Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 259: Lani's Thank You Gift

Bai Shi looked at the circular mark on his wrist which showed no response and fell into deep thought.

He could sense that the Hefen Spire was still intact, but it had been cut off from the border and could no longer be teleported.

In other words, if I want to go back now, I must find a place that is still connected to the spiritual world and enter from there.

Just like this time when he found the stronghold of Godwin's followers at the border and mistakenly entered.

Of course, it may not be that difficult. You can try it in other places with spiritual temples and you will find out.

Bai Shi was immediately teleported away through the blessing.

"The spirit temple is walking, holding the soulless demigod..."

At the side of the pilgrimage church, Bai Ling kept repeating himself as he looked at the mobile mausoleum that was forced to stop. His voice became softer and softer as he repeated the words halfway through his mouth, and finally he fell silent.

Why isn't the temple moving?
After a brief silence, the soul wandering at the intersection gradually disappeared in front of the church.

At this moment, Bai Shi had been teleported to the cliff on the east side of Lake Lienya.

There are several mausoleums here, and there is a headless knight guarding the entrance to the Black Blade Underground Cemetery below.

By activating the mark on his hand here, Bai Shi was successfully teleported back to the spirit world.

But the scene here is completely different from before.

The plains littered with bones disappeared, replaced by a swamp filled with the smell of death.

The monsters here are completely different from the ones we encountered before, and all kinds of deformed souls are floating directly above the swamp.

Bai Shi sighed and teleported back to the border.

He had no map and no road signs, and it was obviously not possible to find Xia Duo in this completely different area in a short time.

If you look for her blindly, it might be even harder to find her.

This time he left in such a hurry that he didn't even say goodbye to Xia Duo.

At that time, they were eager to destroy the death ritual, and they did not expect that this would be the result now.

I thought I could rest easy with the ability to teleport back and forth using the Spire of Hefen, but now it seems that I took it for granted.

But there was no other way around the situation at the time; Bai Shi had to destroy the death ritual.

As long as the ceremony is disrupted, he will be doomed to lose contact with Xia Duo.

Bai Shi is now a little worried about Xia Duo.

The connection with the Hefen Spire is still there, which means that nothing has happened there, at least it has not completely collapsed due to the cut off of connection.

It should be that there is simply no connection with the border area.

Although Xia Duo had wandered in the spirit world for a long time, will she be safe in the days to come?
She is just a weak, pitiful and helpless witch, and the spirit world is full of powerful monsters.

Even if she didn't take the initiative to provoke it, if she walked into the attack range of an ambush monster, she might be injured or even die again.

Bai Shi still had a lot to say to her.

He didn't expect that after such a short reunion, he would leave without saying goodbye, and he felt very apologetic.

At this point, Bai Shi had no way to find Xia Duo's whereabouts.

After returning to Stonewell, send people to look for Godwin's followers.

Then I’ll see if I can get something from them that can be used in the spiritual world.
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In the spiritual world, Xia Duo also sensed the sudden changes.

She walked out of the previous cave, stood on the plain full of bones, and looked up at the sky.

In the sky where the spiritual fire was burning, a corner of the tarnished sun slowly cracked.

A part of the tarnished sun is missing, and the ritual of death has been partially destroyed.

Xia Duo laughed when she saw this.

Bai Shi's purpose of coming to the spiritual world this time has been achieved.

Although the fading sun was still hanging in the sky, he should have made some progress.

He had indeed achieved what Xia Duo had originally thought was impossible.

However, according to her perception, this area seemed to be gradually being peeled off from the border.

This feeling was very strange. Although she didn't know why, she could just sense the process.

It was an existential detachment.

This area of the spiritual world no longer has any connection with the border area.

Xia Duo waited there for a while, but Bai Shi never returned.

She then sighed and walked away.

It seems that Bai Shi will not be back in a short time.

Even if he returned to the spirit world, he would not appear in this area that had no connection with the border area.

I don’t know when will they meet next time?

But...it would be nice if we never see each other again.

She is already dead, and she has no idea what to do after all the death rituals in the spirit world were destroyed.

The end of their journey must be death.

Xia Duo walked away from here while thinking about all sorts of things.

Suddenly, she looked down at her wrist.

Suddenly, a bright red bead appeared in her hand, strung on her wrist with a rope.

In the spiritual world, there are few objects with bright colors. This is a world that has almost lost its color.

This was the first time Xia Duo saw something with such a special color.

Xia Duo held the bead in her hand. In contrast to the gloomy surroundings, the bead looked even brighter, like fresh blood.

"What is this? Did I have it on me before?"

Xia Duo looked at this thing and pondered silently.

After a while, she still couldn't come up with a solution, so she had to move on to the next area.
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Somewhere in the spiritual world, a hole slowly opened up on a thick thorn of death formed by worms.

A tall figure was spit out from the tree-like thorns and fell to the ground.

He has a human appearance, which is out of place in this strange world.

When he was spit out of the thorns, he had long, shining golden hair.

But after he was born, his golden hair began to fade and eventually turned into pale white hair.

He lay on the ground, and after a long time he slowly opened his eyes and climbed up from the ground.

He looked at the bizarre world around him blankly, not knowing where he was.

Who is he? Where is he? What is he going to do?
But no one could answer his questions, and he had no memory at all.

So he had to walk forward aimlessly alone.

As he walked across the ground, the ubiquitous death flies gradually approached, and thorns transformed from worms emerged from the black earth.

He looked at these twisted things with a strange look on his face and didn't want to touch them.

As this thought came to his mind, all the flies and thorns around him flew away quickly and disappeared without a trace.

He looked down at his body and realized that he was naked.

This doesn't seem very elegant...

Then the darkness rushed to his body and turned into his clothes.

He blinked blankly. Everything here was too strange, but it didn't seem like it would harm him.

Around him, there were several thick thorn trees that were almost identical to him, as if they had once nurtured something.

But several of them were already dripping with sticky black liquid, as if they had failed.

Where he was and where he was going were both unknown.

As for who he is...

A name was necessary, so he decided to give himself one. Koyatel seemed like a good name.
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Bai Shi returned to Stonewell.

It is not possible to return to the spirit world and completely destroy the tarnished sun for the time being, but other things still need to be done.

Next, before Melina's rebirth is completed, he plans to continue studying gravity magic and dragon thunder.

After Melina is reborn, he plans to explore the Holy Snowfield and find the portal to the Blood Dynasty.

The barrier outside the Blood Dynasty attached by the Mother of Truth is a bit troublesome, and I don’t know what its function is.

As for the dangerous man Monger, Bai Shi plans to get rid of him as soon as possible.

After we get rid of him, we will soon be facing a head-on war with the royal city of Rodel.

Bai Shi didn't want Monger to plot a bloody conspiracy behind his back while he was fighting Rodel.

When Bai Shi returned to the residence of Celine Shanks and Schiff, Schiff jumped out of the room and pounced on Bai Shi.

Bai Shi touched Shiv's hair and found that Shiv had suddenly grown a lot bigger.

Schiff has now grown much larger than the average wolf on the border, and is almost as big as a red wolf.

Just when Bai Shi was confused, Celine Shanks also came out.

When Celine Sanx saw that it was Bai Shi who came back, she quickly stepped forward and asked:
"Master, why did you come back just now?"

Bai Shi was stunned.

"what?"

Bai Shi reacted immediately and realized that there seemed to be a time difference between the border area and the spiritual world.

There is no night in the spiritual world, and the pale sun always hangs in the sky, so there is no idea of time.

It seems that the perceived time is not right.

Bai Shi quickly asked Celine Shanks:

"How long has it been since I last left?"

Before going to the spirit world, Bai Shi would come to Celine Shanks every day to learn about Dragon Thunder. She knew she was leaving.

Celine Sanx recalled and said:
"Today is already the fifth day."

Bai Shi felt a headache for a moment, as the time in the spiritual world was quite different from that in the border area.

He felt like only one or two days had passed, but it seemed like five days had passed...

Bai Shi suddenly thought:

Hasn't the time for Melina to be reborn arrived?

At this time, the moonlight mark left by Lani on Bai Shi's body lit up at the right time.

It was Lani who took the initiative to contact Bai Shi.

Lani's voice came into Bai Shi's mind:
"Finally I got in touch with you."

'Where have you been? Why did you suddenly disappear, and even the mark can't contact you?'

Bai Shi did not explain to Lani immediately, as this matter could not be explained in a few words.

'It's a little hard to explain now, I'll explain it in detail when I get there.'

"Is the rebirth almost complete?"

Lani's voice sounded again:
'Not yet, but it will be in the next two days.'

"If you want to come to the Great Library, come now."

"Besides being curious, I also have something I want to give you."

Bai Shi temporarily said goodbye to Celine Shanks and Sif and teleported back to the magic academy.

I saw Lani floating casually in the air above the library.

Lani felt strange as she looked at the white consciousness that appeared out of thin air through the blessing.

There seemed to be some special aura on Bai Shi's soul, and it was much stronger.

But leaving aside the matter of the soul becoming stronger, Lani was more curious about why Bai Shi had lost contact previously.

Before, Lani wanted to contact Baishi through the mark, but Baishi disappeared directly from Lani's perception.

The moon on the border is always high in the sky. In theory, as long as you are on the border, you can communicate through the mark.

what on earth is it?

Because such a situation has never happened before, Lani is very concerned about it.

Lani looked at Bai Shi and said calmly:

"You're here, can you tell me now?"

“I’m quite curious about this matter.”

Bai Shi looked at Lani, who was puzzled, and explained the reason concisely:

"Because I went to the spirit world."

Lani was stunned for a moment, then her eyes slowly widened.

"Spirit world?"

Lani couldn't help but repeat the term that Bai Shi had mentioned.

Bai Shi nodded to the skeptical Lani.

"Yes, the spirit world."

Lani was even more confused.

She knew about the spirit world, which was where souls were supposed to go before the Golden Tree's power came on stage.

but……

But it shouldn't be.

The spirit world had long since disappeared and no longer existed at the border.

The Golden Tree's return tree has long since replaced the spiritual world.

Bai Shi slowly narrated:
"After the Shattering War, there is no King Elden, and no Elden Ring that manifests the law, so the various elements that can become the law have become active again."

"The dead birds worked together with Godwin's followers to rebuild the spirit world."

Bai Shi stretched out his wrist, allowing Lani to see the mark left by the Hefen Spire.

At this moment, Lani no longer cared about her image and floated directly to Bai Shi's side.

Lani stretched out her hand and touched the circular mark from the spiritual world on Bai Shi's hand.

Feeling the unique atmosphere above, which was completely different from the border area, even though Lani didn't quite believe it, she had to believe it at this moment.

Lani immediately fell into deep thought.

I didn't expect Godwin's followers to be able to do this.

But Godwin's soul had been killed by then.

Even if he used the spirit world and the Faded Sun to summon souls, would the thing that was finally pieced together and resurrected still be Godwin?
Bai Shi's words interrupted Lani's thoughts.

"You said before that you wanted to give me something. What is it?"

Lani then remembered the original purpose of contacting Bai Shi and said:
"I'm leaving soon."

"Before I go, I suddenly thought of something that might interest you."

"So consider this as my thank you gift. I hope you can accept it."

Ranie pulled out a wooden statue from the wide sleeves of her robe.

It was a statue of a magic apprentice, and at first glance it didn't seem like anything special.

But Bai Shi knew that this was the key item leading to the Lienia Divine Tower.

There, lies the body that Lani once abandoned and the curse of death.

　I have a make-up exam tomorrow, so I only have 4k today (Pull over
　　
　
(End of this chapter)