Elden Ring, but with Wind Spirit Moon Shadow

Chapter 513 'King of the Night' Ashmi
The hissing of the Mother of Fingers reverberated throughout the entire starry sky, mixed with some ancient rhythm, as if billions of stars were resonating.

Yet within that frequency there was something distorted, a frequency not of this world, that seemed to pierce directly into the soul.

However, Bai Shi and Ashimi remained unmoved, their figures motionless amidst the wind pressure generated by their charge. Instead, they charged at top speed, creating circular sonic booms on the water beneath their feet.

The two men simultaneously swung their hunting finger knives through the air, their black blades gleaming with the light of the night.

That was the lament of the Knox dynasty, and also the pinnacle of their glory.

—A sharp edge forged specifically to slay gods is roaring.

Bai Shi's figure flashed out like a ghost, his toes barely touching the ground, his long silver hair drawing an arc in the starlight.

Ashmi understood immediately and flanked from the other side, rapidly shortening the distance between the three.

As it drew closer, the head of the mother finger suddenly rose high, and the wart-like opening at the center of the fingerprint closed tightly, firmly protected by the folds of the fingerprint.

The next second, the thick, pillar-like knuckles, carrying immense force, slammed into Bai Shi's location.

The water surface cracked under the impact, splashing like a torrential rain, and the bedrock beneath our feet was blasted open with spiderweb-like cracks.

However, Bai Shi had already anticipated His trajectory, and he flipped in mid-air, the Star Shadow Katana spinning in an arc beside him.

The sharp blade grazed the creases of the knuckles, splashing a trail of foul-smelling slime.

"laugh--"

The sound of the blade cutting through the skin was sticky and dull; the mother finger felt pain, and her head twitched violently as it lifted.

The dark purple divine blood spurted out, and when it splashed onto the water surface, it corroded and hissed, and white water vapor rose up.

The Mother of Fingers let out a sharp shriek, and the head of the fingers suddenly thrashed about, howling in pain for the long-lost agony.

Ashmi naturally wouldn't let the opportunity of her opponent's confusion due to the sting slip by. Perhaps the Mother of Fingers hadn't fought for too long, but she never let her guard down.

Seizing the momentary opening, Ashmi slashed diagonally upwards with his hunting finger knife, aiming straight for the wart-like spot in the center of the opponent's fingertip!

The Mother of Fingers, who had just opened her eyes, hurriedly turned to the side, the tip of the knife barely grazing the edge of her eyeball, leaving a crack that was tinged with starlight.

Before the Mother of Fingers could retaliate, Ashmi pressed her advantage once again.

The Hunter's Finger Knife is a symbol of city destruction, a blood-stained cursed object. Yet now, in Ashmi's hands, the dull dagger reveals the most savage fangs of the Eternal City.

She is the wolf fang that strikes suddenly under the dark moon, tearing apart the false starry sky.

Ashmi let out a low shout, and the Hunter's Finger Blade slashed out with a ghostly afterimage, heading straight for the thick fingers supporting the Mother of Fingers.

Her movements were as swift as lightning; wherever the blade passed, the air was cut with a sharp whistling sound.

Forced to act, the Mother of Fingers suddenly shifted sideways, her countless fingers wriggling like centipedes, causing her massive body to dodge at an eerie speed.

Ashmi's pursuit failed, but she was not fighting alone.

Bai Shi seemed to have seen through the other party's plan completely, and arrived on His inevitable path just as the Mother of Fingers began to evade.

He held his sword horizontally at his side, his legs spread wide apart, his hands gripping the Star Shadow tightly without moving, accumulating some indescribable 'aura'.

Bai Shi's aura completely froze, as if merging with the surrounding starlight. The water beneath his feet was forced back by an invisible pressure, forming a concave vacuum zone.

The Star Shadow Katana hummed in his hand, and dark purple light swirled like a living thing on the dull, corpse-like blade.

Each tremor tore at the surrounding air, producing a sharp tearing sound.

The Mother of Fingers paid no heed to the tiny human blocking her path. Her supporting fingers crashed down like mountain pillars, the resulting shockwaves carrying the force to crush everything into dust.

However, Bai Shi remained unmoved, but the light on the blade suddenly froze, and the darkness swallowed up all the light within a radius of ten feet.

The next instant, a dark purple arc of light suddenly swept past the Mother of Fingers.

The Mother of Fingers charged forward without stopping, passing by Bai Shi's figure.

However, Bai Shi slightly raised his eyes, flicked the bloodless blade, and a ghostly light flowed across its edge once more.

"One side is left."

This strike was truly astonishing; only now did the blade light unleash its true power.

Where the blade flashed, starlight vanished, all things fell silent, and even space itself was cleaved in wounds that would never heal.

Meanwhile, on the side of the Mother of Fingers, one of the supporting fingers had been completely severed.

The Mother of Fingers' enormous body suddenly tilted, losing its balance and crashing into the water, creating a massive wave of putrid blood several meters high.

The moment the blade touched the supporting finger, the wrinkled skin of the finger was torn apart like thin paper, and the dark purple divine blood was ripped into a foul-smelling mist before it could even splatter.

The dull thud of bones breaking was like a wail, flesh and blood writhed at the cut, and the giant fingers that had been severed by the blade were already shattered.

Bai Shi sheathed his sword and stood there. Golden light rippled out from beneath his feet, scorching away all the filth that had been splashed upon him.

Ignoring the Mother of Fingers' roar, which was practically a mental attack, Bai Shi and Ashmi approached the fallen mangled body once more.

In her agony, the Mother of Fingers was utterly enraged, and the long-damaged Herself seemed to have finally remembered how to fight.

His head was raised high, and the wart in the center of his fingertip seemed to be filled with resentment and anger. As the single eye suddenly contracted, a dazzling laser beam of starlight burst forth!
The beam of light was like a comet tearing through the night sky; the air was scorched by the high temperature, giving off a burnt smell; a dent was rippled on the water's surface; and ripples spread throughout the space it passed through.

At this moment, Bai Shi and Ashmi had also forced their way to the Mother of Fingers, both facing the massive laser beam.

Bai Shi gestured for Ashmi to hide behind him, but he didn't move. Instead, he slashed horizontally with the Star Shadow Katana in his hand.

The blade drew a dark arc, cleaving the starlight laser in two, grazing his body and hurtling into the distance.

The laser, now split in two, exploded into two dazzling starbursts in the void, the aftershocks causing water to splash and revealing the ancient bedrock beneath.

The instant the laser was torn apart, Ashmi leaped out from behind Bai Shi, his hunting finger knife aimed straight at the single eye on the finger.

As Ashmi lunged at her, a light once again shone in the eyes of the Mother of Fingers—a pale pink light unlike any before.

The pale pink beam of light, carrying an ominous aura, swept over in an instant. Ashmi, having no idea what this unknown move was, had no choice but to abandon his attack and opt for the safer option of dodging.

She stepped to the side in mid-air, her body flying out instantly, narrowly avoiding the beam of light.

However, just as she was preparing to strike again, Bai Shi suddenly spoke up:

"Ashimi! Behind you!"

Ashmi looked back and saw that the pale pink light had changed direction, drawing an arc in the air, and had already attacked her before she could react.

Caught off guard, Ashmi was struck by the light, and her body was instantly bound in mid-air. Even with her strength, she could not break free for a while.

Bai Shi immediately recognized the move; it was the same power that had bound him when he glimpsed the true form of the Mother of Fingers in the Eternal City. And the way to counter it was actually quite simple…

Bai Shi immediately rushed forward, and the Star Shadow in his hand released a dark aura, enveloping the imprisoned Ashimi.

The special attack on the finger once again proved effective, instantly dispelling the binding effect and freeing Ashmi from the restraints.

Ashmi landed back on the ground, feeling the lingering dark aura on his body, and sensed a power that he was familiar with and deeply favored.

She gazed at the hunting finger knife in her hand, feeling something stirring within her.

The Hunter's Finger Knife is a knife born from corpses, sharing a similar origin with the Divine Body Transformation Sword.

However, the Knox dynasty had no gods; it was a knife born from people filled with rage against gods who manipulated fate.

The Knox dynasty never had a king who could truly wield this weapon, except…

Ashmi stroked the blade and murmured to himself:
"So you've always been with me..."

A mysterious power of darkness suddenly surged from Ashmi's body, resonating with the Hunter's Finger Blade.

A terrifying aura filled with malice gradually emerged from the blade, as dark as ink, plunging the entire space into boundless darkness.

This weapon was specifically designed to deal with fingers; its extreme malice carried the Knox dynasty's grand ambition to slay gods.

This weapon, prepared for an era yet to come, for a king who would never be born, has finally been brought to life as the King of the Night, a figure from the grand vision of the Knox dynasty.

The power of the Hunter's Finger Blade was finally fully unleashed, and the other God-Slaying Blade, which was paired with the Shadow of the Stars, roared silently at this moment.

As the Hunter's Finger Knife and Ashmi resonated, the Night King that the Eternal City had been longing for finally arrived.

—That was the black shadow between the stars, the true night.

The false stars disappeared into darkness, losing their brilliance, while Ashmi was enveloped in the deep light of the black moon, exuding an unparalleled aura.

As night reigns supreme, she, the last and solitary queen of the Eternal City, will bear the weight of this unfulfilled vision and hatred.

But in her eyes, the sun's light never faded, nor would it ever fade.

Ashmi is the imitation teardrop of Bai Shi, an indispensable member of the Age of Light.

It will also be the king of the night in the sky and underground after the sun sets.

Bai Shi looked at Ashimi, who had unlocked new powers and forms, and felt genuinely happy for her.

Even though Ashmi has embraced the light, this power of darkness will never be a stain on her, after all, Bai Shi himself possesses countless different powers.

This darkness is the source of her birth, and also the path she came from.

Only when Ashmi held it tightly in his hand and waved it toward the Mother of Fingers did this weapon truly fulfill its mission of creation.
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At this point, having slightly delayed Bai Shi and Ashmi, the Mother of Fingers had already achieved her goal.

Originally, He had one of His supporting fingers severed, making it difficult for Him to move, but now a brand new finger has grown back from the severed part beneath Him.

Faced with Ashmi, who seemed to have undergone some change, the Mother of Fingers placed her hands on the crack in front of her chest and suddenly yanked it open.

Countless tiny, worm-like fingers gushed out, the abdominal cavity suddenly opened wide, and the dense, finger-like worms surged out like a tide.

The ground was covered with wriggling finger worms, amplified by the power of the Mother of Fingers, and they charged towards Bai Shi and Ashmi fearlessly.

Within His body, an even more powerful finger was slowly taking shape, eagerly reaching out to protect His mother.

Without needing Bai Shi to make a move, Ashmi snorted coldly and unleashed a fierce sweep of his hunting finger knife.

A vast black tide flowed like water, and wherever the black moonlight passed, the newly born finger worms burst open.

At the same time, the Mother of Fingers' wart-like eyes suddenly burst forth with blinding light, shooting towards Ashmi, whom she perceived as a dangerous figure—

Ashmi leaped backward without hesitation, and a deep, star-like laser beam pierced through the spot where she had stood, tearing the air in its path with dark cracks.

The laser's residual force had not yet dissipated when it pierced through a distant stone pillar, wiping it completely from the world.

Where it struck, a nebula-like inferno instantly rose up, burning everything in its path.

The laser beam never stopped; the Mother of Fingers rotated its single eye, relentlessly and frantically scanning and tracking the two of them.

Ashmi dodged repeatedly, occasionally using his finger blade to slice through the lasers, easily dealing with the god's wrath.

Even if a few aftershocks of the laser hit Ashmi's body and pierced through the darkness, they would only shatter against the even more solid sunlight beneath.

The Finger-Hunting Knife was a weapon specifically designed for fingers; even the Knox dynasty, which had no king or god, could use it to wound deities.

In the hands of Bai Shi and Ashmi, who possess power comparable to that of gods, the death scythe of the Mother of Fingers is ever closer, about to reap Her life.

As Ashmi drew ever closer, the Mother of Fingers suddenly leaped into the air, her dozens of fingers compressing like springs before crashing heavily to the ground.

"boom--!"

The shockwave exploded in a ring, forcing Ashmi, who was in the center of the attack range, to retreat, but Bai Shi rushed up from the side against the current.

The Star Shadow Katana transformed into a bolt of black lightning in his hand, slashing backwards towards the falling Mother of Fingers.

However, something unexpected happened: the Mother of Fingers, whose body was slamming into the ground, suddenly stopped and instead rose into the air.

Bai Shi's attack missed. Looking up, he saw that the illusory microcosm that the Mother of Fingers had been supporting was radiating a dazzling light.

The microcosm at the tip of the finger, the mother of fingers, suddenly expanded in the air, and pale pink starlight spread out like mist.

One after another, pitch-black void holes densely filled every space around Bai Shi and Ashimi, leaving them no room to dodge.

As the microcosm shone, orbs of light imbued with the aura of the universe were formed in the void, finally erupting fiercely at the moment of their greatest brilliance.

Bai Shi and Ashmi's figures were instantly engulfed in the continuous explosions, while the Mother of Fingers continued to sweep lasers, attacking the two's previous positions.

The continuous explosions lasted for a long time, and in the Mother of Fingers' understanding, no creature could survive this attack.

The Mother of Fingers slowly stopped her movements; even she felt a bit tired from the continuous attacks.

However, once the aftershocks of the explosion subsided, a hint of unease, just like that of a mortal, appeared in the eyes of the Mother of Fingers.

A barrier of sunlight blocked Bai Shi and Ashmi's path, and the explosion and laser did nothing to harm them.

Bai Shi waved his left hand, and the barrier of sunlight slowly dissipated. The two of them took another step towards the Mother of Fingers.

The Mother of Fingers finally realized that, compared to Ashmi, who exuded an aura that made her uncomfortable, Bai Shi was the most powerful life form on this battlefield.

(End of this chapter)