Elden Clergyman

"Well, please take care of yourself. If you're heading to Stonevale, please tell everyone: 'I love you. I'm still scared, but sooner or later I'll become just like you all.'"

"Okay." Lord nodded, but he felt a little dissatisfied in his heart.

Xiao Gao, are you dead? How come every two steps you take you to a delivery mission? Is he going to have to clear every clogged toilet in the village?

But before leaving, Lord looked around.

Although Nimgfu looks relatively harmonious and not as chaotic as the Weeping Peninsula, the surrounding area also seems very safe.

But for the sake of safety and the idea of not wasting time, Lord turned his head and called out the name again.

"Turn: ⑼隣∩＜si∽§仈⑷er⑼'∫隣wuos."

"Compatriots, I..."

"Help me keep an eye on her."

After pointing at Rodlika, Lord blew the spirit horse whistle and left with Melina, who had a subtle look on her face.

Only Chaos with a subtle expression on his face and Roderica who was trembling were left there.

Look at each other.

......

After leaving Roderica's position, Lord once again headed in the direction guided by the blessing.

This time, he didn't walk for long before he saw a castle that seemed to be covered with a veil. There were barriers outside, some soldiers stationed on the road, and a large crossbow inside.

After easily solving the problem, he entered a small door, opened a blessing in a room on the side, and walked a little further. In front of him appeared an empty area with no soldiers stationed.

If there is no boss, what will he eat?

After walking a few steps forward, just as he expected, a majestic voice sounded.

"The Faded One—"

From the heights of the castle, a tall being holding a scepter and with horns on its head like a hybrid brother gradually emerged.

"Driven by the fire of foolish ambition, I vainly dream of obtaining the Elden Ring..."

bump--

The tall figure jumped down from a great height and landed on the ground in front of Lord. The impact of landing alone set off a gust of wind.

Then he slowly stood up, looked at Lord, and spoke in a low voice.

"Then, including that fire, it must be extinguished. I, Markit, the Ominous Demon, will do it immediately."

"Can't understand."

Lord shook his head and took out his hound tusk.

"Anyway, we just have to fight."

In response, he received a jab from the sky.

boom--

Flying sand and flying rocks.

But it didn't hit the target.

Markit retaliated with a strike, but Lord anticipated it and dodged it with his hound fangs fighting technique, and slashed him in the process.

Then, looking at the large drop in Market's health bar, Lord fell into deep thought.

Wait, man, your numbers are a bit low.

After recovering some green bars and rolling away another attack, Lord did the same thing and followed up with the second stage of the Hound Fangs fighting skill, teleporting in front of him and giving him a blow.

Then, after two more hits, Markit's health was reduced to less than half, and he directly entered the second stage.

There is nothing much to say about the second stage.

Although he touched him with moves Lord had never seen before and the fast and slow knife, it was just a touch.

He then used Hound Fang to attack him twice, and after two more hits, Markit's health was directly reduced to the bottom.

Is this over?

Looking at Markit, who was half-kneeling on the ground and staring at him with a cane in front of him, Lord wanted to put away his weapon, but suddenly remembered something.

When the ashes become two, the fire will start.

In a place called the Painting World, a nun who likes to walk barefoot in the snow will give you a reward after you kill her twice.

According to the general routine, this kind of reward will be exploded after the BOSS dies, and the BOSS usually only has two lives.

However, just after you receive the reward, you put on the treasure chest head and the desire shield (equipment that can increase the amount of soul absorption), preparing to use it to brush more souls.

With these words, the fallen body will stand up again.

And, more powerful than before.

Just like what was happening in front of Lord.

"Beneath the ashes, all life will return to chaos."

The voice came from Market's throat, but it was not his voice.

As the sound rang out, golden flames ignited from the horns of bad omen, or the horns of blessing, on Markit's head.

"The law must not be violated, and the flames of chaos must be extinguished."

A golden magic ring lit up behind her, and light emanated from it, covering Markit's entire body, and wings like tree roots extended from behind her.

"Hey hey hey, then I'll join in the fun too."

The cane shattered, revealing a strange black blade underneath, with bright red blood flames burning on it.

Markit raised her head, her body entangled by three different forces, emitting terrifying power fluctuations.

Looking at Markit whose health bar was full again, Lord sighed.

He was saying, how could a city where such a powerful-sounding demigod lived be so easy to defeat? The BOSS guarding the gate had three stages and looked so powerful. It was not a place for someone of his level to come.

But just as Lorde was about to cut the tuba and throw the red tape behind him, a prompt popped up.

[The spirit 'Melina' has been summoned]

"Ah? Why are you here?"

Looking at the yellow spirit that appeared beside him, Lord was surprised.

Melina didn't answer, but just looked at 'Markit' in front of her and silently took out her mission dagger.

Lord thought about it, put away the red tape he had thrown away halfway, then took out the spirit-calling bell and called out the 'Lion Hybrid Ashes' he had received earlier.

Finally, he took out the staff that Seren gave him, holding it in one hand and the knife in the other, and together with the two people behind him, he looked at the enemy surrounded by three-color power.

"never mind."

"Then let's try it first."

Chapter 24: Stonewell encountered an evil omen from the gods, but forgot about it later.

That wasn't Market anymore.

As mentioned before, because of his own characteristics, Lord is like a flame burning in the dark night, easily attracting the attention of other beings.

And because its own laws can distort the surrounding space, it also makes it easier for other beings to project power.

The result was that after Lord defeated the incarnation of the 'evil omen demon', because this incarnation possessed many elements and was very suitable as a carrier for power projection, two different forces were directly projected over, trying to extinguish the flames filled with destructive meaning.

As for the last one, just as He said, seeing that the other two had come, he also threw some energy over to join in the fun.

Of course, they were just joining in the fun, but what was their agenda? Perhaps they could connect with the Golden Rule, investigate its status, or even peek inside the Crucible of Life...

No one can say for sure.

But in short, with the blessing of the three forces, the 'evil omen demon' stood up again, and was far more powerful than before.

And this kind of strength is not just about power, for example...

"Fuck, that's a nerve-wracking knife!"

"Shit, light pollution is attacking the entire screen!"

"Fuck, buddy, are you on fire? Why do you keep attacking without stopping?"

Lord was completely dumbfounded when he saw the monster in front of him, which was completely different from the previous one, with fast attack speed, high desire to attack, a bunch of combos with large-scale special effects, and a messy skill set containing various fast and slow swords and crazy sword monsters.

No, Xiao Gao, are you sure this performance is that of a boss in a Souls game?

Look at that five-hit combo of teleportation, which comes with a blood flame special effect after the slash. It will explode after a while, and it only stuns the opponent but doesn't knock them down. If you are hit by it, you will have to hit them twice in a row.

After getting a long distance, it will spit fire and shoot light cannons, and finally throw a few holy light knives when the vision is blocked.

In addition, after its health drops to half, it will occasionally raise its curse sword and smash it to the ground after completing a combo, causing a huge explosion that causes huge damage to the entire map.

What kind of super shit monster is this? Are you from Devil May Cry next door?

Fortunately, although the skills are outrageous, because it is borrowed from the incarnation of 'Markit' and is affected by Lord's laws, the damage of this thing is relatively not that explosive. Even if it is Lord's small account, it can still keep its blood after taking three or four hits of non-critical hits and speculative skills.

And more importantly, he is not fighting alone.

First is the lion hybrid. For some reasons, such as the influence of a certain fragment, the lion hybrid's combat effectiveness did not decrease much after turning into ashes, although it lost its flesh.

And after shaking it out, Lord also threw the greatsword that the hybrid brother dropped to it as a weapon. Although the output was a bit low, it still had some tankiness once the combat skills were activated.

As for Melina, although her human form has low resilience and low output, especially the Mission Dagger in her hand which has holy attribute damage, the damage she inflicts on Markite who is doubly blessed by the Law Furnace is only a pitiful double digit.

But although her output is even lower than that of the lion hybrid next door, she plays a key role that cannot be replaced by Lord and the lion hybrid.

That is to provide various buffs.

Damage, defense, slow blood recovery, and even opening your hands to plant a virtual golden tree on the field, adding a large-scale continuous recovery.

As for Lord himself, although he did not switch to a larger size, there was a strange buff icon on the status bar that he had never seen before.

Although he didn't know the specific effect, and it didn't look like it was added by Melina, at least he could be sure that after this icon appeared, the blue bar that had been used up by his combat skills began to automatically recover at a speed visible to the naked eye.

What is this, a special boss battle bonus?

After complaining in his heart, Lord raised his hound fangs and rushed towards the 'Markit' in front of him.

Furnace, gold, blood flame.

Hybrid, witch, ash.

With the collision between the two sides, life, law, cursed blood, and chaotic colors erupted in an instant.

Although Markit's skill set is very abstract, he was able to suppress three people at the beginning. The continuous mad dog attacks made Lord's health drop to the bottom several times. If it weren't for Melina's good healing capacity and the Hound Fang combat skill that came with invincibility frames, he would have died several times.

Although the Lion Hybrid's tankiness was greatly improved with the help of the Crucible Greatsword, the problem was that the blood flame brought bleeding, and the various full-screen special effects and attacks that blurred the face, even with Melina's recovery, its health quickly dropped to half.

but......

It's almost there.

When he climbed up from Melina's golden tree again, Lord stood up and walked towards 'Markit'.

The Cursed Blood Sword swung towards him, but Lord just moved slightly to the left and managed to dodge it.

The trace left by the blood flame exploded, and the second knife followed, but Lord not only did not retreat, but rolled forward and a little to the left, just at the limit of the third knife's turn.

The Hound Fang's combat skill was activated one second before the fourth knife came. While avoiding the fourth knife, he timed it well and used the invincibility frame of the second stage of the combat skill to dodge the fifth knife while slashing at "Markit".

Then, he jumped back to avoid the explosion of the nerve knife dagger and blood flame curse mark that started at zero frame, took a walk to recover some energy, and rolled again to avoid the fire breath and tracking light spear.

Holy light flashed, and 'Markit', who was originally far away, teleported in front of Lord in the blink of an eye. He slashed with a knife, but was bounced off by the small shield that suddenly appeared. Then he swung his tail, rolled to avoid it, and was hit by the Hound's Fangs fighting skill again.

puff--

The bleeding bar, which had already accumulated to the peak, was filled up by this blow, and the impact caused him to lose balance and half-kneel on the ground.

Then, execution.

boom--

Of course, this attack didn't kill Markit.