Chapter 574: The Burning Golden Tree
[Elden Ring]: I don't trust you...
Although the First Fire can be used to rebuild the world, his world is not as decadent as the Dark Soul world.
The Dark Souls world has reached a dead end, with almost no normal and healthy creatures existing. Extinguishing the first fire and reopening the world can be seen as destruction followed by reconstruction.
But the border area is different. Although it is also in decline, it is much better than the Dark Souls world. At least the sun in the border area is still high in the sky, continuously emitting light and heat.
The alternation of day and night and the flow of seasons are all normal.
The prerequisite for reopening the world is to let the world return to chaos. If he allows such a border area to return to chaos, wouldn't he really become the King of Madness and Fire?
[Elden Ring]: Forget it, it's useless to ask. Let's just use the insane fire as the fire starter. This way it's safer there's no need to worry about unexpected things happening.
[Dark Souls III]: Tsk, what the hell are you asking?
Ignoring a certain idiot in the group, the Faded One Xia Yu took a deep breath and jumped towards the bottom of the pot in front of him.
As he jumped down, the bottom of the pot seemed to feel the power of the fire. What was originally just a pool of ashes and sparks suddenly burst into raging red flames.
The flame of ash extinguishing ignited, this is the flame of the giant evil god that can ignite the golden tree.
The Fire God was a god believed in by the giants, but in the war with the golden tree, the giants were defeated and the Fire God gradually disappeared.
It is said that the evil god still exists in the body of the fire giant, but no one has confirmed it.
Xia Yu did not kill the fire giant who blocked his way. After all, that giant could be said to be the last survivor of the giant clan in the border area.
The mountain goblins are a branch of the giants and cannot be considered true giants.
In order to maintain the species diversity in the border area, he decided to spare the life of the fire giant.
Of course, another reason is the evil god that the giants believe in. The evil god is still a god after all. Although he doesn't know whether the evil god is still there, he doesn't want to create trouble.
There was a whistling sound in his ears. Xia Yu, overlooking the bottom of the pot, opened his arms to welcome the red flames rushing towards him.
As he welcomed it, the flames wrapped around his body, reacting with the crazy fire in his body. In an instant, the flames surged again, and he himself was also on fire.
[Dark Souls III]: The Cinder King of all generations! Please witness it!
Because after lighting the Ash Extinguishing Flame he will be transported to the Sky Island, which is the gradually collapsing Fam Azra.
So in order to avoid any accidents that might occur during the process and which he could not solve immediately, he turned on the live broadcast and was ready to call for help at any time.
[Dark Soul III]: The age of ancient dragons and giant trees is over, and now begins the age of fire!
[Dark Souls III]: Use the Flame Fist on the Golden Tree!
[Elden Ring]: That’s enough!
Really, the situation here is extremely dangerous, and this idiot is still making jokes. Can't he feel a little more nervous?
Xia Yu, who was secretly complaining in his heart, ignored the stupid things that were flooding the screen and quietly felt the flames that were getting hotter and hotter.
Then at a certain moment, the flame suddenly condensed into a point and turned into a pillar of fire that shot up into the sky. The golden tree in the background also suddenly caught fire.
The flames ignited the gold, and the flying golden leaves turned into sparks. However, the sparks were not very bright because the Death Rune had not yet been released.
The golden tree will not completely change color until the Death Rune is released.
Xia Yu’s next target is the Death Rune.
When the flame in the pot burned to its extreme, the powerful force of the flame broke through the space, and the broken space crack also took away the person in the center of the flame.
Before being taken away, Xia Yu had only one thought in his mind: the golden tree was quite far away from the flaming pot, so how did it get ignited?
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[Dark Souls III]: Strange ceiling.
"Strange ceiling... What the hell, there's no ceiling in this place."
After casually complaining, Xia Yu climbed up from the rough ground. Looking around, he saw countless islands floating in defiance of gravity, misty dust, and flying dragons flying in the sky. It was a doomsday scene.
"The air was pretty bad, but luckily I didn't feel any lack of oxygen or altitude sickness."
Xia Yu observed the surrounding scenery. Just by looking at the seemingly never-ending tornado and the flying dragons flying in the wind, he could tell where he was at the moment.
The gradually crumbling Fam Azra, also known as the Sky City.
It was originally the territory of the dragon clan, but because the Dragon God disappeared, the Dragon King was seriously injured, and countless accidents, the Dragon King's city - Fam Azra, gradually collapsed long ago.
The seriously injured Dragon King is not dead. He is now sitting in the crack of time and space, in the center of the storm. It is said that he is the King of Elden before the Golden Tree Era.
However, its god has left, and the seriously injured king is still waiting for his god to return.
[Sekiro]: This is not the real world, so altitude sickness is impossible. What are you thinking about?
[Elden Ring]: Oh, is that so? That’s so cool!
[Sekiro]: You █████
Xia Yu ignored the idiot whose swear words were blocked, and his telepathy spread out. Soon, he sensed other lives.
Orc!
It's not the kind of orc who is human-shaped with cute animal ears and a furry tail, nor is it the kind of Fury who is a human-shaped beast.
Instead, it was the kind of terrifying beast that looked completely alien and not astringent at all. If anyone could comfort himself with an orc like this, Xia Yu could only respect the other person as a real man.
The orcs with ferocious faces are not actually a rare race in the entire border area. In some underground caves, you can see orcs who have returned to the wild.
To put it simply, orcs are the followers of the ancient dragons.
We rise and fall together with the ancient dragon clan.
Today, the ancient dragon clan has declined, and the collapse of civilization has caused the orc clan to enter an era of crisis.
"Ah, I always feel a little sad."
Feeling those orcs lying on the ground, gnawing on the corpses of their predecessors, Xia Yu sighed and shook his head. In the former border area, orcs symbolized civilization and wisdom.
But at this moment, some orcs in the Sky City were actually almost the same as some orcs in the cave at the border. With the collapse and destruction of civilization, the beast nature had returned to their nature.
If it was just the return of animal nature, it would be fine, after all, they could still survive. But I don’t know if it’s because of the departure of the Dragon God. Without the protection of the gods, the orcs, like the Sky City, fell into uncontrollable collapse.
Not only did these orcs lose their wisdom, their bodies also began to rot and decay. It was so sad and pitiful.
Xia Yu shook his head and suppressed the sudden empathy that emerged in his mind. Instead of feeling sorry for the orcs here, it would be better to release the Death Rune as soon as possible.
At least this will allow these poor orcs to die and no longer have to live in such pain and misery.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu spread the Furnace Wings behind him, soared into the sky in an instant, and flew towards the location of the Death Rune.
The Wings of the Hundred Aspects of the Crucible is one of the prayers of the ancient golden tree. It can form golden wings and soar into the sky.
In the past, life was intertwined and indistinguishable.
Looking down at the collapsed sky city from high altitude, one can see flying dragons everywhere flying along the storm. Although these flying dragons also noticed Xia Yu who was also flying, they did not dare to get close to him.
The dragon power in Xia Yu is no weaker than that of an ordinary ancient dragon. Therefore, in Feilong's perception, Xia Yu is an ancient dragon in human form.
Of course, this was Xia Yu deliberately releasing his ancient dragon aura, because in addition to these flying dragons, Sky City also had several ancient dragons that could use red thunder.
He didn't want to waste time fighting the ancient dragons, and there were only a few ancient dragons to begin with. If he really killed all of them, there would be no ancient dragons in this world.
In the game, he can be a genocidal war criminal, but in real life, he doesn't want to be so cruel.
As long as the ancient dragon doesn't specifically provoke him, he won't attack without reason. This is not the ridiculous world in the game where even if you become the King of Elden, you will still be bitten by dogs and butted by goats when walking on the road.
After flying over most of the collapsed sky city, he arrived at his destination.
That is the Sky Temple located in the center of the Sky City. The Death Rune is sealed inside, and the guardian of the Death Rune is named "Black Sword" Malicus.
Marica is a shadow beast bestowed upon the god-man by the Supreme Will. Marica, who was once a god-man, hoped that her shadow would become a seal of her destined death, but in the end, she betrayed her shadow.
As for how the betrayal happened? Anyway, it wasn't the kind of betrayal by someone outside.
At the entrance of the temple lingers a dragon-clad tree guard, who serves as a gatekeeper to prevent anyone from approaching the temple.
As the initial BOSS of the tree guard, Xia Yu no longer takes it seriously at this moment, even though the opponent is an upgraded version of the dragon-clad tree guard.
Xia Yufei thought for a while in the sky and decided to kill the tree guard.
After all, he was going to fight with Malycus later. What if the tree guard suddenly ran in to cause trouble? So he had to strike first.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu took a deep breath, red mist emerged from his body, and an illusory mark of dragon blood lit up behind him.
In an instant, a red dragon head appeared above his head, and the dragon head seemed to be rotten.
The next second, scarlet smoke of corruption spewed out from the faucet, and the tree guard who was originally patrolling was instantly submerged by the corrupt breath.
Corruption of Aegis, a Dragon Feast Prayer obtained through Dragon Feast, is a high-level prayer that can demonstrate the power of "Corruption" Aegis.
Coupled with the amplification of the Law of Corruption he obtained, just one breath of corruption was enough to make the Tree Guardian fall instantly.
The corrupted tree guard forced his head up, but before he could see who had attacked him, he fell off his horse.
The warhorse under his crotch also staggered and died instantly.
"Don't blame me. It's because we are on different sides."
After killing the tree guard, Xia Yu shook his head slightly and muttered something, then folded his wings and landed, waving his hand to collect all the armor of the tree guard and the armor of the warhorse under his crotch.
This is a trophy, we can’t give it up.
After collecting everything that needed to be collected, Xia Yu walked into the temple through the entrance.
Feeling a breath approaching, Malicus, who was wearing the same clothes as Mungert, raised his head, his eyes filled with ferocious wildness under his coarse linen clothes.
"You who long to be near your destined death, I will not let it be stolen a second time!"
Even though Marika betrayed it, it still performed its duty to guard the Death Rune.
It seems that the shadow beasts are very loyal to their masters, this is true for the black sword Malicus and the half-wolf Blaze.
But when Xia Yu approached, Malicus' eyes widened slightly under the sackcloth, and his tone was filled with disbelief and anger.
"The Fader... I didn't expect it to be you..."
"Why?!"
"Why so many whys?" Xia Yu waved his hand to sweep away the dust that blocked his vision and stared at Malicus in front of him.
He and Malicus actually knew each other, but at that time Malicus was still called Gulanger and his title was also the Beast Priest.
On the night of conspiracy, after the stolen Death Rune caused the initial death of the demigod, it turned into dead roots, sprouting through the huge tree roots underground at various places in the border area.
And the root of death is the origin that gives birth to the dead.
As the guardian of the Death Rune, Malycus naturally needs to be punished, so it suffers from hunger and thirst all the time, and only by devouring dead roots can it slightly alleviate the pain.
In order to atone for his sins, Malikus became a Grunge again, guarding the Beast Temple at the end of the East, signing contracts with others, and collecting and devouring dead roots scattered around the world.
By the way, Malikus was first the "Beast Priest" Gulang, and after becoming Marika's shadow beast, he changed his name to "Black Sword" Malikus.
The "Beast Priest" Gulang became Marika's shadow beast, and the "Beast King" Serloshu became Gefulei's prime minister.
All we can say is that the orcs' priests and king were abducted by the Golden Clan, and their decline was inevitable.
"Grunge, since we know each other, if you give me the Death Rune, I can still let you go."
Xia Yu waved his hand and took out the hunting god's greatsword. Malicus, who was guarding the Death Rune, was definitely not weaker than a demigod in strength, so the weapon used to deal with it could not be weak either.
The Greatsword of the Hunting God is the holy sword of the Queen of the Night Eyes, who led the God-Skin Apostles in the past but was finally defeated by Malycus. It can control the black flames of the Hunting God.
Xia Yu picked up this sword at the bottom of the Gaileid Divine Tower. At that time, the sword fell into the hands of a Divine Skin Apostle, and he picked it up from that apostle.
Now the greatsword of the hunting god is once again pointed at Malycus, which can be regarded as a duel of fate and reincarnation.
However, this time, the enemy Malicus faced changed from the Queen of Night Eyes to a Faded One.
"Oh? It's this sword?"
Malicus' muffled voice came out from under the coarse cloth. He recognized this sword, the holy sword of the Queen with Night Eyes, the sword of his defeated enemy.
"It seems that you are determined to do this, Faded One. I will not let anyone who dares to covet the Rune of Death go."
Malicus stated his position and drew his weapon.
Its weapon is the five-fingered sword, the blade of which is made in the image of the five fingers of the beast, a symbol of the bestowed wisdom.
In Fam Azra, this is a dagger that only high-level priests can be given. Moreover, this sword is not just a weapon, the sword itself can also enhance the power of beast prayer.
Malicus was originally a beast priest, so naturally he would pray for many beasts. Most of the beast prayers that Xia Yu possessed were learned from it.
However, at this moment, the two are about to engage in a life-and-death battle.
