Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 253 Are You My Witch? (6k)

Bai Shi took the pair of golden axes in his hands and waved them around for a while.

Bai Shi then imitated the Death Knight's movements and unleashed a combat skill called 'Instant Thunder' on his axe.

When the power of his own combat skills completely transformed into thunder and lightning, Bai Shi was really shocked.

It actually turned into thunder and lightning, not just some trick. Isn't this a bit too exaggerated?

Bai Shi was completely puzzled. How on earth could this be done?
If a creature of the Dragon King's level used a thundercloud incarnation, Bai Shi would not find it strange, but would think that it was supposed to be so.

Well, if you think about it carefully, the Death Knight just now is not weak either, and he is already among the top heroes.

It is not impossible that this kind of strength is due to some unique skills.

Besides, the people in the Blood Dynasty can transform into blood and move, so it doesn’t seem unacceptable to think about it this way.

Anyway, this fighting skill is now useless.

Bai Shi thought about it and realized that now that he had this trick of 'instant thunder', if he developed it later and combined it with his own storm, wouldn't he be able to make a low-profile version of the thundercloud incarnation in advance?
In addition to the most valuable combat skills, the quality of this pair of axes is also quite good.

It can be seen that this pair of axes was made by a famous craftsman with excellent workmanship, and has also been strengthened to a level of +7.

A faded weapon +7 is considered an excellent weapon in the border area.

You should know that the Sword of Night and Fire in Bai Shi's hand is also a faded weapon, which is only +7. This is a weapon passed down by the royal family of Kalia.

It seems that the Dead Knight's status in his lifetime was definitely not low, and he might have been a close minister to Godwin.

Bai Shi took the Death Knight's dual axe and saved it for later use.

Then Bai Shi walked around the room and took away one of the ashes that these guys had enshrined.

This ashes is one of the legendary ashes, the 'Headless Horseman' Lutier.

If she were still alive, she would definitely not be willing to follow Bai Shi, after all, she is a loyal female knight.

But now the ashes are in Bai Shi’s hands, she has no say on it anymore.

When I realize it, I must summon her to deal with the enemies under Godwin, hehe.

Suppressing his inner thoughts, Bai Shi moved his gaze back to the center of the room.

As for now, let's deal with this so-called 'ritual of death' first.

In the center of the room, the believers knelt in a circle, and now they were dead together in a circle.

The bodies of the believers turned into charcoal under the lightning strike, twisting inexplicably, but the circle formed by the corpses made them look more like a tarnished sun.

Bai Shi looked at the circle formed by the corpses and couldn't help feeling a little unlucky.

Death is the greatest thing. After death, please don’t bother yourself with it anymore.

Did Godwin himself agree to the way they treated him after his death?

The iron spire worshipped by the believers is still intact, and even its position has not changed under the protection of the believers.

The strangely colored gray fog floating above it did not change at all.

It was clearly oppressed by gravity, then bombarded by the ancient dragon's lightning, and the battle with the Death Knight also affected this side, but this thing was completely unharmed.

When Bai Shi saw that this thing was intact, he suddenly felt a little overwhelmed.

I hate this kind of thing the most, which is completely incomprehensible and I have no idea what it is.

The item tooltip that pops up in the White Eye does not specify its name.

However, the function of this thing is very obvious. It is obviously an important part of maintaining the fading sun and holding the death ceremony.

I'm afraid that only by solving it can the fading sun disappear or be weakened.

Bai Shi circled the spire covered in gray fog twice, and after thinking for a while, he took out the most powerful weapon in his hand: the Star-Breaking Greatsword.

Although the attack just now was fierce, it was not a direct attack after all.

See if you can destroy it, and if that doesn't damage it, find another way.

Bai Shi took a deep breath, and a huge amount of gravity magic emerged from the Star-Breaking Sword, endowing the sword with unparalleled energy.

Bai Shi raised the Star-Breaking Sword high and smashed it down heavily.

As the two swords in his hands fell and intersected the spire, purple gravity waves spread from the sword tips.

After a brief stalemate, the iron spire was finally completely crushed by this blow.

The gray fog that had been floating above the spire also shattered like a bubble.

However, just as Bai Shi was rejoicing over the destruction of the ceremony, the exploding gray fog instantly spread and enveloped the entire room.

Bai Shi immediately summoned a storm to blow away the fog, but the storm had no effect on the strange fog.

In just a moment, Bai Shi's figure was swallowed up by the mist.
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Amidst a dizzying moment, Bai Shi quickly regained consciousness and found that the place where he was had undergone drastic changes.

Bai Shi looked around, observing the surrounding situation.

In the sky of this place, a cold, pale sun was floating in the dead night, illuminating the earth.

On the ground, pale spiritual fire can be seen burning everywhere.

Neither the dimmed sun nor the spiritual fire could bring a trace of warmth to this place, but instead made it as cold as an ice cave.

Bai Shi looked down again, and what he was stepping on was not land, but fine pale sand.

……wrong.

Bai Shi squatted down and observed carefully.

Then Bai Shi reached out and pushed aside some of the sand on the top, and found countless bones underground.

What was on the ground was not sand but finely crushed bone powder, covering the entire earth.

Bai Shi looked into the distance and saw nothing but pale earth with no end in sight.

And near Bai Shi, there are several sturdy "trees".

However, when Bai Shi looked closely, he found that those so-called "trees" were actually black thorns with densely packed eyes of the dead.

Some of the dead had thorn branches growing directly from their eyes, hanging on the thorns like fruits.

There were dense swarms of flies and insects flying around, and some wriggling creatures on the thorns, probably dead worms.

Bai Shi frowned deeply and had no intention of approaching the thorns associated with the curse of death.

Something is so wrong, where on earth is this place?
There is no blessing here, so even if you want to teleport out, you can't.

Bai Shi did not act rashly, but first communicated with Ashimi in his body.

"Ashimi, Ashmi?"

After a few seconds, Bai Shi felt that the core of Ashimi, who was sleeping in his body, was slightly rising and falling, and it seemed that he had woken up.

"Hmm... Host, I'm here, what's wrong?"

'Huh? ! '

'What is this place?'

After Ashimi's consciousness was swallowed by the gray fog, he fell into a short sleep. Only now did he realize that they were in a different place.

Bai Shi did not answer Ashimi's question, after all, he himself did not know.

When Bai Shi heard Ashimi's reply, his heart sank and he gritted his teeth.

The situation is a bit troublesome now.

Ashmi was indeed still in his body; this couldn't be an illusion created by magic or prayer.

Obviously, this was to teleport his own physical body in.

Now I can't use Wind Spirit Moon Shadow to get out of the abnormal state.

But is this place really part of the border?
If we force the common sense to say where this place is on the borderland, then perhaps only the spiritual world can explain it.

However, the spiritual world in the past should have collapsed long ago and was destroyed by the golden tree.

This place now is definitely not the original spiritual world, but since there is spiritual fire, it is definitely related.

As for those thorns of death, was it some kind of cooperation between Godwin's men and the spiritual world represented by the birds of death?

Bai Shi touched his body and carefully felt whether there was anything unusual about it.

But after a rough feeling, there seems to be no problem.

Various abilities and powers can be used, but the power of the sun is completely blocked here.

Bai Shi could feel that the power of the sun was still in his body, but he was completely unable to use it.

Is it because of the complete obscuration of the eclipsed sun in the sky?
Bai Shi thought about it and headed in the direction given by his intuition.

Since there is no purpose anyway, I might as well just trust my intuition and move forward.

But after walking for a while, Bai Shi suddenly stopped.

Bai Shi closed his eyes and began to feel his soul again.

He felt a faint burning and tingling sensation in his soul.

Ever since being hit by Radagan's hammer, Bai Shi also remembered the feeling of having his soul damaged.

Now Bai Shi's soul is suffering continuous and weak damage.

This kind of damage was not very strong and did not cause much pain. It was completely incomparable to the hammer blow from Radagon.

Bai Shi had even ignored these injuries just now, thinking they were just abnormalities caused by the environment.

If I stay in this place for too long, my soul might be damaged.

Not only that, after staying here for a long time, even the consciousness seems to gradually become a little confused.

Perhaps because his white consciousness sensing attribute points were too high, he quickly realized this.

Ashmi is a special life between soul and entity. I wonder if it will also be affected.

Bai Shi asked Ashimi:
"Ashimi, do you feel that your soul seems to be constantly eroded by this place?"

Ashimi felt it carefully for a while and replied:
"Host, I don't feel anything."

Bai Shi glanced at the dimmed sun in the sky, shook his head, and continued on his way.

Bai Shi continued to move forward on the road of bones and thorns. The scene here was the same everywhere, and there was no reference to rely on.

No matter where he went, there was the same spiritual fire, the same thorns, the same flies and worms, and the eyes of the dead staring at him all the time.

In this case, even time has lost its meaning.

Bai Shi even began to doubt whether he had walked very far, but now he had no choice but to keep walking.

After walking an unknown distance, Bai Shi finally saw a place ahead that was different from the previous one.

At the end of Bai Shi's sight, there appeared an extremely huge and strange tree.

This tree has no branches or leaves, only a thick trunk, but this tree is not made of death thorns, at least it looks normal.

Bai Shi quickened his pace and moved closer to that place.

When they came near the strange giant tree, Bai Shi also saw its full appearance.

This tree is about the same size as the small golden trees that are found throughout the border area.

But on this tree, there are densely packed tree holes like a honeycomb, as if some living creature lives there.

Sure enough, Bai Shi soon saw the residents of the tree.

With the arrival of Bai Shi, countless mud-like creatures slowly crawled out of the tree holes.

The shape of this thing is like a slug, but its body is not a whole, but a collection of dark substances. These muds are not small in size, and they carry many skeletons on their backs.

The skeleton's body was tightly glued together in the mud, and a strange light flashed in the empty eye sockets.

In one of the tree holes, a lump of mud-like stuff fell from the tree and landed on the ground.

And many other muds were at the entrance of the cave, looking over here.

Bai Shi looked at this thing and couldn't help but frowning.

What the hell is this place? Why are the creatures here so strange?
These things looked like they had no way of communicating, but their behavior made Bai Shi feel that they were intelligent.

Bai Shi decided to give it a try.

If this is truly the reshaped spiritual world, then the forms of living creatures may indeed be different from those at the border.

Maybe this is the way I am most popular in the spirit world.

Bai Shi opened his mouth and said to the strange creatures that were wriggling towards him:
"can you understand what I am saying?"

The pool of mud formed by countless corpses kept crawling towards Baizhi, and the corpses on its back kept groaning and shouting.

The sound was terrifying and confusing, and it was impossible to make any sense out of it.

Bai Shi shook his head. It seemed that there was no way to communicate.

But the mud ball on the opposite side doesn't seem to be showing any aggressive behavior?

Bai Shi thought about it and walked forward.

After they approached each other, several arms immediately emerged from the corpse on the muddy back.

One of the arms trembled and stretched out towards Bai Shi.

As its palm gently touched Bai Shi's body, Bai Shi immediately felt the damage to his soul increase.

Bai Shi's eyes changed and he immediately took two steps back.

I don't know yet whether this thing can communicate, but it seems that I can't get close to it.

This muddy creature didn't seem to have any hostility. Seeing Bai Shi retreating on his own initiative, it also stopped where it was.

Bai Shi looked carefully at the muddy creature.

Under the corpse it was carrying, there were two slender dark red eyes growing on the dark mud, and the dark substance was constantly flowing on its body surface.

This shape gave Bai Shi an inexplicable sense of déjà vu.

Is this... human pus? The dead dumpling?
Just as Bai Shi was observing the puddle of mud, two unique monsters suddenly ran out from under the tree.

There were two huge skulls burning with spiritual fire. They suddenly jumped out from somewhere under the tree, and then immediately rushed towards Bai Shi at an extremely fast speed.

Seeing them flying towards him with their mouths wide open, Bai Shi clearly felt the hostility.

The two heads were crowned with golden helmets bearing the eroded and tarnished symbol of the sun.

Maybe the severed heads of the Headless Horsemen?

But it seems that its size is not much smaller than the Fire Chariot.

Anyway, let's try their level.

Bai Shi took out the Sword of Night and Fire from the space disc and swung it at the two heads.

The blazing flames occupied the space in front of them, swallowing up the path of the two heads.

To Bai Shi's surprise, the two skulls broke through the fierce flames and continued to charge forward.

The flames seemed to have no effect on them at all.

"Fireproof?"

Bai Shi moved his body slightly, allowing the open mouth of the head in front of him to pass by him.

The skull's attack missed, and Bai Shi swung his sword at it.

However, something happened that Bai Shi had never expected.

The Sword of Night and Fire in his hand actually penetrated the strange skull directly without any feeling of touching it.

Bai Shi swung out another sword, this time with magic power attached, but it was still ineffective.

Bai Shi's eyes widened.

The weapon's attack is ineffective? What's going on?

At this moment, another skull had also rushed to Bai Shi's front.

Bai Shi covered his left hand with gravity magic, and then punched the head in the face.

The punch was successful, knocking the skull upside down and leaving cracks all over its forehead.

However, Bai Shi could feel that his soul beneath his body had suffered even greater damage after the collision just now.

And the magic of gravity didn't work as it should.

Bai Shi frowned slightly.

It seems that this is indeed the spiritual world, and the creatures here should be pure soul form.

But I don't have any means to harm the soul, I can only rely on my own soul to fight against the opponent, which is not good.

If you touch it, your soul will be damaged.

But if we don’t do this, we won’t be able to attack the other party. What should we do in this situation?
Ashmi suddenly made a suggestion:

"Host, let me try."

"My coming here might be helpful."

By the way, Ashimi is half-soul and will not suffer from continuous soul damage here.

Bai Shi nodded and quickly asked Ashimi to come out and take over the battlefield.

Ashimi quickly took shape, holding the replica of the Sword of Night and Fire in his hand.

The skull that had passed by earlier had changed direction and fell from the air.

Ashimi brandished the Sword of Night and Fire in his hand, and rushed towards the huge skull from bottom to top.

This time it actually hit the opponent, causing the skull to shatter and collapse into countless pieces in the air.

Then, a dark mist floated from the skull into Bai Shi's body.

Bai Shi suddenly felt that there was a small ball of dark soul in his body, which he could not absorb.

Inside that dark soul, there are negative emotions such as unwillingness and despair.

Ashimi clenched his palms and said:
"Host, it seems that my power has been weakened."

"I can only exert half of my original strength now, but it is enough to deal with them."

Bai Shi looked at the skull that was rushing towards him again, thinking about the current situation.

Ashimi is only a half-soul creature, and his strength cannot reach the peak.

Ashmi could only exert 60% to 70% of his strength, and now that it was cut in half, only 30% was left.

If Bai Shi were to say, it's roughly the level of a top hero.

In this case, you can't just walk around here like that.

If it were ashes, could it unleash its full strength?
But those ashes aren't strong enough...

Now they are just the heads of headless soldiers or headless knights, just miscellaneous soldiers, and it is not known whether there are any strong enemies here.
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Seeing the giant skull being smashed, the mud that had behaved normally just now suddenly swelled up.

The corpses on its back stood up, its body expanded several times, and countless pairs of corpse arms grabbed towards Bai Shi.

Bai Shi looked at the sudden attack of the mud, not knowing how it had gone into such a frenzy.

What? Is he also Godwin's subordinate?

Ashimi had already dealt with the other skull at this moment, and rushed over and split the mud in half with a sword.

Seeing that the mud on the ground was still moving after being split into two pieces, she chopped it down several times, cutting it into countless fine pieces and finally destroying it.

At this moment, countless skulls flew from behind the books in the distance. At a glance, there were at least thirty or forty of them.

And those muds also clung to the giant tree, gathered their bodies together, and turned into a giant strange humanoid creature.

Bai Shi asked:

"Ashimi, do you think you can handle it?"

In Bai Shi's opinion, even if he only had 30% of his strength, dealing with these guys should not be a problem.

But if Ashimi is left to perform, I don’t know if he can do it.

Ashimi looked at the numerous and diverse enemies in the distance and curled his lips.

"Host, I think it's better for us to run first."

"We can still handle it now, but if more come, I'm not sure."

Bai Shi nodded.

"Right."

"Then let's fight our way out first."

Just as Bai Shi and Ashimi were about to break through in one direction, a voice came:
"What are you still doing there?"

"Come on, I'll help you!"

As soon as the words fell, the area where Bai Shi and Ashimi were located was instantly enveloped by dense fog.

Just when Bai Shi was becoming alert to this sudden situation, a familiar yet unbelievable figure appeared in front of him.

She was wearing a Finger Witch outfit, and her shoulder-length brown hair was a little messy from running.

She was the first person Bai Shi saw at the border, his finger witch.

Bai Shi looked at the person in front of him and fell silent.

What's going on? Could it really be her?
The woman with the appearance of the Finger Witch grabbed Bai Shi's hand and ran hurriedly in one direction.

"Hurry, run with me!"

"You've disturbed them. It's too dangerous here. We can't stay here any longer!"

Bai Shi was confused about the situation for a moment, but he was subconsciously pulled by the woman in front of him and started running.

I suddenly came to this inexplicable world and knew nothing about it. I could only guess that this was the spiritual world.

Could it be that her soul came here?
Bai Shi quickly asked Ashimi to return to his body, and he ran after the witch in front of him.

Looking down from the air, the fog was constantly extending in all directions, making it impossible to tell where they were going.

The two kept running in the fog, and finally, a forked black spire appeared in front of them.

When they arrived here, the woman in the finger witch costume in front of them stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.

She turned her back to Bai Shi, smoothed her messy hair with her hand, took a deep breath, and then turned around to look at Bai Shi.

"Really? How did you get to the spirit world?"

There was anticipation in her eyes as she looked towards Bai Shi.

"Are you... coming to see me?"

　I've added a side quest for Godwin, which will be presented in sections so it won't take up too much of the plot at once. We'll soon be heading to the Shadowlands. School starts tomorrow, so I need to pack up, so the update might be a little late. (:з」∠)_
　　
　
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