Chapter 577: Fighting with the old man is a tradition of the Souls series
The City of Ashes, Rodel.
The bright red golden tree was still burning, and its fallen leaves turned into ashes, floating down from the sky. The thick ashes were like winter snow, piling up layer by layer and submerging the entire royal city.
The former royal city has now become a gray city.
The once magnificent buildings were reduced to ruins. Looking around, without exception, only endless ashes remained, with only a few spires remaining, demonstrating the former grandeur of the Gray City.
"Tsk tsk, the former royal city."
Xia Yu sighed and shook his head. Just as prosperous as the royal city was in the golden age, just as sad is the Gray City now.
[Dark Soul 1]: This has always been the tone of the Souls series. The era of decline will eventually come, and all that is prosperous will eventually turn into ruins.
[Dark Soul 1]: Isn’t it the same in the Age of Fire?
[NieR: Automata]: This is not just the tone of the Souls series, it will be like this in any world. Look at the humans in my world, aren’t they just a pile of ruins?
[Talos's Principle]: Most of the end times are like this, they are ruins left behind after the end of the heyday.
[Food Addiction Dungeon]: That’s right.
Seeing that several guys from the apocalyptic world in the group seemed to have some resonance, Xia Yu shrugged and stopped paying attention to them, flapping his wings and flying towards the interior of the royal city.
Now that the royal city has turned into a gray city, it is time to go to the golden tree. If my guess is correct, the thorns of rejection should have been burned out.
In the beginning, it was the thorns that refused to let him enter the golden tree, so he had to burn the golden tree and then burn the thorns at the same time.
Only when the thorn of rejection was gone could he enter the golden tree, and then do this and that to Marika who could not resist.
Of course, if you want to do anything to Marika, you have to kill Marika's other half, Radagan, first.
This is why the Death Rune must be released in the game, because only by releasing the Death Rune can the gods be killed, otherwise the Faded One will not be able to completely kill Radagon.
etc!
Xia Yu suddenly had a flash of inspiration and understood why he would be teleported to the Sky City after burning the tree in the game.
If one follows the process of marrying Marika and then becoming the King of Elden, theoretically, one can just burn off the thorn of rejection, and there is no need to kill the gods.
But if you think about it carefully, if you want to marry Malika, Malika’s current husband Radagan will definitely not agree. After all, you can’t just snatch someone else’s wife.
That's why I need to kill the gods. Not only will I kill your people, but after you die, I will also steal your wife and sit on your throne.
(ー`′ー)
Speaking of which, the Faded One has to kill Gefrey before entering the Golden Tree, and Gefrey is Marika's ex-husband, so... not only does he have to kill the ex, but he also has to kill the ex-husband?
With this association, it seems that the Fader is not a good thing after all.
What's going on? I'm even more excited.
Xia Yu suppressed the evil thoughts that suddenly came to his mind. Although he was not a good person, the evil thoughts he had just had made him feel a little overwhelmed.
While flying over the Gray City, Xia Yu was also observing the interior of the royal city below which was submerged in ashes.
If he follows the progress of the game, he can see the praying teacher Colin here. Because Colin is absolutely loyal and blindly worships the Golden Rule, when he learns that his teacher Golden Mask has questioned the Golden Rule, his faith collapses and he falls into a semi-mad state.
The burning of the golden tree further intensified his madness, causing him to fall into despair and seek death. Unable to bear the torture, Colin finally committed suicide on the spot.
He was a pretty good person, but unfortunately he ended up in a dead end because of his blind faith. The ending in the game is also quite sad.
So Xia Yu was kind enough not to tell Colin the location of the golden mask at the beginning, and then he pointed the golden mask to other directions several times, so until now, Colin has not been able to touch the golden mask.
After he gained the ability to control minds, he changed Colin's devout faith, turning him from a devout believer into a general believer.
After all, he knows that the ending is BE, so since he can change it, why not?
After flying over the Gray City, Xia Yu landed on a cliff. Below the cliff lay a skinny figure with a mask that looked like the sun on his face.
However, that was not the sun, but a mask made based on the appearance of the shining golden ring, and the person wearing the mask was the golden mask.
He was a rigorous explorer of the fundamentalism of the Golden Rule and a great scholar with extensive knowledge and profound understanding.
Because he predicted that the guidance of blessing would come soon when he was outside the border, he returned to the border to explore the golden rule, and now, his exploration has come to an end.
"It has finally come to this."
Xia Yu came to the side of the golden mask and sighed softly. The golden mask had lost its breath. After completing his lifelong goal, he passed away with satisfaction.
And above the body of the golden mask, a large golden rune was floating.
This is the "Repairing Rune of Perfect Law", which can be used to repair the broken Elden Ring and make it more perfect.
During his exploration of the Golden Mask, he discovered the imperfections of the current Golden Law, that is, gods, like humans, have joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness, and these are the flaws of the law.
Only the gods are ruthless, which is the most perfect law.
I have to say that he is worthy of being the number one scholar at the junction of the Hand-Rubbing Great Rune. He directly discovered the problem with the essence of the Golden Law. It is because the gods have emotions that various subsequent problems arise.
If Marika was an emotionless god who governed all things, then the border would remain the same as it was at the beginning, and would not become what it is now.
Unfortunately, the person who originally formulated the Golden Rule was Marika , and she would not erase the feelings of the gods in the law. After all, the gods are her.
As a god with emotions and humanity, Marika was naturally unwilling to be controlled and oppressed all the time, so she also began to resist.
However, this was also noticed by the Supreme Will, so Radagon appeared and became the "loyal dog" of the Golden Rule.
This also forced Marika to make an extremely long-term plan, and now the plan has come to an end.
Thinking of this, Xia Yu waved his hand and put away the Great Rune floating above the Golden Mask's body. After all, this was the life's work of the Golden Mask. Even if he couldn't use it, he would not just leave it here.
He actually wanted to stop the Golden Mask at first. Wouldn't it be good for such a ruthless person who could rub the Great Rune with his hands to stay in the New Era and serve him? He had to fight the Golden Law to the death.
However, after learning about the Golden Mask's inner thoughts, he abandoned this idea and instead told him the truth that Marika and Radagon were the same person.
"Alas, now that I think about it, I kind of regret it."
Xia Yu sighed lightly, spread out his five fingers, and purple arcs of electricity flashed at his fingertips. Then the cliff turned over, and the golden mask lying on the cliff fell down, and then the inverted cliff buried this place.
It is really inappropriate for such an admirable scholar to be left lying in the wilderness.
After making a simple tombstone for the golden mask, Xia Yu flew towards the entrance of the golden tree again.
When passing by the Golden Tree Cathedral, he sensed another familiar face, "Sir Hundred Wisdom" Gideon O'Fnir.
Hmm...this old man actually showed up?
Obviously, all his actions were completely different from those in the game, but this guy still appeared here. Is this the inertia of history?
But he didn't have to fight with the other party. He could fly. Couldn't he just fly directly to the position of Elden's throne? Just let the old guy continue to wait foolishly.
Inside the Golden Tree Cathedral, "Sir Hundred Wisdom" Gideon Ofnir was leaning on his Scepter of Hundred Wisdom, waiting for the arrival of the arrogant Faded One.
He acknowledges the other party's will, but allowing the other party to get what they want is another matter.
Because he already knew that Queen Malika only wanted them to maintain the status quo and keep struggling.
Humans cannot kill God.
With this thought in mind, Sir Baizhi quietly waited for the arrival of the faded one named Xia Yu, and then used his own strength to stop the other party.
But after waiting for a long time, there was still no movement in front. Sir Baizhi was wondering if he had arrived too early?
But just as he was thinking this, he suddenly heard the sound of fierce fighting coming from Elden's throne, and the sound was so loud that it seemed like a catastrophe.
Sir Baizhi: ('°A°)
Was he skipped?
He finally made up his mind and decided to use his own strength to stop the powerful Faded One, but in the end he was ignored?
I'm so angry. The more I think about it, the angrier I get.
Sir Baizhi was so angry that he was mad for the whole day, and then... and then nothing happened.
After all, after one day, everything was over. Even if he was angry, he could not do anything, because the Faded One had already told him with his actions that humans could kill gods.
Time goes back to the present, Xia Yu flaps his wings and lands in front of the entrance to Elden's throne.
The Elden Throne is the throne of King Elden, located in the center of a large open-air square. Behind the throne is the entrance to the Golden Tree.
Red sparks were floating in the sky above the open-air square, carrying with them burning smoke and dust, making the air here not very good, almost as bad as the air in front of a cauldron of fire.
In this atmosphere of floating Mars, a robust old man with white hair and beard was standing on the throne. The old man was about three meters tall and looked like a very capable fighter.
In addition, there was a somewhat illusory lion lying on the old man’s shoulder. When the lion saw Xia Yu, it roared towards the sky, as if reminding the old man.
A lion plus an old man equals the original king. The old man in front of him is Ge Fulei, the former barbarian warrior Holly Lu.
Hearing the roar, Ge Fulei slowly turned around and looked at Xia Yu who was walking over. After a moment, he couldn't help but sighed: "It's really not easy to be able to fight until now."
"The Faded One, the warrior not blessed by gold, the great Elden Ring is indeed before my eyes, but I have returned here..."
As he spoke, Ge Fulei reached out and picked up the weapon beside him. It was a long-handled axe with only half of the blade left, and it was also proof of his battle on the other side of the fog.
"Just to see it again!"
As soon as Ge Fulei finished speaking, the lion lying on his shoulders roared loudly, and the roar caused waves of sound, sweeping away all the smoke and ashes in the open-air square.
When the field was empty, Ge Fulei stepped on the ground and held the axe with both hands: "My name is Ge Fulei, the original king of Elden."
Xia Yu put one hand in front of his eyes to prevent the smoke and dust from blowing into them. He chose to be a little indifferent to Ge Fulei's declaration of war.
[Elden Ring]: Brothers, lend me your strength. I want to kill the old beast behind me as soon as possible. I plan to skip this old man for now.
[Dark Souls III]: Why are you so anxious all of a sudden? I won't fight him. This is the tradition of the Souls series. Before the ending, I must have a good fight with a very capable old guy.
[Sekiro]: That’s right, it’s finally your turn to fight the old guy!
[Elden Ring]: What do you mean? Have you already fought with the old guy? Among our group, I think I am the only one who really wants to fight with the old guy.
[Elden Ring]: Whether it's you, Dark Soul or Sekiro, you haven't fought with the old guy. It's me who really wants to fight.
[Dark Souls III]: So you have to fight even harder, why do you have to just crush them?
[Elden Ring]: Since you didn't fight, I don't want to fight either. Okay, send your strength over quickly, the old man is attacking.
Outside, Ge Fulei was full of fighting spirit, his every move caused a whistling sound in the wind. He was holding a long-handled axe and flashed towards Xia Yu.
Before Ge Fulei could get close, Xia Yu suddenly began to emit golden flames all over his body, causing endless air waves to roll back. His golden hair soared into the sky, and his clothes burst open, revealing muscles that seemed to be cast in steel.
This is not a Super Saiyan transformation. Xia Yu simply thinks it would be cool to stir up a wave of air. Even if his clothes don't explode and his hair doesn't fly up into the sky, his strength still skyrocketed.
Xiao Kai is not considered to be opening, so this is not considered to be cheating.
"Ah, the fighting spirit is starting to boil."
Seeing Xia Yu, who looked like a warrior, Ge Fulei paused and the fighting spirit in his heart gradually boiled. He wished he could tear the "Lion Prime Minister" Serloxiu apart right now and turn himself into the warrior he once was, Hole Lu.
However, he suppressed the thought. The battle had not yet begun and he was not in a desperate situation.
Ge Fulei sensed Xia Yu's enormous strength, and he clenched his weapons with both hands. In an instant, he crossed the distance between the two of them, and then tore through the air, with the axe blade chopping straight down.
Although it was just a test and had almost no special effects, its power was not weak at all. Instead, it seemed like a return to nature and a full-strength attack.
Xia Yu did not dodge. At the moment when the axe blade was about to hit him, he clenched his fist and punched the axe blade hard.
A real man will face any attack head-on. There is no such thing as dodging.
boom--!!
A strong and powerful gust of wind swept through the surroundings, picking up the fallen leaves and sparks, tearing everything around it apart, and clearing out an open area covered with cracks.
Seeing that the Faded One in front of him actually blocked his attack with just his fists, Ge Fulei's fighting spirit became even stronger!
I don’t know whose descendant this faded person is among the group of warriors I took away, and how could he have such strength.
Seeing the prey, Ge Fulei couldn't help but say: "Good blocking, this is a real warrior!"
"That's right. After all, I am the one who wants to kill God."
Xia Yu grinned and clenched his free hand into a fist: "Judging from the round system, it's my turn."
After saying that, Xia Yu swung his fist towards Ge Fulei, whose fist was wide open. Endless light burst out from between his fingers, as if a tremendous force was held in his hand.
Judging from the special effects alone, Xia Yu wins.
