Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Chapter 300: "Eternal City" Noklong

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I rode on Torret and used the rising cyclone in front of the Sacrifice Bridge to leap onto the hill on the opposite side of the Sealed Prison, then went straight down the slope towards Hyde Fortress.

Even from a distance away from the foggy forest, you can see countless pieces of rubble suspended in the air, a spectacle that looks like a static storm.

There is the entrance to the underground "Eternal City" Noklongn, which was created by a meteorite.

By the time I arrived at the huge meteorite crater, Stonewell's soldiers and the small Asians from Hyde Fortress had already built fences and fortifications here, and there was also a giant mountain troll guarding the place.

——Well, after all, four or five days have passed since the meteor fell.

——The fog forest area belongs to Nimgefu’s territory, so Nefeli and the others naturally cannot just ignore it.

I rode Torret forward and was spotted by the Asians. They immediately rushed over, howling. Fortunately, someone stopped them in time: "Stop, he is not our enemy."

Following the sound, I saw an elegant blond man, just like when we first met, wearing a dark blue robe on the outside and a green shirt with golden patterns on the inside.

"What? Don't you recognize me, old friend?" The other person smiled and extended his hand to me.

"Kenneth Hyde!" I immediately turned over Torrett, smiled and held his hand, and hugged him, "Why are you here?"

"Didn't you tell Diros a few days ago that the meteorite fell in the fog forest area? The matter in Morn City has just been dealt with, and I was also worried about the fortress, so I hurried back." Hyde looked me up and down, then nodded and said, "Well, it seems that you are now a knight of the Kalia royal family."

"Why, do you regret not keeping me to work under you?" I couldn't help but joke.

Hyde listened and smiled. "I don't regret it. After all, the situation in Hyde Fortress at that time was not good enough to force you to stay here. Moreover, after listening to what Lady Nefeli, Hurtok and Edson said about you, I am even more grateful that Nimgefu can wait for a brave man like you, Zero."

"Hahaha, you're too kind, Hyde. If I really think about it, if it weren't for the brass dagger you gave me, I wouldn't have been able to get in touch with Edson, let alone overthrow Greg's rule."

Hyde shook his head and smiled without saying anything.

"By the way, what's the situation here now?" I ended the greetings and asked curiously, pointing at the meteorite crater.

Hyde looked up and thought for a moment, then slowly told me: "The demi-humans told me that before Stonewell's army arrived and blocked this place, many Faded Ones had already sneaked in... However, judging from the people who escaped, their experiences were not simple. We rescued a person at the entrance of the night, and he is still mumbling words like 'Don't eat me'."

——······Are there monsters that eat people in the Eternal City?

I frowned slightly.

"Stonewell's decision is to wait for the people of Kalia to come and investigate. After all, a military advisor named Igi told Lady Nepheli that they have a professional candidate... It looks like it's you, Zero." Hyde turned his head and looked at me. "In short, you must be careful about everything."

"Yeah, I see." I rode back to Torrett, said goodbye to Kenneth Hyde, and headed towards the boulder pit.

Even after several days, it was still gray inside, and it was hard to tell whether it was coming from the mist in the foggy forest or the dust raised by the falling meteorite.

Fortunately, the general appearance of the pit was similar to that in the game, so Torrett easily crossed several large floating stones and found the small entrance to Noklongn.

——Speaking of which, I didn’t feel any levitation power at all that could even lift rocks!

——I thought that in real life, I could become an astronaut and travel.

But when I looked at the side, I saw the water rushing down into the depths of the giant pit. It turned out that I was thinking too much.

This phenomenon is really strange. Could it be that these floating stones are actually fragments of meteorites?

"Whee!" While I was daydreaming, Torrett called out softly from the entrance.

——Oh, this guy seems to be unable to enter Noklongen, right? I remember.

"Leave it to me from now on. You go back first, Torret." With my promise, Torret turned into powder of light and returned to the whistle ring.

I prepared my weapon and stepped into the dark cave.

When I arrived here, the sky outside was already dawning in the early morning, but inside this doorway, it was still so dark that I couldn't see my hand in front of me. Coupled with the fog coming in from outside, it was even more difficult to see the road ahead.

——This is different from the game.

——Perhaps to take care of our player A-Ti, there is some light in the game whether it is at night or underground, just like the night in modern society, so people won’t be unable to find the way.

But in reality, the night outside is not so bad, after all, there is the light of the golden tree. Once you are in a cave or underground, where the golden tree cannot reach, it will be so dark that it is terrifying.

There were pale lights on the wall, but there were only a few of them, which could not illuminate the entire dark space, but made it even more eerie.

I'd better just take the portable lantern and hold the torch in my left hand... Here I go!

Sha la la ~

Right in front of my heels, there was a huge hole in the floor. The sand and gravel raised by my footsteps rolled down into the darkness. If I took one more step forward, I would fall down!

I leaned forward and luckily, the next level was not far away, only two or three meters high, so I could easily jump down.

Go down two floors and walk out from the small door of this broken room.

What appeared before our eyes was a huge cavity, and the sound of flowing water could be faintly heard from underneath - that should be the underground Shifra River basin.

And here, the houses of the "Eternal City" Noklongen are hidden in the gray darkness, and only some outlines can be vaguely seen. It is like a huge toy box. Houses built with building blocks are scattered in it. There is even a clock tower built from the top of the cave, which is like a stalactite in the cave, which is amazing.

According to the memory in the game, I walked forward along the roof, aiming for the house at the end that connected the upper and lower caves.

However, halfway up the roof that looked like a single-plank bridge, I found a stable stone pillar, then jumped hard toward the spire on the other side and stepped onto the terrace at the edge.

Going forward from here, I remember there would be a spiritual fire torch, which would provide good lighting... Yes, yes, I got the spiritual fire torch from the collapsed person in the corner of the small house in this bungalow.

However, the man's attire looked rather messy, perhaps he was a Fader.

There were several bloody holes on his body, from which some silvery liquid, like mercury, came out.

——How did he fall here?

As soon as this question flashed through my mind, I heard a sharp sound of breaking air.

whoosh-

There was no time to swing the sword to block. After all, by the time he found an object to attack in this dark world, it was almost hitting his head.

I quickly rolled over to avoid it, and a long, silvery-white needle with thorns like a thorn pierced the spot where I was just now.

——It is the black slime in the game! At the same time, it is also the prototype of the bionic teardrop!

——And the long needles they shoot are more like the barbed crossbow arrows in the game, which are also props that can be collected nearby.

Although he reacted promptly enough, his face was still grazed by the barb of the arrow. It was only a slight sting at first, but now it's burning over most of his face.

I finally know why the Faded One died in this place.

Pick up the spiritual fire torch and light it up, and it will give the slimes hiding in the shadows a target.

They can be said to be similar to the Sons of Platinum, and are byproducts of the Eternal City's attempt to create its own king.

Therefore, the long needles shot out from parts of the slimes' bodies are as poisonous as the platinum blood coagulation to us, the faded ones who were once the golden people!

Whoosh whoosh—

The next second, more arrows came!

The big black knife is useless here, so I quickly changed to a brass shield to block the shooting of the slimes. At the same time, according to the memory in the game, I jumped off the balcony on this side and rushed to the other side along the house that collapsed horizontally to serve as a bridge.

After all, this dark environment is just like the Vietnamese army hiding in the rainforest for those slimes. Looking for them will only be a waste of time, and the longer they stay here, the less safe they will be.

Fortunately, the shooting frequency of the slime is quite slow. After one wave, there will be a gap of five or six seconds before the next round.

During this time, I used my combat skill, Hound Step, to quickly run through the cave and jumped into the window of the house at the end.

This is the real Noklong!

In addition... one of the strongest veterans in the border area, Brother Teardrop, here I come~