Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 277 Return to the Holy Snow Plain
The wind and snow were drifting, and it seemed that the only color left between heaven and earth was pale.

At this moment, Bai Shi and Melina have already set foot on the Holy Snow Plain again.

This is the shabby house with the blessed point that they had found before.

Because it is sandwiched between mountains, the wind and snow here are much better than outside where you can't see the road ahead at all.

But it is still cold and the snow is still very deep.

Melina exhaled and saw the hot air turning into frost in the cold wind, feeling a sense of wonder at the sight.

Bai Shi stretched out his hand and gently brushed away the snowflakes on Melina's head, but new snowflakes immediately fell on her.

Melina shook her head, shaking off the snowflakes on her head.

Seeing Melina's action like a puppy shaking off water, Bai Shi smiled and asked:
"How's it going? Are you feeling cold?"

Melina tilted her head and looked up into the air.

The snowflakes continued to fall, pressing on the body, making people feel the cold clearly.

In the distance, the snow and wind were so strong that it was impossible to see anything.

"It's not that cold."

"After all, the clothes I'm wearing now are much thicker than usual."

At this moment, Bai Shi and Melina had both put on thick fur cloaks, covering their bodies tightly.

This clothing was specially made for traveling to the Holy Snowfield. It was made from the thick fur of the Rune Bear. The amazing thickness brought reassuring warmth.

This cloak alone is enough to block most of the effects of the cold.

As for the remaining faint chill that seeped into the gap, Bai Shi and Melina didn't need to worry about it at all given their physical fitness.

And besides that, they brought other things too.

For example, eating crab eggs can warm the whole body from the inside out, and snacks such as strong white meat jerky can improve cold resistance.

Some time ago, Brother Shrimp in Lake Lienya had moved his shop to the rear area occupied by Stonewell's army, where he sold shrimps and crabs.

This time, a lot of crab eggs were purchased from him.

In addition, drinks made from Atilia leaves and Hepa grass will not make you afraid of the cold after drinking them.

Thinking of such sufficient preparations, Bai Shi nodded and felt relieved, and followed Melina's gaze to look out.

"The snowstorm in the Holy Snowfield is just as exaggerated as ever."

Flames appeared in Bai Shi's hands, evaporating all the ice and snow on the floor of the broken house.

Then he took out the map of the Holy Snowfield that Leida had given him before and spread it on the floor of the broken house.

After being processed by Melina, this map has temporarily achieved the same effect as the map they once drew together. The touched blessing points have been displayed on the map.

Bai Shi took a look and roughly knew his location on the map.

This place is very close to the secret passage that leads from the elevator to the Holy Snow Plain, and is also in the middle of the foggy area.

The approximate location is at the lower right of Huasheng Snowfield, near the cliff that separates the snow mountain and the snowfield.

Knowing his direction, Bai Shi took out the golden branch again.

The moment the golden branch was taken out, a straight golden line shot out in front of Bai Shi, pointing straight into the wind and snow ahead.

After aiming in the direction, Bai Shi summoned Torret, and he and Melina sat on it, one in front and one behind.

Melina hugged Bai Shi's waist, and then their figures slowly disappeared in the flying snow.
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In the distant Stonewell.

Irena rode in a carriage pulled by a dragon beast and walked into the gate of Stonewell under the escort of several soldiers.

At this time, Irena had taken off the cloth tied around her eyes and replaced it with a thin veil that covered the upper half of her face.

Her eyes were already open, and they were gleaming with a strange light, extremely deep.

If Hakan were here, he would definitely feel familiar, because his eyes are exactly the same as the goblin's eyes.

Irena curiously opened the car curtain and looked at the city around her.

This was the first time she saw Stonewell's true appearance.

With the help of the fairy's ability, Irena gained an all-round vision without blind spots, and gained an unprecedented perspective.

The fairy that gave the power was flying around in the carriage, clamoring to fly outside.

Irena sighed.

Fairies are good in every way except that their temperaments are very different from humans.

"Liliana, please wait a moment."

"Only after Mr. Bai Shi has seen you can he decide whether to allow you to fly freely."

After all, fairies have been out of sight of people in the border area for a long time. Apart from the most famous incident of the blue-clad dancing fairy teaching the flowing water sword technique, there is almost no record of them.

Irena had to search through all the books in Moen City before she found some useless records.

In this situation, Irena thought it would be better to let Bai Shi see the fairy first before deciding how to treat her.

The fairy named Liliana flew to Irena's head.

"Oh, it's true."

"Fairies are such amazing and perfect creatures, I never thought that one day they wouldn't even be able to show their faces."

"Actually, once you have the power of a fairy, you don't need to ask anyone for permission."

"But since that's your request, I'll wait a little longer~"

Irena breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, it doesn't matter to her. It won't be long anyway. Liliana will forget her idea of flying around and turn her attention to other things.

The carriage stopped.

"Ms. Irena, we are here."

"Ah."

Irena jumped off the car lightly and walked quickly into the reception room.

……

Not long after, Lancelet pushed the door open and walked in.

Because she was the daughter of Lord Edgar, Lancelet took the time to come and entertain her.

But after seeing Irena after a long time, Lancelet could hardly believe that this was the girl he had met before.

Through the veil, you can see that her eyes are open.

Apart from that, Irena's appearance has not changed much from before, at most she has become more mature than before.

But it seemed as if something deep had changed in her.

"Ms. Irena, can you see?"

Irena matched the voice with the characters in her memory one by one and found out the identity of the owner of the voice.

Seeing that the visitor was not Bai Shi, she felt a little disappointed, but she still had to be polite.

Irena stood up and bowed like a lady.

"Yes, Mr. Lancelet."

"Should I say this is our first meeting?"

Lancelet smiled and sat down.

"I'm sorry, I know you're probably here to see Master Baishi, but he's not in the city right now."

"I don't know what you are here for this time. I will make arrangements for you first."

Irena pointed at Liliana, who was flying around the room quickly, observing various things.

Lancelet only then noticed the little thing and was startled.

Until Irena pointed it out, he hadn't even noticed that there was such a thing running around in the room.

Is this... cognitive blockage? Or is it the disappearance of the sense of existence?

"This is the fairy Liliana."

When Lancelet heard the word fairy, he immediately understood.

Bai Shi had mentioned this to him before and asked him to pay attention, but he didn't expect that the fairy would find Miss Irena.

This time, we must report the matter to Lord Bai Shi immediately.

"I understand, please wait."

In front of Irena, Lancelet took out the pyroxene that Bai Shi had sent down for communication.

After successfully releasing the magic to activate the props, the two did not see any response from Bai Shi.

Lancelet shrugged helplessly.

"Um... sorry, it seems that it is difficult to contact there for the time being."

"Lord Bai Shi is heading to the Holy Snow Plain, located in the northernmost part of the border area. It's an entire border away from us."

"I'm afraid it's because the distance is too far and there are too many obstacles in the way, so we can't get in touch."

Irena was a little disappointed, but she also knew that there was nothing she could do about it, so she nodded obediently.

"It's okay. I'll live in Stonewell for a while."

"It just so happens that I also want to get to know Stonewell better."
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After traveling for a while, Bai Shi and Melina met several wandering dignitaries in the snow.

Two zombie dignitaries were holding torches, while the others gathered in a group in the wind and snow.

When they got closer, Bai Shi realized that they were surrounding a single person.

In the center, there was a zombie stuck deep in the snow, half of its body buried in the snow.

The other zombie nobles were helpless and tried in vain to dig away the snow beside them with their hands.

But the flying snow was faster than their speed, and they could only barely keep their balance.

Judging from their appearance, it is obvious that they have been here for more than just one or two days, perhaps even several months.

After all, zombies no longer need to eat or drink, and even death has no power over them.

Ashmi's voice echoed in Bai Shi's mind: "Host, the one in the middle seems to be a bionic teardrop with the same origin as me!"

Bai Shi nodded. So this was the place.

In the game, there is a lone replica teardrop in the Holy Snow Plain, which has transformed into a zombie and is buried in the snow.

If the player accidentally kills this zombie in the game, he will turn into a Rune Bear.

And it is a Rune Bear with the Holy Snowfield stats.

Many people have suffered losses here and were slapped to death by King Xiong Xin.

Bai Shi approached and rescued the teardrop.

There are quite a few teardrop larvae at the border area, and you can easily collect more than 20 of them in one round. There is no need to kill these imitation teardrops.

The zombie transformed from a tear had a different look in its eyes from the other zombies. After being rescued, it came over on its own initiative.

It stretched out its hand as if to express gratitude and touched Bai Zhi.

Bai Shi had no idea what was going on, but Ashimi let out a cry of surprise.

'Ah, host, he seems to be conveying some information to me! '

"It seems to be what he saw and heard while traveling in the border area... It's so long, how long did he wander for?!"

"I'll digest it for a few days, and maybe I'll find some information that might interest you, host."

"Well, maybe I can learn more about human nature from this."

Bai Shi blinked, he didn't expect that there could be such communication between teardrops.

If tears could communicate, then perhaps the person in front of me could be a source of information.

"By the way, Ashmi, ask him if he's willing to work with me."

Bai Shi really wanted to get a few imitation tears to guard the door for him, as this would give him a maximum sense of security.

Ashmi tried to communicate, but the zombie-like replica of Teardrop just shook its head, turned around and left with the other zombies.

"I'm sorry, host. He said he wanted to go with his companions. He said they wanted to find a place called the Holy Tree."

'He didn't know where it was, but he still wanted to follow them.'

Bai Shi nodded, saying there was no need to force it.

But then, he thought of another question.

"Why didn't he use his transformation to free himself from the situation before?"

Ashmi didn't know how to answer and began to search for the message conveyed by the teardrop.

"It seems that they are afraid that the zombies will find out that they are different."

Bai Shi was a little stunned. It seemed that the teardrop just now was quite close to the human mind.

The Mimic Tears imitate others in order to gain intelligence.

As a result, after gaining intelligence, he was unwilling to expose his differences with them and regarded them as his companions.

Maybe he was worried about such things, even though the zombies were no longer conscious.

They continued to move forward, and after a while, they suddenly found a very conspicuous trunk of an ancient tree lying on the ground in front of them.

The trunk of this ancient tree leans diagonally over the snow and rocks.

These ancient trees have stone-like trunks and no branches or leaves. They don’t look like plants at all.

These ancient trees are also found in the underground world.

Bai Shi looked at the fallen tree trunk and suddenly remembered that there seemed to be a faded forging stone 9 here. He wondered if it was still there.

On the tree trunk that had fallen on the hillside, he saw two lightning balls and a corpse.

These two lightning balls allowed Bai Shi to determine the location, which was here.

Bai Shi dispersed the two lightning balls, walked up to take a look, and actually found the forging stone.

Just as Bai Shi was about to leave, Melina tugged at his cloak.

Melina pointed down to their feet.

Under the tree stump, there is a small place that is sheltered from the wind.

There was a figure underneath, his body covered in snow, but his chest rising and falling proved that he was still alive.

"Want to go take a look?"

Melina looked at Bai Shi and asked.

Bai Shi stared at the guy below for a few seconds, thought about it, and decided that he could give it a try.

"Well, do you want to come down with me?"

Melina shook her head.

"It seems to have a taste that I don't like..."

Bai Shi tried to smell it, but could not smell anything except the cold wind.

"Okay, wait for me for a while."

Bai Shi jumped directly from the top of the tree trunk and landed in front of the figure.

Even though Bai Zhi fell right next to him, this person did not react at all.

He was wearing ragged clothes, like a scavenger.

Bai Shi looked over and found that the man was sleeping soundly next to the tree stump.

It's obvious that he has some unique skills, otherwise he wouldn't be so relaxed in such an environment.

Now that Bai Shi had gotten closer, he knew what smell Melina had been talking about.

There is a strong smell of alcohol in here.

Bai Shi called out twice to wake him up.

The man opened his eyes and showed an expression of amazement after seeing Bai Shi, or to be more precise, after seeing the golden light emitted from the branches on Bai Shi's body.

"Ohhh! It's the glow of Lady Mikaela!"

"You are also a guided person. It seems that we are on the same path."

Bai Shi was a little surprised when he heard this, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was nothing wrong with it.

This Holy Snowfield is the territory of Michaela and the others, so it seems reasonable for some people to explore outside.

"Just think of it that way."

"So what are you doing here? Are you freezing to death?"

The guy in front of me, who looked a little sloppy, was touching his red nose.

"Haha, don't worry."

"Before I follow those two masters, I will not die so easily."

"Ah, right!"

"To survive on the snowy plains, you need to drink. This is good stuff that can warm your body."

"Since we are on the same path, I will share some with you. In this cold weather, wine is the right thing to do!"

When wine was mentioned, Bai Shi's expression suddenly changed.

Finally I remembered the possible identity of the guy in front of me.

In the abandoned case, there was once a character named "Wine Taste" Rick.

He is a follower of Tolina, following the trail of the blood conspiracy.

The relationship between Michaela and Torina was also directly revealed in this abandoned case.

Because it has been a long time since the time travel, Bai Shi can hardly remember the details of the various abandoned cases.

But it seems that the final destination of this guy's side quest is the snowfield, right? How come he is already here?
Was he recruited by Leida and the others and brought here?

After all, they must have a way to travel to the Holy Snow Plain.

Bai Shi waved his hand and did not accept the wine he offered.

There's no need to take this risk when strangers meet for the first time.

In particular, Bai Shi knew that he had something called pure wine, which would reveal secrets after drinking it.

Seeing Bai Shi like this, Li Ke smiled, opened the container of wine and took a big gulp.

"call--"

After taking a big sip, his skin suddenly turned red and he could even see the steam rising from it.

After finishing his drink, Rick began to speak as if to himself:
"I, a poor monk, only like wine."

"Wine is a good thing. It allows us to experience the joy and beauty of life."

"I was thinking of taking a break, but when I came to my senses I was already drinking heavily."

"Before I knew it, I was drunk again."

Bai Shi looked at the flying snow in the sky, not knowing what to say.

Even if he drank the wine that could warm his body, he would still sleep here like this, showing that he was not afraid of death.

"Haha! You seem to have something to do, and you don't want to talk to me more."

"That's right, everyone has secrets hidden deep in their hearts!"

"Then I should leave now. Since we are on the same path together, we will meet again if we are lucky enough."

Bai Shi nodded and said that if possible, he could get some pure wine from him later.

Maybe it will have unexpected effects.

Before Rico had walked far, Bai Shi saw a huge dragon soldier spirit appear.

With a strange cry, he was slammed into the snow by a claw.

　Today, my roommate and I fought a mouse desperately. The mouse ran in right in front of us. After more than an hour of hard work, we had no choice but to order a mousetrap...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)