Chapter 345: Holy Tree Stage
Yidian Town, the sealed prison.
Along with the distorted light purple shadow of space, Xia Yu's figure slowly emerged.
The seal leading to the Holy Tree of Michaela has been lifted. Without the obstruction of the Son of Platinum and the invisible black knife, it is almost effortless to light four candles with magic power.
Before leaving, he took back the black knives, leaving only their souls without entities, which made them much more convenient to carry.
When I become the King of Elden in the future, I can try to resurrect the Black Blades. As a king, how can I not have my own guards?
While thinking about it, Xia Yu walked towards the portal behind Yidian Town.
Xia Yu, who helped the incarnation of Platinum Son Letina, did not think of taking it back now, because the Platinum Son in Yidian Town is also a force.
If possible, he would like to try to recruit these Platinum Sons through Letina.
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At the sealed door.
Millicent was clasping her hands together and praying, praying that Xia Yu would return safely.
Hearing the footsteps approaching from afar, she hurriedly opened her eyes and saw that the person coming was Xia Yu who had returned safely. She couldn't help but feel relieved.
Although she didn't know what was going on inside the sealed prison, the process must have been extremely dangerous.
After all, those sealed in the Sealed Prison are extremely dangerous people, not to mention this kind of multiple seals.
"Are you okay?"
Millicent walked forward quickly and asked worriedly.
Xia Yu shook his head, reached out and pulled Millicent over, then pointed to the portal at the end and said, "I'm fine, but... are you ready?"
Behind the portal is Michaela's sacred tree, and Malenia is at the root of the sacred tree.
That is also the source of Millicent's fate. According to the process in the game, Millicent will die on the way to the roots of the sacred tree, next to a scarlet pool of corruption.
Whether the player chooses to help Millicent or kill her, Millicent will wither beside the corrupt pool.
The difference is that if the player kills Millicent, she will bloom into a flower of corruption; if the player helps Millicent, she can die with her dignity.
Miyazaki, you old thief, you have no heart!
"What's wrong? Why are you frowning so deeply?"
Just when Xia Yu was beating up the old thief Miyazaki in his heart, Millicent suddenly asked.
After asking, she held Xia Yu's hand tightly again and said seriously: "Don't worry, I won't back down. Even if fate is unfortunate, I will keep going."
After she finished speaking, she pulled Xia Yu and walked towards the portal first. Her unwavering steps made Xia Yu stunned for a moment.
After he realized what was happening, Xia Yu laughed and shook his head, thinking that he was worrying too much.
Whether in the game or in reality, Millicent is never a woman who backs down easily. She is a flower of determination who would rather corrupt and commit suicide than bloom.
Why should he worry about such a dazzling existence?
As the two people touched, the space near the portal began to distort and dim, and the dark space enveloped the two people. When the space recovered, the figures of the two had disappeared.
Holy tree crown.
As the surrounding space shattered, two figures emerged out of thin air.
"This transmission is really simple and crude."
Xia Yu, who had regained his vision, felt the spatial fluctuations calming down and couldn't help but complain.
Although his spatial attainments were not very high, he could feel that the portal at the border area required almost no skills and was a completely rough transmission.
It is exactly the same as the teleportation trap that is designed to trap people, except that the portal is not covered by the trap smoke.
Millicent, who had regained her vision, first looked around the crown of the sacred tree, then put her hand on her chest and said, "I feel it. I'm closer to Marlene."
Just by looking around, the throbbing in her heart resurfaced, and even the memories that had long been blurred became much clearer.
That was the memory of practicing the Water Bird Dance, the memory of practicing the Flowing Water Sword Technique in order to suppress the Scarlet Corruption. It was both her memory and Marlenia's memory.
After recalling that part of the memory, Millicent exhaled, looked at Xia Yu again and said, "Then let's go."
"Hmm...wait for me for a moment."
Xia Yu shook his head, carefully looked at everything around the crown of the sacred tree, and said bitterly: "I will take revenge first, it will be over soon."
"revenge?"
"Yes, revenge!"
Xia Yu replied with gritted teeth, only he understood what the so-called revenge meant.
[Elden Ring]: Live broadcast of the Holy Tree's revenge. Come and watch if you want to.
[Interdimensional Communication]: What? Revenge of the Holy Tree! Coming soon!
[Clash of Clans]: Hurry up, I want to see a river of blood!
[Dark Souls III]: Hurry up, I want to see a river of blood!
[Sekiro]: Hurry up...
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When they first played the Elden Circle and first came to the Sacred Tree map, they were almost injured every three steps and died every five steps.
Not to mention the terrain where it is extremely easy to fall to death, just talking about the disgusting oracle messengers is enough to make Xia Yu and others feel a nameless anger in their hearts.
How could I not repay the humiliation and pain I had suffered in the game?
He won't be able to make sense unless he kills all the messengers of oracles here.
Among all the oracle messengers of sizes large, medium and small, the one he hated the most was the large messenger, the one holding the fan-shaped flute.
When he blew the flute, a bunch of bubbles would appear. Anyone hit by it would surely die. Moreover, it was high up and had a thick layer of blood, which almost made him sick to death.
Not to mention, there is also the extremely difficult to drop fan-shaped flute...
"Alas, a handful of bitter tears."
Xia Yu wiped his face and suppressed his ferocious expression. He came here to take revenge, not to suffer.
After taking a look at the oracle messengers who seemed to have not noticed them, as well as the corrupt ants below, sticky black mud suddenly appeared on Xia Yu's hands, and then he slapped the tree canopy under his feet.
The sticky black mud merged into the tree canopy in an instant. Without Michaela's sacred tree, it was now just an empty shell.
Moreover, the Holy Tree had already been corroded by the scarlet corruption, and the moss that looked exactly like the one on Galide was proof of that.
As the black mud merged, black lines appeared on the crown of the sacred tree, and small pink and white flowers grew among the branches.
And next to the nearest oracle messengers, black arms suddenly stretched out.
Before the oracle messengers could react, those black arms suddenly grabbed them and dragged them into the dark abyss below.
These little creatures, representing new gods or the emergence of a new era, had no power to resist the boundless darkness.
Xia Yu silently injected darkness into the holy tree and thought to himself that according to the worldview of the Elden Ring, any power has laws.
The stars have their own laws, the golden tree has its own golden laws, and darkness must also have its own dark laws.
Later I can go look in the starry sky with Lani. The Dark Law sounds very suitable for him.
A dark tide surged across the treetops, and twisted black arms stretched out, dragging all the creatures above the treetops.
The sudden scene shocked the oracle messengers, and they hurriedly tried to blow their flutes to stop the darkness with sacred bubbles.
But before they could blow their flutes, black arms formed a dark wave like a tsunami, sweeping up all the messengers of the oracle.
There was no screaming for mercy, nor any other sound. Under the sweeping wave of darkness, the treetops were completely emptied.
"Is it my illusion?"
Xia Yu looked at the crown of the holy tree that was already stained with black lines, and couldn't help scratching his head, muttering to himself: "I always feel that the power of darkness is particularly suitable for me, even though this is the first time I use it."
Millicent, who was standing behind Xia Yu, was staring at the dangling black arm in astonishment. She subconsciously realized... she couldn't retreat because there was a bottomless void behind her.
Michaela's sacred tree grows in the void outside the border area. If you fall into it, you will die.
Of course, because of the protection of the sacred tree, it is almost impossible for someone to slip and fall to death, except for the faded ones who have no human rights.
"Xia Yu, you..."
Millicent opened her mouth , not knowing what to say, she just felt like she was meeting the other person for the first time.
Hearing Millicent's voice, Xia Yu withdrew his hand and stood up, with an innocent expression on his face: "What's wrong?"
"you……"
Millicent wanted to ask what was going on in front of her, but the next moment, she was surprised to find that the black arm disappeared.
Not only that, even the black lines gradually faded, leaving only the pink and white flowers dancing in the wind.
Everything seemed like an illusion. If the oracle messengers had not really disappeared and the pink and white flowers had not been there as evidence, Millicent would have almost thought she was hallucinating.
"nothing."
After being stunned for a few seconds, Millicent came back to her senses and shook her head. Although the scene just now was very ominous, since it was used by Xia Yu, there would be no problem.
There is no good or bad power, power only depends on how people use it.
"Well, let's get going."
Seeing that Millicent did not look at the power he just used differently, Xia Yu smiled, put his arms around Millicent's waist, then spread his wings behind him and flew away.
He was not just seeking revenge just now, he also wanted to use darkness to corrode the sacred tree.
This is Michaela's sacred tree, but Michaela is no longer in the sacred tree. He was secretly stolen by the Blood King Mung during the Shattered War.
Therefore, in the absence of its master, the sacred tree was corroded by the scarlet corruption.
If the scarlet corruption can corrode, then his darkness can naturally do the same. However, this is the crown of the sacred tree, and the efficiency of infection is too low to start from here.
If you want to completely transform Michaela's sacred tree into Xia Yu's sacred tree, you have to start from the source, that is, to infect and change the roots of the sacred tree.
Therefore, there is one more reason to go to the roots of the sacred tree.
As for why he wanted to erode the sacred tree, who would think that his own power was too much?
This is Michaela's preparation for her own pure golden law, and anyone who can become the power of the law is a powerful force.
Although the pure gold is not yet mature and the sacred tree here is just a starting point, but... I picked it up anyway, so I might as well take it away.
Since Michaela is not here, let him be the virtuous one.
After leaving the tree canopy, the area below was filled with white houses, and in these houses lived a large number of sub-humans.
Demihumans are also a race in the border area. They have low status, ugly appearance and low intelligence. Therefore, in the border area, demihumans exist as slaves.
In the city of Moren in Nimgufu, there had been a riot of subhuman slaves. When Xia Yu was wandering around to improve his strength, he had helped the lord of Moren City to solve this problem, and by the way, he also saved the life of the lord's daughter, Irena.
Because Mikaela's sacred tree accepts all life equally, the subhumans who were treated as slaves in the border area can live here safely.
Even though corruption is rampant here, the demihumans have no intention of leaving.
However, because of the widespread corruption, there are also fungus people infected by corrupt fungi. These fungus people move slowly and spray corrupt fungi from their mouths.
It usually hides in dark places like a moss. If it encounters a living person, it will rush forward with a roar, trying to infect the living person and turn him into a fungus man.
But because of its slow movements, it is easy to avoid attacks.
In addition, there is a summoning snail hiding in the corner that can summon spirits. It is definitely a rare creature.
These old creatures can summon spirits to attack the enemy, while they hide aside and watch the show. They are as despicable as some of the Faded Ones.
Because Xia Yu had been killed by the crystal human spirits summoned by these summoning snails, these summoning snails had no idea what was happening and were dragged into the dark abyss by the suddenly appearing black arms.
At the end of the crown of the holy tree is the famous Holy Tree Stage. As the saying goes, this is the Holy Tree Stage and you will come if you are ordered to do so. This is enough to show how dangerous the Holy Tree Stage is.
The noble knight Loretta is stationed on the Holy Tree Stage. It was Loretta who led those races that were not loved by the border areas to the Holy Snowfield and the Holy Tree.
As a knight guarding the sacred tree, Loretta obviously failed because she didn't even know Xia Yu had brought Millicent to the sacred tree prayer room.
The corrupt knight Xia Yu along the way did not take any action. After all, these soldiers no longer posed a threat to him.
He is not the kind of protagonist who would kill an entire family at every turn. As long as no one attacks him, he will not kill the other person out of boredom.
Unless there is a grudge, such as the Oracle Messengers and the Summoning Snail.
In the city of Abrefil, a branch of the holy tree, there are two incarnations of the golden tree wandering around. Although they are sacred in themselves, they are now corroded by scarlet corruption.
Every time it moves, scarlet corrupt mycelium will erupt, and there are Holy Tree Knights guarding the area.
Of course, the incarnation of the golden tree was also dragged into the darkness by Xia Yu, just like the five royal ghosts in the underground area.
This thing is even more ferocious than Greg. In front of the royal ghost, Greg can only be a younger brother, and a younger brother at that.
Finally, Xia Yu, with Millicent, finally flew to their destination, which was the rotten interior of the city of Abrefil, a branch of the sacred tree.
It was filled with an ominous scarlet corruption, and the stronger the smell of scarlet corruption, the closer it was to Malenia's location.
Inside the heart of the rotting sacred tree, rich scarlet corruption poured down as a muddy waterfall.
And in this quagmire, the larvae of the followers of corruption are bred. Even though these insects have been abandoned by the Goddess of Corruption, they still unconsciously move towards the scarlet corruption.
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"Tsk, that's disgusting."
Looking at the scarlet corrupt waterfall and corrupt pool below, Xia Yu showed disgust. He remembered that there was a corrupt tree spirit in the corrupt pool.
After placing Millicent on the shore, Xia Yu quickened his pace and said, "Wait for me, I'll go destroy this corruption pool."
"Well, I'll wait for you."
Millicent nodded. Seeing this, Xia Yu flapped his wings and dived into the corruption pool. He wanted to completely corrode the corrupt tree spirit and the entire corruption pool.
Let Scarlet Corruption see who is defiled whom!
Seeing Xia Yu leave, Millicent clenched Yueying in her hand. It was impossible for her to say that she was not nervous at this moment. After all... she was about to meet Marlenya.
Just as Millicent was gathering her strength, a delighted female voice suddenly sounded from behind her.
"My dear sister Millicent! You finally accepted the call of fate and came here with us!"
A long-haired woman with her eyes covered with a white cloth suddenly appeared. Like Millicent, she also had red hair.
Behind her were three other women, all dressed differently, but all had red hair.
