong wind from the sea will rise upward from here, The heat of the earth can also provide a lot of lift. If the terrain behind the storm level does not change significantly, then there will be an extremely large updraft here.

Lear could imagine what the original updraft here was used for.

Fam Yazra, the center of the junction of the previous era, the city of dragons and the city of storms above the sky, was once suspended in the sky above Ningmgfu.

Here, perhaps, was the entrance from Stonewell to Fam Yazra.

However, Fam Yazra was moved to the edge of the junction by the great divine power of the Eternal Queen. King Gefrey led the loyal warriors of the year to fight all the way, and the last battle was in Stonewell.

After fighting against the last king of the previous era, the "Storm King", King Gefrey severed the connection between the place where the storm rose and the sky. Since then, Storm Hill has become the place it is today. look.

The frenzied and disorderly wind raged on the hills. During the day, it was still peaceful here, at least there was the light of the golden tree blessing the land, but at night, when the howling of wolves sounded, the storm hills were full of The terrible land of Devil May Cry.

The wind is crying and mourning.

Even the travelers who walk in it, the state of mind also changes accordingly.

At least Lear couldn't be happy.

Along the way, Lear saw a pack of hungry wolves. With a roar, several gray-fur wild wolves, led by a large wolf king with white fur, surrounded Lear.

Lear squatted down, landed on one knee, took out two bear legs from the mind space, and threw them at the white wolf king standing in front of him, who was watching him warily.

"Take it, take your people with you, and live."

Lear's voice was drowned in the wind, but the Wolf King heard his cry.

It didn't make a sound, it just stared at the person in front of it with stern eyes.

With a low growl, it ordered the wolves beside it to pick up the food they could get at their fingertips, and let them leave first, while it stood proudly at the same spot, watching the figures of its people disappearing into the storm, and then it carefully stepped aside the way.

It was afraid that this was a trap set by humans for their group. Even though it felt that it could not beat the man in front of it, it still had to wait for its group until the last moment.

Lier stood up and stroked his chest with his right hand, gave a slight salute, and gave the lonely wolf king the minimum respect, and then he strode forward towards the hill.

In the borderlands, wolves are members of the Storm King and friends of the Son of Platinum. Wherever wolves appear, there must be beautiful warriors of the Son of Platinum, or they are the ruins left over from the age of storms.

Behind him, the White Wolf King watched him go until he also disappeared into the storm.

After walking for a short distance, Lear saw the dilapidated house in the storm hill and the blessing point shining with golden light.

Not far from here, a phantom golden tree stood quietly, and a golden tree seed fell here.

In Nimgov, where every seed took the form of a phantom golden tree, there was near there a figure who could be called a hero.

Lear picked up the golden tree seed, put it into the mind space, turned around, and walked towards the broken house.

Touching the blessing unlocked the teleportation anchor at this location, and Lear got a stone sword key from the corpse outside the dilapidated house, which was the key item to unlock the magic fog door.

In the dilapidated house, Lear saw a beautiful woman sitting with her legs folded.

This posture is rare, at least in reality, Lear has never seen it.

Girls in modern cities are more or less careless in character. Girls who are willing to socialize with others and play games are all cheerful and outgoing. It is rare and normal for such a Xiaojiabiyu-style sitting posture.

At least among the few girlfriends Lear dated in college, he had never seen such a sitting posture.

When Little Red Riding Hood heard the sound of Lear's arrival, she raised her head slightly. Under the red hood, a mournful face appeared in front of Lear. With a self-deprecating smile on her lips, she leaned on the wooden barrel in the dilapidated house .

Before Lear asked her anything, she said to herself: "Everyone has been 'grafted', those who came to the border with me and fought for me"

"Ha ha."

"The hands, feet, and head are all cut off and become part of the spider. Do you know that after being 'grafted' to the spider, the human will become a chrysalis? It's really amazing, very wonderful ,Right?"

The girl smiled, her voice was gentle, just like Wu Nong's soft words, tremblingly speaking these insane words.

The whistling wind was accompanied by the noise of the leaves, as if the whole world was gloomy with her words.

She was talking about the ritual of "attaching limbs."

Lear knelt down on one knee in front of her, looking at this beautiful girl who had already died of grief.

The girl blinked her eyes. Among the bright and optimistic smiling faces, only those bright blue eyes were full of bottomless despair.

She doesn't seem so pessimistic, but her heart has already fallen to the bottom of the abyss.

"Are you acting alone? Are you heading towards Stonewell City? Is it because you listened to the obedient words of the Mr. White Mask, or do you want to become a part of the spider?"

Alright, the frustrated brother is gone, and has become a beautiful and pitiful frustrated girl. She is speaking the most discouraged words in the most gentle and positive tone.

Lear didn't answer, his head was hidden under the somewhat dirty Grek soldier's helmet, and the eyes under the mask did not make the girl in front of him look squarely.

But the girl was clearly aware of his purpose of coming, "Stonewell City", and Lear's identity, "The Faded One".

Although Lear called himself a traveler, everyone knew which camp he belonged to.

Recently, as long as the faders who have newly returned to the borderland, most of them will be guided by the so-called white mask, that is, Fan Lei who was chopped off by Lear as soon as he came up.

Because not everyone can see the blessing's guidance, Fan Lei's words are somewhat deceptive.

If you come directly to Stonewell and want to directly challenge the fate of the "attached limb" demigod, that is to become a sacrifice.

This girl in a strange hood was not the first group of people who came to the junction, she was a latecomer, and besides her, many of her followers also came to the junction.

But without exception, they all became the sacrifices of Grek and his nobles "grafting limbs".

Probably because he witnessed the whole process of "attaching limbs" with his own eyes. The disgusting, disgusting, and bloody scene made Little Red Riding Hood completely desperate, so that now, Lear saw her become like this.

From her words, it can be heard that she is considered a deserter, and everyone around her died, but she escaped alive. She blamed herself for not dying generously and calmly like those who covered her escape .

So, in this broken house, I feel sorry for myself.

She didn't wait for Lear's response, but she still whispered to herself: "If you are like this, you will be the same as me, but I don't have the courage—to have my hands, feet, and head cut off, It was horrible and I would love to be like everyone but it's terribly scary. I'm so cowardly."

"I am not the two types of people you mentioned, neither of them. I am a traveler. The purpose of coming to the junction is to see the scenery here. Please don't be discouraged, the light will not fade away, There is hope for a turnaround.”

The other party didn't report her name, even if Lear already knew her name through the game, it's not easy to say it directly. He said that he was a passing traveler, so naturally he had to say some words of comfort.

But what responded to Lear was Little Red Riding Hood shaking her head gently, followed by an unspeakable silence.

"Oh, by the way, can you please take this child on a trip together?" Little Red Riding Hood took out a small earthen jar from her pocket, which contained ashes, "It's too pitiful for her to accompany such a cowardly me , I can feel that this soul seems to like you very much, I think this child will be very happy."

Lear accepted the jar of ashes.

He knew who the soul represented by the ashes was, a soul jellyfish, and it belonged to a very lovely soul.

"Then, please take care. Oh, there is one thing I ask you, Traveler, if you are going to Stonewell City, please help convey it to everyone who has become a chrysalis--'I love you, although I am still very scared , but sooner or later I will become exactly like everyone'. One day, I will overcome my fear of pain."

"Okay, I promise you."

After hearing Lear's response, she lowered her head, leaned against the barrel, and said nothing.

Lear straightened up, left the dilapidated house in Storm Hills, and headed towards the magnificent city of Stonewell, which was outlined in the storm.

Wearing a Grek soldier suit, Lear successfully approached the heavily guarded roadblock outside the city gate.

Now, after a few chats with Little Red Riding Hood, Lear understands why Stonewell is suddenly under martial law.

Probably because there are more faders who want to challenge the demigod of the "attaching limbs", those faders who want to snatch the fragments of the big rune annoy Grek very much.

Although the faded ones are the best sacrifices for "attaching limbs", Greg is still timid and afraid of death. He is afraid that his big rune, which is inherited from the dead prince, "Golden" Godwin, will be snatched by those faded ones. Therefore, he ordered the soldiers to martial law throughout the city, and sent out his minions to lead small teams to capture the Faded Ones, or to find sacrifices for "grafting limbs".

All in all, the current Grek has become extremely crazy for the power obtained by "attaching limbs", and the arrival of the faders has catalyzed his actions.

As the weakest demigod in the current junction, he is afraid of death.

Of course, his actions also attracted Wang Cheng's attention.

Another crown prince of the royal family, named Ge Fuya, is the elder brother of Grek, who is said to be the first generation of "limb grafting". Of course, his research on this forbidden technique was not as crazy as Grek's now, and his The personality has not been pushed to a demigod by the forbidden technique of "attaching limbs", at best, it is a stronger hero.

As early as many years ago, during the first battle to defend the royal city of Rodel, Gefuya was captured by "Ancient Dragon Knight" Christopher and sealed in the corner of the Altar Plateau.

It can be seen from this that the mainstream nobles at that time, as well as the heroes and "evil kings" who appeared later, did not want to see "attached limbs".

Therefore, Crazy Greck is a member of the orthodox royal family, and he has done these terrible and disgusting acts. The direct descendants of Queen Malika, the deity, also deserve attention.

As the one with the lowest personality and strength among many demigods, it is understandable for those faded ones to covet the big rune in his hand.

The weakest demigod is holding an important fragment that can repair the magic ring, the "center of gravity fragment", it is impossible not to be messed with.

We can't let all the faders challenge the "Broken Star" general Lataen, although Lataen's position is basically a clear card, but all the NPCs who are close to Gelid know where he is, and he is still insane Qing, but I can lend ten guts to any other fader, and they don't dare to single out that ultimate power.

After all, he is the strongest demigod in history!

A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, no matter what, it's not like an ordinary fader would dare to make trouble.

These few days when Lear was working in reality, he had done enough homework. After all, his first task now is to conquer the junction and open up channels that allow him to obtain money in reality. This is the most important thing for Lear. The main quest, otherwise it would be too sad to guard the entire golden mountain at the junction and see that it can't be used.

Therefore, Lear checked a lot of information, and watched a lot of analysis videos and plot analysis pictures. He knew a fact that is almost recognized by players—that is, the current time point, that is, faded When the opponent enters the junction, the king of evil omens is stronger than the general.

This point is actually a little biased, but it is not bad. When it comes to discussing the power that the two sides can use and the appeal at the junction, Lear is still on the side of the general, but when it comes to fighting skills, Lear still voted for the Ominous King.

What's more, Mengget and Latan are still men with almost the same ambitions. After the battle, they cherish each other and shake hands to make peace. Galid continued to seal the starry sky to block the evil intentions of the stars, and it was understandable for the other to stay in Wangcheng with the prestige of single-handedly challenging the world's heroes to frighten Xiaoxiao guarding the Golden Tree.

That way, they don't play with two fingers.

Everyone's goal is the same, to defend the golden tree and guard the junction, it doesn't matter if you are the king of Elden or not.

It is estimated that in the "Book of Fallen Leaves" left in the two-finger guidance, there appeared the saying that the demigod was "exiled" by the supreme will.

Of course, the supreme will has a lot of background, no matter how Lear doesn't care about the supreme will, you still have to be on guard when things come to an end, maybe at some point, a few black knife elder sisters will suddenly come running from the hip-hop town of Ritual It would be uncomfortable to let them see his heroic posture when he displayed his rebounding skills, but his waist was slapped.

Sister Heidao yyds!

Not to mention, Sister Heidao's elegant dancing posture was quite beautiful when she was touching her waist.

After bypassing the rocket ballista at the city gate, Lear remembered the interesting incident when he opened Yidian Town in the second week, and he couldn't help laughing. The combination of Platinum Son Warrior and Black Sword Sister is a fixed-point fort plus precision. The combination of blows, Lear's skills are useless, and he looks like a fool holding the shield.

Don't think about it anymore, I'm ready to fight the boss.

Lear took off the shield from behind and came to the blessing point behind the rocket ballista.

This is the gate of Stonewell City, the first true mainline boss in the entire Elden Ring boss sequence, just a few steps away on the city gate bridge.

"Evil Omen Ghost", Markit, the alias of Omen King Menggett when he was imprisoned underground, is also his avatar, the most powerful person with part of the power of the deity and all the fighting skills.

Tightening the belt used to fix the shield, Lear changed into his original Wandering Knight suit.

That ragged cloak is extremely eye-catching.

In the ears, it seemed that the melody of a certain song sounded.

"It's going to be a contest of skill."

PS: Change first and then change, the next chapter needs to be refined, it is estimated that it will be released very late, if you can’t stand it, you can go to bed and watch it tomorrow~
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