Elden Clergyman

But the question is, when did this monster appear in the border area? And where is this place?

However, although she had many doubts in her heart, Melina did not ask.

Because before she responded to Lord's call and came here, she was told that now was not the time for him to "wake up".

Moreover, even if he himself does not wake up, as long as you accompany him forward, you can get some answers to the questions.

So, Melina didn't say anything more. After briefly confirming the situation, she took out her mission dagger and followed Lord silently.

With the addition of Melina, Lord's map-pushing speed and map-enhancing ability immediately improved by several levels.

Well, although Melina's damage was a bit embarrassing when she fought Super Mal before, her auxiliary performance was maximized.

Various golden tree oaths, golden tree gifts, and golden trees planted by yourself can increase output, defense, and slow recovery. They are already very powerful when fighting BOSS, and now when pushing maps, the effect is even more obvious.

In fact, it's not just the support. After entering this place, Melina's damage has also been greatly increased.

The holy attribute damage is low because the outside is the territory of the Golden Dynasty, and everyone inside is a golden citizen. Not to mention the BOSS, even the monsters have high holy resistance.

But in this place, forget about the golden law, human pus is flowing everywhere. Those soldiers who have not been corroded are still okay, but those who have been corroded to a serious extent have a negative holy resistance. A random blow from Melina can cause hundreds of damages. A combat skill called 'Golden Blade', which is both gold and flames, can directly cause more than 500 damages.

There is recovery and output, and because it is a real person, it is not as rigid as the bots in the game. Its body movements and combat awareness are quite excellent.

Although he cannot fight head-on due to his resistance and means, and his mana is limited, but as a support, he is indeed the best.

With the help of Melina, Lord quickly and effortlessly advanced a long distance. When activating another blessing point, a new golden symbol lit up along with the system prompt [Order is further constructed, summoning restrictions are unlocked].

But this time, the name inside left Lord a little confused.

[Summon the spirit 'Torina'? ]

Torina? Who is this?

Although it felt a little familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere, Lord really couldn't remember where he had heard the name, nor did he have any impression of such a person.

But it doesn't matter. Anyway, the Soul System often has those weird assistants. Some people even have to be killed by you before they will draw talismans to help you fight the BOSS.

In comparison, an unfamiliar golden talisman is almost too normal.

Then, with his touch, accompanied by a flow of light purple mist, the purple girl's figure gradually emerged and slowly opened her eyes.

"Mr. Lord, I..."

Torina's words suddenly stopped.

Because after opening her eyes, she saw not only Lord, but also the person standing next to Lord.

After seeing the person's appearance clearly, realizing something, and seeing the knife in her hand, Tolina instinctively took a step back and spoke subconsciously.

"......elder sister?"

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Chapter 30: My sister said purple is very charming

"......elder sister?"

When this name was uttered, a strange silence fell among the three of them.

Tolina didn't expect to see this 'sister' here, and judging by Melina's expression, it was obvious that she didn't expect to meet Tolina either.

Logically speaking, an unexpected encounter between relatives should be a joyful thing.

But even without talking about the evil family atmosphere among her brothers and sisters after the shattering of the Elden Ring, even before the Shattering War, Tolina was a little afraid of her "sister".

But this doesn't mean that Tolina knows her well. On the contrary, Tolina doesn't even know Melina well. She can't even confirm whether she is her "sister".

Because she didn't want to, nor dared to, have anything to do with this person.

As for the reason...

Have you heard the story of 'The Night of the Black Knife'?

For countless years, a group of black-knife assassins broke into the Golden Dynasty's capital, Rodel, and slew Godwin the Golden with a dagger that spelled death...

But this time we are not talking about the destined death, nor about Lani, but about the group of 'black knife assassins' who took action.

For some reason, the Black Knife Assassin is believed by some to be Queen Malika's subordinate, the black glove she uses to carry out some shady missions.

Tolina couldn't be sure whether this was true or not, but one thing was certain: the Black Knife Assassin was able to operate in the Golden Dynasty, at least with the permission of Queen Marika.

But the Black Blade Assassins are called Black Blade Assassins. Even before the results of the Black Blade Night came out, their various performances were enough to prove how dangerous they were.

Even if Queen Marika allowed such a dangerous group to act, she would not be able to do so without any control over them.

But if it comes to control, as the queen of the Golden Dynasty, let's not talk about whether Marika has enough free time to keep an eye on the group of black knives every day, just the fact that she is dealing with the black knives will have a bad impact if it gets out.

So, whether it is to lead Black Knife or to supervise Black Knife, in short, Marika needs a helper to help her do this.

Such a sensitive position, such a dark place, yet so important, I might even have to carry out some extreme missions...

So at the very least, the person who holds this position must have two elements.

He is absolutely loyal and can gain the trust of Queen Marika, and he has absolute trust in her and can tell her anything.

With powerful strength, he can suppress the group of black knives and also has the ability to solve some extreme tasks.

The people who possess these two qualities are the most suitable for this position, except for the exiled First King Ge Fulei and her demigod children.

But in the end, the person who took this position was not any of the brothers and sisters that Torina was familiar with, but a somewhat unfamiliar woman.

Melina.

Torina heard others call her that.

Tolina wasn't sure whether she was a demigod, her sister, or was specifically in charge of this matter.

All we can be sure of is that someone witnessed her fighting. Her posture was very similar to that of the Black Blade Assassin, or at least they were related.

There was also a man named Messemo, who made black gloves for Queen Marika in the Shadow Land. He had mentioned in the past that he had a sister, and his words did not seem to be referring to any known demigod.

Messemo served as a black glove for Marika in the Shadow Land, and no one in the Golden Dynasty had ever seen the sister he mentioned.

Because of his own reasons and the fact that he did dirty work, Messermo was not known to the public, and few people knew about Melina until she was witnessed.

One of Messermo's eyes seals the essence of a snake, while one of Melina's eyes has never been opened, and next to it is engraved a three-toed bird claw, symbolizing ominousness.

And for some reason, Tolina also knew that inside it was the "Eye of Night" which had the power of destined death.

But the crux of the problem is not here.

If she only held a shady position and was deeply trusted by Marika, Tolina would at most treat her as an ordinary "sister".

but......

A black knife assassin, destined to die, doing shady work.

Dear lady, let me ask you something. Who are you planning to kill with this destined death?

Who needs to be stabbed to death with a predetermined death? Who has the power to make Queen Marika wary? Why is a predetermined death sealed in a sword, and why do the demigods need to know about it? And then there's the classic anime "Night of the Black Blade"...

Tolina didn't want to think too much, but how could she not think too much?

Even if these historical issues are removed, there is still another problem that puzzles Tolina.

That was her 'promised one', why was he with his 'sister'.

And it looks like he is very familiar.

"She is your sister?"

After coming to his senses, Lord turned to look at Melina, who nodded after a moment's hesitation.

"Yes."

After answering this word, Melina shut her mouth. Looking at her expression as if she was about to grow thorns of rejection, Lord knew that there was no point in discussing this topic with her.

He didn't intend to ask any further questions. After confirming that the other party didn't want to continue answering, he turned to look at the purple girl beside him.

"Um, you..."

"Torina, my name is Torina."

Although she had not yet encountered a certain golden retriever, because she was in a core area, Tolina knew something about Lord's condition, and was not surprised that he did not remember or even knew about her.

But it didn't matter, she would make him remember it.

"I'm here to help you," she said seriously.

Lord knew that Tolina was here to help him, after all, she was summoned from the Yellow Talisman, but the problem was...

"Are you good at fighting?"

Looking at the petite girl in front of him with fair skin, long purple hair, and no weapons or catalysts in her hands, Lord's expression was a little subtle.

A certain Darkmoon Sword who has good looks, good damage, good defense, and good support at least knows to hold a rapier in his hand to show off. Sister, you...

"I'm not good at fighting." Tolina admitted it frankly.

As one of the twins born with defects, although Tolina bears the title of demigod, her actual combat capability can only be described as tragic.

Even if we only consider her hard power, not to mention other demigods, even the stronger Faded Ones can chase her and kill her.

But that doesn't mean she doesn't have other abilities.

"Could you please come over here for a moment?"

Following Tolina's instructions, Lord walked over, squatted, and stretched out his hand.

Tolina extended her hand and gently held Lord's outstretched hand. After a slight purple halo, Lord saw that his blue bar suddenly increased a little.

It does not restore the mana, but directly increases the upper limit. At the same time, a purple flower icon appears in his BUFF column.

"And this." Tolina handed him some branches that looked like they were picked up from the roadside.

【Half Dream Branches】

[One of the items that can be crafted from a branch that has performed a Dark Purple Prayer]

[Can stab yourself, slowly accumulating hypnosis points while also slowly restoring concentration points]

[After the hypnosis meter exceeds the limit, consciousness will become blurred for a moment, but the concentration value will not be reduced]

[Some consciousness can only be realized in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness]

[Some memories will also emerge from the bottom of my heart]

Is this a mana recovery item?

Looking at the branch in his hand, Lord raised his eyebrows.

Ever since summoning Melina, he no longer has to worry about blood recovery and BUFF. After all, Melina's healing capacity is impeccable.

But at the same time, after there is no shortage of means to recover health, the problem of mana recovery has become the biggest problem at the moment. After all, Melina in reality cannot have unlimited mana like in the game, otherwise she would not need Lord to replenish it after the battle.

And now, this branch can just make up for their current shortcomings.

But that's not all there is to Torina.

After initially gaining Lord's trust through the use of the blessing and the tree branch, Tolina extended her hand and let Lord carry her on his back.

"If you are willing to share some of your strength with me, I can also help fight."

After Lord agreed, Tolina raised one hand, and with the transfer of power, a lavender arrow gathered from her hand and then shot out, hitting a wandering exile soldier in the distance.

The damage was minimal, and the health bar was barely noticeable to decrease, but it instantly put the opponent into a sleep, and he didn't wake up until Lord walked over and executed him.

Facing such a powerful auxiliary, Lord's choice is of course -

"You'd better go down."

One shot depleted nearly a third of his mana bar, and the damage was so low that even minions had a thin layer of health. Although it could put the enemy to sleep, it could only add an execution at most, and it was not known whether it would be effective against other monsters.

If this were outside where one could recover by sitting with a blessing, Lord might be able to play with it as a toy, but now that resources are so scarce, he dare not waste them.

Tolina did not insist. After Lord spoke, she loosened her arms, returned to the ground, and followed Lord silently with Melina.

"...Torina."

As they walked, after defeating the enemies in another area, Melina suddenly stopped and looked at Torina.

"How will you be here?"

"I want to ask you this question too, Sister Melina."