The King of Elden does not die alone!

"Maybe," Mia replied, "I'm in a real mess over there, and I'd really like you to help me if I can."

"I can help you with anything you want."

"Let's talk about it later." Mia smiled and waved.

"Take care!" Altria shouted at the moving carriage.

The girl's cry formed an ethereal echo in the pyroxene jungle.

Here, the two said goodbye.

When the carriage left the light and shadow of the pyroxene jungle and walked into the field where the fire had just passed, Artoria felt particularly melancholy.

"Unhappy?" Merlin asked.

"Yeah." Altria nodded.

It’s as if someone who always cared about me suddenly left. I feel empty inside, like a sparrow away from home.

"You have to learn to adapt, Altria." Merlin said, shaking his head.

"why?"

"To become a perfect king, you must give up your human emotions."

Merlin brought up the same old saying again.

But this time, Artoria did not take Merlin's words as the only reference answer.

"Ms. Mia said that a king who doesn't understand humans can't rule over them."

"Yeah," Kai nodded, "As long as he's a humane king, even if he's not perfect, I can accept it."

Especially when the one who is going to be king is his sister, with whom he has lived for ten years.

"Vortigern also said that if I were not human, I would not be able to lead humanity to victory."

"Did he say that?" Merlin asked uncertainly.

"He said: I can't lead humanity to victory because my power can't coexist with humans - that's what he meant."

Artoria knew that she possessed the heart of a red dragon and that mysterious blood flowed in her body.

"So, humanity is indispensable." Altria said, turning her horse's head.

"It's three to one. We follow the principle of the minority obeying the majority. Merlin, you should think about whether there is something wrong with you~" Kai also rode his horse and passed by Merlin: "Mistakes are not terrible, what is terrible is not repenting."

As he said this, he patted Merlin's horse's buttocks.

"Hey! How could you do this?" Merlin yelled in anger, "I have protected Altria for ten years. Even if I have no credit, I have worked hard!"

"If what you mean by protection is forcing her to take extra classes every night so that she can only sleep four or five hours a day..."

"Altria is a red dragon, a British red dragon. This kind of thing is a piece of cake for her."

"La la la~" Altria walked in front, swaying as if she heard nothing.

-

The green leaves in the transition period between spring and summer rustle in the breeze, and the sunlight shines through the gaps in the tree canopy onto the ground, creating mottled light and shadows.

"It should be right here."

A day’s journey from Lancaster, the traces of the forest fires of a few days ago have disappeared.

The fire did not spread here.

The golden blessing gleamed in the clearing by the forest stream.

Having not seen it for a long time, Mia felt that this thing was particularly familiar.

"Let's get ready to go back." Mia jumped off the carriage, Torrett returned to the ring, and the carriage was put into the storage space.

"Want to go back?" She looked at Wilden.

She found Wilden looking up at the sun shining through the branches.

There was a sound of birds singing. I looked carefully in the direction he was looking and found an unknown bird standing there.

"If I'm being honest," Wilden said, narrowing his eyes, "I don't really want to go back."

"I don't really want to, actually." Mia sighed.

"But I hope that there will be such a day at the border," Wilden continued.

"That's right."

To be honest, Mia doesn't like the wasteland style of the border area. It just doesn't look good to her.

But just because I don't like it, I want to go back.

It's not that you avoid something because you don't like it, but that you turn it into something you like because you don't like it.

"correct."

Before going back, Mia suddenly thought of something and took out a golden tree seed from the Holy Grail bottle.

"Melina, can we plant this here?"

"No."

But it wasn't Melina who answered.

Looking up in surprise, I saw a woman who had appeared silently sitting on the other side of the stream, on a tree trunk that bent towards the center of the stream.

Her face was hidden by a grey veil, so her features could not be seen clearly, but for some reason, her eyes seemed somewhat kind.

"you--"

"Call me Vivian." Vivian sat on the tree trunk, her white feet without shoes or socks dangling in the air.

She is not human.

Mia sensed a unique aura from Vivian, but it was different from that from Altria.

Is it a goblin or something?

Vivian tilted her head and leaned slightly against the horizontal tree trunk, like an innocent girl. "I can let it go about the matter of throwing garbage from the sky, but if you want to plant that thing, it's absolutely not allowed. We won't agree to it."

They said that the Star Rain was like throwing away garbage...

It wasn't very friendly at first, but it wasn't malicious enough either.

Mia was a little distressed.

"you?"

"Just ignore what I said," Vivian waved her hand. "Anyway, do you understand what I said?"

"Yeah, ah, I see."

"You can do whatever you want, as long as it's not out of line." Vivian pointed at the blessing: "Do you want to go inside it? It's okay, just pretend I don't exist."

"Can you see that...beam?"

"It grew from this land, why can't I see it?" Vivian chuckled.

"We actually wanted to leave," Mia explained.

"That's great!" Vivian clapped her hands.

Melina leaned close to Mia's ear and said, "It seems that we are not very popular..."

However, the whisper was obviously heard.

Vivian raised her index finger and said, "It's not that I don't welcome guests. I just hope that as a guest, I can say hello to the host, especially before so many things are dropped from the sky and some strange plants are planted."

After Vivian finished speaking, she waved her hand as if to scare away birds: "Goodbye. Next time you come to play, just remember to knock on the door."

Then, in the blink of an eye.

The elf sitting on the branch disappeared.

"Um..."

After a moment's silence, Mia angrily threw the golden tree seeds back into the Holy Grail bottle.

"Vivian? A strange...person?"

Let’s call them people.

He looked around warily and released a small amount of magic power to sweep around, like a breeze blowing through leaves.

Mia ruled out the possibility that there were people around who might be spying.

"Hold me," she said, taking Melina's hand.

And Wilden's.

I silently chanted the mantra for the return trip in my mind, and the dizziness came at the right time.

Chapter 1. Entering the City

Happy Children's Day!

Although we are not children, at least we still have virginity.

-

A bleak filter like that of late autumn in the wilderness.

The ruined walls of Stonewell reappeared before our eyes.

came back.

There was no dramatic episode that threw them back into another world. Under the guidance of the blessing, they returned to the border area safely and soundly.

This is still the bridge where the battle with Monggot took place.

Mia didn't know how long she had been away. The trip to Britain did take several weeks, but when she came back here, she found that the cracks on the bridge left by the last battle with Monggot were still there intact.

The last time I went to Nuln, I didn't stay there for long, so I didn't feel any difference in the passage of time.

of course.

We also cannot rule out the possibility that the people in the city are just being lazy and simply do not want to repair the damage on the bridge.

Well, looking at the dilapidated appearance of this city, this possibility is not small.

Mia looked up at the sky, the biggest difference from Britain was that there was almost no aura of stars.

Dark clouds covered the sky, and as far as the eye could see, the only light in the sky was the golden tree.

There should be sunlight at the border, but it is not visible now.

千!?"寻:小;.;说?;'中.:!转"裙!?'2"5!!..5,5'""9'.!5,3!?'0":0至于那颗黄金树？就算身为黄金树的后裔，米娅也无法从那棵树上感觉到多少亲切的感情。

The tree was indeed so tall and majestic, but it made Mia feel a kind of gloomy old age.

Is this a bad thing for Mia?

Maybe not.

When she first arrived at the border, she couldn't read what kind of aura this tree contained from the light of the golden tree.

When Mia first saw the golden tree...

There was no other feeling other than 'oh wow, it's so big'.

The girl adjusted her belt.

“Find a way to get in,” she said, looking at the tall tower.

In the game, there are two ways to enter Stonewell City.

The first one is to force your way through the door.

Of course, the crossbows and defenders in the city will give the Faded Ones who have fought their way through all the obstacles a severe defeat.

The second option is to accept the suggestion of the gatekeeper Gotok and sneak into the city from the path under the city wall. This is much simpler than going through the main gate, but it is still challenging.

but.

Mia, however, has some rebellious ideas.

Why do we have to go through the main entrance?