Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 192 Between the Stars (7k)

Several meteorites fell from the hole torn by Esti and scattered all over the border area.

Bai Shi realized that it might be the young of Esti.

As a race in the starry sky, Esti will go through several stages of semi-metamorphosis in their lifetime.

In its infancy it is called the Falling Star Beast, and later it becomes the Falling Star Adult Beast.

After reaching the stage of falling stars and becoming beasts, they will undergo a metamorphosis.

At this point, it has left the realm of beasts, grown wings, and acquired an appearance similar to that of an adult Esti.

This is the hanging nymph form, with very weak mobility and fewer means of attack, making it much weaker than the ferocious juvenile stage.

But this is done in order to be able to become an adult.

Once it becomes an adult, the combat power at that stage of Falling Star Beast is simply not enough.

As a race in the star space, the combat power of adult Esti is quite strong.

Gravity magic, lasers, teleportation...all kinds of methods emerge in an endless stream.

The once glorious Eternal City was completely destroyed by the meteorites summoned by Esti from the void.

Perhaps powerful heroes can survive the destruction, but without the people, there can be no dynasty.

Therefore, the brilliant Knox Dynasty was destroyed, leaving only a few groups of rare people and night people, who migrated to various places in the border areas.
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Esti in the sky waited until all the meteorites containing the larvae fell before she crawled out of the hole.

The front half of Esti's body is like a dragonfly, with two pairs of thin, shiny wings with a dreamy color.

When the Esti completely emerged from the huge hole in the sky and stretched their bodies to their heart's content with the brilliant galaxy as the background, everyone saw their tails behind them that looked like stars strung together, with a tail needle covered with spikes at the end.

The round star spheres that make up the tail are of different sizes and colors.

Pale black, brilliant blue, deep purple like a gravity ball...

There are even a few that look like real stars, with a circle of pale yellow planetary rings.

But the most eye-catching ones are two or three that emit a soft golden amber glow.

These golden ambers are the key reason why people can find them clearly in the night sky.

The people on the Weeping Dunes had never seen such creatures and were shocked by these strange alien creatures.

There was a sudden buzz of discussion on the sand dunes.

Blaze looked up at the strange creature and felt an inexplicable chill in his heart.

Especially when he saw the eyes on the skull, it even made his hair stand on end.

This was his instinct warning him: these things were quite terrifying.

When fighting General Ratan, he would not have such emotions no matter how strong the general was.

Because no matter what, General Ratan is a life form similar to him, but the guy in the sky is completely different.

Is that really a normal life?

Blaze even had such doubts.

Jerry and Freya were not completely ignorant of the races in the star space.

According to General Latan, there are many races among the stars.

The White King and the Black King are already a rare star race that can communicate.

There are many more races that are completely impossible to communicate with, but of course it is also possible that we simply have not mastered the method of communicating with them.

It’s just that... the horrifying creature they saw now didn’t look like it could communicate with them.

People around were observing the mysterious creatures in the sky.

Only Alexander couldn't see because of his vision problems, so he could only worry.

Finally, he thought of a solution and just lay back on the sand dune.

Only then did he face the sky and see Esti among the stars.

"Huh? Hmm? What kind of guy is this?!"

"I've never seen a creature like this before, and it looks so strong."

Bai Shi opened his mouth to explain to them:

"They are Esti."

"Esti?"

"Esti is a race in the starry sky, and their strength is terrifying."

Bai Shi frowned as he looked at Esti flying in the air.

These guys showed up at a really bad time.

And the most important thing is that we don’t know what they want to do.

They are flying very high now.

It was higher than where Latan had just dropped him from the sky.

In other words, it can't be hit at all.

After a while, the first Esti that appeared flew in one direction and disappeared into the night.

The two Esti that appeared later seemed to have identified the first group of life they saw at the border.

A ball of purple gravity light swallowed them up, and their figures instantly disappeared into the night sky.

The next second, their figures appeared on the sand dunes in front of everyone along with the light.

Everyone was startled and raised their weapons ready for battle.

Bai Shi also took out the Star-Breaking Sword and was ready for battle.

The dragon hunting sword in my hand is broken and needs to be repaired or remade, so it cannot be used now.

As for the Sword of Night and Fire, although the damage is considerable, the size is still too different, especially when dealing with such a large creature.

The gravity of the Star Crusher can also cause additional damage to Esti from the starry sky.

Although the Ruin Greatsword is not bad, it is definitely not as strong as the Star Crusher Greatsword that has been enhanced to +9.

But strangely, the two Esti did not attack.

The two Esti flapped their wings and flew one after the other around the sand dunes where everyone was, as if they were observing.

Their mouthparts rub against each other and make a hissing sound. I don't know if they are communicating.

Bai Shi felt very strange.

When the 'Supreme Will' lost contact, did they lose their instructions and act according to their own consciousness?
Also, isn't it possible that only the Supreme Will can communicate with Esti? Can we treat them as normal life contacts?

Bai Shi silently observed the two Esti's every move.

But others couldn't be so calm.

Some soldiers began to break out in cold sweat when they saw Esti at such a close distance.

It's really creepy to be stared at by that pale skull.

The 'old man' and Bernal were both very strong, so even from a great distance they could still feel the tremendous pressure that the creature brought to them.

Now that it was so close to them, they felt the long-lost emotion of 'fear'.

He is so powerful that his strength is definitely not weaker than that of ordinary demigods.

Dann was now wondering how long it would take to beat the creature with his fists and feet.

After observing Esti for a while, Leida secretly looked at Bai Shi.

She was observing Bai Shi's expression and actions.

This creature that just appeared from the night sky looks very tough to deal with.

And even though everything is fine now, you never know for sure if it will suddenly attack you later.

Storm King Bai Shi is not in a good condition now.

If a fight breaks out, she's ready to join Dane and Freya.

Fight side by side, build a relationship first, and then contact him when it is convenient.

Then, to everyone's surprise, the two Esti turned around and left.

But the next place they were going to was the location of Latan's body.

Bai Shi realized what Esti was trying to do. She was trapped outside the border for so long and must be very hungry.

So he immediately picked up Latan's Star-Breaking Sword and rushed towards them.

Now that I have taken Latan's weapon, I have to help him take care of his subordinates.

Given the tempers of the red lions, they will definitely fight if they find out that Esti is looking for Latan's body.

On the way of charging, the size of the Star-Breaking Greatsword and Bai Shi grew together.

The Star Crusher also has magic that can change its size according to thoughts.

After all, Latan's body shape when he completed the star-shattering feat was different from his later body shape.

Unfortunately, running is never as fast as flying.

A fight has already started over there.

The Red Lion's soldiers roared loudly, trying to drive Esti away.

But the Esti were unmoved, with only Latan's body in their eyes.

The Red Lions knew that battle was inevitable, so they drew their weapons and pointed them at the Esti's.

The general's body must not be desecrated!

The Red Lion's horn sounded, marking the beginning of the battle.

The Red Lion Knights shot arrows at the forehead of one of the Esti, aiming at the single eye on its skull.

The bow and arrow with gravity forced it to move its head and look at the group of weak lives under its feet.

After a brief accumulation, a purple laser burst out from its mouth.

In an instant, a gap was created in the Red Lion Legion's formation.

The Red Lion Knight, holding a sword and shield, rushed to Esti and chopped at its joints.

But the stinger of its tail pierced through the top of its head.

The next second, another Esti appeared in the army through teleportation.

With a wave of his right hand, a brilliant galaxy appeared, followed by a violent explosion.

Even though the Red Lion soldiers raised their shields in time, they were still blown away by the explosion.

Only the Furnace Knight and the Lion Hybrid braved the explosion and rushed to the front of Esti and slashed at her.

By the time the White Star Crushing Sword struck Esti, the Red Lion Legion had already suffered many casualties.

The Red Lions cannot fight against such an enemy with just courage.

"Leave quickly!"

"The battle here is not for you to participate in!"

Seeing that the red lions showed no sign of retreating and instead kept shooting arrows at the other Esti, Bai Shi became a little angry.

I don’t know how many people will die if this continues.

"You will only be a hindrance if you stay here, leave now!"

Jairian had already caught up and gave the order to the red lions:
"You shouldn't die here!"

"Take General Latan's body back to Red Lion City!"

The Red Lions put away their weapons and began to move General Ratan's body.

The rest of the soldiers who rushed over were also scolded away by Jie Lian.

Jie Lian didn't want the warriors who participated in the festival to die here.

Only the Furnace Knight and the Lion Hybrid were left to hold back the other Esti.

Bai Shi wielded the Star-Breaking Sword and slashed at the Esti in front of him several times, chopping off many pale broken bones.

Esti felt pain and swung her long tail towards Bai Shi.

Bai Shi jumped up to avoid the attack and then struck hard on one of Esti's limbs.

The sharp Star-Breaking Sword immediately chopped off the six-fingered bony hand.

Esti stared at Bai Shi and slapped the ground with the remaining five hands.

A dark gravity wave was generated, which put enormous pressure on the soldiers who were unable to dodge and pushed them to the ground.

Bai Shi immediately used the Star-Calling Greatsword's combat skill to weaken Esti's subsequent dark fluctuations, otherwise those soldiers would have been crushed into meat paste.

Although Esti is strong, she is not so strong that Bai Shi cannot deal with her.

Compared with Latan, there is still some gap.

It is estimated that it is only enough to save one or two lives of Ratan.

However, Bai Shi’s current condition is not very good.

Although all his injuries had recovered, his physical strength and magic power were no longer enough, and all the medicines he had were exhausted.

If you only know one person, then you can try to fight.

But there are still so many soldiers on the side. If we continue fighting like this, many people will definitely die.

It was only because Esti hadn't used her ultimate move, the Esti Meteorite, that they felt they had the strength to fight.

If the same trick that destroyed the Eternal City were used, there would probably be nothing left here.

So Bai Shi decided to use Feng Ling Yue Ying.

There's nothing we can do, they were the first to break the moral code of martial arts.

And the desire for victory runs in his blood! However, the current situation is not so easy to use Feng Ling Yue Ying.

The warriors fought with Esti.

No matter what kind of power they use, even the storm that Bai Shi has the deepest grasp of, will have an impact on them under the amplification of Feng Ling Yue Ying.

So we must let them leave first, as far away as possible.

Most of the soldiers were obedient because they knew they could not help if they stayed here.

Bernal and the 'old man' were not interested in the current battle and had already left.

But players like Blaze and Alexander were reluctant to leave.

In addition, the same is true for Leida, Freya and others.

They have replaced the weak warriors and are restraining Esti.

Bai Shi appreciated their good intentions and had a favorable impression of them.

But he still repeatedly and sternly rebuked them to leave quickly.

Seeing that they were still unwilling to leave, Bai Shi sighed.

These warriors at the border are truly full of martial virtue, if only they were not so stubborn.

While fighting with Esti, Bai Shi spoke again to drive them away:
"Go! I have my own way to eliminate them."

"I have a secret technique that can instantly increase my strength, but then I won't be able to control it so I don't hurt you."

"If you continue to get entangled with Esti, you will only die meaninglessly in the aftermath!"

"So hurry up! Go as far as you can!"

Seeing Bai Shi say this, although everyone had concerns in their hearts, they thought that Bai Shi had no reason to deceive them.

So they each found the right time to withdraw from Esti.

In the end, only Leida was left to restrain Esti.

Leida jumped and dodged nimbly, attracting the Esti to Baishi's side.

Leida turned her head to look at Bai Shi and whispered a blessing:
"My Lord Storm King, I wish you success."

Bai Shi nodded, and he had a better impression of Michaela's Golden Needle Knight.

"grateful."

After pulling the other Esti to Bai Shi's side, Leida withdrew.

That Esti still wanted to chase Leida, but Bai Shi could never let it do that.

Bai Shi shouted loudly and released the Star Calling again. The strong gravity pulled the two Esti.

The Star-Breaking Sword fell heavily and hit the tail of one of the beasts that Esti was stabbing at.

However, after taking the sword head-on, only some cracks appeared on the tail end.

Esti's bony body was not strong, but the series of spheres were extremely tough.

The other tail hit Bai Shi and threw him away.

Bai Shi wanted to use Storm to adjust his posture in the air, but an Esti had already flown behind him.

Esti's giant palm slapped Bai Shi's body, and the dark waves reverberated in his body without reservation.

Bai Shi's internal organs were instantly ruptured by the dark wave, and he flew backwards like a cannonball.

What awaits Bai Shi is a mouth that is filled with magical power.

A laser shot accurately at the white consciousness in the air.

Bai Shi shrunk his body, allowing the attack to just barely pass by his body.

This time, the magic power that Esti invested was quite huge. It crossed the sky and instantly destroyed the sand dunes in the distance.

Bai Shi felt the laser that just passed by his body and broke out in a cold sweat.

Now that we don’t have the Holy Grail bottle, getting hit would be a disaster.

Bai Shi glanced at the many soldiers who were running towards the distance.

Although I have run a long way, the distance is still not safe enough.

After taking a deep breath, Bai Shi took advantage of the situation to fall and chopped down heavily at Esti who was waiting for him with her jaws wide open below.

"Want to eat me? You're not capable of that yet!"

The two swords wrestled with Esti's jaws, but Bai Shi soon gave up on his own initiative.

Because the purple light appeared again from the mouth of Esti who was wrestling with him, and her tail also stabbed over.

The moment she landed, the other Esti teleported over and waved her arms, leaving a magical galaxy in the air.

He raised the Star-Breaking Sword and crossed it in front of him, blocking the explosion.

Seeing that Bai Shi was so difficult to deal with, the two Esti also felt annoyed and hissed violently with their mouthparts.

Then an Esti teleported into the air, hovered its body, and gradually opened a huge hole in nothingness.

The Esti lying on the ground had her six palms pressed against the ground, and her whole body was glowing with bright purple magic.

Esti on the ground pulled up her hand and made a sharp cry. In an instant, the area within a hundred meters was covered by gravity magic.

Bai Shi was ready to use Star Summoning to fight gravity, but on the contrary, this move was not intended to exert gravity on him.

On the contrary, Bai Shi's body completely lost gravity and was lifted up by Esti along with the sand and rocks on the ground.

At the same time, meteorites have been falling from the empty holes in the sky.

Meteorites fell all over the sky, almost covering the entire sky. No one would doubt its power.

This is Esti’s most powerful killer move!
Bai Shi's body had just adapted to the brief weightlessness and was ready to use the storm to push himself away.

But Esti on the ground immediately pressed down her palm, and a huge gravity that was completely opposite to that before pressed on Bai Shi.

The weightlessness that his body had just quickly adapted to now harmed Bai Shi, and he could hardly get up.

"Huh, never mind."

"If he hasn't run out of range yet, I wish him good luck."

Wind spirit and moon shadow!

Super damage, activated!
'Ding'

An unprecedentedly strong light appeared on the Star-Breaking Sword in Bai Shi's hand.

The extremely strong gravity magic even burned Esti and others' detectors instantly.

Bai Shi raised the Star-Breaking Sword high up and roared towards the sky.

I had a lot of fun playing just now, now it’s my turn!

Purple magic power instantly expanded from the sword, covering most of the Weeping Dunes.

Under the extreme gravity, everything in this space was forced to stay still.

The void of nothingness was sealed in an instant, and meteorites floated in the air one by one.

Esti and the others were also unable to move, and tried to use gravity to break this control, but they were suppressed to the point that they couldn't even use their magic power.

Bai Shi took a deep breath and controlled gravity to pull them in front of him.

As soon as this thought came to mind, the two Esti and countless meteorites in the sky were pulled over by gravity.

Their bodies fell rapidly in front of Bai Shi, and were then immediately stopped by gravity.

Even more dazzling magic power covered the Star-Shattering Greatsword, and Bai Shi smashed the Star-Shattering Greatsword down in a plain and unpretentious manner.

A huge ball of light was born on the Weeping Dunes, casting a purple glow over the night sky.

As the dark night sky twinkled with the light of stars, the entire Weeping Dunes was shaken by the huge explosion.

The violent outburst of magic power that was enough to destroy everything turned everything around into dust.

Purple gravity lightning shot into the sky, like thousands of fireworks blooming in the air, illuminating the night sky, but it contained the power of destruction.

The force of gravity caused the rock plates under the sand dunes to split into countless fragments, which floated in the air and then were destroyed bit by bit until nothing was left.

The shock wave from the explosion swept across, flattening all the sand dunes.

Finally, the purple beam of light rushed into the sky, pierced through the clouds, and then gradually dissipated.

The two Esti were wiped out in an instant, and after the explosion, only a terrifying deep pit with a diameter of several kilometers was left.

This smash pierced through the earth, and sea water was already gushing out from the bottom of the deep pit.

Bai Shi sighed, jumped into the deep pit and picked up the fragmented starlight amber.

The golden amber failed to hold up under this blow, and it was more surprising that there were any fragments left.

The few remaining fragments are nothing compared to the complete golden amber spheres that were previously there.

But at least it exists, doesn't it?

Seeing the Starlight Amber Fragments up close, Bai Shi couldn't help but recall what Teacher Se Lian had said before -

"So-called pyroxene is amber formed from stars."

For magicians who were born from stargazers, the starry sky is the source of their power.

The amber starlight fragments are enough to attract magicians in the border area.

Golden amber contains the power of ancient life fragments and is the destination of the magicians' quest.

The intact golden amber on Esti's body is a precious item that has never appeared in the border area.

If magicians knew that such a thing existed, they would definitely fight to the death for it.

After all, almost no one in the border area knows about the adult Esti.

There were probably only two Esti that were used as divine punishment at the border, namely "Dark Star" and "Dark Abandoned".

After the destruction of the Eternal City, they disappeared from sight.

The Esti that people can see at the border are all incomplete forms, that is, fallen star beasts, fallen star beasts and upside-down nymphs.

But those guys don’t have golden amber on them, they are all colorless.

Only a truly mature Esti can possess the colors of a brilliant galaxy.

If the complete golden amber is given to Teacher Se Lian, it should be able to help her explore the origin.

After all, the magician's ball and magician's block are, to put it bluntly, nothing more than a crude imitation of stellar life. How can they compare to the real starry sky life?

In terms of the life forms of the Esti people, even the youngest falling star beasts are probably closer to the stars than those magic balls and magic blocks.

If there was a complete golden amber that embodied the ancient life force of the star race.

Teacher Se Lian probably won't want to merge with the two masters to form a magician ball anymore...

However, let's wait until we get the complete golden amber.

Now these amber starlight fragments should be of some help to the teacher.

Bai Shi collected the only remaining fragment of amber starlight and jumped out of the deep pit that was about to be filled with sea water.

Suddenly, Bai Shi felt something and looked up at the night sky.

Bai Shi's consciousness was instantly projected into the distant starry sky.

When Bai Shi regained consciousness, he was already surrounded by stars.

With the help of Wind Spirit and Moon Shadow to add gravity, the power of his gravity magic reached an unprecedented level, far surpassing Latan.

Therefore he was called by a star among the stars.

There was endless darkness all around.

Among the stars, there is only absolute silence.

Being in it, human existence itself becomes extremely insignificant, and the "self" is constantly weakened.

The universe is full of dying and useless stars.

There is only infinite darkness, eternal and unchanging.

The distant stars are scattered in the silent universe.

But without exception, all of them were like being covered with a veil, and their true appearance could not be seen clearly.

The white consciousness can only vaguely see the shapes of those stars.

There is a scarlet star. Although it cannot be seen clearly, it can be clearly felt that it is wriggling.

This is the Invisible Mother, Bai Shi can confirm it at a glance.

A star was wrapped in shadow, looking so unreal that no one knew what it was.

And then there is the moon.

The moon phases change alternately, but they almost only change between a full moon and a dark moon, with a black moon appearing only rarely for a moment.

But none of them are the stars that attracted Bai Shi this time.

Bai Shi saw a star emitting a dim white light.

The star was not large in size and was quite small among the surrounding stars, but it emitted a scorching heat and its gravity distorted the surrounding space.

Although Bai Shi has not done any in-depth research on celestial bodies, such distinctive stars are still quite easy to recognize.

...If this star is indeed the star that Bai Shi knows, then perhaps it should be called a white dwarf.

When a star's life is exhausted, its core collapses and its temperature rises dramatically.

After the burning, the remaining hot core is the white dwarf.

Low light, high temperature, and high density.

And the surface gravity is about 100,000 times that of Earth...

　I've been having a bit of a writer's block these past two days, mainly because it's a bit difficult to interact with the Outer Gods.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)