Elden Ring, building a legion of ashes

Chapter 71 Sealed Prison

The smoke and dust cleared.

A figure exuding an overwhelming aura slowly straightened up.

Xia Tong then saw his full appearance.

"Wow, that's really high..."

He thought to himself, "This guy is definitely more than three meters tall."

Blaze wore a well-made but slightly worn suit of armor, with a fur cloak over it for warmth.

Behind him, on his back, was a colossal, terrifying greatsword.

That must be the legendary Royal Greatsword.

"...Who are you?"

The half-wolf Blaze lowered his head, looking down at the human who was as small as an ant in front of him, his voice low and hoarse.

Before Xia Tong could answer, he seemed to sense something and continued:

"Did Karlie tell you that?"

"That old man, he's still the same, always worrying about these kinds of things."

Although Blazer complained, his tone softened considerably.

"Since you learned the code through him, I don't think you're anything suspicious."

My name is Blazer.

"We are looking for a man named Darrell."

"I heard he fled to this place..."

A cold glint flashed in Blazer's eyes—a look of hatred for the traitor.

"Darrewell is a traitor."

"Traitors should face the consequences of their actions!"

Xia Tong remained calm, pretending to listen attentively.

In my heart, I couldn't help but think: Although I know the plot, I still have to follow the proper procedures, otherwise it will seem too strange.

"My name is Xia Tong. May I ask what Darylwell looks like?"

He asked at the opportune moment.

Then, the half-wolf Blaze slowly described to him the characteristics of the hound rider.

After listening, Xia Tong nodded and pointed south, saying:

"I do have some ideas about this."

"South of Lake Yakir, on that hillside, I once saw a strange sealed prison."

"Perhaps the person you're looking for is right there."

Upon hearing Xia Tong's news, Blaze's previously calm wolf head instantly changed color, and his dark blue pupils shrank to needle-like points in an instant.

Its grayish-white mane bristled slightly in the night wind, each hair as thick and stiff as a steel needle, exuding a dangerous aura.

"Since that's the case..."

Blazer's voice was low and rapid, filled with suppressed anger.

"Don't waste your time. Lead the way! If it really is him, I'll give you a satisfactory reward!"

Xia Tong said no more and mounted the spirit horse Toret.

"The place we're going to is in the mountains to the south, and it's quite a journey."

"and……"

Xia Tong originally wanted to ask: Can you keep up with the speed of the spirit horse Toret running at full speed?

But Blaze the Half-Wolf clearly understood what he meant.

He exhaled a puff of white breath from his nostrils, and a slight smile spread across his face, revealing his gleaming white fangs, making him appear wild and confident.

"You can run away, don't worry about me."

"good!"

Xia Tong didn't say anything more.

He then lightly kicked Toret's horse's belly, signaling it to gallop.

With a neigh, Torret transformed into a blur and sped off into the southern darkness.

The instant Torret started moving, the half-wolf Blaze also moved.

After driving for a while, Xia Tong couldn't help but turn around to look.

Blazer lowered his center of gravity, his entire body almost parallel to the ground, presenting a perfect streamlined shape.

With each stomp of its powerful hind legs, covered in finely armored leg armor, it left deep claw marks on the hard soil.

Using this terrifying recoil, he was propelled out like a cannonball, skimming the ground.

"Thump, thump, thump."

His footsteps were heavy and rhythmic, like drumbeats, not hurried, but each step was very powerful and could cover a very long distance.

No matter how fast Torret accelerated, the huge gray figure always followed closely behind him, about ten meters to his side.

The ruins of the mist forest are not close to the sealed prison south of Yakir.

After passing through the misty forest, Xia Tong and her companion arrived at the open Yaqir Plain.

At night, the distant horizon resembles an endless black ribbon.

Because the distance was too great, no matter how long you ran, you seemed to be in the same place, without getting any closer.

This visual stagnation often evokes feelings of inexplicable fatigue and despair.

Xia Tong looked back again.

The half-wolf Blaze remained calm, his breathing even steady.

Those strong legs moved rapidly, alternating between each other, like a tireless perpetual motion machine.

Xia Tong looked down at Torret again.

The spirit horse was already panting heavily, after all, they had been running at full speed for more than an hour.

Xia Tong tenderly took a handful of dried Roja fruit from her bag and fed it to Toret.

Compared to fresh Roya fruit, this stuff, after being dehydrated, can replenish sugar more quickly and restore physical strength and energy.

They continued their trek for another two or three hours.

This was the darkest hour before dawn.

Fortunately, the moon remained bright, as if sprinkling a layer of salt on this wasteland.

Xia Tong and the half-wolf Blaze finally approached their target location—the highlands south of Akiel.

"Wolf's strength is truly unfathomable..."

Looking at Blazer, who was still breathing heavily, Xia Tong secretly admired him.

Soon, the two arrived at the highest point of the southern hills of Yakir.

In the darkness of the distance, the eerie and dazzling purple halo was particularly noticeable.

"That should be the sealed prison."

Xia Tong reined in his horse, turned around, and pointed in that direction to the half-wolf Blaze.

Upon hearing this, the latter immediately sped up.

He leaped into the air, tracing a perfect parabola, and then quickly approached the altar with a few more jumps.

He had seen this kind of sealed prison before.

When I went to Stormhill to find Little Red Riding Hood Rodrikica before, I also saw a similar prison in the distance there.

As a veteran player, Xia Tong naturally knew who was imprisoned in the sealed prison in Stormhill.

That's a Forge Knight!

He didn't believe he could perfectly counter the opponent in reality with just some shabby little round shield.

The border area is not a game, much less a fairy tale.

Seeing the somewhat resentful and tired look in Toret's eyes, Xia Tong gently patted its head, then fed it some dried Roya fruit, and summoned it back to the Spirit Horse Whistle to rest.

"Good bro, you've worked hard."

Xia Tong jogged all the way to the altar of the sealed prison.

This is a huge circular stone altar, more than 20 meters in diameter, so flat that it looks as if a giant knife had sliced ​​the mountaintop flat.

The edge of the altar is not empty.

In front of Xia Tong was a strange stone pillar made up of countless round, grayish-white rock spheres.

There was more than one of these stone pillars; they were evenly distributed around the entire circular altar.

They hunched over, like giant, petrified worms in worship.

They all face the center of the disc, their heads emitting a faint purple light, as if they are jointly suppressing some terrifying entity underground.

In the central recess of the altar, there was a dense, impenetrable purple halo.

"As expected, every sealed prison is constructed using gravity magic."

Xia Tong looked at the deep purple halo and thought to herself.

"Now that we've arrived at our destination, you can wait up here. I'll go down and take a look."

Blazer glanced at Xia Tong, his tone calm.

There was no sense of superiority in his tone; he simply felt that Xia Tong didn't need to put herself in danger.

After all, cleaning house and arresting Darrell was Blazer's own business.