Carry the Ring of Elden with you

Who is the warrior?Could it be that this Juseus came from the Land of Reeds?I don’t want this look either.

Regardless of what the soldiers he summoned thought, Roland saw Juseus slowly opening his eyes.

After seeing Roland's unfamiliar face and the homeless knights and the king's army who were vaguely protecting him, Juseus immediately understood his situation, and his face instantly turned gray.

He sighed as if he was resigned to his fate and said: "Shi Ke cannot be killed. I will tell you whatever you want to ask. After you finish asking, kill me and please return the body intact to the French Empire."

"I didn't say I wanted to kill you, but I do have a few questions to ask you. I'll let you go after I ask them." Roland replied.

Juseus smiled bitterly: "No, you killed all my soldiers. Even if you let me go back, I will not escape death. Rather than being sentenced as a deserter at home, it is better to sacrifice your life and return to the country with a fighting spirit, so that my family will not be able to escape." People will make things difficult for you.”

Roland understood and nodded in agreement: "That's okay, but you have to answer my question first."

"You ask, I will try my best to answer what I know and can tell."

"How many soldiers did the French Empire send to the border this time?" Roland asked.

"Many, my motherland has decided to officially go to war with the Charles Empire. The 100 people I led are just a small force to test the reaction of the Charles Empire. More legions are already on the way. I suggest you not to stick to this. The ancient city is desolate and dilapidated, even with the help of these two terrifying knights." Juseus raised his head and glanced at the two homeless knights, then lowered his head and replied.

Roland shrugged: "You don't need to worry about this. The next question is, why do we have to occupy Duogu City?"

"It's the request of His Highness the Second Prince. I don't know exactly why." Juseus shook his head and said.

Roland asked a few more questions related to the French Empire, and after confirming that nothing could be answered, he waved his hand and asked Ikosela to grant the veteran's wish.

As Juseus' head rolled to the ground, Roland suddenly realized something.

"Wait a minute, all your soldiers have been killed. How can I send your body back to the French Empire? I don't know the way." Roland's eyes widened and he suddenly felt confused.Why didn't I think about this issue when I agreed?

In the wilderness about 1000 meters away from Duogu City, Langet's figure appeared on the grass accompanied by the sound of space breaking.

He took a shaky breath, took off his mask, touched the corners of his eyes, and wiped away tears.He recovered from the loss of his teammates and began to walk in the direction of the French Empire guided by the armor.

"The Golden Dynasty, the Golden Giant Tree, the Silver Knight...especially how those two Silver Knights appeared. The number of soldiers of the King's Army who charged afterward was almost equal. It was as if these two outrageous knights simply appeared out of thin air. "Langote walked alone on the road, forcing himself to sort out the known information without thinking about the figure of the captain who had just protected him in the end.

"Haha, what if I told you that the man named Roland summoned all his soldiers out of thin air?" A charming voice sounded next to Langote's ears, and someone blew into his ears, as if Orchid.

Langet was startled. Just as he was about to touch his magic sword, he felt a pain in his throat, hot blood spurted out, and the energy in his body quickly dissipated.

"E...Li...Saba..." Langat fell to the ground and covered his neck, calling out the assassin's name intermittently.

Elizabeth slightly bent her knees to perform aristocratic etiquette, and said with a smile: "You have relaxed your guard too much, Lord Holy Armor. I have no way to get Marek's head, so I have to find someone else's head instead. Look, I just happened to meet you, so I asked you to lend me your head."

Then she blinked.He said mischievously: "Oh, I forgot that you are already dead. This is such a pity. I want to see more of your reaction~ Mr. Langote Envoy."

Elizabeth waved the blade, and Langat's dead head was held in her hand.

She looked back in the direction of the ancient city with a playful smile, and her figure gradually disappeared into the uninhabited wilderness, leaving only the headless corpse exuding hatred, attracting a few circling carrion vultures.

Chapter 24: A war is fought over who has more money and food.

Roland sat in the seat that originally belonged to Marek, dragging his chin with a helpless expression.

Marek and his guard captains were released after confirming that there was no danger.Then they saw Roland, who was directing some of the original residents of the ancient city to collect the corpses of soldiers from the French Empire's pioneering corps.

Marek is too old to see such a scene.When his legs went weak, he knelt down and kowtowed several times to Roland.No matter what he said, Roland would return the position of city lord to him.

You can go to these many ancient cities as you like. I don’t want the gold, silver, treasures, precious flowers and plants in my house. I’ll give them all to you.Just share some of my spare money with me.No, no, no, I won't run out either. I'll die wherever I go now. Just let me open a small shop in Duogu City and live my life.

Recalling Marek's crying appearance, Roland sighed again.

This city lord doesn’t just take it for granted. He is not a city lord like Marek who shows off his wealth and enjoys life. He has a lot of things to take care of.

The first thing to consider is to appease the residents of the city.Although the Imperial Development Corps did not cause many civilian casualties, there were still a few unlucky ones, and almost all of Marek's guards were wiped out.

Don't get me wrong, they didn't die too many, it's just that many soldiers saw the situation was bad and ran out of Duogu City with the caravan.With a tap of Marek, he discovered that apart from the three guard captains who survived with him in the city main hall, only five soldiers were left in the city.

If the guard captain hadn't recognized them based on their faces, Roland would never have discovered that the five people who took off their armor and pretended to be civilians were city defenders.

The second step was the repair of the house. The two homeless knights and Farrugia were chasing down the fleeing pioneer soldiers, but they did not care about the damage to the house.After careful calculation, the losses caused by the fleeing soldiers were not as great as those of Farrugia and others who were chasing them.

After all, the two homeless knights sometimes got impatient and used a storm combat skill to smash them over, burying them and the wall together.

But these are easy to solve, it’s nothing more than paying for them.Anyway, Marek had stolen so much money in the city lord's mansion, and it didn't belong to Roland in the first place, so Roland didn't feel bad about being a boy who just wanted to spend money.

As for whether the residents had any dissatisfaction, Roland didn't care at all.Just kidding, he had already lost his goodwill towards the natives of the other world, so giving him enough money to compensate them would be considered the end of his benevolence.It's just too funny to think that he's taking care of these people's mental health issues.

But to Roland's surprise, the residents were very grateful to Roland.

The residents also had something to say, so what kind of city lord is Marek?You're a miser and a bastard. It's extraordinary that he doesn't just knock on your door and ask for money from you. How could your house be damaged by soldiers and still compensate you?

Not to mention the families whose family members or friends were killed by the pioneering corps. It would be nice not to have their blood and bones sucked.Now I can still get a generous compensation, if the relationship between the family members is still relatively deep, or if it is not too explicit on the surface.Otherwise, someone will definitely say "good death" to those unlucky people.

In fact, there are already many bold residents who want to pretend to be family members to collect money, but Marek points them out one by one with blows and glares.Roland was too lazy to deal with such trivial matters. Decades of living in another world had allowed him to see through human nature.

Roland did not impose physical punishment, which did not mean that he thought that letting these people go would gain their gratitude.Impossible, they will just hate themselves for preventing them from getting money.So he asked Marek to write down the names of the people he wanted to impersonate, and asked the two brothers Robles and Amber to call them several times when they gathered them.

Roland still has many disgusting ways to deal with such unruly people.

The corpses of the soldiers were easy to dispose of. When they were gathered together, White breathed a breath of dragon's breath, and together with their armor and weapons, they melted into a steel tomb, clean and pollution-free.

Of course, when collecting the corpses, some residents who helped must have dirty hands and pulled some money or weapons from the dead soldiers.

Roland didn't care about this, just let them go, they couldn't control it.The basic quality of the population of Duogu City lies here. Even if it is prohibited, there will always be people who do these things in private.

It takes a long time and effort to improve and change their quality, and some people may even be impossible to change at all.Roland wouldn't do such a thankless thing, at least he didn't have the energy to do it at the moment.

Juseus' words made Roland dare not relax.

The official war between the French Empire and the Charles Empire caught him off guard.After living in another world for decades, Roland has seen small countries fighting and annexing each other at most, but it has not had much impact on the grassroots people of those small countries. At most, when he got up the next day, he saw, oh, the flag has been changed.No matter how you live your life, that’s how life should be.

But the nature of the war between the Holy Empire of France and the Empire of Charles was different.The former is recognized as the country with the strongest national power in this land, with a history and cultural heritage of nearly a thousand years.The latter is a rising star in the past century, relying on the unpreventable Shadow Thorn threat to win over other countries and the various rare magic metals produced by the Charles Empire to gain a foothold in the Sarid continent.

Both are heavyweight countries, and their previous wars were not simply wars between the two countries.The Holy Empire of France has a deep connection with the Holy Pope State, and has an ambiguous relationship with the Elf Songyue Dynasty.Roland had heard before when he was doing business that the princess of the Songyue Dynasty and the eldest prince of the Holy Empire of France loved each other.

The Charles Empire is also not a fuel-efficient lamp. It has never stopped expanding over the years, and has annexed many small countries through conspiracy or assassination.Perhaps it was this that led the Holy Empire of France to position it as a strategic target.

Moreover, because the Charles Empire is rich in rare magic metals, it controls a lifeline of various countries, and even the once neutral Austrian Parliament signed some kind of alliance contract with it.Of course, the Stoneheart Castle of the dwarves is also indispensable. They are very interested in the magical metal smelting technology of the Charles Empire, and the two formed a technical exchange alliance.

The royal family of the Charles Empire also knew that they were a nouveau riche in Salid Continent, so they simply stayed as a nouveau riche and paid a lot of gold coins to Dragon Island every year.

Therefore, every time when a small country is annexed, you will see the dragon knights and flying dragons of the Charles Empire directly occupying the air power, leaving those small countries without an air force unable to fight back.

Not to mention how many clan states the two countries have. If a fight breaks out, most of the Salid continent will be plunged into war.Moreover, once the war starts, it cannot be controlled by the two countries.

"Hey..." Rolandi sighed countless times. He didn't care at all whether this continent was devastated and plunged into flames.But this fight will definitely affect his development.Fortunately, the Endless Forest has been a restricted area for exploration by various countries for so many years, giving Roland a place to retreat.

Roland spent 550 points of the remaining ether energy to summon 10 exiled soldiers, which was 5 points more expensive than summoning Grek soldiers.But after seeing the description of the military unit that said "Once an elite soldier under the Storm King, good at using storm combat skills", Roland felt that he had made a profit.

The current amount of ether in the golden tree is: [92/433].

In the game, Roland did have an impression of these soldiers whose faces were hidden under red hoods and iron masks. They were almost equal to Artoria. Each of them could wield the Wind King's hammer, and they were obviously larger than Grek's soldiers.

So the extra 5 points of ether consumption is because they know the storm combat skill, and Roland has already seen the power of the storm combat skill from the lost knight White and Fazhuang.Even if the storm combat skills of the exiled soldiers are not as powerful as the Homeless Knights, they are certainly not far behind.

These 10 soldiers were divided into two groups of five, and were led by White and Fazhuang. They could not be allowed to act as mere commanders.

Counting Verena and Luqi who were placed guarding the golden tree, Roland already had 22 soldiers with very high military strength and military quality.

But it's still far from enough. If he wants to preserve and develop himself in the upcoming war, he needs more soldiers and territory.

After all, the summoned soldiers need to consume food. Now 22 people are more than enough in Duogu City, but once the number increases, it will be unbearable.

War is more about logistics. Roland is not worried that his troops will surrender or lose their will to fight, but he cannot let them go to war on an empty stomach.This makes no sense.

So Roland thought about it and found that after going full circle, he still had to make money first.Whether it is a food store that will be unlocked later in the system or you want to feed the summoned soldiers now, you need money.

This made Luo An feel dizzy for a moment, but fortunately he saw such an item when he was sorting out system information.

[The fertility of the land within the territory of the golden tree increases, and the ether content increases.Planted plants have increased yields, shortened maturity periods, and can easily mutate into magic ingredients.Long-term consumption of this ingredient will lead to magical awakening. 】

In this way, as long as Roland is given some time to develop, he can use the food produced to feed his army or trade to make money.

Chapter 25:Brother and sister

Roland continued to study the rewards given by the mission, which were the rewards for the city of Moren (1/4).He stared at the word "Not yet unlocked" on the system interface and fell into deep thought.

"It should be officially unlocked after collecting them all." Roland pondered, he clicked on the rewards of Moen City, and a brand new interface appeared in his sight.

[Moen City: City Lord Edgar (cannot be summoned), City Lord’s daughter Irena (can be summoned), Winged Hybrid (can be summoned), Lion Hybrid (currently the only one) (cannot be summoned), Golem Guard (only [-]) (cannot be summoned).Sword Skeleton Great Sword (Legendary) (Unique) (Cannot be damaged) (Cannot be summoned)]

Huh?Roland was stunned for a moment. It turns out that not only the BOSS can also summon NPCs in the game?But it seems that you need to unlock a city.But Irena doesn't have much fighting ability.

The branch line of Moen City is still very impressive to Roland. He is the kind of player who likes to scan pictures and go shopping. The early stage of Weeping Peninsula is a very suitable place for leveling and adaptation for newcomers who are new to Nimgofu. Where the pace of the game is.After just passing through the Greik soldiers guarding the gate, you will see a weak and blind girl wearing an eyepatch as she walks straight into the island. She is carefully begging the faded person played by the player to go to Morn City, where a hybrid rebellion is taking place in the distance. Searching for her father.

The player naturally found the girl's father in Morn City, but the father said that he was very pleased that his daughter successfully escaped from Morn City, but he still had one last task: Don't let the treasure of Morn City - the Sword Skeleton Great Sword fall into Otherwise, he would rather die than let his honor as a knight be damaged.

When the players heard this, they thought, "Hey, there's a BOSS to fight?"That's a good feeling, City Lord, let's go together.

After killing the lion hybrid on the coast of the city, Edgar, the lord of Morn City, expressed his gratitude.The city of Morn has been destroyed, and there are only ten residents left in the city. In the era when the magic circle is broken, it doesn't matter whether he is the city lord or not.So he gave the player the treasure - the Sword Skeleton Great Sword. This is also the first legendary weapon that the player obtains in the normal process, the kind that can unlock achievements.

Talk to Edgar again and he says that he is going to join his daughter.In the past, due to various affairs in the city and orders from above, he rarely accompanied his daughter when she grew up.It is not only sad but also ironic. Elden's ring is broken. Now that he has resigned as the city lord, he no longer has to obey anyone's orders. He can finally accompany his daughter to find a quiet place to live in this dangerous borderland.

Then blessings will come unparalleled, and misfortunes will never come alone.After the player bid farewell to Edgar, they met the father and daughter again on the way back to Nimgofu.The difference was that the polite and lovely girl fell in a pool of blood forever. Next to her was the hybrid machete stuck on the ground dripping with blood and her father who was so sad that his heart broke.

The girl was killed by the hybrids chasing after her in the city, and less than a few dozen meters in front of her was the bridge guarded by Grek soldiers.If the magic ring hadn't been broken, maybe the girl's condition would have been discovered by those soldiers, or it might have gotten worse.

But no matter what, Irena has passed away, leaving only the murderous ghost born from Edgar's sad body.The player stepped forward to comfort him, and Edgar vowed to kill all the hybrids he saw to avenge his lovely and sensible daughter.

There is no need to doubt the weight of what City Lord Edgar said, he really has the strength to do it.Whether he is an assisting NPC in the game or he is in the background story, even the strongest lion hybrid among hybrids is only defeated by his men.Because Edgar himself is a lost knight, if players look closely, they can actually find that the lost knight set on him is exactly the same as the spiritual lost knights in Sol City.

The father's final ending was also very tragic. He wandered all the way to Lake Lienia and killed all the hybrids he met.Then, after losing his daughter, he lost his humanity in the killings. Under the influence of the broken magic ring, he completely became an evil ghost who would still kill even if the people he met were not hybrids.

Finally, in a wooden house, Lord Edgar met the passing players again.No matter how much the players who knew him tried to hold back, he would still attack wave after wave without reason.In desperation, the player killed it and entered the wooden house only to find that the house was a hell.

The wooden house is full of dismembered corpses, whether hybrid or human, emitting a putrid smell that attracts flies and rotten insects.

At this point, the branch line of Morn City ends.A prop obtained from the city lord will be related to a side mission in a certain finale of the game.

Roland knew that it was the prop for the epileptic ending.At the same time, a girl named Haida who looks exactly like the dead Irena will ask the player to help her find something called "Chapoligli Grapes" for her. This is the prop dropped by the city lord Edgar.

Combining the two branches, we can actually find that there is something very strange about Irena's death.Roland was also unsure whether to summon Irena for a while.

You must know that even if Roland played eight games, he could not complete the ending of Madness in any of the games.

The farthest time was at the blessing place in front of the door that sealed the three fingers of epileptic fire. After hearing Melina's plea that was about to cry, she still couldn't push the door open.

Roland himself disliked the epileptic ending.

He was actually quite happy at the beginning. He heard that there was an ending that could spread fire, which made him want to achieve the crazy ending in the first week as he already liked the "Dark Souls" series very much.

But the more he worked on this branch line, he discovered that epileptic fire was very different from the first fire that brought life and prosperity in "Dark Souls".Epilepsy can only bring nothingness and chaos.

This ending is more like a way for the old thief Miyazaki to overturn the table: Elden's ring has not been repaired, and everything in this border area is full of injustice and deformity.It's better to return everything to chaos and let the world restart.

That's a bit of a crappy ending.

But what seems to be a botched ending that players can choose is nothing more than the victory of an alien god named "Delirium", and nothing has changed in the ending.

If Irena is summoned, it is very likely that the Elden Ring's epilepsy will be accidentally unleashed.

From another game NPC, "Blood Finger Hunter" Yura, players can obviously know that some believers of Epilepsy are parasite-like beings that can reside in the human body.

And Roland is not sure whether there is already a believer of epileptic fire named "Haida" in Irena. Even "Haida" did not know at the beginning that the light on the other side she had been looking for was epileptic fire. She was misled step by step and finally Deep into madness, he had no choice but to believe in this alien god.

Then he looked at the [Skeleton Sword] in the system interface and found that the prerequisite for summoning this legendary weapon was to summon City Lord Edgar and the BOSS lion hybrid, and City Lord Edgar's summons The conditions are that the full version of Morn City is unlocked and the daughter Irena is summoned.

And what is very scary is that the amount of ether required to summon [Sword Sword] is actually as high as 20000 points.

It's not a very handy weapon in the game, maybe it's a weapon with very terrifying abilities in reality.

Anyway, the need for these 2 points of ether energy completely dispelled Roland's desire to summon it.

Maybe in the future, but for Roland now, 2W points of ether energy means a large number of soldiers.He will still give priority to exploding troops before upgrading offense and defense (dense fog).

A few days later, the capital of Charles's empire, the white-walled capital, Wiener.

The huge white wall, which looks like a natural barrier, is the most important defense fortification of the white wall city of Weiner. The city of Weiner is located inside the white wall.

It is said that the white wall here is not a miraculous work of nature, but a protection shelter formed by a people living here who have devoted their last efforts. The white wall was summoned, and humans were able to take a breather from elves, dwarves and even wild beasts and obtain survival. territory.

It wasn't until about 200 years ago that the white wall suddenly opened, and a country called the Charles Empire forcefully declared its right to speak on the Salid continent.

In the splendid palace, in a hall without even maids or guards, Elizabeth was taking the surviving Shadow Thorn to report what she had seen and heard in Duogu City.

"Okay, I know everything." The middle-aged man sitting in the seat frowned with a headache and waved his hand: "The information you brought back was very useful, and you even killed a Holy Armor soldier of the French Empire. It's more than wrong. As for the traitorous city lord Marek, let him go for the time being. You take your team members to take a good rest, and I will notify you when necessary."

"Then I'll go back to Stacey's house first." Elizabeth said easily, taking off the magic lie detector device from her body, and the shirt under the device exposed her well-developed body.

Anyway, she told the truth truthfully. How to solve it is something that big guys like them should consider. Pawns like her only need to follow orders.

After Elizabeth and the injured Shadow Thorn left, the middle-aged man's expression suddenly turned bad.He stood up impatiently, walked to a pillar behind him, and pressed the switch.The floor on the ground where he was standing opened. He took a step forward, and the elevator slowly sent him down to a basement, or prison.

The prison was very clean. If it weren't for a pair of beautiful twins who were hung up with their hands and feet pierced through the bones, it wouldn't be considered a prison. On the contrary, it would be more like a rest room.