Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 289: Prison!

The things inside the Fire Kissed Ruins really live up to the name of the ruins, they are really poor and empty.

Apart from the large piece of rune picked up earlier, there was nothing else good left.

Bai Shi placed the Rune he had picked up from the corpse earlier in front of his eyes and observed it carefully.

This large rune, like everything else in the Shadow Land, has a faint shadow on it.

Shadowland Rune 2, this is the name that appeared in front of Bai Shi's eyes.

This rune looked quite large, so Bai Shi crushed it to see how many runes were in it.

To Bai Shi's surprise, he actually obtained 13 runes, which is the same level as Golden Rune .

The key point is that this kind of Shadow Land Rune doesn't seem to be particularly rare here.

Bai Shi smiled. Now he could look forward to collecting more runes.

When the time comes, you can take advantage of the five times Rune to crush them together, and you should be able to get a lot of rewards.

In addition to Rune, Bai Shi also collected some new props nearby.

For example, red meat mushrooms, Lada fruits, spirit tombstones, and the production notes of the Great Vital Pot Master 1, among other new items.

Bai Shi now hopes that the panel that prompts the item name can display more details.

The panel he was carrying could only display his name but not his introduction, leaving him with a lot of missing information.

It was fine when they were at the border. He had remembered all the general information anyway, and just the name was enough.

But in the Land of Shadows, just mentioning a name is not enough.

You should know that Lao Zei likes to hide things in the introduction of his game, and there is a lot of information.

Faced with these unfamiliar props, Bai Shi can no longer obtain this information like in the game.

Maybe I'll have to find someone who knows more about the Shadow Land later and ask him to introduce these things to me.

After collecting everything in the ruins, Bai Shi walked out.

Outside the ruins, he found the next blessing located beside the avenue and lit it.

At this moment, a sound came from the grass nearby, attracting Bai Shi's attention.

Bai Shi looked over there and saw another Bai Ling, who was also the soul of a horned man.

This soul faced the cemetery with many tombstones and kept repeating:
"...I can feel that your resentment is always there."

"You will always curse those people—Messermo and Marika's children..."

Bai Shi shook his head and ignored Bai Ling.

Melina listened to the accusations of the Horned Man's soul in silence, not knowing how to react.

Bai Shi turned his head and looked at the Wicker Man who was still wreaking havoc on the plain.

The wicker man wandered the plains, probably searching for the presence of the Horned People.

But it seems that the horned man who has turned into a shadow is now unable to trigger its search mechanism.

Perhaps this is why there are so many Horned People in the ruins right under the nose of the Wicker Man.

It changes itself into a form of survival, so it can hide itself when facing enemies like golems.

But it seems likely that these Horned People must have been the ones who survived the massacre and burning by the main force under Messermo, and only then did the remaining survivors transform themselves into the appearance of shadows.

Otherwise, a normal army with intelligence would not show mercy to them.

Bai Shi summoned Torret again, preparing to go to the front to observe the wicker man.

When the time comes, I'll take care of this wicker man and see if I can get some good stuff out of him.

It has to be said that after arriving in the new environment, Bai Shi's ancestral characteristic as a player began to revive.

When faced with a brand new monster, of course you have to fight it to see what good stuff it has.

However, Torrett looked at the wicker man in front of him and did not set off immediately. Instead, he kept looking around.

Finally, Torrett seemed to have found something of interest, turned around, and tilted his head towards that direction.

Melina saw Torrett constantly gesturing in that direction and asked:
"What's wrong, Torrett?"

"Is there anything there you care about?"

Torret snorted and whined.

Melina stroked Torret's soft hair and looked at Bai Shi.

"Then... shall we go over there and take a look first?"

Bai Shi nodded. Torrett rarely behaved like this.

Anyway, I don’t have any plans now, and it’s time to run around and explore new maps, so I might as well go and take a look.

"Let's go, maybe there will be unexpected gains."

Torrett drove the two people quickly in another direction.

Soon Torret brought the two of them to a platform.

This platform is like an altar, located next to the cliff on the other side of the Fire Kiss Ruins.

I saw a huge corpse on the altar, its body was charred, its head and arms were missing, kneeling on the platform.

On the platform in front of him, some gray objects emitting faint light gathered together.

Bai Shi was staring at the huge headless corpse, which was as tall as a normal human when kneeling.

This thing, is it also a horn man?
It's really strange, can the gap between the same species be so big?

If this thing were placed next to other Horned People, the difference would be as big as the difference between a fire giant and a goblin.

Torrett walked forward, leaned over to the ashes in front of the corpse, and began to lick them.

Bai Shi focused his attention forward, and the name of this thing appeared before his eyes - spirit ash.

Bai Shi ignored Torret's licking. This was something that he had come for directly. He wouldn't eat him to death, would he?

While Torrett was licking the ashes, Bai Shi and Melina stood at the edge of the place.

The two of them were currently at the edge of a cliff, and from their high vantage point they could clearly see a building at the bottom of the cliff.

From the outside, this is undoubtedly a church.

However, there is a small military camp next to the church, with some blurry figures moving around in it.

Although the details were unclear, the figures were clearly different from the horn people.

Bai Shi opened the map and quickly found the location of the church.

The avenue that runs through the Fire-Kissed Ruins goes all the way south, and its final destination is a building called "Church of Consolation".

Bai Shi looked at the map again and began to plan his next move.

After giving it some thought, I decided not to go into the church to explore for the time being.

There is probably another force in there. Now we should go all the way to the marked location and find Leida and other companions in the Shadow Land.

Not only do we need to get to know them first, but more importantly, we need to obtain some intelligence.

Wait a moment and meet the giant wicker man, then head straight to the intersection, to the place where the mark was left.

Torret licked all the ashes into his stomach, and changes gradually appeared on his body.

Torrett seemed to have become stronger than before... There were no major changes to his body, but he felt something was a little different.

It seems that this thing is of great use to it, so I should help it collect some next time.

After licking the ashes, Torrett still felt a little unsatisfied.

Bai Shi patted it and told it to hurry to the wicker man.
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After receiving the blessing of the ashes, Torrett ran happily and soon brought the two of them to the Wicker Man.

When he got closer, Bai Shi immediately saw that the wicker man's body was filled with densely packed corpses, all piled up and burning.

All the straw was burned along the way it walked, leaving two scorch marks on the ground.

Melina sat sideways on Torret's back, hugged Bai Shi's waist, and rested her head on his back.

Looking at the horrific destruction caused by the Wicker Man, Melina muttered quietly:

"This golem looks much more powerful than the ones at the border."

"But it looks like this thing won't distinguish between friend and foe when fighting."

As he got closer, the Wicker Man also discovered Bai Zhi.

Upon seeing the unidentified person, the wicker man began to attack on his own, kicking forward.

Suddenly, large pieces of rocks from the ground were scooped up by its huge metal feet, and then these rocks were immediately ignited, burning with fierce flames and smashing down towards where Torret was.

Faced with the overwhelming flames, Torrett accelerated casually and ran out of the attack range, continuing to approach the wicker man in front.

When the wicker man saw that the little thing in front of him did not run away but dared to rush towards it, he raised one leg and stomped it heavily on the ground.

As the Wicker Man stomped his feet, fierce flames suddenly spread from his legs.

The steel railings played a perfect role at this moment, allowing the flames to spread out from the body.

The surrounding straw was burned to ashes, turning into complete charcoal.

Torrett leaped nimbly and easily avoided the incoming flames.

Feeling the scorching flames passing beneath him, Torrett also perked up and began to be careful.

It doesn't want its soft hair to be damaged again.

Bai Shi was riding on Torret's body, and based on the force of the flames, he roughly knew the strength of this wicker man.

This wicker-man-like golem is much more powerful than the ordinary golems that can be seen everywhere.

Ordinary golems are roughly at the level of elite monsters to heroes.

In large-scale battles, it has great destructive power due to its size, but it can be quickly dealt with by sending out some elites.

The wicker man in front of him was not only much taller than the golem guards, but his flames could also clear out the miscellaneous soldiers more efficiently, making it difficult for even hero-level units to approach.

This guy's size was unprecedentedly huge, a level unique among the humanoid enemies Bai Shi had encountered so far, and it was estimated that he was at least thirty or forty meters tall.

This may not be intuitive enough, so to put it another way, this thing is more than ten floors high.

Even if we remove the limitation of being a humanoid creature, among all the creatures Bai Shi has encountered, only the Dragon Mother Guior is larger than it.

Huge, powerful, burning savagely and fiercely.

If we let the cursed swordsman we met before come over, he would probably be just a dying bird.

Bai Shi looked the wicker man up and down, and found that he had no obvious weaknesses on his body.

The golem has a power furnace in its chest, but this guy is burning with flames from head to toe, and the only way to solve the problem is to extinguish it completely.

The operation of this thing is obviously different from that of the golem that relies on the power furnace to transmit power to the whole body. It is probably driven by magic or prayer spells. After getting closer, Bai Shi realized that the giant head tied to the legs of the wicker man he saw before was just a statue mask, but the flaming red braids and huge face were enough to be mistaken for the real thing.

Torret dodged the flames again, and Bai Shi simply jumped off the horse and landed directly on the head of the Wicker Man.

Relying on his extremely high resistance to fire, Bai Shi just stood there and observed the internal structure of the wicker man.

I saw a large number of human corpses burning in the brazier of the wicker man. Without exception, these corpses were all the corpses of the Horned People.

They were trapped in the cage formed by the Wicker Man's body. They reached out to the iron bars in vain, but they could not escape until they were completely turned into charcoal.

Presumably, on the battlefield in the past, this wicker man also constantly snatched up horned men and threw them into the furnace he had transformed into, using their screams of pain for sacrifice.

And in the very center, there was actually the corpse of a flying dragon.

This flying dragon is not very big, just an ordinary flying dragon, far from the size of Yakir and Smarag.

But even so, using a flying dragon as fuel is still a luxury. Perhaps this is why the Wicker Man is so powerful.

At this moment, the wicker man had also discovered that Bai Shi had run to the top of his head.

Its huge stone mask opened its red eyes and looked upward, but because of Bai Shi's standing position, he couldn't see anything even though he rolled his eyes.

The wicker man, feeling angry and humiliated, bent his knees slightly and jumped up straight, hoping to throw Bai Shi off this time.

How could Bai Shi be afraid of this kind of move? He simply grabbed the guardrail on its head and stayed there steadily.

Bai Shi looked at the flames that kept burning in the furnace, and released the Samir Ice Storm after a long time.

At this moment, the properties of Baishi are already extremely terrifying, and the effect of using it is completely different from when it was released before.

The icy storm swept through, enveloping the entire body of the Wicker Man. The constantly burning fire was no match for the cold at this moment.

The eternally burning flame was constantly weakened, pushed back step by step by the cold, and finally stopped burning altogether.

After the core flame stopped burning, the wicker man stopped moving, stood still and then fell straight down.

Melina rode Torret around the fallen wicker man and suddenly found something in its furnace.

Melina stepped forward and took out the object from the charred corpse at the bottom of the furnace. It turned out to be a drop of crystal dew.

Melina raised the crystal dew drop and waved at Bai Shi.

At this moment, Bai Shi was staring at the mask on the wicker man's face that was surrounded by ominous horns.

Because the name of this thing appeared in front of him - Burning Furnace Mask, it was undoubtedly another prop he had never seen before.

Seeing Melina calling him over, Bai Shi took off his mask and walked over.

Bai Shi was very surprised to see the crystal dew drop named "Rebounding Hard Dew Drop" in Melina's hand.

"Why are there still crystal dew drops inside this thing?"

Melina shrugged and stuffed the large piece of dew into Bai Shi's arms.

"Who knows."

Bai Shi held the crystal dew drop in front of his eyes.

From the name, you can tell that this is probably a dew drop that can strengthen defense and counterattack, but I don't know what the effect is.

Bai Shi accepted the dewdrop, intending to ask Melina to mix it into a elixir bottle for him later.

After dealing with the wicker man, Bai Shi headed towards the marked place.

But something unexpected happened on the way.

In front of the two people, more stone buildings like the thresholds of a cemetery appeared, and some mechanical birds guarding the tombs were perched on them.

And in front of them, there appeared an unnamed dirt road that had been trampled by people, leading straight to a place ahead that was hidden by twisted trees.

Bai Shi opened the map, took a quick look, and found that the place was marked as the Unknown Temple in the West.

There is a red sign on the top of this mausoleum to indicate its danger.

Bai Shi drew two circles on the red mark with his finger.

Danger?

Then he would have to see what dangers were inside.

Noticing that the location here was quite close to the meeting point, Bai Shi decided to go and check it out.

So Bai Shi passed through the tomb-guarding birds and continued to move towards the location of the temple.

Gradually, many dark blue, transparent soul creatures with hollow faces appeared on both sides of the road.
These soul creatures have slender bodies and emerge from the ground in groups like garden eels in the sea.

As Bai Shi and Melina passed in front of them, they turned their heads and followed them.

Bai Shi asked Torret to get closer, and he found that these things actually had a pair of very inconspicuous little arms.

Melina suddenly spoke up.

"I seem to have some impression of this creature."

"These appear to be creatures called Soul Polyps. They are very similar to Soul Jellyfish. They may be the same species in different forms."

When Bai Shi heard this, he looked at the group of strange creatures in front of him and couldn't connect them with the cute soul jellyfish.

Hmm...but if you look closely, it seems a bit ugly and cute, which is very in line with the aesthetic of Soul Game players.

After all, the Soul System's ancestral mascot is the Cursed Frog.

The soul hydras showed no signs of attacking the two, so Bai Shi ignored them and watched them leave.

The two continued to move forward, defeating the strange mechanical tomb-guarding birds along the way and arrived in front of the mausoleum.

This mausoleum was completely different from what Bai Shi had in mind. It was a building built on the ground, with a staircase leading underground from the main entrance.

From what I can remember, all the mausoleums on the border seem to be mobile mausoleums. I have never seen anything like this before.

Arriving at the entrance of the shrine, Melina extended her hand to Bai Shi.

"That's perfect, let's try the newly prepared elixir."

"Aren't you curious about the effect of the crystal dew drops?"

Bai Shi nodded and handed the elixir bottle and the rebound hard dew drops to Melina.

After a little adjustment, Bai Shi took the bottle of elixir and drank it all.

When he reached the end of the stairs and just stepped in, Bai Shi saw the soul of a knight in heavy armor at the bottom of the temple.

Unlike ordinary souls, the armor this guy wears and the greatsword he holds are all real.

After seeing this knight, Bai Shi's eyes lit up.

The knight's armor is very straight, plain and heavy, but you can see cleverly designed details everywhere, making it look very reliable at first glance.

There's no doubt that this guy looks like a true knight—

Then Bai Shi saw the knight's left hand pull out a crossbow from behind his waist and shoot wildly.

Looking at the large number of crossbow arrows flying towards him, each one forming a line of fire and burning with flames, Bai Shi's face turned black.

I just praised him for being a heavy-armored knight who fits the image, but it turns out he has no chivalry at all.

The crossbows pressed on, leaving me speechless.

It’s a pity that this guy wearing a set of neat armor actually has the desire for victory flowing in his blood?

Bai Shi summoned up a storm, which turned into a wind wall in front of him, and saw that all the crossbow arrows were blocked.

The knight in front of him shot all the crossbow arrows without caring about the effect. He immediately rushed forward with the sword in both hands and jumped towards Bai Shi.

Bai Shi dodged sideways and took out the giant sword that he had not used for a long time.

It was the weapon that looked like it was taken from the set of Berserk, the oversized sword called the Greatsword.

To deal with humanoid monsters, this kind of weapon is indeed the best choice.

Bai Shi leaned down, and taking advantage of the moment when the knight's sword was about to fall and he could not dodge, he stabbed the sword straight into his armor.

Fighting Skills - Hunting Giants!
The attack came from bottom to top, directly stabbing the knight into the sky.

Fortunately, his armor was thick enough, and the giant sword in Bai Shi's hand had not been strengthened, otherwise he would have been turned into a piece of skewers.

The knight was lifted up by Bai Shi's attack, and then fell heavily to the ground.

The moment he landed, he immediately rolled over and stood up from the ground, showing an agility that was completely different from the heavy armor he was wearing.

At this time, the knight's breastplate had been deeply dented, but he didn't care.

The knight attacked again, raising the greatsword high and slashing forward.

A sword energy flew out from the big sword and attacked Bai Shi.

After swinging the sword, he quickly moved forward, quickly crossing the distance between the two people, and then swept the sword across to pursue.

He was extremely fast, not at all like he was wearing heavy armor.

Bai Shi inserted the giant sword in front of him, easily blocking the sword energy, then grabbed the hilt with his backhand and ran forward.

The next moment, the giant sword in Bai Shi's hand collided with the big sword in the knight's hand.

At the moment when he blocked the knight's attack, the elixir that Bai Shi drank suddenly took effect, and a surge of power surged from his body.

Power burst out from Bai Shi's hands, causing the knight to stagger.

The giant sword swung in the air, returned to the forehand grip, and then slashed down with terrifying force.

Given the mass of the giant sword, this strike was more of a slap than a cut.

The knight was knocked to the ground by Bai Shi's sword, and was deeply embedded in the bricks and stones, with numerous cracks appearing around him.

The knight stood up again tremblingly.

Bai Shi did not pursue the victory, but waited to see what other moves he had.

The knight took out a holy grail bottle from his body, tilted his head back and poured the water into his mouth. Then his injuries began to heal gradually.

At this point he raised the sword again and rushed towards Bai Shi.

Halfway through the dash, he repeated his old trick and leaped up again, trying to use his entire body weight to jump down.

Bai Shi touched the ground with the tip of his giant sword, then leaped up into the air, lifting his entire body.

Giant sword lion slash!
The knight jumped into the air and was about to attack, but he found that Bai Shi was jumping higher than him and he was unable to block him.

The greatsword landed on the knight's back, knocking him out of the air.

This blow completely defeated him, and then the armor slowly fell apart, and a soul detached from the armor and dissipated.

Bai Shi picked up the big sword that the man had dropped on the ground, and after seeing the name, he couldn't help but exclaimed.

"Lonely...Prison Great Sword!"

(End of this chapter)