Elden Ring: Atai vows to have a perfect ending

Chapter 323 Blood Dance

Following Torret's footsteps, we passed through the bushes and arrived at the edge of a cliff.

The sound of Torrett's horse hooves and Colin's cries continued to be heard from below.

However, it seems to be understandable.

In the dark environment, for Colin's safety, Torrett must have jumped off the cliff to avoid the pursuit of the bleeding dog.

But Colin was a prophetic prayer, and not only was his eyes covered with a cloth, the sudden feeling of falling must have made him think that Torrett had lost his footing and jumped off the cliff with him to commit suicide.

And now they could faintly hear the sound of dogs barking from their side. They were probably being chased by another wave of bleeding dogs hiding in the Second Church of Marika.

"Let's go." I sighed helplessly, jumped off the cliff which was only three or five meters high, and walked out of the woods with Roger following the sound.

Sure enough, in the open space in front of the Marika Second Church, three dogs, a horse and a human figure were circling around.

These bleeding dogs are quite resourceful. One is responsible for chasing the butt, while the other two are constantly trying to find ways to bypass and attack from the side.

But Torrett was no ordinary horse. With just a light jump, he toyed with the bleeding dog under his hooves.

Even Colin, who was on horseback, had his feet grazed by the bloody dog's fangs several times. He didn't know how to control Torret properly, so he let the dog play while he felt like he was on a roller coaster and was very scared.

"Torre..."

I was about to call Torret back, but Roger interrupted me. He pointed in the direction of the church, and a dark figure came out holding a rapier.

——A blood noble?

——“Pure Purple Blood Finger” Eleonora is not here?

No matter what, let’s go up and help first.

"Brother Jie, I'll leave those bleeding dogs to you." I strode forward with Night Star Fire in my hand, and then shouted to Torrett, "Torrett, come back!"

“Woof woof! Woof woof woof—”

The bleeding dogs also heard my voice, and two of them immediately pounced on me.

But a few azure rays of light flashed by, and they were all forced back by Roger's sword circle.

However, the vitality of these bleeding dogs was unexpectedly strong, and their bodies were larger than the ones in the forest just now. The injured wild dogs felt threatened, so they all rushed towards Roger, barking.

I had already rushed towards the blood noble, dragged my long sword, and directly slashed him with the reverse cassock.

The opponent turned around nimbly and dodged the attack, then the rapier in his hand, filled with scarlet blood, pierced me repeatedly.

Combat skills - Dynasty sword skills, with a combination of blood collection?

——If you get hit by this, you will probably go into bleeding state right away.

I didn't dare to block it and could only dodge it continuously.

This time, the opponent's sword was even more fierce and swift as the wind, one sword faster than the other, pressing me closer and closer.

bass--

I felt a stinging pain on my cheek, and I had to use my magic power to perform the hound step, trying to temporarily keep some distance.

But in the dark night before my eyes, a flash of scarlet light immediately appeared, causing me to subconsciously swing my knife to block it.

As the thrown dagger forced me to stop, the blood noble immediately followed quickly, and the sword's sharp edges once again came towards me like raindrops.

——It’s really tricky.

——Once you reach the Yatan Plateau, you can no longer rely on just using the hound pace to make your opponent run around in circles.

But in this case...

I also drew blood across the blade, withstood the continuous attacks of the rapier, and swung the sword with all my strength.

Combat skill——Blood slash!

The blood noble was also slightly stunned and hurriedly distanced himself, but the surprising blood blade still cut open his collar.

I took out the Holy Grail bottle and drank it, doing a simple recovery.

The blood noble walked around me, his eyes hidden under his hood, and he couldn't help but look at me more carefully.

——What? You only allow people from the Blood Dynasty to use the power of the "Mother of Truth", but you don't allow me, A-Ti, to develop my own blood fighting skills?

——You don’t even want to call me the Blood Godfather, which is really tear-jerking.

Just kidding~

I used the hound pace, attacked first, suddenly stepped on the gust of wind and leaped up, holding the night star in one hand and stabbed straight at the opponent.

The Blood Noble used the Dynasty Sword Skill again, turning around gracefully and avoiding the attack at a relatively extreme distance, so that he could raise his sword at the first moment and stab me straight at my missed attack.

However, the surging blood power on the Night Star Fire could no longer be suppressed and suddenly exploded.

Combat skill - bloody wolf howl.

The splattering blood was like tiny needles, carrying with it an impact force that caused the blood nobles who were not prepared to lose their guard and stumble backwards.

But there was a flash of knife light, and the black blade pierced through his chest, causing all the nobleman's strength to flow to the ground along with the blood gushing out of his body.

"You're attacking too hastily." I raised my foot, kicked the opponent away, and drew my sword.

And the blood noble also fell backwards, suddenly falling into the darkness.

thump--

— Water? Damn!

By the time I reacted, the guy had already merged into a pool of blood and disappeared from my sight.

——This is the Blood Dynasty’s unique way of escaping. Even though that Crazy Fire Us had used it twice in front of me, I still couldn’t guard against it.

——It seems that the next time I encounter an enemy from the Blood Dynasty, it would be more practical to just chop off their heads.

"Zero!" Roger had already cooperated with Colin and Torrett to deal with those bleeding dogs and walked towards me.

"······That man has escaped, and I don't know if he will call for help. Anyway, let's leave here first." Since we didn't run into Eleonora, it would be better to be more cautious.

However, in this Marika Church stained with blood, blood nobles will only appear after defeating Eleonora in the game.

——Could it be that someone has taken the lead and defeated the "Pure Purple Blood Finger"?

——Are those crazy people?

······It feels unlikely.

We returned to the foot of the cliff where we jumped off. Facing the height of nearly five meters, Roger was about to take out the grappling hook.

Torret suddenly called out.

"Hmm? Can you just run up there, Torrett?" I guessed what it meant.

"Hey!"

"······Zero, you come first." Colin quickly jumped off the horse and took over from me.

——It seems that Torrett’s unruly nature has left some shadow on the teacher.

"That's great. Show me how much progress you have made after obtaining the power of the Ancestral King, Torret!" I pulled the reins.

Torrett suddenly took a step and headed towards the higher cliff on the other side of the cliff. After taking several steps on the nearly vertical wall with his light footsteps, he suddenly jumped to the side. With two consecutive jumps, he actually climbed up the more than five-meter-high cliff quite easily.

It seems that after absorbing the power of the Ancestral King, Torrett's acceleration has become faster and his jumping ability has also improved.

——After all, in the game, Torrett can’t climb over the high cliff here at all.

"Oh~ Not bad! Torrett, it's my turn next!" Roger was eager to try at the bottom of the cliff.

But Colin turned around and asked to borrow the hook.

...Well, as long as I can get up here safely, anything is fine.

Because we had enough rest during the blessing transmission process, we continued our journey overnight and walked along the avenue until we came to a broken bridge.

Below is a vast dark sea of ​​trees, hiding inside are many terrifying earthworm faces.

Although its strength is not particularly high, it can be compared to a troll giant with a curse spray, but that face is too annoying.

It's okay if I don't pay attention to it in the game, but in today's reality, if I have to look directly at the face of Cthulhu with maggots all over his head, I'm afraid I will feel physically uncomfortable and lose San directly. I'd better wait until I'm prepared.

"Zero, why don't we go straight through the main gate instead of taking a long detour? Even Rodel's back door would be heavily guarded, right?" Roger asked me while comparing it with the map in his mind.

I pointed to the other side of the broken bridge and said, "First of all, the golden mask that Mr. Kelin wants to find is very likely on the other side... Secondly, there are two uncles guarding the front, and there are also a group of regular troops. The troops behind are relatively weak. I don't want to ask for trouble."

"Is the golden-masked master on the other side? Master Ling." Colin's tone was filled with excitement.

I could only give a shot of prevention: "It's just a possibility. After all, I haven't seen it with my own eyes."

——Of course, in the game, the great sage stood on the opposite bridge without moving. As for reality, it is hard to say.

"Hmm, the portal is right there, let's go."

Just as we were about to pass through the portal and go to the other side of the bridge, an old woman's voice suddenly came from the darkness: "... Ah, it's really lively recently, and there are new people coming. Come here, come here, come to my side, let me interpret your fingers for you, come here."

It refers to an old woman.

She looks exactly like Grandma Enya, with a body hunched over like a turtle and sunken eye sockets on her shriveled face.

But what concerned me most was the word "again" from the old woman's mouth.

——Has anyone been here before us?