Elden Clergyman

"I said I just wanted to say hello to it. Did it believe me?"

This time, Enya didn't translate, he just pointed with two fingers.

"Anything else, Fader?"

"Master Finger said that if you want to become the King of Elden, you'd better set off as soon as possible. After all, time waits for no one..."

"Oh, there is one more thing."

Lord nodded and continued.

"I think there's something wrong with the Golden Rule—Grandma, could you please convey this message to it for me?"

Enya: “…?”

Isn't this a bit...

But after a moment, she still looked at the two fingers. After a period of inexplicable communication, she turned to look at Lord with a surprised expression.

"Master Finger said that now that the Elden Ring is broken, there must be problems with the Golden Rule."

"And it is precisely to solve these problems that the Fader needs to become the King of Elden and repair it."

"No, I'm not talking about the problems that arise after the Dharma Ring is broken. I'm talking about the problem with the whole concept. It's all single-threaded and there's no fault tolerance..."

Lord tried to explain what he meant, but it was obvious that no one on the other side understood him.

Even the two fingers were very humane, rubbing the top of one finger against the other as if scratching his head, clearly expressing his confusion without Enya having to translate.

After seeing this scene, Lord thought for a moment, then raised his two fingers again and paused for a while, trying to convey his message.

Then......

Enya was silent for a moment, then looked at Lord with a subtle tone.

"Master Finger said that this could be considered harassment."

Lord: “…”

Forget it.

Although he didn't know what the strange two fingers understood his action to mean, at least he knew that they really didn't get along well.

So he returned to Baizhi's office.

"I just talked to Two Fingers."

"How do you say two fingers?"

Lord thought for a moment and said honestly, "It said I cursed a bit and was suspected of harassment."

silence.

Baizhi looked at Lord with an increasingly strange look, and Nepheli beside him was even more shocked.

But soon, before they could react, Lord spoke again.

"But Two-Finger also said that it admits that there are problems with the current Golden Rule. I'll try to revise it later."

Baizhi: “…?”

No, isn't this topic a bit broad? And isn't the amount of information a bit too much?

Then, ignoring Baizhi whose head was beginning to smoke, Lord turned his head to look at Nepheli.

"Your adoptive father just said that, given your mental state, he doesn't plan to let you continue helping him. If you're bored, I happen to know a friend who's short on help. I can find you some work."

"I......"

Nepheli subconsciously looked at Baizhi, who nodded slightly and said calmly.

"You are free to do as you please. I have no intention of restricting your freedom—and my previous instructions were for you to follow him."

In fact, normally speaking, Nepheli should have always followed Lord.

But the problem was that someone's spirit horse was already fast, and after being strengthened by his soul, a flying wizard like Reina could barely keep up, but Nefeli was completely unable to do so. As a result, Lord had to find her when he needed her later.

Besides, Torret's back is only that big, and it's almost full after squeezing him and Melina in. It's not convenient to add other people. Otherwise, when going to Moen City, they can just take Irena with them directly, and Chaos won't have to be there to guard them.

And now, Nefeli's condition is obviously a little abnormal.

Faith is shaken, will is broken, and one even seems a little self-doubting.

If this happened in Dark Souls, and you dared to let her go, when you met her again, she would most likely be a hostile wandering soul that had lost her mind.

Although this game currently doesn't seem to have any setting where 'after losing faith, one will become an irrational wandering soul that attacks anyone it sees', Lord doesn't want to take any chances.

In order not to lose this cute and silly girl, Lord planned to find her some work to do and also find someone to look after her.

"I know a friend in Stoneville, the one you've seen before, the one with horns."

"He's short of work under him right now. If you don't mind, I can take you there."

Nefeli hesitated for a moment, turned her head to look at Baizhi who lowered her head to read a book, and then looked at Lord in front of her.

After a moment, she nodded.

"......it is good."

So Lord took Nepheli to Stonewell and introduced her to Markit.

Markete had a complicated expression.

He asked a faded person to work under him, the defender of the Golden Rule, and asked him to help keep an eye on things...

But in the end he nodded.

On the one hand, of course, it is because I am really short of people.

On the other hand, Nepheli had previously made it clear that she had no intention of competing for the Great Rune, and now she is quite hesitant about supporting Baizhi to become king.

If done right, not only could Lord be done a favor, but Nepheli could also be recruited to the Golden Faction, killing two birds with one stone.

"By the way, this is for you."

After settling Nepheli, Lord took out a copy of the Storm Eagle's ashes that he had found while wandering around the city of Stonewell.

At that time, the ashes were quite incomplete and could not even be summoned. However, after Lord's simple feeding, not only could they be summoned, but it seemed that the remaining consciousness inside them was also activated.

And now, after Nepheli was settled, the consciousness inside seemed to have sensed something and showed some excitement.

After Lord called it out, he found that the ashes seemed to be particularly close to Nepheli, so he simply took it out and gave it to her.

Nepheli was a little surprised.

"Is this urn? It seems to have the smell of an ancient storm..."

She touched the ashes, and a trace of nostalgia flashed in her eyes.

"I'm different from Roderica. I can't see or sense souls."

"Even so, looking at these ashes reminds me of my first eagle..."

Although Nepheli had received a lot of care from Lord, she felt a little embarrassed to accept the ashes.

The thing in the ashes evoked something in her heart. After hesitating for a long time, she accepted it with a blushing face.

"I'm so sorry. After all your care, I still have to take a portion of these ashes..."

"If you encounter anything I can help you with later, please come to me..."

"Well, I will."

After nodding, Lord returned to the round table and found Baizhi.

"Anything else?"

Baizhi looked up in confusion.

"A little bit, indeed."

Lord nodded, thought for a moment, and then spoke slowly.

"Well, didn't I just tell you? I think there's something wrong with the Golden Rule. Although the two-finger side may not understand it the same way as I do, I also admit that there are problems with the current Golden Rule..."

"Among the people I know, you seem to know the most about this, and have done the most in-depth research. So I have a hypothesis here, and I'd like to ask what you think..."

Although they had not spent much time together, after Lord spoke, Baizhi almost instinctively felt something was wrong.

"Wait a minute, let me prepare myself mentally first—"

But it's too late.

Lord pondered and spoke slowly.

"Well, you said that the breaking of the Elden Ring might be because someone noticed the problem with the Golden Rule."

"After discovering that normal means couldn't repair it, you wanted to take a drastic approach, restart it, and then break it down to reassemble and repair it?"

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Chapter 55: Just a Hundred Wisdoms and You’ll Know

The Elden Ring may have been smashed to pieces in an attempt to repair it after someone noticed something was wrong with the Golden Rule.

This conclusion was inferred by Lord based on the information he recently obtained.

Well, think about it, based on what he has learned so far, the Golden Rule has problems in the first place, and Finger also admitted that there are problems with the implementation of the Golden Rule.

Then when he was chatting with Lao Ma before, the other party also explained to him that the Elden Ring is the carrier of the Golden Rule.

Or put another way.

The Elden Circle is the computer host, and the Golden Rule is the software running inside it.

Then one day the system suddenly freezes and has problems. All normal repair methods are useless, so the next step is to try some unconventional methods.

For example, you can tap the computer case twice, disassemble it and check the hardware, or simply replace it with a new one.

Of course, this analogy may not be very appropriate, and to be honest, Lord currently has no materials to prove his conjecture.

But he just mentioned it briefly.

Because after arranging Nefeli, he suddenly realized one thing, that is Baizhi's weird attitude, he felt as if it was a bit familiar.

But it was not someone he was familiar with, nor was it some existence in the Dark Souls world, but something from a much longer time ago that had come into contact with more people.

Enter a question, click search, give an answer, maybe with a little bit of your own suggestions, and don't worry about anything else.

Isn't this a 100 search?

When Lord began to view Baizhi not as a person but as some kind of search engine, he suddenly felt that everything became clear.

Especially when you think about the fact that in this world, constitutions like the Golden Rule have tangible power, then it seems reasonable that search engines can become spirits.

So after thinking about this and speculating that the Elden Ring was broken, he came directly to ask him.

It’s just that this Baizhi search seems to be a bit slow to respond, and the database doesn’t seem to be complete. After I asked, there was no response for a long time, and my head was still smoking.

"...How did you come up with that idea?"

Baizhi felt that his throat was a little stiff when he spoke.

So Lord told him his speculation process.

Baizhi fell silent.

To be honest, he didn't understand Lord's theory.

If someone else heard what Lord said, they might think it was his mad talk, laugh it off and not take it seriously.

But the thing is, he is none other than Sir Hundred Wisdom, Gideon O'Fnir.

Although he cannot claim to be omniscient, he does know many things that others do not know.

Now, although he couldn't fully understand Lord's theory, just based on some of the information he captured from it, it was enough for him to infer some abstract things that he had never dared to think about before based on the knowledge in his mind.

Then, he put aside those speculations, looked at Lord in front of him, and said seriously.

"Could you please go out and leave me alone for a while?"

He was really afraid that if this person continued to stay here, he might make some outrageous remarks and he might be sent away directly.

"Oh, okay, then you can continue with your work."