Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 254 Let Me Fall Into the Abyss with You (5k)

"I……"

Bai Shi swallowed his saliva. At this moment, he felt a myriad of thoughts surging in his mind, but he couldn't say anything.

He saw the expectation in the other person's eyes. She must be eager to get that answer.

But because of this, Bai Shi had no way to deceive her.

He had no memory of her, and he had not come here to look for her. If he had made up a lie just to make her happy, Bai Shi could not accept it.

Just when Bai Shi was about to open his mouth and answer her.

The witch opposite saw Bai Shi hesitate for a while, seemed to see through Bai Shi's thoughts, and a trace of loneliness flashed in her eyes.

Then she turned her head away, leaving Bai Shi with only her profile hidden by her hair, and spoke before Bai Shi could answer:

"Oh, sorry, that was weird."

"It seems that because I have been here for too long, I am a little abnormal."

Bai Shi looked at the person in front of him dressed as the finger witch, and an indescribable feeling arose in his heart.

Bai Shi's common sense told him that the current situation might not be as simple as it seemed.

I inexplicably appeared in a place that seemed to be a spirit world, a desolate and vast world filled with only monsters.

But in a place like this, she appeared in front of him by coincidence.

...It's such a coincidence that it's a bit strange.

Especially since she is the only creature with the same human appearance as herself. In this abnormal world, such normality is actually strange.

Baishi believes that we need to maintain a certain degree of vigilance...

"Do you know me?"

Bai Shi originally wanted to ask her about the information of this world, but in the end he said these words for some unknown reason.

The witch opposite slowly turned her head, looked at Bai Shi, and then shook her head.

"No... Actually, I don't know you either. I have never met you before."

"I just know that there is someone who needs to wait."

"I was guided to wait for him to arrive and accompany him to become the King of Elden."

"Unfortunately, he was killed before I could even wait."

The Finger Witch turned her head and looked at Bai Shi, and said seriously:

"Even if the guidance has long been broken, please become the King of Elden."

Then she lowered her head slightly and smiled.

"Just now, I had a vague feeling, so I came here and finally met you."

"When I saw you, I knew for sure that you must be the one I was waiting for."

"Even if we've never seen it."

Bai Shi looked at the witch in front of him.

At this moment, he didn't know what expression to make.

Should I be happy? Should I be happy for meeting my witch?

But she is dead, and that is an unchangeable fact.

Should I feel sad for her? For the tragedy that happened to her?

But reality has brought them together again, and Bai Shi has the opportunity to make up for his regrets.

Bai Shi looked up at the sky. There was no sun to show him the way, only a cold, dim sun.

After a while, he finally laughed.

I tried to think that you were just a breeze in Nimgefu, but now it seems that I can't let go.

Maybe I'm thinking too much and things are not that complicated.

They had no intersection before, just one was waiting and the other had not yet arrived.

It all started with the witch's body in the Chapel of the King.

Just like the story that happened in the past, and just like the story that is about to begin now.

"I see. It's great to see you again."

"I have been looking for the cause of your death, but all the clues have been cut off and there is no hope anymore."

"I didn't expect to find you here..."

"To be honest, I have never had any contact with you before, so I don't have any feelings for you."

"But for some reason, I still can't forget the way you died."

The Finger Witch glared at Bai Shi with a bit of annoyance.

"Really? What kind of death was that? Can you describe it in a more pleasant way?"

However, after hearing Bai Shi's words, a smile broke out on her face.

This is a real surprise.

Bai Shi looked at the witch in front of him.

"You must have suffered a lot here alone."

Speaking of this, the witch also showed an excited expression, and began to tell Bai Shi excitedly:
"Oh, I tell you, I was scared to death when I first got here."

"To be honest, I was really scared at the time. After all, there are monsters everywhere here."

"And so far, I haven't encountered any normal human-like creatures."

"There are strange creatures everywhere here, and many of them will attack without reason."

"If I hadn't gradually learned how to survive here, I'm afraid you would have seen my corpse here again."

"Oh, that's not right. Is there a dead body here? I don't know..."

Bai Shi listened and couldn't help but smile.

Witch, you have to die twice? This is pretty hellish.

Bai Shi just listened quietly to the witch in front of him telling the story of how she came here.

If this was on the border, it would be beautiful.

The witch said excitedly.

She hadn't seen a normal human being for a long time, and she finally got the person she wanted to wait for.

Therefore, she wanted to tell Bai Shi everything that happened to her here.
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The witch took a breath. She had just been talking for a long time and now felt a little tired.

She looked at Bai Shi who was smiling and listening silently.

"Oh, by the way, I don't think I asked your name before."

Bai Shi was stunned for a moment before he realized that they didn't even know each other's names.

"Bai Shi, what about you?"

The witch blinked and said in surprise:

"Wow, that's an unusual name in the border area."

"My name is Chateau, Chateau Daisy."

When Bai Shi heard the witch's last name, he looked sideways slightly.

In the border area, the only people who would mention their surnames are the descendants of powerful and noble families of the Faded Ones.

This witch of mine is actually a young lady?

But he is surprisingly lively and approachable.

Bai Shi nodded and memorized the name in his mind.

We've been chatting enough, it's time to get down to business.

Bai Shi asked:

“Can you tell me about this place?”

Xia Duo smiled, but did not rush to explain to Bai Shi.

"I understand your anxiety. After all, you have come to this strange place."

"But please let me fulfill my duty as a witch and treat you first."

After saying this, Xia Duo's face turned slightly red with embarrassment. After all, she was the one who had been talking non-stop just now.

He was so excited talking that he forgot to heal Bai Shi's soul damage from the battle just now.

Bai Shi was a little surprised and asked:

"Oh, can you treat it? This seems to be a spiritual injury."

"I didn't know the Finger Witch had such power."

Xia Duo took Bai Shi's hand and smiled.

"I've been here for a long time, and I've learned some new skills."

After Xia Duo pulled Bai Shi's hand, he suddenly felt something being pulled out of his body.

Then, a dark human figure with a faint white edge appeared in Xia Duo's hand.

Bai Shi widened his eyes. Could this shape be?
Xia Duo's next words confirmed Bai Shi's thoughts.

“It’s a thing called human nature.”

"Those souls that have sunk into this spiritual world have gradually lost everything that makes them human over a long period of time."

“These human qualities were once the basis and essence of their humanity.”

"But now, it has been separated from their souls. If we defeat them, we can easily take away their humanity."

"It just needs a little processing..."

Xia Duo collected all these human qualities and held them in her hands.

Then she clasped her hands together, and the humanity in her hands was refined in an instant.

When Xia Duo stretched out her hand again, the humanity had already ignited into flames, taking on an orange-yellow color.

"See, now it has become a liquid that can heal the soul."

Bai Shi looked at the handful of liquid that appeared in Xia Duo's hand and couldn't help but sigh.

It's back, everything is back.

Element bottle, commonly known as fruit orange.

Although Bai Shi's soul was damaged in the previous battle and suffered continuous environmental damage, his soul was still intact.

It has to be said that Radagan's hammer directly raised the threshold of the pain of the white consciousness soul.

Now this kind of pain is just a minor matter.

Xia Duo put the processed humanity in her hand into a container and handed it to Bai Shi.

Bai Shi took it from her hand and drank it.

As the scorching temperature burned his body, his soul was also filled with burning humanity.

When Xia Duo saw Bai Shi drink it, she nodded with satisfaction.

"Although your soul is not weak, once it is injured, it is best to repair it as soon as possible." "In addition to repairing the soul, this thing has other uses."

Bai Shi felt it for a while, but found no other changes in his body, so he had to ask Xia Duo:

"Why? What other functions does it have?"

Xia Duo explained:
"If you stay in this world for too long, the human spirit will become strange."

"Sometimes, there are inexplicable noises in my ears, and sometimes, there are strange hallucinations in front of me."

"If I stay any longer, I might even go crazy..."

Having said this, Xia Duo couldn't help but tremble all over, as if she was recalling something horrible.

Bai Shi looked at Xia Duo with heartache. How long had she been wandering in this world before she slowly mastered all this knowledge?
There was no one else here, and these symptoms were undoubtedly feelings she had experienced personally.

What on earth did she, a finger witch, go through to finally survive?

What belief supports her?
Although Xia Duo's current performance shows Bai Shi that she is very lively and enthusiastic.

But she never told Bai Shi what kind of pain she had experienced.

Bai Shi looked into Xia Duo's eyes.

"Sorry, I'm late."

But Xia Duo shook her head.

"No, you are here, and that is enough."

Xia Duo was silent for a while before speaking again:
"By the way, you still have a few dark souls in your body. I'll use them for you as well."

Bai Shi didn't react at first.

After thinking about it carefully, Xia Duo should be talking about the black soul that floated into her body when she killed the giant skull before.

"Dark soul, what's the use?"

While helping Bai Shi to lead out these dark souls, Xia Duo explained:

"In addition to human nature, the souls of some monsters will also collapse and enter your body."

"Among these souls, there are all kinds of negative emotions that need to be purified."

“Once the cleansing is complete, it strengthens your soul.”

“This reinforcement is critical in this location.”

Bai Shi nodded and understood.

This is the special upgrade mode of this area, aimed at strengthening the soul.

If his White Consciousness is high enough, he can withstand the damage from the collision of souls and blow up all enemies.

Xia Duo raised her head and looked at the cold, dim sun in the sky.

"By the way, you just asked me where this place is, right?"

Bai Shi nodded.

"Yes, although I have some guesses, I can't be sure yet."

Xia Duo turned her gaze back to Bai Shi and asked with a smile:

"So, what do you think this place is?"

Bai Shi answered without hesitation:

"This should be the spirit world."

"The spiritual fire burning everywhere here, as well as the damage to the soul, are probably only found in the spiritual world."

“But I don’t know why this place has become like this. It is completely different from the legends I heard outside.”

Xia Duo nodded.

"Yes, this is indeed the spirit world, but it is not the spirit world you know."

"I have seen descriptions of the spirit world in my family's collection of books."

"The spirit world is where the souls reside. It is where many souls gather and where people are taken after they die."

"It is said that the spirit world is located at the end of the borderland."

"There was once a living person who stepped into the spirit world. He talked with his companions there and then brought back the things in the spirit world to the borderland."

Xia Duo paused and looked around at the vast surroundings.

"As for this place, you can call it the second spiritual world."

"This is the place that Lord Godwin's followers built together after reaching a contract with the ancient spirit world priests and the birds of death."

"The followers of Lord Godwin helped the birds of death build the spirit world, and the birds of death gave them power and helped them achieve their goals."

"This place now is also the place where the souls of countless dead people gather."

After listening to this, Bai Shi thought silently, and then suddenly raised a question:
"But now that the Golden Tree has collapsed, the souls should have nowhere to go and will eventually dissipate."

Bai Shi still remembers that the word Roderica said to him at that time was 'dissipate'.

Xia Duo shook her head.

"Actually, it didn't dissipate. It was brought here."

"In the age of the Golden Tree, the Golden People were blessed by the Golden Tree, so their souls and bodies were immortal."

"But when the golden tree returns to its tree and is destroyed, life can no longer be freed."

"People who are not blessed can still die, but their souls cannot return to the golden tree after death, and they have nowhere to go."

"Some of them turned into ashes, some were attached to lily of the valley, and some turned into white spirits because of their obsession and wandered around the border."

“And many more would be forced to stay at the border because they have nowhere else to go.”

"The souls and bodies of those golden people are so tightly bound together that even death cannot destroy them."

"As for us faded ones, our souls can be brought here directly by the bird of death."

"But for some reason, I have only seen you maintain your form like me until now."

Xia Duo bit her lip, obviously not understanding the results of the investigation.

"In short, the birds of death have now collected a huge amount of souls."

"From the time of the Shattering War until now, countless souls that could not return to the tree have gathered here."

"It's more lively here than at the border in some ways."

"By the way, I haven't asked you what you want to do here."

Bai Shi looked at the fading sun above his head and said:
"I will destroy the prayers and rituals of Godwin's followers, so that the tarnished sun will no longer obscure the brilliance of the true sun."

"I want to let the true sun's light shine again on the border area."

Upon hearing this, Xia Duo looked at Bai Shi in surprise.

The expression on her face kept changing, and she began to hesitate whether to tell Bai Shi.

"Bai Shi... This is a very difficult thing. It should be said that it is almost impossible to do."

"In this second spiritual world, the spiritual world is divided into many areas."

"We are currently in a place I call the Plain of Bones."

"And in the center of each region, there is a very powerful ruler of the region."

"Only by defeating them can we temporarily weaken the power of the spirit world."

"But that alone is not enough."

"The spirit world is a parallel space to the borderland, but it must be connected to the borderland."

"I think those who fix the spirit world at the border are the spirit temples."

"But if you leave the spirit world, it's best not to return to this dangerous place."

When Bai Shi heard that he had left the spirit world, he quickly asked:

"Do you have a way to leave the spirit world?"

When Xia Duo heard this, her expression froze for a moment, like a puppy about to be abandoned.

But then she seemed to have made up her mind and told Bai Shi the method.

After all, she had originally intended to send Bai Shi away.

"……Yes I know."

"The method is hidden in this tower in front of us."

"As long as it is opened, not only can we move between several towers, but we can also return to the real world from here."

"I brought you here to send you away. Don't stay in this dangerous place."

Bai Shi looked at Xia Duo, whose expression was complicated, and roughly knew what she was thinking.

Maybe she was thinking that Bai Shi would immediately teleport out of the spirit world and abandon her.

"Okay, let's take down this tower first, and then deal with Godwin's followers."

Xia Duo raised her eyes, looked at Bai Shi, and said seriously:

"It's very dangerous here. You've only been here for a short time, but I know it well."

"And I've already said it, it's difficult to accomplish, a very difficult thing."

Bai Shi smiled.

After all, he could be said to be a figure who was well-versed in the border areas before.

Even though most of his moves were useless in the spirit world, even without his powers, he was no longer the immature self he once was.

No matter what situation you are in, you can stay calm and composed.

What's more, although I have lost my strength, Feng Ling Yue Ying is still there.

"Don't worry, I'm strong."

"At least there shouldn't be any problem in dealing with those followers of Godwin here."

Xia Duo looked at Bai Shi, blinked, then lowered her head and laughed inexplicably.

She had seen Bai Shi and Ashimi demonstrate their strength before.

Although that kind of power is not weak, it is completely insufficient when facing those terrorist rulers.

When Xia Duo finished laughing, she raised her head and stared at Bai Shi's face.

"Hope or anything like that, I can't see it at all."

"I'm not going to say anything sweet because this is just so desperate."

"I know that what awaits us is only despair and pain."

"That's why I want to be with you, to be with you in this abnormal world."

"Let me fall into the abyss with you."

Xia Duo gave Bai Shi a rather bleak smile, having already made up her mind.

Bai Shi felt the will behind her words.

At this moment, Xia Duo's face, which was a little blurry in Bai Shi's memory, became extremely clear.

　The dormitory washing machine was found by the counselor during the dormitory inspection.
　　
　
(End of this chapter)